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Warning about collecting evidence in StrangerVille
Anmirla
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If you are completing the aspiration, make sure you have collected all 15 pieces before you put the dossier in your inventory (if you get it by means of not collecting the evidence).
If you decrypt a USB, it gives you a dossier (and eliminates a piece of evidence). I discovered this last night because I wanted to see what happened when you decrypted, but I had only collected 8 pieces of evidence by the time the next thing came back in the mail after uploading it to the hackers.
I haven't seen this mentioned (I may have missed it) and thought I'd put the warning out since I had to cheat to fulfill the aspiration. 
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After being lucky enough to not experience it at the GTW Science lab, I find that the StrangerVille Scientists are walking around the town in drag.
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Downloaded and installed. Thank you!
I sold it for 100 at the curio booth right after cheating that part of the aspiration. At least I got a little cash for my trouble.
I got the key by uploading the dossier that I got by decrypting the USB. That was the problem - as soon as it was delivered and I took it out of the mailbox, I couldn't click on anything to collect more evidence in the lab. Once you have the key, that's it - no more search for evidence. That's why it's important to collect all 15 pieces before putting the key in your inventory.
I thought that decrypting the USB would give me more evidence (that would've made sense), but instead it gave the dossier that I could've easily have compiled by getting the 15 pieces of evidence. So decrypting a USB is actually useless if you are completing the aspiration.
I waited until New Skill Day to start Programming. I took her to a library that I added the Fast Internet lot trait. She got really far on that day and I sent her back a few times after to finish it off.
It was part of my back story for her as a Journalist. I wanted her to be able to hack the computers at the lab as well. That wasn't really worth it though as the failure rate is still high even with Programming maxed.
Oh that is really weird you can't collect anything after you have the key.
Not really. It's a waste of time to build a skill specifically for this when there are easier ways to obtain them.
Hacking the computers in the lab takes longer and there is still a high chance of failure even with maxed programming (and it breaks the computer every time, so if you want to try again you also need to build handiness to fix them).
You need maxed programming to decrypt the USB (which gives you a dossier and eliminates a piece of evidence), but you can compile the dossier by collecting the 15 pieces of evidence that you need to fulfill the aspiration anyway.