Nash's Guide to Nerve Bar (Revived)

with david and bogie level CE's :D

why won't they bring me along then :((((

Hi, thanks for this excellent guide.

I have a question.

I did jacket steal crimes for so long (2000times) without getting jailed. But now i started trying new crimes, i got jailed a few times and i am kinda worried right now.

- 'Pickpocket Someone' - Right now i am doing those.

I started with "pickpocket kid" and done 100 times. I only got occasional blues. Now i started doing "pickpocket Old Woman". And i did like 30 successful crimes and got jailed 3 times. Is this okay?

In the article it's said " If you start failing more than 1 in 3, go back to the previous one until you are succeeding at least 4 out of 5." I thought this meant blues, not reds.
With "kid" i never got reds. Isn't it better to do "kids" all the way rather then getting jailed?

How much difference in experience between pickpocketing old lady and kid?

Recently I hit 60NNB and wanted to test the CE gained via Plane Hijack OC.



Upon reaching 60NNB, I did 4 arson, and then 46 drug crimes to fall back to 55. Was jailed 1x via transport cocaine.



I stayed put until the hijack was run and it was a soft fail, (I was not jailed) so I did arson to regain my 60. It took me 116 arson to get back to 60NNB.



The very next crime was a drug transport (jailed) and was sent back to 55, where I stayed put until the next hijack was run. Upon success, I was immediately boosted back to 60NNB.



I immediately did drug transport cocaine again to drop back to 55. After 55 drug successes, I was jailed on the 56th to fall back to 55NNB. Then I did 118 arson back to 60NNB, where I am currently at.





After testing, a PH is worth ~150 arsons worth of CE.

To me, the crazy part is that it takes more than 118 arsons to offset one transport fail. O.o

With a NEW 60nnb. Imagine how many arson's you lose if you had a pre-nerf and/or years of safe CE.

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Try the nerve 7 crime - 'thorough robbery'.. that's a safe crime and gives good CE. I totally ignored nerve 5 crimes. ( went straight from stealing jackets to doing thorough robberies).

there is a way to make the drug merits that isn't mentioned in this guide... i don't have numbers but i tested a theory i read earlier in the forums and it proves to hold pretty true it said that the more drug crimes you make in a day the less of a chance to success... so if you can keep doing less than 3-5 per day you should be safe... its the longest way to get that merit but its still possible to do it with minimizing the CE loss...

did over 200 that way without a red... got one red not long ago but couldn't figure out how many i did that day...

it can take up to 3-4 years to complete those merits if you do only 3 per day... but it could be one of the safest ways...

As a numberphile, I immensely enjoyed reading your test results, Nash. :) Thanks for doing this.

Alternatively, Ched could, uh...



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Nah. That would make too much sense.

love the test

Id just like to add here that if you do the same crime over and over again it may make that crime harder to complete.

An example of this was when i was a very low level i had huge issues stealing chocolate bars so i would stay on copied media.

I stayed there for HUNDREDS of successful attempts at a time but would still see red when i red when i went back to chocolate bars.

Yet i was successful in higher nerve crimes like pickpocketing, variety may be the spice of life in some cases.

That doesn't hold true to the people who smashed 10k out, at least, not my 10k so would be wary about who you mention it to.

I could go a whole day with nothing but greens, and then get jailed multiple times the following day, get jailed frustratingly multiple times in a row as soon as I woke up, or just once a day, or every other attempt one day and then not at all for a few days. In my experience of doing ten thousand cocaines, it was completely random.

I would wager with that ratio you're due a lot of reds coming your way.

alternating transport cocaine with other crimes has no sense...

just do 10,000 straight transport cocaine, 10 months and they are done.

neither of those are safe crimes as far as I know so yes, you would see red results on them.

you should be stealing jackets, not chocolate bars, and the jailings will be hurting your ce making red results more likely.

https://imgur.com/a/QPd5k



somebody was in jail for stealing a jacket ...

Perhaps he hadn't the mountain bike.

How didI get 19 nerve

Might be bonus nerve from faction if you haven't add any merit to nerve bar.. =)