Drugs and Crime Idle news & patch notes

Drugs and Crime Idle Update 4.09 Brings the option to turn on auto chest opening. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/8bf6ffd8277ab89940b0bd974b64e596716defb7.png If you turn it on, it will open chests by itself until you turn it off or run out of credits. A much requested QOL feature. If you encounter any bugs, please let me know in the comments. Thank you for your patience and have fun playing!

Operation Food to Gold, my second idle game after Drugs and Crime Idle is now live, free and available in Early Access. This time I went for a more family friendly vibe with cooking food for an alien and feeding it, instead of being a criminal overlord. You should be experienced in cooking. This time only, you will be cooking hamburgers and chicken tenders instead of crystal meth. The game will be an Early Access version, but all the core mechanics of, what I hope is a fun idle game, are all in there. Please comment in the Steam-Community with any feedback. What do you like? What do you hate? I read everything and reply to everyone. All Drugs and Crime owners and DLC owners can claim in-game goodies. I wanted to show a "thank you" gesture with the in-game goodies. A thank you to all of you. Here is to a new beginning. I will of course also try to update Drugs and Crime Idle as much as possible as well. That all said. Have fun and thank you for playing! Roxy Constantine Click this link to get to the Steam Page of the game.

- Added back auto-saving - Added 3 new buttons to the main page * Manual Save - Creates a new, separate savegame meant as a failsave/backup. Make sure to click this red button every time you close the game and every now and again. * Manual Load - Loads the manual save. * Load Autosave - Loads your regular save game that is created from the autosave. - Added the Prestige generator. * After you prestige at least 1 time, a new bar will start filling, based on the times you prestiged. So, at prestige 1, it will generate 1 out of 1million. After it fills, you get 1 prestige point. At prestige 2 it will 2 out of 1 million, so twice as fast. So, now it's worth it to prestige more than once. You also have a steady supply of prestige points which you can spend on upgrades more consistently than before. Your savegame should not be affected by any of the changes. Sorry to everyone, who has experienced issues with their savegame and have lost their progress. I was able to implement the prestige generator this fast, because I use the same mechanic in my new idle game. This is also the reason why I am not updating this game more frequently. The new game will be about food, instead of drugs. It's nearing the finish line and I hope for a better launch, than drugs and crime idles. Thank you all for playing. If you experience any issues/bugs with the new update, then please let me know in the steam discussions tab. Have fun.

Happy new year, you bunch of criminals and drug dealers! May 2023 be your year, full of success and all you wish for. What other dev does that? Probably none, that's why I do it. Thank you all for your support! Up until now Drugs and Crime Idle has been played by 38,133 Players! I am happy, to give people some entertainment from the every day struggle we all face. Time you enjoyed is not time wasted. Happy new year! ~Konstantin Spasoff

- Removed auto-saving from the game. Due to issues with the savefile getting corrupted and players losing their progress, I have removed autosaving from the game. Now, if you experience a pc or game crash, then you should lose only some progress, not all of it or the entire save game. The game does continue to save, of course, when it closes. A pc or game crash (or other reason) should not affect the game anymore, hopefully. I apologize to everyone that has lost their save! Happy holidays! ːcsgostarː

Version 4.06 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/4e3da8e0bf4c5fb7800cefd1081c897488c03f6a.png New Gang screen

• Thugs reworked to only give crimenet balance instead of crimecoin.
• Lawyers reworked to only give account balance instead of crimecoin & crimecoin lite.
• Added new hacker, who has a charge like the lawyer and gives both crimecoins. Payout is random from 10 to 160. Can be upgraded with money and prestige, but +5 (10 prestige) per level instead of a multiplier like the lawyer and thugs.
• Added the casino boss. Works like a rakeback reward in the casino. After 1000 ap spend, you can claim a random reward. 50-800 with very good chances of getting the best one, compared to the hacker. Can be upgraded for +50 (or +100 with prestige) per level.

Other Moved the thugs and lawyer, as well as their upgrades to the gang screen. Visual update on the thugs and lawyer upgrades, to distinguish them from the gang members. Renamed ??? guy in the item room to H4K3R, since he is the same hacker in the gang screen. Seems like a name a hacker would choose. Items Documents now doubles ecstasy production as well as cocaine production. Energydrink no longer doubles ecstasy production. Doubles hacker rewards instead for more crime coins. That's all for now folks. Have fun!

Version 4.05 Changed the lawyer max progress to 200. A lawyer action still takes 100 points, but now you can store up to 200 points, so they don't go to waste. Added the ability to stand up and smoke a fat one. Taking a break from all the money making and managing. Has an audio as well, so make sure your game is not muted. Just for fun, does nothing else. Also comes with 1 new achievement.

Version 4.04 Very small update. Crate opening is now twice as fast. It feels much better to open crates now. Something that has been requested a lot, for a long time. Have fun!

