u/JankMagicMaster

Hello! If you haven’t read my first post, I’ll link it at the bottom of this one. In the process of thinking about the endgame, I had a couple of ideas for Major Content expansions that Tyler could create. This is idea #2 - “Straight Edge City”!

“In Straight Edge City, you don’t have any rival dealers. The mayor has made it his/her mission to keep the drug trade out of the city, and as a result, has created a special task force to keep dealers from setting up shop. Not even the Benzies could get a foothold here. But you’re not the Benzies - you’re the one who overthrew them.”

This expansion would focus on a second city being added that features a far more intense police presence. Any places where you could setup production in Straight Edge City will be raided at random. Vehicles are subject to police checkpoints at all hours along the town borders. But, all hope is not lost. There are rumors that the Police Chief could be swayed to your side, for the right price. But to establish a customer base, you also need to establish trust. Laundering money won’t be easy with the Task Force monitoring you. But one vice that isn’t monitored by the Task Force is liquor - and there happens to be a rundown bar just waiting for you to revitalize!

Open the bar and hire employees to manage it. Source a variety of beverages for your new clientele, and even brew your own. After all, what else could you POSSIBLY be doing with all those metal barrels you’re transporting? Certainly not smuggling in additional products for your best customers, that’s for sure!

Once you’ve bought the Police Chief’s allegiance, the city is open for your special kind of business. But, with newfound freedom comes newfound challenges - other dealers will try to push their way into town, too. Do you add them to your ranks like the Benzies tried to do to you, or do you use your power and influence - including a certain repurposed task force - to shut them down? Unlike the Benzies that are fully eliminated at a certain point in the game, you’ll regularly find new upstarts trying to make their names known in Straight Edge City. But it will be up to you who gets to do business on your turf.

This expansion could even work with the other idea from my first post - avoid police checkpoints by riding in on horseback, produce moonshine for your bar, and act as a supplier for the “upstarts” you choose to let into town.

First Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Schedule_I/s/ccssdtoD3n

I was thinking about what the “Endgame” looks like, and what the real gameplay loop becomes after automating the bulk of the production process and hiring the dealers. Namely, sourcing the ingredients via dead drops and deliveries for your automated setups, collecting earnings, performing sales, and laundering. This led to me thinking up two ideas for major content expansions Tyler could bring to the game. The first is the topic of this post - “The Farm”. The second idea will be linked at the bottom of this post when I write it up separately.

The idea is to have a new map area dedicated to a large area of ranch land. You’d be able to start out by buying a small farm/ranch outside of town, and gradually buy the farmland owned by other local ranchers to expand your business. Meanwhile, you’d have to contend with agricultural inspections, law enforcement agents investigating your land, and the other ranchers trying to sabotage you and your business to keep their own interests secure (think “Tulsa King” mixed with “Yellowstone”).
“Why would I want a ranch?” To produce some of the things your botanists and chemists use, of course! “Seize the means of production” and grow seeds for your botanists and for your (former!) suppliers. Produce the natural ingredients you’ve already gotten used to using - Mega Beans, Bananas, and Chilis. Add some stables to the ranch and break into all manner of equine opportunities! Hire new employees to run riding lessons and care for the horses while you’re away! Decide to saddle up and ride your own horse through town! Invest your extra money into horse racing and have jockeys win awards on your horses. And, of course, cut your drug empire costs by supplying your chemists with fresh Horse Semen from the ranch!
Basically, this concept would allow for us to have a new “money sink”, allow for more “turf war” encounters and additional law enforcement interactions, and allow for further development of a self-sustaining enterprise.

Second post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Schedule_I/s/DE8rPhUjcD