Alleys: Why bother?

I've been playing a bit of the 1.1 beta as an aspiring crime lord, but I've noticed that alleys don't really bring in much money, and require constant revisiting to keep them from being taken back by local gangs.

Each week you can maybe get a couple of troops out of them, and some are 'thugs', who seem to have terrible equipment, and that's if you manually ask whoever's running the alley for troops.

Also, you need to find a very specific type of companion to even have anyone to take over the alley in the first place, which is very luck-dependent, as there's no easy way of levelling up a companion's Roguery skill to the amount required.

Adding to all this the fact that it slows down the loss of Crime, and I'm just not quite sure what advantages alleys are supposed to give, other than the novelty of having them

Submitted January 21, 2023 at 12:22AM by Happy-Yesterday8804 https://ift.tt/r1dwhbe