Liberal Crime Squad: Difference between revisions

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=== Tropes in this game ===

* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: Death Squad Officers summarily execute any criminals they catch.

* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Dancers and yoga instructors. No combat skills... [[Unskilled but Strong|But 10 base agility and health]].

** A number of forum members have been able to successfully get accused of every possible crime in the game, including counts of murder and treason in the thousands.

* [[A-Team Firing]]: Inexperienced characters are notoriously inaccurate in combat, almost to the point of uselessness against skilled and/or armored opponents. However, this no longer applies once a character gets weapon training or [[Improbable Aiming Skills|general experience]].

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]/[[Badass Bookworm]]: Leadership ability is tied to both the Juice level of a character and their Leadership and/or Seduction skill. The former grants [[Took a Level In Badass|substantial combat bonuses]] even if it was gained exclusively by e.g., computer hacking.

* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Averted; the number of people a squad member can recruit is determined by their rank and certain skills, and the number of people the Squad can recruit total is technically infinite - recruiting people to recruit more people to recruit more people like some sort of guerrilla warfare pyramid scheme.

* [[Big Red Button]]: If one manages to sneak into a nuclear power plant, you may find a big red button that you can press to cause a nuclear meltdown. The catch? [[Guide Dang It|You need a certain skill to press the button]].

* [[Booby Trap]]: You can put these in some safehouses.

* [[Boring but Practical]]: The Liberal Guardian. Risk free (unless publishing at C+ free speech or secret CIA documents), one time cost of 3000 to buy a printing press, consistent positive effect on public opinion concerning laws. Not really fun, but quite effective.

** Community service. Shifts public opinion slightly, gives [[Experience Points|juice]] if one is in the negative, heat at the safehouse is shaken off faster.

** With one exception: if gender equality becomes conservative enough, women aren't allowed into the Gentlemen's Club.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The Conservative Crime Squad, a right-wing militia who act like the LCS, [[Not So Different|only Conservative]].

* [[Godwin's Law]]: The CCS want to bring about a fascist state.

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: When fighting without weapons.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: If free speech laws go arch conservatives, all swear words in the game are replaced by gosh dang it to heck vocabulary written between brackets.

* [[Hanging Judge]]: Conservative judges are called "Hangin' Judges" in game.

* [[Interface Screw]]: A minor one. If free speech laws go arch-conservative, all swear words, pick-up lines and replies to successful ones are replaced by [words more appropriate for the public, written between brackets].

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With sufficiently Liberal animal rights laws, it becomes socially acceptable to date and seduce anything and everything. [[But You Screw One Goat!|Otherwise, you'll be in for a world of hurt.]]

* [[Joke Item]]: Mithril Armor. The original developer, Tarn Adams, insisted that it was just as effective as in real life whenever asked about it. Which is to say that it's just spraypainted cardboard. It is the ''least'' useful clothing type in the game, having no disguise value and an armor rating of 0. To contrast, basic, everyday clothing has an armor rating of one.

* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]: the Death Squads.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: A standard game is difficult, but quite possible once you get the hang of it. But should you choose to turn on [[Harder Than Hard|We Didn't Start The Fire and/or Nightmare Mode...]]

* [[No Casualties Run]]: ''Technically'' possible. [[Harder Than Hard|Good luck...]]

* [[The Power of Rock]]: The guitar is possibly one of the best weapons in the game. Playing inspiring music in combat turns conservatives liberal, stopping them from attacking you and letting you recruit them to your cause. You can also use it to play street music to fund the Revolution.

* [[Private Military Contractors]]: If you publish corporate documents, you will get raided by PMC contracted by influent COE.

* [[Roguelike]]: The game uses non-traditional ASCII graphics. Some objects are represented with words instead of ASCII characters.

* [[Running Gag]]: Lots of things in the game are referred to liberal or conservative. You can buy Liberal guns, clips or tools at the pawn shop, if you are unhurt, your health is Liberal (and unhurt conservatives have a Conservative health meter), you can equip a Liberal weapon (or drop a Conservative weapon), you can spray Liberal graffiti... And if your squad suffers a [[Total Party Kill]], you can reflect on your Conservative ineptitude.

* [[Save Scumming]]: Any accidental death can be prevented and any prison sentence reduced by reloading a game auto saved from the day before.

* [[Scary Impractical Armor]]: Given their interrogation bonus and their nonexistent armor rating, the Death Squad uniforms are technically these.

* [[State Sec]]: Death Squads.

* [[Stat Grinding]]: Skills can only increase when used. You can only get halfway through next level during on site actions.