Finally got to the point of the mobster fight and it's somehow worse than the previous version...
50 Health + 80 Energy + 60 fighting and winning the fight leaves you with -100 Health.
Given I won and the Health value has rounded back up to -100, I have to assume Ed is dead?
First person to 0 energy or -100 health loses. Tie goes to the defender (which in the case is you). I may fudge the health of the winner to avoid this situation though.
Lily eventually showed up but she was missing for quite a bit longer than Felix despite staying at home to heal. Is it likely she got hurt badly enough to need more than four months home rest? (BTW, does the MC also heal from mobster fights more quickly by staying in the club and just passing time and sleeping between visits to the clinic?)
As well as the lack of response from the formerly missing person in the cafe there was this ...
... which is definitely some sort of bug.
But whether it's bugs or hidden emergent narratives it detracts from playability.
You get no feedback as to why or for how long an NPC isn't responding, leaving you with the option of either texting them repeatedly for what can be months or forgetting about them until they show up again some day. What's more, my guess is the disabled unemployed NPCs are using up slots that would normally be taken by potential employees, making it harder to fill vacancies, especially in the early game. As I've pointed out, sometimes more than half the unemployed NPCs can be failing to respond to text messages at any time of day despite having neutral opinions of the MC.
So yeah, there may be a reason for it to happen, but as that reason (and its likely duration) is opaque to the player and beyond his influence it's effectively 'luck' again having a major impact on gameplay.
I already addressed the issue with the no response that you pointed out a few days back. Sorry I didn't make that clear that I was doing that. If an NPC is tired, hurt or asleep they won't respond to texts. Note also that club employees typically sleep in the mornings. Non-club employees typically sleep at night. If you text during those times, they are less likely to respond. If they are at work and they are not your employees they are also way less likely to respond.
Should an NPC take 4 months to heal? No, but that's the bug I pointed out yesterday. The MC can't stay home from work, so no, the MC only recovers health by going to the clinic as well a the standard weekly update. But as I pointed out yesterday as well, I'm changing that so that it happens whey they sleep not when they stay home from work.
Has anyone had a problem where they couldn't call the drug dealer. I have tried to get a meeting, text, where are they, and meet up but each time keeps saying "no response". I have tried multiple days, skipped days, reloaded game, and exit game but nothing seems to change the response. Thank you
See the discussion above with Magister Crudi. He's having the same issue with the PI. If your drug dealer got beat up and it's hurt he won't be responding to your requests. And because of a bug he may stay hurt longer than he should. Working on a fix for that bug.
Appointments with the Doctor are getting scheduled for the same time as job interviews.
Doctor should take precedent, especially as there's a prompt saying 'do you want to go there now?'.
They both should trigger back to back and you should be able to do both. Which one goes first is probably the first one that got scheduled, but not sure. It may be random. All these forced events should have a prompt asking if you want to do it and give you the opportunity to say no (parties, amateur contests, movie scene filming, training sessions, etc.). Non-scheduled events (like club disasters, mob visits, etc) do not have a prompt to avoid them, but those run after the scheduled ones.
