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Author Topic: (LCS Android)safehouses, dating and interrogation, heat, and other questions  (Read 4819 times)

Taberone

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I've been playing Liberal Crime Squad on Android lately and I've encountered a few problems.

1)How am I supposed to take a non-apartment safehouse? Theres a option in the starting question that lets you have the crackhouse, but if you don't choose it, how can you take the crackhouse? Or the abandoned buildings?

2)Are my Liberals seducing wrong? One of them has been dating a soldier from the Army Base for a few months now(constantly going on a date without spending pennies, but occasionally spending a hundred bucks), but he still hasn't turned into a love slave. (The "Spend a week" option when dating also does nothing when I press it)

3)How to interrogate efficently? Beating the conservative hostages only makes them GAIN wisdom, and by the time we get someone close to converting them the army is already raiding me.

4)How do I actually lose heat? Community service does nothing, and the heat continues to rise with each day. On my last game I was constantly jumping between safehouses due to a seduced cop constantly warning me about a raid.

5)Whats the point of the "Bluff" skill if it doesn't even do anything when I press it on Android?

6)How do I stay "in disguise"? I've read somewhere that fast talking will allow you to stay undetected even when the conservatives are suspicious, but when I try to do so they keep staring at me suspiciously or raising the alarm.

7)Where is the bank in the Android version?
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BigD145

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The Android version is way behind, version-wise. It has all sorts of issues as it's based on 4.04. It's not even 4.07, which is 2 years old. I'm pretty sure you can't take non-apartment safehouses at all. The warehouse is unusable.
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Yeah I can't speak for the Android version. Here are the answers to your questions on the current Mac and PC versions:

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1)How am I supposed to take a non-apartment safehouse? Theres a option in the starting question that lets you have the crackhouse, but if you don't choose it, how can you take the crackhouse? Or the abandoned buildings?

Yeah sounds like the version is too outdated.


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2)Are my Liberals seducing wrong? One of them has been dating a soldier from the Army Base for a few months now(constantly going on a date without spending pennies, but occasionally spending a hundred bucks), but he still hasn't turned into a love slave. (The "Spend a week" option when dating also does nothing when I press it)

Conservatives get a bonus to resist dating using juice, which soldiers have. They do not get this bonus if you take a vacation with them, though, making vacations the method of choice for seducing high-juice conservatives.


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3)How to interrogate efficently? Beating the conservative hostages only makes them GAIN wisdom, and by the time we get someone close to converting them the army is already raiding me.

Psychology is effective, and seduction is effective. Both will need to be leveled up in order to recruit via interrogation quickly.


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4)How do I actually lose heat? Community service does nothing, and the heat continues to rise with each day. On my last game I was constantly jumping between safehouses due to a seduced cop constantly warning me about a raid.

In older versions, liberals generating heat doing community service do not generate any more heat, but community service by itself does not reduce heat. In general, the only way to truly get rid of heat is to get rid of the liberals generating the heat, which can be done by them being away, in the justice system, dead, etc.

A fairly cheap trick is to let them get convicted and go to prison, then break them out of jail. Your liberals will still have their long sentences to serve and will go back to prison if ever caught again, results of a second trial notwithstanding. However, with no criminal rap sheets, they will generate much less heat.


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5)Whats the point of the "Bluff" skill if it doesn't even do anything when I press it on Android?

6)How do I stay "in disguise"? I've read somewhere that fast talking will allow you to stay undetected even when the conservatives are suspicious, but when I try to do so they keep staring at me suspiciously or raising the alarm.

There is a skill called Disguise in the more recent versions that I would guess is the successor to bluff. If the conservatives are alarmed (not merely suspicious!), one of the options when encountering a party containing conservatives is to bluff. If you are successful, your liberal will "talk like a conservative" and "the enemy [will be] fooled and depart".


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7)Where is the bank in the Android version?

