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Sep-27-2005 12:08

I've been playing for a little while now. I just created a new detective today because there is some kind of problem with the login.
I always pick tough and charming for my detective. I don't really know if this is the best way to go. What would you guys recommend choosing?

Sep-27-2005 13:02

It's whatever you want. It doesn't matter whether you get Very Tough, Very Charming, Very Smart, Tough and Charming, Smart and Charming or Tough and Smart. Whatever suits you, that's what I say.

Sep-27-2005 14:08

Your detective's archetype determines how many skill points the various skills will cost you.
If f.ex. you have a "very smart" detective, you can subtract 4 points from the base price of any of the smarts skills, but will have to pay full price for the tough and charming skills.
If you have a combined type like f.ex. "tough and charming", you can subtract 2 points from the base cost of any of the tough and charm skills, but you'll have to pay full price for the smart skills.

In this way "tough and charming" is possibly the tougest combination to have, because it often tempts people to pick skills to match both these types from the beginning whereas it is more recommendable at first to focus on either being tough OR charming, getting the skills accordingly + some of the basic smart skills as well as this makes it easier to move on to the different levels. Then later when/if you want to have all the skills, it does of course offer an advantage that you can get the other side of interviewing skills (charming OR tough accordingly) at a cheaper price than if you hadn't had a combined tough and charming archetype, but I think it might have been at the expense at more important skills :)

Sep-27-2005 16:14

I'm with Greyling on this. Therefore, if I were creating new detectives right now, I would go with all charming or all tough, depending on which skills I wanted to focus on first, and I would just suck it up and pay full price for the smarts skills.

But this makes me wonder something. If we don't pick an archetype and create a set of custom skills for a new detective, are ALL the skills then the full price in skill points for the life of that detective? Anyone know about this?

Sep-28-2005 05:37

I think you HAVE to pick an archetype.. I "created" L.E.D but she still had to have an archtype. I just got to choose the first skills she had.

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Sep-28-2005 09:44

Ohhhhh....it's been a while ; )

Sep-28-2005 15:10

I'm the one who asked the original question. I created a new detective that's very charming. Thank you all for your quick responses.

Sep-28-2005 16:01

Moonshh, even when picking your own skills, you still have to pick an archetype.

Sep-28-2005 16:36

Yeah, got that. As I said, it's been a while. ; ) But it makes sense!