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Aug-24-2011 12:06

I've been playing and,after a while,began to think of a few ideas to incooperate.

WE Contacts:Truth be told,I know they're useful for runaway suspects and hints to which suspect may know who the killer is,but honestly,I feel like they could be of more use.One difficulty I have with suspects is the clamming:There is nothing worse than having high charm/tough and seeing 'You were not able to persuade him/her to be more cooperative.'I tear my hair out everytime I see that,especially on the first question.I feel like the WE contacts should get an ability like...Personal Favor:Your WE contact will go and try to persuade your chosen suspect to become more cooperative.It might make it unfair,but honestly,it's horrible having low smarts/high charm or tough and not being able to analyze the evidence,or having higher smarts/low charm or tough and having a sea of clams in your face.Just give the WE contacts a small chance to persuade your chosen contact.I know Surveillance is there,but Surveillance requires Smarts,and by increasing that,once again,sea of clams.You could make it that the WE contact can only persuade anyone who claims to have an alibi with them.

Cities:I think it would be nice to have a few more cities,maybe 1 or 2 more,that's it.Would be nice to see either Moscow or Tokyo.I mean Shanghai is nice,but I would LOVE to see Tokyo or Osaka.Even another African city,like Cape Town.

Sep-4-2011 17:58

"Members of the Detective Agency recovered the Book Of Sleuthinomicon. Detective Agency received the xxx reward and xxx fame for finding this treasure.

I appreciate the caring and sharing. I haven't ever participated in a Treasure Hunt lol, but I hear that Agencies are just happy to win. Invariably if you participate regularly, you'll get your name up in lights, and the Agency Name is always there. Everyone knows Treasure hunts are a 'team' thing. So ...

Sep-4-2011 17:59

Oh,I see.Alright,nevermind my jibber-jabber then,thanks for clearing it up for me.

*Gets back to pointing the finger at suspects*

Sep-4-2011 18:00

A note on Surveillance: It's a commonly held belief that using surveillance only once all your suspects have clammed is more successful than using it on the first suspect that does.

Sep-4-2011 18:03

Seriously?!Man,have I wasted tearing my hair with all the times that truck came in my way...Thanks for letting me know!*Fans self with toupe*

Sep-4-2011 18:09

New Cities would be great, but Ben has stated frankly, that no new cities are on the horizon. I personally have always been enamoured with Oslo, which would just be a white square with the caption 'snowing', and you'd have to mouse hover to find all the townies :D.

However... there's a couple of reasons for this. The main ones being (a) the cities we have are under-utilised and there would be more to be gained from value-adding to them. And, (b) balancing Factions within those cities. A new city might require a lot of re-jigging to the well-balanced faction system amongst the current 4 cities. Otherwise we'd have to create new factions, like in Shangri La (is that a spoiler :s oops!) so that we don't mess with the other factions.

There was a Sleuth Survivor (look it up) held a year or so ago and a part of that was create a new city / area. And there were some great ideas there. It's a shame that all good ideas that come up can't be implemented.

Sep-4-2011 18:21

That's unfortunate to hear,but I guess I understand.
Oh well,even though the ideas are not going to see the light of day in Sleuth,I'm somewhat curious and excited to what changes Ben might bring when he's done with his work.

Guess I'll have to learn to be patient.Thanks for the reply,SS!

Sep-4-2011 18:22

lol sorry if you feel like I've just spent 4 posts shutting you down, it was more a case of reading stuff that actually made sense and feeling like the deserved responses :)

Sep-4-2011 18:23

No,it's alright,I was done crying 5 minutes ago.*Sniffle*

Sep-5-2011 08:41

I would like to share an idea...

Wouldn't it be nice to exchange skill points for getting a favor? I have over 200 unspent skill points and nowhere to spend them.

Sep-5-2011 17:17

mmm might make the TH's a bit 'tippy' towards more experienced agencies with members with Skill Points to burn. But certainly there's a case to be made for the skill points that time forgot being used for something meaningful.