No Enforcer Footprints

This mod removes the enforcers' footprints from crime scenes.

Overview

I always felt that footprints at crime scenes were unreliable because the enforcers' footprints were all over the place. At a real crime scene, more care goes into preserving fingerprints and footprints before the rest of the officers are allowed to tamper with it. Why not in this game too?

No More Footprints

This mod removes all enforcer footprints in the game in real time. Sometimes the murderer is an enforcer as their day job. In that case, their footprints are not removed.

Configuration

BepInEx\config\CalebScott.NoEnforcerFootprints.cfg, created on first launch. Every value is read live, so toggling one takes effect without relaunching the game.

Section	Key	Default	Meaning
`General`	`Enabled`	`true`	Master switch
	`BlockNewFootprints`	`true`	Stop enforcers laying new prints
	`ExemptCurrentMurderer`	`true`	The active case's murderer keeps prints even if an enforcer
`Cleanup`	`PurgeExistingFootprints`	`true`	Delete enforcer prints already in the save
	`PurgeIntervalSeconds`	`5`	Tick cadence, clamped to 1 or more
	`TailScanSize`	`2000`	Newest entries checked every tick
	`FullPassSliceSize`	`4000`	Older entries checked per tick during a rolling walk
	`FullPassIntervalSeconds`	`600`	Gap between full walks once one comes back clean
	`MaxRemovalsPerSweep`	`250`	Per-tick removal cap, so a backlog drains over several ticks
`Debug`	`VerboseLogging`	`false`	Log every blocked print and per-room strip

If you only want new enforcer prints blocked and would rather leave the ones already in your save alone, set Cleanup/PurgeExistingFootprints = false.

Compatibility

Needs BepInEx IL2CPP (the Thunderstore BepInExPack_IL2CPP). No other dependencies.
Built and tested against Shadows of Doubt Steam build 22889384.
Safe to add to and remove from an existing save. Prints it has already deleted don't come back.
Footprints you have already scanned into evidence are left alone.
The save cleanup never walks the whole footprint list on one frame — it works in small bounded slices and stands down once your save is clean, so it should not cost you frames.
Enforcer status is cached per citizen. It's job-derived and doesn't change in practice, but a citizen who changed jobs mid-session would be judged on their old job until the next restart.