Travel & Events

Travel is how you realize arbitrage, but it’s also where most volatility and punishment happens.

Travel Costs

For every move:

• Cash cost: based on route distance
• Energy cost: ceil(cashCost / 50)

Travel also reduces your risk modifier by 0.1 (down to a floor of 0), helping you cool down over time.

Base Location Risk

Location	Base Risk
Bel Air	5%
Stabroek	10%
Bourda	10%
Eccles	10%
Ogle	15%
Agricola	20%
Albouystown	30%
Charlestown	30%

Event Trigger Probability

On travel, event trigger chance is:

min(1, locationRisk + playerRiskModifier + weaponRisk)

Travel also lowers your current risk modifier by 0.1 after the move resolves.

Additional pressure can come from bounty heat.

Event Type Selection

If an event triggers:

1. CANU Bust check first
   • Base chance: 25%
   • Bounty bonus:
     • +20% at bounty >= 5,000
     • +50% at bounty >= 15,000
     • +100% at bounty >= 30,000
2. If CANU not selected, event is random among:
   • Scrape
   • Flood
   • Lucky Find

Forced Bust Condition

At bounty >= 30,000 traveling into high-risk zones (risk >= 20%), CANU bust is forced.

Event Effects

🚓 CANU Bust

• Base loss: 30% of each inventory good
• Defense mitigates losses up to 80% cap
• Effective loss:

lossPct = 0.30 * (1 - min(0.8, defense / 100))

Insurance (if active) halves CANU inventory losses again.

🔪 Scrape (Robbery)

• Without goons: lose 20% of carry cash
• With goons: cash loss prevented, but 1 goon is lost

🌊 Flood

• In Eccles: lose 10% of goods
• Other locations: flavor event only (no inventory loss)

🍀 Lucky Find

• Gain 5 units of a random good

Mitigation Strategies

Mitigation	Best Against
Higher defense gear	CANU bust inventory loss
Keeping bounty low	Forced/boosted CANU odds
Banking profits	Scrape cash loss exposure
Route planning around Eccles	Flood inventory loss
Maintaining goons	Scrape cash denial (at goon attrition cost)

Practical Travel Discipline

• Don’t travel full-inventory with no defense in high-risk neighborhoods.
• Reduce heat (bounty/risk) before long reposition routes.
• Keep emergency cash for one extra move if prices shift.
• Use Safehouse before high-risk travel when protecting rank matters most.
• Travel also decays bounty by 2% per move, so repositioning can cool heat slightly even when it costs cash and energy.