Update 4.03 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/f2f41090ea953280c95ec46bdea6df5f6d0d7808.png Prestige System and Steam Achievements In update 4.03 you can reset your game progress and start all over again with the Prestige system. You gain 25 Prestige for doing so, which you can spend on new upgrades. The upgrades are the same as those on the upgrade page, except doubled (max ap and max crimecoin 4times). Those upgrades do not reset when you reset your game. I chose against other prestige upgrade options, like money and drugs, since those would make the game too easy. Those, who have the DLCs, can claim them again after a reset. There are 6 Achievements related to the prestige levels, but you can keep going as much as you want. A counter will keep track on how many times you have reset your game. I tried other ideas for the game reset and wanted to combine some other genres with it, but after testing and some thought, decided against it, since those were not really fun or fitting. Steam Achievements 21 Steam Achievements. 15 for the items and 6 for prestige resets. Have fun and thank you all for your support!

Update 4.02 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/c259551d9c0f41157d5a1c0b2144ca040fe6f1ce.png Quality of Life change to how opening crates works. Before, you had to buy the crate at the crate screen, then open it, then click on crates again and so on. Now, you can go to the crate screen and the cost deducts after you press the button to spin. This allows you to open crate after crate, without changing the screen. It feels overall faster and more fun to open them now. Thank you RemboW for the nice suggestion! Crate screen overhaul The crate screen now shows the crates with the items inside. A general visual overhaul. The coin generator now also has an image. Lawyers Lawyers were way too generous. This was not intended. They were intended to be a bonus reward to the thugs. Lawyers before were multiplying their rewards, times the donut, times the thugs. Now they multiply only with themselves and the donut. Boosted the overall lawyer rewards. Will be better for new players without any upgrades, but overall way less rewards for people with many upgrades into them. Thugs and Lawyers might be revisited in the future, based on your feedback. That is all for this update. If you encounter any bugs, then please let me know. Good luck and have fun!

Drugs and Crime Idle Recreated. Because drugs are recreational, get it? Anyway, after one a half years, I have re-made the game from scratch, for the 4th time. All previous versions, except the first, are available under the games betas tab. You can continue to play your savefile on version 3, the last one. Your savefile is unaffected and separate from this one. I will post a detailed guide on how to switch versions. Please check the guides tab in the community. In short: Rightclick drugsandcrimeidle in steam library -> properties -> betas What's new? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/2507b4c2d901174cc5d089a6e40b3332a9b16208.png Everything, yet it should still feel the same. Money gained is now per second, instead of every ~60. Offline progression for 24 hours at half efficiency. Your criminals are only half as efficient without their boss. Dirty money is now Crimenet_balance and clean money is now bank account balance. The feel for the game here is, that you are on a browser on crimenet, controlling everyone as the boss. Dealers are now upgraded with drugs. Buildings produce drugs and are upgraded with crimenet balance. Moneylaundering is upgraded with dirty money and is needed to upgrade the thugs, lawyer, ap and passive crimecoin generation. Thugs now attack instantly, without the text, which nobody was reading anyway, and are using ActionPoints(AP). This is an active play system. It is optional and you can ignore it, if you wish. You will still generate money and crimecoin. Opening crates is the same, as is the item room. The odds with the crates are lower, the item room is the same, just with updated text for the new item effects. The crate opening has received a visual upgrade. You can now choose which crate you want to open and skip one, once you have all the items inside, since all rewards are in CrimeCoin and CrimeCoin_lite, instead of just crates. Overall the game is more simple, easier to understand what's going on, while still maintaining the original features and adding some more. There might be some bugs left, although I think that I have squished most of them. Please report any under this post or in the community. I feel that the game is now finished, but might add some more stuff, if I feel that something will fit well. The problem with adding new stuff, is balance. I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it. Let me know of any bugs, what you like, what you dislike and your general thoughts. Have fun!

Hello fellow dealers, just a quick community update on the future of the game. Cloud: First off, I added steam cloud saving again. Now steam should backup your saves. Last time there were problems with people losing their saves because of steam cloud. I hope that it's fixed and working properly now. You can disable steam cloud in the properties menu, if you wish to do so. Future Updates: I have said it on discord and on steam here and there a few times, but never trough an update. Currently I am remaking the game from scratch (2nd-3rd time?). I have very good progress already and hope to release the new version soon. It will be an entirely different game on terms of progression, art, functions. I added many requested quality of life features to it as well. For example, holding the mouse down on an upgrade to auto-buy upgrades as much as you can instead of clicking. That should be easier on your wrists. Bigger text. Faster lootcrate openings, offline progression and so on. Right now you have 8 regions with 8 dealers inside for each drug. I have removed that. It was not very fun for new players that had no upgrades and items to wait 2 minutes for dealers to sell a few grams of drugs. Made progression very tedious and boring. It also did not make sense to buy drugs. People had more drugs than they could sell. Many variables and timers just for a +1/-1 that is not needed and bloats the game. Instead you now have "operations". You upgrade your weed dealing operation to get +$1 per second for example. Then there is buildings, crime, research, chemical production, player focus, exp, and so on. More variety. But function and gameplay wise it's very similar to other idle games. The main reason for the remake is how the game was made. The code. I have managed to reduce 10.000 lines of code to 100 for example. This is good, because I am building the game right now in a way that will allow me to: 1) Push out new content way faster with clean code. 2) Add translations. 3) Publish to mobile. DLC: The two DLCs will be added to the game as well of course. Soon they will go on sale for 10%. It's not much but I will never make them cheaper than that. I don't want to de-value my own product. I would advise you to wait for the new version first, before buying. All sales are of course a great support for me. Thank you! :) Save: New version, new code, new variables. A new savegame will be needed. I will keep the current version. If you wish to continue your progress, you can do so. Your current save will not be affected. For the new version you will need a new one. Both are separate, so don't worry, you will not lose your save. It's basically a different game by now, there is no way to keep the current save. Thanks for reading and your understatement. Can't wait to get the new update out. :) If you have any questions, feel free to comment here, on discord, or message me per email. ~ Lord

