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There are many questions about what crimes to do and how to build your nerve bars. This guide is my personal opinions on how to get all of the crime honors, build your nerve bar, and build your crime experience above 45 nerve bar for faction Organized crimes.

DISCLAIMER: This guide is NOT meant for brand new players. If you just joined stick to the 2 or 3 nerve crimes ONLY and slowly work your way up to shoplifting. The intended audience for this guide are experienced players who have enough experience to do all of the crimes listed and are in need of a guide to know which are safe vs which will jail you.


Question #1: How do I make money from crimes?
Answer: You don't! Crimes that make money like hacking have very high failure rates and you will never increase your nerve bar. If that's your play style great, but this guide isn't for you.


Question #2: What is a "Safe" crime?
Answer: Crimes have 3 possible outcomes Green (Success), Blue (Fail with no penalty), or Red (Fail with Jail or Hospital penalty). Safe crimes either have no reds or result in hospital reds. Crimes with red results that give jail time are NOT safe and will lower you nerve bar.


Question #3: Which crimes are safe?
Answer: Let me break it down with a list of crimes I recommend you do. (Highlighted Safe Crimes in Green, Hosp result Crimes in Orange, and Jail result crimes in Red)

(Some of these crimes may produce reds for very new players, but once you hit a level crime experience level your results should match this guide)

Crimes:
2 Nerve: Search for Cash - All crimes are safe
3 Nerve: Sell Copied Media - All crimes are safe
4 Nerve: Shoplift -> Clothing Store -> Jackets (100% Greens)
5 Nerve: Pickpocket ** Don't do these Crimes **
6 Nerve: Larceny ** Don't do these Crimes **
7 Nerve: Armed Robberies ** Don't do these Crimes **
8 Nerve: Transport Drugs - All crimes give jail result (High Risk), but only Drug Deal crimes
9 Nerve: Plant a Computer Virus -> Stealth Virus (Never gives a Red result)
10 Nerve: Assassination -> Assassinate a Target (No Reds, but LOTS of blues), Assassination -> Mob Boss (Hospital Reds = Preferred)
11 Nerve: Arson -> Warehouse Arson (Hospital Reds)
12 Nerve: Grand Theft Auto -> Steal a Parked Car (Never gives a Red result)
13 Nerve: Pawn Shop ** HIGH RISK: Don't do these Crimes **
14 Nerve: Counterfeiting ** HIGH RISK: Don't do these Crimes **
15 Nerve: Kidnapping ** HIGH RISK: Don't do these Crimes **
Note: 15 Nerve Kidnap Mayor gives Jail Reds, but has been called the safest of the high nerve crimes (See Mud's comment below)
16 Nerve: Arms Trafficking ** HIGH RISK: Don't do these Crimes **
17 Nerve: Bombings ** HIGH RISK: Don't do these Crimes **
18 Nerve: Hacking ** HIGH RISK: Don't do these Crimes **


Question #4: Why should I skip the 5, 6, and 7 nerve crimes?
Answer: Those crimes are the same type as other crimes below them so they aren't efficient ways to work on the Honors/Medals.
NOTE: 7 nerve Through Robbery and Pickpocket crimes have long been advised to new players for years as good crime experience builders, but long terms it's better to avoid them because you finish the theft medals faster doing Jackets.


Question #5: What crimes give what types Honors/Medals?
Answer: Let me break each crime down by type which will explain why I recommended skipping certain crimes earlier (Highlighted Safe crimes)

2 Nerve: Other Crimes - Search for Cash
3 Nerve: Selling Illegal Products - Sell Copied Media
4 Nerve: Theft - Shoplift
5 Nerve: Theft - Pickpocket
6 Nerve: Theft - Larceny
7 Nerve: Theft - Armed Robberies
8 Nerve: Drug Deals - Transport Drugs (Only way to get this honor, but will hurt your CE)
9 Nerve: Computer Crimes - Plant a Computer Virus
10 Nerve: Murder - Assassination
11 Nerve: Fraud - Arson
12 Nerve: Auto Theft - Grand Theft Auto
13 Nerve: Fraud - Pawn Shop
14 Nerve: Fraud - Counterfeiting
15 Nerve: Theft - Kidnapping
16 Nerve: Fraud - Arms Trafficking
17 Nerve: Fraud - Bombings
18 Nerve: Computer Crimes - Hacking


Question #6: What Honors/Medals can I get from each crime type?
Answer: Here is a list of Honors/Medals by type

http://www.torn.com/wiki/Awards#Crimes for full list

Other Crimes
- Honor at 5000
- No Medals

Sell Copied Media Crimes
- Honor at 5000
- No Medals

Theft Crimes
- 5 Honors at 1k, 2.5k, 5k, 7.5k and 10k
- 11 Medals - Last one at 25k

Drug Deal Crimes
- Honor at 5000
- 8 Medals - Last one at 10k

Computer Crimes
- 2 Honors at 2k and 5k
- 16 Medals - Last one at 10k

Murder Crimes
- Honor at 5000
- 11 Medals - Last one at 10k

Fraud Crimes
- Honor at 5000
- 16 Medals - Last one at 10k

Auto Theft Crimes
- Honor at 5000
- 21 Medals - Last one at 10k

Conclusion: Sticking to safe crimes and sticking to the lowest nerve crime of each type give 3 major benefits: Build your nerve bar faster, builds your crime experience for faction Organized Crimes, and gets you the Honors and Medals the faster. There are many better ways to make money, but only one way to gain crime experience!

List of Rank Triggers for reference:
There are 25 total Ranks that can be achieved.

Levels (8 Triggers)
Levels: 2, 6, 11, 26, 31, 50, 71, 100


Crimes (6 Triggers)
Crimes Done: 100, 5k, 10k, 20k, 30k, 50k


Networth (11 Triggers)
Networth Total: $2k, $50k, $3mil, $10mil, $20mil, $50mil, $200mil, $1bil, $2.5bil, $5bil