Purpose of Bloodhound tracker on NPC?

[Anker]

I can see the point of planting the tracker on a wall- If a suspect isn't home, and you don't feel like tracking them down at work, you can put it and get alerted whenever they go home and after they visit their friends or whatever.

What I don't get is planting the tracker on random NPCs- Does it reveal their work locations automatically? Their homes? There's not much use to tracking anyone you don't know the name of, because they aren't suspect, and there's no use tracking anyone you DO know the name of, because you can just look up their home- See above. Is there some functionality I'm missing?

Edit: I put a tracker on a random NPC, just to see what happens if you blow a hundred and twenty credits, and no information was automatically updated. It was removed within 3 or 4 hours, which is not really enough to give you a workplace most of the time.

[vincibledawn]

I love the Bloodhound tracker!

After getting the suspect's work rota, I put the tracker on him while I was doing other stuff. When he deviated from his route home after work, I followed him the pawn shop (discovered this is how he got poison + syringe). Then he went home. Next day on route to work he stabbed his next victim.

Even took a picture of him stabbing the vic, but it count as 'evidence' of the killer at the crime scene :(

My Bloodhound tracker didn't stop till the case was closed.

[Anker]

Maybe it's different if you put one on an active serial killer compared to a random NPC. But at that point, if you've already fingered them as the killer... Why not just arrest them then and there? I suppose it's useful if you just want to watch them work?

[vincibledawn]

In the case mentioned, the tracker was for fun.

In a different case when I wasn't actually sure and used the tracker, the murderer was the Enforcer who would go onsite and guard his own crime scene haha

[Sky Wizard]

something may have changed. It used to be that trackers lasted forever (In Vinci's case it vanished when the murder despawned). A developer commented that they'd be doing something about that, maybe they put a time limit on them now?

[Anker]

Originally posted by Sky Wizard:

something may have changed. It used to be that trackers lasted forever (In Vinci's case it vanished when the murder despawned). A developer commented that they'd be doing something about that, maybe they put a time limit on them now?

Seemingly so. I didn't use them a while back, I just bought one, found a random civilian I didn't know the name of, and slapped it on them and went to bed. I waited to see if it would fill in info on that civilian as it tracked them to work and to home, but it didn't. After I woke up, the tracker was gone from the map.

[Katana]

My last case might've found it useful. I was investigating a secretary at a workplace. Because the workplace in question was the site of the murder and covered in CSI tape, she wasn't going to work. I ran into her at one point while I was only mildly suspicious, but wanted to be able to find her later.

In my case I just got lucky, and recognized her on the street after I found her knife, arresting her there - but if I'd had a tracker, I could've put one on her for later.