I have a few questions about NPC and the city in general

[train cookie]

1. Does blood/dead bodies/dropped items a Depawne after awhile
2. Can NPC quit jobs or get fired
3. How too find a illegal business
4. If a NPC dies do they get replaced by a new NPC
5. What does the social credit do like I notice the levels on the right side of the screen but what do they do

[tzeneth]

1. If it's a murder victim's blood, it lasts a while. If it's your blood, probably until next reload. Bodies seem to last a decent while but not forever. Eventually after a day or 2, they seem to be cleaned up, along with the crime scene, although it's probably also dependent on you solving the case as well. Dropped items don't seem to despawn but I usually only kept stuff in my room as NPCs may interact with items they find on the ground.

2. Not that I'm aware of. It seems they are currently locked in, which means that breaking into all the places and getting their work files is really useful.

3. Check the city map in basements. I know in the base city a couple of the illegal businesses appear there but good luck figuring out their actual hours.

4. They do not, to my knowledge. There are a ton of NPCs they can use for all the cases.

5. Goal of the game is to get to level 8 so you can retire. Currently the levels do nothing else that's obvious. Although, I suspect the higher your level the more circumspect the cases from side jobs will be.

[Esca]

1. I've seen bodies despawn after a few days, though I can't guarantee that wasn't just a bug. The murderers' graffiti seems to stick around indefinitely. Not sure about blood and other messes.

2. I've seen one person that had $0 salary contract and was labeled as "unemployed" in some other documents, but I'm not sure if that was intentional. No other examples so far.

3. Look around the first basement of any building that has one. Some of the businesses aren't very secret (bars and such) and will have open business hours. For the others, I just look for locked doors and knock (or bash them open). Some are just cheap apartments, some are for crime.

4. As far as I've seen (maybe 10 in-game days?), no.

5. Currently nothing, except that you get the retirement "case" when you max it out. One of the devs' roadmap objectives implies they'll add more to it later.

(Edit: re tzeneth's post, it does seem like the side job payments increase over time too. Maybe it's based on credit, but it's hard to tell.)

[tzeneth]

Originally posted by Esca:

(Edit: re tzeneth's post, it does seem like the side job payments increase over time too. Maybe it's based on credit, but it's hard to tell.)

Funnily enough, case payment seems pretty standard and the same. I got some really good payouts early and then moderate payouts later. There may be an increase but the RNG on the payouts is so large, it's hard to tell. Honestly, I don't think we'd be able to tell unless the devs straight up tell or us someone finds something in the code.

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by train cookie:

3. How too find a illegal business

As silly as it is... check the phone book.

Just click on names of things that aren't people, and it'll tell you what kind of business it is.

It's hilarious finding a "Black Market Trader" or "Black Market Sync Clinic" in the phonebook.

I don't know if they're all listed there, but I would assume so. Found a bunch, and would be a bit strange that only some were listed.