You couldn’t give a fuck about Notoriety and the cops. You do what you want and do it loud. Everyone should do as you say! You stick together when you go out. The more people you have around you, the safer you are.
You run a private club house with a Safe, a bar and including a place to repair your motorcycles.
WARNING: This front is one of the hardest to operate and is pretty unforgiving.
Modifiers
- + Labor within the safe house is free and doesn’t take up worker slots, including:
- Motorcycle mechanic(s)
- Bartender
- + 50% discount on drinks and bar food.
- + 50% discount on workers.
- + When having a Notoriety above 60% and taking over Turf, businesses located there will already be fearful of you and don’t need convincing.
- + Airdrops are less likely to be traced back to you. MC’s are more often associated with hijacking these drops than ordering.
- + You can run logistics with 100% Illegal goods without gaining extra Interception chance.
- + You don’t gain any Notoriety from your transport being intercepted.
- + Higher Notoriety reduces resistance during Illegal actions.
- + The higher your Notoriety, the higher chance of getting better deals and more customers.
- + You will have an advantage on any good vs bad Notoriety rolls when having 60% Notoriety or more.
- + Rival informants have a 80% lower chance of locating your warehouses and transportation routes.
- + Special action: Roll out with the crew
- - 50% higher Construction cost.
- - When Notoriety is low:
- - Operational cost go up to a max of 50%.
- - Max decrease of 80% in customers.
- - Failing a Heist, Turf defense, or any Job marked as high-risk grants the debuff “Failure”.
- - Notoriety decreases 25% slower.
- - 25% higher cost on transport operations.
- Just to keep drivers from talking and uncovering your warehouse.
- - 80% higher perception for cops when checking cargo, including but not limited to:
- Vehicle cargo
- Cargo incoming at the docks
- - Any Infrastructure building you build will be instantly known by the cops.
- This doesn’t mean they know the inner building type (or can just barge in), they only know that you own that building.
- - Unable to launder money.
- In order to get Legal tender you will have to:
- Make deals with high quality customers
- Make deals with other Criminal organizations.
- Through sponsorships.
- In order to get Legal tender you will have to:
Turf modifiers
The more Turf you have, the more businesses can sponsor you. You don’t get any (extra) modifiers.
Special actions
Actions that are related to your safe house type.
Roll out with the crew
You gain Notoriety and all the businesses in the turfs you drive through will have their Fear increased. The more members you drive with the more Notoriety and Fear is gained.
Tasks you can fulfill while rolling out with the crew:
- Driving through enemy Turf.
- + 50% higher chance to spot key locations.
- - 100% chance of being noticed.
- Annoy cops by tailing them.
- You can ask businesses for sponsorships. The more members you have rolling out with you, the higher the chance they’ll pay the Sponsorship.
- If this is in your Turf, you have a 50% higher chance of succeeding.
- If this is your rivals Turf, you have a 25% lower chance of succeeding but will gain 15% more in Sponsorship if you succeed.
- In both cases the rival if informed through their Activity monitor.
- You can only perform this once per business every 30 in-game days.
Once started the action can be ended after 5 IRL minutes and will be ended when returning to the safe house.
Special jobs
Jobs that can be generated based on your safe house type.
Motorcycle repairs
You could either send a member or your in-house mechanic to this job.
Someone requests repairs for their motorcycle in exchange for Legal tender.
- Obtain Vehicle parts.
- Drive to the location.
- Repair the motorcycle.
Towing
You could either send a member or your in-house mechanic to this job.
Someone is stranded but can’t be found by the cops so they are paying you to help them out in exchange for Legal tender. Either:
- Fix their vehicle
- Tow their vehicle and transport the person to a given location.
Repossession job
A vehicle needs to be repossessed, so why not you? You get paid in Legal tender.
- Steal the vehicle.
- Drive it to the drop off location.
Landing a high quality customer
High quality customers don’t deal with you for comfort, they deal with you because you are feared or because you get things done.
- You’ll either get a opportunity on your job board:
- To do a job for a high quality customer
- That they are in town and you can “convince” them to make a deal with you.
- They don’t want anything to do with you, but we do with them.
- Once accepting the job on the job board, failing their given job or failing to pickup the “agreed” items grants the debuff “Failure”.
Job route
- Meet up with the customer.
- Make a deal.
- Perform their given job, like:
- Steal item/cargo/vehicle from docks/police station/military base and bring it to given location.
”Convincing” route
- Kidnap the customer.
- The customer is protected by a security detail and will resist.
- The cops get either a call of a shootout or kidnapping depending on their security personnel.
- Bring them to a torture room.
- Through torture, you can force one of the following outcomes:
- Make a deal.
- They will make a more favorable deal then normal with you since your threatening them.
- If they don’t like the deal you can still force it but it will be seen as a Demand a deal.
- Demand a deal. ^demandadeal
- You demand a deal out of him.
- If you have to give some items, you first have to deliver these to a given location.
- For every item type you request, you need to drive them to a different location for authentication of that item type. You’ll receive the item immediately.
- The less favorable your deal is, the higher the resistance and danger at pickup locations.
- Note: You CAN kill them if you torture them too much. Also the longer the customer is held, the higher the chance of external interference.
- Make a deal.
- Once you have your items, let the customer go. You have no further need for them, they will find their own way back.
References
Some references that are linked to this safe house type.
Sponsorship
Sometimes you have the options to request or receive a sponsorship. You will get Legal tender under the disguise of the context of what you’re doing.
For example: When on a roll out, you can requests sponsorships from businesses under the disguise of “keeping motorcycle hobbyist doing what they love doing”.