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Alienmen3
Alienmen3

Nov-27-2016 04:44

Hello, I dont know which skill I should get next (I have 69 skillpoint, 11 skill point unused right now). I am a Smart and Charming detective. Here are the skill I currently have:
Hand Writing Analysis
Stress Detection
Sweet Talking
Rule Bending
Hair Analysis
Advanced Hair Analysis
Thread Analysis
Advanced Thread Analysis

My adjustment right now are -1 toughness, 6 smart and 3 charm.

I have enough favor with the Order of Socrate to get hypnotism, but I am also tempted to get either advance rule bending, intermediary sweet talking or Research which, from experience, can have a huge impact by innocenting a suspect.

What do you recommend me?

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Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Nov-28-2016 07:17

Lock picking works every time, but you can't always use it.

Autumnsprings
Autumnsprings
Con Artist

Nov-28-2016 08:43

When are you unable to use it? You can always use it ON THE FIRST VISIT to that suspect. After that, you're SOL. You get one chance but IME you can always use it as long as you've discovered the relevant suspect.

Badass is right, the longer you play (i.e. the more XP you have), the harder it gets to earn skill points so keep that in mind.

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Nov-28-2016 20:19

Not all suspects are away when you visit them. Some are still home. In fact, I would say most of them would be home and only a minority would be away.

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Nov-28-2016 23:09

What I wonder about regarding lockpicking is whether when one uncovers motives, if it is the same list of motives that would be got from asking the suspect without hypnotism or if it includes extra suspects (such as when a suspect is hypnotised successfully). If that is not the case, then picking a lock to find motives may actually generate less motives than if one had asked the person directly with successful hypnotism (obviously, one should choose lockpicking over wasting a question any day, it is just something I was wondering about).

As for skills, I would personally get intermediate sweet talking, then research. Hypnotism comes in handy in higher level cases, when the list of suspect grows and people get clammy really quickly. Sweet talking, on the other hand, works on finding out motives and evidence alike (which is what you need to successfuly solve the case). And research automatically helps you rule out one suspect with false or no alibi, which is really useful. I hope that was helpful :)

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Nov-28-2016 23:18

Btw, I absolutely concede that lockpicking is more useful than hypnotism.

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Nov-29-2016 05:51

You will always be able to lockpick the house of two suspects (or one in the easy level cases). Lock picking the houses of ALL the suspects would be a bit too easy, wouldn't it? :)

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Nov-29-2016 06:36

I always seem to stumble upon picking the locks (for motives) of clients and of people who know nothing (and, for alibis, of people I can research), but maybe that is just my luck :)

Autumnsprings
Autumnsprings
Con Artist

Nov-29-2016 12:54

"and of people who know nothing"

If you mean the screen where you get "I wasn't able to find anything of interest" or whatever, that means they have no alibi.

If you lockpick one person and get alibi, anyone else you lockpick will also give you alibi. Same for motives obviously.

And of course you can't lockpick everyone. That would eliminate the need for the suspect interviewing skills and make the game kind of ridiculous.

As for whether it accounts for hypnotism, I would assume so as long as you have that skill. However I think that's a question for yeti or Ben.

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Nov-29-2016 13:25

No, lock picking does not account for hypnotism. If you lock pick someone and get the motives, you'll always miss out on their potential extra hypno motive.

Autumnsprings
Autumnsprings
Con Artist

Nov-29-2016 14:18

Good to know! Thanks yeti!

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