music piracy case

[spike in the punch]

soooo i am aware of the ability to get hints, and i was really struggling on how to figure out either how to descrypt the password file or get in some other way ... so decided to take a look at some hints and i really hoped to only look at the medium level ones but they seriously did not help me get ANY better idea of what i was missing???

it says to search the error code in the message (i assume from the encrypted file) but the page about it doesnt tell me anything about where i should go after that...there was no info i could find about decrypting it so i guessed that wasnt something i could do?
i looked at the extreme hint but i was dissapointed to see that just went right to the final answer as the hint before it really did not lead into the conclusion of the problem..and im still struggling to understand what i missed on the way exactly...

i am enjoying the concept and ideas of this game a lot but i have been finding myself "missing" things on the way of solving cases, some things just dont come up as obvious to me at all and im not sure if thats just me or not... ill find myself at a dead end or going in circles

[BrknSoul]

Those Virtual Pets are cool, aren't they? They're fun when you feed them stuff that isn't strictly food...

[spike in the punch]

Originally posted by BrknSoul:

Those Virtual Pets are cool, aren't they? They're fun when you feed them stuff that isn't strictly food...

thank you for telling me this tho, was i supposed to just guess about it? :^( it just doesnt seem like it was hinted anywhere which is kind of my problem i guess, even the in game hints didnt hint me to do anything (and the hints even assumed that i bought the password!) so, idk, i just find it annoying now that even the hints didnt hint me towards decrypting a file....

[AYAYA]

It's hinted in a few places where the encryption or the pets are mentioned.

[Lord Franz]

Originally posted by Morry:

soooo i am aware of the ability to get hints

What do you mean "the ability to get hints?" Is that a thing in-game?

[Lord Franz]

The developer of samwich encryption was the developer of the virtual pets, and he himself hinted that you can try feeding them an encrypted file. I think his hints get more explicit as time progresses...

[spike in the punch]

Originally posted by Lord Franz:

Originally posted by Morry:

soooo i am aware of the ability to get hints

What do you mean "the ability to get hints?" Is that a thing in-game?

if you search "hint" in the search bar you will get a page in which you can use your coins to access hints. it will only show you hints for as far as you have progressed in game, and theres different "levels" of hints... like, there a very simple and vague one, then theres a "medium" on with a bit more detail, and then theres an extreme one that give you the whole answer

[spike in the punch]

im not sure what i may have missed on the developers page, i dont recall seeing anything that mentioned to feed the encrypted files to the pets but- truly thats not my biggest concern here as i know if i just missed something it was purely my mistake

imo my biggest issue with some cases was the hints page as a few times i expected it to help me, it didnt give me better ideas to solving the case unless i chose to get the full answer. for a few cases (like this one) it felt like the "medium" level hints missed some steps that couldve led me to more without spoiling it all. so- really what i wanted to get with this thread was maybe the idea that some hints could be revised or worded differently at least.