Crimes in BadFellas

Small Crime, Car Theft and Robbery each have their own choices, cooldowns and consequences. Success can advance the associated status, while failure can lead to jail, losses or an empty result.

Items and stolen goods are intentionally uncommon. A successful action does not guarantee a find, and special rewards use separate limited channels.

BadFellas separates Small Crime, Car Theft and Robbery into different action pools, cooldowns and progression tracks. A successful action can provide cash or rare loot, while a failure can lead to jail.

Crime Status, Car Theft Status and Robbery Status improve the chance of future success. Promotions no longer award material bonuses; their value is the permanent improvement to that activity.

A failed action has a substantial arrest risk. The Jail system, cooldowns and active equipment determine when the character can act again.

Small Crime, Car Theft and Robbery should be compared by what the character is trying to achieve. A player seeking steady activity may prefer a repeatable option with a manageable cooldown, while a player looking for vehicles, saleable goods or a specific mission objective may choose a more specialised action. Each result is resolved independently. A successful crime can advance its associated status and still produce no rare item, while a failed attempt can cost time, cash or freedom without meaning that the next attempt is predetermined.

Plan the full loop before clicking. Stolen or discovered goods may have a destination in the Pawn Shop, My Inventory or another market, and a vehicle can require a separate Cars or Scrapyard decision. Items and valuable cars are intentionally uncommon, so ordinary outcomes should remain useful to the plan. Keep enough space, cash and time for the result, then wait for the current cooldown rather than using multiple tabs to repeat one action state.

Crime progression connects to Street Contacts, Missions and Organized Crime, but those systems record only authoritative outcomes. If a mission requires a successful action, opening the mission screen does not substitute for completing that action. If a failure leads to Jail, settle the restriction before returning to the normal loop. A disciplined approach measures crimes by sustainable progress and connected opportunities, not only by the largest possible reward shown in a guide.

Small Crime offers a frequent set of individual actions and can produce varied event rewards. Car Theft focuses on stealing vehicles that enter the Cars workflow, where they may be sold, secured, auctioned, used or converted to lead. Robbery has its own targets, cooldown and potential operational connections. They are separate routes, so one cooldown does not describe all three.

Choose based on the current objective. A player building Cash may prefer a different action from one searching for a car, material or mission requirement. The live labels and result panel explain what happened without revealing the hidden probability calculation.

Cooldowns are designed to make timing part of the game. Players can rotate between ready systems, markets, crew tasks and communication, but bots, macros and automated request loops are not normal gameplay. A schedule that fires actions continuously for days can also create account-review risk under the fair-play rules.

Use visible timers and deliberate decisions. Sustainable progression comes from combining crimes with Missions, Organized Crime, travel, property work and crew strategy rather than treating one endpoint as an unattended process.

A successful Police Officer raw-material bribe activates 30 minutes of protection. During that window, supported Jail rolls use a 25% relative reduction of the existing chance; it does not subtract 25 percentage points.