LS GROUNDED - VISIT THE PATREON
LS GROUNDED - VISIT THE PATREON
Facts of Life:
- Every single life has permanent death, when you die you start a new life somewhere else with almost nothing
- You grow very attached to everything you touch in each life, knowing that it can be lost with one mistake
- Each item, vehicle, weapon, bullet, tool, relationship, and property is vital to be able to survive in the criminal underworld
- Your cars require fuel to operate, and you cannot just grab any parked or driven car with no tool since their doors are locked
- You can only carry so many items on you, vehicles have glove box and trunk storage, and you can place any item physically anywhere you want
- One in game day is two hours, so bad weather and night time lasts a long time, and requires a hotel or owned property to sleep through
- Your stress levels grow during chases and gunfights, so you need to recharge with downtime or your gun handling will suffer
- You have places to go that mean something to you, like your favourite hotel room, ATM, gas station, store, payphone, or safe location for downtime
Early Game:
- Hunting for items on your own to bring to faction members, so you can gain rep with them
- Stacking any cash you can find to buy the new things you're unlocking from the faction
- Eventually you unlock an interaction to get a living member's contact
Mid Game:
- Doing collaborative criminal jobs with the contact you unlocked to get closer to them
- As you gain more rep with this contact you gain unique services to request from them
- You are stacking good money and feeling more powerful
Late Game:
- You seek to build out criminal infrastructure
- Purchased properties can be filled with drug production supplies you acquire
- Your product feeds into dealers you hired from your connections
Immediate Crime Consequences:
- Witnesses to crimes pass on your face, outfit, and vehicle descriptions to the police, as well as gangs if the crime relates to them
- You have to change all those things after you get away, otherwise cops/enemies in the world will recognize you and retaliate
Long Term Emergent Consequences:
- Every physical interaction you have in the world without gloves leaves a fingerprint which can later be found by cop/gang investigators
- Your enemies whether detectives or gang members are alive and moving in the world at all times whether close to you or not
- The cops and gangs will learn your patterns of behaviour and use them to execute retaliation intelligently
Open World Crimes:
- Rob civilians in public
- Break into cash register
- Hack an ATM with a device
- Break into a civilian house
- Lock pick any vehicle
- Break into a civilian vehicle trunk
- Break open a store's safe
- Kill and loot a faction member
- Break into a faction stash house
- Hack into a high end car
- Hack open a bank vault with a hostage
- Kill and loot a faction dealer
- Hack into a faction garage
- Hijack a vehicle carrying valuable cargo
- Hack into a faction warehouse
Contact Activities:
- Stay getaway driver while they rob a cash register, ATM, or store safe
- Wait in the car while watching them rob or assassinate and loot a person
- Drive a stolen vehicle carrying loot while they drive the car you arrived in behind you on the way to the drop off
- Go with them to hack into a high end vehicle and escape the cops on the way to the drop off
- Bring them to guard the outside of a property while you break into it for the loot inside
- Go to a faction clubhouse or public night club to smoke, dance, gamble, or watch strippers with them
- Bring them along with a hostage so they can protect you while you hack into the vault for the cash stacks inside
What Becomes Possible:
- Buy necessary crime related items and tools from any faction member, unlocking more as you gain rep with the faction
- Unlock the contact info of a living faction member you can work with and get closer to which unlocks new benefits over time
- Purchase unique items that your contact has acquired through their real activity with or without you
- Get your contact to send you civilian buyers for your product
- Ask your contact to get a buyer for a vehicle you have
- Purchase houses, garages, and warehouses from your contact
- Get your contact to connect you with a dealer to sell your product
- Ask your contact for information on a specific faction or a member of it
LS GROUNDED - VISIT THE PATREON