NEW UPDATE FEATURE?

[tooslick]

it would be cool to be able to meet your customers ahead of time, instead of waiting for the to always make it to their destination, even when you are like 10 feet away from where the deal happens and you try to talk to them, NPCs treat you like they dont even know you until they get to the designated spot.

[deltahazer]

It would be convenient, but the psychology does make a little sense. Especially during the day (in my experience), customers tend to choose meeting spots that are off the beaten paths and mostly hidden from the police patrol patterns- not perfectly, but they're kind of trying. This of course isn't counting the ones who come bullrushing up to you in full addict mode desperate for a hit of anything that'll alter their neurochemistry for a few moments.

The ones that hack me off are the ones who love to make their curfew-hours meetings up against the North wall of the barbershop (one night three of them all went for that one)... right in full view of the pair of cops who stand at Taco Tickler's shining their lights at that very wall all FARKING NIGHT!!!

Thank Bog the blue buggers are pathetically easy to bait down the warehouse trench and circle past to get at least one sale done before they catch up.

[Pyro Penguin]

it would be cool to be able to request a different meeting spot, and if the spot is far from their usual territory they could have a higher chance to decline

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

it would be cool to be able to request a different meeting spot, and if the spot is far from their usual territory they could have a higher chance to decline

+1

[Nog]

Originally posted by deltahazer:

Thank Bog the blue buggers are pathetically easy to bait down the warehouse trench and circle past to get at least one sale done before they catch up.

You can also hide behind the trees and break line of sight from the cops there. It feels sketchy getting into place because of the siren, but its pretty easy to break line of sight and complete your deals there without have to take the cops for a chase.

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by Nog:

Originally posted by deltahazer:

Thank Bog the blue buggers are pathetically easy to bait down the warehouse trench and circle past to get at least one sale done before they catch up.

You can also hide behind the trees and break line of sight from the cops there. It feels sketchy getting into place because of the siren, but its pretty easy to break line of sight and complete your deals there without have to take the cops for a chase.

Yeah, I tried when I was first starting but it was a little too finnicky for me to be comfortable as a rookie dealer. Once I discovered the "zoopaloop" trick I just stuck with that until I could foist those clients off on Benji. Let him have the headache ;)

Might test it again later though. I'll be dealing there anyway since the cloud just completely buggered my save- apparently the cloud sync doesn't play well with playing on two different machines and the differences get intermingled instead of properly swapped out. So starting fresh and syncing the old-fashioned way. ;)

[Sp3cial1st]

Originally posted by deltahazer:

It would be convenient, but the psychology does make a little sense. Especially during the day (in my experience), customers tend to choose meeting spots that are off the beaten paths and mostly hidden from the police patrol patterns- not perfectly, but they're kind of trying. This of course isn't counting the ones who come bullrushing up to you in full addict mode desperate for a hit of anything that'll alter their neurochemistry for a few moments.

The ones that hack me off are the ones who love to make their curfew-hours meetings up against the North wall of the barbershop (one night three of them all went for that one)... right in full view of the pair of cops who stand at Taco Tickler's shining their lights at that very wall all FARKING NIGHT!!!

Thank Bog the blue buggers are pathetically easy to bait down the warehouse trench and circle past to get at least one sale done before they catch up.

Oh do i have a treat for you! Cops ai in this game is a joke. They actually only detect you if you are looking in their direction, or walk into their light.

So what you can do is LITERALLY walk backwards from the laundry to the barbershop hugging the wall and they wont even bother you! Its so bad that you can even drive behind them if you go between the pole and taco ticklers, as long as you dont look at them! Their blind AND deaf! Who knew moonwalking was so useful!

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

it would be cool to be able to request a different meeting spot, and if the spot is far from their usual territory they could have a higher chance to decline

If you could decide on meeting locations, what would stop you from having everyone meet at a single location and dealing to the entire town at once? Even if you reduced it to one meet up spot per district it would still seem way to exploitative. Im ok with the system as it is and i dont expect its going to change.

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by Sp3cial1st:

Originally posted by deltahazer:

It would be convenient, but the psychology does make a little sense. Especially during the day (in my experience), customers tend to choose meeting spots that are off the beaten paths and mostly hidden from the police patrol patterns- not perfectly, but they're kind of trying. This of course isn't counting the ones who come bullrushing up to you in full addict mode desperate for a hit of anything that'll alter their neurochemistry for a few moments.

