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Dec-1-2005 04:47

This is from a Newbie Thread [me being the newbie] someone suggested I pose here... >> So...
I was toying with the possibility "that wouldn't it be gr8 if your 'PE' [contact] just answered you straight up... eg. "Penelope Pins knew my time was important to me so she didn't beat aound the bush, the thread you've given me belongs to Joe Bloggs".
Having thought about it some more, it is kind of an authentic response too, in the sense that someone you'd built a realtionship up with, wouldn't 'stuff you around' by making you ask about A,B,C...

Dec-1-2005 14:39

Yes this would be great and it has already been suggested many time before.
Ben has probably a very good reason why he wont do it, but none of us know what it is :P

Dec-1-2005 17:36

*sighs and wishes she had the time to find Ben's comments on the issue*

Dec-1-2005 18:00

Ben has commented on the issue (I've brought it up before as well) and he said something like that would make things slighly to easy.

Dec-1-2005 18:00

Slightly too easy*

Dec-1-2005 18:15

I wish they were.

Dec-1-2005 18:19

I dont see how it can make it easier... merely faster. I believe he is refering to only giving our "PE contact(s)" this ability. If it were given to all PE townies then yes it would make things too easy. But given only to our contact simply makes getting the answer you will eventually get by clicking down the list a little faster.
Am I misunderstanding what Paranoid_Android asked?

Dec-2-2005 03:25

Nope Moon Lighter...you are spot on :) Only your PE CONTACT. Certainly not making the game easier by doing it. Like i said it even adds an air authenticity to your relationship with your contact. [Sorry 'bout not knowing this had been asked previously.]

Dec-2-2005 06:07

I agree, if he/she is your contact, you should be able to just go and ask them, they could be able to just give you the answer.

Dec-2-2005 09:34

Well as long as I am understanding correctly I think its a great idea.

Dec-3-2005 11:31

It make it easy not faster.

Right now you find a thread. Then you build a list of suspects. Then you go to the tailor and check each name on your list. Maybe that person is not there becuase you did not get all the suspects yet.

With this change, I do not bother to make a list of suspects. I go to the tailor ask who the hair belongs to, and then go talk that person about alibi.

Easy and fast.

The other point is that mistakes happen. You forget to check a motive or alibi. Forcing people to walk through all the steps each time forces them to be careful or else.