Can no longer help daughter, Doctor moved out

[Juiceblaster10k]

So I started the game over due to difficulties completing quests, and this time i didn't take the quests from the wife. i chose to concentrate on the doctor's and Schimmers quests first, knowing that once I accept the wife's quests, and the son's quests, i am going to need a lot of money soon which I am having a hard time finding. So I revealed the Doctor's girlfriend to be a fake, she moved out and so did the Doctor, now I have no doctor around to complete the daughter's quest.

Is this a bug or intended?

[teebodk]

There are other doctors in the world... but they're even more expensive!

[JohnDman]

i dont know but this daughter quest is making me hate the game since it barely gives you enough time to come up with the money once the quest starts.
can devs put in a difficulty that we can select from in this game that gives us more time on quests when set to normal or easy?

[Honest Hubby]

Originally posted by JohnDman:

i dont know but this daughter quest is making me hate the game since it barely gives you enough time to come up with the money once the quest starts.
can devs put in a difficulty that we can select from in this game that gives us more time on quests when set to normal or easy?

100% agree. I've restarted several times due to not being able to earn the money in time (or something else ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up) and its just making the game feel like a chore rather than a challenge.

[teebodk]

I'm considering a total restart - the black market trader has a lot of stuff that becomes prohibited, and thus more expensive, as the game progresses. I wonder how much could be earned from buying these goods while they're still legal, then selling them back to him once the values go up.

Apart from that, I tend to agree: the daughter illness-thing changes the whole focus of the game into a mad race against time.

[CrazyGoblin]

That's what I thought, but on the next run I only saw the products show up AFTER they were labeled as contraband.

And considering I could sell the apple I bought at $720 for a measly $68, I'd guess that trying to hope on being a dealer of illicit fruits and pants is not, in fact, a very profitable endeavor.

I haven't got a damn clue how to come up with that kind of money. It's kinda looking like the whole family just is supposed to die. That way at least I'd have more time to spy on the other tenants.

I wonder... If your wife dies, does that mean you no longer have to pay for groceries or utilities? Hehehe.

[JohnDman]

Originally posted by teebodk:

Apart from that, I tend to agree: the daughter illness-thing changes the whole focus of the game into a mad race against time.

yup it takes away the freedom you felt like you had with the first hour of the game and becomes a chore fighting against time.
im sure the devs can give us an option to tone this down with a difficulty if enough of us request it.

[teebodk]

CrazyGoblin's right - the black market seller doesn't sell any items before they get banned (jeans, foreign music etc.) so impossible to make money that way. Latest run, kid just died... again. At that time I had appr. $7500. I'd spent the whole run trying to earn as much cash as possible, blackmailing the first guy before turning him in, constantly checking apartments for things to report (profiles) etc. but still ended with less than half of the amount needed to save the kid. Really starting to get frustrated!

[Alawar Entertainment Inc.]

This mission is not that hard if you choose to save your family. Just don't be in a hurry with completing missions from your wife, if you buy a camera for 50 points of respect you could sell it to a dealer, talk to a woman from apt #3 and get a woman for doctor from there as she could give you up to 5K , don't waste money without any additional need.

We will think about adding difficulty levels to the game.

[CrazyGoblin]

Note: "Don't be in a hurry" does not necessarily mean "hold off on accepting the quest". Martha still dies even if you've never talked with your wife about the sick kid.

Not sure if the son gets kicked out of school if you don't talk to him though. Really though, that's gaming the system and... Kinda bad.

As far as cameras go, I suppose you could do that, sure... I guess if you already know when and where people are going to perform illegal activities, you don't need to set up decent cameras all over the place. I tend to at least try and keep an eye on people, but with the exorbitant cost of almost-useful cameras, I suppose there's not really much point in trying.

I managed to install the cheapo cameras in all the fixtures for 4 apartments one time, but those cameras are remarkably useless, especially in certain apartments where the angles are inexplicably different from those found elsewhere.

[Rowdy Revolutionary]

I can also confirm that waiting to sell the canned fish when fish is banned does not gain you any more money, as far as I've experiemented.

[Alawar Entertainment Inc.]

Everything is like in a real life. Dealer won't buy anything it sold you before for a higher price - that is not a profit for him. But you could sell some staff that was bought from the Store....

[Rowdy Revolutionary]

Originally posted by Alawar Entertainment Inc.:

Everything is like in a real life. Dealer won't buy anything it sold you before for a higher price - that is not a profit for him. But you could sell some staff that was bought from the Store....

Yeah, but when you make the deal with the Boater, and sell the Merchant the fish, you don't get full price, even after fish is banned. I just figured, given the timing of her illness, that this would be the solution to the puzzle. I'm still working on it :'(

[Alawar Entertainment Inc.]

Originally posted by Schindler's Pissed:

Originally posted by Alawar Entertainment Inc.:

Everything is like in a real life. Dealer won't buy anything it sold you before for a higher price - that is not a profit for him. But you could sell some staff that was bought from the Store....

Yeah, but when you make the deal with the Boater, and sell the Merchant the fish, you don't get full price, even after fish is banned. I just figured, given the timing of her illness, that this would be the solution to the puzzle. I'm still working on it :'(
:lilimsob::lilimok::9mm::Sasha:

Yes, that's 3K. You could get 5K more from a girl that you bring to a doctor. But which one and how - please, manage it yourself as that would be a big spoiler.

[Middlemist]

I've managed to save up 20k for the daughter.
Spoiler alert:

Kick Schimmer out by finding the illegal book his wife has. You will receive the government reward from that.
Take the box from Dalton. There is a gun inside. Give it to Dora and after she's jailed, she will give you the inheritance.
Don't blackmail or get into agreement with Doctor's girlfriend. Don't tell doctor she's not who she is.
You should have 15k by now if you don't buy the radio for wifey and buy blue ties before it becomes illegal.
Don't talk to the university student that was supposed to have the box. Delay his quest because you need to blackmail him for the money.
The Ranek's moves out and you are fined 3k for stealing archive documents.
Doctor gets married. Send a report during the wedding, then talk to doctor. He will give you the cruise tickets.
Sell the cruise tickets for 5k.
Blackmail doctor and university student with blue ties.

There you go. 20k with 800 to spare.

[Rowdy Revolutionary]

Originally posted by erikaccy:

I've managed to save up 20k for the daughter.
Spoiler alert:

Kick Schimmer out by finding the illegal book his wife has. You will receive the government reward from that.
Take the box from Dalton. There is a gun inside. Give it to Dora and after she's jailed, she will give you the inheritance.
Don't blackmail or get into agreement with Doctor's girlfriend. Don't tell doctor she's not who she is.
You should have 15k by now if you don't buy the radio for wifey and buy blue ties before it becomes illegal.
Don't talk to the university student that was supposed to have the box. Delay his quest because you need to blackmail him for the money.
The Ranek's moves out and you are fined 3k for stealing archive documents.
Doctor gets married. Send a report during the wedding, then talk to doctor. He will give you the cruise tickets.
Sell the cruise tickets for 5k.
Blackmail doctor and university student with blue ties.

There you go. 20k with 800 to spare.

You are actually insane, aren't you?