CAPORA CITY GUIDE
How Investigations & City Pulse works
The Underworld layer makes the city react to what you do. Criminal success can create evidence and investigation pressure, while temporary City Pulse incidents change local conditions and opportunities.
Heat and investigations are different
Heat remains the immediate police-pressure value used by existing systems. Investigations are the longer-term Underworld layer and can accumulate Witness Attention, Digital Evidence, Vehicle Evidence, Financial Evidence and Territory Activity.
Different actions leave different pressure
Auto Theft and Chop Shop naturally feed vehicle evidence; Smuggling and Contracts can feed financial evidence; organised or high-profile activity can create digital or territory pressure. The exact values remain server-authoritative.
Safehouse security matters
Security Room development can reduce the amount of investigation pressure added by supported activities. This creates a reason to invest in infrastructure instead of treating evidence as an unavoidable timer.
City Pulse is local and temporary
The World page shows the active incident for your current city. Incidents have a start and end time and can represent disruptions, crackdowns, freight surges or city events. The countdown updates live while you remain on the page.
Incidents are content, not decoration
Each incident carries an effects definition so the system can increasingly alter resource chances, pressure, markets or future operation conditions. Developers can create new incident definitions and manually start them in a selected city.
A changing world creates new sessions
Because incidents rotate and investigations respond to activity, logging in tomorrow does not have to present exactly the same optimal route as today. The aim is to create decisions about what is worth doing now.
GOOD TO KNOW
Practical tips
- Watch investigation pressure as well as normal Heat.
- Check World before choosing a long session route.
- A city incident affects its city, so travel can become a strategic response.
- Investing in Safehouse security is one way to manage long-term pressure.
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