Missing entry permit or entry ticket - interrogate or not

[Automatic laser monkey]

Just started playing the game. First game I paid everything like a good citizen of glorious nation of Ariztocka. Delinquency soon followed, which probably surprises no one on this forum. Next game I went pure Scrooge McDuck and didn't pay anything I could avoid. When son died I tried backpedalling but no use, they all died. Back to the birth village to start a new, more hardy family.

Anyways re missing entry permit/ticket, when this happens you can either stamp reject at once, or you can interrogate the person and sometimes they suddenly remember they have the permit/ticket. Obviously this takes more time, and time is money. So is there any reason to do that? Can you get a citation for rejecting someone with a valid permit/ticket who forgot to put it on the counter?

[Mandrake]

While this game tells you how to interrogate entrants, there technically isn't anything which prevents you from NOT interrogating them, at least for the first half of the story. All that matters to the M.O.A. is that entrants whose papers are not correct are prevented from entering, while those whose papers are correct are allowed through. So as soon as you realise an entrant is missing a document, or has given the wrong purpose for trip/duration, you can immediately deny them and quickly move on to the next entrant. Deliberately not interrogating entrants allows you to process more entrants each day, and thus earn more money.

The main exception to the above is if the entrant is missing a passport, since you are forced to interrogate in order to have obtain the temporary visa slip on which to stamp Denied.

This all changes on Day 18, which is when the Reason for Denial stamp is introduced. From this day forward, you are required to interrogate all entrants so that you can stamp passports with both Denied and Reason for Denial. However, you are never forced to perform a search on an entrant, nor do you need to take their fingerprints; you can simply interrogate and then deny.

There is an advantage to interrogating some entrants, though. If the entrant's documents are possibly forged, if they may have stolen someone's identity, or if they are found to be smuggling contraband, you may be able to detain them and receive 5 credits for every two entrants detained.

[Mandrake]

tl;dr

Originally posted by Automatic laser monkey:

So is there any reason to [interrogate]?

Yes, if you want to earn money from detaining lots of people or if the Reason for Denial stamp is active. No, if you want to earn money from processing more people each day.

Originally posted by Automatic laser monkey:

Can you get a citation for rejecting someone with a valid permit/ticket who forgot to put it on the counter?

If the entrant forgets to hand over a document but remembers after being interrogated, then the discrepancy is automatically cleared up. However, until Day 18, you have no reason to give them this second chance. So you can immediately reject them instead of interrogating them, but not after interrogating them (if they then hand it over).

[Automatic laser monkey]

Thanks a lot for answering so quickly! I got one or two citations I didn't quite understand at the time, unfortunately I didn't write them down, but later I thought maybe it was due to missing permit I didn't inquire about.

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by MandrakeDuck:

Originally posted by Automatic laser monkey:

Can you get a citation for rejecting someone with a valid permit/ticket who forgot to put it on the counter?

If the entrant forgets to hand over a document but remembers after being interrogated, then the discrepancy is automatically cleared up. However, until Day 18, you have no reason to give them this second chance. So you can immediately reject them instead of interrogating them, but not after interrogating them (if they then hand it over).

To make things more clear: the game only looks for apparent discrepancies. That means that before you get the blue stamp you can flat out deny any entrant that doesn't conform the rules (I think this works for missing documents too but I never tried it). When the Reason for denial stamp is introduced, you can deny anyone right after interrogating him/her unless he/she managed to correct the discrepancy with the right papers OR by telling the right length of stay in Aristotzka.

For instance, if you find a wrong gender on the document and after the interrogation the entrant says the document is correct, denying him/her won't lead to a citation until a search would eventually prove he/she lied. On the other hand, if the search confirm what he/she said, then you're required to approve it.

[Gertjan]

Detaining people gets ou money indeed, at some point in the game, and to detain, you need to interrogate first.
also, sometimes, interrogation triggers a bribe, if you got a 'free' citation left for the day, you might want to consider taking the bribe.

for quick cash, indeed, reject as soon as you see anything wrong, untill the "reason for denial" is introduced

[shima]

[WARNING: SPOILERS!] Well, you should interrogate them because later on in the game, you get detain bonus. ALSO, much MUCH later, there is the "Reason" stamp because without interrogation, the "reason" stamp won't be present resulting in a citation.

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by Bleachinator:

[WARNING: SPOILERS!] Well, you should interrogate them because later on in the game, you get detain bonus. ALSO, much MUCH later, there is the "Reason" stamp because without interrogation, the "reason" stamp won't be present resulting in a citation.

Interrogating them won't automatically lead to detention. The only reason to try to detain someone is if you're on a day where you have many easy or scripted detentions and you detained an odd number of people (since Calensk only pays you every two arrested people) OR if the mandatory interrogation immediately unlocks the detention option; in all other cases it is just a waste of time and you could process two entrants in the same time span.