Board Thread:News on Criminal Case/@comment-16810903-20160412144435/@comment-28619025-20160427015340

Borg561 wrote: 62.194.28.195 wrote: There's only one strategy : patience. You will just have to collect as many packs as possible  (btw normal mode gives 20 stickers at best),  so you can get a figure of the packs you will need to complete the album in the ideal way (ie all stickers are unique). I bet there's someone out there with a better understanding of math to calculate the number of packs you'll actually  need. In short, I don't think you'll be able to complete any album without buying packs Ignoring Case #1 in Grimsborough (I don't want to start a new account to determine how many packs you get from it), you can get 4 packs/case in Normal Mode, 7 packs/case in Elite Mode, 15 packs/case in Collection Mode (I believe; I can't start any yet). Assuming you never receive a duplicate sticker and you complete each case in Normal, Elite, and Collection Modes, it would take 26 cases to complete Grimsborough, 27 to complete Pacific Bay, and 13 to currently complete World Edition. If you leave out Collection Mode those numbers are Grimsborough = 60, Pacific Bay = 64, World Edition = 31. So it's possible to complete the albums without actually buying any sticker packs, however it's not likely unless you complete Collection Mode on probably 75% of the cases (or more) in each area.

Problem with this is I'm pretty sure you can't collect stickers for cases you haven't unlocked yet. So, assuming a brand new player (and again ignoring case #1), for Grimsborough you would need to complete each case in Normal & Elite Mode, then complete 3 cases in Collection Mode and through arresting a killer in a fourth (alternately complete all cases in Normal, then 20 in both Elite and Collection). For Pacific Bay it would require completing each in Normal and Elite Mode, then completing 3 cases in Collection Mode and through Chapter 1 in a fourth (alternately complete all cases in Normal, then 21 in Both Elite and Collection). For World Edition it would require completing each in Normal and Elite Mode, then completing 1 case in Collection Mode and through arresting a killer in a fourth (alternately complete all cases in Normal, then 10 in both Elite and Collection).

Also, since I haven't seen it answered yet, can someone who has started a case in Collection Mode comment on the processing times (I have to finish 19 more Elite Mode cases before I can start any in Collection Mode). Are they the same as, longer than, or shorter than the processing times in Elite Mode? Thanks! They have same time as elite mode. In every chapter, you can get three packs of stickers including additional investigation. I finished collection mode in case four of WE and case 38 in PB.