ChicagoShadows
Dispatches from the City Desk

The word on the street.

Every change to the city, dated and on the record. The world keeps moving — here's how.

Equip from Crews, sorted ledger, private crew names

The Don's Note

Thanks to ShoRyu for the insights and testing that helped shape this update.

New Features

Gear up without leaving Crews — you can now equip and unequip a crew member's gear right from his card. No trip to the Locker required.

Each gear slot tells you upfront whether something in your stash would be an upgrade. Two buttons do the heavy lifting: one equips the best available piece in every slot that has one, the other strips everything back to storage. It's the same gear, same rarity, same stats as the Locker — this just changes where you manage it.

Private crew names — give your crew a name only you see. It's a personal label, not a rename — other players, the Herald, and match reports still show the crew's real name. The naming screen says this outright before you save anything.

🎨Visuals & UI

Ledger sorts newest first — the operations ledger used to bury what you just did at the bottom of a growing list. Now it opens with your most recent operation on top, and every closed operation shows when it was filed — "just now," "3h ago," "yesterday."

The block tells you why it said no — failed shakedowns now name their reason.

🎲Gameplay

- New Respect & Fear section in the Boss Handbook. Short version: you don't pick which approach your crew uses — who you send decides it. The entry lays out what actually moves a shakedown one way or the other.

🎨Visuals & UI

- Send the boys to lean on a block and it doesn't work out, the business info card now tells you why. Your crew wasn't feared enough. Wasn't respected enough. Or your name simply doesn't carry that far from home.

🔧Fixes

- Extortion result text no longer talks like the job went your way when it didn't. A failed shakedown reads as a failed shakedown.
- Hover a rival's business or an AI-run shop and you get the name of the person running the place, with their portrait. It used to say "Unknown" over a broken image.