Thoughts on Public Service SyncDiscs?

[vincibledawn]

There's this weird SyncDisc I never use where you take photos of bathrooms or kitchens. Immersion-wise, I thought I'd be cool if the Public Service disc was Enforcer-issued, if you completed an Omega case, or something. Thereby reconciling this weird SyncDisc into its own Enforcer-issued health inspector 'badge' (you couldn't just buy or steal). This could be a player style choice to be law-abiding (legit health inspector pass), or bribery cr30/pass, anti-Enforcer style.

Maybe I'm too extra. Any thoughts on making certain SyncDiscs exclusive to certain factions?

edit: got community and public service discs mixed up

[Owlie]

50% of the syncdisk are silly things like those. I'd assume you get social credits from doing it. Right??? Seems like a cute way to grind creds if you are in between cases

[Anker]

Ha, no. Social credit is only from getting murder cases and side jobs done. This one ONLY gives you regular credits- or 'crows'. Money. The cleaner the kitchen is the more money you get from it, so find the cleanest bathroom in the city and drop by once a day for a free 50.

Or don't. It's easy to get money in this game more passively and hard to find anything to spend it on that's worthwhile.

Edit: Actually, you could just pick a random sidejob that isn't an Arrest, have them direct you to a briefcase, and then sell the briefcase for 50 credits and drop the job. Or, just... Loot. Money Piles will regularly have up to 75 credits worth of money in one collectable, based on presumably where in the city they spawn, as the city has 'rich areas' and 'poor areas', with appropriate quantities of loot.

Most of the 'sync disks that give you money for doing X' disks aren't worth seeking out, because money is everywhere and there's nothing to spend it on in outgoing expenses that are so much as ten percent of incoming cash flow.

[!Seeker619]

so does it auto give you the money as soon as you take the pics?

[StaticR]

The idea is kinda neat but its totally redundant, the reward is pretty small and amounts to just pocket change pretty much, and its restrictions make it completely unreliable for more than a one off thing.
It's nice if you're completely broke and need a quick buck for a snack or something, but that doesn't really happen except for the very start of the game but at that point you don't have any sync disks anyways.

Though I think whats mostly to blame is the fact that the ingame economy is totally scuffed. The game only really has one single significant money sink and thats setting up your apartment, which is entirely optional and barely even worth at all. But because the game has to accomodate for that it pretty much showers you with so much money that that amount of change ends up basically worthless unless end up deep into interior design.

Originally posted by Br@tS!Seeker619:

so does it auto give you the money as soon as you take the pics?

I used it exactly once so far. I got the money immediately.

Originally posted by Anker:

Ha, no. Social credit is only from getting murder cases and side jobs done.

Not just those you also get a small amount of social credit for recovering lost items.

Originally posted by Anker:

Edit: Actually, you could just pick a random sidejob that isn't an Arrest, have them direct you to a briefcase, and then sell the briefcase for 50 credits and drop the job. Or, just... Loot.

You can actually make very quick and easy money without starting jobs or breaking any laws by taking selling billiard balls from bars or buying sugar daddy sync disks for 5 and reselling them. Both of those sell for 50. But those are kinda copouts and most definitely unintended so I'm spoilering those. Though they at least won't dominate the game as they're pretty inefficient and tedious.

[Graknorke]

It's kind of funny to throw a cup of coffee around a bathroom to dirty it up so you can get paid more for the picture, but absolutely not worth it other than amusement. Maybe if the economy get rebalanced so that you're not swimming in crows after your first side job.

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by StaticR:

The idea is kinda neat but its totally redundant, the reward is pretty small and amounts to just pocket change pretty much, and its restrictions make it completely unreliable for more than a one off thing.
It's nice if you're completely broke and need a quick buck for a snack or something, but that doesn't really happen except for the very start of the game but at that point you don't have any sync disks anyways.

Though I think whats mostly to blame is the fact that the ingame economy is totally scuffed. The game only really has one single significant money sink and thats setting up your apartment, which is entirely optional and barely even worth at all. But because the game has to accomodate for that it pretty much showers you with so much money that that amount of change ends up basically worthless unless end up deep into interior design.

Originally posted by Br@tS!Seeker619:

so does it auto give you the money as soon as you take the pics?

I used it exactly once so far. I got the money immediately.

Originally posted by Anker:

Ha, no. Social credit is only from getting murder cases and side jobs done.

Not just those you also get a small amount of social credit for recovering lost items.

Originally posted by Anker:

Edit: Actually, you could just pick a random sidejob that isn't an Arrest, have them direct you to a briefcase, and then sell the briefcase for 50 credits and drop the job. Or, just... Loot.

You can actually make very quick and easy money without starting jobs or breaking any laws by taking selling billiard balls from bars or buying sugar daddy sync disks for 5 and reselling them. Both of those sell for 50. But those are kinda copouts and most definitely unintended so I'm spoilering those. Though they at least won't dominate the game as they're pretty inefficient and tedious.

This is an incredibly old post. Your response to Anker regarding social credit was not applicable at the time this post was created.