New: Save System I redid the entire save and load system from scratch. The old one was problematic to say the least. I noticed that the drug numbers weren't saving properly. Sometime you had 0.007, closed the game and you had 0.0010 or sometimes 0 on load. This is of course not acceptable. The old system used base64 encoding. While converting numbers to letters and then back to numbers issues arised. My guess is that many had lost their savegames because of that too. Steamcloud was also not working with that and I had to remove it. All for what? To make it harder on people to cheat. It's a single player offline game. Who gives a cr...? It's not like it was hard to anyway. Now don't worry. I tested everything and the new system works fine with the old savefile system. You start the game -> it reads the old 333.sav -> deletes it and replaces it with the new 334.sav. You will not lose your progress! ... I hope at least. Touching the saving is always risky. If you happen to lose your save, then sorry. Please tell me and I will make sure to restore your progress manually. I hope everyone made a backup as well for this case. but it should be fine... Also, I can finally integrate SteamCloud again. So even if something happens to your pc or you switch pcs you can have your progress. I will add it tomorrow, to see if everything works properly. Fixed: - Item Peace was not working properly and adding the $3 increased price to lsd sell price. - Enemy tooltips not displaying the correct amount of enemies. Changed: Nerfed the enemies that can spawn. It's still mostly 1-5, but now it's way less likely that you get 5. Every region has different spawn rates and rewards after win. Stay tuned for more updates and stuff. - Lord

Fixed a small issue with the employees at stacey's, that made the game crash. Sorry for that! If you find any other bugs please let me know.

Hello dealers, it's been a long time. The last update was in february. Due to health issues I was not able to work much, so that's why I have delayed the update so much. But it's all good. Thank you all for your patience. First off, the new money laundering dlc is not complete. There is currently 1 business to purchase out of 6. This one will be free for everyone, so everyone can experience the money laundering feature, that wie tie heavily into future updates and progression. The dlc itself will give you the option to purchase the other 5 businesses wich I am currently working on and planning to release soon. I wanted to get this update out for a few reasons. First, it's been a long time since the last update. Second, the update has many more improvements, not just the dlc stuff. Third, before working on other businesses I want to see if the current one needs adjustments, improvements, balance changes and so on. You can hold off with buying the dlc till I add all the other stuff. It's up to you. You get of course in-game goodies and stuff right away when you buy it. Same as the other dlc. New stuff: 1. Money laundering DLC You can now purchase "Stacey's Nail Salon" in the new money laundering tab. Art and everything is not final. Stacey will start working for you right away, cleaning your dirty money for a heavy cut. You can also hire 4 more employees to work in her nail saloon. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/87c7fd22583c52b8b79c2ce36f04b7ec24612068.png They will slowly gather dirty money, if you have any, and clean it. Once enough collected they give it to the manager, then she gives it to you. All of them also generate passive clean money, but not much. While they work, they will generate progress towards the 2 new crates. The impossible crate and the possible crate with 6 new items total. All people are AI generated, so not real people. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/f287f6654d168e3f1991823fc71eee140e5c37a5.png 2. Items {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/d0a4d8fa3a51d3f01380ce71aa735505e44c8f50.png 6 new items. Now there is complete balance to the drugs. Before that, dope and meth was the most profitable, since you can get a few items that made it that way. Now, the new items will balance all the drug prices, making all drugs equally profitable. You can view your item collection in the new item room, with a dude that will tell you all you need to know about them, once you get them. 3. New tutorial {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/2cec67aacac5e206f25f64c48129024dd61aad12.png A brand new tutorial for new players hosted by Tommy. He might give you a hard time since he's a wise guy but, whadda ya gotta do, forget about it. 4. New gambling room. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/7d71ad6112b90a3cd828b47265744bba3a6b91da.png A reworked gambling room. Now with the ability to buy and sell crates for crate credits. Featuring sam, who gives you quotes from the movies he's been in. You can buy credits for gold as well, but gold will come later with the dynamic stock market. 5. Backup saving {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/fad74de34d785d47fa19cdc0764d60cf24e0eef6.png There is now a button to create a backupsave. The game still saves automatically. This is just so... if your savegame gets corrupted, you can still recover your progress. The whole system was... problematic, very problematic. Hopefully all is fixed now. 6. Various other stuff In the options menu there is a road map, so you can see what I will be working on next. I plan to update all rooms and give them a rework, similar to the item room and tutorial. Cleaned up the main page a bit. A bunch of fixes and balance. I should have kept track of everything. Again, thank you all for your patience and I hope that you enjoy the new stuff. As always, I welcome suggestions and criticism. More updates are coming soon. Still a lot to be done. Peace out Lord

