- Update 4.11 - 16 May 2024
Update 4.11 - Improved gambling odds for all crates. Getting items should be around 2x times easier now for all crates. It's still random and it might take some tries, but if you don't get them now, it's just really bad luck. The legendary chest should be now at the level of the previous epic chest. Enjoy and have fun! :)
- Update 4.10 - 29 January 2024
Drugs and Crime Idle Update 4.10 -Fixed a big issue with gambling not being random enough. Long version: The thing is, software can never be true random, it will always pick the same numbers, even if you set it to be random. I knew that, so the game had two sets of randomizers when gambling, but that was not enough. The software picks a random "seed", which then determines the items you get based on numbers, those numbers are also picked randomly-ish. Problem was, the seed was randomly determined when you start the game, not while gambling. Now it picks a random seed every 15 seconds. I know, why was this not in the game before? I didn't think of it before, alright. I thought two sets of randomizers would be enough. This is why you might have gained rare items in quick succession before, or, none at all. Which sucks both ways. Well, now that's fixed. I tested it for a bit and got both r…
- Update 4.09 - 22 January 2024
Drugs and Crime Idle Update 4.09 Brings the option to turn on auto chest opening. If you turn it on, it will open chests by itself until you turn it off or run out of credits. A much requested QOL feature. If you encounter any bugs, please let me know in the comments. Thank you for your patience and have fun playing!
- Operation Food to Gold - Early Access Launch - 12 December 2023
Operation Food to Gold, my second idle game after Drugs and Crime Idle is now live, free and available in Early Access. This time I went for a more family friendly vibe with cooking food for an alien and feeding it, instead of being a criminal overlord. You should be experienced in cooking. This time only, you will be cooking hamburgers and chicken tenders instead of crystal meth. The game will be an Early Access version, but all the core mechanics of, what I hope is a fun idle game, are all in there. Please comment in the Steam-Community with any feedback. What do you like? What do you hate? I read everything and reply to everyone. All Drugs and Crime owners and DLC owners can claim in-game goodies. I wanted to show a "thank you" gesture with the in-game goodies. A thank you to all of you. Here is to a new beginning. I will of course also try to update Drugs and Crime Idle as much as p…
- Update 4.08 - Prestige Generator & Manual Saving - 8 October 2023
- Added back auto-saving - Added 3 new buttons to the main page * Manual Save - Creates a new, separate savegame meant as a failsave/backup. Make sure to click this red button every time you close the game and every now and again. * Manual Load - Loads the manual save. * Load Autosave - Loads your regular save game that is created from the autosave. - Added the Prestige generator. * After you prestige at least 1 time, a new bar will start filling, based on the times you prestiged. So, at prestige 1, it will generate 1 out of 1million. After it fills, you get 1 prestige point. At prestige 2 it will 2 out of 1 million, so twice as fast. So, now it's worth it to prestige more than once. You also have a steady supply of prestige points which you can spend on upgrades more consistently than before. Your savegame should not be affected by any of the changes. Sorry to everyone, who has experie…
- To an excellent 2023! - 31 December 2022
Happy new year, you bunch of criminals and drug dealers! May 2023 be your year, full of success and all you wish for. What other dev does that? Probably none, that's why I do it. Thank you all for your support! Up until now Drugs and Crime Idle has been played by 38,133 Players! I am happy, to give people some entertainment from the every day struggle we all face. Time you enjoyed is not time wasted. Happy new year! ~Konstantin Spasoff
- Small update 4.07 - 29 December 2022
- Removed auto-saving from the game. Due to issues with the savefile getting corrupted and players losing their progress, I have removed autosaving from the game. Now, if you experience a pc or game crash, then you should lose only some progress, not all of it or the entire save game. The game does continue to save, of course, when it closes. A pc or game crash (or other reason) should not affect the game anymore, hopefully. I apologize to everyone that has lost their save! Happy holidays! ːcsgostarː
- Version 4.06 - New gang members - 20 November 2022
Version 4.06 New Gang screen Thugs reworked to only give crimenet balance instead of crimecoin. Lawyers reworked to only give account balance instead of crimecoin & crimecoin lite. Added new hacker, who has a charge like the lawyer and gives both crimecoins. Payout is random from 10 to 160. Can be upgraded with money and prestige, but +5 (10 prestige) per level instead of a multiplier like the lawyer and thugs. Added the casino boss. Works like a rakeback reward in the casino. After 1000 ap spend, you can claim a random reward. 50-800 with very good chances of getting the best one, compared to the hacker. Can be upgraded for +50 (or +100 with prestige) per level. Other Moved the thugs and lawyer, as well as their upgrades to the gang screen. Visual update on the thugs and lawyer upgrades, to distinguish them from the gang members. Renamed ??? guy in the item room to H4K3R, since he is t…
- Version 4.05 - Press the X - 14 November 2022
Version 4.05 Changed the lawyer max progress to 200. A lawyer action still takes 100 points, but now you can store up to 200 points, so they don't go to waste. Added the ability to stand up and smoke a fat one. Taking a break from all the money making and managing. Has an audio as well, so make sure your game is not muted. Just for fun, does nothing else. Also comes with 1 new achievement.