No idea. Normally it's a site, and is plainly labeled. It's normally downtown, along with the police station, the courthouse, and the upscale apartments.
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Taberone

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Conservatives get a bonus to resist dating using juice, which soldiers have. They do not get this bonus if you take a vacation with them, though, making vacations the method of choice for seducing high-juice conservatives.

"Spend a week on a cheap vacation" is bugged and does nothing on Android. Am I out of luck?
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Purple Gorilla

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2) Dating increases seduction, so leaving it running, may succed after some time.

3)
* Select a liberal with high heart and high intelligence as designated "good cop", and send him studying Psychology for some weeks (to reach ~5)
* Get a good outfit for him, like police body armour. The best are Heavy ceramic armour and Death squad uniform, but they are hard to get.
* Kidnap the hostage and set the "bad cops" to tending to hostage. Options :
** Attemp to convert OFF
** Physical restrained OFF
** Voilently beaten ON
** Expensive Probs ON
This will lower Widom Heart and Health. Doe this until Widom is below 5. Hight level conservatives get Widom from juice like liberals getting heart from juice, so it doesn't get much lower. If you want them for combat don't do this, as this will lower health, but for sleepers it is OK
* Set the "good cop" to tending to hostage (leave the others too, as this will train psychology)
** Attemp to convert ON
** Physical restrained OFF
** Violently Beaten OFF
** Expensive Probs ON
After some time the enlightment should work.

Somewhere on the Internet there is "How to become a Super Villian" list that mocks movies. One Point is "If I Interogate my Enemies, I will do it in a cheap flat and not in my secret Base". This advice is in fact usefull here, because Hostages attract police raids, so don't do it at your Press. Got to the Homeless shelter or the Projects, so you can run away before the police comes without leaving the press unattended.

4) in the Stable and the Beta release heat slowly times out. Other mechanics are different in 4.7.0 and 4.7.4 and probably different in your version. Look at the Wiki under heat, it tells you everithing but here is some advice :
* in 4.7.0 Community service reduces heat, in 4.7.4 not
* in 4.7.0 Secrecy reduces the amount of heat that is transfered to a location, but doesn't protect you. in 4.7.4 the police won't raid you if heat is below secrecy.
* in 4.7.0 Secrecy is reduced, if a locations is crowded, so a flat can't hide large numbers of liberals while the abandoned buildings can (that you don't have in your version anyway).
* in 4.7.0 The probability of a police raid increases with the heat. CCS, Mercenaries and the CIA attack locations with heat, no matter how much heat it is. Rednecks can attack any location no matter if there is heat, but won't if more than 30% have a negative opinion about AM-Radio and Cable News. Firemen always attack the printing press. In 4.7.4 the CCS can attack locations without heat, if they are strong enough. (the variable endgamestate matters)

5) Bluff (if it is implemented in your version) works if you have an appropriate disguise, like police body armour. That you do as bluff depends on your outfit, and the game mode. If you have high juice, intimidate is often better than bluff. Note, that during Firemen raids, bluffing will set your safehouse on fire (as you drop a lit match).

6) Then you wear an appropriate disguise, any times, a conservative looks suspicious or you act normal, the disguise skill is trained. If you don't wear an apropriate disguise, the skill still helps, but is not trained. A godd way to train disguise is waiting in a nonrestricted area (there clothes count as disuise) and wait near the Exit until conservatives are suspicious and then leave. To make the supsicious, you must commit a crime or be seen once in a restricted location. Keep in mind, that trespassing in flats or next to guard dogs cause immidiate alarm, so don't train the skill at such places.

Taberone

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Does the Android Version on Google Play even get updated anymore? Are there any other Android versions of LCS to download that are up to date and less buggy?
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BigD145

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Does the Android Version on Google Play even get updated anymore? Are there any other Android versions of LCS to download that are up to date and less buggy?

It's the only version. No updates.
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Taberone

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Does the Android Version on Google Play even get updated anymore? Are there any other Android versions of LCS to download that are up to date and less buggy?

It's the only version. No updates.

That sucks. Also, I somehow managed to take the Crack House as a safehouse after going into it and spraying a few tags, but that never worked before.
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