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Andy702
Andy702
Pinball Amateur

Feb-17-2005 03:38

Sorry, forgot the subject.
I was wondering about favors - if we have one in New York waiting in will cases solved in London give us another one waiting there? (The question is actually for each city, I just picked examples so I wouldn't sound like a math teacher with something like "city a".)

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reda
reda
Well-Connected

Feb-19-2005 03:20

I have a favor waiting in new york but when I went to delhi no one said they have a favor for me. So I guess its wrong and the favor doesnt move with you. Wonder if the "old" favor waits in NY or did I just throw away the chance.

Andy702
Andy702
Pinball Amateur

Feb-19-2005 06:20

I had the same thing happen to me - you have to do the three cases to get a favor, but once you use either favor then both favors are gone. I know it sounds weird but that's how it works.

In your case if you do three cases in dehli and haven't done your new york favor yet, then it'll give you a favor in dehli and one in new york - but if you do either favor, both your dehli and new york favors will go away.

Either this is a bug and on the wrong thread, or the towns are like factions - help one and the rest resent it. :)

bigdoc
bigdoc
Nomad

Feb-19-2005 07:18

Bummer! I would vote for us to keep every favor we have earned. If I have one waiting back in New York, but I've done cases and earned and solved favors in Delhi, that shouldn't affect what I have waiting back home since I earned that with NY cases. (3 cases - one favor for each city). Seems fairest.

Also, you do indeed earn new contacts in your new cities, and they may or may not be the same as your old ones. I got one the same, Dogberta got one different (although she didn't have the option for same one in the new city). I'm guessing its random, who you get - just like when you started (and about as long).

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Feb-19-2005 11:36

bad news (and a very bad day) I couldnt solve any cases in delhi today, I had to quit them all cause of clamming so I didnt get any favor there. When I went back to NY the favor I had waiting was gone too. So if you have a favor, just do it.

Moonshh
Moonshh
Well-Connected

Feb-19-2005 11:38

I agree with bogdoc that it would be really nice to keep the favors, especially as you've "spent" three cases to earn it.

BUT I have to think it also makes some sense that if someone in NYC asks for a favor, and you leave town to head across the world to India, they might get someone else to help them out instead...

Andy702
Andy702
Pinball Amateur

Feb-20-2005 06:17

That does make sense. It brings the question to mind - is this a way to lose contacts? It'd be making townies like factions, if a townie gets mad at you for not helping them and going somewhere halfway around the world instead, your approval rating with them decreases. If the approval rating goes negative (and they are a contact) they won't be your contact anymore. In the same respect, you could only get a contact by not already having that type of contact (PE or non) in that city and doing a favor for them that brings their rating with you positive.

The only problem I can see that this would cause is having positive ratings with two PE townies in one city after losing a PE contact in that city. But the next of those PE townies you complete a favor for in that city being your new PE contact for that city would solve that problem.

I keep thinking about getting new contacts, my guess is a lot of others have been to. So along with getting more contacts, was a contact change that we can lose contacts as well? I hope not, but it makes sense - and it would make hunts harder if some agents had favors and couldn't travel for muli-city hunts without risking a lost contact.

Either my imaginatioon is way too good or I just figured out how to lose a contact. :)

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Feb-20-2005 07:44

I think u r going wild here andy. U might confuse the newbies ;)
Till now there is no reason to believe u can loose a contact. But u can earn 2 in each city.

Andy702
Andy702
Pinball Amateur

Feb-20-2005 09:50

I might be thinking too much - just figured if the favors go away, why not the contacts? But this was thought of by the same person who wrote a book about a victim killing his killer then being killed again (I know it sounds odd, but the book makes it seem sane).

Before anyone asks me - that's really what I wrote about, and none of the books I've written are published yet. :)

Moonshh
Moonshh
Well-Connected

Feb-20-2005 10:49

The book sounds very cool, Andy! And I've moved this to sleuth talk as I think it's gotten kind of complex and overly hypothetical for the newbie thread.

I remember discussion some time back about losing contacts. But I don't think this is what is happening, nor do I think it is likely to happen.

We never know, with Ben, though, do we?!

Moonshh
Moonshh
Well-Connected

Feb-20-2005 10:50

Although contacts can be hard to find when you have to feel around on the rug with your hands!

*snicker*

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