Hello again dealers and lootbox openers, I've been pushing out daily updates, hope it's not getting annoying. I would rather make one bigger update, but the issues that needed fixing were severe. - Fixed the backup saving. Again. Now it should be working. The regular saving might still have some issues, but the backup saving should work now. If your save is corrupted. Delete it and rename the backupsave.sav to 333.sav and everything should be back to normal. I've tested it multiple times and it works. I am looking into alternatives to saving to resolve this issue once and for all. The best option would be online saving, but this comes with it's own issues. - Balanced the enemy gang in the gang fight High reward zones that were hard remain the same. Low reward zones now have a chance to spawn up to 5 enemies at random. Everything was too easy once you got the max thug upgrades, now it is more balanced. The chance of 5 enemies to spawn is still low, so the regions are still "easy". - Changed the reward system for winning gang battles Now there is a higher chance that you will get money instead of crates. There is also a higher chance that you will get double crates. Now you can even get 2 epics as a reward instead of 1 max. All in all it would be harder to get any crates. I think it is more balanced now. Crates were supposed to be a rare reward, not something you hoard. Also, I wanted to do this, so I can later add new game features to earn crates. (buy them) - Balanced the crate exchange Now it takes 5 crates instead of 10 to exchange to the next tier. Common and rare crates are also way cheaper. This is so new players that don't have millions yet can still enjoy the system. Epic to legendary cost only 5, but the price cost is still very high. This is for late game players. Legendary crates are for people with a lot of money. - Added sound effects to lootcrates Simple as. There are different sounds for different wins. Hoping to make opening boxes now more exciting and fun with the sound feedback. - Changed the lootcrate opening speed. Was 13 seconds. Now is 6 seconds. It feels way faster and smoother. Many have requested this feature. While I agree that it needs to be faster, I don't agree that it needs to be instant. The faster going reel, the drum roll, the anticipation and hope that you get the rare item. It's the buildup to the point of receiving the item that is the fun part of opening crates. There can be no dramatic effect when it's faster than this or instant. Just go in game and try it out. I guarantee you that 6 seconds is fine and everything feels smooth. Now that most, hopefully all bugs are fixed, all typos as well and the game has been balanced I can focus on working on new game content. The next update will take more time, but will bring new additions to the game. Stay tuned. :) Thanks for playing. Hope you like the new changes and additions. - Lord

Update 1.5 is another small update that focuses on fixes. I was made aware... that you were able to buy meth for the price of weed, but sell it for the price of meth. So you were able to buy 1kg of meth for $5000 and sell it $25 a gram. This is obviously not intended. The prices have been updated now and balanced. Time to focus on the other drugs, not just meth ;) - fixed meth buy prices - fixed crack buy prices - re-adjusted some prices in general All in all it's still cheaper to buy in bulk. - fixed an issue of tooltips not displaying at the exchange button - added the option to exchange from epic to legendary - changed cost from common to rare from 5 to 10 Now it's always 10 crates for 1 level higher. - added a cost to exchanging $1000 for common -> rare $10 000 for rare -> epic $100 000 for epic -> legendary - re-adjusted and fixed more typos and text - changed the item "hermanos" effect Now decreases meth price by 20% instead of 50%. 20 is still pretty good, especially if you buy in bulk. 50 was too much. Next update I will look into giving an option to speed up the lootbox opening and will be changing the gangfight rewards a bit. Happy dealin - Lord

There is nothing worse than playing for hours and then losing your save. This has sadly happend to many, so it was my top priority to fix it. I have changed the saving system. This will not affect your savefile, don't worry. Your normal savefile "333.sav" is now saving in a different way that should eliminate all issues with losing your save. In addition to that, the game is saving in the old way a second time a "backupsave.sav" file. This means, that even if you lose your regular save file for some reason, you will have a backup save. You can then rename the backup save to "333.sav" and will regain all your progress again. This is a failsafe, the regular saving should work without problems. The issue should be now 100% solved, but time will tell. Please let me know if you still happen to lose your progress. Chances should be impossible to lose the regular file and the backup. - Also fixes a bunch of typos and move the main stats a bit. - Fixed an issue with continuing after you won a gang battle but not getting rewards(if you pressed continue too fast). Now you cannot continue before claiming the reward, which is automatic and takes a split second anyway. This is it for this small update. Larger updates will of course come as well. I want the game to work without issues before working on new stuff. Happy dealing. -Lord

