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Clint Forthwright
Clint Forthwright
Old Shoe

Aug-26-2009 04:46

I was in the Top of The World Tea shop looking through the postings on the message board and found out that I can not get both the negotiation and trap detection skills because when I choose a faction, it's 4 life!

I need to know what they have to offer besides those skills, and which one is better. When under seige by pirates, what happens when I press the negotiation button and actually have that skill? What do the Cairo pyramids hold other than some books, secret #2, and sepia colored AVHish shoes? Is it fun and profitable to continually go spelunking in them with/without trap detection?

And which one are the good guys?

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Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Aug-27-2009 20:22

Hostage Negotiation did have some of its bite taken out of it, so to speak, when the system changed the rules as to what could and could not be taken from people when the Pirates hit. So far, there's been no modification to Trap Detection.

There's been talk that there may be further modifications made to Hostage Negotiation, or that there may be an 'equalization' of some kind to make both skills equally valuable again. So far, though, nothing's come down 'From Above'. ;-)

Basically, Hostage Negotiation allows you to proceed through a voyage if you get pirated without having to go back to your destination city and pay a fee to retry your journey (or lose cases). Trap detection, as some here have alluded to, allow you to proceed through various places and find 'traps' before you come to them. That simple for both. Both skills DO have more complicated and interesting parts to them, but like Ctown said, they're s'pposed to be kept hidden, so I ain't goin' there. ;-)

So. The choice is yours. Do you want to be able to travel unhindered, or do you want to be able to search stuff unhindered (boiled down version there ;-) ?? Each has benefits, each has disadvantages. NEITHER is bad.

(And long live the revolution. ;-)

Breit

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