Shaded Legends
Skills and Finding the Killer
SKILLS:
Q. What skill should I get next?
We recommend you get the following key skills first:
1) Smart skills: advanced hair analysis, advanced thread analysis, handwriting analysis, footprint analysis and research.
2) Interview skills:
· Tough detectives: advanced intimidation and advanced interrogation.
· Charming detectives: advanced sweet talking and advanced rule bending.
We suggest you concentrate on getting one set of interview skills at first, either tough or charming. Concentrating on one set means your detective will gain the advanced skills quicker which, in turn, means they will find it easier to solve the harder cases.
Once you have these key skills it’s really up to you what skill to get next, although pugilism (for tough detectives) or flirting (for charming detectives) are a good bet if your suspects still clam regularly.
If you really can’t decide then take a look at your recent cases and think about what has hindered you the most. Generally this will indicate which skill will be of the most benefit.
Q. What’s wrong with getting tough and charm skills?
There’s nothing wrong with this in the long run, you’ll find having both sets comes in very useful when you play the almost impossible cases. However, people start to clam up very quickly in the higher level cases and a detective with advanced skills in one set (either tough or charming) will have more luck making them talk than a detective with intermediate levels in both.
Remember that skills become increasingly harder to earn as your experience grows so get the essential ones first. If you already have a mix of the two it’s not a disaster just concentrate on one set from now on.
Q. I’m a tough detective can I get charm skills instead?
Yes you can but they’ll take longer to acquire because the price of each skill is determined by the archetype of your detective. The table below shows the discount each archetype receives.
HOW TO FIND YOUR KILLER:
Q. What are the 3 Golden Rules?
These are the only failsafe ways of knowing when you’ve found your killer.
If you
A) Match a piece of physical evidence to a suspect with a fake (or a stated “no alibi”).
or
B) Find 1 witness evidence against a suspect with a fake (or a stated “no alibi”).
or
C) Find 2 pieces of witness evidence against the same suspect.
then you’ve definitely found your killer and can safely accuse.
Witness evidence is found by asking your suspects if they have heard or seen anything to make them suspect somebody.
Physical evidence is found by searching the crime scene.
A fake alibi is when your suspect names an alibi but the alibi tells you they weren’t there. A stated “no alibi” is when your suspect tells you they haven’t got an alibi. Please remember these are not the same as an alibi that cannot be checked because the suspect or the townie has clammed up.
Q. I have a gut feeling I know who the killer is, but no evidence, should I accuse?
No! If you do you run the risk of a false accusation. Remember that Shady’s prices keep on rising and it get’s very expensive indeed to pay him off. Far better to quit a case than falsely accuse.
In our experience gut feelings are usually wrong, never rely on these.