Hello dealers, many of you have made great suggestions of improvements to the game. Thank you for contributing! :) This a rather small update with quality of life changes. --------- New: - Lootcrate exchange buttons There is no point in opening common or rare crates if you have all the items. Some are hoarding then in the fifties or hundreds. Opening 50 crates can be very annoying, especially if you have no gain from it. Now there are 2 buttons. You can exchange- 5 common crates for 1 rare 10 rare crates for 1 epic Now getting epic and legendary items should be a bit more fair and easy. Adding the same exchange for epic to legendary is not an option. That would make things a bit too easy. - Enemy attack timers display Enemy attack timers are now displayed on the left under your money and lootcrates. Fixed: - An issue with enemy attack timers not ticking down if you were in an attack. If you fought the west downtown purplz, then all other timers were on pause. Whoops! - Typos. Changed: - Drug prices displayed in the buying drugs tooltips are now dynamic. Meaning, that meth would display a price of $25 normally, but if you got heisenberg, it will display $35 automatically. Before that it was a static $25. - Gang battles are 3 times faster. The calculating part has been toned down. Now you can spam the attack button to get the result faster if you don't want to read the text. Over the course of play you will do many gang battles and after a time it gets annoying to wait for the "text to calculate". Spam away now. ------------------ Near future: Many have requested to add an option to make lootcrates open faster. I hope that the exchange function now fixes this issue. You will have less lootcrates to open, so the animation length should not be an issue... right? The problem with this is, that I want to add custom sounds to spinning, opening, and receiving an item. Those sounds have to be made custom and according to the animation length. I'll wait and see how the feedback is and then add them, depending if I have to do 2 sounds, 1 for faster and 1 for normal, or just 1 for normal. Achievements are coming soon. First I want to see if there are more things to add, fix, balance.

This is a quick and small update to fix two issues. For some players the game was not saving properly and causing them to lose all of their progress. It was rare, but it was happening. That is a pretty big issue. Sorry to anyone that lost their savegame. I finally found the issue and fixed it. Technical stuff below. Also fixed an issue with steam screenshots. Apparently they were not working. Now they are. If anyone is still having issues with the savegame, then please let me know! ----------- For anyone interessted: The game autosaves every two seconds. For most everything seemed to be working fine. It was hard to find the issue why it did not save. I thought about the problem and think (hope) to have found it. The game runs at 60 fps, so 60 frames per second, and it runs the code after 2 seconds. So the actual save code should run at like one 60th of a second. The game usually runs code 60 times per 1 second. So... if you were unlucky enough to close the game in that 1/60 time frame, maybe because your game runs slower due to hardware, your game got deleted. The odds of that should be impossible, but yeah, apparently a bunch of savegames got deleted. The fix was easy. Just add an function to save one more time the (X) is pressed or the game closes. This is a force save that can't and should not go wrong. Pretty obvious now that I think about it. Should have been in there since day 1 but oh well.

A quick small update to fix two issues. - Tutorial Page: Now the main menu has a tutorial page with a quick guide on where to start and what to do. Click on the claim button to get an additional $100 and 1 epic crate. A little something for new players and players that can afford to open the crate. :) - Lootcrate change Now, when you get a duplicate item, you get money + 1 chest of the next tier. Before that it was just money. The money amount has not been changed, just a bonus chest added. Thank you Rommel for the suggestion! Many other great suggestions have been made. But implementing them will take more time and consideration. Thank you all! Have fun! -Lord

