This one involves witness statements:

A witness is sent out with all wack attempts, however, from now on depending on the stealth of the killer some of the letters in the witness statement may be replaced by asterisks (those cute little *s). Some of you may have already seen some of these! :)

With this change, it's best if you decode the witness statement as soon as possible, using both the locals list and the 60 second list to narrow down who the killer is.

Again, for clarification, the more stealth the shooter has, the more *s the WS will include. The longer you wait to decode it, the less likely you will be able to make a reasonable guess as to who it was.

Enjoy!
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Is there a maximum amount of *s? Or can the entire name be masked if the killer has great stealth?

Jun 17, '10 12:24:02 You witnessed *c**t*e* attempt to WACK! Kendra

Seems to work. :)

Erm. Minus the epic fuck up on the look of that.

James, to answer your question, the entire name can be asterisks if their stealth is high enough, yes. On those ones, it's more a matter of moving fast and a lot of deductive reasoning. :)

(The chances of that happening are very slim, though. Currently, the highest stealth account only has a 50% chance of each character being an asterisk versus a letter.)

With the witness statement still carry the same amount of letters and asterisks?

What I mean is for example Gwarble would be 7 letters/asterisks or could it be more/less?

~G~warble.

excellent.

Hmm ID =  I*, *D, or even **.  Thats a toughy.

I've already done a couple of these the Asterixs will replace the letters and not add new ones, I hope that answers your question Gwarble alo here's an example. e.g. Gwarble=G**r*le attempted to wack Kendra :) Hope that helps.

~Prophet~ 

lol @ ID..I dont know what people will do if that one comes across the personals, I would just have to give up...I hate being stumped

Gwarble, the number of characters stays the same, a name that is 7 characters in length, stays 7 characters.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Abso-bloody-lutely fantastic. A brilliant change, and one well overdue. Having high stealth was fairly useless when it came to wacking, and now it could make a hell of a lot of diffence. Praise to the Gods :D

So does that mean the WS will be both scrambled and have characters replaced or just have characters replaced??

eg: St*c*bu*dl*s wacked Kendra!

or

c*sb*ld*st*u wacked Kendra!

?????

The witness statements are sent out scrambled as they always have been, but in addition, the mroe stealth the killer has, the greater chance of some of the characters being replaced by *s

Doesn't this give an unfair advantage to those with shorter names? Or is the number proportional to the length?

People with shorter names always had this problem.

Take ID example even before this change his would of been;

DI or ID

Thats his problem when choosing his name.

Hehe, thought about that when I chose the name but it doesnt bother me any.  I knew what results I'd have when choosing my name.  Just something to laugh about.