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May-25-2004 21:22

As of now, you should not be able to get two contacts that both help with physical evidence. Nor, should you be able to get two contacts that don't help with physical evidence. So, if your first contact was one of the evidence experts (Barber, Tailor, Shoe Maker or Banker), your second contact will not be another person from that group. Conversely, if your first contact is not from that group, your second one will be.

To even things up. I'm also adjusting those detectives who already have two contacts. I'm reassigning the second contact of those of you who already have two, if they are either both evidence experts, or neither evidence experts.

Does that make sense?

May-30-2004 05:48

Negasong, I really was not whining any more than you were in your "worst ever" post. If I now have the tone of that message right. I completely agree with everything the Admin has done and the new contact WILL be much more useful to me than the old one - surely there is no question about that. So why on earth would I whine? For some reason, I just found it interesting/amusing/somehow worth my time to mention this zero-value thing.

May-30-2004 05:50

Phew, you can just feel the over-sensitivity and mixed messages in the air on this thread. :) Glad we're not taking this seriously, then ;)

May-30-2004 18:22

I HATE YOU ALL!!!!

Lovingly,
-sg

Jun-2-2004 14:33

Not to beat a dead horse, but I notice it has been one week since the contacts change. I made sure to do only ridiculous cases all week just to be sure. For anyone that had any idea that having two contacts was an unfair advantage, I let the record speak for itself. (57-0 at the moment). The only thing I notice different is that some of them take a couple of minutes longer to solve.

As usual, I had help from my teammates (I want to be sure to acknowledge), but no more than usual I'd say.

Kouraditsa is the only other off the top of my head that I remember with two evidence contacts. I would love to hear what she thinks.

Jun-2-2004 19:52

Yeah, i totally support Fat Chuck on this.
I don't feel the contact change has affected my record at all. I believe I quitted just one case after the contact change. (it was 3 footprints and 4 suspects with the shoe maker as alibi, who conveniently decided to answer only one of my questions. Unfortunately for me, I don't receive any help from teammates :P )

The only difference is that I don't solve cases extra fast as i used to. I need to think a little more carefully, and I can say that I like it more.
Now I do some more constructive thinking and make more use of my skills. Although now I very often get cases with no thread evidence (the tailor is my good contact) they are still very very feasible. (I've also been doing ridiculous)

Jun-2-2004 19:59

I could solve virtually all of my cases with zero great contacts, but the three of us have tons of experience and skills.

I think it's for people with fewer skills that having great contacts really counts. And especially the difference between 0 and 1 is probably fairly significant for people with fewer skills.

Jun-2-2004 21:54

It sounds like I need to add a higher level of difficulty...

Actually, should I do that, or just tweak the hardest levels to make them harder?

Jun-2-2004 22:19

On that point, I support tweaking the hardest levels. I find interviewing too many suspects very tiresome. In fact, I am now reverting back to doing just Incredibly Hards, just because Ridiculous and Stupendous have so many suspects that I don't quite have the patience to do them.

It would be good therefore to curb the number of suspects to a minimal. I was also wondering where eventually this difficulty level would go, like IMPOSSIBLY HARD with 20 suspects?! Surely it cannot be?

Jun-3-2004 02:15

Actually I was wondering if there is any difference in the difficulties based on whether you do a favor or a normal case.
I do ridiculously hard on normal cases, and really really hard for favors. I have observed that it is harder to analyse evidence in the really really hard favors and people are more difficult to unclam, compared to the ridiculously hard I'm doing.
Maybe I was just unlucky. Or is it that people are in fact more stubborn in really really hard cases, but because there are fewer suspects it is lower level?

Jun-3-2004 03:45

I, like Sirgarr, was solving Ridiculously Hards with zero good contacts. And lately I've been solving them with the Waiter and a pretty useless Barber, for only after yesterday's last case was I able to purchase a skill to actually find any Hairs. I do get help from teammates for a fairly large percentage of the cases, though. If I was on my own, I might not be doing Ridiculous, because the percentage of quits would be too high.

I would prefer it if a more difficult level was added separately - especially if it will involve even more supects. Interviewing too many suspects can get tiresome :)