The Fixer's Word

Your loot reports now give a short account of the raid, from a full haul to a contested escape, and defenders get their side alongside the losses. Your cash and equipment receipt still shows what you took, spent and brought home.

Crew bosses, the recruiting board now shows how to set up an open house with an approved share page and calendar invitation. Pick a time, submit your pitch for staff review and open your doors.

English captions now load properly on the First Blood walkthrough and the short Safe Cracker creator clips.

The one-minute First Blood walkthrough shows the mission start and a separate practice safe, with captions and a readable transcript. The press kit now has short captioned practice clips, and the mobile report shows four narrow game screens. Take a look before you jump in.

Bosses can submit a timed open-house invitation through public recruitment, with staff approval before it appears. Share its invitation and calendar, then let newcomers apply through the usual crew process.

Your personal invitation now has square, Story and printable formats with a signup code that keeps your referral credit. Daily Safe Cracker results have a spoiler-free image to share, and the press kit has ready-to-copy community banners. Bring your people along.

The starter guide now has paths for missions, crew play and building an empire, with clearer comparisons for money, turf, crew jobs and optional membership benefits. Voting also has a next-site shortcut and updates claim status when you return. Pick your route into the city.

For newly prepared loot raids, heavies and completed turf security can now protect some uncollected rent even when attackers get through. How strongly the crew wins matters: a convincing breach reaches a larger share than a close one, within the equipment's carrying capacity.

The same trained weapons, crew experience and useful tools that help win the encounter also help reach more cash. Sniper rifles keep their role against heavies, and code decoders against electronic security; extra bags give carrying room but cannot overwhelm the defences. It all happens when you launch the raid.

For example, an $8m turf might yield $6.25m after a successful breach, leaving $1.75m with the defender. A stronger win can reach more, but a crew that can carry only $4m still stops at $4m.

Rent kept back stays on your turf to collect. Turf without heavies or completed security keeps its existing cash access, and raids already prepared keep their original terms.

Successful packing still uses an economical mix for the actual haul and returns spare equipment. Smaller hauls can therefore save kit, while theft prestige and honour still follow the cash recovered for both sides. Ammunition, defeat costs and guard casualties keep their existing rules. Check what came home from the next job.

The crew strip could show the same blank picture for players who already had their own character portraits. It now shows each member's character, with a profile photo where no character exists. Check who's around at crew headquarters.

The numbered pages on Notifications and Inbox could spill past a phone screen and squeeze the messages. Nearby pages and arrows now stay in view, while wider screens keep the full list.

Newly prepared loot raids now pack the cash actually recovered with the least costly mix of supplied duffel bags, hard cases and usable code decoders, based on cash replacement prices. Decoders already spent on security contribute their carrying capacity too, and spare equipment comes home after success.

For example, if one hard case covers the haul for less replacement cash than two bags, your crew uses the case and returns the bags. The choice accounts for the capacity each item provides on that raid and the existing decoder allowance.

Teammates supplying the same item now share its use in proportion to what they brought, rounded to whole items. If three players supply eight, four and four bags and the crew spends eight, their shares are four, two and two; joining first no longer puts your kit first in line to be spent.

Defeat still costs every committed bag and case plus the allocated decoders, and tools used against security remain spent even without cash. Raids already prepared keep their original terms. Your attack report shows your equipment brought, spent and returned, so check what came home from the next job.

Every crew still forming on a Big Score job now buys intel off anyone outside it, a favour a point, so the streets pay even without a seat. My own scouting job goes up the moment I name a target, and any favours you have not spent are paid out in cash when the job closes, so sell what you find on the contracts board.

Another sweep through the back rooms. Logins, crew controls, casino tables and the lead factory only do what they should now, and a few loopholes are shut.

If your boss got banned, your crew folded even with a successor named. Now the successor takes over, and crew payday shares the whole bank among the living members instead of losing the dead men's cut. Name yours in the crew control panel.

Hits could be placed on players who were hibernating or banned, so you paid for a hit nobody could collect. Only living targets go on the hitlist now, and big bounties no longer split across two lines on your phone.

An emoji in your crew quote or a war declaration broke it: the quote showed an error and the enemy boss never got the declaration. Both take emoji now.

Every email I send now gets straight to it: what happened, one button that deals with it, and what's on in the city tonight. On the hitlist? One tap takes you to your bounty to clear your name. Someone tried to kill you? One tap puts a price on their head. New faces get Vinnie's first paid jobs laid out from the off. Pick which alerts land in your inbox in your email settings.

Tap a link to a page in the city while you're logged out, from an email, a bookmark or a post, and logging in now takes you straight there instead of dropping you on the main page.

The street map on your turf refreshes itself every 30 seconds, and once the anti script check fell due each refresh was counted as you failing it, so players who simply left their turf open picked up scripting strikes and six were banned. Only a real visit to the check counts now, those bans are lifted, the false strikes are wiped, and that one's on us.

Duffel bags now cost $825,000 and hard cases $1,550,000 at the Equipment Store. Restocking two bags and one case now costs $3.2m, down from $3.8m, so keep a little more of your take.

Another sweep through the back rooms. Raids, organised crime and purchases settle cleaner now, a few loopholes are shut for good, and the honour store refunds your points if it can't hand over the item.

If an older account shared your email, credits and membership codes you bought could end up on that account instead. They now always go to the player who paid, and card payments that clear a little later are delivered too.

Hit a turf with no buildings left standing and kill its heavies, and both sides were told no heavies were found while the heavies were really gone. Those attacks now finish properly, with the heavy report and the usual mail.

Rank promotions that land on the hour were never reaching the Wire. They do now, so when you climb, the city hears about it.

Restock at the Equipment Store: duffel bags now cost $1,000,000 and hard cases $1,800,000 in cash, putting two bags and one case at $3.8m.

The store does not buy these items back, and the usual loot rules apply: equipment used for the haul is spent, unused bags and cases return after success, and committed bags and cases are lost on defeat.

In the new look, the game's pop-up boxes (like the "are you sure" before a kill attempt) had lost their background and drew straight over the page. They sit on a proper panel again, the Abort Attack and Begin Attack buttons fit their words, and the kill screen no longer runs off the side of a phone.

Leaders managing members in the new look saw the list's headings piled down the left and everyone's details run together. The crew control panel shows a proper table again, and on a phone it scrolls sideways.

The Top hunters board on the hitlist was still ranking dead characters, three of the top five. A bounty record stays with the character that earned it, so the board now shows living gangsters only. There's room at the top. 🎯

Cancelling a lead factory or personal bullet factory upgrade now puts the factory back exactly as it was before the upgrade, not just its level.

Newly prepared turf attacks now give weapons distinct jobs: ordinary guns supply general firepower, precision rifles gain effectiveness against heavies, and launchers gain effectiveness against pads, wire and walls, with weapon training and each fighter's own compatible ammunition shaping their contribution. Bigger ammunition stockpiles give diminishing extra power and specialist advantages stay bounded while heavies and completed security resist and absorb the assault; all committed ammunition is still spent, and attacks already prepared keep their original rules, so take a fresh look at your crew's equipment and your turf's protection.

Signing up used to email back the password you'd just chosen, where it sat in your inbox for anyone who got in there later. It's gone, and the rest of our emails got a once-over too: the logo now takes you to the right site, the footer shows the year, and the account-ban email names a real address to write to. Signed up before today? It's worth changing your password in Settings.

Every Sunday at midnight the weekly prestige board now crowns its winner: first place takes a crown beside their name and 10 credits. There's a second prize for most improved, 10 credits to whoever beats their own best week of the last four by the biggest share, so you don't have to be the busiest gangster in the city to win it. 👑

The Prestige page is rebuilt: eight standing ranks from Unknown to Legend, who's directly above and below you this week and all time, and the guns and gear your prestige opens next. The boards for the week, all time, crews and past champions sit behind tabs, and it all works on your phone. Go see who's in your way.

When someone you'd sent a spy after had a profile picture that had gone missing, their tile on your spies came up as an empty square. It shows their initial now, so you always know who your people are watching.

Went round the city's back offices again. A few more doors locked and a few more things settle fairer from here on.

Notes with an emoji in them failed to save and lost what you'd written. They save now, and notes in any language keep their full length.

Collecting from the chop shop could push your garage past its spaces; the car now waits in the shop until you make room. Shipping a car you own works with a full garage, and the car market scrolls on a phone. Head to your garage.

With the game open in two tabs, claiming a daily reward or loading your alerts could fail. Both go through first time now.

Every bounty on the hitlist now shows the face, the hits behind it and its grade, from Marked up to Public Enemy, and your record climbs from Hired Gun to Legend with every bounty you collect. Each bounty gets its own page to buy hits out, pay it down or raise the price, the top five hunters get their names on the board, and it all works on your phone. Go put a price on someone. 🎯

Spent another shift going through the quieter corners of the city. A few more things settle cleaner and fairer from here on.

Mail, replies, world chat, jail chat and crew chat refused anything with an emoji in it, and the reply window could say a message went when it hadn't. Emoji go through everywhere now, and a failed send tells you so. Drop someone a line from your inbox.

Helpdesk tickets and replies take emoji now, a reply whose screenshot didn't upload no longer pretends it's attached, and picking Bug or Idea keeps that category even if you typed your own subject first.

Mission bosses sign off under their own name when they pay you, trades refuse half a credit instead of quietly rounding it, and a crew with no turf is told so in the crew panel. Poker tells you when you're acting too fast instead of reloading the table.

Turf spy reports filed before the recent rebuild could call a turf a 'Gold mine' even when it had no rent to steal. Their rent now reads Unverified, with a reminder in the report and summary to send a fresh turf spy to check the takings.

Every trip to the shooting range is a score card now: your ten shots each score the ring they hit, and you earn 75 xp plus the card, so a gun that groups tighter earns more. Beat your gun's par card after card for a hot streak worth up to 50% more, and your first visit of the day with each gun pays half again, so get down there and set a best.

Your primary and sidearm now sit side by side on their own lanes, with the cost of a visit, what you can afford and how far the next level is right under each gun. A visit plays out in about two seconds instead of twelve, or flip on Instant results and get your card the moment you fire.

Went back through the ledgers and a few of the quieter corners of the city after hours. Things settle cleaner and fairer from here on.

Posts, replies and edits on the forums with an emoji in them failed to save, and a heart typed as <3 in a reply wiped the rest of the line. Both save properly now, search finds accented words, and quoting someone by name shows who said it.

Leaving a waiting poker table and sitting back down at the same one always failed. You can rejoin now, and when the table refuses a move it tells you why instead of just reloading.

A clean getaway now counts towards mission steps that ask for crimes, the experience readout never shows a negative gain, and the Classic look fits the whole chase on a phone. The GTA crew garage raid also stopped failing whenever it drew a crewmate with no car in your city.

Roulette's second column pays on 8 like the board says, graveyard condolences keep their accents and profile quotes keep their emoji. Game Stats counts the dead properly, the referral page names Hustler as the rank that pays, and Strongroom and demolish quotes show what you actually get.

For a couple of weeks a bet at the Numbers Game still took your stake and paid any win, but the table jumped straight back to an empty bet slip without showing the number that came up or whether you had won. Every bet now shows the draw and your result right above the table.

Recent updates have changed how preparation, equipment and defences work together across turf attacks, loot raids and car bombs. Here is what those changes mean when you organise a hit or protect your own patch.

