Stopping Extortion

[Anon]

Any way to do this? Its annoying. Anybody and their grandmom is extorting me, between paying the fines for killing the thugs and being robbed i feel my empire is crumbling x)

[Acid]

I completely agree. The AI is just extorting my businesses, and I have absolutely no say over the matter. If this were The Guild 1, it would give you a window on whether to choose to give in to the extortion or not. Then the AI would decide how to react.

[Tyleet]

Hi,
this is feedback we get quite often. We will think of a way to help defend against extortion. I don't think having a window pop up every time a business gets extorted is going to be the way to go, also since usually thugs don't politely ask if they may extort some money from your business before doing so.

But we'll try to come up with something that gives you an option to better protect your businesses.

[Joe]

maybe hiring a guard in a spare employee spot

[LordQarlyn]

Originally posted by Acid:

I completely agree. The AI is just extorting my businesses, and I have absolutely no say over the matter. If this were The Guild 1, it would give you a window on whether to choose to give in to the extortion or not. Then the AI would decide how to react.

Even the Guild 2 has that option. I agree, the game needs a way to push back against extortion attempts.

[b0nerMisn0mer]

Originally posted by Tyleet:

Hi,
this is feedback we get quite often. We will think of a way to help defend against extortion. I don't think having a window pop up every time a business gets extorted is going to be the way to go, also since usually thugs don't politely ask if they may extort some money from your business before doing so.

But we'll try to come up with something that gives you an option to better protect your businesses.

I mean technically to do ask "nicely", threatening but with a facade of niceness. You have the option to decline, at the risk of being robbed or attacked in retaliation. That's what extortion is. So you should be able to decline, then the ai does it's best attempt to rob or kill you

[MorboNinja]

I think hiring a guard in a slot should be a deterrence, and maybe the guard/extortionist duke it out so if you don't arm your guard, or the extortionist is higher level/better equipped, your guard may go down and you may still end up being extorted. But, I agree, all my businesses are being constantly extorted and it's pretty irritating, I've resorted to waiting for them to leave my business, following them, beating them down and stealing from their body while they're knocked out. It almost makes me want to go the rogue start.

[Mystomex]

Originally posted by Tyleet:

Hi,
this is feedback we get quite often. We will think of a way to help defend against extortion. I don't think having a window pop up every time a business gets extorted is going to be the way to go, also since usually thugs don't politely ask if they may extort some money from your business before doing so.

But we'll try to come up with something that gives you an option to better protect your businesses.

2 years later have you come up with anything because my first playthrough and constantly having some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ come up and charge protection money with 100% no way for me to fight back has me ready to just write a negative review and move on for good. This combined with minstels losing rep for playing for nobody is actually stupidity and ruins the game very quickly.

[76561199030978674]

We did!
1. Extorting protection money can now be made illegal
2. this means that in addition to henchmen standing guard, city guard will also react if they see someone extorting protection money
3. in the addons of your house you can increase the security of the building to make it harder to target your buildings
4. there are items like the latch that will also increase the security of your house
5. you can still hire henchmen to patrol the streets and protect your houses
6. if you are a city official you can also vote to increase guard in a neighborhood to deter crime or reduce them in another to make them a more attractive target