Bounties

How your head gains value#

Every successful job raises your bounty. It survives logging off and doesn't shrink over time. It shows right under your money. Masked, whatever you pick up is multiplied by 0.5 (see losing the cops).

Who gets paid#

The player who kills you pockets your whole bounty in cash, and your head resets to zero. But:

• between crewmates, nothing gets paid: the bounty stays;
• death with no killer (fall, crash, police): the bounty stays on your head;
• behind bars, nothing gets paid, either way;
• the same killer only collects on the same victim once every 30 min;
• taken out by another player's henchman: his boss collects.

And the killer gets a $2,000 murder bounty in turn. Except in self-defense: if your victim killed you less than 10 min ago, no bounty for you. But you don't collect theirs either.

Keep hunting down the same victim? Your murder bounty multiplies each time, up to ×5.

Nobody sees you on the map#

A big bounty doesn't put a blip on you. From $5,000, the whole server learns there's a price on your head, without knowing where you are. From $50,000, a wanted notice hits every phone with the neighborhood you were last seen in. /bounties lists the biggest heads online.

Placing a contract#

The Bounties app on your phone lets you pay to put a bounty on another player, plus a 10% fee that goes up in smoke. Anonymous: they know someone paid, not who. Not on a crewmate, not on an inmate, one contract every 10 min.

NPC fugitives from the bail office are a different thing: see bounty hunter.