EssentialShops

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, and two shops of the same kind are never placed right next to each other.
• 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.

Setting — Default — Meaning

General / ShopTypes — SyncClinic,PawnShop,BlackmarketTrader:1,BlackmarketSyncClinic:1,WeaponsDealer:1 — Shop types every new city gets. A name alone grows with the city size, Name:count is a fixed number.

General / MinimumPerCity — 1 — Every new city gets at least this many of each shop type.

General / OneMorePerTiles — 8 — One more of each shop type per this many city tiles. 0 = only the minimum.

General / MaxBlackMarketsOfEachType — 1 — At most this many of each black market shop in a new city. The listed ones are always placed. 0 = no limit.

General / SpreadAddresses — 25 — Addresses filled between two forced shops, so they spread out. 0 = no spacing.

Spread / ShopSpacing — 12 — A shop is not placed this close to another shop of the same kind, in floor tiles (a city block is about 21). 0 = the game's own placing.

Spread / VendingSpacing — 0 — Groups of street vending machines are kept this far apart, in floor tiles. Thins machines out, so off by default.

Buildings / AlwaysHotel — true — Every new city gets City Hall, a hotel and a diner, whatever its size (also when SmallCityLimits says Hotel:0).

Buildings / SmallCityTiles — 4 — A city with this many tiles or fewer counts as small (a 2x2 city has 4).

Buildings / SmallCityLimits — ChemicalPlant:0,BrandyNetherland:0,MixedIndustrial:0,Hotel:0,AmericanDiner:1 — Building types small cities get at most this many of (0 = none).

Buildings / SmallCityMustHave — EdenTower,AmericanDiner — Small cities are checked for these right after the buildings are chosen, and the result is written to the log.

Buildings / SwapInEdenTower — false — Experimental: if a small city still has no commercial tower, replace a townhouse with one.

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

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