Levelling Cracking

Hello, 

I'm trying to raise the level of cracking, but it seems impossible. I'm encountering several critical failures, and the experience I gain with bruteforcing I lose all with critical failures. 

Is it normal? Is there something I'm missing out? 

Thanks

I think, given your age, cracking is not the best crime to do. Cracking is nerve heavy crime, instead do search for cash

Your still too young to Crack

Defo work on some easier ones, raise your crime experience and natural nerve bar before trying the harder ones.

They are set in order of easy to hard, top to bottom, personally I would start at the top and work your way down as and when you reach 100 skill in each.

Thank you all 👍 

You haven't even got search for cash to 100 yet, still with that first, and consider going through each of the crimes one by one 

I wish the game told new players that the farther down the crimes list the more base difficulty is built in.  Gives a poor new player experience. 

Start with search for cash and go mostly in order.   Read the guides and you can learn where you can kinda skip ahead or slow play some like skimming.   Get the easier ones to 100, grab the merits and move on.  When you work up,to cracking it,will be rather easy, just takes a while. 

100% this. Starting with sfc is actually a mistake. Vandalism is safer for increasing nnb.

Starting with sfc is not a mistake when they more or less are meant to be done in order. 

Not a mistake but not optimal.

I'd advise graffiti (vandalism) but using nerve on search for cash whenever you see something is 90%+

You want to build the hidden successful crime chain and if you're stuck with low % on sfc when you check you're either going to ruin that chain or keep your nerve capped.

you need to be gentle, ask her what she likes and take it slow, definitely don't bruteforce it, you'll get the hang of it