The next major update is finally done. Version 1.0 is now live. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/26a2c0203812ee0352c54e81dee0d69caf259101.png In january I decided to completely remake the entire game from scratch. That meant deleting everything from the game and starting from zero. I did it because I was not happy with certain features and mechanics. I wanted things to be one way, but the old versions code and how everything was build made it impossible to implement the way I wanted it to be. So, a complete rework it was. Now I am pretty happy with the state of the game, enough to call it a fully release instead of an early version. This does not mean that I am done. More updates will come. Important: The new version will start a new save file. This will not affect your old save. You can still play your old save if you want in the old version of the game. Further bellow I will explain how, but basically you can switch between the old version and the new one if you wish to do so. Both saves are separate. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new/changed? I won't list every single detail, but only the major things. 1) You now have 8 regions and in those regions you have separate dealers, thugs, lawyers and enemies. In the old version all of those were just numbers. You hire more dealers to sell more. Now you have 8 dealers, for each drug one. Each one has his own upgrades and will sell only 1 type of drug. Total of 64 dealers, 8 lawyers, 8 thugs and 8 enemys. The regions alone have more than 2000 upgrade levels for the base game. Combined with the dlc and production maybe around 3000. DLC stuff is relevant only at late game, by that time you could have maybe hundrets(?) of hours into it before it gets relevant. And even then, it's not game changing. DLC only locks the last 5 levels of upgrades, nothing more. All game features are free. The free version has everything in it. I know I said I wanted the game to be very realistic, but realism is a thing you either do 100% right or not at all. Some things like drug prices are still realistic, but most things are meant to just be fun and fair. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/e0082cf13e421443c7039a16b1fb64e4d63338ae.png 2) When you unlock a region you get the lawyer, thug, enemy and police department unlocked. The lawyer is now only 1 per region and generates stability. The thug does jobs and gives you 10% of what they make. The enemy is on cooldown and can be attacked. Police and gang heat have been removed and replaced with stability instead. The old system was bad, because, when a gang war started, it paused the game. Police and gang wars either made you lose too much or at late game not enough. Now the game is TRUE idle. It will run without a pause wehter you do something or not. Features of you losing stuff is removed. Instead, there are new money sinks and balance to the drugs. Everything is now about timers and time. You cannot upgrade drug prices anymore. This was a mistake to add in the first place and completely unrealistic. Making 10g of weed sell for $5000 or something was just... yeah. Making money is hard. Drugs barely give any profit. Progress is slow. As it should be. The lawyer generates stability, the dealer decreases it. Stability affects the timers only and nothing more. If it falls to 0%, then your dealers sell a bit slower. It's not a harsh system and can be ignored if you wish to. Police is on a very long cooldown and will raid you and set the stability to 0%. Nothing bad or more. You can then build it back up with the lawyer. Thugs generate money and can be upgraded. When you attack the enemy you fight with your upgraded thugs. It's the old combat system. If you win, you get a random lootcrate. If you lose, nothing happens. The timer resets. 3) Lootcrates. I think lootcrates are fun. The only reason anyone hates them is because in almost all games that have them, they cost real money. Not here, it's just fun. The game does not have microtransactions and never will. The only thing you can buy with real money is the dlc. You get a few lootcrates with the dlc but it's not much, and you do not get the legendary one. There is no real money involved with them. Just have fun and collect the items. I had a ton of fun making those and the entire system. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/3e7915bfbed9b0e47d63bab675b74fd1f44e14c1.png 4) Items. You can collect 9 items. Each gives a pretty decent bonus. There are 4 tier of them, each to the corresponding lootbox. And they are pretty hard to get. This is the late game money sink. Legendary lootboxes can be obtained only trough the epic as a drop. And then you have a 3% chance per roll to get that legendary item. Good luck! Why so hard? Because its that much more rewarding when you actually get it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/058348b421d3419d3576545bf88930ee57127b4b.png 5) Growing weed. You can grow weed and upgrade it. Has 3 stages, each one upgradable. Costs no money, just time. This is the replacement for meth and labs. Growing weed is more realistic than producing meth. I will focus again on drug production at a later stage. Already planned ;) 6) Each button now has a tooltip. I think this should make the game easier for new players. Everything is over explained in each tooltip. You can see dynamic prices and stuff there too. There is also a faster button to make your employees work faster. Buildings have been removed. You don't hire anyone anymore, just unlock stuff. There is no cap on drugs that you have. Order as much as you want. 7) Ordering drugs. Now places an order. 10g, 100g or 1kg. After 30 or 60 seconds you get the product. Placing the order deducts the money instantly. You can also set it to autobuy and it will if you have the money. Other than that. Dealers sell way slower and way less. The timer is like, 1 day, it's unrealistic for a dealer, even with max upgrades to sell, like, 1kg per day. Get more regions to sell more. Upgrade them and their timers to sell faster. The dealers start at 110-130 seconds. With max upgrades and items it can go down to 20-40 seconds. That's the general stuff. The rest you can figure out as you play. You will start with $120 in west downtown. Order some weed to get you started, or upgrade your thugs, they will generate you money anyway, but it wont be much. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's next? First off, wait for feedback if anything is broken. I've tested everything... but it's so much stuff going on in the game that I can't be certain. Then I want to update some minor things, like some visuals here and there and add some sound effects to the lootcrates. Maybe balance changes. After that, steam achievements. Then, when I am certain that I have a stable and balanced game, think about translations and ports to mobile maybe. Then, or maybe before, another DLC that focuses on production in another region, as big as the base game. Producing coke and other drugs in mexico, smuggling, cartels and that stuff. Either work on the dlc or on a new game. Already have an idea for a management type game(not idle) and I think that it will be awesome. Haven't seen anything like it before, or at least not the way I want to do it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is how you change the versions: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/b20952e91096261c168d42eaa72b83d3ca02b274.png Change to none if you want the new version again. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lastly I want to thank all of you for your patience and support. The community has been nothing but awesome! :) Have fun! - Lord

