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May-3-2015 15:52

Hello everyone.

As you may have noticed, there is a new look to a lot of the pages in the map section and some streamlined navigation. We tried pushing out this change a week or so ago, and ran into a few bugs and got some great suggestions from users. Hopefully this version addresses most of those concerns.

One thing that was noticed by a few Sleuths was that these changes broke the external Sleuth Helper utility. This led to a discussion about the possibility of replacing a lot of what SH offers inside the game, so that future game updates don't always need to be checked for compatibility.

If you want to read that whole discussion, it's here:
http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=36446

In response, our newly ordained code wrangler YetiFace put together a feature called "Detective's Notes" to try to provide a built-in alternative to Sleuth Helper.

You can find the Detective's Notes at the bottom of the Map page and also on the physical evidence analysis screen.

Since bringing this online represents a very big change to the core game play of Sleuth: Noir, we've decided to give Detective's Notes a try for ONE WEEK.

After a week, I'm going to put up a poll that will be open to all subscribers. We'll ask whether people want to keep the Detective's Notes around, and also offer a few options.

Please approach this with an open mind, but once you've given it a try feel free to leave honest opinions or suggestions on this thread.

In particular, if there are any specific changes to Detective's Notes that you'd like me to put on the poll at the end of the week, that would be very helpful.

Thank you soooo much to YetiFace for doing this work. And thank you all for making Sleuth Noir such a great place.

May-3-2015 16:36

Could we take into consideration that also non - subscribers get a poll? Because I'd also like to vote, but dun have the $$$ atm to get a subscription Ben :) (I understand why only subscribers though, but dun forget about the rest of the ol' faithful Sleuth Noir players!)

May-3-2015 16:38

*also, on a sidenote - I'm missing the research case button!*

May-3-2015 16:41

I just did my first case - everything seemed fine (Did an Intermediate case with two pieces of evidence) - However... I cross - referenced 1 piece of evidence (footprint), to a real alibi - the other piece of evidence (male thread) got listed for 3 remaining suspects, including one with a real alibi.

If I recall, all intermediate cases have 2 pieces of evidence max and quite frankly, this is just a minor thing - but the real alibi person should be automatically ruled out when 1 piece of evidence is left right?

May-3-2015 16:52

That's very odd M. Roux. I'll play through a few more cases myself and see if I can replicate it with any of my bribes, and if anyone else has this issue please do mention it.

Vulkie, the poor Research button was sacrificed so as not to over complicate the interface. However, it may be included as an option in the poll in a week. Also, no, the Notes won't make deductions like that for you - if you've deduced that a person can not possibly match a piece of evidence as it should match another, you'll need to rule them out yourself.

May-3-2015 16:56

Thank you so much for the clarification Yeti.

I do hope the Research Case button makes it though, but I understand that due to not wanting to overcomplicating the interface, it has been left out for this week.

Again, so far loving the update and I'm hoping that everyone will vote to keep it in :)

May-3-2015 16:58

I have yet to try the new features with my subscribed detective, she is waiting in Shangri La to start the VH tournament... I wonder if it will pop up with her too. I shall let you know! Thanks!

I do really love how it works and everything so far! It helps you with note taking but doesn't solve the case for you.

May-3-2015 17:09

I believe I've just encountered the bribe problem too. I'll see if I can work out what's causing it.

May-3-2015 21:27

Ok, Yeti fixed a couple small issues with the Detective's Notes on the physical evidence page.

We'll continue looking into the weird bribing bug, but as noted, the bribe actually does work. You just need to look at either the Notes or the Case File to find out what they said :)

May-4-2015 03:15

If anyone is logging in at Shangri-La today and finds they can't access the locations there, please load this page then try again:

noir.playsleuth.com/map/index.spy

May-4-2015 07:29

I've been having a similar type of bug to the bribe issue. When I use my intimidation skill for me or MamaTerra uses her charm skill, sometimes it says

"You can only use [skill] once per per person" (I can't remember the exact wording and I clicked out of the screen already)

But the skill has still worked. The problem is at first you don't realize it, so you try the bribe. Unnecessarily. The bribe bug only shows up sporadically now. But almost always after the skill bug pops up.