1. Crew strength and target resistance
Turf and loot crews now build on their strongest member's experience, with teammates adding support. Extra rank support has diminishing returns, while each member's useful weapons, training and equipment still contribute. The target's rank resistance is counted independently of your crew size.
Example: a veteran can benefit from less-experienced backup without that teammate counting as another veteran or making the target's rank resistance increase.

2. Weapons and training on loot raids
Ordinary guns provide general firepower. Trained M40, Dragunov and Barrett rifles now have a specialist role against heavies, using their matching ammunition. Training and ammunition still improve weapon contribution, with diminishing gains at higher amounts. Guard losses now follow fighting strength against the target's resistance through a more gradual calculation.
Example: two crews with similar ranks and ammunition spending can perform differently against the same guarded turf because their weapons and training differ.

3. Decoders, carrying equipment and returns
Code decoders work against electronic security, with diminishing gains. The crew shares an allowance of up to five usable decoders per member, and surplus returns to whoever supplied it. Decoders used against security are spent even if the raid fails or brings back no cash. On successful raids, bag and hard-case usage follows the cash actually recovered, with unused carrying equipment returned to its original contributor. Your report shows your equipment brought, spent or lost, and returned, alongside ammunition, energy and the crew's haul.
Example: your crew can breach security and find no rent to take. Decoders used during the breach are still spent, while unused carrying equipment comes home.

4. Heavies and security
Experienced and professional heavies now provide stronger resistance per guard against turf attacks, looting and car bombs. Basic heavies remain the cheaper option for numbers. During looting, security contributes to the resistance protecting your guards. Decoder strength is kept separate from the fighting strength used to calculate guard losses. For turf attacks and car bombs, security installations contribute once construction finishes. During turf attacks, damaged installations absorb only their remaining durability.
Example: a security upgrade can reduce guard losses even when the attackers still manage to take some cash. Two equally sized guard forces can also offer different resistance because of their training.

5. Car-bomb loadouts
Your explosive mix now shapes the blast: gasoline spreads lighter damage across more buildings, C4 concentrates heavier damage, and dynamite and Tovex sit between those approaches. The fitted explosives determine the payload; guards, completed security and rank differences influence how much damage gets through. Damage is limited per building, so one blast cannot destroy a healthy building outright. Every bomb vehicle, including ambulances, respects the turf's 30-minute recovery window.
Example: two successful blasts with similar explosive power can leave different damage patterns. One may leave several buildings lightly damaged, while another leaves fewer buildings more heavily damaged.

6. Loot reputation follows the haul
The theft prestige and honour bonus now scales with the cash actually stolen, up to the existing maximum reward. Smaller hauls mean smaller bonuses for the attackers and smaller reputation losses for the defender. An empty-handed raid awards no theft reputation bonus and causes no matching theft reputation loss.
Example: collecting a small amount of rent and taking a substantial haul can both produce a successful raid, with very different reputation awards and defender losses.

Look over your crew, your kit and your turf before the next job.

When one of my notes is about a place in the city, it can now link you right to it, so you go from reading about a change to trying it in one tap. The odd emoji shows up cleanly too, here, on the front page and in our Discord and X posts.

Gangster and turf spies share one Spies page, with the hire form right beside your reports, and everyone you're watching gets a single card with a chip per city, however many spies you sent after them. A turf spy now brings back a photo of the turf on the new street map, and the report sizes up the muscle, security, pad and rent in rough bands: enough to call the job, not the whole book.

A turf with no heavies was reported as a tiny squad, a pad with no security as light security, and a spy a few ranks below the owner never got close to a single building. All three read true now, and turf spies no longer charge you again for a city one of yours is already searching.

Another long night in the back rooms. More of the city runs the way it should, a little smoother and a little quieter.

The press kit's download-all button now hands over the complete crew advert pack. All six sizes, with JPG originals and editable SVG layouts, arrive in one ZIP.

Steady Aim Pro gives a gun 200 xp or half a level, whichever is more, but when that tipped the gun into a new level it also counted the experience the gun already had a second time, pushing it further than the item pays for and even past level 100. It now levels guns exactly like the target range does and stops at level 100.

Bring useful backup on new turf attacks: mixed-rank crews now combine their experience with diminishing returns, while weapons and training keep their bite. Your turf stands on its own rank, pad, completed security and heavies, and worn security takes only the punishment it has left.

Your chat and game controls now reuse more of what your browser already has, and busy pads take fewer trips to load their heavies. Balances stay current after a move, and mission contacts tidy up their conversation notes in the background.

On phones the cookie choice box sat on top of the Log in and Play free bar at the foot of the homepage. The bar now waits until you've answered the box, then slides up.

The press kit now carries current gameplay and tool screenshots, the crew artwork, and six fresh banner and social sizes. Grab the dated originals, or head from About Street Crime to the official missions trailer.

Switch Shop reminders off in My Account's Preferences to stop inbox reminders and shop notes for unfinished purchases. Your purchase receipts and account alerts still arrive.

Pressing Collect all on Vinnie's walkthrough could leave the box sitting there with nothing happening. It now hands everything over and moves you on, tells you plainly if something couldn't be collected, and if your account is past its first 30 days it says so and lets you tick the jobs off instead of promising cash.

Another pass through the back rooms. A handful of deals, counters and paperwork around the city now behave the way they should.

Signing up is rebuilt: names are checked as you type, you can roll one if you're stuck, and your city papers fill in beside the form. Choose which of the six studio characters you start as and you arrive wearing that face.

The police sweep for unshipped cars could grab a car in the same second you stole it, so the Ship button said it was missing. Every stolen car now gets a full minute to be shipped from the GTA page, the Ship button only fires once, and a car the cops took says so plainly.

The button on the Busted and Taken Down popup now takes you to jail or hospital the moment you press it. Before, the countdown kept running behind it and restarted the trip, so pressing it never got you there any quicker.

On phones the crew page's member list now wraps instead of running off the side, friends' characters stay inside their picture box, and the equipment store no longer squashes item names into one letter a line with the Buy button off screen.

The See more players link on the mugging page now only shows when there really are more players to list, instead of reloading the same names page after page.

Opening a Councillors Briefcase now tells you to pick which building the planning permission is for (Turf, More, Building permissions), and the build limit warning reminds you of any unspent permissions before pointing you at the credit shop. Balaclava's and the Hard Case Suitcase are now simply the Balaclava and the Hard Case.

Staff can no longer be drawn in the weekly or monthly members prize draws, and neither can banned or hibernating accounts. Your inbox light now only comes on for mail that actually arrived, and a quick night offline no longer tucks your inbox away until you sign in again.

Your loot crew's prestige and honour now grow with the cash you actually take, up to the usual reward. Smaller hauls also cost the defender less reputation.

Kept at it after hours. More of the city's paperwork adds up the way it should, and a few rough edges around town have been smoothed off.

Checkout reminders now arrive as one private inbox message, without doubling up in notifications. The shop note appears once, and a finished purchase keeps you off the follow-up list.

Naming the whole outfit? The guides now put gang names, character aliases and hierarchy charts together. The Torn comparison spells out Android choices, and the rank guide's search summary explains levels and crew roles.

Spent a long night tidying up how money changes hands around the city. Everything settles a little cleaner and smoother from here on.

Failed card payments and unfinished checkouts can get their shop reminders again. A handful of quiet attempts no longer shuts the reminders down, and a completed purchase keeps you off the follow-up list.

Your loot crew earns the theft prestige and honour bonus when it brings back cash. If a raid takes no rent, the defender keeps their theft prestige and honour.

The homepage has fresh key art of the crew (rain-soaked at night, on the seafront by day), all six characters, every boss and current screenshots of the game in whichever look you use. The login box is bigger and clearer, with a show-password button and a Caps Lock warning, and once you scroll down a login bar follows you so you are never far from signing in.

The public guides, FAQs and feature pages now describe Vinnie's walkthrough, Heat in place of the old crime timers, six characters, the turf street map, all five bosses and today's casino tables. Their screenshots are fresh captures of the current game, with night and day versions to match your look.

Came in through a crew's recruiting page? Signup promised to remember your pick, but Vinnie's walkthrough never showed it. That crew now sits at the top of the walkthrough's crew list while it has room, ready for your application.

The credit store no longer makes you scroll through a wall of big cards. Every item is a neat tile with its picture, name and price, five to a row, so the whole Items tab fits on one screen, and packs show what's inside them at a glance. The buy window is smaller too: pick how many you want and the button tells you exactly what it'll cost, like "Buy · 6 credits". On a phone the buttons are easier to hit and tapping the quantity no longer zooms the page.

Your explosive mix now shapes the blast: gasoline spreads lighter damage across more buildings, while C4 concentrates heavier hits, with dynamite and Tovex in between. Completed security helps absorb the blast, and every bomb vehicle respects the turf's recovery window.

Your experienced and professional heavies now provide stronger resistance against turf attacks, loot raids and car bombs. Basic heavies remain the economical choice for numbers, while better-trained guards bring more resistance per man.

Your weapons and training now shape guard losses more gradually during loot raids, and stronger defences soften the blow. Decoders still help crack the security while your crew handles the fighting.

Code decoders still help your loot crew breach electronic security. Heavy losses now follow the crew's fighting strength against the turf's defences, so your security upgrades also help protect your guards.

Since the new look became everyone's default, anyone who signed up, or came back from the dead with a fresh character, was quietly dropped onto the old desktop layout and left squinting at it on their phone. New accounts now start on the new look, a returning player keeps whichever look they had, everyone caught out has been moved over, and the welcome tour greets a newcomer as a newcomer.

The Don's second job, Tools of the Trade, told newcomers to mug someone while my cover forbids exactly that; it's now Friday's collection round, and you can finish it under cover. You also join the main chat the moment you earn Paper Boy rather than up to an hour later when the promotion lands, and a Hobo or Paper Boy pays bail by the second instead of a flat $5,000.

My Account has become Settings, with Account, Security, Profile, Preferences, Alerts, Friends and Payments each on their own tab, in both looks and on a phone. Switches save the moment you flip them, friend requests can be accepted or declined right on your friends list, and you can preview a new profile picture, see both looks side by side before you switch, and see the day you'd be back before you hibernate.

A new password used to throw you out on your very next click; now you stay signed in where you changed it and every other device is signed out. Email alerts you switched off can be switched back on, a wrong password when setting a PIN finally says so, passwords with symbols can set a PIN, passive players no longer see a false limit error on every save, and dropping a friend now lets them know.

The four-digit codes we email you, to unlock sending credits and membership codes or to confirm a hibernation, could be tried over and over, which undid the point of emailing them. Five wrong guesses now void the code, guesses at your current password and PIN are capped too, and every setting only changes when you click it yourself, so a booby-trapped page can't touch your friends, alerts or membership behind your back.

The row of action tiles along the top of the new look (Petty Crime, GTA, Drugs and the rest) now sits between the slim and tall versions: still an icon above each name, just a touch more compact.

From midnight on 1 October the new look's Theme menu gets a Halloween option: the city after dark, candlelit and foggy, with a haunt of its own for every part of town, and some nights the dead mobsters get up and walk. From midnight on 25 October everyone's on it until noon on 2 November, and if you'd rather keep your own colours, pick them from the same menu and they stay put.

