Kill and stealing

Kill

You pick somebody in your city and press Kill. It is over in that press.

A kill is a kill

There is no hospital and no getting up. Whoever loses is finished, and that player starts again from the bottom. Everything they had is kept on the books, but the character is done.

Press Start again on the death screen and make your new account on the same device. Half of what the dead one had in the bank goes into the new bank, and the first 24 hours are revenge, double XP and stats from crimes, Auto Crime and OCs.

So the person you are looking at has as much to lose as you have. If they win, you are the one who is dead.

Not every press ends with somebody dead. If neither of you can get through, you both walk away, and they find out it was you.

Who you cannot touch

Anybody in another city: You have to be standing where they are.
Anybody more than 5 ranks from you: Up or down. At rank 20 you can go after rank 15 to rank 25 and nobody else.
Anybody in their first 72 hours: Nothing touches them, at any price.
Anybody still protected after that: Until somebody pays them £25,000,000 for it on their profile or the Steal page. Then anybody can go, including whoever paid.
Staff: No kill, no steal, no spy and no reward. Their safety cant be bought.
Anybody offline in their own home city: Unless there is a reward on them. Any reward at all opens them up, and whoever kills them collects it.

You start off protected

Nobody can kill you, rob you or look at you for your first 72 hours. That shows as an orange shield next to your name, and it runs out.

After that it turns yellow and it keeps working. It does not run out on its own at all. It ends when another player pays £25,000,000 to take it off you, and that money is yours. It also ends the moment you go for somebody yourself, a kill or a steal.

What you take

Everything they were carrying. Their bank is not touched.

Punching down

Kill somebody 3 or more ranks below you and the system takes 10% of your Attack, Defence and Stealth. Your kit is not touched. Everybody sees it on the news.

Two below is fine.

You wait 20 minutes between goes, whoever you went after.

Armageddon

The last three days of a version. When it starts, everybody who is dead comes back, unless they already started again on a new account. Safety is off for everybody, new or not, and being offline at home does not save you. Kill somebody three or more ranks below you and nothing is taken off you for it.

The rest stays the same. You can only go for somebody within five ranks, they have to be in your city, and a kill is still a kill. Staff are still out of it. The banner burns while it runs, and the strip under it says how long is left.

Stealing

A kill takes what somebody is carrying by finishing them for it. Steal takes it without them noticing. Your stealth against their defence is what decides it, and it is the only other thing that stat is for.

It is the pocket and never the bank. Money you have put away cannot be taken by anybody, by any route. That is the whole of the defence and it works both ways.

You can watch somebody first, which costs money and tells you what is on them and what your odds are. Watching and going in both spend the same 15:00 wait, so looking is a decision rather than a habit.

A lift takes 20% of what is on them, up to a ceiling that depends on your rank. Get it wrong and you come away with nothing and they have your name.

Going back to the same person pays less every time in a day: the whole amount, then a half, then a quarter. Somebody with under £ 5,000 on them is broke and cant be stolen from, and anybody in the cells or still protected cannot be touched at all.

Being offline does not save anybody from this. That is the difference from a kill, and it is the point of the whole thing. Like a kill, they have to be in the same city as you.