- Version 4.04 - Faster crate opening - 12 November 2022
Version 4.04 Very small update. Crate opening is now twice as fast. It feels much better to open crates now. Something that has been requested a lot, for a long time. Have fun!
- Update 4.03 - Prestige and Achievements - 12 November 2022
Update 4.03 Prestige System and Steam Achievements In update 4.03 you can reset your game progress and start all over again with the Prestige system. You gain 25 Prestige for doing so, which you can spend on new upgrades. The upgrades are the same as those on the upgrade page, except doubled (max ap and max crimecoin 4times). Those upgrades do not reset when you reset your game. I chose against other prestige upgrade options, like money and drugs, since those would make the game too easy. Those, who have the DLCs, can claim them again after a reset. There are 6 Achievements related to the prestige levels, but you can keep going as much as you want. A counter will keep track on how many times you have reset your game. I tried other ideas for the game reset and wanted to combine some other genres with it, but after testing and some thought, decided against it, since those were not really…
- Update 4.02 - 29 October 2022
Update 4.02 Quality of Life change to how opening crates works. Before, you had to buy the crate at the crate screen, then open it, then click on crates again and so on. Now, you can go to the crate screen and the cost deducts after you press the button to spin. This allows you to open crate after crate, without changing the screen. It feels overall faster and more fun to open them now. Thank you RemboW for the nice suggestion! Crate screen overhaul The crate screen now shows the crates with the items inside. A general visual overhaul. The coin generator now also has an image. Lawyers Lawyers were way too generous. This was not intended. They were intended to be a bonus reward to the thugs. Lawyers before were multiplying their rewards, times the donut, times the thugs. Now they multiply only with themselves and the donut. Boosted the overall lawyer rewards. Will be better for new playe…
- Game remake! Version 4 is now live! - 25 October 2022
Drugs and Crime Idle Recreated. Because drugs are recreational, get it? Anyway, after one a half years, I have re-made the game from scratch, for the 4th time. All previous versions, except the first, are available under the games betas tab. You can continue to play your savefile on version 3, the last one. Your savefile is unaffected and separate from this one. I will post a detailed guide on how to switch versions. Please check the guides tab in the community. In short: Rightclick drugsandcrimeidle in steam library -> properties -> betas What's new? Everything, yet it should still feel the same. Money gained is now per second, instead of every ~60. Offline progression for 24 hours at half efficiency. Your criminals are only half as efficient without their boss. Dirty money is now Crimenet_balance and clean money is now bank account balance. The feel for the game here is, that you are…
- Community Update + Steam Cloud integration - 23 June 2021
Hello fellow dealers, just a quick community update on the future of the game. Cloud: First off, I added steam cloud saving again. Now steam should backup your saves. Last time there were problems with people losing their saves because of steam cloud. I hope that it's fixed and working properly now. You can disable steam cloud in the properties menu, if you wish to do so. Future Updates: I have said it on discord and on steam here and there a few times, but never trough an update. Currently I am remaking the game from scratch (2nd-3rd time?). I have very good progress already and hope to release the new version soon. It will be an entirely different game on terms of progression, art, functions. I added many requested quality of life features to it as well. For example, holding the mouse down on an upgrade to auto-buy upgrades as much as you can instead of clicking. That should be easier…
- Update 1.8 - New Save/Load System - 27 May 2021
New: Save System I redid the entire save and load system from scratch. The old one was problematic to say the least. I noticed that the drug numbers weren't saving properly. Sometime you had 0.007, closed the game and you had 0.0010 or sometimes 0 on load. This is of course not acceptable. The old system used base64 encoding. While converting numbers to letters and then back to numbers issues arised. My guess is that many had lost their savegames because of that too. Steamcloud was also not working with that and I had to remove it. All for what? To make it harder on people to cheat. It's a single player offline game. Who gives a cr...? It's not like it was hard to anyway. Now don't worry. I tested everything and the new system works fine with the old savefile system. You start the game -> it reads the old 333.sav -> deletes it and replaces it with the new 334.sav. You will not lose your…
- Update 1.7 - small fix - 23 May 2021
Fixed a small issue with the employees at stacey's, that made the game crash. Sorry for that! If you find any other bugs please let me know.
