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To finish "Debbie's club promotion" one needs to pay back the debt she incurs with Thread Thimble Tailors after Anna Sarin has been transferred to the Russians. Then go back to your office and go into Debbie's daily assignments, there will be an unmarked new option in Health and welfare of all places where you can discuss the financial obligations.
The rest is fairly self explanatory get her the job, the clothes and then get the stripper version of Debbie's (MBA Debbie) ambition down below the required amount.
The rest is fairly self explanatory get her the job, the clothes and then get the stripper version of Debbie's (MBA Debbie) ambition down below the required amount.
I have played this game quite some time now for quite some versions since you started it, but since 1.7.3 I'm having the same issues over and over again:
- there are no events anymore that I can send Debbie to Doctor Pain
- I can't get Debbie to join me in my Beach House or Ski Lodge
- At a certain point, Vixxens keeps on showing an exclamation mark, but there are no actions to be executed
I hoped this would pass when installing the newer versions, but that doesn't happen.
Should I clear the registry before installing? Because I don't understand why this is recurring since 1.7.3
- there are no events anymore that I can send Debbie to Doctor Pain
- I can't get Debbie to join me in my Beach House or Ski Lodge
- At a certain point, Vixxens keeps on showing an exclamation mark, but there are no actions to be executed
I hoped this would pass when installing the newer versions, but that doesn't happen.
Should I clear the registry before installing? Because I don't understand why this is recurring since 1.7.3
I've restarted the game. I hadn't played it in a while and decided it to give it another go, see what's new.
I don't remember if I did things right the first time around but now the following problems occured:
In the dollhouse it seems I am stuck very early. I only completed the proteus energy contract mission and non of the other are available to be completed.
Meghan doll has no stats that I can see but I can't select any of her options.
There's no department head for marketing, or maybe I am? Still, there's no way to get Brand like the other resources.
I found anna sarin, something about skandinavia but that's not a destination.
Everything else is stuck except the need for 500 revenue in London. I don't feel like grinding 500 revenue.
I don't remember if I did things right the first time around but now the following problems occured:
In the dollhouse it seems I am stuck very early. I only completed the proteus energy contract mission and non of the other are available to be completed.
Meghan doll has no stats that I can see but I can't select any of her options.
There's no department head for marketing, or maybe I am? Still, there's no way to get Brand like the other resources.
I found anna sarin, something about skandinavia but that's not a destination.
Everything else is stuck except the need for 500 revenue in London. I don't feel like grinding 500 revenue.
WOW. Big download = Big disappointment. MAC version is buggy as get out. Issues include the following:
1. Can't save...file name? Just save the game!?!
2. After getting the USB key from Maxwell...spent the next month on downtime. Nothing else is available in the office (cubicle) or at home (blank white screen when clicking the security cam?)
3. Can't minimize window without losing mouse functionality/Only works in fullscreen mode, not in a window.
Started the game 3 times and it still goes to the same point.
1. Can't save...file name? Just save the game!?!
2. After getting the USB key from Maxwell...spent the next month on downtime. Nothing else is available in the office (cubicle) or at home (blank white screen when clicking the security cam?)
3. Can't minimize window without losing mouse functionality/Only works in fullscreen mode, not in a window.
Started the game 3 times and it still goes to the same point.
Can mess with the save, be careful and store a backup.
Don't do this unless you are pretty sure this is the problem. It does seems to work though.
Go into the save file and search for the id of the character "Id":"e94c8ef3-7172-4b92-bcda-c487f6998329" then change "Exists":false to "Exists":true
Then save the changed file in notepad or whatever you are using and load it again in the game. She will now be back in her office and you can trigger the dialogue.
Don't forget to save in game and then open the save "Again"(because the one already in your notepad would be the old save), change it back to "Exists":false, save the notepad and load the save in game again.
Looks like this in my save, some values might be different in yours so don't just copy the whole thing:
{"Id":"e94c8ef3-7172-4b92-bcda-c487f6998329","Ambition":0.0,"Pride":295.0,"Controlled":true,"Exists":false,"Trained":false,"Interactions":[{"Id":"4313ad64-429a-44e5-92cb-73d5d6894493","Completed":1,"FailCount":0,"New":false,"TurnCompletedOn":1140},
I also use it sometimes to mess with ambition and pride if they are behind a particularly grindy wall.
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1 and 3 seem like a pain. I'm not sure if the house security does anything though? Maxwell hacks specific people and then you can go to them and open up the dialogue option to see the video feeds, it's usually the bottom-most option.
Also the office is pretty empty up until you get Debbie the secretary in there. I don't think the houses have much content until you reach the "Zenith Hill Estate" and then only if you get the wife which gets you the maid and the ability to "adopt" the CEO's daughter. (as far as I'm aware)
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How to activate Debbie`s "A bold request from Debbie!" and "For your promotional consideration"? I have 3k power and i have no more available options anywhere on the map... Allison Clark inside Vixxxen is the only one with an exclamation mark... but with no dialogue options. I think i`ve encountered a bug or something. Also, how can i access Tinseltown and are there any other areas to explore? Currently i only have Katanga, Singapore, London, Dubai and Moscow. I think i saw that some other areas were existent after i talked with people in the Executive Dining Hall, but no areas opened up. Also, none of the unlocked options from the breakfast dialogues in the dining hall showed or opened up (ministry of interns in katanga, some girl in london, i don`t remember the others in dubai and singapore...) I uploaded a save, could someone please tell me what i did wrong and/or what to do next?