The ones that hack me off are the ones who love to make their curfew-hours meetings up against the North wall of the barbershop (one night three of them all went for that one)... right in full view of the pair of cops who stand at Taco Tickler's shining their lights at that very wall all FARKING NIGHT!!!

Thank Bog the blue buggers are pathetically easy to bait down the warehouse trench and circle past to get at least one sale done before they catch up.

Oh do i have a treat for you! Cops ai in this game is a joke. They actually only detect you if you are looking in their direction, or walk into their light.

So what you can do is LITERALLY walk backwards from the laundry to the barbershop hugging the wall and they wont even bother you! Its so bad that you can even drive behind them if you go between the pole and taco ticklers, as long as you dont look at them! Their blind AND deaf! Who knew moonwalking was so useful!

Oof. That sounds useful for now, but I have a hunch it'll be one of the things Tyler eventually tries to change once he's got other aspects of the game locked down the way he wants.

I suppose for now it WOULD make it easier for players to try out everything else though ;)

[This PC]

Originally posted by deltahazer:

Originally posted by Sp3cial1st:

Oh do i have a treat for you! Cops ai in this game is a joke. They actually only detect you if you are looking in their direction, or walk into their light.

So what you can do is LITERALLY walk backwards from the laundry to the barbershop hugging the wall and they wont even bother you! Its so bad that you can even drive behind them if you go between the pole and taco ticklers, as long as you dont look at them! Their blind AND deaf! Who knew moonwalking was so useful!

Oof. That sounds useful for now, but I have a hunch it'll be one of the things Tyler eventually tries to change once he's got other aspects of the game locked down the way he wants.

I suppose for now it WOULD make it easier for players to try out everything else though ;)

You can just crawl in the bushes and have it 10 times easier right now.

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by This PC:

Originally posted by deltahazer:

Oof. That sounds useful for now, but I have a hunch it'll be one of the things Tyler eventually tries to change once he's got other aspects of the game locked down the way he wants.

I suppose for now it WOULD make it easier for players to try out everything else though ;)

You can just crawl in the bushes and have it 10 times easier right now.

Tried that when I first started, and breaking line of sight behind a tree trunk, but neither of them worked at the time despite multiple attempts on different nights (did some deliberate testing in case they'd just spawned in the wrong spot one night or something). Even though crouching in the bush gave the "darkened edges" around the screen that typically means concealment, the cops' suspicion meter kept going up.

I did manage a deal on that spot when I played yesterday evening without so much hassle though, so perhaps I was previously just hitting one of the random "come and go" sort of glitches that make troubleshooting a royal PITA sometimes, or maybe the last patch tweaked something.

Either way, flatfoots haven't caught me yet! :)

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by tooslick:

it would be cool to be able to meet your customers ahead of time,

This is already in the game, customers will usually be at the meeting spot an hour AHEAD of the actual scheduled time.

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by Cursed Hawkins:

Originally posted by tooslick:

it would be cool to be able to meet your customers ahead of time,

This is already in the game, customers will usually be at the meeting spot an hour AHEAD of the actual scheduled time.

If you read the OP a little more closely, what they're specifically looking for is to be able to complete the deal before they even get to the deal spot, if you happen to "intercept" them on their way to the site. The way the game currently handles it, some customers do arrive at the locations early but none of them will actually do the trade until they have come to a stop on the chosen spot.

Granted that it's not a huge amount of time difference, but a minute here and a minute there can add up to a lot over the course of a playthrough. Not game-changing maybe, but it'd be a nice QoL touch for when the bug-hunting slows down.

[vega]

Originally posted by deltahazer:

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

it would be cool to be able to request a different meeting spot, and if the spot is far from their usual territory they could have a higher chance to decline

+1

you can set this up yourself, unlock all dealers and customers. keep the uptown to yourself assign all others to dealers. even if it means the dealer has to walk sorry jane and wei.. you cant assign them all. there are 2 ive got in the 5th area thats not too far from the uptown area.

ok not a help for op but all deals are done in same local area. no running from a to b.