Hey Gangsters!
We hope you are as excited as we are about the updates! As you are busy getting the lay of the land with The Precinct update and Make It Count DLC, we thought we’d open a thread for any questions or comments that you may have as you are playing through the new features. Please post anything Precinct or Make It Count related in the comments below and share your thoughts with us.
To get the conversation started, here are a few nuggets of information to share that could be useful on your path to the top. Gather ’round crew, we’ll make this quick!
Supply Lines
As we’ve covered before, you set up a Supply Line as soon as you occupy two adjoining Precincts. Supply Lines are essential to your empire as they provide a path for supplies and alcohol to reach all parts of your empire, while also ensuring your money has a safe path back to you. But, say you buy out another Faction in a distant neighborhood and acquire their Precincts. How do you keep them afloat when they are not connected to your main Supply Line? Well, alcohol is a global resource so it is always able to move between Safehouses in different neighborhoods. Supply Lines are neighborhood-wide, so once you have a Safehouse in a neighborhood, your Precincts in that neighborhood can be supplied. As long as the Supply Line within each neighborhood remains unbroken, your Precincts don’t have to worry about running dry. Something to keep in mind as you explore the new features: Safehouses are key components to any neighborhood that you operate in.
Alcohol Consumption
As you upgrade your rackets, there will be a demand for more alcohol. Each upgrade increases the maximum number of customers you can house in your establishments, and each one of those extra customers will be thirsty! As your rackets grow, so does consumption of your product, so be sure to keep a close eye on your whole empire, not just the rackets you upgrade. In Chicago’s economy, each upgrade has a knock-on effect for other parts of your empire. Production needs to keep pace with the growth of your empire, so as you upgrade your rackets, monitor your breweries too. As more alcohol is consumed, you have to make sure you have the potential to produce more booze as it’s needed and, eventually, that means upgrading your breweries’ output, too, to match that demand and keep the engine running.
Sometimes, your alcohol may appear as 0 in the inventory. This usually just means that your customers can’t get through your product fast enough and your rackets have been stocked as fast as booze is being produced. For instance, if your brewery produces 12 barrels of rack a week and your rackets consume 12 barrels per week, then the number will appear as 0 because you have none in the store. This information is outlined in the alcohol tool-tip which helps you keep on top of the distribution in your Empire, so you know exactly where your alcohol is going.
One last thing…
You may have some questions about the number of Gangsters on the war screen. At a glance, it can appear at times that you are severely outnumbered by AI gangster availability.
Don’t be alarmed, this number accounts for the total number of AI squads expressed as singular gangsters. So, If the AI boss has 5 squads and if each of these had 3 gangsters in it then the AI boss will have 15 gangsters at their disposal. On your side, the number represents the total number of Black Book Gangsters you have hired along with your Boss.
Hopefully, this helps to clarify a few things while you’re building your new empire. You never know when this information could come in handy. Looking forward to reading your comments below!
Let’s be having ’em, crew!
We hope you are as excited as we are about the updates! As you are busy getting the lay of the land with The Precinct update and Make It Count DLC, we thought we’d open a thread for any questions or comments that you may have as you are playing through the new features. Please post anything Precinct or Make It Count related in the comments below and share your thoughts with us.
To get the conversation started, here are a few nuggets of information to share that could be useful on your path to the top. Gather ’round crew, we’ll make this quick!
Supply Lines
As we’ve covered before, you set up a Supply Line as soon as you occupy two adjoining Precincts. Supply Lines are essential to your empire as they provide a path for supplies and alcohol to reach all parts of your empire, while also ensuring your money has a safe path back to you. But, say you buy out another Faction in a distant neighborhood and acquire their Precincts. How do you keep them afloat when they are not connected to your main Supply Line? Well, alcohol is a global resource so it is always able to move between Safehouses in different neighborhoods. Supply Lines are neighborhood-wide, so once you have a Safehouse in a neighborhood, your Precincts in that neighborhood can be supplied. As long as the Supply Line within each neighborhood remains unbroken, your Precincts don’t have to worry about running dry. Something to keep in mind as you explore the new features: Safehouses are key components to any neighborhood that you operate in.
Alcohol Consumption
As you upgrade your rackets, there will be a demand for more alcohol. Each upgrade increases the maximum number of customers you can house in your establishments, and each one of those extra customers will be thirsty! As your rackets grow, so does consumption of your product, so be sure to keep a close eye on your whole empire, not just the rackets you upgrade. In Chicago’s economy, each upgrade has a knock-on effect for other parts of your empire. Production needs to keep pace with the growth of your empire, so as you upgrade your rackets, monitor your breweries too. As more alcohol is consumed, you have to make sure you have the potential to produce more booze as it’s needed and, eventually, that means upgrading your breweries’ output, too, to match that demand and keep the engine running.
Sometimes, your alcohol may appear as 0 in the inventory. This usually just means that your customers can’t get through your product fast enough and your rackets have been stocked as fast as booze is being produced. For instance, if your brewery produces 12 barrels of rack a week and your rackets consume 12 barrels per week, then the number will appear as 0 because you have none in the store. This information is outlined in the alcohol tool-tip which helps you keep on top of the distribution in your Empire, so you know exactly where your alcohol is going.
One last thing…
You may have some questions about the number of Gangsters on the war screen. At a glance, it can appear at times that you are severely outnumbered by AI gangster availability.
Don’t be alarmed, this number accounts for the total number of AI squads expressed as singular gangsters. So, If the AI boss has 5 squads and if each of these had 3 gangsters in it then the AI boss will have 15 gangsters at their disposal. On your side, the number represents the total number of Black Book Gangsters you have hired along with your Boss.
Hopefully, this helps to clarify a few things while you’re building your new empire. You never know when this information could come in handy. Looking forward to reading your comments below!
Let’s be having ’em, crew!
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