Shady Deals v0.12: Fancy Sails

Public release is scheduled for 02/09.

Patreon release: Big Shot, Hustler (scheduled for 26/08).

Yacht Events

• New ability to set up a yacht party every two weeks on the yacht passage. Preparing a party takes one week. During this time, the boss will gradually receive information about the most important arriving guests, but not all at once. On the first day of preparations, you’ll learn about 1 guest, on the fourth day about 2 guests, and on the seventh day about all three.

• There are 4 types of guests: Arms Dealer, Drug Dealer, Smuggler, and Crypto Dealer. Each of them will have a random request for a specific shipment or crypto that the boss may fulfill. The amount of crypto that the Crypto Dealer can buy is limited, but the amount of shipments that can be sold is unlimited (though still restricted by things like storage space and resources).

• During trading, the boss can bargain for a better deal. It's a simple skill check - nothing fancy. The stat used during bargaining is determined by the event type.

• There are two types of yacht events: a regular party and an orgy. The stat used for bargaining depends on the type: Cunning for regular parties and Charm for orgies.

• You can also meet new NPCs during yacht events. They belong to a unique pool of professions and are all very wealthy.

Other new implementations:

• A new pool of NPC professions has been added, but for now only three of them have special interactions. All of these interactions have a one-week cooldown:

  • Jeweler - can buy gold bars from you in bulk.

  • Politician - can arrange a payoff/kickback.

  • Investor - can boost the popularity of your brothel or nightclub.

• New lewd interactions with accomplices if the boss allows them: random spanks and fondling. These may happen during their usual yapping at home.

• A slot machine has been added to the casino.

• Ability to boost the skills of your entire crew by paying off the leaders of captured gangs. This has a 20-day cooldown, and the price scales with the size of the gang, ofc.

  • Gangs boost Cunning.

  • Romano boosts Driving.

  • Volkov boosts Combat.

Changes:

• Added crew yapping in the basement and garage.

• New UI for casino token exchange in the casino and Romano passages.

• Added more media for yacht events.

• Added more reactions to clothing tags across different passages.

• Removed old-save compatibility for pre-v0.9 saves for optimization purposes.

• Changed the outdoor dirty talks, cuz they sounded too off when used on the yacht. Not all of them though - i’ll reread the rest after optimizing them.

Fixes:

• Fixed the biker heat event resolution when they block the entrance to their club.

• Fixed gig reward descriptions showing cash messages instead of crypto.

In the pipe

Would be cool to add more content to this update, but i’m just not sure what else i can push that won’t take too much time. So yeah, moving the update release to Sunday for a few minor changes doesn’t seem worth it, so i’m pushing it as is.

During the patch phase, i’ll mostly focus on optimization. I’ll keep moving everything that can be moved to JS and think about a new save-compatibility system, because right now it’s really weak and causes a lot of lags. That's why save compatibility gets cut in this update. Also, most prolly i'm gonna add a proper debug panel and quick start options.

And, well, sticking to the roadmap.