Every Go Premium link now lands on a proper page instead of six plain buttons: your membership status and the perks it buys, the credit bundles with their prices, and what's on the shelves at the Credit Store, the Honour Point Store and the Ruby Exchange, with anything you can't afford yet dimmed. New player deals show their deadlines, and paying for a subscription by card now brings you back to a note that your payment went through.

Collect now lights up the moment you finish a gym session or a job, Ask Vinnie can answer questions about the walkthrough, and creating your character has moved to the last chapter so it no longer holds up your first payouts. Energy boosts wait for room in your tank instead of going to waste, and the classic Headquarters shows how far through Vinnie's list you are.

On the new look the row of action tiles along the top (Petty Crime, GTA, Drugs and the rest) is back to its bigger size, with the icon above the name, so the places you hit most are easy to spot and easy to click. The rest of the slimmer header stays.

On the Credit Shop the card you'd picked to pay with turned into a solid blue block you couldn't read, and the whole shop stayed dark even in day mode. The payment form now wears your chosen colour and follows day and night, and it sits comfortably on phones and iPads with bigger buttons and no zooming in when you tap a field.

Loot crews now draw on the strongest member's experience, with every accomplice adding support. Extra ranks give diminishing gains, so bring the weapons and tools the target calls for.

No more digging through a dropdown. Every credit bundle now sits on the counter at once with its price, what each credit costs you and how much you save, with the most popular and best value picks marked. Pick one and pay right there, or use your saved card in one tap, and you'll see your balance and a few things worth spending on before you buy.

Coming back from Hell with an item you already owned split it into two stacks, and every use took one off both, so you paid double. Returned items now land on the stack you already hold, and a split stack is spent one item at a time.

On the new look the boost rows on Grand Theft Auto sat in a muddy brown-grey that clashed with every other panel. They now share the same dark card as the rest of the page.

On the new look the gym floor floated in the middle of the page, away from its own heading. It now sits flush under the Gym title like every other page.

While an event is running, every quick tile it actually boosts wears an amber corner badge with the bonus (+50%, or Boost for the shorter Organised Crime wait), and hovering it names the event. Works in both the new and classic looks.

The top bar and quick tiles are tighter, announcements and the Wire share one row when they fit, and a dock pinned to the top lies flat. On a wide screen the stack above the page drops from about 266 pixels to 167, so there is more game and less scrolling.

Hit a barbell, speed bag, skipping rope or reflex bag (or press 1 to 4) and it counts the second you swing, even on a slow line, with your stats, combat power and energy moving right there. The gym also tells you how many more times you can train, what each go is worth with your shake or Gym Boost, when your energy is back, and what each stat does in a scrap.

On newly prepared loot raids, code decoders help crack electronic security with diminishing gains: your crew can use up to five per member, and surplus goes back to whoever supplied it even after a defeat. Decoders used against security are spent even if you come away empty-handed; raids already prepared keep their existing rules.

Your loot report now shows your equipment brought, spent and returned, plus your ammunition and the crew's haul. When the crew brings back less cash than its equipment can carry, unused supplies go back to the gangsters who brought them, based on the cash actually recovered.

The weapon, ammo, protection and transport stores now draw everything on their shelves in the same art it has in your inventory, and the ammo store shows the rounds instead of the gun that fires them. Classic players get the Marketplace's new store icons too.

The chop shop's explosives and detonator are redrawn, and the same set shows on your cars in the garage and on the car bomb attack. Every depot package grade has its own picture now (the Special no longer borrows the Premium's), the Ruby Exchange shows its rubies, the energy and health shops show what you're buying, and your life insurance tier is a bronze, silver, gold or platinum emblem.

Ordinary guns bring general firepower; trained M40, Dragunov and Barrett rifles now give your loot crew an edge against heavies. Training and ammunition still pay off, with diminishing gains as you pile on more.

Auto production on your personal bullet factory only ever runs for members, but saving the box told everyone it was switched on, and most non-members saw it ticked already. Now, if you are not a member, saving it tells you straight that it has not been switched on and points you to membership, and the box only shows ticked when it is really working for you.

Accepting two trade invites at the same instant, from two tabs or a double click, could let both through and leave you running four trades. Your invites and acceptances now take turns, so the second one sees the first and the limit of three holds.

The energy bar in the new look showed a percentage, while training, mugging and the .50 cal all cost energy in points, so you had to do sums to know if you could go again. It now shows your actual energy out of your max, like 22/34, next to the refill clock, on the sidebar and on your phone.

When the chase turned a move down, whether the streets were too hot, the turn had already moved on or a security check was due, you got "unreadable response" instead of the reason. Now you see what actually stopped you, and a due security check takes you straight to it.

Whatever you turn up on a petty crime, in a GTA trunk or on a job, and whatever you lift off someone you mug, now shows the same picture it has in your inventory. The jobs page and the Equipment Store draw every tool in that same art too, so the crowbar you buy is the crowbar the job asks for.

New players get Vinnie's walkthrough in place of the old beginner tasks: six chapters taking you through crimes, rank, energy, the gym, drug runs, crews and your first promotion, with cash, energy, bullets and honour handed over for every job you finish. He sits in the corner of every page with your next job, and anything you can't do yet can be skipped.

Starting out? Team up with another new player straight from Vinnie's walkthrough. He suggests fresh faces who are about, you can ask anyone by name, and you both get paid the moment they say yes.

The Premium Shop now shows you what membership actually buys before it asks for a penny: every perk with its own picture, from no click limit and 30% less heat to the week of turf rent and the daily Mystery Spin. The three plans sit side by side with what each one hands you, and the annual plan tells you straight it works out at about four quid a month. Members see how much time they have left, and anything new you buy stacks on top.

New to the streets? Pick up any membership in your first three days, a code or a monthly or yearly subscription, and 30 free credits land on top. Subscribing used to miss out on the bonus even though the notice promised it. The Premium Shop now counts down the clock on your offer while it lasts.

Once a trade goes through, the Wire runs a line on it: who traded with whom and roughly what changed hands, with cars named by model, casinos by game and items counted, never where anything is. Every deal is on the record unless either of you flips the Keep quiet switch in the trade room before it closes.

The Cash Pack is $25 million in cash cases for 52 credits, a third less than buying the same cases one by one. There is also a $50 mil Cash Case for 120 credits, the price of four $10 mil cases for five times the cash, and you can buy three of those in any seven days.

Every prize on the Mystery Spin reel now shows the same picture it has in your inventory and the credit store, drawn bigger so you can tell what you pulled at a glance.

Your loot loadout now only accepts regular bullets that an equipped, trained primary weapon or sidearm can use. The crew gets checked again before launch, so incompatible ammunition cannot be spent on the raid.

Every picture on the Prostitution page has been redrawn in the city's own style: all eight girls from Crackwhore to Pole Dancer, your brothel, and the icons for every crime, send-out spot and brothel upgrade. The crime icons were being squashed out of shape too; they sit square now.

Every item in the credit store and the Honour Store now shows the same picture it has in your inventory, and every pack card carries its own art. The GTA lock tools, the boxes, the Master Spy and the T-shirt have been redrawn to match, and the Fast Track Pack, which never had a picture, finally gets one.

Every drug has new artwork and its own row with Max and All buttons, and a ticket pinned to the bottom totals your order before you buy or sell. Your price book now notes what each drug cost in every city you deal in, so each row tells you where it sells for more and where it is cheaper. Enter no longer buys by accident, and an order you line up during the cooldown is still there when it ends.

A stronger turf attack could do less damage just after overtaking the defence. That dip is gone: extra strength now adds to the damage your crew can deal.

New artwork across the garage, and a tighter list: each car now shows its status as a tag, its stats three across and its asking price and action on one line, so far more of your fleet fits on screen. Page numbers let you jump straight to any page, and the seat count on every car is finally right, it had been showing one seat too many.

The trade room is brand new: your whole stash laid out by kind, from cash and credits to cars, casinos and your crew, with both offers side by side, the chat alongside, and Lock in and Finalise buttons that show exactly where the deal stands. Your trade list shows whose move it is and what each side has put in, the trade button counts the trades waiting on you, and it all works on a phone.

A car in a trade could still be taken out on a drive-by and a crew in a trade could still be dismantled, and the deal went through anyway with the other player paying for nothing. Now nothing changes hands unless everything does, any change to an offer unlocks both sides, and cash from a called-off trade comes back to the exact dollar you put in.

Items and Credit Items are now one searchable grid with a matched set of new pictures, and anything you use updates on the spot, on a phone or iPad as well as a desktop. The Weapons Locker shows every gun you own as a card to equip, train or sell, General is now Assets with sale prices on the buttons, and Character shows each character you have recruited, the Continental included, with how much of their wardrobe you have collected.

A double click or a second tab could pay out twice from one cash case or one armour, plane or ship sale, and a booby-trapped page could make your browser pawn your jewellery or sell your plane. Every item is now taken before anything pays, and every action needs your own click. Bullet packs also respect your rank's bullet limit, the 100 Bullets scratch prize pays 100 instead of 50, the Multi Shooter stops at 29 weapon slots, and an F15 or FNSLV can no longer be sold to the city for nothing.

In the new look your mail and notifications no longer waste the screen: the gaps between messages are gone, each one sits tighter, and the Compose, Saved and Delete all buttons share one line on a phone. You now see three messages at once on a phone instead of one, and five or six on an iPad instead of three or four.

Meet the Continental in your character studio, with 144 clothing and appearance pieces to buy for cash or credits, earn through play, or discover on the streets and in stolen-car trunks. Find three different hidden Continental pieces to earn Continental Connections, worth 100 Honour and 200 Prestige.

Double clicking Sell All or Scrap All in the garage could pay out twice for the same cars, and repairs or shipping could go through when you were short of cash. Every car is now taken off your hands before the money moves, so it pays once and charges once.

Sell All and Scrap All now skip safeguarded cars, and Sell All skips wrecks over 75% damage instead of dumping them for nothing. The buttons tell you the payout before you confirm, you get one summary instead of a wall of lines, the garage warns you when it's nearly full, and you can sort by value, damage or rarity.

Calendar shoots at the Porn Studio were counting a missing car they never needed, so even a perfect setup failed about one shoot in four and two-actor scripts never passed. A fully cast Calendar now passes every time. Buy the Magnum and Dirty Harry unlocks on the spot, and anyone already packing one gets it next time they open their achievements.

Garage refusals like a full garage now show in red instead of success green. The Send money box in your pad lists your friends again, and a turf you visit links back to its owner's profile. On the new look, the energy, health and rank bars open their top-up pages, the trade item picker sits clear of the bottom bar, and tables on the World and Criminal Record pages line up on a phone. The weekly giveaway's draw dates catch up with Friday's draw.

Need a name for the whole outfit? The new gang name generator gives you six fictional crew or crime-family names at a time, with clearer mafia-style character options and refreshed ranks and browser-game comparison guides to help you find your feet.

All 86 vehicles, from the Moped to the Veyron, now wear the same black studio photo in your garage, the Car Market and the chop shop. The Taycan Turbo, McLaren 570S, Alpine A110, Ferrari SF90, Bugatti Chiron and the Armored Cash Truck finally have their pictures, so they can now be boosted off the street.

Total Vehicles on the garage page now reads like Safeguarded, your cars against the garage's max, say 755/800, so you know when it's time to sell up or build another level. It counts the whole garage now, even while you've got a filter on. Thanks for the tip.

