This suggestion aims to help with the following:

• Unprofitability of weed and coke production (without high prestiges)

• Standard jobs are irrelevant in current meta other than for achievements

• Good middle-length job options missing (between construction and blackmail/hacking)

• Limited options for non-combat specialised cartels

By:

• Making prod mats easier to farm, particularly making fert more attractive

• Making standard jobs be a meaningful alternative as rep building tools

• Creating many more options of jobs at different lengths of time while still rewarding high-frequency play

• New impactful but expensive cartel perks oriented towards non-combat gameplay

Part 1: Job Chains

Why just do one job when you can do multiple in quick succession? Of course, doing a chain of crimes requires more careful planning and skill. You also hit the best targets first so each additional one will have fewer rewards and higher risks. Still, it beats sitting around and doing nothing!

New Job Prestiges

Five new job prestiges are added that allow adding one extra job to be queued each. A job queue can be interrupted at any time, losing only the time invested on the last job. 

Failure will not interrupt the queue but will delay starting the next job until out of hosp/jail. Being hospitalised for any other reason will also delay starting the next job in the queue until out of hosp.

Additional jobs will have lower rewards and higher relative failure rates (for example, if your chance to fail was 10%, a 50% increase from chaining penalties would make it 15%). The chaining penalty can be partially mitigated through university courses, achievement rewards, and cartel perks.

Once a prestige is unlocked, one can select how many jobs they want to do in a row up to what they can do (1-6 max). Chaining penalties don’t affect experience gained from job completion or their contribution towards achievements.

New Achievements and Rewards

A new achievement reward is added:
Master Planner: Reduces job chaining penalty by 0.3% for each level

To support this, a new job reward is also added:
Crime Mastery: Successfully complete x jobs, with 16 levels maxing out at 100,000 jobs completed

Existing jobs achievements are also expanded to have two more levels each, level 10 with 8,000 jobs and level 11 with 12,000 jobs.

This adds a total of 28 new potential rewards points, which will not fully cover the cost needed to unlock maximum Master Planner. This is intentional to make specialising on jobs a costly decision, with meaningful tradeoffs between it and other rewards such as combat-related ones.

New Cartel Perk for Job Chaining

A new cartel Job Training perk is introduced:
Chaining Efficiency: This upgrade reduces the chaining penalty of all Jobs by 0.5% for each level

There are 10 levels for a maximum of 5% chaining penalty reduction.

The costs of this perk are intentionally on the higher end to make them a significant tradeoff for a non-combat oriented cartel.

Part 2: Standard Jobs Relevance Update

Standard Jobs have quickly fallen out of the meta: they give little in terms of money and their slightly larger rep gains vs robberies have been overshadowed by rep gained from attacking and reviving. With the new production prestiges increasing the value of having rep, this a good time to make them relevant again.

To begin with, all current rep gains from standard job will be increased by 50%. Additional increases will be added through cartel perks and university courses for up to +400% gains (all perks will be additive).

This will create a tradeoff of either earning up to £6-7m/hour from maxed robberies or earning up 2,450 rep/hour from standard jobs. It will also enable meaningful rep progress (and production prestiging) without high combat stats.

New Cartel Perk for Standard Job Rep

A new cartel Job Training perk is introduced:
Standard Job Rep: This upgrade increases the rep gained from standard jobs by 50% for each level

There are 6 levels for a maximum of +300% standard job rep gain.

The rep costs of these perks are intentionally lower to make them affordable to most active cartels.

New Education for Job Chaining and Standard Job Rep

PR and Social Media: This course will teach you about building and maintaining a brand and using social media as a business tool - with surprising applications to criminal activities.

The course names and descriptions are just placeholders 

Conclusion

These updates should help with making short jobs more attractive, thereby fixing prod supply issues. They also add more options for non-combat oriented players and cartels, fleshing out the jobs/economic side of gameplay, and giving a use for standard jobs, especially in early to middle stage players.

I love this suggestion! I've got a question though, do you include rep in the "lowered rewards" for chaining jobs? Or is that only money, robbery items and chance of personal favors?

I would include rep as well

imo it would make more sense for the cartel perks that buff rep gained to affect ALL jobs, and just make it a little more pricey.

imo it would make more sense for the cartel perks that buff rep gained to affect ALL jobs, and just make it a little more pricey.

HERPSAC - 12/05/2026, 14:03:11

Part of the purpose of my suggestion was to give standard jobs a purpose. If they buffed all rep gain, there'd be no reason to not do robberies instead as they make so much money and close to the same rep already.

I like the general idea of the suggestion, but I think the values need to be tweaked. 

1) Achievements:

• Master Planner is a bit low compared to the cartel perk (Chaining Efficiency), maybe make it .5% per Level and then cap the cartel perk at 3%
• I think the 5k job completion achievement is high enough, given that the longer jobs are already completely impossible. How about adjusting the cap based on the job duration instead? E.g. Intimidation could be extended to 12k, but Paste robbery reduced to 3k or something.

2) Standard job relevance:

• As someone with over 7k Arson jobs, I really like the +50% base improvement
• I also like the +400% rep with all unlocks, but I'd instead cap the university + cartel bonus to +200% and make reward prestiges also affect the rep gains
• Regarding the cartel perk, I'd add more levels and increase the price exponentially, that way new cartels don't completely miss out, but it's also not a "free perk"

I generally just want something to boost rep gains from standard jobs and to a smaller extent also advanced jobs, since rep is the primary boon here, which is why I also liked this suggestion from 2 weeks ago

https://cartelempire.online/Forum/5/6102

I like this idea 👍

I like the general idea of the suggestion, but I think the values need to be tweaked. 

1) Achievements:

• Master Planner is a bit low compared to the cartel perk (Chaining Efficiency), maybe make it .5% per Level and then cap the cartel perk at 3%
• I think the 5k job completion achievement is high enough, given that the longer jobs are already completely impossible. How about adjusting the cap based on the job duration instead? E.g. Intimidation could be extended to 12k, but Paste robbery reduced to 3k or something.

2) Standard job relevance:

• As someone with over 7k Arson jobs, I really like the +50% base improvement
• I also like the +400% rep with all unlocks, but I'd instead cap the university + cartel bonus to +200% and make reward prestiges also affect the rep gains
• Regarding the cartel perk, I'd add more levels and increase the price exponentially, that way new cartels don't completely miss out, but it's also not a "free perk"

MARLIS - 13/05/2026, 06:00:22

The long jobs do take decades but I have maxed 5k farm robbery and am close to maxing agave. Wouldn't mind continuing. I know some other people who have reached and gone past 5k as well.

marking this as planned, I have discussed with Diablo and though the final result may end up a little different than this, the core feature can move forward. So I am adding this to my queue.

This is now implemented.