Self busting?

I've seen a couple threads where this has been mentioned
is it when you break out from prison? And how does it effect your stats (or not)?

I'm sure you are referring to Jobo's thread... As it's the only one on the subject in forever.

Self busting used to produce a 0.1% or something boost to dexterity. The strategy was the murder your nerve bar down as low as you could, thereby allowing you to put yourself in jail easier and use less nerve to self bust and could do it many times in a day... 0.1 seems small, but when your stats get up there, it gets very large. 10 of them is pretty much the equivalent of a stat enhancer.

This boost was eventually rid of by chedburn, about 2 years too late in my opinion.

This will pretty much explain any player that is primarily dexterity.

Once upon a time, it gave a tiny percentage boost to Dexterity. Many smart players took advantage of this by lowering their nerve bar and giving up doing crimes so they could self-bust all day, thusly enjoying immense gains to Dex.

Those that didn't do it, cried boohoo so much that it "wasn't fair" even tho it was available to everyone, that Ched caved and removed the stat gains.

Foggy has been posting on the boards recently in 2 differen threads that he believes that self-busting in it's until recent incarnation increased your CE. Bogie as well was trying it to try to guage whether this is true, and posted about it.
Personally I doubt it.

But possibly that is why OP is asking, or yes, possibly because he read Jobo's and is thinking about the longer-past incarnation.

Cheers yh I saw jobo's post and wondered if it was still possible to do as his dex was really high and is my weakest stat :)

TIGRRRRRR [132684]Once upon a time, it gave a tiny percentage boost to Dexterity. Many smart players took advantage of this by lowering their nerve bar and giving up doing crimes so they could self-bust all day, thusly enjoying immense gains to Dex.

Those that didn't do it, cried boohoo so much that it "wasn't fair" even tho it was available to everyone, that Ched caved and removed the stat gains.

Available to them that actually knew it existed - was not in a book or anything (except JFK manual).

And, as Tiger has NOT pointed out the consensus was it should have been capped at say 1Bill DEX before the nerf kicked in - to allow other players to catch up.

Alas, it got nerfed as Ched was too lazy to code in a cap. Stupid committee at the time, bunch of tards.

But I am not bitter still.....

Pluto [541636]

TIGRRRRRR [132684]Once upon a time, it gave a tiny percentage boost to Dexterity. Many smart players took advantage of this by lowering their nerve bar and giving up doing crimes so they could self-bust all day, thusly enjoying immense gains to Dex.

Those that didn't do it, cried boohoo so much that it "wasn't fair" even tho it was available to everyone, that Ched caved and removed the stat gains.

Available to them that actually knew it existed - was not in a book or anything (except JFK manual).

And, as Tiger has NOT pointed out the consensus was it should have been capped at say 1Bill DEX before the nerf kicked in - to allow other players to catch up.

Alas, it got nerfed as Ched was too lazy to code in a cap. Stupid committee at the time, bunch of tards.

But I am not bitter still.....

wish they brought it back and say have a cap on it, if u have over 1bil Dex u get nothing from it....then all of us who are moaning/missed out on it can get in oon it and it brings lot of us average guys closer to those stat beats head of us :)

The exact percentage was 0.05% as far as I remember. 20 self-busts = 1 Parachute

As others already said, people trashed their nerve bar down to 10 using drug crimes, so they can attempt to self-bust for 5 nerve, i.e. every 25 minutes.

Bullzeye [922212]

Pluto [541636]

TIGRRRRRR [132684]Once upon a time, it gave a tiny percentage boost to Dexterity. Many smart players took advantage of this by lowering their nerve bar and giving up doing crimes so they could self-bust all day, thusly enjoying immense gains to Dex.

Those that didn't do it, cried boohoo so much that it "wasn't fair" even tho it was available to everyone, that Ched caved and removed the stat gains.

Available to them that actually knew it existed - was not in a book or anything (except JFK manual).

And, as Tiger has NOT pointed out the consensus was it should have been capped at say 1Bill DEX before the nerf kicked in - to allow other players to catch up.

Alas, it got nerfed as Ched was too lazy to code in a cap. Stupid committee at the time, bunch of tards.

But I am not bitter still.....

wish they brought it back and say have a cap on it, if u have over 1bil Dex u get nothing from it....then all of us who are moaning/missed out on it can get in oon it and it brings lot of us average guys closer to those stat beats head of us :)

I am afraid common sense does not rule here with a pliable committee, but thank for agreeing.