Fingerprints might be too strong

[ReaderMorgan]

For the most part getting finger prints should do a lot for you but maybe having employee databases having fingerprints might be too much. It's really easy to go a person's place of work sort and nab a ton of useful info. idk if cases get harder because I can't seem to get any cases after a single murder has been solved but right now it's a lot of chasing finger prints.

[Sylverone]

Implementing gloves and having some perps use them when committing crimes might balance that, though of course compensation via other clues would be needed. Ooh, cloth glove fibers? Plastic glove fragments, more rarely? Find the gloves with murder scene residue on them in the perp's trash or house if you're fast enough?

[Isabelle]

GLOVES please. Holy hell.

Do the perps just not know that they leave their fingerprints all over the place?

[Psyringe]

Yeah, the setting isn't consistent in that regard. The government clearly uses fingerprints to identify people, but the perps act as if they are unaware of that.

In terms of game design, I can see that the "physical evidence" part of the investigation may need to be unrealistically strong as long as the "motive" part barely exists. But there ought to be better ways of handling this than having the perps leave prints everywhere.

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Yeah, the setting isn't consistent in that regard. The government clearly uses fingerprints to identify people, but the perps act as if they are unaware of that.

In terms of game design, I can see that the "physical evidence" part of the investigation may need to be unrealistically strong as long as the "motive" part barely exists. But there ought to be better ways of handling this than having the perps leave prints everywhere.

once motive is implemented I think gloves become necessary, due to the sheer abundance of info that is usually at crime scenes (to compensate for there being no true motives)

[ReaderMorgan]

I think another thing that would help is having more than just the residence of an apartment having finger prints there. I know life sucks in this city but if people are still able to be married or have relationships surely people have friends that come over and put their grubby hands on ♥♥♥♥. Having a few extra finger prints from friends, maintenance works, landlord's etc would go a long way in muddying the water for a case. Right now the only thing that really helps prevent the fingerprint issue are guns, as the casings usually don't have finger prints on them.

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by ReaderMorgan:

I think another thing that would help is having more than just the residence of an apartment having finger prints there. I know life sucks in this city but if people are still able to be married or have relationships surely people have friends that come over and put their grubby hands on ♥♥♥♥. Having a few extra finger prints from friends, maintenance works, landlord's etc would go a long way in muddying the water for a case. Right now the only thing that really helps prevent the fingerprint issue are guns, as the casings usually don't have finger prints on them.

this could be very easily simulated with zero performance impact by simply placing civ fingerprints on random objects in people's houses. Of course, it should probably be somebody in the address book.