How busting on missions works

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nick May 4, 2010

I've received a couple questions on how busting on missions works, so here's a overview.

Every time you run a mission, there's a chance you'll get busted by the cops. If you do, you'll still use the energy for running the mission and pay a fine for your criminal behavior.

The chance of getting busted depends on 2 main factors. First, certain missions always have a higher risk than others. Also, your overall police relations (displayed at the top of the missions screen) is taken into account.

Your police relations are an average of your police relations across all cities you're based in. Buying local police protection will decrease your overall chance of getting busted since it improves your overall relations with the police. However for the higher-level missions the risk is so high that even Cordial relations won't save you - here's where you need to spring for the global protection.

We're going to be updating the missions over the next few weeks to tweak their risk and rewards - stay tuned!
Mystery May 4, 2010

Thanks for the info! 😋
Underling May 4, 2010

Bump
BENNEY May 4, 2010

If u get busted do you still get the xp for the energy used?? xD
Shadowalker May 5, 2010

BENNEY *ADD BOOB* wrote:
If u get busted do you still get the xp for the energy used?? xD

ya I'd like to know too
ChainsawCharlie May 5, 2010

I would assume not since it doesn't sat you got it.
DaShon May 5, 2010

So now I'm gonna have to start spending my reward points more often.
ChainsawCharlie May 5, 2010

I like this. The risk makes it interestng.

And if I understand you correctly Nick, this will place a greater emphasis on being Capo?

Because the more places you are capo of, the better you average for police relations.

So I assume that would reduce the risk of being busted?

I have a couple dozen or so Capos and maybe three places where I am not Capo and I've hardly been busted. That seems to support my theory.

But I've only been doing ransom and I currently have global protection.
Sohail May 5, 2010

Thanks for the info
!Rogue May 5, 2010

Hmmmm. Well i have global protection and yet i still got busted. Lol. Not that i care cause i think its still awsome. Just wanted to make sure it was normal to still get busted with purchased global portection. Thanks.
ChainsawCharlie May 5, 2010

What mission did you do? I haven't been doing anything but ransom and I got busted maybe once in every 30 missions.
 May 5, 2010

ChainsawCharlie wrote:
I like this. The risk makes it interestng.

And if I understand you correctly Nick, this will place a greater emphasis on being Capo?

Because the more places you are capo of, the better you average for police relations.

So I assume that would reduce the risk of being busted?

I have a couple dozen or so Capos and maybe three places where I am not Capo and I've hardly been busted. That seems to support my theory.

But I've only been doing ransom and I currently have global protection.

I have a capo and it does nothing
Lugaroo May 6, 2010

I have capo in all cities except one and I get busted about every ten times doing the ransom mission... You would think being capo in about ten places and not capo in only one would give me better odds than that unless it is possibly based on the number of turfs you have that you aren't the capo of?
that May 6, 2010

Aka, here's where u need to spring the $$$ to get outta it. Fine for now, but don't make the game require buying points. That's where sweet deal went wrong
風火貌 May 6, 2010

The purpose behind it is 'buy' respect pts & pay global protection (hint: 5 pts) weekly.. Lol that's the message I get since getting busted seems fairly certain for higher jobs anyway. Remember Nick is currently only @ theToyota hybrid keyyyyyyboooaarrrddd! We need to support him to the Telsa 2010 Roadster!!! Rofl...
 mama tek May 7, 2010

I have yet to get busted. I just want it to happen. I do have global protection because I'm capo of 3 places, only 1 of which has any other players in it. and I pretty much only snatch purses cuz I'm a big pussy. but I did bigger missions and no cigar.
Miss Molly May 10, 2010

I've been busted 5 out of 6 times on a mission that carries a minor risk. Either I am the unluckiest person on the planet or "minor" doesn't mean what I think it means.