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Ah, yeah, just trying to open up the project in VS won't work because it needs to hook in to the editor. The way Unity is set up is kind of weird - VS is used to WRITE the code but doesn't actually build it, the editor will do that. What you want to do is unzip all the project files into their own folder, then through the launcher, choose "open" or "add" (depends on what version of the launcher you have) and go to that folder. It will import the project into the editor and then from the editor you can edit the code via the Assets/Open C# Project menu.

I don't really know anything about Raspberry Pi but it seems like the issue is that it's having problems parsing the XML data. Does the version that works use externalized data or is it all hard-coded (I know at one point everything was hard-coded but I don't know when the shift over to XML data was done)? Does Raspberry Pi maybe use a weird library for parsing XML files? Alternatively, does the file formatting need to be changed to be compatible? There may be some kind of conversion that the base files need to be run through in order to parse correctly.

That sounds like it's a bug - I found a few other spots where I was accidentally using the base value of the stat when I'd meant to use the modified value as well. The wiki info might not always 100% match the way it works in my version since it's based on the original release, but for the most part I tried to match mechanics 1:1.

It is possible, but you can only get it from a CCS leader, who are only ever encountered in the special boss tiles in the CCS safehouses, or in CCS raids against your own safehouses (in which case you'd still end up violating your general "don't do crimes" approach because you're gonna have to shoot some people. They won't get counted as murders though).

The way you could theoretically do this involves a lot of seduction and good disguise skill - you might argue that breaking into restricted areas is "trespassing" but the game doesn't consider it a crime so you probably shouldn't worry about it. Basically what you'd need to do is first seduce a regular CCS member (who as mentioned, you can find in the gentleman's club) to get the location of the Desert Eagle Bar and Grill. There, you'll need to head in to the boss tile without raising an alarm of any kind (your seduced CCS member will spawn as a bouncer so you don't need to worry about getting in the door). Then you have the option of trying to seduce the CCS boss. This is pretty difficult to do since dating is done by rolling against the opponent's wisdom score and CCS bosses have extremely high stats all around (10-25 BASE, and they get juice bonuses on top of this), but if you have a character with high seduction you'll probably wear them down eventually.

After that you pretty much just have to set them to snoop and wait, because they'll start with infiltration basically maxed out anyway.

The thing that makes all of this difficult is to get the stats required is basically impossible without committing some kind of crime. Juice is mostly gained through illegal activities, and the lighter crimes stop giving juice at relatively low caps. Without juice, most characters' base stats are really going to be too low to give a high enough cap on seduction to stand a chance at seducing the CCS boss. Hell, training up seduction skill itself is most efficiently done via prostitution, which is of course illegal on its own.

All that said, you don't technically HAVE to destroy the CCS to win the game. The goal is to turn the country elite liberal - the CCS will work against you but you can overpower their influence.

Interesting. Are you eventually going to implement the features from the unofficial LCS 4.07.0 version?

I'd actually used 4.07.4 as my base for mechanics when building this version, so most of the complete features from that are in this version - I emphasize "complete" there because part of the nature of an open source project is there's a lot of half-finished cruft in there that people added over the years but ended up being abandoned, so it's technically accessible but doesn't actually work. So things like the Stalinist Crime Squad or the white house site aren't things I'm planning on adding to my version - although ideally I'd be able to get it into a state where someone could mod that stuff in if they wanted it.

Can you post a copy of the output_log.txt and your save from the folder C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\LocalLow\Lazy Dog Software\LCS from after a crash? Also is it an actual hard crash to desktop?

Next time you get the black screen can you post the output_log.txt from C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\LocalLow\Lazy Dog Software\LCS (You might need to enable hidden files to be able to see it)? It sounds like there might be an uncaught exception which would be recorded in there. Your save file is also in that folder and might also be helpful.