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/d79e94c8fa41309cfe3f0a5fc3841ee7c39939a4.png Thank you jesperds for pointing out that the current prestige and gang heat system needed some re-balance and rework. ːdw_yesː I think that everything is better now, but it's still a work in progress. So, what changed: - Prestige Old: 1 prestige = $1000 New: 1 prestige = $10 000 Enemy calculations Old: lets say if you had a prestige level of 10 (so old $10 000) it would either give you a random number of enemys between 4 to 6 or see how many you have and add +1 to it. This sucked, because you could have 8 thugs at a low level and the system could give you 9 at random or 3 some other time. New: Fixed amount of enemies till prestige level 50. The enemies increase every 10 levels. So at prestige 0 you get 1-3, at prestige 1 to 9 you get 1-3 or 4-6 at random. So having 7 should be enough. Now 1 apartment = 6 prestige, more to that later. Above 50 you can get a number or your units +1 or a fixed amount at random. This is to balance late game of course, since otherwise you can just get 50 thugs and win every time. There would be no challenge and no punishment for reaching high gang heat. But even then, its only 1 more thug and since the system is random, you have a good chance to win anyway. Hideout: Old: Max 6 employees New: Max 10(12 with dlc) You now start with 0(old 2), but can get a total of 10 instead of 8 in early game. This is an overall increase, with or without dlc. And with 10 you should be good enough to make enough money fast for an apartment. Appartments: Old: 3 employees, 2 max storage room New: 6 employees, no storage room Since I am going with a bit of realism in the game I can't just add this as an upgrade. An apartment has a fixed size, you can't just drag the walls like in sims 4 to increase the space. 6 people working in an apartment is the max i think. As a drug lord you don't want to have more than that in 1 apartment, since you can get busted, so you spread out. That's the logic behind it. So, you will have a ton more available employees now. You can then find a balance between hiring thugs and dealers. Warehouse: Old: +10 per building - start with 2 max New: +12 per building - starting with 4 max Since apartments and labs don't give storage room now, warehouses now do more. I think warehouses were kind of pointless before, since apartments and labs gave you enough storage to not care about them. Labs: - no storage, no employee increase, only max chemist increase So now each building is important and does it's own thing. Dealers: below 50 prestige they generate at random 1-14 heat above 50 they generate at random 1-30 heat By that point you have enough upgrades, lawyers and thugs that 1-14 is so little that the whole heat system becomes pointless. Hope this is not too much heat now but we will see. Updated the building menu background since it was still the old one. "Improved" some of the building menu code from ~5k lines to 1500. I don't know what I was smoking when I wrote that code lol.

Version 0.009 brings nothing special. I have finally added a tutorial to the game to make it easier on new players. Something that was requested since day 1 actually, but there was just a ton of other stuff to do. The tutorial gives enough information to get a new player started. I have color coded it, so the important stuff pops out. Hopefully so you can get the important information fast without the need to read the whole thing. I had originally other plans with the tutorial, but this will do for now. Also balanced the numbers a bit and fixed some issues. There was some stuff I missed with the last update. I will bring out small updates, fixes, balance changes and quality of life improvements for now, while we have holidays. After the holidays I will focus on bigger things, but until then I want to have a stable, balanced and good build on the public branch. Thanks for playing and happy holidays!

Fixed an issue with the display of integrals. - The game was displaying money like $10.00 when buying drugs. Now it displays it as a $10. A small but very annoying issue. Same goes for money, sometimes it was $500, other times it was $500.00. -Changed the money display to shorten the amount of money displayed. So $10000 is now $10.000k Millions and billions are displayed the same way, the million plus 3 integrals behind. 30.011 million instead of $30011333 for example. It goes only to 999 billion and i doubt anyone would reach that far. - Fixed jobs not displaying any text of what job you are about to do next to the button. - Auto-Attack and auto continue feature for the gang battle system. Now there is a timer of 60 seconds that will advance the battle by itself. The new gang battle pauses all production and dealers selling until the fight is resolved. So.., since many let the game run in the background, this would mean that the game was paused until they do the battle. Now everything keeps moving forward by itself. The 60 seconds are also enough time for the active player to read all the text if he chooses to do so. You can of course still advance it faster by clicking attack or surrender. - Fixed enemies sometimes spawning with 0 health. - Fixed an issue when a draw happens and both lose, both conditions of losing and winning to apply, instead of winning only. - Added a new upgrade page Gang heat amount and reduction speed can now be upgraded - Reduction speed to level 15 (level 20 with dlc) - Amount to level 10 (15 with dlc) - to a max of 16% The last levels are irrelevant for early game since they cost millions. - Increased money from jobs again a bit. - Reduced the heat that dealers are producing when selling drugs. - Gang heat and police heat now don't go down when in the combat screen. Have fun selling crack! - Lord

