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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???

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.

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.

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...

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Dec-30-2005 12:38

i dont have aany thing too do except pllay slueth!

Dec-31-2005 02:06

In that case, girls, subscribe and join an agency...Mojo Jojo has openings (shameless plug), and we can give you just about as many cases as you want to play. Once you subscribe, you'll have ten cases per day of your own, and in an agency with 12 members, there's almost always someone or several someones who can donate cases to their fellow agents. I, for one, have not had a shortage of cases available to me lately!