QSP Evil 2 [v0.75] [community project]

[noobtrain]

Hi All
I initially developed this mod as a way to help early-game players accumulate money faster and avoid dealing with Mabuta.

Because of that, I didn’t go into much detail and just pushed it out. But it seems like some people are interested in exploring this part of the game further. I’m open to working on it under the following conditions:

1. I’ll work at my own pace and won’t commit to any deadlines, as I have a full-time job and this is just a side hobby.
2. For simplicity, I’ll be rewriting the entire legal business section in the main module using new variables. This is to reduce cross-feature bugs, but it also means players will lose any shops or factories they currently own.

I know this is a community project, but I believe most people agree that Noobtrain and Skybarbie are the most active moderators. Personally, I view them as the de facto Game Admins. So, if both of them are on board, we can go ahead and start a poll on implementing the legal business feature.

Hmm, what features are you talking about specifically?

Avoiding dealing with Mabuta isn't something we want to encourage as this goes against the intent of the game. The MC starts off as a little fish in the crime world and has to pay his dues. This is a part of becoming a crime boss and a part of the game world the MC lives in. Does it suck? Yes, but it helps the player understand the game world they are now thrust into and how things work. The Mabuta content was a part of the original game. We've been surprised at the extent that players are willing go through to avoid paying Mabuta. That's one reason why we added a pop-up to explain that this is a part of normal life in the world they now find themselves in.

My main concern is breaking save games by making your feature incompatible with existing product stores and factories (they disappear). This is something we've tried very hard to avoid in the past. Why not just add a third business type and leave product stores and factories mostly intact? Or just make improvements to product stores and factories and not make players start from scratch by losing existing stores and factories?

You also aren't editing the latest version of the game. The last time you made a fix you edited version 0.75 instead of version 0.75 Patch 1 so I had to go and do a file comparison between your changes and mine and add your fixes in before I released 0.75 Patch 2. It wasn't that difficult to do but I'd rather not have to keep doing it.

Players can release anything they'd like as long as they don't break the site rules and it fits into the game world. But if it's going to be added as part of the main game it will have more scrutiny. I would rethink breaking existing product stores and factories and just make improvements instead.