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Crime & The Law
Getting caught is the only sin.
Getting arrested — the taser
Wanted criminals rarely stand still to be cuffed, so police carry a taser — a non-lethal, close-range sidearm that fires once every 5 seconds. A tased suspect is incapacitated: frozen on the ground, seeing stars, unable to move for a few seconds. While a suspect is tased and an officer is close, the arrest bar fills — but the stun wears off before the bar completes, so the officer has to keep re-tasing (racing the 5-second cooldown) until the arrest lands. Run far enough between stuns and the bar drains. It's a genuine cat-and-mouse: the criminal scrambles the moment they can move, the cop tries to keep them pinned. Surrendering (standing still) also fills the bar, for anyone who'd rather do the time than the chase.
Heat — your criminal record
Crimes raise your heat (0–5). Heat 1–3: police can ticket you — $100 / $200 / $300.
Heat 4–5: you're wanted — a warrant, arrest on sight, and jail. Heat decays slowly while you stay
online and clean. Pay tickets with /payticket; unpaid tickets keep your record hot.
No badge with a record: you can't join the police while you have any heat on you — lay low until it clears before switching to the force.
Jail & bail
Arrested at heat 4–5, you serve a short stint in jail. The key rule: jail time only ticks down
while you're online — quitting pauses your sentence, so you can't log off to skip it and
you'll return with exactly the time you had left. Don't want to wait? Post bail with
/bail to walk free immediately — a deliberately cheap $200 (heat 4) or
$400 (heat 5), and you get 60% back if you stay clean through probation.
Serving the time out is always free.
Pickpocketing
Con Artists and Burglars can /steal from a nearby player's cash-in-hand — a percentage
roll, hard-capped at $300 per lift so no wallet is a jackpot. Failing alerts the victim
and builds heat. Keep your money in the bank.
Shop robbery
Rob a store with /rob: hold position through a 30-second heist while loot accrues (bailing
early nets almost nothing), then run the loot bag to a GPS drop within 3 minutes. Base
take up to $400 plus a risk bonus per officer online — more cops, more money, more chance you eat
a warrant. Robbery also spikes that shop type's prices city-wide and drains the branch's stock. Dying on
the run drops the bag where you fall — anyone can grab it.
Carjacking & the stolen-car market
Locked cars can be /carjacked (Burglar/Con Artist, ~50% odds — 25% against a Fingerprint
Sensor; failure alerts the owner and builds heat). Then the business begins:
| Deal | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sell hot car to a licensed mechanic | 3.5% of its price | /sellcar near a mechanic with a Mechanic License; they /acceptcar. Buying & chopping hot cars is licensed-only now. |
| City fence (no licensed mechanic around) | 2.5% | At the garage — car goes to the city impound |
| Owner recovers from mechanic/impound | 5% — always | /recovercar at the garage; the mechanic pockets the margin |
| Owner catches it before fencing | 3% | /buyback — race the thief to the garage |
Cars are never destroyed by theft — worst case your car sits impounded until you pay the 5%. Only a mechanic scrapping an unclaimed car after two in-game days can truly end one.
Bribes
Wanted and cornered? Offer the cop /bribe ($100 default — raise it if your record's worth
more). If they /acceptbribe, that officer can't damage or arrest you for 2 minutes.
Yes, this makes dirty cops a career option.
Hits & bounties
Put money on anyone's head — civilian or cop — with /hit [playerid] [amount]
($50–$2000). Browse open contracts with /hits. Whoever downs the target
claims the bounty automatically. A hit lasts one game day and persists across
relogs — it stays on the target's head until they're killed or they survive the full day (even
across multiple sessions), after which the placer is refunded.
Convoy robbery
Police collect shop register cash and run it to City Hall. That carried cash can be taken —
/robconvoy near a carrying officer is the single biggest leak in the city's money loop, and
it makes you instantly, maximally wanted.