No double dipping: settling or cancelling a trade at the same time can no longer hand out the same credits or items twice. The same protection covers expired trades and refunds when a character dies.

Closed a hole where specially arranged BBCode could run malicious code in your browser. Your posts, messages and profile formatting now keep it out.

Locked down your country and personal settings so a tampered request cannot rewrite another player's settings or sneak through from an outside page.

Trimmed the wait behind your Headquarters standings and live cash, energy and crime-button updates. Your energy countdown now catches up properly when you return to a tab.

A level 1 Strongroom held the same 24 hours of rent as having no Strongroom at all. Every level now adds 2 hours, the first one included, so level 1 keeps 26 hours of rent coming. The ceilings don't move: 4 days for everyone, a full week for premium members.

On a phone the drug price board cut off your Carrying column with no way to scroll to it. All five columns now fit the screen. And if you play more than one account on the same device, logging back in no longer congratulates you on a rank you reached months ago.

Repeated sign-in attempts now face shared limits and extra security checks. Password recovery emails are spaced out, and repeat requests keep your existing reset link working.

Switch to day theme and the admin panel now follows suit. Dashboards, logs, finance reports and staff helpdesk tools use light backgrounds with readable text, right down to forms and popups.

Locked down signup emails, payment pages and player lookups against tampered input. Signup resends now respect account status and a cooldown, and only the two players in a trade can act on it.

Build a Strongroom on your turf and every building keeps collecting rent for longer before it fills up: 2 more hours for every level, up to 4 days, or a full week for premium members. Max it out and the vault door turns gold.

Your garage picks up a new touch every 10 levels, all the way to level 250, and the heavies guarding your turf now wear the same faces they do on the heavies page.

Your garage pulls a full size photo for every car you own, and those were coming down a slower route than the rest of the game artwork. They load off the quick one now, so a full garage opens faster, and the explosives strapped to your cars come with it.

Open your turf and you are standing on the block: every building on its own lot, rent coins popping when the take is ready, your heavies walking the street and cars on the roads. Build, upgrade, repair and collect right there on the map, and look over a rival's street the same way when you pay them a visit.

A Brothel kept stacking its takings forever, so an owner who never collected could sit on billions. It now stops at a day's takings until you collect, like every other building, and anything stored past that has been cleared. You can also collect your Brothel on its own now instead of only through Collect all.

Crew auto-rent was paying every hour twice, once into your cash and again when you collected. It now goes straight to your cash and keeps coming even when storage is full. Rent, repairs, upgrades, demolitions, pad security, heavies training and Planning Orders now pay or refund once, however fast you click.

Christmas trees have been taken off every turf and can no longer be built. Car bombs now only flatten a building that is really at 100%, a pad battered past 90% throws its owner out, and a few dozen turfs with scrambled records or heavies below zero have been put straight.

A booby-trapped page can no longer work your pad, bullet and lead factories, porn studio or district controls without you clicking, and the back door that let anyone drop or reset a district is shut. Three forgotten heavies, spy and detective timers that anyone could set off from the web are gone, and nobody finds presents under a Christmas tree they never built.

The pad, bullet and lead factories and porn studio share one clean look, the heavies page is half the scroll it was, and the garage and classic turf page now fit a phone. The pad's Online Banking actually sends money now, and leaving the pad is a button, so no link can pull you out of hiding.

Planning a fictional crew? The crews guide now links you to the name generator and hierarchy builder, with a clear explanation of how those creative tools differ from running a crew in the game.

Building a fictional crew? The hierarchy builder now explains each role before you start editing, and the About page links you straight to guides for crews, turf and businesses, and city trading.

Walk into the character studio and it now opens on your active character, instead of dragging out the Wise Guy every time. A Try it on link from a find still takes you to the character that piece is for.

Found an alias you like? The name generator now lets you reroll and copy the fictional crew name on its own, keeping your character ready for signup. New naming examples help you give that crew a story.

The character you dress in the studio now stands on your profile, breathing and blinking, and takes the place of your profile picture beside your name on every page: hover it for a closer look, or click your own to jump straight into the studio. Make active now switches your character the moment you press it (before, it only stuck if you saved a look too), and the studio numbers its four steps and walks you through them on your first visit.

Find a wardrobe piece on a petty crime, in a stolen car or on a mission and the Wire tells the street what you found. Rare and exceptional finds climb to the front of the ticker.

Found an older name-generator link? It now takes you straight to the secure tool without an extra detour.

Vinnie's guides now cover the Character Studio, current crew applications and your first missions, with links back to the details and clearer warnings if an answer gets cut off. Pick an alias in the name generator and carry it straight into signup.

Bring your people into the city in style. Referrals now has fresh gangster artwork, clearer rewards and a sharper mobile layout, plus a rebuilt personal invitation card with the current Street Crime logo, your gangster and a crisp image download.

Crew bosses can now submit a public recruitment page from their crew control panel. Once staff approve it, share the link with new players so they can read your requirements and choose to apply after signup.

The public guides now explain Domination and city control, compare games for former Mafia Wars players, and show what five browser crime games ask before signup on a phone-sized screen.

Your character now dresses in a proper studio: all five characters, more than 240 new pieces to buy, earn from milestones like cars stolen and missions done, or find on the job, plus nine Style achievements. Your current outfit is redrawn in the new style, and your old picture stays up until you save a look.

When a crime turns up an item or a piece of clothing, it now pops up over the result so you can pick it up before you read on, on Petty Crime, GTA, Jobs and missions. Mission steps also mark where there are discoverable items to be had.

The mission trailer now has its own page with captions and a full transcript. Before you put cash on the street, check the expanded turf and casino guides for building, collecting rent and running a table.

Your helpdesk reports cleaned up the new look on phones. The auction warnings no longer sit on top of the listing form, the chop shop lets you pick a car to fit explosives, and Keno, roulette, blackjack, Yahtzee, the lottery and live poker all fit the screen. Auctions, the stock market ledger, the shooting range, pre-heist intel, the Carriage Arch shunt puzzle, your kill attempts log, turf pages and profiles stop running off the edge or breaking words one letter per line.

When your drug dealing cooldown ran out, the page refreshed in a way that offered to send your last buy or sell again. It now loads a clean page. The Respect figure on the new home page also showed 0 for everyone, and now shows the same respect points as your side menu.

The homepage introduction is tidier, with the extra explanation beneath the practice-safe button removed.

Your building list in the private turf preview now stays closed while the page loads, even on a slow connection. Open Sites when you want to browse your properties.

The private turf trial now shows rent coins only where rent can actually be collected, while building percentages and countdowns move as you watch. Next moves, estate milestones and work celebrations help you collect the take, fix damage and grow your streets.

The private turf trial has its rent chimes and floating cash back, with collections updating without a page reload. Building work, repairs, moves and heavy recruitment now stay in the new turf, with your own heavies and crew reinforcements visible on the streets.

The private turf trial now collects rent and offers confirmed upgrades and demolition, with direct access to building options, repairs and moving turf. Fullscreen, a folding summary and clearer plot access keep your streets usable, while the game handles your theme and daylight settings.

The private turf preview now sits inside your regular game page, with navigation close at hand. Its controls follow your chosen theme and daytime setting, and the map lighting follows the same setting.

Fixed missing styling and the missing map in the private turf street-view test. Access remains limited to the test account.

A private test of the new street view is underway, showing existing buildings, rent and defenders on desktop and mobile. Access is limited to the test account while we check it over; normal turf management stays available.

The Wire now sits above the gameplay screenshots on the login page, so the latest action on the streets gets seen first.

The daily Safe Cracker gives everyone the same code, eight shots and a spoiler-free result to share, with a fresh lock at midnight UTC. Build a fictional wanted poster for your alias and download it, or use the new crime game finder to compare published features before choosing your next world. All three are free to try without an account.

The mobile homepage skips a decorative backdrop so the game introduction and practice-safe choices have less to load. The gameplay screenshots and desktop artwork are still there.

New to the streets? The homepage now puts the game and a free practice safe ahead of the login form on phones, with real gameplay screens closer to the top. Try the puzzle without an account, or use Log in to jump straight back to your character.

The latest news walks you through Safe Cracker's repeated-digit clues with a worked example. Read it, try the free practice safe, then see how puzzles fit into your mission career.

The public guides and press kit now show current Street Crime screens, including vehicle theft and getaways. Shared links get fresh previews, and the old homepage picture has been replaced with the streets you see today.

Clear your diary: Christmas competitions run from 1 December 2026 through 2 January 2027 inclusive, stepping up from 15 December, all on UK time. Find the dates under Competitions in the schedule; the full festive lineup will be revealed closer to launch.

Cars the street stopped turning out were all lumped into one class, so a Ferrari Enzo wore the same badge as a Kia Picanto on the Car Market and in your garage. Every retired model is graded on its worth now: the Enzo and the SLR McLaren read Elite, the Viper Legendary, the Evo X Epic, on down to the Rover Metro at Common.

The beginner guide now walks you through First Blood for Don Corleone, from reaching New York to reporting back. Check it for the three successful petty crimes you need, what counts toward the job, and help when your mission progress stalls.

Take a look before you hit the streets: the homepage now shows real crime choices, city markets and a crew getting ready for a bank job. Picked a name in the generator? Copy your alias into signup, or try a free mission puzzle first.

Cities was buried in the footer and at the bottom of My Account, which is a daft place to keep the map of the game. World is now its own section in the menu, holding Cities, Online and Game Stats. Go there to see who holds each city, what bullets cost, the interest on offer and which casinos are owned and by whom. Expect more to land in there.

Your page headers, sidebars and footer offers now do less work between jobs, helping pages load more smoothly. Your cash, energy and action timers still get checked fresh.

Requesting a replacement PIN no longer changes the one you already know. Enter the replacement from your email in the same browser within 15 minutes to confirm it; if the email never arrives or you cannot access that inbox, your current PIN still works.

Every listing in the Car Market now shows a photo of the motor and how rare it is, from Common up through Legendary, Elite and Mythic. It was a wall of names before, with nothing to tell a Chevelle SS from a Kia Picanto at a glance, and the buy page now opens on a full size shot of the car you are about to pay for.

Open a boss like Volkov and the same table and chair shot turned up three times over: above the back link, above every story arc, and again on a job briefing. That picture now only shows where it was meant to, on the quiet screen when a boss has no work on the table.

The new profile layout took up too much room, and on a phone it fell apart completely: the player's name broke a letter at a time down the page and shoved everything else out of sight. The name sits properly now, the action buttons are smaller and sit on one row, and the details start high enough to read without scrolling.

Holding shares in more than one company on the Underground Exchange meant adding up the cards yourself to know whether you were up or down. A new Open Positions P/L panel above the stocks now does it for you: what you paid in, what it is worth right now, your unrealized profit or loss with the percentage, realized profit since your last reset, and the net of the two, plus a line per position with shares, average cost, price, value, P/L and how much of your book it makes up.

The Schedule now has a Competitions filter, so Halloween and future competition events can be shown separately from Boost Windows and Weekly Fixtures. Your choices stay put when you change the date range; choose 3 Months to see Halloween ahead of time.

Clear your calendar. Street Crime's Halloween event runs from 25 October to 1 November, bringing seasonal competitions and Halloween surprises to the streets. The full lineup will be revealed closer to launch.

