>The whole incident was a surprising disruption to a style of game that
>can be pretty routine after a while, and it reminded me of something I
>think I said in the CMS 2018 thread. Namely, I think it would be cool
>if the game had a more detailed, RPG-like "career mode" available,
>where you could choose whether to be an Honest Mechanic or screw
>people over, with a reputation system of some sort to give those
>decisions consequences. Such a system would have made an incident
>like that even more tense, but with the right RP mechanisms in place,
>it would've been possible to play it so that your shop comes out of it
>poorer, but with reputation enhanced, which would be kinda neat.

Give a little "Charisma" skill that lets you BS customers into believing that you didn't just hock the bulk of their drive train for scrap metal prices and you're just waiting on parts to come in from your supplier. Might be a couple weeks, we'll give you a call when we have them.