Ive never over heated the middle rig, so haven't rushed to optimize it. Reshula [2644462] has done a lot of research about cracking rigs, if you have questions i would take a look at her guides over going through this thread, though I like looking at the old rigs.
00:33:06 - 09/11/25 Your arson skill level increased to 100
Today I earned what I believe to be the first non early access Arson Skill 100, In circulation are 3 "Hotshot" Honor bars, I know of two. One is belonging to IceBlueFire [776] who earned it on October 17th. And the other is belonging to Excessible [2764328] who is a staff member.
Let me start by saying Arson is a fun crime and the race to 100 was enjoyable, but I am ready to do other crimes along side arson. I think in the future I will use it to build up crime chains for cashing in my scamming jobs. The mechanics of it are interesting and I like that the timing of my actions matter, too late or too early do not give the results that I wanted.
Stats to get to CS100
41,615 Nerve was used Total attempts: 9,071 Success/Fail/Crit: 8,929/81/61 Money rewarded: $59,350,000
Accelerants placed: 1,755/1,763 Fire ignited: 794/799 Fire stoked: 2,845/2,906 Fire dampened: 1,963/2,028 Rewards collected: 707
The reason I was able to reach CS100 faster than most players was because of this post here. I took advantage of the fact that Uniques would Continue to respawn so long as you failed the requirements. I did and redid the uniques for as long as I was able to continue to fail them, which was at least a few weeks where I had 1-5 more jobs I could get CS from than every other player.
Today will be the first day I have uncompleted jobs from Arson since it released. I will be doing some cracking/Scamming for awhile. But will be back to doing arson just not so devotedly, I will do jobs that seem fun to do and take my time doing them.
I recently went up to NNB 100 and wanted to share my stats between increases, hopefully this helps someone else, and is as interesting to read as it is to me to write out.
12:19:48 - 13/06/25 Your maximum nerve increased from 160 to 165 14:35:51 - 18/02/25 Your maximum nerve increased from 155 to 160 09:35:34 - 21/10/24 Your maximum nerve increased from 150 to 155
To get to 95 I spent Success/Fail/Crit Search for Cash: 254/68/6 Bootlegging: 24/0/0 Graffiti: 684/12/0 Shoplifting: 892/32/4 Pickpocketing: 1,340/60/50 Card Skimming: 394/0/0 (Bus: 9,088 Details, Gas: 8,427 Details, Sold:101,351 Details Sold ($22,297,220)) Burglary: 11,434/1,598/216 Disposal: 20,764/256/32 Cracking: 6,058/56/5 Forgery: 6,900/25/30 Scamming: 21,835/2,239/129
TOTAL: Success: 93.61% 70,579 N Fail: 5.76% 4,346 N Critical Fail: 0.63% 472 N
to get to 100 I spent Success/Fail/Crit Search for Cash: 2,474/172/14 Bootlegging: 1,892/6/4 Graffiti: 357/3/0 Shoplifting: 2,904/80/12 Pickpocketing: 880/25/25 Card Skimming: 504/6/0 (Gas:23,759 Details, Airport: 31 Details, Casino: 15Details, Sold: 13,090 Details($3,207,050) ) Burglary: 21,660/2,904/216 Hustling: 204/0/6 Disposal: 20,602/228/56 Cracking: 5,721/49/10 Forgery: 330/0/0 Scamming: 15,051/1,317/27
TOTAL: Success: 93.36% 72,579 N Fail: 6.16% 4,790 N Critical Fail: 0.48% 370 N
OC stats
Ace In The Hole Driver: 54 Hacker: 66 Impersonator: 66 Muscle: 64
Break the Bank Muscle: 69 Robber: 71 Thief: 71
Blast from the Past Bomber: 85 Engineer: 84 Hacker: 85 Muscle: 84 Picklock: 85
Bidding war Bomber: 88 Driver: 84 Robber: 88
Let me know if theres any other specifics you want to see. Im estimating 3-5 more months until I get to 105 NNB and will put out a similar update then. When i started Crimes2.0 i had 55NNB, so its been fun seeing the rapid increases as I played more.
90 nerve natural. In that time since i went up from 85 i have spent roughly 60k nerve (57,947 success, 1,815 fail, 256 crit) doing 11,513 crimes (10,965 success, 476 fail, 61 crit)
The faction is the only way to exchange points between players, I've done it a couple times for newer players. Museum day mostly, but sometimes they want them exchanged on other days
I did it super inefficiently nerve wise, and to get from 0-100 it took 40,470 nerve. im betting that the next ones will continue to take more and more nerve
Scamming is great because each individual action nets just a little so if you crit you lose 20X just a little BUT when you get a success it’s more and if you get $$$ it’s 3X more