Open anyone's profile and the top now tells you who you are dealing with at a glance: their picture, whether they are alive, hyper, dead or infected, their rank, crew and country, and their overall rank, prestige and respect. The old row of tiny mystery icons underneath is now a set of labelled buttons with fresh artwork, split into "Reach out" (message, send cash, send credits, trade, respect, SMS, friend, ignore, crew and OC invites) and "Move on them" (attack, join attack, mug, put a hit, hire spies, view turf). Send credits and Put a hit are new shortcuts that fill in the name for you, dead players get a Visit grave button, and your own profile gets quick links to edit it, dress your character and see your achievements and record.

The patient list at the city hospital was frozen the moment you loaded the page: someone discharged a minute ago still showed as lying there, and a crew mate who had just been put in a bed did not show at all. The ward now fills and empties in front of you as players are admitted and discharged, and the time left on every stay counts itself down instead of sitting still.

Open a listing and the bid box hung off the edge of the page, the item details and the buy now panel ran into each other with no gap at all, and a third of the screen sat empty. It is squared up now: item details and the bid history down one side, bid, buy now and watch down the other, every panel the same width and lined up, and the whole thing stacks properly on a phone.

Pick someone to write to and their name shows as a tag with a little X for dropping them again. In the new look that X had fallen out below the tag, leaving a blank box next to the name that looked like a second username field. It sits inside the tag again, and one click still clears that recipient.

On a phone, any wide table was being squashed to fit the screen until the words broke apart one letter per line. The world stats, your previous payments, life insurance, the auction house, the last crew wars declared and the details on a player's profile were all close to unreadable. Those tables now keep their proper shape and slide left and right instead, so you can read every column.

If you hold a membership, the membership medal now sits on your profile alongside your other medals. It was meant to be there all along and simply never turned up. Hide your medals and it stays hidden with them, same as the rest.

The jail icon on your counters bar sat the same dull grey whether the cells were packed or empty, so an easy bust was easy to walk straight past. It now burns red the moment anyone is banged up in your city, on whatever page you happen to be on, and drops back to grey once the last one walks.

Start a build or an upgrade on your turf and you had to keep going back to the page to see if it had landed. Now a notice drops as soon as the work finishes, naming the building and the level it reached, with a button straight back to your turf so you can put the next job on.

The fight board at the gym only ever looked for a profile picture, so anyone whose face is their built character got a plain initial instead. Every fighter on the board now shows their character, or their profile picture if that is what they use, and the initial only stays for players who have neither.

The car picker on the Trade page now filters by vehicle, city and rarity, the same way your garage does, and tells you how many motors match. The list is sorted by name and each one shows its city, damage and rarity, so you are not reading down dozens of cars in no useful order.

When a casino owner runs out of cash mid payout, the numbers game, blackjack and roulette used to still flash the full win figure next to "the dealer could not pay your bet". They now show the real amount you were paid, so the number matches what lands in your pocket.

On your cover page, the name plate under the Fixer's picture was printing dark on dark in day mode. It reads again.

The last update stopped emoji quietly eating your mail, chat and new tickets. Now it covers helpdesk replies too, so a reply that cannot go through tells you instead of disappearing. Also tidied up across the game: the heat readout now matches top and bottom of the car theft page, the jail busting bar and a couple of confusing messages are readable again, chat tells you when you are posting too fast, and buying your way out of jail confirms the buy out.

Drop an emoji into a mail, a chat line or a helpdesk ticket and the whole message could disappear while we told you it went through. Now if a message cannot be posted we say so straight, instead of eating your words. (Storing the emoji itself is a bigger job still coming.)

Tapping your crew name or Headquarters now takes every member to the crew HQ instead of bouncing anyone who is not the boss, and the crew garage no longer opens on a broken page. Your own name is off your crew's "other members" list, and the sidebar stops flagging a mate as locked up or in hospital once they are actually out.

When a getaway ended in a cell or a hospital bed, the button to send you there was showing as a blank blue box you could not read. It reads clearly again, and the car theft page now shows the same heat level top and bottom of the screen instead of disagreeing with itself.

Try to deposit or withdraw a negative amount and the bank now refuses it outright instead of quietly flipping it into a real move. Smaller ones too: the tip of the day no longer gets chopped off mid word, and using an item straight from your inventory now shows up properly in that item's history.

The cover is a truce, not a shield to hide behind. While it holds nobody can mug you, and you can't mug anyone either: the mug page tells you so and points you at your cover page if you want out early. Bank what you can't afford to lose all the same.

New blood now gets 21 days under the Fixer's cover, not seven, and this time you will know about it: he has a word when you sign in, a shield marked Cover at the top of every page counts the days down, and your cover page shows the three ways it ends. Nobody can attack your turf or try to kill you while it holds. A mugging in the street is still a mugging, so bank what you can't afford to lose.

Every new name on the street is meant to get a quiet spell before anyone can lay a hand on them, and that cover was expiring the very second it was handed over. Newcomers have been fair game from their first breath. Sorted: sign up fresh and you get a full week untouched, or a day if you have worked this city under another name before.

Cleaned up a few spots in the new look. The gym's "See the fight board" and "Post a fight" buttons were washing out to the same colour as their own background on some of the accent themes, so they stay readable now whatever accent you run. The vote card down in the footer no longer shows a broken image. And the rotating tip beside it stops cutting off in the middle of a word.

Tiles like the ones for putting an item up at auction, or picking your game in the casino, only answered if your thumb landed square on the picture. The whole tile works now, label and all. The last row of links at the foot of every page (Pillory, Player Rules and Bug Bounty) was sitting underneath the advert bar with no way to scroll it clear, and finishes above it now. The Members Giveaway kept the weekly and monthly draws side by side however narrow your screen was, which chopped the prize names into unreadable scraps, so they stack instead. And on your turf, all five buttons (Toggle Damage, Collect Rent, Repair, Move Turf and the 48 Hour Log) fit on screen at once, with the plot scrolling on its own instead of dragging the heading and the buttons off with it.

Two things were wrong at the blackjack table on a small screen. The line telling you how the hand went, what you won and what cut the casino owner took, was being written into a slot only one line deep, so the moment it ran longer the felt was drawn straight over the top of it and you never got to read what you had won. It gets the room it needs now. The table itself was locked to a fixed width that no phone has, which pushed the dealer's hand and the Play Again button clean off the side of the screen. The whole table now sizes itself to your screen, so both hands, both totals and the buttons are all in front of you.

A run of fixes from your reports. The turf buttons, Toggle Damage, Collect Rent, Repair, Move Turf and 48 Hour Log, were printing their labels in a blue so close to the button behind them that the words all but vanished, and pointing at one made it worse instead of better. They come out in clean white now, icons and all. On a phone three more were squeezing themselves to death: your inventory list was crushed into a narrow strip with the icons and amounts cut off, the weapons locker chopped your ammo counts up a digit to a line, and the auction page stacked Previous and Next one letter at a time. All three lay out properly now, and the WILD tag on the slot reels stays on one line where it belongs.

Your garage cards already carry a rarity stamp, Common through Mythic, but there was no way to ask for just one. There is now: a Rarity box sits in the Filtering Options next to the brand and city filters, listing only the grades you actually own. Pick Legendary and that is all you see. It stacks with everything else too, so Mythic plus London plus Cars for sale narrows straight down to the one motor, and Sell All, Repair All and Scrap All only ever touch what is on screen.

Claiming a daily vote reward now requires actually opening the vote site first, closing a gap where the reward could be taken without voting. Open the site with Vote Now, cast your vote, then claim in a few seconds. The sites that confirm your vote automatically keep working exactly as before.

A run of fixes from your reports. Paying money into the bank works the moment you type an amount and hit deposit, no hunting for the account type first. Long names on the hospital ward read straight across now instead of stacking up one letter at a time. The who's online list is back in the menu where you would look for it, and your unread inbox and alert counts show in red so you cannot miss them. The turf takeover button stands out again after dark, and the vote page stops flashing red when a site just needs a moment to confirm your vote.

The credit store used to pull your credits even when the goods never actually reached your inventory. Now a purchase that cannot be handed over in full costs you nothing: your credits stay put and it tells you plainly it did not go through. Out on the streets two tricks are dead: you can no longer mug yourself to pad your record, and the fast double hit that let someone rob the same mark twice inside one cooldown is closed.

Your rank is back on the front page instead of a blank line, the meter tracking your climb to the next rank can no longer flash a nonsense negative figure, and the cash and bank shown up top now refresh the moment you move money instead of lagging a click behind. A stray error that hit the gym page on every visit is gone too.

A few rough spots on the new look, smoothed out. Your Achievements list is back to tidy rows you can scan at a glance instead of big empty blocks. The Compose box no longer draws a second frame around who you are writing to. And the day theme now reaches the places it was missing: the Getaway streets, the Domination board and district pages, the gym training floor and the anti-script card all read properly in daylight.

On a phone the board used to sit half off the screen with no way to reach its left side. It now scrolls sideways from the left edge, a tapped district opens as a card at the bottom of the screen with its buttons in reach, the Depot and Airport buttons no longer sit on top of the Don's details, and the standings fit the screen. The district page tidies up the same way. Tablets already fit and keep the full layout.

Street Crime has a brand new look, and from today it is the default for everyone. Your health, rank, energy and street heat sit together in one place, the menu has been rebuilt, and there is polish across the pages you work every day. It comes in day and night, with seven accent colours to make it your own. Want the old look back? There is a Switch to Classic control in the corner and on My Account, any time you like.

Holding an arrow key no longer burns through extra Getaway turns, and your Quick turns setting stays saved. Lost connections now explain how to recover your chase, while cash and experience rewards line up on smaller screens.

The press kit now shows petty-crime choices, city market prices and organised-crime team preparation, with full-size screenshots you can open and save. You can also jump straight into the free Safe Cracker practice puzzle before making a character.

Clicking a district tile on the Domination board now takes you straight to that district, the way the Open district button already did. On a phone or tablet a tap still brings up the district card first, and a second tap on the same tile opens it.

New York, Tokyo, Las Vegas and Moscow now sit on a modern grid of avenues and towers under their district tiles, while London, Rome, Amsterdam and Bogota keep the old-quarter streets, so flying between cities no longer shows you the same ground twice. The district page now says plainly what the police need from you before they will talk: a crew and the minimum rank.

Four digits, eight guesses. Try the free safe-cracking puzzle from our missions without an account, follow the clues and see if you've got the touch before joining the streets. Find it in the public Guides section.

The Domination page has been rebuilt from the ground up. Each city opens on its own night skyline, the map is a real aerial view of the streets with every district drawn as a tile in its crew's colour, and the standings sit at the top with the crews' faces, their share of the city, who holds the Don's chair and the hourly spots beneath it. Hover a district for the word on the street: the boss, their crew, what they paid and what the cops will want to hand it over. Click to pin it and jump straight in. Filters pick out held, contested and free districts, or just your crew's and your own, and a Board only button folds the panels away when you want the map to yourself. Your position panel tells you exactly what stands between you and a district, whether that is rank, a crew, or where your turf actually sits. The district page got the same treatment, with the boss's portrait, the police's asking price and the crews and turfs on the patch.

A link on the district page let anyone drop another player's district just by visiting it. It now only works for the district boss.

Staff now wear their badge in crew chat, the same as they do in the main chat, so you can spot an admin, a moderator or a helpdesk member at a glance. Helpdesk carries its own blue tag.

