Difficulty

[soft sable]

After playing for awhile and watching streamers, the games gets really easy in some aspects

1- Fingerprints are a gamebreaker the way they work at the moment, it's so easy to find to who they belong and how easy to access them through employee records for example. So if you see a business card on a victim, you instantly know its a co-worker, you search any suspect print, go to their work, find the records and murderer found in 5 mins.

2- Gov Databases are also in my opinion a gamebreaker for how easy is to access them and have all the info on a person. I don't know what to do about this one, make the database harder to access, change password or somehow the access every hour.

Again this is my own opinion im sharing here, and because i like challenge games, and while some cases can be tricky and take a lot of time, mostly if you avoid Gov database, some cases are solved in 5 mins.

Thanks for the great game, I'm loving it anyway!

[latent garden]

This relates to my thread #1103676812007051275

There's a game I played called "Her Story" where it's all about using a simple search engine to browse video clips and solve a mystery. The "ending" of the videos and the answers to all of the mysteries are accessible from the beginning but since you would need to have to type out the correct keyword to find it you won't be able to find it that early. I think you could nerf the databases a lot by removing fingerprint data from them and increasing the number of characters you have to type before it suggests a name maybe?

It's really the fingerprints that are the main issue though I suppose. Nobody's using the databases for the descriptions, they just are looking to tie a name, a face, and a fingerprint together since all you need is just a fingerprint at the scene of the crime and bam

Without employee records and govt databases to tie a fingerprint to a person the only way to get a final confirmation would be to actually scan their fingers directly, that implies either a late night break in while they're asleep or a straight up arrest with handcuffs or getting them to give them to you freely

[vivid kernel]

I think the gov database should still remain powerful, but GREATLY increase the difficulty of actually accessing it.

Not every computer in City Hall should have access to it, not even the Enforcers. (they could have pre printed files stashed in their desks though) The records should be in one of those centralized reel to reel old style servers in like a secure basement behind a lot of security. You could probably pay to request records but you'd have to know exactly who's records you want. Or go though the dangerous task of actually breaking into records.