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I guess so, and I'm positive that no one has any other charges since I literally just started out my squad.  Kidnapping is a pretty serious crime IRL I know, but attacking 6 unarmed guys with tanks, and the national guard?

If SWAT didn't raid you first, I'd call it a glitch too.  I thought the Guard only came out if you beat a SWAT raid.

Masks indeed help interrogation; IIRC the Satan & Reagan masks are better than most.  DS uniforms are generally the best option if you're in Nightmare.

(There are a few additional masks that only come out in the Random, but that's XML-diving as I've never bought any.)

Problem is that (unless Fox added it) there actually is no "attempted" or other inchoate-offense modifier in LCS.  Failed safecracks, Supercomputer hacks, etc attach the full charge, and Kidnapping is generally a pretty significant one IRL (at least once the report goes out).

So, Kidnapping has a fairly high amount of Heat attached.

As for lawyering: Law schools are full of students who were the best in their undergrad degree programs, who did well on their LSATs, and who want to make shitloads of money.  1L year is a credit overload where (if you're lucky) you might get a midterm exam.  More likely, you get the final and that goes directly to your transcript.

I don't know what DigiPen is like, but unless they're like commercial studios in the whole "crunch time" thing, I'll respectfully suggest that you might reconsider your assessment of law school, Fox.  We like you the way you are and I'd rather you not end up in a vulpine-eat-hominid world.

-KA101, Lawyer (20s)

Found another little oddity. If you get caught by the police selling brownies, the message 'As you exit the site you notice you are being followed by conservative swine!' appears before the chase scene, as if you were leaving a raid.

I recall seeing this in 4.6.7 too, come to think of it.  Didn't seem terribly important at the time, sorry.

Well, police station has a randomly located lockup (and you can get it moved if you force it into Closed Down), so that can be easy or difficult depending on the randomization.

I put the Courthouse lockup in a fairly tough location (plenty of locked doors, far from the starting grid, quickest way out is through an alarmed door) but theoretically that's the least dangerous in terms of opposition.

Prison lockups share the random nature of the PD but also the sentence-based leveling.  Important thing about the Prison is that Liberals there have their records cleared: springing them leaves "only" an Escaping Prison charge.

That reminds me of something someone else suggested a little while ago. Skill trickle down. Where getting a skill-up in one weapons skill helps other skills a little, I think it go like this.

Heavy Weapons: Rifle.
Rifle: SMG. Shotgun.
SMG: Pistol.
Pistol: SMG.

I think that for every on skill-up, they should get like 0.50 points to the weapons skill that would be effected by the skill.

Cataclysm has generic Firearms & Melee skills that support this concept: using the relevant attack boosts both the specific (Pistol/Unarmed, for instance) and the general skill; however, the general skill isn't as effective as the specific.

Direct effects seem fairly powerful by comparison, and I'm thinking that some of them don't necessarily fit as well.  Shotgun/Rifle cross-pollinating might work; SMG and Pistol are distinctly different with the basic guns (the MP5 has a stock, whether fixed or retractable; handguns don't, and the .44/.38 are revolvers anyway so the recoil force should be substantially different).

Perhaps have cross-pollination cap at 2 or somesuch, similar to the proposed firing range?

Related question: do "successful", in that no alarm is raised at the end of the combat round, sneak-attack kills attach Murder/Armed Assault charges?

If they do, we/I should probably update the wiki to reflect that.

Uh, the color/year kinda help if you have more than one Van, Bug, Sportscar, SUV, etc.  It's important to know who's going in which car so you don't doublebook the motor pool.  (Only one squad can take a car, per day, no matter how many people are involved.)

Quote from: Jboy2000000 on April 22, 2013, 10:27:10 pm

I can go through then with a squad of six people wielding M4's and have them not go off. And its weird when a janitor at the court house waves you through one, you'd think only sleeper cops would be able to do that.

I will fix both of these.

Didn't know there were Police/DS employed specifically at the Court House.  As for the Janitor, maybe not so much that they can wave the squad through as it is their Janitorial ability to go anywhere in the building, including the security office, and Liberally whip up the IDs the squad flashes?