Way to tell someone that a person is dead

[debera]

So i have a case, murder. And when i went to the victim's apartman i found out she's livin with someone. Now i had to pay to ask about if she knows the victim, plus i had to pay to get in. Is there any way to tell that the victim is dead so she could let me in without paying? Would be a cool feature. A system where some npcs could be more friendly towards you if you tell them u tryna solve a case about a loved one.

[Zalugar]

Nah, there's no way to tell NPCs that someone is dead. Even if they see the corpse, they'll tell you about the person as if they were still alive. Morbid, really.

Maybe in the future.

[ReMeDy]

I felt a similar way, although I understand if they don't want to let us into their home since we don't have a warrant and because we're technically not related to the police (we're private investigators).

I visited the friend of the victim, but because I had no way of informing the friend of the deceased, it made the conversation very mundane and a bit of a dead-end. I guess it's true what they say: money is king, and if you don't have it, your conversational investigations will struggle.

[debera]

oh okay, i hope later they add the feature, money sure is king but i still feel like they would let you in if they know about the happenings, or atleast higher chance to let us in.

[peterk]

When your social standing is super low, you're practically a bum. That's why people don't want to talk to you. You're not a well known and respected Sherlock Holmes character.
People will attack you if they see you making an arrest in public.

There's some sync disk upgrades you can find/install that will make people much more co=-operative.

[ReMeDy]

Originally posted by peterk:

When your social standing is super low, you're practically a bum. That's why people don't want to talk to you. You're not a well known and respected Sherlock Holmes character.
People will attack you if they see you making an arrest in public.

There's some sync disk upgrades you can find/install that will make people much more co=-operative.

Does raising reputation actually help tho, or is it exclusively the sync disks that make people cooperative?

[Helvetesdorr]

Also wondering this since the game doesn't mention your social credit actually affecting anything.

[J010011113]

There is a sync disk you can get that will increase the likelihood that a citizen will give info for free, it's pretty common but I can't remember the name. It has three stages of upgrade that allow you to increase the chance.
The only time you actually get to tell someone about the death of their friend the right way is in the case of the hired killer. The victim's friend suspects the killer and when you show up, you can tell them the vic is dead after asking them if they know them.
You are onto something here, though, being a detective game, certain questions should be contingent on the question asked beforehand and what you already know for sure, and questions asked should have a cumulative effect both on the citizen's attitude toward you, their responses based on their role, and the questions you're able to ask for free and those that need extra teasing.
Seems to me the devs need to address the conversation trees once the bugs are looked into because this is really a story telling game and has great potential to be one of the best.

[peterk]

Originally posted by Helvetesdorr:

Also wondering this since the game doesn't mention your social credit actually affecting anything.

I'm not 100% sure if it does right now, but there is a big item on the roadmap dealing with this specifically. How the citizens treat you.

I'm near the end of my first playthrough and it does seem like more people are telling me their names now when I ask, I'm not sure if that's due to my standing or not or if it's just random.

[Sky Wizard]

I don't know if this is explicitly linked, but I noticed that side jobs tend to offer less money at the start of the game. new jobs that replace them tend to pay better.