Er, so I'm not sure how to play this. I read through the Crime Squad Manual, and then started doing stuff. First day I told my man to look up some polls online, and second day he was arrested.
While selling brownies.
Also, the judge called him "Dale Parker" for some reason. I don't want to use the "walkthrough" strategy (as commendable and useful as it may be), but... how do I do stuff in general? Do I just make tons of money, gear up my dude, and then go forth and destroy? I'm not sure how to play at all.
Additionally, what should I do about the trial? Hire a lawyer or whatnot? It'd take up all my money.
EDIT: I decided to get the court-appointed attorney.
What the heck?! I'm being prosecuted by the friggin' KKK? That is not a jury of my peers, guys! Additionally my own defense turned against me! Aaargh.
Then my dude was sentenced to three months in prison (the judge called him "Dale Parker" again), but he's going to be released next month? Huh?
...and he's been released immediately for some reason.
Ffffffffffffffffff he's been arrested again
EDIT:
Okay, here is all the important information I have gathered so far.
STRATEGYFirst get the latest version
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One of the most important parts of the game is getting recruits. Getting more Juice and Leadership lets you recruit more people, and getting more persuasion lets you convince people to join you. Juice can be easily acquired by robbing apartments. To do this, you need the Security skill, which is gained by picking locks. Go to industrial district apartments and practice picking locks (Don't pick locks if someone's there - in fact, make sure never to pick locks or take goods or do anything criminal like that if someone's there, or it will make trouble. Just move away a square and then move back). Pick all the locks, but don't enter the rooms. Repeat this until you can consistently pick most of the locks. Then start on the the university district apartments, then the downtown ones. At this point, you may want to increase your chances of easy escape by leveling your Stealth skill, which is used when your disguise is so bad that stealth would be better. You can achieve this by walking around places naked (remember to put your clothes back on afterwards!). Once you can consistently pick downtown apartment locks and possibly have good Stealth, go to the downtown apartments and rob everyone blind. You can net many thousands of dollars through this. Additionally, you will get 1 Juice for every item stolen, and you can quickly max out your juice at 1000. You may also want to buy a spray can at the Pawn Shop and spray graffiti to do this, though it is risky.
Once you feel you are financially secure (I recommend $5000) and have decent juice, you will be able to recruit people. To recruit, you may need persuasion. You can try recruiting hippies at the Vegan Co-Op in the University District. However, if you would like to raise your persuasion to recruit more effectively (and be able to recruit more difficult and more advantageous targets, like Moderate judges), you can do so by Soliciting Donations. Keep in mind that the very act of recruiting hippies will also raise your persuasion.
Now you should have money, a successful career (that is to say, thieving), high juice, some skills, and some recruits. There are many useful tasks your recruits may be able to accomplish. Although robbery is a reliable, efficient means of acquiring moolah, you may want to create a workforce (for example, if robbing apartments takes too long and is boring). One useful job is soliciting donations; it brings in little money but raises persuasion. Art is fairly lucrative. Selling Brownies brings in a lot of money and raises the useful Cooking skill, but it is illegal, so make sure to equip cooks well and train them if need be, or to devise some way to get them out of jail if you decide to give them up to the police. Credit card fraud is very lucrative.
(to be continued)
TIPS1. Juice is extremely important. Natural skill in a task is as nothing against the incredible skill capacity of maxed juice. What's more, juice can raise liberals' heart, which prevents them from falling prey to conservative thinking (this is especially important for those pathetic hostages you tortured down to one heart, one wisdom). I recommend creating a juicer squad - a professional thief, plus any low-juice or low-heart liberals you may have (even if a liberal has 100+ juice, it is important to raise his juice level if he is on the verge of desertion). Send this juicer squad into downtown apartments daily to rob those poor fools who buy new laptops and jewelry every day, just for you. This is incredibly useful - as well as keeping your liberals juiced up, it can be very lucrative (in fact, it is my main income source!).
2. It can take a very long time to train your liberals to do things, especially when they have low skill levels. Teaching is useful, but can be expensive and inefficient. As such, I recommend creating an uber-liberal of many skills. My founder and main liberal, Cheddarius The Mighty, has 138 skill at the moment, and 15.63 Teaching skill. Have your chosen demigod (I like to use my founder, since I train him up anyway; you might also use someone with high heart or stats) participate in activities that raise important skills; Computers, Security, Disguise, and Stealth are all useful. Gather all or most of your liberals in one place, and have him teach. He will be able to teach efficiently, because of his high teaching (eventually) and because he is teaching multiple skills (for example, Security and Stealth because you've trained him in both those skills).
3. Don't get caught! When you're skipping joyously through a hotel, gleefully opening all the doors and robbing everyone's possessions while they drool obliviously mere feet away, sometimes you will come across conservative scum. To avoid them freaking out, quickly seduce them with your macho love techniques! Practice dating people if you want to train up Seduction, then use pickup lines on people whenever they're about to sound the alarm.
4. Move your phat lewtz! Whether the police are about to raid you, or you need some equipment in another apartment, use R-8 to move things to where you want them to be.
VARIOUS MISCELLANEIAIs that even a word? Anyway:
More liberal systems = better lawyers
Crowbars are good for breaking doors open
Also! For you newbies out there, I have a save set up just for you! Near $200k in cash, almost every liberal decked out in SWAT Tactical Armor, a bunch of Police Body Armors to spare, several newspaper items if you want to try that out. Massive hacker force, which means that you can basically do anything and your cash will soar, even if you have a bunch of guys teaching. If you want to experience a siege, just keep playing for a while and publishing police records; they'll track you down. If you don't, when heat moves up in Allanshaw, move to Day Health Insurance. It's version 4.01.4, have fun!
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