buildings without phone distribution frame in the basement?

[Darth Merlin]

Simple question: should every build have one?

I am doing an outsourced arrest, which gave me a phone number... but nothing else. Calls there were never answered, but the distribution frame of the source building ( a bar ) pointed to another building. So I went there in order to look up where the call was routed to, but... in the basement there is a DIY clinic or something like that, some kind of basement bar, two (once) locked but empty rooms with red walls, and one small room with a "do not enter" sign, but nothing but empty shelves inside.

Where else can one look for the distribution fame?

[J010011113]

What else is in the other building? If there's no Phone Junction box in the basement, you're SOL for checking logs.
but there's another tactic you might try which is pretty intensive.
Call a phone that you know the number and location of from the locations you're scouting, then go to the phone that you know the number and location of and dial the 541-0000. It should give you the number of the place that you called from.

So, for clarity...have a phone somewhere that you know the number and location of...ideally this would be your own apartment...but I don't even know my number so...you could set this up from any address book in any apartment, for instance: :Dave: at 302 Next Door's number is 555-1010.
Go to the building you suspect, call Dave's number from that phone and return to Dave's to do a caller ID.
This sound like a long route, and there is a bit of back and forth, but you can set up the base phone in the same building your target business is in, just pick an apartment with no one home...and don't forget to caller ID Dave's phone BEFORE the rest of the plan, just in case it's Dave's number you're looking for.

[Darth Merlin]

Huh... well, yes, for a building with many apartments this seems like a very time consuming taks.

Still, for the original question: there are buildings with no phone distribution frame in the basement, even if there is a fitting room there (with nothing inside). And this is actually a feature, and not ab bug?

[J010011113]

No, I think it's a bug. Even the diner spawns with one in the back.
I don't really check the call logs much, so the easiest way I can think of to get a large group of people's numbers is to ask businesses, in the location you were directed to by the phone logs, for a guest pass. Once in the business, go to the manager's office and go through the file cabinet files of the employee records. You can zip through those really quick and there are about 3-8 employees per business, the more in offices. It's still a bit of canvassing, but way less laborious than searching call logs.

[Nova225]

I'm 70+ hour in and I've never seen an apartment building not generate with a power room. There's absolutely no rooms in the basement with sign on the door of a crossed out person?

[Darth Merlin]

There is such a room, but beside some empty shelves, nothing was inside.

[J010011113]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Merli:

There is such a room, but beside some empty shelves, nothing was inside.

It's surely a bug. I had the same thing happen with a camera room. Nothing but cardboard boxes.

[Isabelle]

Diposting pertama kali oleh J010011113:

What else is in the other building? If there's no Phone Junction box in the basement, you're SOL for checking logs.
but there's another tactic you might try which is pretty intensive.
Call a phone that you know the number and location of from the locations you're scouting, then go to the phone that you know the number and location of and dial the 541-0000. It should give you the number of the place that you called from.

So, for clarity...have a phone somewhere that you know the number and location of...ideally this would be your own apartment...but I don't even know my number so...you could set this up from any address book in any apartment, for instance: :Dave: at 302 Next Door's number is 555-1010.
Go to the building you suspect, call Dave's number from that phone and return to Dave's to do a caller ID.
This sound like a long route, and there is a bit of back and forth, but you can set up the base phone in the same building your target business is in, just pick an apartment with no one home...and don't forget to caller ID Dave's phone BEFORE the rest of the plan, just in case it's Dave's number you're looking for.

you can call that number from any phone- just call from a place with accessible call logs.

[J010011113]

Naw, this is a bad plan, I admit. I was just trying to troubleshoot.
I'm not a fan of scouring logs.
I'm more of a "light B&E to rifle through some files" kind of guy.