Essential Shops

A BepInEx (mod loader) plugin for Shadows of Doubt. Every new city gets a Sync Clinic, a pawn shop and all three black market shops (the trader, the underground Sync Clinic and the weapons dealer), even the smallest 2x2 city. Bigger cities get more of them, and every city keeps its City Hall, hotel and diner.

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What it does

Small cities often generate without a Sync Clinic or a pawn shop, which leaves no way to install sync disks or sell loot, and sometimes without the black market shops at all.

• Shops in every city: while a new city is generated, Sync Clinics and pawn shops are placed first. Every city gets at least one of each, plus one more per 8 city tiles (the largest vanilla city, 5x4, gets 3 of each). One of each black market shop is always placed: the trader, the underground Sync Clinic and the weapons dealer.
• No clutter: at most one of each black market shop per city (configurable), so the forced ones never pile up.
• Spread out: the shops are spread over the city instead of lining up in one street.
• Grows with the city: one more Sync Clinic and pawn shop per 8 city tiles, so a big city has several of each.
• The right buildings in every city: City Hall, a hotel, a diner and the commercial tower with its offices and stores are placed first, in every city size. A 2x2 city has only four building plots, and the game used to fill them with buildings that have no shop spaces at all (a Chemical Plant, an industrial block, a shanty town) and could even leave out City Hall, so murder cases could never be handed in. Every plot still gets a building, so generation never gets stuck.
• Only new cities: cities loaded from a save are never changed.

Config

After one launch, edit BepInEx/config/sm3gm.sod.essentialshops.cfg with the game closed.

Install

Use Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman and install as normal. BepInEx is installed automatically.

To install by hand:

1. Install BepInExPack IL2CPP version 6.0.755.
2. Put SoDEssentialShops.dll in BepInEx/plugins/EssentialShops/ inside your existing BepInEx folder.

Then generate a new city.

Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Post it on the official Shadows of Doubt Discord: https://discord.gg/shadows

Also by sm3gm

All my mods are on Thunderstore.

Support

This mod is free and always will be.

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Thanks for playing.

Changelog

1.1.6

• Every new city gets City Hall, a hotel and a diner, also 2x2 cities. A 2x2 city now has exactly City Hall, a hotel, a diner and the commercial tower with the shops. Before, a large city could lose its hotel, and a 2x2 city could lose City Hall, so murder cases could not be handed in.
• These buildings are placed first and may go on any plot while the city is made, so cheap filler buildings no longer take their place.
• City size from the menu is counted correctly (it included the edge ring).
• New setting Buildings.AlwaysHotel (default true).

1.1.1

• Page text only, no code changes: links to my other mods, and "All my mods" now shows the modpacks too.

1.1.0

• All three black market shops are now placed in every new city: the trader, the underground Sync Clinic and the weapons dealer.
• New setting MaxBlackMarketsOfEachType (default 1): at most one of each black market shop per city, while the listed ones are still always placed.
• A config still on the old ShopTypes default is updated by itself; a list you changed yourself stays as it is.