Nerve

Nerve

Nerve is a crucial attribute for many activities in the game, especially committing Crimes. It recovers at a rate of 1 nerve every 5 minutes until it reaches the maximum capacity of your nerve bar. You can also boost your nerve recovery by using Drugs, drinking Alcohol, spending 30 Points for a refill, getting the Herbal Releaf Co. Stock benefit, or spending job points on nerve. Nerve grows along with your crime experience. You can expand your nerve bar by up to 65 with all the bonuses: merit upgrades, company specials and faction specials. However, only your natural nerve bar reflects your crime experience.

• Nerve is a resource that is needed for committing Crimes, which are illegal activities that can earn money, items, or other benefits. The difficulty and reward of Crimes vary depending on the amount of nerve required.

• The natural nerve bar (NNB) is determined by the crime experience of the player, which reflects their ability to perform harder Crimes.

• Nerve can also be used for Busting, which is the action of freeing oneself or another player from Jail. Jail is a place where players are sent after failing a Crime or being arrested by another player. Busting oneself costs half of the total nerve bar, while Busting another player costs five nerve. The success rate of Busting depends on the level, bust skill, and other factors of the player.
  • You can reduce the cost of nerve of busting yourself out of Jail by having completed education LAW2990. Busting skill can be increased by up to 50% with the use of Bust skill upgrades on the Criminality branch of faction specials.

• Nerve is not consumed by participating in Faction Organized Crimes, which are large-scale criminal operations that require coordination and planning among faction members. Organized Crimes can yield high rewards, but also carry high risks and require high crime experience and natural nerve bar.

• When a player has more Nerve than their maximum, Nerve will neither reset to the player's maximum like Happy does, nor will it increment on the 5 minute mark.

There is an internal cap in the system for current nerve of 32,767 -- that is, even if a player uses drugs or alcohol, any nerve gained beyond 32,767 will be discarded. .

Increasing Your Maximum Nerve Bar

• The main way to increase your nerve bar is through doing Crimes; this both increases your crime experience and at certain milestones of CE also increases your nerve bar size by increments of 5. These points are often referred to as your "natural nerve bar".

• Spending Merits on your nerve bar allows you to increase your maximum nerve bar by up to 10 extra points.

• Joining a Faction with the Nerve Faction upgrades in the Criminality branch. Nerve increases your nerve bar by 1 per Nerve upgrade (up to a maximum of 40).

• Many Job and Company specials can provide bonuses to your nerve:
  • The 5* Amusement Park special "Unflinching" gives user +10 maximum nerve.
  • The 5* Meat Warehouse special "Carnage" gives user +10 maximum nerve.
  • The 10* Pub special "Buzzed" gives user +15 maximum nerve.

• Nerve bar strength and crime experience are also increased by busting others out of jail. It is unclear exactly how busting higher levels or longer jail times affects that.

• There is no limit to one's maximum natural nerve, although each increment will be harder to achieve (125 was the limit in the old system with 60 Natural Nerve Bar + 10 Merit upgrades + 40 Faction special + 15 from 10* Pub Special). However there is a realistic cap that is currently unknown.

• Your nerve bar will update upon visiting the crimes page.

Refilling your Nerve bar

• Many Job and Company specials can provide bonuses to your nerve:
  • The Law Job special at the first rank gives "+3 to current nerve" for 5 job points.
  • The 1* Amusement Park special "Dauntless", which gives +2 to current nerve for 1 job point.
  • The 5* Candle Shop special "Calming Therapy" gives user +2 to current nerve for 1 job point.
  • The 1* Firework Stand special "Audaciousness", gives user +2 to current nerve for 1 job point.
  • The 10* Game Shop special "Overpowered", gives user 1 nerve, 5 energy, 50 happiness for 1 job point (there is a limit of 100 job point use for this special per day, as there is energy to be gained).
  • The 1* Meat Warehouse special "Blood Thirst", gives user +2 to current nerve for 1 job point.
  • The 5* Pub special "Liquid Courage", Refills users nerve bar for 25 job points.

• For 30 Points you can refill your nerve bar in Points Building. You can access this by clicking [Use] next to Points on the sidebar. As with the energy refill, you can only refill your nerve bar once a day.

• Alcohol bottles can be bought from shops or other players to replenish your nerve bar, these count towards your booster cooldown.

• The Cannabis drug provides 8-12 nerve when used. This amount is tripled during the 420 day event.

• The LSD drug provides 5 nerve when used.

• Herbal Releaf Co. (CBD) provides 50 nerve for every stock block you own. You can collect this every 7 days.

See also: Crime