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CRIME

[:: Legends Of The Jedi ::]

Planets in LotJ can have varying amounts of criminal activity, and this is
represented by their crime rate shown in SHOWPLANET <planet> AI, on a scale
from 0 to 100.

Effects:

High crime results in embezzlement of a portion of the tax revenue generated by
the planet, meaning a planet with high crime can operate at a loss for its
clan.

Public opinion of the government is reduced by a fixed amount based on the
crime level, which can in turn accelerate the rise in crime. Opinion on wealthy
planets is affected more by crime, and opinion on corrupt planets is impacted
less.

High crime levels will cause criminal mobs to appear on the planet, which will
fight with police.

Crime may naturally rise on its own due to:

Low Public Opinion: When opinion of the current government is 40 or less, it
will contribute to higher crime, with lower opinion increasing the effect.

Orbiting Pirates: If pirate ships make it to orbit, they will increase crime
quickly until destroyed.

Corrupt Planets: Planets with the CORRUPT setting have a moderate level of
natural crime.

Crime can also be caused by player activity:

Bribing Police: Bribing a police mob will increase crime. See HELP BRIBE.

Killing Citizens: For members of clans other than the current government,
killing citizen mobs increases crime by 0.5.

Inspirecrime: This leadership class feat allows players to use citizens to
increase the crime rate.

To reduce crime or keep it from rising:

Find and kill criminal mobs: When crime is high, armed criminal mobs will spawn
on the planet. Each criminal killed will reduce crime by 0.5.

Increase military presence: The military presence level causes crime to drop
naturally over time. Increasing military funding with LEADPLANET will raise
military presence gradually. If crime has risen above the military presence
level, you will need to actively increase military presence to higher than the
crime level, or manually reduce the crime level, in order for military presence
to lower crime on its own.

Tips:

* The fastest way to resolve high crime is to focus on killing criminals and
increasing your military presence in parallel. That can mean blockading the
planet, for example, while someone on the ground hunts down the criminals.

See Also: 'MILITARY PRESENCE', 'PUBLIC OPINION', LEADPLANET, 'PLANET FLAGS',
'CLAN EVENTS'