General question, but which crime makes the most profit?
Simply Cracking? Focused Burglary? Pickpocketing Cyclist? Anything else?
Let me know what you guys have been earning.
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General question, but which crime makes the most profit?
Simply Cracking? Focused Burglary? Pickpocketing Cyclist? Anything else?
Let me know what you guys have been earning.
Cracking has been the best for me so far
Total attempts: 5,299
Money rewarded: $120,974,900
After getting to CS 100 I only do
Government - ONLY Witness Protection
Armed forces - ALL
Intelligent Agents - ALL
and I often stockpile them by just completing one "Brute force" on each, so more can spawn the next day that way I don't have to keep using all my nerve each day on them and can come back later
I think currently doing your daily high value arson and cracking jobs, daily body and body part disposals, and then using leftover nerve on scamming affluent targets on investment+romance scams is probably best $/nerve.
Might be better off with pickpocketing cyclist and/or burgling certain targets but those are more RNG so might win might lose on that i guess
Can you give us an idea? On an average day.. doing the lucrative arson/cracking and then scamming the 80+ scams with ~1M emails. How much $$ do you make per day on average doing this? ~4M ?
I'm still working on getting arson, forgery and scamming to lvl 100, so I am not currently min-maxxing the $/n..
But even with doing most arson jobs every day, regardless of their payout, then doing the 6k+/n cracking jobs, body/body part disposals, and spending the rest of my nerve on forgery + refreshing my phisher/scimmer at scamming, I am pulling just under 2m per day for the last 7 days according to torn.report.
So getting 4m per day when everything is lvl 100 seems very doable yeah, maybe 5-6m per day if everything is done perfectly?
Thank you everyone for the info so far!
Hrm... that misaligns a bit with another thread I read recently claiming that with 1M emails farmed.. he was pulling 2M per day from scamming alone doing investment and romance scams. But the key here is the 1M+ emails farmed to make sure you get multiple scams every day.
Yeah I have just 350k mails atm so still working my way up on that. Not sure what you mean misaligns though?
I just mean that pulling just under 2M a day by doing all the most lucrative crimes seems a lot lower then what it can be. I'm under the impression that you can hit 2M from doing daily scamming alone with lots of nerve left to spend on the most lucrative cracking/forgery/arson/disposal jobs which could net you a lot more than 2M daily. But that implies that certain thresholds have been reached such as the 1M email and the more lucrative jobs available from the other crimes. I was hoping to confirm that once I hit these thresholds I'll be able to make ~2-4M daily.
Well yeah, as I said I make just under 2m per day without having reached the point where I can truly maximize my gains as I am still leveling up arson, forgery and scamming, and I am not really doing scams atm as I am collecting more mails before doing the investment/romance scams.
So once you have everything at 100 and enough mails, going 2-4m per day should be ez i reckon
I'm kind going hard on scamming. Not pushing every bit of nerve I have into it but extra goes there.
I burn all the bodies daily.
While I was doing arson I was saving a lot of cracking jobs up by just hitting the good ones once. I've mostly exhausted them though so only getting what spawns each day which sometimes is none.
I am trying to do arson a bit for money but i don't think I'm doing it right for money. The higher paying jobs take a lot of nerve to get a big check. The ones that only take a few resources don't burn enough to pay well. With the prices for arson mats dropping I'll see if I can be more efficient. Still people say there is money here so I'm likely missing something.
For scamming I'm up to almost 1.8m emails. I get a lot of romance and more than a couple investment each day. I send 1 wave of each around reset time each day. The problem is often as many as half are just not safe enough to mess with. The higher the affluent the target the more likely they are to not be doable. I was thinking that around 2m I would get enough by volume to do more a day, and I do. It's not close to enough to use all my nerve though. I do make a couple mil a day scamming. Depending on cracking jobs maybe another mil or so there. Disposal and arson are what they are. Don't get enough bodies for high daily money and don't think I'm doing arson right. Maybe 2.5 emails will start to pay better...ill go up to 3m unless a better crime comes out.
The downside to scamming is two fold however. Firstly the huge up front investment to get a ridiculous amount of emails makes for a long term before the profit will reach that of cracking or burglary for the nerve invested.
Secondly, the way the crime actually works means that a good amount of your attempts land on the back slide or the yellow. This doesn't mean I can't succeed but does not count as a success either. This means I'm not building CE for these hits for the nerve spent. I don't think it's enough to be actually hurting my progress as I'm moving up in the OC 2.0 well enough but i don't think scamming is a high CE building crime. Still, after bodies and cracking and what ever good scamming targets I get are done I'm using the nerve left to either get more emails or burn a building. Starting to look at busting to spend nerve on too but don't have the education yet so it's mostly random.
If anyone can tell me how to pick the money in arson please let me know. It's one of the more fun crimes imo.
For the arson $/n efficiency there is a script telling you how much $/n every job gives and what materials you need to use to get the best value