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[GreatWyrmGold]

I think it depends on if the buyers think you're a good cop, a bad cop, or a nutjob disguised as a cop.
In the first case, they wouldn't touch your stuff with a flaming, eleven-foot stick.
In the second case, you might be able to charge a higher price with the promise to impede police attempts at finding them.
In the third case, it wouldn't matter.

So, I guess having police gear affect sale in various ways depending on Persuasion level or something would make sense.

[Funk]

if your disguised as a cop you sell less drugs but are a bit safer from geting found out.

with high street wise skill you know better how to sell drugs, high disguise makes you look less like a drug dealer.

[Xotes]

A nice tip for sieges that I've found is that everyone you've equipped with a firearm gets an attack whether they're in your squad or not. Thirty-odd people firing away with assault rifles tends to make up for whatever they lack in accuracy, I've found, and since you only get up to six siege units in a tile you've got at least five times as many attacks per turn as your Conservative foes. Plus it's an excellent way for your action squad to train up their weapons skill in the field.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'm doing fine. Aside from the deaths and my founder getting put into the clinic for a few months. How do I get a good paper up?

[Darvi]

Get some decent writing skill (by writing (to) a newspaper), and publish something that your hackers/sleepers/safe-cracking squad brought in at the beginning of the month. Bam, instant public awareness and attention of whatever group you offended.

[GreatWyrmGold]

How do you suggest I get either someone with a god Computers skill or some other method of getting dirt without, you know, leaving Conservative chunks of my LCS lying all around the Conservative base?

[Xotes]

Currently there's no risk to just having your guys hacking conservative websites from the Activism menu, and they steadily build up computer skill while bringing in some nice news material for you.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'm in a decent position--six active liberals and a sleeper judge. How would you suggest I actively expand the Liberal agenda? Notably, where do you suggest I go to recruit people?

[BoxOfAids]

I'm in a decent position--six active liberals and a sleeper judge. How would you suggest I actively expand the Liberal agenda? Notably, where do you suggest I go to recruit people?

Depends what you need.

If you need fighting members for site raids, grab Yoga Instructors or Dancers from the Vegan bar thing. Otherwise, look for characters likely to have the stats you want, like if you want a computer hacker then grab a programmer from the internet cafe, if you want someone to pick locks then find a locksmith, etc. If you're aiming for more sleepers, grab a Police Officer from the police department to be warned of site raids, or try to get Radio Personalities / News Anchors (both very hard), or maybe Actors (less hard) to slowly tip the country more towards liberalism passively.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Okay...I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.
I kidnapped a radio personality to use as a sleeper agent, but nothing I do lowers his Wisdom or increases his Heart. His Heart was at 2 until I had him beaten, and his Wisdom remains firm at 10. Um...any advice? Maybe I should go pick up some gear to improve my psychologist's ability to psyche...

[Darvi]

What were the stats and skills of the enlightener?

[BoxOfAids]

Okay...I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.
I kidnapped a radio personality to use as a sleeper agent, but nothing I do lowers his Wisdom or increases his Heart. His Heart was at 2 until I had him beaten, and his Wisdom remains firm at 10. Um...any advice? Maybe I should go pick up some gear to improve my psychologist's ability to psyche...

Kidnapping to get sleepers is usually the hardest way to get them. You need to have an interrogator with high Psychology and Heart, and if you're going for an arch-conservative like Radio Personalities you'll also need decent skill in Business, Science, and Religion, or your guy will be at risk of gaining wisdom. Also it helps to know that certain clothing will help to convert the target during beatings and interrogations.

It's all documented at http://lcs.wikidot.com/interrogation.

[Darvi]

It also helps to have two interrogators. One beats the kidnapee senseless, and the other one, whose guts the kidnapee doesn't hate, can get all friendly with them.

[KA101]

Currently there's no risk to just having your guys hacking conservative websites from the Activism menu, and they steadily build up computer skill while bringing in some nice news material for you.

Except for the hackers tripping up on security and getting charges--they do build heat, but it's more immediately safe than site raids or relying on a sleeper.

It's bad luck to hack for more than a month at a time, I've found, and it's generally a good idea for the hackers to be doing Community Service when not hacking, teaching others to hack, or monitoring the polls.

[GreatWyrmGold]

What were the stats and skills of the enlightener?

Psychology 6 (now 7), Heart 10, Wisdom 2...anything else?

It also helps to have two interrogators. One beats the kidnapee senseless, and the other one, whose guts the kidnapee doesn't hate, can get all friendly with them.

...You can do that? When I try, it only lets me use one of them.