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Holly Red
Holly Red

Dec-23-2005 19:28

i think we should have rollover cases. like if we missa day the nmber of cases builds up. so if yuo miss like 3 days, you can have 98 cases waiting.
what do you think???

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AZN Cinderella
AZN Cinderella

Dec-23-2005 19:50

That's a good idea. I miss alot of days to play sleuth because of school and I hate it when I realize that I missed a chance to earn more money and skill points.It might be hard for everyone to keep track of all of the cases though.

Holly Red
Holly Red

Dec-23-2005 20:01

srry 9 cases not 98.

Holly Red
Holly Red

Dec-23-2005 20:02

yeah i missed like 2 weeks because i was sick.

Chelsea Bando
Chelsea Bando
Well-Connected

Dec-23-2005 20:02

Shh, if sleuth admin doesn't notice we may get extra cases ;)

JimmyC 09
JimmyC 09
Old Shoe

Dec-23-2005 20:23

Sounds good in theory... at first.

But when you think of it logically, it ruins the game.

Treasure hunts could be finished by one person who didn't use their cases for 2 weeks in an hour.


Now, realistically, if you want to 'save' your cases, subscribe and you can store them in an agency's case files.

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Dec-27-2005 15:15

If possible I'd like to see more characters or town folk involved. For instance "the coroner" : can tell you the cause of death or murder weapon that was used, "the beggar" : has always a keen eye for what goes around. The beggar has to be paid in advance for a hint. The risk is that his hints are not always useful. "the junkie": same as the beggar but wants to be paid with drugs. Your detective has to score some dope with the chance to be caught and banned from the game for a while. Does this all sound crazy?

Marmalade3
Marmalade3

Dec-28-2005 12:59

What about when you get one of the 'Watch your step' threats or a knife thrown at you, later in the case you could get stabbed or something and be made get a false accusation or something because you need to go to hospital.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Dec-29-2005 10:04

I wonder which subbed person would really want to play 2 weeks of missed cases. (Unless you are insane and no one wants to spend time with you.)

As for non subbed person. Being able to get more cases a day by subbing, is an incentive. There's gotta be a significant difference between those who pay and those who don't.

Hellequin
Hellequin

Dec-29-2005 15:38

Personally I'd like to see more "generated backstory" in the random cases. The randomized scatter of motives (some of which I find quite lame - fotgetting someone's birthday??) blurs into background noise pretty fast.

First order fix would simply be to have a "default motive" which tended to lump suspects together. Things such as an inheritance ought to cluster, produce cases where the inheritance is a meaningful link, not just a random motive. Putting a bias that if one suspect did it for an inheritance, others will as well, would help.

Next order fix would be to let the writer of the intro set the "default motive" as part of the submission. Just call it as a replacement variable with a value, like [DefaultMotive=Inheritance], from the list of available options. Armed with the guarantee that there would be several suspects whose motive was the inheritance, one could do a cleaner job writing the intro.

Next up would actually be making that interact with the solving process. Kind of like the "child inheritance" twist now, except with actual impact. For instance, an inheritance thought to be small turns out to be large - who knew about that? This part's trickier, though, and might need to be left for features only.

The last twist on motives is one of the only suggestions I've seen on these boards which could potentially make things *harder* to solve, instead of easier. Why is it that they're assumed true? Having someone lie about someone else's motive is a natural... and would throw quite the monkeywrench in one's solution, necessitating yet more expenditure of questions in order to figure out why. On the other hand, working out that someone has been falsely accused ought to make them more helpful even if they had already clammed...

bitter_suite24
bitter_suite24
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