- Update 1.7 - Money Laundering DLC and game improvements - 22 May 2021
Hello dealers, it's been a long time. The last update was in february. Due to health issues I was not able to work much, so that's why I have delayed the update so much. But it's all good. Thank you all for your patience. First off, the new money laundering dlc is not complete. There is currently 1 business to purchase out of 6. This one will be free for everyone, so everyone can experience the money laundering feature, that wie tie heavily into future updates and progression. The dlc itself will give you the option to purchase the other 5 businesses wich I am currently working on and planning to release soon. I wanted to get this update out for a few reasons. First, it's been a long time since the last update. Second, the update has many more improvements, not just the dlc stuff. Third, before working on other businesses I want to see if the current one needs adjustments, improvements,…
- Update 1.6 - Balance,fixes,faster gambling,sound - 27 February 2021
Hello again dealers and lootbox openers, I've been pushing out daily updates, hope it's not getting annoying. I would rather make one bigger update, but the issues that needed fixing were severe. - Fixed the backup saving. Again. Now it should be working. The regular saving might still have some issues, but the backup saving should work now. If your save is corrupted. Delete it and rename the backupsave.sav to 333.sav and everything should be back to normal. I've tested it multiple times and it works. I am looking into alternatives to saving to resolve this issue once and for all. The best option would be online saving, but this comes with it's own issues. - Balanced the enemy gang in the gang fight High reward zones that were hard remain the same. Low reward zones now have a chance to spawn up to 5 enemies at random. Everything was too easy once you got the max thug upgrades, now it is…
- Update 1.5 - More fixes - 24 February 2021
Update 1.5 is another small update that focuses on fixes. I was made aware... that you were able to buy meth for the price of weed, but sell it for the price of meth. So you were able to buy 1kg of meth for $5000 and sell it $25 a gram. This is obviously not intended. The prices have been updated now and balanced. Time to focus on the other drugs, not just meth ;) - fixed meth buy prices - fixed crack buy prices - re-adjusted some prices in general All in all it's still cheaper to buy in bulk. - fixed an issue of tooltips not displaying at the exchange button - added the option to exchange from epic to legendary - changed cost from common to rare from 5 to 10 Now it's always 10 crates for 1 level higher. - added a cost to exchanging $1000 for common -> rare $10 000 for rare -> epic $100 000 for epic -> legendary - re-adjusted and fixed more typos and text - changed the item "hermanos" e…
- Update 1.4 - Fixes - 23 February 2021
There is nothing worse than playing for hours and then losing your save. This has sadly happend to many, so it was my top priority to fix it. I have changed the saving system. This will not affect your savefile, don't worry. Your normal savefile "333.sav" is now saving in a different way that should eliminate all issues with losing your save. In addition to that, the game is saving in the old way a second time a "backupsave.sav" file. This means, that even if you lose your regular save file for some reason, you will have a backup save. You can then rename the backup save to "333.sav" and will regain all your progress again. This is a failsafe, the regular saving should work without problems. The issue should be now 100% solved, but time will tell. Please let me know if you still happen to lose your progress. Chances should be impossible to lose the regular file and the backup. - Also fi…
