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Jun-13-2005 05:02

When given a hint: [suspect] "thinks he/she knows who the murderer is.", what does that mean? Does it bypass the requirements for two WE + no/bad alibi = murderer? Since the converse shop hint [suspect] "..has not heard or seen anything" means that you cant trust their WE, surely if they know, they should give accurate WE?

I should add that I'm playing at 'hard' at the moment, so the 'honest but inaccurate' WE that I've read about shouldnt come in to play yet, should it?

Perhaps I should just drop the case since I've only got one WE (from someone who thinks he knows'), and everyone in the game has irreversably clammed up on me! ;p

Thanks:)

Jun-13-2005 09:03

Hmmm, guess I'll need to go back and check again, admitted it has been a while, as I dropped using the townspeople very early on, because their statements on this issue didn't seem to be trustworthy to me, but maybe they shaped up :D

Jun-13-2005 10:00

I have to agree with V Buster here, my experience has been the same.

The other reason asking the townies if they know anything can be useful is to restart a dead suspect list.

Say you open a case, and as sometimes happens, the first few suspects all clam on you. If you find a townie that gives you a name that you didn't previously have, the name will be added to your suspect list. You will still have to find a motive for that person if they turn out to be the guilty party, but at least you have a chance at getting a decent suspect list, instead of having to quit the case immeadately.

*still loves this feature, especially when hunting away from home*

Jun-14-2005 03:22

Oh, for a glorious second there you almost had me convinced that the townies had come around, but after a little testing, I'm right back where I was before still claiming that they are only useful if one hasn't been able to get a full list of suspects.

Test case:
Murderer: Chanda Hu
Hints:
1. Stage Manager: Kabir Zhang thinks he knows who the murderer is.
2. Tea Merchant: Zoe Zhang thinks she knows who the murderer is.
3. Fish Monger: Hai Zheng thinks he knows who the murderer is.

Since 3 people were named by various townies as possibly being able to identify the murderer, these 3 would ideally have been the 2 people fingering the murderer and the 1 person poiting to someone with a real alibi.

Now Kabir died before giving evidence so it could be that he would have said "Yes, I suspect Chanda, because I saw her doing this and this". However, neither Zoe nor Hai suspected Chanda.

If both of them were to have implicated someone else, regardless of the persons named having a real or a fake alibi, it would mean we couldn't work from the assupmtion that in each case 3 suspects will have witness evidence against them.

On the other hand maybe it isn't just 3 (have never really checked this), maybe more than 1 person with a real alibi is/can in fact be mentioned??

As it stands it may be that some are able to find a useful way of employing hints given by townies to their case solving strategy, I'm just not one of them :)

Jun-14-2005 04:17

Regarding to my LOW experience, the formula is that:
"Mr.X thinks he knows who the murderer is" >>go ask him for a motive
"Mr.Y has not heard or seen anything suspicious" >> no need to question Mr.Y whom he suspects