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Dec-7-2016 05:32

Hello everyone!

I have 84 skill points (8 of them are unused) and I was wondering which skill should I get next.

Im tempted by getting Footprint analysis upgraded, As having all important evidence skill fully upgraded would really help me throught some cases where I end up with 3 footprints evidence. Problem, it will not necessarely be always useful in all my cases.

It either that or I could get research. It would cost the same amount of skill points as advanced footprint analysis and could be used in all future cases.

I could also get Flirting, which would boost all my future charming against the opposite sex.

Or I could get hypnosis, but then again, I should be getting that last

What do you guys think? Im a smart and charming detective.

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Dec-7-2016 06:24

Definitely either Research or Footprint Analysis. I would get Research, but that's because my focus is more on my interviewing skills than on analysis or physical evidence. You still have a ways to go before your well of skill points starts to run dry, so you could always get one and then the other, but it is a good thing that you are trying to choose your next skill wisely.

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Dec-7-2016 06:37

No idea why that got posted three times - I think due to refreshing the page I was on.

Anyway, you should definitely have Lock Picking on your list of skills to get in the future, I didn't mean to give you bad advice about it. You seem to be more focused on Smart rather than Charming skills, so you should focus on skills that play to your strengths - Hypnotism is tied to how charming you are. And Advanced Sweet Talking is definitely something to aim for in the future, although I can see how Flirting would help you unclam the Physical Evidence (male) townies.

Dec-7-2016 15:29

Also, both Research and advanced footprint analysis cost the same number of skill points.
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Yes, but research is useful in every case.

Dec-7-2016 17:40

Only for a single suspect though. Get a footprint and that extra analysis can help you with all of them.

Dec-7-2016 21:55

Flirting is an undersold skill. And cheap to boot.

Dec-8-2016 05:25

I find lockpicking kinda useless for the amount of skill point it cost.

12 points to be able to get inside someone's house for a free question like only 2 to 3 times a cases. I find that skill to be of random use, but then again I never really used it

Dec-9-2016 02:49

The main strategic goal of anyone playing Sleuth is to use your questions and skills in such a way as to get the most answers out of a suspect or townie possible. In the hardest levels of cases you frequently have to solve your case by witness evidence so every extra answer you get out of your suspects is extremely valuable. In *the* hardest level of cases your suspects will not answer any questions without being either charmed or interrogated and (especially in the beginning when you probably don't have the best gear possible) you may not get any answers out of them.

In a nutshell, any tool you can use to get information from a suspect without having to use a question is not useless.

Dec-9-2016 03:17

Point taken Fatima.

In that case, hypnotism could be worth considering since it helps me get new suspects from others for free. Unless I am mistaken...