Update 0.007 is finally done. The UI, Gang Heat rework and balance update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/55a567e83a954cf2e12a208a282b57c52f003c2e.png First off, your savegame won't work in this new version because a lot has changed. So... I promised a custom savegame to people, but decided against it. Instead everyone will get 60 Respect when he starts the game. You can exchange it in the shop for $$$. So everyone starts with $60000, no need to download savegames. I think this is way better and easier. Why respect and not straight up money? Because of the new prestige system. Combat is calculated based on it. The more prestige, the more enemies will attack you. Respect is not in that calculation. So you can exchange 5-10 at first and the rest later. If you bought the dlc you get another 60 of course. So, 120. Don't forget to claim it in the shop. Second... The old UI was a placeholder, that was ...fine, for early access. But since I made a bigːdipː mistake on release day, I am not in early access. I worked hard on this update, because you can imagine how bad it is to release an EA game as a full release... Eh... whatever. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/8073784f50440774de7123b5beee9c41e40eb6a6.png What's new? ------------------------------------------------- - Complete game UI redesign (all pages, all buttons, all of the text has been redone from scratch) - All stats are now visible at all times in every room. - New Gang combat Now thugs don't lower your gang heat anymore. The passive gang heat reduction is set to 2 instead of 1 but wont increase. Instead, now when you reach a high enough percentage you are taken to defend your turn in a new minigame. The game will choose between 5 other gangs at random and set the enemy gang size at random based on some calculations. Then it starts and the game chooses between many hand written outcomes of what happens. First text is 8 different, then 14 for your gang, 14 for the enemy gang and 7 for the final outcome depending on who wins.(more will be added) Since it's random generated each round you will never know what will happen. Maybe you manage to kill 7 in a row? Or maybe you get obliterated. It's very punishing and you loose a lot if you loose, but also win some if you win. Winning it is hard, as it should be. The gang heat system is meant to punish the player, not reward him, but should still give a chance and be fair. - Removed pages that were not useful - Removed "dealer can sell" buttons since meaningless, now dealers sell everything always - Dealers now sell slower but can be upgraded to sell faster at max upgrade. - Chemist now produce faster but same deal. - Chemist now produce 10g instead of 100g per chemist. But can be upgraded as many times as you wish. Before that it was really unbalanced, making it so a player gets kg of meth after just 1 lab. That was too much. - Jobs now give 3times more money, but still at random + job cooldown is 30 sek instead of 60. - Added an animated background. You can click it to destroy the symbols, but it won't do much, it's just a little detail. - Removed a lot of text that was useless. - Balanced the drug price upgrades. Before it was always +$1 per upgrade. This was just a temporary solution. Now every drug gives a boost in money according to its price and upgrade price. Example: Weed still is +$1 per g, but cost only $100 to upgrade. Cocaine is $10 per g but cost $1000. This should make all drugs as equally viable to buy and sell. Before that you focused only on 1 drug and had 0 reason to upgrade the rest. - Rewritten and optimized a lot of the code. - Fixed an issue with corrupt savegames breaking the game and setting everything to 0. Probably a lot of other minor things too that I can't think of right now. Just download the update and hop in and see for yourself. :) Thank you all for the support! I hope you enjoy! Leave your feedback in the steam community page or in discord if you wish. I wish everyone happy and comfy holidays! - Lord

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/2ea4b006f974f6e097b2bec5243030c5110562e9.png Alright, so before I start talking about the new art/pictures, please keep the following in mind: I have to draw art with my mouse and keyboard.... I have a wacom drawing tablet, but its the old one where you draw and look at the screen, not the new expensive fancy one where you actually see what you draw. I tried... but can't get used to it. My lines look like trash. It's actually far more efficient, and clean to draw with the pen tool in photoshop. It's a great tool! The 3 drawings of the dead guy, prisoner and chemist were done this way... but first... it's slow... like really slow and second, it still looks like sh*t. I had to make a decision today. Either continue to draw mediocre art with the pen tool and waste maybe 1 week per art piece, or use real photos that I have edited to look in the art style that I am going for. So I decided to go with option B and use my time to actually make new gameplay elements for the game, making the game more fleshed out and fun. I can revisit the art at a later stage if necessary. But honestly, I think it look pretty rad right now. Let me know what you think. Love it or hate it? It's far faster to do it this way and besides, it's a free game and I am 1 guy doing everything. I want awesome hand drawn art, but I am also realistic and make the best of what I can and have. So... the pictures are actually real pictures. I informed myself about fair use and copyright stuff and all that cr*p and I think I am in the clear since I am not selling the art itself and since I modified it extremely to represent almost something completely unique and different. Time will tell... if I get a copyright strike or not lol. I like the new art because I wanted minimalistic art that is at the same time realistic looking. I want the game to look grim and dark not cartoony. New stuff: - Main room art: This is supposed to represent the player. If you have the dlc then he has a gold chain. Dealers Page Art Thugs Lawyers - It's edited saul goodman. I mean come on, as a huge fan I had to go with saul! Drugs Buildings Jobs Page The other 3 are the old art for getting arrested, chemists and rival gang attack. I will also update the store page with the new stuff. Next I will focus on balance and gameplay elements. The different art on changing the rooms was something I wanted since day 1, so, it's here now. Hope you like it! Thanks for reading and playing! - Lord

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39213293/71430a1e6839835733db88bd91e51c3d51faaa14.png Implementing cloud saving was pretty high up on my to-do list, but also completely reworking the saving and loading system, mostly loading. Went from ~500 lines of code to ~1700 The old way of loading the game was very faulty, leading to crashes if the savegame failed to load or was edited or corrupted. Now instead of crashing it will just set the value to 0. Important for future updates. If you wish to disable cloud saving, then ask away in the discussion page, I would be happy to help. Not sure why anyone would want to, but one never knows. This update brings nothing noticeable new to the game, but it does a lot behind the scenes. Changed: - Cloud saving implemented - Saving and Loading rework The next update I will try to implement some more art into the game and focus on new things. Currently there has been an update every day since launch. I will try to keep this up, but some days it might take longer. Code is not really an issue for me, but art takes a bit longer. Thanks for reading and playing! - Lord