Tightened how player names show on the jail and cell pages, so a booby-trapped name can't run anything in your browser when you look someone up or plan a bust out. Also shored up a few pages that could trip up on very new accounts so they load cleanly.

If you ditch the Getaway take to lose the patrol, the result now says "Take lost" and explains why you earned no cash. Clean wins show your credited cash in green, lost takes in amber, and jail or crash results in red.

Apex and MMORPG100 are back on your voting list with their usual rewards. Apex now points to its current site, and your previous claims stay intact.

Getaway's road and turn buttons now fit together on small screens, with clearer controls and less clutter. Escape percentages are off the route buttons, and accepted turns flash over the road.

The weekly members prize draw now keeps the Admins crew, dead, banned and hibernating accounts out of the running. Your prizes go to eligible members who are alive and in play.

Apex's old address and Gamesites101 have been taken off your voting list, along with MMORPG100, which does not allow rewarded votes. Your past rewards and voting totals stay put.

Getaway puts you behind the wheel of a moving city chase: 4 to 20 turns, choices that trade cover for cash, and crashed patrols that stay out of the hunt. Your Heat carries through every run, your progress survives a refresh, and the new mobile view and floating key cues keep you in control.

BrowserMMORPG vote confirmations now reach your voting page, so completed votes can unlock Claim Reward.

BrowserMMORPG is now on your voting page, with rewards unlocked after the site confirms your vote. OpenPBBG is there for voluntary support too, and missing voting cards are back without resetting rewards you already claimed. Only available sites count towards finishing today's votes.

Street Crime news published in the morning no longer arrives in your feed with a timestamp set later that day. Your reader can pick up the latest briefing as soon as it is published.

Before your next crew garage raid, read the new Street Crime news briefing on rigged cars. It explains what triggers the blast, your hospital stay and why the owner loses the car too.

Fit explosives to a car at the chop shop and it is now a trap as well as a weapon. Raid a crew garage and reach a car with a bomb on board and it goes up in your face: 30 to 40 health gone (it will never drop you below 10), a hospital stay of ten minutes or more, and the car is destroyed rather than driven off. The owner gets told who tried it. No explosives on board, no bang, the raid works as it always did.

Putting Street Crime on your site? The press kit now shows our advertising banners, with static and animated formats, a full download pack and links to the extra directory sizes. Pick your artwork and get the links from one place.

The Left Turn arrow on the new Getaway page had wandered onto the grass, and Handbrake and Right Turn sat a few pixels off. All four now sit exactly where the old page put them.

Crew bosses and members with forum rights can now edit existing topic titles and opening posts, mark topics important, and hide or reveal them. Giving or removing crew rights now keeps you on the General tab, and the crew-chat smilies button opens properly again.

Buying life insurance now ticks off the beginner task as it should. Your policy was being bought, but the task could miss the news.

The Pillory now points you to player search with Dead selected. Find the character, open their profile, and pay your respects at their grave.

Hit RAID without choosing a crew and you can now select one and try again. The buttons stay usable when a form stops to let you correct your choice.

Help bring fresh faces to the streets: you can now vote for Street Crime on BrowserMMORPG from the Vote page or the public site footer. This community vote is voluntary and does not award in-game rewards or achievement progress.

Getaway now runs on Street Heat like Petty Crime, GTA and Drugs. There is no wait between runs any more: setting off adds Heat, and the page shows your true odds for the whole run and for each turn, which fall as your Heat climbs. Blow a turn and it is the side streets, a cell or a hospital bed depending on how hot you are, and a cold bust is the same sentence as before. Premium members now get 30% less Heat from a getaway instead of the old shorter timer.

The Quick jump search at the top of the page is now Commands. Tap ?? (two question marks) or the Commands button to open the guide, then press one letter: M for Missions, I for Inbox, N for Notepad, C for Chat, B for Bank, H for Headquarters. Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac) still opens the search for pages, @players and @@crews, the letters never fire while you are typing in a box, and there is a tick box in the guide to switch them off.

Your homepage, guides and signup now have less to download, with the same day and night layouts. A little less weight on your connection as you find your way into the city.

Your signup form can appear while the security check loads in the background. If you submit before it is ready, your registration waits for verification and still gives you a retry if the check fails.

The missions section on the homepage now has its own 80-second film. Hit play to meet the faces behind the jobs, with the full score, getaway noise and a 1080p option.

Finish the Bear's work and a Roman art thief has five jobs for you: The Empty Frame, a heist for a Caravaggio nobody has seen since 1969. It is the hardest run on the board, every puzzle at its top setting, with a frightened restorer to talk round, a forger to bust out of the Rome jail, and a new badge for clearing the lot.

Your day and night street backdrops now use smaller downloads on modern browsers, saving over 140 KB on a fresh visit to the login, signup and guide pages.

Pick your cookie settings without squinting. The explanation and buttons now stay readable in both day and night mode.

The Admins crew no longer appears among your signup crew choices. Those free applications now point you towards player-led crews looking for new members.

The public side of Street Crime, the pages you see before you log in, has a new face. The homepage opens on a rain-soaked neon alley with the muscle car at the kerb, every public page now sits inside one street scene instead of scattered wallpaper, and ranks, crews, turf wars, trading, PvP and the casinos each get their own picture rather than a paragraph. The Fixer finally has a face on his own section, the walls of text are broken up so they actually read, and the screenshot of the game is the game as it is today, not the old one. Then there is Day mode: a switch, top right of every public page, that sends the whole city to the beach. Sun, palms, lowriders, the crew posted up on the kerb. Flip it and it stays flipped until you change your mind. Nothing inside the game moves; this is the shop window, and it looks the part now.

Where a mission or a boss was gated on a rank, the board used to say a number. It now says the rank the way you do: Hustler, Conman, Dealer. Tonight's two new arcs are for Dealer rank (Volkov) and Conman rank (the Don).

If the security check stalls while you create your gangster, you now get a clear message and can try again without losing your details. Extra clicks no longer send the same registration twice.

Finished Blood in the Family? Don Corleone wants you back at Conman rank for five missions and twenty-four objectives, every puzzle at its hardest setting and every one of them new to his story. The rat is dead but the federals kept his tapes and served the family's bookkeeper, so you open Sal Marino's mouth yourself, break the rat's cipher, read a surveillance van's shifts, crack a prosecutor's laptop, pick a federal evidence cage and drive out of their garage with the tapes in the boot. Then the five families sit, an old rival puts two bullets in the Don on Mulberry Street, and you pay him a visit in the real New York hospital, bust his driver out of the real New York jail, and drive him past the federals to the table where the chair beside his is waiting. Honour pays lower than the old arcs; the cash does not.

New signups now get up to five recruiting crews to choose from before the crime list. Apply for free right there or skip straight to crimes; you only join when the crew accepts your application.

Your first sign-in now introduces you to recruiting crews with room for a new face. Take a look, apply to a crew and meet players who can show you the ropes, or skip ahead and find your people later.

Our Torn alternatives guide now puts five crime RPGs side by side: resets, browser and mobile access, and crew action. Check the dated sources before you pick your next city.

For a short while after tonight's updates, opening a mission mini-game (the Friday collections, the safe, the lock, any of them) gave you the mission page with no board on it, so you could not play the step. The board is back. Anyone who was stuck on a mini-game objective can open it again and carry on where they were; nothing was lost.

Since the last update the city jail page has been showing a stray line of code above the heading, and in a quiet Moscow jail Pasha Orlov, the bookkeeper The Thieves' Code sends you to bust out, could go missing from the list. Both are fixed: the page is tidy and Pasha waits on remand whether the cells are full or empty. The jail's Set Free and Buy Out links have been locked down to a fixed address too, so a doctored link can no longer slip anything into the page.

When your membership card fails, you now get one in-game message and one email per failed payment instead of the same message on every retry, with the link to fix the card. If the payment keeps failing and the membership ends, you get an email saying so and how to start again. PayPal members are covered too: a failed PayPal payment or an ended PayPal plan now tells you in game and by email, where before nothing was said at all. Time you have already paid for is never touched.

Finished Moscow Rules? Nikolai Volkov wants you back at Dealer rank for five new missions and twenty-four objectives, and none of them are easy. Run the Friday collections yourself, read the counting house from a stakeout, break the Wolf's cipher, and pack the getaway bag under the clock. Two things Street Crime missions have never done before: the bookkeeper you need is sitting in the real Moscow city jail waiting for you to bust him out, with the real bust odds and the real cell if you fail, and the old vor who can call the thieves' court is lying in the real Moscow hospital until you pay him a visit. Nine mini-games, one talking clerk you have met before, and a seating plan for a table where every chair is a law.

The login check was jumping from the anti-script box to your PIN after four characters, leaving the fifth behind. It now keeps you in the code box until all five characters are entered.

A few accounts ended up with two membership subscriptions running at once. When staff refunded and stopped one of them, the game took a whole month off the clock and ended the membership the other subscription had already paid for. Now a refund only ever costs you that one payment: if another subscription is still running you stay a member to the date it has paid for, and only the subscription that was refunded gets stopped. The players it caught have been put right.

The streets have a new trailer. Watch Make Your Name on the homepage, then step in and build a reputation of your own.

Die, come back on a fresh account, and your recurring membership stayed filed under the dead one: the Payments tab showed nothing, the next payment would have credited a corpse, and the shop could have sold you a second subscription on top. It moves across with the rest of your gear now, and the players it had already happened to have been put right.

The Update card and invoices button on the Payments tab was missing from the last release. It is there now: change the card your membership bills to and see every invoice, straight from My Account.

Recurring members finally get the wheel. The Payments tab in My Account now shows your plan, when the next payment lands, the card it comes off and the days you have banked. Stop it renewing right there (you keep every day you have paid for, nothing is refunded), switch it back on before it ends at no charge, or change your card without opening a ticket. PayPal members get pointed to the right place on PayPal.

A few of you ended up paying for two memberships at once after a checkout stalled and got retried. That door is shut: the shop checks with the card processor before it starts a subscription, a double click reuses the same checkout, and if a second one ever slips through it is stopped and refunded on its own and never hands out a thing. Dispute a payment with your bank and whatever that payment bought comes straight back off the account the moment the dispute opens, with a message telling you what went.

Every subscription payment adds its month or year to whatever membership time you already hold, the way codes always have, instead of replacing it. Subscribe while a code is still running, or on day one during the signup trial, and you do not lose a day.

Every subscription payment promised a free gift in your inventory and it never arrived. It lands now, and you will see it in your item history.

Searchers can now recognise the rank guide as a thirteen-step ladder inside a free online crime RPG before they click. The page still lists the same fictional male and female titles and routes new gangsters straight to rank one.

The main page now keeps The Fixer's Favour in its proper column, long casino owner names stay inside the Cities table, and the older Blackjack, Numbers, Roulette and War tables send owner-name clicks to the right profile. Passive-mode attacks now say who is actually blocked, and Bug Hunter and Exterminator notifications show their achievement artwork again.

Street Crime now publishes one dated game-status ledger combining aggregate activity, the latest deployed Fixer's Word entry and the newest substantive update. It shows what each signal proves and does not pretend to be uptime or incident monitoring, so new players can judge the living world before signing up.

Street Crime now has one official home for game facts, publisher details, current screenshots, the logo and citation guidance. Journalists, creators and community sites can inspect each asset's date and dimensions, download originals, or ask permission before reuse.

