Contacts

[Tenebrous Pirate]

And here is my thread to discuss Contacts!

So far, I have found several V-Chip contacts. Here is my list of the ones I have, and what they do. Several of them don't do anything yet.

Benni The Taxi: Taxi
Vinny the Rat: Work Supplier
Black Day: Nothing
Gravedigger: Buys Los Val Payfiles
Stalker: Nothing
Digital Wall: Buys AzTek Payfiles
Surgeon Meyer: Nothing
Nelson Garden: Nothing
Gambler Prince: Buys K. Horizon Payfiles
Wraith: Buys Yakashumi Payfiles
Wizard Coleman: Nothing
McFly: Taxi

[Cory Trese]

Excellent start, we only have 53 in the game right now. hopefully it will be like 200 when we're all done

[taatuu25]

I have found two: face dancer and cure all.
They seem to do nothing.
About cure all,it sounds like some guy,who heals your whole party..
Does every contact do anything for now,or are some of them "on hold"?

[HateSolstice]

On one of my first character files, I had a v-chip that just went into the contacts page as "V-Chip".

Is there a trick to getting the chips, or are they just random loot after fights?

[Tenebrous Pirate]

Jun 22, 2011 16:21:06 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Excellent start, we only have 53 in the game right now. hopefully it will be like 200 when we're all done

53 so far? Bugger, I thought I had gotten most of them already! lol
I have been getting nothing but duplicates of the v-chips I already have, so I figured I had gotten near all of em. I'm glad to know there are more out there, I love to collect things!

[HateSolstice]

Don't worry, the Trese Brother's next game is a cash-in on the now defunct Pokémon craze! This time, even more collectin'!

[fallen]

@tenebrous - the next update raises the bar to 60.

taatuu25 - many of the contacts do not do anything yet. there are a crowd that are data hounds and will pay good yen for paydata from their enemies, and some giving out contracts. There are taxi drivers who will help you too. The last few updates have been hammering in new, functional contacts as fast as we can (1-2 an update) and working on fixing the existing 53.

Future contact capabilities include buying and selling gear, taking you to special or unique places, selling you passes to the backrooms of gun stores (as a "military fixer" contact) and other cool things that you can't come by elsewhere.

Also, the ways to get a contacts V-Chip are rapidly being expanded. Right now, your best bet is to take encounters head on (Confront) and deal with the consequences if it turns violent. Also, look around The Fenns, Commonwealth and in the next update, Camden Street.

[Tenebrous Pirate]

Yeah, I have found a few more of them today, mostly in the MARS or Yakashumi areas. I have never found one as loot that I am aware of. I always get them when I confront gangers harassing innocents. I look forward to the updates!

Here is my updated list from my combined characters:

Taxis
Benni The Taxi: Taxi (everyone starts with Benni)
McFly: Taxi/Quest (directs you to a quest that does not work yet, and doesnt function as a taxi yet)

Employers
Vinny the Rat (found in The Laughing Dog, gives jobs near The Fenns)

Data Fixers(buy payfiles of specified faction)
Gravedigger: Los Val
Digital Wall: AzTek
Gambler Prince: K. Horizon
Wraith: Yakashumi
Texas Powers: AzTek
Ion Archie: Mars
Nameless: BraveStar
Emperor of Pain: Blue Ox
Lucky King: BraveStar

Non-Functional Misc.
Black Day
Stalker
Nelson Garden
Wizard Coleman
Gibson
Gadget
Hunter
Whip Powell
The Alchemist
Johnny Vaughn

Doctors(Don't work yet)
Surgeon Meyer
Doc Liz
Doc Crawford

[HateSolstice]

Completely off-topic here, but what difficulty have you been playing? I've only been on normal, but thought about stepping it up.

[taatuu25]

I prefer normal difficulty.
On topic:i would like to see you gettin some contacts axter getting decent rep. With a faction.

[fallen]

This is definitely something in the works. Try wandering around Camden street.

[moody]

Here's mine so far:

Data Fixers:
Lucky King - BraveStar
Riddle Five - AzTek
Arizon Hicks - Yakashumi

Taxis:
The King

I've got a few ideas in regards to your V-Chip contacts. Not to sure how you all feel about them, but I'll fire away

When you contact your newly acquired V-Chip contact they should show under the telephone number what they do. For example:

Riddle Five
Contact
#: 42-00-235
Data Fixer - AzTech

Or change the Contact part to Data Fixer as we all ready know that they are a contact.

The reason for the above is just that having to remember who does what can be a pain without either an amazing memory, or a note pad.

Another potential is to group your contacts. So say have all your Taxi drivers at the top, rather than currently. Where they are in the order in which you receive them.

The possibility of having a note book. I keep a note pad at hand for a number of things. But an in game one would be nice, for when I'm on public transport to work

I've got a few more suggestions, but I'll post those to the relevant forum sections / posts.

[fallen]

moody - definitely group and providing more information for the contacts would help. especially as the list grows, having them in "order of found" will get annoying. Providing text about what they do will definitely help, and I will make sure it gets in a release or two down the road.

I have been kicking around the idea of grouped contacts + speed dial, in which you can choose your What do you think about having a "speed dial" set, so that you could choose your 9 most favorite contacts and put them on an easy-to-reach speed dialer.

[moody]

Speed dialling could work really well. Would be cool to have backup on a speed dial as well. Someone who might take a percentage of your cut for a contract.

[HateSolstice]

There must be a cell phone implant I haven't seen yet. =P