1) It's been said by Gracie (in Town Time event) that Cordia has a good working partnership Lucania's police Chief. But even if the Chief cooperates with the Family, are there individuals in the force (within precinct) who resent the whole "cooperation with a crime Family"?
If I said Lucania's police chief I misspoke. There are no police force in Lucania. Deluca Family is the enforcer. The town is a bit unique in that sense and is part of the story.
3) Will we ever see an interrogation occur within the Family mansion grounds? It's been said that Cordia disapproves of barbarism, so something like what Kaskar Family does (e.g. that Pops scene with "mole" before Jalen showed up) will most likely NOT be happening, but it makes me wonder whether any interrogation or torture tactics will still happen when needed.
Besides, we've yet to see that "Female interrogator who needs beauty sleep" from Eiza's "Can I have this?" event!
I honestly didn't really think of a character when I wrote it. More for lore building of the Family. But yeah, I probably show her down the line. Could be a fun character.
4) You said that season 2 will likely kick off with Big 5 Family meetings with the Dons/Donnas and their children. So I'm guessing that it will be likely that we're gonna see all their Consiglieres too?
Speaking of Consiglieres, do any Families have female Consigliere? I mean, considering Cordia shook up the system with the Big War, I'd assume that positions of power like Consigliere would have become more open to talented ladies as well (compared to the times of traditional system).
Perhaps. Many times the consiglieres are stand in for the bosses themselves. But not always present when the bosses themselves meet up.
There are no Female consigliere as of yet. Perhaps if I find it relevant for a Family and the story.
5) So TJ the gunsmith, in the Musala Hills event, is said to do illegal modifications for Luna's guns. Would we ever find out what sort of modifications he makes that makes them illegal (compared to.. legal modifications)?
I mean yes, there are legal and illegal firearm modifications in real life, but I'm pretty much a layman when it comes to firearms so....
But knowing Luna, would it be farfetched to believe she loves huge boost in firepower with her guns (that perhaps that's the kind of modification she asks TJ. The outrageous firepower)? Or could it be something else?
Not sure tbh. Haven't given that any real thought.
6) Regarding the "balance of power" (in terms of each Family's overall strength, influence, financial power) of each of Current Big Five, how would you balance them if each of them were given pieces out of a whole pie (100%)?
Would it be split something like the following (just taking a blind stab at it, taking into account what is shown in the game and what you revealed with Lore):
The DeLuca Fa Family : 30%
The Profaci Family : 25%
The La Fata Family : 20%
The Tradimano Family :15%
The Melfi Family : 10%
Or would balance of power be even more skewed towards in favor of DeLucas, considering Cordia went to war with all Families at the time of Luna's kidnapping by the Mysterious Six?
There aren't really any major power differences offcially.
But after Profaci lost the war against DeLuca they have less influences than power, Cordia due to her big role in The Big War has a bit more say in few matters.
But it is all marginally and the point of the system is for all Family to have their say equally. Officially that is.
There are always things behind the scenes. but that is for when we get deeper into the Story.
7) Just wanted this verified from you; is Sister Amata the other student of Cynthia (other than Luna)?
Some lines in v0.07 seems to sort of imply that to be the case (Amita saying "Amata looks up to Cynthia a bit too much", and Amita herself referring to Cynthia as "Big sis"), though if that's not the case, Amata just has heavy admiration for Cynthia like Caterina does for Cordia. Hmmm......
Yes she is.
8) This probably won't be plausible right now, but probably more towards end-game, would we be able to take a peek at "Wilfred's Evaluation" sheets of everyone's potential in the Family?
Just my thought, but on top of the lorebook, it might be fun to have one of those "Wilfred's Confidential files" where evaluation has Wilfred's Grade on each individual in the Family (for e.g. Amata: Grade = mid-Capo, also listing strength and weaknesses and Wilfred's thoughts and opinions on Sister Amata)
Maybe. Sounds like fun. But also can be a bit time-consuming unless I only do a few characters.
9) Not much has been said about Isabel's season 2 arc yet. Wouldn't want you to spoil us, but even so, any juicy teases you can give us for those who love the "Teasing Queen"?
It's going to be a lot of teasing! But this time a bit more daringly.
10) Regarding girls' Freeroam mechanic in game, would you be able to share some insight as to whether there will be any possible expansion of this?
Currently there are 6 explorable locations in the DeLuca mansion, and I'm curious as to how many more rooms will be further explorable when Cordia's route gets unlocked, and whether any further no-go rooms in the mansion grounds from before (which we didn't know of) may be available/unlocked as our MC rises higher in ranks.
I mean yes. I've seen some devs go overboard with freeroam mechanic and decided to put too many locations which when playing, freeroaming began to feel like a chore, but in my eyes modicum of increase in freeroam areas for big monumental event doesn't sound like a bad idea (and I like exploring!).
Also, for the game, will there be only Freeroam for DeLuca mansion grounds, or would you be open to implementing it in possible other areas?
Too much in the 'idea' department for me to make any says yet. But there are planned for a few extra ones. Nothing major.
11) Regarding music in games, I've seen some devs create specific soundtrack theme for each of their characters.
So for example, what would you think of a Luna-tailored theme track for some scenes of Luna events, Cordia-tailored theme track for some parts of Cordia events and so on and so on?
Not saying this is what I want, but I've seen some devs try interesting takes experimenting with such character tailored themes, and curious to hear your thoughts on it.
There already is some kind of themes made for some character. Not everyone. It's really tough to look for tailored themes unless you pay the big bucks!
12) Another question about music; what approach regarding music for the game do you think works (and what doesn't work) specifically for you?
Any issues or difficulties with the whole music process (asking for another look under the hood regarding this part of the creative process, heh) that you had to deal with?
There is a lot of things with music. Finding loops, finding a way to make one section loop until something happen so you play the newer part etc. But most of all, it's finding the music in your mind for a specific scene. Can spend so many hours on it.
Honestly, extremely tedious. But worth it, as I believe sound elevates a scene.
Still learning. Rigth now I am working with adobe Audition to create loops (or making it longer for it to sound like a loop)
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