The Swindle

The Swindle

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By Basost
How do the Ghost and Aptitude bonusses work?
   
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The Haul: what you collected during the heist (cash laying about + hacked computers)

The Ghost_Bonus: you get a bonus if both
  • No alarm was raised
  • And you got 99% or 100% cash stolen
No need to kill every robot. The size of the bonus depends on the level (750 * level ^ 3):

Level
Ghost bonus
The slums
750
Warehouse District
6,000
New Belgravia
20,250
Casino Town
48,000
The Banks
93,750

The Aptitude_Bonus: you get this when you unlock the hacking aptitude skills. For the first skill-level you get an extra 25% of the computers you hacked, the second level gives 50% and the third 75%.

The Total: is (Haul + Aptitude_Bonus) * XP_Bonus + Ghost_Bonus.

The XP_Bonus increases by 0.2 every time you get a heist successful (80% or more cash stolen).

For the calculation of the cash stolen percentage, computers are ignored if you don't have first level hacking yet. So it's possible to get the Ghost bonus and XP increased on your first heist.
Other Income
These two extra sources of income do not count toward the Haul but go directly to the bank.

Bugs
Bugs give some income per second, depending on how close to the computer they were placed and on which level. Not influenced by XP_Bonus.

How the eventual detection works is not clear to me, suffice to say this is a nice source of income.

Note that leaching money from unhacked computers lowers their value without going into the haul, so avoid if going for high cash stolen percentage.

Scrapyard
Getting the Scrapyard upgrade (under Misc) gives a cash reward for every robot killed. It's multiplied by XP_Bonus and the level number (The Slums is 1, etc.)
2 Comments
Leonardo Cervantes 3 Jul, 2021 @ 3:25pm 
Daaamn!
Very good explanation.
Thank you so much!
Seru 16 Apr, 2020 @ 9:18am 
awsome thanks man