Getting Started
Create a character, follow Mickey, earn first cash - and unstick yourself when energy, jail, or the hospital stops you.
Path: create a character → follow Mickey’s tour → pull low-risk street work for first cash. Don’t skip ahead to gear and PvP broke.
You land in a starting city with seed cash, full energy, and full health. Mickey’s onboarding tour walks Overview, Crimes, Vehicle Theft, the Doctor, and Jobs so you don’t bleed out on day one. Full tour steps and restart notes: Onboarding Tutorials.
First moves
- Finish Character Creation if you haven’t - one living name, one starting city.
- Stick with Mickey’s tour. When he says he’s waiting on a place, hit Go there and do the step on that page. Skipping ahead locks Crimes / Vehicle Theft until he cues you. Restart the tour later from Settings → Account.
- Open Missions in the sidebar for daily and weekly objectives (claim rewards there). That is separate from Mickey’s tour.
- Run low-risk street crimes and illegal jobs until you’ve got a bankroll. Expensive gear and PvP can wait.
- Open the city map for shops, casino, bank, the job board, and whatever else you’ve unlocked.
- When you can afford it, buy weapons and armor and equip them from Inventory / Loadout.
Energy spends on almost everything. Health drops when fights go wrong. Heat climbs with crime - high heat means arrest. Bank cash you don’t want on the street.
When you’re stuck
| Block | What to do |
|---|---|
| No energy | Most actions need it. Wait - energy regenerates over time. Don’t empty the bar on pointless runs. |
| In jail | Most actions are blocked until you’re out. Use the jail UI: serve time, pay bail, or attempt a jailbreak. Legal Office heat bribes are for when you’re free - cool heat before the next pinch, not from inside the cell. |
| Hurt / hospital | Open the sidebar and go to the Doctor (Back-Alley Clinic). Paid treatment restores health over a timer; cost and duration scale with how hurt you are. First Mickey-tour patch is free; later visits cost cash. Hospitalization is a separate recovery timer - you’re stuck at the doctor until it ends and most actions are blocked (same idea as jail). After discharge you may still need a paid patch to get back to full. |
| Mickey won’t move on | You’re on the wrong page. Read his tip - he’s waiting on a place. Hit Go there, finish the action (crime, boost, treatment, etc.), then come back to him. More detail: Onboarding Tutorials. |
| Crimes / theft locked mid-tour | Normal. Mickey unlocks them on cue. Don’t fight the lock - finish his current step. |
Still jammed after that: Helpdesk with character name, what you were doing, and browser. Don’t invent workarounds that aren’t in the UI.
Death - what dies vs what survives
If your character dies, you can create a new one.
Survives (account): credits.
Resets with the character: rank, XP, cash, gear, inventory, and the rest of that run’s progress.
Name: stays on your grave and stays retired. New character = new name.