Questions about the crime system

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I just started playing as a criminal and I’ve run into several minor issues - thought I’d ask here before making a bug report:

  • Some of the low-level crime interactions don’t seem to be available (at least in Dowon where I’m currently playing). For example, at level 1 you’re supposed to be able to ‘swipe snacks’ and ‘pilfer from food stalls’, but I can’t find a way to do this. Is there a way to to perform these actions sucessfully and if so, how?
  • Related to the above, I can’t find any parking meters in Dowon - are there any there at all? (You can still do the ‘swipe coins’ interaction with vending machines, but that isn’t mentioned in the Psycat guide, and it uses / increases the Handicraft skill rather than Crime).
  • Actions that actually increase the crime skill seem to be rare at lower levels. So far all I’ve found is ‘extort’, stealing bags on the ground, and ‘take out anger’ on ATMs etc. I know you can scam people using a computer but I don’t really want to go that route. Has anyone found any others or made a list?
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OK, I worked one of them out: you can do ‘snack theft’ from grocery store shelves. (I saw it in a video and haven’t tried it myself yet.)

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Answering a couple more of my own questions: The food stalls have a money jar on them. You can approach the store while the owner is away (or while they’re there, if you’re feeling bold) and use the ‘steal’ interaction on the jar. Both this and the ‘steal snacks’ interactions are available at level 0 and increase the crime skill; hitting vending machines etc. no longer seems to count as a crime in the latest patch.

I still can’t find any parking meters in Dowon, but you can use the ‘swipe coins’ interaction on vending machines (seems to fail often unless you have a high Handiwork skill). However, I realised that the interaction itself raises both the Crime and Handiwork skills at once, which is good.

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