In GangCity, everything revolves around marginal advantages: a few extra percent of success chance or income can be the difference between a failed job and a fat payday. Those advantages are called buffs — temporary or structural bonuses that affect your success chance, income or cooldowns. Buffs can come from several sources at once. Whether they stack in strength or only last longer depends on their type and source.
City Director
Cities no longer have their own permanent bonus. Every 6 hours, the City Director assigns one advantage city and one warning city. Active effects and the warning for the next window appear in the banner and on the travel page. During an active window you can travel to the advantage city for free once.
New-player bonus
Fresh gangsters get a helping hand: during your first 7 days, or until you reach the rank of Soldier, you automatically get -10% cooldown on crimes. This lets you repeat actions faster in your early days and build up your rank without long interruptions.
Marriage
If you are married, that brings an economic advantage: as long as your partner is online, you earn +2% extra crime income. As soon as your partner goes offline, the bonus temporarily lapses — so it pays to be active together.
Family donation buff
Members of a family can activate a temporary buff for the whole family through donations to the family. Such a buff automatically applies to every member's actions for as long as it is active.
Temporary buffs
There are also buffs with a fixed duration, which you can obtain in several ways:
- Credit Shop — use donation credit to buy buffs such as no energy loss, an extra daily mission slot, a login bonus, or an expanded statistics dashboard.
- Slot machine jackpot — land the right combination in the casino and you can win a temporary buff alongside money.
- Reset bonus — if you choose to start over after your death, you get temporary extra rank progress to get back up to speed faster.
Stacking and maximum
Context and world bonuses, such as a marriage bonus or City Director reward, can stack together. Personal temporary buff items of the same type do not stack in strength: items of the same strength only extend the duration. While a different strength is active, you cannot activate the item; it stays in your inventory. Every buff type does have a set cap, so the effect never grows without limit. Your active buffs are shown wherever they apply, for example during a crime or a robbery.
The boosts you buy with available honor points — such as Discretion or Connections — apply to the action in question. While the option remains enabled, you pay again for the next eligible action; these are not buff items with a fixed duration.