Prison Busting

Gangster Nation Guide

Gangster Nation has a prison and if your heat builds up you will find yourself in it! If you are in prison, other gangsters can bust you out or you can bribe the guards to let you out early.

Heat

Your heat is presented as an orange bar in the stats bar. The higher your heat is the more likely you are to end up in prison after attempting a crime. Your heat will increase as you attempt crimes. As you progress through the levels your heat will increase at a faster rate after every crime. If you get thrown into prison your heat will reset back to 0%.

Busting

When you aren't in prison yourself, you can bust out gangsters who are in prison. You gain XP for busting and you can do so every 30 seconds so it's a very good way to earn XP and level up quickly.

Busting Chance

The chance of busting an inmate out of prison is represented by the green bar under each name. Each time you attempt a bust, your chance of busting inmates at any level increases, with lower level inmates increasing more quickly. You may need to attempt several busts to increase your chance by 1% on higher levels, but keep at it and your chances will increase. The maximum chance is 90%.

Max Chance Table

The following table shows the amount of bust attempts you need to make for each target level to reach the maximum chance of 90%.

Level Attempts to hit 90%
1 36
2 147
3 330
4 596
5 930
6 1,361
7 1,853
8 2,458
9 3,111
10 3,900
11 4,719
12 5,703
13 6,693
14 7,880
15 9,045
16 10,445
17 11,792
18 13,414
19 14,946
20 16,800
21 18,522
22 20,619
23 22,536
24 24,884
25 27,000
26 29,609
27 31,931
28 34,810
29 37,341
30 40,500
31 43,245
32 46,695
33 49,659
34 53,408
35 56,595
36 60,653
37 64,070
38 68,446
39 72,096
40 76,800
41 80,688
42 85,731
43 89,862
44 95,252
45 99,630
46 105,377
47 110,009
48 116,122
49 121,011
50 127,500
XP

For each attempt, you gain 1 XP. However, you also receive a bonus for having a streak of successful busts:

  • Streak of 5 - 9: 1 extra XP per bust
  • Streak of 10 - 14: 2 extra XP per bust
  • Streak of 15 - 19: 3 extra XP per bust

This bonus continues to increase for every 5 busts your streak increases which means if you're lucky enough to reach a high streak you can gain a lot of extra XP in a short space of time.

Wait Timer

The wait timer between Prison Busting attempts is 30 seconds.

Bribes

When you are in prison the only way to come out before the timer ends is by using prison bribes or being busted out by another gangster. You can get bribes by:

Accolades

The following accolades can be earned through this feature:

Master Buster
  • Bronze: Bust 50 gangsters out of prison.
  • Silver: Bust 500 gangsters out of prison.
  • Gold: Bust 5,000 gangsters out of prison.
Precision Buster
  • Bronze: Reach a bust streak of 10.
  • Silver: Reach a bust streak of 20.
  • Gold: Reach a bust streak of 30.