Changing the fingerprints to not be auto linked to a person

[sour rain]

Not even by the time you're half way to retirement, you have so many fingerprints on file that it just becomes a cakewalk to find murderers. My suggestion is one of two things:

Either fingerprints are per case and gets wiped after.
Or you keep the fingerprint database, but it no longer gives them names and are just the letter that they would be without finding the person they belonged to(So AB, AC, AD etc)

[static mulch]

I think this could be a good option in the settings. Playing long term definitely should be rewarding, but at the same time fingerprints can be very revealing. I could see people wanting both, Thus, maybe it's better to be a setting.

[plain lance]

I think wiping fingerprints would lead to the player just being encouraged to run down to businesses to raid employee records every case. I think the fingerprint issue is a complicated one. There's a few different factors that make it too powerful. They're too easy to get and too easy to use. I think employee records should be nerfed and have the fingerprint data removed and the govt database should be much harder to use.

Making fingerprints harder to use would involve a larger fingerprint overhaul like maybe adding a "forensics lab" you have to visit and plug in two fingerprints and the machine only tells you if the two match or not instead of your scanner doing everything

[harsh pewter]

The use of gloves can easily fix the fingerprint issue. But that is likely to have to include fibers as a piece of evidence.

[tired plinth]

this would be perfect

[harsh pewter]

https://discord.com/channels/561162895887695883/1103702864427221012

[ivory night]

There was the suggestions to make fingerprints more difficult by maing it so you can get partials ands stuff... like instead of the A, B, C code each peson has a sort of print code
So person A's prints are XYBBC while B's are XYBCC.
So when you find partial prints for XYB?? you have to rely on more clues to track the person down

[tired plinth]

make a new post for this so more people see it. this one is really good too

[sinful phoenix]

I like the idea of forensics equipment. Perhaps even make it so a limited number of prints are stored in the gun, making you transfer them off of it and onto said machine.

A neat thing to add would allow you to automatically compare a set of prints after a timer, as well as a mini game in which you can compare sets quicker

[vernal shard]

Having the government database buried deep in a randomly generated secure part of city hall would make it harder to use. Since right now it's the first door to the right or left on the ground floor.

[hexed bobcat]

there us also a video to explain the Problem https://youtu.be/zLUN7xl2DDI

[plain lance]

I like the idea of a forensics lab you have to leave the crime scene to visit but I don't like the idea of comparing images side by side. I think if you were going to overhaul fingerprints like that, the forensics lab should have a machine that accepts two fingerprints and simply tells you if they match or not so it's a matter of finding the key fingerprints

[onyx spire]

Forensics lab to confirm matching prints is a really nice idea. This could also easily give more purpose to the apartment.
Removing/having the option to disable Perfect Memory would also go a long way with this, and could allow the devs to introduce more features such as having to deliberately catalogue and store information, other forensics applications, etc

[ivory night]

https://discord.com/channels/561162895887695883/1104077618023772250

I got around to making this related suggestion.

[sinful phoenix]

I mentioned it in another thread somewhere, but I always liked the idea of comparing a set being a timer, while also having a "minigame" of sorts where you click and identify common lines and either shorten the timer or get close enough of a percent match to go with the sample as-is