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Beginner: 10 xp
Easy: 20 xp
Intermediate: 40 xp

Hard: 80 xp
Very Hard: 160 xp

Very Very Hard: 320 xp
Incredibly Hard: 640 xp

Stupendously Hard: 1,280 xp
Ridiculously Hard: 2,560 xp
Almost Impossible: 5,120 xp

With each gap, you need to unlock new case giver. ^_^

which means I have to be in the good graces of whom??
I'm 1ooK and I should be able to unlock someone new, no?? no lock smith or stylist or pawnbroker showing any interest in me...

Annabel, please read my answer in the post concerning 'stats and a few questions'. Hope it will help!

got your message. thanks for the heads up.
I'm sure i would have stumbled on this sooner or later, but like I said, i tend to forget to go back to the bank with the keys. Now I have to make sure I do that.

Update:
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1) Reporter, Desk Sergeant offers:
Beginner: 10 xp
Easy: 20 xp
Intermediate: 40 xp

2) Morgue Assistant offers:
Hard: 80 xp
Very Hard: 160 xp

3) Bishop, Mob Boss, Mayor offers:
Very Very Hard: 320 xp
Incredibly Hard: 640 xp

4) Bank President, Editor In Chief offers:
Stupendously Hard: 1,280 xp (unlock when achieve 100k xp)
Ridiculously Hard: 2,560 xp (unlock when achieve 1M xp)
Almost Impossible: 5,120 xp (unlock when achieve 4M xp)

How do you unlock the stupendously hard people and etc? I have everyone up to the morgue assistant and that's it.

you need to keep on doing those Very Hard cases to collect mysterious documents, so that you can give them to the 3 faction minions (realtor, socialite, priest), for them to introduce their faction boss to you who will them give you VVH, IH and in order to get SH onwards, you need to reach at least 100,000 xp and do something with the photo that you found in the bank safe with the bank safe key that you found in IH cases. ^_^

What would you suggest looking for when doing a hard case? I tried once and missed the deadline. What types of skills should you have before trying a hard one?

@Luzitania:
PM sent.

I tried a showdown and I ended up with a IH case, which was way out of my league time wise. I was on the right track but wasn't fast enough to solve it before the deadline so I was disqualified. I'm still only at the VH cases level, any advice on making me a faster sleuth? :) Thanks!

@Seamoss:
Did you mean the case time? or the real time? In real time, that's a total of 20 mins allocated for each showdown and the only way for you to save real time is by not clicking on everything that you see. In crime scene, of course you need to click on every click able things, but with suspect's houses, you don't have to, as long as you make sure you've not missed any physical evidence in the crime scene, then you don't have to collect all the samples, unless there's one of each type of PE found in the crime scene.

In terms of case time, if its possible, do not spend 4 hours while waiting for suspects to return/leave home, as these few hours are crucial for you to find other informations. Don't collect skeleton key and document as these reduce additional one hour, meaning instead of the normal one hour per house, if you've collected both the skeleton key and document, you've spent 3 hours. When you see a statue in the suspect's houses (especially fake alibi), take a look on the paper under the statue, that will give you the location to research for motive, which also save you another 2 hours. Or better still if you have enough manipulation skills to use when asking for proof of the killer, you might as well just ask for motive and habits as well, so that you can even save another extra one hour on your case time.

Also, Droid also mentioned that if you don't visit the flop house (when you don't have a lab coat), you will save some hours as well.

Good Luck.