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Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Apr-8-2017 00:21

With the firm application of bolt cutters the rusty padlock on the gates of the Boardwalk has been prised off. For a small fee at the ticket booth Detectives can take some down time to wander around the Boardwalk.

Whilst familiarising yourselves with the layout is a great idea, the real meat of the Boardwalk is the Carousel Furore; the times for these are listed on the case tab. The main way to get tickets is by solving cases at Really Really Hard or above in difficulty (the higher the difficulty, the better your chances). Your best chances of getting a ticket are an hour before a Furore is due to start, but if the tickets are gone they're gone.

Finally there is a second type of ticket; a back-up ticket. They will not be hard to find.

Happy sleuthing, and as ever please let me know when the bugs crop up and I'll deal with them ASAP.

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Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Apr-11-2017 03:24

Under that system it wouldn't always be 8-9 hours. Sometimes it'd be just 2 hours. There's great potential for variance.

However, as luck would have it the adjustments I made to the time picker are the same as you've suggested which you can see in Wednesday's games.

Tyranomaster3
Tyranomaster3
Bloodhound

Apr-11-2017 08:19

Yeah! I saw it.

I am appreciated for your understand and your work, Yeti :D

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Apr-11-2017 08:26

A belated thank you and congratulations for Yeti Face for all the work he's done on the Boardwalk. This is a really cool expansion and to see it out in the sunshine after years of starts/stalls/restarts is amazing.

Also, thanks as always to the long suffering Secret Squirrel for his help testing and refining this.

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Apr-11-2017 08:38

I've got a couple suggestions regarding the Case page in the boardwalk.

1) I don't think the game tells you at any point that the Case page serves any purpose in the Boardwalk, but of course it's vital if you want to take part in the Furor. It might be a good idea to just add a note to the Map page? Or a message when you first enter.

2) Since the Furore games are all listed in Sleuth Time, it would be a good idea to add a time display to that page.

3) I was just thinking that it wouldn't be very hard to allow creation of Scripted Mysteries in the Boardwalk! We should open that up in the editor.

Anyway, great work. And I hope to lose to some of you soon in the Furore


Sophie4
Sophie4
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods

Apr-11-2017 09:40

I was in mid-favor in Shanghai when a popup occurred asking me if I wanted to go to the Boardwalk, I slipped over to see how many people were logged on and when I came back my case was gone. It was a TASK FAVOR, I hope that doesn't count as a quit and I have to do 4 cases to get another.
Could you take me off the boardwalk mailing list??

Sophie4
Sophie4
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods

Apr-11-2017 09:47

Another pop up with a sign up sheet for the Boardwalk, this is a good fix. If I'd only waited 5 minutes I wouldn't have had to write about this at all.

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Apr-11-2017 10:10

I know the Furores aren't for everyone, and the messages will get fairly frequent when one is just an hour away, so I'll see about including a button somewhere that can refuse all invitations automatically as the tweaks to the content go on.

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Apr-11-2017 10:34

I'm sure Shady can get you off the mailing list for a small donation


Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Apr-11-2017 10:42

Ben! Thank you. I hope you get to try a Furore soon. I recommend avoiding any Riza Hawkeye is signed up to, she is a Furore winning machine.

Great suggestions. The scripted mystery one was definitely already on mind (I understand a few people are weighing up writing one already).

Charlie Cool
Charlie Cool
Con Artist

Apr-11-2017 11:08

I just played my first ( many thanks to Sal Iva). It's more fun than I expected. Is there a time limit to the Furore ?

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