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[jasonred79]

How about, if you have some conservative hostages, you can actually HOLD THEM HOSTAGE?



One way to "force" a police siege is to threaten to kill one hostage every hour, this should draw a SWAT raid immediately instead of having execution after execution. Right?

[Megaman]

Not like holding hostages ever stops SWAT from coming in to fill you with lead.

[jasonred79]

You're missing my point. My point is that threatening to kill the hostages will force the SWAT into action, instead of them "passive"ly sieging your base, they will be forced to storm your base in order to save the hostages.

[Megaman]

But why would you WANT to?

[Innominate]

But why would you WANT to?

So that when you fight the hordes of heavily armed and armoured elite SWAT members you also have to worry about numerous people you threatened to kill telling the SWAT where you are and then kicking the shit out of you with their golf shoes?

In LCS I don't think there's any down-side to taking hostages though. I haven't actually tried to be honest.

[jasonred79]

Edit:
Umm, because in the current version, LCS trying to assault the police results in them mobbing you, in order to get them to wander into your boobytrapped compound you're supposed to let them siege you for a few days until they force an assault? That sort of thing.

Anyhow, I was thinking that instead of waiting out a siege, you could "force" their hand by threatening the hostages, that's all...

[Deon]

Speaking of which, it would be cool to be able to negotiate an escape if you have many/important hostages. Like, they would give you a car and money and let you escape if you free hostages, something like that.

[GlyphGryph]

I'd appreciate the ability to force a siege in this way, at least if you've already got hostages at base.

[Deon]

Of course, how else... "Hold on a second, let me grab a few pedestrians while you wait?"

[jasonred79]

Sometihing I find irritating:  since your base being under attack is now more dangerous and irritating, I just get a sleeper in the police dept early on to warn me of raids. So I just run everyone to a different safe house when I get warning.
The irritating thing is, you can't bring your hostages with you when you do this. WHY NOT? I mean, I got a van and everything, can't I just toss him in the boot?

[Innominate]

For the last year of my last game I just shut down the police station every time it re-opened. It seems like only one group can plan a siege at a time, so I never got a siege except when I forgot to shut it down (which I then totally destroyed, thanks to the traps and 6 people with M16s and more than 14 skill each).