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Mar-29-2004 12:35

Detective Agencies are now live, meaning you can now go to the Real Estate office, rent headquarters, and form an agency with other players. I will continue working on this through the week, but there is a lot there already, so I would like people to start testing it.

NOTES:

1) If you want to join an agency make sure you have your popup blocker disabled. You need to be able to communicate with other members via private message. That can only happen if you aren't blocking popups.

2) Until all the features (including treasure hunts) are live, the game will not charge daily rent for headquarters. This is to encourage people to start testing now, even though not all the benefits of belonging to an agency are live.


THINGS THAT CURRENTLY WORK:
* Renting Property / Creating Agencyies
* Inviting new members
* resigning from agencies
* promoting/demoting members
* agency message boards
* depositing/withdrawing from office safe
* equipment locker

THINGS THAT DON'T WORK YET:
* Crime lab
* Case Files
* Moving/Upgrading Headquarters
* Treasure Hunts


- Have Fun

Mar-31-2004 12:51

Well, I can see that the director's can demote the people if they don't help out with rent, but this leads to my question...

What are the differences in positions (i.e. rookie, director). When is a good time to promote someone?

Also, can you tell us a little bit about what the situation with the case files is going to be?

Mar-31-2004 12:55

Oops. Nevermind, I see the differences between ranks under "Agency Help".

But still wondering about case files.

Thanks.

Mar-31-2004 17:46

Kay-

Daily rent will come directly out of your office safe. If you want to keep track of who is putting money in there, I'd suggest naming one of your detectives treasurer, and have them keep track of all safe transactions.

Mar-31-2004 20:43

Tell me some more about agencies...namely, do they allow you to team up with other detectives on cases? And if so, are there any associated penalties?

Mar-31-2004 21:46

Case Files are now live for detectives who belong to Agencies.

Case files allow you to do two things:

1) If you are stuck on a case, but want to revisit it when you have more skills, contacts or money, you can store the case and comeback to work on it later.

2) If you think one of your teammates would be better equiped to finish a case, you can file it as "Public". Doing so allows any detective who belongs to the same agency as you to open up the case file and take up the mystery where you left off.

When Crime Labs are live, they will allow you to further help your teammates by analysing physical evidence on any mystery store in a case file...

Apr-1-2004 04:26

I think there's a bug with the case files (for agencies). When I "re-open" a stored case, and then click on the MAP, I can't see the suspects' names. And when I click on SUITCASE, I get the error code message.

Apr-1-2004 06:36

Hi Ben,
Will there be still harder cases than those already available for agency work?

Apr-1-2004 06:43

Oh, almost forgot. Someone mentioned looking at the agency help. I wasn't able to find that. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Apr-1-2004 07:52

sorry but i didn't read this before my start in agencies...
i have a little trouble...

i didn't know and i put a case file in their places and a friend of mine take that case... when he make logout and try to make login again it appeared a message about talking a error curred in crime scene ... sorry but help my friend .. it's detective name is beleza sorry ... we didn't read this..

from now we promise read all things here..
he can't login... take it's case out ... delete that case if you want but help my friend..

thanks

Apr-1-2004 08:35

Alright, I dropped that bugged case for you beleza. Should be fine to log in again.

I'll have to fix that case file problem. For the time being, I'm going to put a warning on that page.