Here's the best mission to level up

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thisthomas Apr 28, 2022

Relatively new player here but a little number crunching helped me figure out which mission to do to level up in the fastest way.

TL;DR: It’s Ransom

Okay, why Ransom?

In short, it’s the most efficient use of energy. As a new player, you don't have lots of energy so figuring out how to maximise it is important. We want the most bang for our buck - the most experience per energy point.

Thinking like this, we can figure out the efficiency of every single mission on offer by dividing the EXP by ENG. This spits out a number that we'll call efffiency (EFF). In theory, the higher the number, the more efficient the mission. This maximises how many exp you get per energy spent. Here are the first missions available to sub lvl30 players and their respective efficiencies.
thisthomas Apr 28, 2022

List of missions and their efficiency

Mugging — 5 EXP, 4 ENG — 1.25 EFF
Purse snatching — 3 EXP, 2 ENG — 1.5 EFF
Burglary — 7 EXP, 6 ENG — 1.16 EFF
Hustle grandma — 5 EXP, 5 ENG — 1 EFF
Counterfeit Rolexes — 8 EXP, 6 ENG — 1.33 EFF
Take out rival — 8 EXP, 7 ENG — 1.14 EFF
Liquor store holdup — 8 EXP, 7 ENG — 1.14 EFF
Take out snitch — 9 EXP, 7 ENG — 1.29 EFF
Ransom — 12 EXP, 8 ENG — 1.5 EFF Crack a bank safe — 17 EXP, 13 ENG — 1.31 EFF
Set up a dogfighting ring — 18 EXP, 16 ENG — 1.125 EFF
Bribe a jury — 22 EXP, 18 ENG — 1.22 EFF
Rough up a witness — 22 EXP, 21 ENG — 1.05 EFF
Take out a politician — 30 EXP, 25 ENG — 1.2 EFF
thisthomas Apr 28, 2022

I know prevailing wisdom is to complete missions that get you a chance of loot. This probably still remains long term the best play.

Also, this isn't the most efficient way of building your income. Same math can be applied roughly to figure out the efficiency of missions per dollars acquired. I'll save that for another post. Besides, building turfs are the best way to generate income.

Getting to level 30 is key to building 86 inf turfs so it makes sense to me to grind the levels asap.

If you're grinding levels, Ransom is the most efficient mission to do so.

Like I said, I'm new. So maybe I've misunderstood the game mechanics. Comment if so.
OttoNorse May 1, 2022

Impressive Too smart for me
RepealObamacare Jun 20, 2022

Good work. I prefer purse snatching - equal 1.5 efficiency but you only need 2 energy to do a mission. So if, for example you had 164 energy, you could do 20 ransom missions, but you would have 4 unused energy. So if you use purse snatching, you could utilize those 4 otherwise leftover energy to harvest another 6 exp.
SkettiBalls Jun 25, 2022

Crack a bank safe for me
ℒꙩຣཇя Jun 25, 2022

Take out a rival gives cannoli, ransom just raises your level making your cap limit higher with 0 return
OttoNorse Jun 25, 2022

Are you still playing? You are lvl 54 with 700 mob. Punch codes. Why do you want to level up?