Shady Deals [v0.28.0] By Kroo

v0.28.0

New implementations:

• Black male NPCs. Gameplay-wise they’re no different from everyone else – everything works, and i think all the nuances were adapted for them (i might’ve forgotten something though). Only the visuals and some small things are different.
• For example, only quickies are available with them – there’s no full scene, and i don’t plan to put one together for now.
• Black crew members have their own set of yapping lines: right now they’ve got three kinds of comments with “Allow him a bit leeway” (they’re a bit bolder than the rest), one trait scene that can happen by random yapping and one scene with a crew member with benefits. And yeah, they come over at night too. They also have their own “booty call” on the phone, which can come from friends the Boss has slept with. Aaaand they can become lovers just like everyone else.
• Events that don’t have a version with a black crew member just won’t play for them, and vice versa, of course.
• All the existing scenes with black men now share one big pool of media – way bigger than it used to be.
• New trait “Size Queen”. You get it by “interacting” with black NPCs. It gives +5 combat HP, and having the trait unlocks a yapping line for black crew members that can lead to a scene. It also raises the brothel’s income on the matching requests.
• New business buffs system – buffs are shown on the map and work the way you’d expect buffs to work: they improve something for a week. Right now you can get them from the business events of the trailer, the night club, the brothel and the strolls.
• Three new stroll events: one with a beat cop, one with a guy who roughed up one of the girls working the stroll, and one with a potential new girl. The first two can give the stroll a buff.
• A new kind of blackmail against the Boss – a lot of the overly easy pink solutions can now trigger a blackmail event. “Overly easy” pink solutions are everything involving cops and other bandits. The chance that someone digs up dirt on the Boss grows with her reputation.
• The blackmailer demands a cut from a random business of the Boss for 4-7 days (or just money, if she has no businesses at all). If the Boss refuses to pay, the dirt leaks onto the forum and hits her reputation and the gang’s morale hard. But you can also track the blackmailer down and deal with him, with the help of your scouts and the hackers’ services.
• Only one blackmailer at a time, and the event has a cooldown.
• Added a random bootlegger to the Marketplace and the Outskirts. It’s kind of an easy way to get some moonshine for loosening tongues in the early game, and also an alternative way to buy the moonshine trailer (it unlocks after a few moonshine purchases). The bootlegger has a cooldown, and yeah, buying his moonshine and selling it at the bar for profit is intended.
• Bailing your buddies out of jail was reworked – police connections now only get you a meeting with the warden, so you can buy your buddy out. If your charm allows it, you can personally “convince” him to lower the price. The connections are spent only when you actually buy someone out.
• Rich lovers can now call the Boss and offer a little maid roleplay.

Other changes:

• Forum leaks now come with random comments instead of static ones.
• Forum leaks and the Raw Format blackmail now hit the gang’s morale noticeably.
• Everything that used to require 8k reputation now requires 7k – i just moved it to the “Big Shot” tier. It was like that cuz i forgor to update the values when i was moving the reputation tiers around.
• The rednecks’ produce got more expensive (trailer’s biz event), because it now gives a buff for moonshine trailer production speed.
• The debug panel got a new “Test events” section: you can force phone calls, crew events at home, blackmail, buffs, business and stroll events, spawn a rich contact or an accomplice straight in jail, and make every new man black.
• A bit of extra media here and there, on top of the pile of media for black NPCs.

Fixes:

• Rough quickies only corrupted the Boss if she had a camera equipped.
• The pink option of the bikers’ attack led to the mafia’s scene.
• The brothel “Restoration” upgrade showed the wrong price (30000 instead of 50000).
• The Suburbs and Harbor corners described your pimp based on the Downtown corner.
• A stray “</span>” in the industrialist’s supply offer, plus a bunch of typos.