I didn't know anyone knew that you can take over crack houses!
It isn't obivous. The only way you could find it out if you look at the code, but I thought it was general knowledge at the time, so I didn't mention it. The fact that Crack Houses come with a lot of heat though make them rather unappealing...
I'm SO gonna convert the Crack Houses to the LCS! We need more safehouses! Can they be upgraded? Any other secret safehouses? Information should be shared Liberally!
You can't upgrade them now. But I want you to be able to upgrade them. So I'll make it so you can, next release.
Note that you actually get a random number between zero and your dodge skill as your defensive bonus, instead of just getting your dodge skill added directly, as it was in previous versions. This makes dodge still useful without allowing you to create truly invincible characters with it.
May I suggest having the minimum bonus be a third of your dodge skill instead of a flat zero? This would still leave even elite characters vulnerable to skilled opponents, but at least they won't be making total rookie mistakes in combat and get their faces perforated by pitchforks and syringes. I mean, a hard-earned skill like dodging has got to be worth SOMETHING, even if the dice are completely against you.
I can consider it, but it's an extremely powerful skill in general. I tend to doubt there's any need for it to be more powerful.
Not sure if it is working as intended, but I maxed out my persuasion to 13 within 10 days of starting the game by going to the crackhouse and casually chatting 30 or so crackheads/prostitutes etc. Seems a little fast to me.
That does seem a little fast. When I tried to reproduce this with a character starting with 11 charisma and 4 persuasion, I was only able get to 6.05 by talking to over 35 people in the crack house and then casually chatting with them all for ten days. I tried again with a character at 14 charisma and 4 persuasion, and a few more people, and it increased a bit faster, but not quite as much as you experienced.
Its possible to press enter and skip certain options when you shouldn't be able to. For example, the "Safehouse, Trouble, or Both" option, as well as the list of stealable cars.
Good idea. I can fix that.
The newspapers break when using Wine, sometimes a problem, because I occasionally can't read the newspaper!
Linux and LCS never really got along, often times outright refusing to deface the american flag, but no need to worry. No one reads newspapers anymore.
Hence why I use Wine, and not the Linux version. Also, the flags burn fine with Wine.
Flags burn fine on Linux too, now, as that bug was fixed awhile back. I seem to recall it was tricky and involved about a half hour of collaboration between two people to find.
I really have no idea why the newspaper is doing that or whether there's anything I can do about it, unfortunately. If I knew how to fix it, I would.
And Johnatan, you still want newspaper articles for the political violence issue?
I've played with using just headlines, but I ended up tossing it out because it didn't look good.
These issues just don't have articles, at all:
- immigration
- political violence
- the military
- drug control
- civil rights
That's five news stories, all total: One liberal and one conservative for each one.
Here's an example of a format and length I can use to make a news story:
VIEW: PRISONS
ON THE INSIDE
(Random City) - A former prisoner has written a book describing in horrifying detail what goes on behind bars. Although popular culture has used, or perhaps overused, the prison theme lately in its offerings for mass consumption, rarely have these works been as poignant as (Firstname) (Lastname)'s new tour-de-force, _(Pick from A)_(Pick from B)_.
Take this excerpt, "The steel bars grated forward in their rails, coming to a halt with a deafening clang that said it all -- I was trapped with them now. There were three, looking me over with dark glares of bare lust, as football players might stare at a stupified, drunken, helpless teenager. My shank's under the mattress. Better to be a man and fight or a punk and let them take it? Maybe lose an eye the one way, maybe catch AIDS the other. A helluva choice, and I would only have a few seconds before they made it for me."
A:
Nightmare
Primal
Animal
American
Solitary
B:
Packer
Soap
Punk
Kid
Cell
Shank
Lockdown
Buttlord
Found a bug, but it's not serious. If a sleeper agent delivers something to a safe house or the homeless shelter immediately after a newspaper headline posting, the text will look like text on a newspaper. I'll try to grab a screenshot next time it pops up
No worries, just fixed it. Thanks.
Wonder if the Abandoned buildings which start as LCS Safehouses can be upgraded if they get captured by the CCS (thus become Enemy Safehouses), then get recaptured by the LCS? It should be like that (and I seem to recall doing so), but I'll add it to the "Test Cool Feature List".
Also, in LCS version 3.19.4, all recruits are female, even if they distinctly were male when I was talking to them in the crackhouse/apartment/etc. Same with Seduced and Brainwashed. Not sure how the change gender feature would work. I should point out my founder is a female, if that matters.
Which has me wondering, "How does the Gender Changer affect gameplay?" Is it permanent? Do all Conservatives agree with the change? Does being Angrogynous affect anything? Will the bouncer let the Angrogynous person into the Gentleman's Club?
1) It's based on the kind of site you're in, so theoretically there should be nothing stopping you from investing in a recaptured warehouse.
2) I haven't been able to reproduce all recruits being female. Just tested with a new female character and grabbed a musician, Juan Krishna (Age 54, Male).
3) Changing gender is not permanent. Not all Conservatives will respect the change.
The bouncer will let an Androgynous person in if they were originally male.
The bouncer will let an Androgynous or Male person in that was switched from female originally only if they pass a tough disguise check, or gay rights is L+.
The bouncer will let a Female person in if women's equality is L or L+.