How jobs work - Deadcity

Basics

Offers arrive on their own. They come in batches, and each one expires unless you accept it.
Every step is its own bust check. A bust on any step ends the job.
Only the next step shows its exact bust chance. Later steps show a band until information you buy while preparing reveals the numbers. Low risk Moderate risk High risk Severe risk
Each completed step raises the rest. +1 bust chance on every step still ahead. The figures shown already include it.
Step money goes into your pocket. A bust loses the pocket. Finishing banks it plus the bonus; walking away banks the pocket and gives up the bonus.
Modifiers are already counted. A job's money, Respect and Heat figures include them.
A bust costs Health. At 0 Health you're hospitalized for 30 min, or you pay $5,000 for early release.

Heat is a cost. Completing a job adds its Heat; a bust adds +5.
Heat raises every bust chance. The first 40 Heat add nothing; above that, every 5 Heat adds +1 to every step. It counts when you execute, so figures can change before then.
Heat makes a bust hurt more. Bust damage grows with Heat, up to ×2 at 100.
Heat cools on its own. 50 per hour.
A bribe is the fast way down. −25 Heat at once. Each bribe within 60 min of the last costs more.
Lay Low is the cheap way down. −30 Heat after 10 min. No new offers arrive meanwhile, and you can't accept one.
High Heat pays. At 85 Heat or more, Hard and Extreme jobs offered then carry 25% more money and Respect.

An approach lowers one step's bust chance. Silent Entry (−10 bust chance, +2 Heat) or Inside Access (−20 bust chance, +5 Heat).
One purchase is one use. It's applied to your next step unless you save it for a later one. It's spent when that step runs, bust or not.
Unused uses are lost when the job ends. Buy again for another use.
Everything else lasts the whole job. If the same purchase also counters a complication, that part isn't used up.
A Fence step takes no approach. A use waits for the next step that can take it.

Complications hide on a job's steps. Easy jobs have none. A complication shows once its step is next, or earlier if information you buy reveals it.
Patrol. +22 bust chance on its step.
Alarm. +15 bust chance on its step, and +5 on every later step once that step is done.
Guards. +10 bust chance on its step, and a bust there does ×1.5 damage.
Witnesses. +5 Heat when you complete the job, and +10 Heat on a bust on its step.
A counter cancels a complication. Preparation that counters one works for the whole job, found or not. A crew member who handles one does the same.

Trust comes from a contact's jobs. You can also visit Lenny, Mick or Sara: $250, 3 min, +5 Trust.
The Broker introduces new contacts. During a Career, at Trust 60 with him, for $1,500.
Introduced contacts charge a retainer. Their offers wait until you pay $300. If the next batch arrives first, the waiting work is lost and so is 10 Trust; after 3 misses in a row they leave.
Fence jobs end at the fence. After the theft you can walk away with your pocket, or fence it for +40% of the pocket and the bonus. Heat counts ×4 there, and a bust loses the pocket.
Ask around for specific work. Pay on the Dashboard and that job is in your next batch of offers. If it can't be found, the money comes back.

Contacts introduce crew during a Career. Each role is hired once, when your Trust with its contact is high enough.
Each role handles one complication and has one skill. Driver: patrols, and you keep 75% of your pocket on a bust. Muscle: guards, and takes 50% of a bust's damage. Specialist: alarms, and +25% loot on store and vault steps. Lookout: witnesses, and spots trouble one step ahead.
Bring crew while preparing, for free. Each takes a share of what you bank; the figures shown are after it. Nothing on a bust.
A bust can get crew arrested. 20% each (10% with the Lookout on the job; she is never arrested). Pay $1,500 bail before 3 batches of offers arrive, or they're gone for the Career and their contact finds a replacement later.
Crew jobs are the Broker's biggest work. They need specific roles and Trust 30 with the Broker, one at a time. The crew they need join when you accept and stay until the job ends.

A Career is a long path with its own goal. You can start your first one when you're ready: 80% readiness, every area started and every foundation completed. The Career page shows where you stand.
Later Careers ask for less. After a Career ends — completed or abandoned — you need two things before the next: try something new (a job, a contact, a preparation group or a higher approach than last time), and complete 6 jobs.
Starting one resets your run. Money becomes a $1,000 advance, and Heat and your job streak start over. Your first 2 batches of offers are Easy and Medium only.
A Career ends with its finale. The Broker offers it once every other requirement is met. After a bust it comes back in 3 batches of offers.
Rank records how well you played. Feats raise it, it's locked in when you complete the finale, and it changes nothing you can do.
A Career can't be switched. It can be abandoned, which is recorded with no rank.
Mastery wants clean form. A bust on a Hard or Extreme job blocks completion until you complete another one. Abandoning a job isn't a bust.