Street Crime now publishes a dated census of 16 browser crime RPGs, built from each game's official public evidence. Compare browser access, crews, player conflict, economies and mobile support, inspect every source, or download the same edition as data before choosing where to play.

The Underworld Index now includes a compact activity badge you can put on a site, article or community page. It reports the current aggregate character activity signal, links readers back to its definitions, and never exposes a player name or private record.

Copying a generated gangster alias or full identity now always finishes with a clear result. If your browser's clipboard refuses to answer, the generator tells you to select and copy the text manually instead of leaving you guessing.

Street Crime's guides, FAQs, feature pages and news now carry three hand-picked routes into the systems connected to what you are reading. Move from ranks to progression, casino rules to poker, missions to The Big Score, and more without losing the trail.

Come in from the rank guide, browser RPG comparison or Underworld Index and signup now keeps that reason in view through both steps. The free account form is unchanged, but it now shows the ranks, persistent-world features or live game data you came to explore.

The Street Crime Underworld Index now publishes current character activity, cumulative crime attempts, city populations and the highest ranks from the live game. Every edition carries its update time, clear definitions, privacy limits and a downloadable data copy, so you can inspect the world before you join it.

The new gangster name generator rolls a display name, a game-ready alias, a fictional crew and a character hook in one go. Pick a style, add your initials, copy the result and bring the alias straight into Street Crime when you are ready.

A new public field guide gives you a seven-part test for lasting progression, connected economies, meaningful crews and a genuinely persistent world. It includes a transparent Street Crime case study and a 15-minute checklist you can use before committing your time to any browser crime RPG.

The rank guide now numbers all 13 Street Crime titles in order, explains the difference between your character rank and a crew role, and points you towards the beginner guide and fictional gang hierarchy builder. New players can see the road ahead before they sign up, then start at rank one for free.

Taking an open Poker seat could collect the ante and seat you correctly, then leave you staring at a white page until you refreshed. The Join button now takes you straight into the table, with a visible way in if the handoff ever stalls.

Three small wrongs sorted. Las Vegas has been flying a New York flag at the top of its domination map, the right flag is up now. The casino pages introduce the table's owner properly again instead of a sentence with holes in it. And when you buy someone out of jail in a city a Don controls, the Don's cut now shows up in that city's profit ledger the way it always should have (the cash itself was never lost).

The new public gang hierarchy builder lets you start with a crime family, street crew or syndicate, then rename, reorder, add and remove every role. Copy the finished structure, print it or share it through a private link, then step into Street Crime and start climbing the real ranks.

Buying a tip on who is sitting on hot goods could name somebody you had already been told about, and the price went up each time regardless. If that happened to you the repeat purchases have been put back in your pocket already. From now on a tip only ever names somebody new, and if there is nobody left to learn about you are told so instead of being charged for it.

The Fixer has found work too big for one person, so everybody gets a run at the same target. You put a crew of five together, one to each seat, work the streets for intel while the word goes round, then play your part on the night. Every crew that locks a plan runs the same job, all of them paid out of one shared pot that draws down as crews settle up, so first come is best served. The week after is spent turning marked money into money you can actually spend, and holding it is its own kind of loud. You do not need a crew to take part either: scouting pays, and so does the contracts board.

If somebody in your crew died before the night, they could still be dealt a part to play, and a part nobody can play plays itself badly. Those go to someone still standing now. Their cut is untouched: dying does not unmake the deal you struck with them. And when a crew folds because no plan was locked in time, everyone in it, the mastermind included, now gets told plainly what happened and that their cash and gear have come back.

New gangsters now enter their password once, with an option to show it before signing up. The ranking board and guides also put the route into the game closer to the action.

The Petty Crimes header was chopping both ends off its pistol. The whole piece now fits the frame cleanly.

Players who enabled message alerts will hear the sound again when fresh inbox mail arrives. The bell was switched on, but the sound never reached it.

If Poker still had you seated at a waiting table after you moved cities, opening Poker could leave you on a blank screen. It now takes you back to your seat with a visible way into the table, and login failure pages show their message instead of disappearing when another error sends you there.

A few of the game's older style sheets, the ones behind the error page and some of the pop-ups, read your browser's name to pick the right graphics. Since the move to the newer server software that read was failing for every real browser, so those pages could come through with no styling at all. They read cleanly again whatever you browse with, and the server logs are quieter for it.

Players using the Aland Islands flag had the flag on their profile, but hovering over it showed no country name. The missing label is back, so that flag now identifies itself like every other country flag.

The part of the city that remembers who is signed in, and holds the short-term memory every page leans on, now runs on a current build with six years of security and crash fixes behind it. Swapping it out signed everyone who was in the game at that moment out once: nothing of yours was touched, just sign back in.

The Organised Crime page has been torn down and rebuilt. The leader gets one clear roster of who has accepted, what they have bought and who has reported ready, with the invite, blueprint, balaclava, drop, OC Teams board and dismantle controls laid out as cards underneath, and each expert gets a page built around their own job. New on both: a pre-heist intel board. Anyone on the team can pay to case the bank, bribe an employee, tap the police radio or map the ventilation. Pull it off and the heist odds go up. Every attempt makes the bank more watchful though, and a botched one a lot more, so pick your scouts and know when to stop. The page still watches your team and refreshes itself when someone joins, gets kitted out or reports in.

Two things on the organised crime job have been broken for as long as anyone can remember. The guns your weapons expert bought added nothing to the odds, and the million dollar blueprints never helped either: every team was taking the no-blueprints hit, paid for or not. Both now count the way they were always meant to. On top of that the lookout gets their kit money back when a team runs out of time (it used to go nowhere), only the leader can invite, drop, dismantle or start the job, each expert can only buy for their own seat, and a double click can no longer run the heist twice.

Sit down with one of the people who answer in their own words, the auditor and the Keyholder in the Ivory Room among them, and the game could throw you out to the login page mid conversation. It bit hardest right after a contact slammed the door on you, which is the exact moment you are told to go back and read the briefing. While a contact is thinking, the rest of the city stays yours.

The Fixer's got an eye on the game schedule now. Discord gets a rundown of tomorrow's events each evening, then another warning an hour before the action starts.

Vivienne Ashcroft, the Keyholder, runs a members only club above a London bank, and she is offering the longest run of work in the game: eight jobs, where every other boss on the board gives you four. Inside them sit ten of the hardest safes, locks, ledgers and stakeouts going, plus two people who answer whatever you type in their own words, an auditor sitting on a report he has not filed and the woman who holds the second key to the vault. Reach Hustler rank and anyone can walk up and read exactly what is behind that door, but only premium members sit down, and only they can wear the badge waiting at the end of it.

Picking up the goods after a mugging was sloppy. Grab at it twice in the same moment and the street could hand you two of the same thing out of one, or leave you with nothing while the mark kept what you had already taken off them. The item now comes off them first and only reaches your pocket if it really did. One item, one owner, every time.

The Slots have been retuned from just under 90% to about 94% gross return before city tax or a broke owner, with proper five-reel odds and a paytable that shows every prize against your whole bet. Free Spins now land about once every 181 paid spins and can retrigger, each paid cycle can promise up to 2,500 times the wager, bets move in $20 units, and the odds never change for a player, bet size, history or casino balance.

All fourteen petty crimes have been redrawn, from turning out pockets for loose notes to walking the mayor out of his own front door. The old pictures were tiny stamps blown up well past their size, and several were having their edges chopped off in the slot: the sawn off on the bank job lost both ends and read as a grey smudge. They sit properly in their slots now.

The crowbar sitting above the boost list was still the small stock picture and looked rough next to the redrawn jobs. It has been drawn fresh to match them, on the kit panel and on the odds tag next to every boost. Your crowbars work exactly as they did.

Every boost on the GTA list has been redrawn, from the motor sitting at the lights to the keys lifted out of someone's house. The old pictures were tiny stamps stretched well past their size until they went soft in their slots, and the crew garage raid never had one at all, it was just showing the Street Crime badge.

The hourly promotion run was still handing out ranks but keeping quiet about it, leaving the Ranks tab on The Wire empty. New promotions are being passed along again, so the city can see who is climbing.

Older successful turf spy reports were being branded Not Found even though their paid reports were still waiting underneath. Those searches show the plot they found and open the right report again, while Remove Unsuccessful continues to spare every successful job.

Achievements built from several counters, including Drug Lord and OC Allrounder, were falling under Not started until every part was complete. Any real progress now puts them under In progress where they belong.

The Honour Store quantity menu and Shooting Range weapon menu could open white while keeping their writing pale, making the choices disappear. Both menus now keep a dark background with clear light text.

The success message after using a Councillors Briefcase could squeeze Planning Permission into tiny writing on a phone. The whole message now stays at one readable size.

Pick a gun and you get a proper card for it now: the weapon, its level, how full its experience bar is, and what the session costs in cash, bullets and that gun's energy, each marked green or red against what you are actually carrying. The ten shots run on a live progress bar and your takings are laid out plain at the end. If you own guns but are not carrying one, the range says so and points you at your locker instead of shoving you back to the weapon store. Levels count straight now too: a session worth two or three of them was handing the second and third over at the first one's price, and a gun sat at 99 could be nudged past the level 100 the range has always called the ceiling.

The range never checked whose gun or whose training run it was working on, so anyone could reach in and finish off another gangster's session, and you could burn your own cash and bullets on a gun that was not yours. Both are tied to their owner now. Two clicks on Go Shooting at the same instant could also charge you twice for one session, and the ten shots could be collected the moment they started rather than fired: the money is taken before anything is booked, and everybody serves the wait.

Six of the eight firms you can trade on the Underground Exchange had no company badge at all, and Family Holdings had a busted grey square where its crest should have been. All eight wear proper brass and gunmetal now, from Cartel Logistics to the Dockworkers Union, and they load a lot lighter than the old artwork did.

The gangster spy page has been rebuilt to match the new Spies hub. Pick your hours from priced options so you can see what four cities will actually cost before you commit, watch the cities you have selected light up instead of hunting through a wall of tickboxes, and if you get something wrong the form keeps your target, your hours and your city picks rather than wiping them. Pass Spy Report now lists every location you are holding, so you no longer have to remember who you found and where, and it tells you plainly when you have no report on that gangster instead of just blinking at you.

Sending several spy orders at the same instant could get all of them booked while only one was paid for. The desk now takes the money before it books anything, so you get exactly the spies you paid for. Both forms on the page are also sealed against a booby-trapped page spending your cash on spies or handing your spy reports to someone else without you clicking a thing.

Every link in the left menu marks itself when you are standing on that page, except Referrals, which stayed dark from the day the menu was built. Open your referrals now and the menu shows you where you are.

The Spies page has been rebuilt. Gangster, turf and mission character reports now sit behind real tabs that carry a count, every spy shows a live countdown while they are out and a clear result when they get back, and a turf spy that found something links you straight to the report. Hire spies from a player's profile and you get asked which kind you want, with their name already filled in. One old fault fixed while the shutters were up: when a spy tracked down a mission character, the message that came back tried to link you to a profile that does not exist, and the nudge telling you new objectives had opened never arrived. Both work properly now.

There was a second forum sitting on the site from years back, the one nobody ever linked to and nobody used. Parts of it did not even ask you to log in. It is gone now, files and all, and the address it lived at just returns nothing. Less of the old place left standing for anyone to rattle the handles on.

