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Milady
Milady

Aug-15-2005 22:26

... is criminally greedy!

Aside from bemoaning my now lightened purse, is there a formula relating experience/cases to the amount paid to remove bad bases?

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Milady
Milady

Aug-16-2005 02:04

Does this count cases which are 'quit' as well as completed or failed cases?

From what you say, there's no set way to calculate the amount payable from a given experience IF you do not know the starting value (ie, you have no false accusations or have since cleared your record) However, it is helpful to know that for the future, it certainly is worth waiting until 2 cases before wiping the records.

Thank you for the information and explanation.

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Nomad

Aug-16-2005 02:15

*went and dug....*

From Subscriber services This is what Ben had to say.

"Your experience determines the price for clearing your record. It is not, however a linear formula. When a detective has relatively lower experience, they will often have to pay a price higher than their experience level. At higher experience, the ratio actually drops. That is, the rate of increase of the price does not keep up with the rate of increase of experience. So, at a certain point, the price drops below the detective's experience.
The reasoning behind that drop is, the monetary rewards for cases is basically a linear function, while the experience rewards are geometric. Therefore, a detective completing higher level cases earns relatively more experience than money, when compared to a detective doing easier cases."



Milady
Milady

Aug-16-2005 02:45

Thank you very much for looking - I'm guessing that Subscriber Services is a forum I can't see?


jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Aug-16-2005 03:31

I can't remember I actually, I only visited there once.

One thing that always occured to me, that eventually I would kill my detective over lack of funds.

I am now over 1.5 million on Shady. I have about 3 million in my bank account. The bottom line is, one shady visit takes me months and months of playing to earn back....and during this time my experience would be going up.

I became absolutely obsessed with sleuth money, because of this.



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Nomad

Aug-16-2005 10:53

Your welcome Milady. Sorry I was rather cranky at first. I really shouldn't post when I'm in a not so chipper moood. :)

Subscriber Services is only accessable by subscribers.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Aug-16-2005 14:26

PMS happens to the best of us I guess. :)

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Nomad

Aug-16-2005 14:38

*elbows Jstkdn with a glare* I just need about 3 of me is all.

Greyling
Greyling

Aug-18-2005 02:12

Hmmm, seems I have to take back what I said about 1/5 of a given level's experience being added after each completed case - *so annoying when one's theories don't fit*

Well, I started a new detective yesterday just to do a bit of testing, and aside from me forgetting my original plan about messing up the first case, it turned out that after 2 beginner cases, 1 easy and then remembering to get a false on the favour that my bill with Mr. Shady was $400, the sum which doesn't correlate with what I said earlier + after completing 1 easy today the bill is still $400 - so forget about what I said about the 1/5 when starting out. When it switches to that I don't know, all I can say is that that (the 1/5 that is) is what applies to where I am at the moment :D

Jake Fenton
Jake Fenton

Aug-19-2005 21:52

I'm not looking forward to meeting this guy...

Gena Long
Gena Long
Sleuth About Town

Aug-19-2005 22:17

Ah heck, Shady's just swell. Not sure why everyone hates him so much. . . maybe it's because he robs ya blind. However Jake, if you remember to quit the case rather than guess, you will never have to find out. And it helps to join an agency (if you subscribe) because then you can store your cases and your fellow members can help you out with it.

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