Crimes

How crimes work in Ashport: Nerve, success odds, critical fails, crime skill, streaks and Crime Rank, with a list of all 11 crimes.

Crimes cost Nerve and pay cash, items and experience. Ashport has 11 crimes, each with its own small mechanic, and every one shows its real odds before you commit.

All crimes

Crime	Nerve	Unlock	In short
Scavenge	2	Open from the start	Pick through what the city throws away.
Lift	4	Open from the start	Walk in, walk out, pay for nothing.
Pick & Lift	3	Open from the start	Read the crowd. Pick the mark. Be gone.
Tagging	3	Open from the start	Put your name on the city.
Fence Run	5	Crime Rank 3 (Hustler)	Buy hot goods cheap, move them across town, sell before the heat catches up.
Skim	3	owning a Card Skimmer	Fit a skimmer to a terminal, let it collect, and get it back before someone notices.
Break-in	6	Crime Rank 5 (Grifter)	Scout it, case it, then hit it.
Phish	4	the Social Engineering course	Write the perfect lure for the right inbox.
Chop Shop	6	Crime Rank 8 (Wheelman)	Steal a car by class and strip it for parts. Sometimes you keep the car.
Crack	4	the Cryptography course and owning a Cracking Rig	Brute-force a password with a rig you build up.
Arson for Hire	8	Crime Rank 12 (Underboss)	A client wants something to burn. Pick the accelerant, the ignition and the moment.

Success odds

The odds shown on every target are built like this:

success = base + 0.4% per skill level above the target's requirement + modifiers
success is kept between 5% and 95%

Modifiers include the time, tide and weather, the crime's enhancer item, perks from merits, faction perks, jobs and courses, and any drug buff. The odds breakdown lists each one.

Critical fails

A try can succeed, fail, or fail critically. A plain fail costs the Nerve and nothing else. A critical fail sends you to jail or the hospital for the time listed on the target.

critical fail = target's critical base x (1 - success) x 2, at most 50%

So the better your odds, the smaller your chance of a critical fail. At 95% success a 5% critical base becomes 0.5%.

Crime skill

Each crime has its own skill from 1 to 100. Higher skill opens harder targets and adds 0.4% success per level above a target's requirement. Skill XP per try:

success: Nerve x 10      fail: Nerve x 3
x (1 + 2.5% per success in a row, up to 20 in a row)
x (1 + Mood / 10,000, Mood counted up to 5,000)

A critical fail resets the streak. The XP for the next skill level is 25 x level^1.35: 25 for level 2, 560 at level 10, 4,915 at level 50.

Every crime also gives player XP: Nerve x 4 on a success, Nerve x 1 otherwise.

Crime Rank

Your Crime Rank counts lifetime successful crimes across all crimes. Each rank adds 5 max Nerve (you start at 15) and 3% crime cash, and some crimes unlock at a rank.

Rank	Title	Successes	Max Nerve from rank
0	Nobody	0	15
1	Corner Kid	10	20
2	Street Rat	30	25
3	Hustler	75	30
4	Lookout	150	35
5	Grifter	300	40
6	Operator	500	45
7	Fixer	800	50
8	Wheelman	1,200	55
9	Enforcer	1,800	60
10	Lieutenant	2,600	65
11	Shot Caller	3,600	70
12	Underboss	5,000	75
13	Kingpin	7,000	80
14	Harbor Legend	10,000	85
15	Myth of Ashport	14,000	90

Unique finds

Some targets hide a one-off find with a tiny chance per success once your skill is high enough. Each unique can only be found once per player, and most of them belong in a museum set.

Where you can commit crimes

Not while you are in the hospital or jail, and not while flying. Abroad, the crime there is smuggling.

Questions

How are crime odds worked out?

Base odds plus 0.4% per skill level above the requirement plus modifiers (time, tide, weather, enhancer, perks), kept between 5% and 95%.

What is a critical fail?

A failure that sends you to jail or hospital. Its chance is the target critical base times (1 - success) times 2, at most 50%.

What does Crime Rank do?

Each rank adds 5 max Nerve and 3% crime cash, and unlocks some crimes.