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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

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.

Apr-1-2004 09:38

OK, I think Case Files are fixed now. Let me know if anybody runs into any similar problems..

Apr-1-2004 12:37

Oops. Although I did already fix the bug with casefiles, older case files were already corrupted to the point that they were unusable.

So, I had to delete all the existing Case Files. There weren't that many. Sorry about that.

Apr-1-2004 16:19

To address Fat Chuck's earlier question,

I will be adding a higher level of mystery difficulty soon. Not only for agencies, but for those of you who are having too easy of a time with Very Very Hard mysteries.

Additionally, Treasure Hunts will be long term goals that agencies will work on together, and in competition with other agencies. I anticipate they'll take several days for an agency to solve.

Apr-2-2004 04:16

Like Chuck, I haven't able to find an agency help page, even though someone mentioned one in this thread. Is that something that's only available once you are in an agency?

Apr-2-2004 11:39

Yes, the agency help page is in the agency headquarters. Let me see if I can post some of that information.

Apr-2-2004 11:41

Rookies Agents Officers Directors

Deposit Money in Safe Yes Yes Yes Yes
Access Case Files Yes Yes Yes Yes
Use Crime Lab Yes Yes Yes Yes
Use Item Locker No Yes Yes Yes
Invite New Members No No Yes Yes
Promote/Demote Members* No No Yes Yes
Remove Money from Safe No No No Yes
Kick Out Member** No No No Yes
Move Headquarters No No No Yes* Officers cannot demote or promote other officers. Directors can demote themselves, but cannot demote other Directors.
** Directors cannot kick out other Directors.