The inactive ones in this case should actually say 30-50 or MORE ambition. You just need to increase her ambition to activate the two. She is the first "Ambition":0.0,"Pride":0.0 in the savefile if you'd like to quickly alter the values back and forth.
Tinseltown is as far as I am aware, future update stuff? I've not seen any of that apart from what exists in Dubai, but if you find it's not I'd like to know.
I don't think it's a game play issue...I literally get stuck in maxwell's shop, and the only thing I can do is "rest" I can't leave it, when I click on the '!' by the top right Globe thing, the globe disappears and then there's nothing left to click, go to or do.
DragonSlapper
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I don't remember the detailed path but I have access to Hollister Academy on the save where I chose Tracey to be the wife and "adopted" Mackenzie the CEO's daughter.
At some point you get there by progressing in the area, I don't remember the details.
If you are stuck though and it seems there is nothing left in London it might be that you need to talk to Vijaya Gurnani at Lotus Investments. I talked to her early and the notice of something new being available does not show up again when it is time to talk to her again.
Be careful, if it is not time yet and you have already talked to her you get stuck on a blank dialogue box, so save first.
DragonSlapper
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Is Lotus Investments a building in London? I don't think I've ever seen it.
The thing I'm stuck on is that in London there's a Parliament Building where Sabrina Pool (who I should have captured to please the dwarf) and Chief Whip Lloyd Bull (who a tooltip says I need to bribe to pass one of the policies) are both present but have absolutely no dialog options.
Also at the Parliament Building is Minister Phoebe Morton who has but one dialog option ("SOCIALIZE: a word with the minister") which...never works. (Ms Morton calls your concerns "that ridiculous visa thing" and says there's no point in further discussion.)
(I also have no idea where the disobedient Princess of Dubai is - IIRC after two prior appearances she was next supposed to appear in London at Trafalgar Square but never showed up.)
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Has anyone figured out how to marry Tracy Bledsoe? I can't figure out how to have Maxwell change the Placebo...
DragonSlapper
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That's a permissions issue on the Mac. If you name your unpacked program "CompanyMan" and open a Terminal window in the parent directory of that program and run this command, it should all be better:
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine CompanyMan.app/
Having done that
(1) "Save" and "Load" will work.
(2) It won't get stuck in Max's shop
(3) If it ever DOES get stuck - there are still ways to do that*- you should be able to quit the game and reload the saved file called "Autosave" which jumps you back to the world map under the most recent game state prior to your latest action.
Then you should be able to play the game on Mac - quite a lot of it - though there are still bugs.
Oh, one other thing. You absolutely MUST switch to "Full screen mode" once it launches, because Full Screen Mode on modern MacOS has a feature where it slows down everything else to focus on giving your fullscreen app as many cycles as it can, which this game desperately needs. If you try to play WITHOUT going to full screen you'll find you can basically play the game EXCEPT most video clips wait 15 seconds or more to load instead of showing up immediately which makes the game no fun.
* one example of a way you can get stuck much later in the game despite valid permissions: Fly to London, go to Harrods and buy ALL the things you can buy there but then select the "I'm looking for a business gift" option one more time after that. Since you've already bought all the things, you are shown an empty pick list which can't be dismissed - the program logic won't let you dismiss that grey box without picking an item but there are no items available to pick so all you can do is quit the game, restart and load from Autosave.
DragonSlapper
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BUG: The Executive Dining Room (once Katy is assigned there) seems to be full of content that ends with a "X is now unlocked!" message which has no effect as the thing mentioned is not actually unlocked. Sometimes it's in a whole region that doesn't exist (wall street), sometimes it's in a region that does exist but the unlocked thing doesn't show up there.
Is this content all future expansion material or is it a bug - possibly a Mac-only one - that the things mentioned don't appear in the game?
Examples:
"The Gulf Enterprise Council is now unlocked in Dubai!"
"Ministry of the Interior in Katanga is now unlocked!"
"The Unity PAC office in Capitol City is now unlocked!"
"Colossus Investments is now unlocked on Wall Street!"
"Victoria Cross [London] is now unlocked!"
Do these things actually exist? If so, is there a hack/workaround to MAKE them show up once they've (allegedly) been unlocked, or is it just down to random grinding and hope something eventually happens because there are MULTIPLE locks preventing progress?
Is this content all future expansion material or is it a bug - possibly a Mac-only one - that the things mentioned don't appear in the game?
Examples:
"The Gulf Enterprise Council is now unlocked in Dubai!"
"Ministry of the Interior in Katanga is now unlocked!"
"The Unity PAC office in Capitol City is now unlocked!"
"Colossus Investments is now unlocked on Wall Street!"
"Victoria Cross [London] is now unlocked!"
Do these things actually exist? If so, is there a hack/workaround to MAKE them show up once they've (allegedly) been unlocked, or is it just down to random grinding and hope something eventually happens because there are MULTIPLE locks preventing progress?
It is a building that opens up later.
To get Sabrina you need to get pretty far in finishing the training of the British princess Alice Windsor so you can set up an interview or something like that.
The Princess of Dubai will at some point show up at the Harrods store in London but I don't remember what triggers it.
Have you talked to the secret society at The Hellfire Club building? (only open on the weekends) I think you get a membership ring or something when you've progressed far enough at Cromwell Intellysys.
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