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Gabeux:
Hello guys, what's up?
I decided to try on LCS 4.0 yesterday (only played a LCS 3.0 bit last year), and I have a question about crimes and 'evidence'.

My founder is a Ninja, and from all of his wanted crimes (including 1 Terrorism, failed attempt at tampering with the Nuclear Plant), like 95% of them, he was wearing the Ninja Costume.
Shouldn't the 'face protection' mask his identity or something?
Of course, there's always DNA..still, some crimes could have left no DNA at all..

Well, I just want to understand how the Justice would have evidence against him, if he is, well, a Ninja.
Any tips?  :D

Also, he and all my Captains (4 important people from the organization), is under a siege with no chance to escape/survive, so I'll probably give it up (losing is fun...  :'() and face trial, just for the lulz.
Ah, this is my second game, and I save-scummed so I could understand some mechanics and other stuff before I try my true game.

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HA, My founder and 2 Captains escaped the trial. That was VERY ninja. Now I just need to break the prison and free my other 2 captains..

Neonivek:
I always figured they didn't need evidence to take you down.

Also if people didn't know it was the LCS doing it, it wouldn't affect the issues wouldn't it? (I always figured you intentionally left evidence or at least a calling card)

Jonathan S. Fox:
Face protection doesn't do anything, I don't think; this isn't an oversight, just a feature that's never been implemented. Crimes currently are recorded by the game as just counts of things you did, and it's presumed the police can find evidence to charge you with it if you did it. Mechanics for avoiding notice are only in a few places in the game.

It would be possible to easily make masks not put crimes on your record, but that would be very unbalanced. Before masks can do anything, there needs to be a way for police to reconnect you to the mask. Something has to make covering your face less than an easy win button.

Gabeux:
Hmm makes sense. I asked because I wanted to try a game with a no-police-record assassin-politician founder build.
Only for RP reasons and to try it out with a hierarchy I thought about.
Well, no problems, just wanted to know if there was any mechanics or it was actually a crime count :D

Also, I saved 2 captains one of my sleepers who got caught and was in prison, with my ninja.

The game is awesome in that regard, even with the ASCII graphics that tire me quickly, I always keep thinking that I will get a game over soon. But now I figured out some things about crimes and the justice system, so it's cool.
Seducing Judges ftw.

Thanks for the help :D And great work with the open source project!

Marshall Burns:
A mechanic for your mask slipping off (with beneficial modifiers for disguise skill) while fighting/running/other strenuous stuff would probably do the trick for balancing masks. And of course they should attract a lot of suspicion (they might already? I'm not sure).

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