![]() You can only have so many “pockets” I guess, but after that why not buy a car, or a van? Or recruit employees? Meanwhile, there should be more ways to reinvest your money in the business. The interest rate should be reduced or eliminated, and your account should occasionally be subject to “freezing” and confiscation. The bank is completely safe and pays extremely high interest rates, so very often the optimal strategy is to leave most of your money there, especially when you reach the point where you can only carry a small % of your net worth in merchandise anyway. I get that you can carry a lot more dollar value in cocaine than in Quaaludes, but this is a case where realism should be sacrificed for better gameplay.ģ. As your bankroll grows, it quickly makes sense to deal only in heroin and cocaine, which means that the prices and “events” for all the other drugs are irrelevant. Too much spread in prices for different drugs. It’s realistic that muggings and police stings happen on a fairly random basis, but should you really have to wait for the right roll of the dice to buy a new coat with more pockets? Why not have a “shop” that sells equipment in a fixed location, just like the bank and the loan shark?Ģ. Some randomness is always good, but too much gets frustrating. OK, had a chance to try it out? Here are some of the problems I see, and how they could be fixed:ġ. For iOS, where the censors won’t allow the original merchandise, there’s this one (free) with prescription drugs, and this one ($1) with zombies. Amazingly there doesn’t seem to be a decent web-based version anymore, but if you have an Android phone, this and this are both free and pretty good. If you’ve never played the game, the rest of this post won’t make much sense to you, so you should take a break and go try it out. But none of the ones that I’ve seen have addressed the core gameplay. Others have tried to change the subject to something more innocuous than drugs. Zynga’s short-lived version tried to turn it into a typically scammy “social” Zynga game, a kind of R-rated Farmville. Instead, every major redesign has tried to change it into something that it’s not. It wouldn’t have been around this long if it wasn’t fun and addictive - in fact, it incorporates a lot of the elements from my “ What Makes Games Addictive?” post - but there are some basic improvements to the gameplay that (as far as I know) have never been made. The market prices vary widely from day to day and from one neighborhood to the next, so you can make large trading profits if you watch them closely, but you have to keep an eye out for the police, muggers and other business risks. You play an independent drug dealer in a big city (usually New York) who travels around buying and selling various illegal drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.” - Mitch Hedbergĭope Wars (or Drug Wars) is a text-based computer game that’s been around for about thirty years, rewritten countless times for every platform from DOS to graphing calculators to iPhones.
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