Instead of the whole NPC catches you flashing too long > You lose the whole run; I propose a police system.
Upon being caught flashing or naked too long by a Civilian NPC, the game freezes and the caught animation still plays, but the Civilian is instead shown to pick up a mobile phone and call police. Afterwards, the game unfreezes, control is returned to you and new Police NPC are given the coordinates that the ‘summoning’ civilian NPC had caught you flashing/naked and will run to that location. All currently existing police NPCs on the map will sprint to the last known coordinates with maxed out 'unease' gauges. After arriving, they will stop in place, turn and look around the area and then for the remainder of the current 'run' (Until you return home or are caught) Police NPCs that exist naturally (Downtown, Central Park and the Mall) will be in an alert state.
Alert state attributes:
* Unease gauges stay at 50% baseline, regardless of suspicious activity happening near or visible to them.
* Their walking speed is set at NPC max.
* They have a unique walking animation that has them holding up a flashlight and pointing it forward. This is mostly an aesthetic choice and helps communicate to the player their current state and makes them much easier to identify from a distance or even around corners.
* They're given a fixed 'patrol' route that is not susceptible to RNG wandering NPC behavior. This behavior will make them more predictable and hopefully make this state a bit easier to play around.
This patrol route will have them cover most of the Downtown, Mall and Park areas that npcs wander. This includes the bathroom, laundromat, vending machine areas, elevators, etc.
While in the alert state, if you're in an Police NPC's LOS (Line of sight) and your face is unobscured, they will quickly (equivalent to a 150% detection risk) identify you and begin chasing you. The same applies if you are naked/flashing in their LOS.
After being caught by a Civilian NPC, the player is given a tutorial that explains the police mechanic and introduced to a couple ways of counterplay:
* Putting on a clothing item that obscures the face (Masks, Sunglasses, Veils etc) will make it harder for police to detect you if seen by them! Doing so will decrease your RP multiplier by **X** amount.
* Other tips lmao
Upon being captured by a Police NPC, you are given the failure screen and lose all earned RP. I believe this will encourage the player to be willing to take more risks during normal gameplay as there is now a cushion between being discovered by an NPC exhibiting and losing all your RP.
Police NPCs will spawn naturally and wander around in the following maps: (Downtown, Central Park, and the Mall.) These are densely populated areas that make sense for them to have an active presence. They behave similarly to regular NPCs and will use vending machines, sit on benches on their phones and will talk with civilians and other Police NPCs. They never spawn with headphones or walk around while on their phones. They do not exit these maps or enter stores.
On the following maps: (Convenience Store, Clothes Shop) the police will never spawn naturally and will be summoned to the area to investigate the last known player location. If they do not find the player, they will leave the area completely. To penalize being caught in these areas, the employee NPC will have their base unease gauges increased by 20% each time the police is called to the store for investigation. Otherwise, they function the same.
Police NPCs should have a distinct footstep sound that makes them easier to identify and distinguish without direct line of sight. Helpful for first person/blindfolded exhibitions. Maybe even give them a walkie-talkie sound effect.
Police NPCs should be slightly faster than Manaka's base running speed. This makes the threat of being pursued by them much higher and further incentivizes sprint upgrades and proper map knowledge.
There should also be new missions centered around the Police NPC. Some examples:
* Be naked while being chased by an officer.
* Successfully avoid being arrested (Completed after being chased and them losing LOS of you)
* Splash semen on an officer.
* Perform a pose action near a patrolling officer.
EDIT: I tried to post this on the creator's blog and hit the character limit
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Anybody know of a better way to better way to contact the dev with suggestions or should I just shorten this?