Blackjack has been dealing onto a plain black background for as long as anyone can remember. The backdrop it was built for never existed, so the cards just floated. There is a proper table under them now: worn felt, the betting line, the shoe and a tray of chips off to one side, lit by a single lamp. Kept deliberately dark so the cards and your total stay easy to read.

The pictures that get picked at the moment you need them, your weapons, the cars, the items in your inventory, the chat badges, the dice and the cards, were the last ones still coming from the game itself. They are on the fast artwork servers now, so the tables and shops finish drawing quicker. We also tidied away a leftover panel on character creation that no one could open and which was quietly asking for a picture that does not exist.

A final sweep found a few hundred pictures still being fetched from the game itself, scattered across the crime pages, the casino, the hitlist, your inbox, the jail and the bunker. They were written a slightly different way to the rest, which is how they were missed. They all come off the fast artwork servers now, so that is the whole game moved across.

Your inventory, criminal record, the pillory, the slots, the hitlist, the helpdesk and sixty odd other screens were still pulling their pictures from the game itself. They come off the fast artwork servers now, which finishes the job we started on the achievements board: the game spends its time running the game, and pages finish drawing sooner.

Yesterday we sealed off the game's back corridors; today we finished the job on the biggest one. The passage that holds the game's inner workings stayed partly open because a handful of legitimate doors live inside it, so we walked every route players actually use, kept exactly those open, and bricked up the rest. Nothing you can see or do changes, there is simply far less of the machinery on show to anyone poking around.

Yesterday we started checking every link before showing it to you. Testing it properly turned up a way round it: a booby-trapped link with one character out of place slipped past the check and then had that character quietly removed again before it reached your browser. It is shut now, on the forums, the newer forum and your mail, and the test we added checks the whole path a message takes rather than just one step of it.

The public gang ranking now lays out all 13 fictional Street Crime ranks in order, including the male and female character titles. The games like Torn guide now makes it clearer which persistent crime worlds work in a browser or on mobile, with every comparison checked against the games themselves.

The guide to missions on the news page has been brought up to date. Volkov and Moscow Rules are in it, and the job you finish by talking has a section to itself: what Yegor will and will not respond to, why the details in Volkov's briefing are your way in, what the bribe is actually worth, and what happens when you push him too far.

Parts of the game's own machinery could be opened directly with the right web address. Nothing sensitive was on display, but those doors had no business being open, so they now slam shut before a request gets anywhere near the works. While we were down there we also toughened the engine so it cannot be tricked into starting itself twice.

For a long time, whenever we shipped an update there was a fair chance you got thrown back to the login page in the middle of whatever you were doing. That is fixed at the root: the game no longer mistakes a moment of update turbulence for an invalid login, it now double-checks before ever ending a session, and sessions themselves live a full ten hours instead of quietly expiring after twenty-four minutes of quiet. We ship updates several times a day, so you should feel this one immediately by not feeling anything at all.

GTA job pictures now show the whole icon, Helpdesk email settings save without wiping a half-written report or its screenshots, and earned mission intel stays visible after a dropped line or reload. Organised Crime only tells the boss the crew is ready when every expert is actually in the job's city.

Three fixes to the clerk conversation from live play. Chat messages no longer count against your daily clicks and no longer trip the anti-cheat check mid-sentence, which could kill the conversation with endless connection errors and dump you on the city page after the challenge. The clerk can no longer blurt out a made-up container number next to the real one, the code in the green intel box is the only code there is. And finishing a mission through a conversation or a mini-game now brings up the boss's confirmation the moment you get back to the missions page, no more silent endings.

Turn Yegor hostile and he now genuinely stops talking: the door bolts for five minutes, a countdown sits on the chat, and reloading the page changes nothing. Use the wait to reread Volkov's briefing, because the details in it are your way back in. When the timer runs out the bolt slides back on its own and the clerk will hear you out again, wary but willing, so one bad conversation costs you five minutes, not the mission.

Talking to Volkov's freight clerk got a polish pass: what Yegor says now stands out bright and quoted while the scene around him steps back into italics, your own profile picture sits on your side of the conversation instead of a blank silhouette, and the pay-him box no longer appears after a reload before he has actually named a price. He has also been told, firmly, that he is a frightened clerk and not your personal assistant, so keep the conversation about the manifest.

Morphine knocks two minutes off a hospital stay, but until now the only way to get a dose was luck during a petty crime. It's now stocked in the Street Crime Store's Speed Up section at one credit a dose. The hospital ward links you straight to it, and if you're browsing the store from a hospital bed, the store shows how many doses you're carrying and points you back to the ward to use them.

The colour and font tags let you set more than a colour and a font. Someone who knew the trick could write a post that stretched itself over the whole page, hiding everything behind it or sitting invisibly on top of the buttons you were about to press. Those tags now do exactly what they say and nothing else. We checked every coloured post already written, right down to the spelling mistakes, and not one of them changes.

Links posted on the forum were not being checked properly, so someone could hide code behind an ordinary looking link and have it run in your browser the moment you clicked it. The forum can be read without logging in, so anyone could have been shown one. Every link in every post, message, profile and chat line is now checked before it reaches you, including the tricks used to disguise a bad one as a normal address. We went back through everything already posted and found nothing of the sort, so there is nothing you need to do.

Reach Conman rank and finish Rosa's business, and Nikolai "The Bear" Volkov opens four jobs in Moscow: a getaway drive past patrols whose routes you can read, a night's alibi to put in order before the militsiya do, and a corner war against a capo whose habits give him away. In the middle of it sits Yegor, a frightened freight clerk who answers whatever you type in his own words, remembers your whole conversation, and gives up what Volkov wants only once you have convinced him, or paid him.

The last big sweep: the crime pages, your turf and its buildings, the city pages, attacks, the crew hall, the jail, your inventory, your criminal record and the login page were all still pulling their pictures from the game itself, better than five hundred of them. They come off the fast artwork servers now, so the game spends its time running the game instead of handing out images.

Drop-downs on the left, Casino among them, were snapping open a beat after the page loaded if you had left them that way. They now come up already in the state you left them.

The new Yahtzee table no longer jumps about between placing your ante, rolling and the payout: the felt, the dice and the paytable now hold exactly the same spot on every screen, the result is dealt straight onto the felt, and on newer browsers the whole round plays as one smooth scene, with the loose dice giving a rattle while your reroll is in flight. The buttons also swapped their gold for the same steel styling as the rest of the game.

The crew chat, both forum pages and the staff mail editor were offering an old, short smilie list. Nine faces, the beer, the coffee, the heart, the rose, the thumbs and the headstone among them, worked fine if you typed the code but were nowhere on the picker. Every picker in the game now shows the same full set. While we were in there, the pickers and the artwork on the attack pages, the trade window, game stats, character creation, your profile and My Account all moved onto the fast artwork servers, so those pages ask the game for a lot less before they finish drawing.

Not content with tonight's earlier engine swap, we have pushed on and moved Street Crime onto the very newest server software there is. Nothing changes in how you play: pages, timers and the daily grind all just run that bit sharper, and we swept out a pile of old wiring in the engine room while we were at it.

The chat drawer rides along on every page you open, and it was quietly pulling all sixty seven smilie faces off the game itself each time, whether you opened the picker or not. That is sixty seven small fetches on every single page load, competing with the thing you actually clicked. They come off the fast artwork servers now, so pages across the whole game have less to drag along behind them.

We have moved Street Crime onto the newest generation of server software, the second big engine upgrade this year. You do not need to do a thing: everything works exactly as before, just quicker under the hood, and payment security checks in particular got a serious speed boost. We tightened a few locks in the engine room while we were down there too.

The strip under every page (Discord, Vote, Guide, the rules, Bug Bounty and the rest) had spilled onto a second line, with Bug Bounty sitting on its own underneath. That row is one line again.

Customise menu under the left-hand list was taking your new order and then hitting a dead end, so nothing stuck. Saving it writes to your account again.

The longest run you could set the machine to was 100 spins. There is a 500 on the dial now, so you can set it going and leave it to work, and it still counts itself down and lets go on its own when the run is done.

The casino Yahtzee page has been rebuilt around the dice. Tap a die to hold it, watch the rest tumble back onto the felt, and read the paytable at a glance with every hand drawn out and what it really returns (three of a kind gives your ante back, it never was a profit). Wins, losses and playing the house broke all get a proper result screen, and when you do break the owner, the takeover link is right there before anyone else can grab the chair. Table owners see their table's profit instead of a bet form they could never use, and the casino doors now stay properly shut during a government crackdown.

The left-hand list was the same for every gangster. Use Customise menu under it to drag everyday destinations into your own order, and it sticks to this account on every login. Event tabs and staff links stay at the top.

If a monthly or annual membership is already active, the premium shop now stops another subscription checkout, including while a renewal is still settling. No more accidental overlapping membership payments.

Every smilie you see, in chat, on the forums, in your mail, on profiles and in helpdesk replies, was being fetched from the game itself. On a busy chat room that is a stack of little requests competing with the game for attention, which is why faces sometimes turned up late or not at all. They now come off the same fast artwork servers as the rest of the pictures, so messages finish drawing quicker and the game has less to do.

Auto on the slots now takes a number: 10, 25, 50 or 100 spins, counted down on the switch and released on its own when the run is done, instead of spinning until you stopped it or your money did. Free spins you land along the way are on the house, so they don't come out of the run you paid for.

There is a proper write-up of missions on the news page now: who the bosses are, how a job briefs you and then tracks itself while you play, which steps you have to solve with your own hands, and exactly what the work pays. It also says where this is going, and six arcs is nowhere near the end of it.

Finish La Diabla's Price and Rosa Mendez opens her hardest run yet, all counter-surveillance and nerve. Triangulate a snitch's burner phone across the district and shut his mouth, weigh the week's cash on a scale to catch the counterfeit bundle, feel out a rival's deadbolt pin by pin, then crack a stolen federal laptop and answer the feds with the biggest shipment Bogota has ever sent north. Big money at every step, and clearing six full mission arcs earns the new Untouchable badge.

The achievements board was pulling every badge off the game itself, one at a time, and with a hundred and ten of them on the page it crawled and left half the artwork blank while you waited. The badges, along with the honour and prestige icons, now come off the same fast artwork servers the rest of the site already uses, so the board loads in one go. Two mission badges that had been showing as blank locked tiles are back to their real artwork as well.

Rebuilt the achievements page. Every achievement carries its progress right there on the row, so you can see how close you are without opening a single one, and a Closest to done strip at the top picks out the ones you are nearest to earning. Filter by earned, in progress or not started, sort by how close you are or by the size of the prize, and search by name. The summary breaks your record down by category and totals the honour and prestige still out there waiting to be claimed.

Finish The Family Business and Don Corleone hands you his hardest work, and it is all wits and nerve. Sit in on a sit-down and name the rat by cross-examining five capos, run the informant to ground as he bounces between safehouses, walk a bank floor mapping every alarm without tripping one, then take the rival's enforcer for every die at liar's dice and lay your own money on the table. Clear every job a boss has for you and you earn the new Made Man badge, and a chair at the Don's right hand.

The front page finally introduces the people handing out the work: Don Vittorio Corleone in New York and Rosa "La Diabla" Mendez in Bogota, the arcs they are running, and how a mission briefs you, tracks itself while you play, and pays out. Underneath them, all five characters you can build and dress are lined up, so anyone still deciding who they would be can see the faces first.

The ticker on the front page was flashing one headline at a time, which made a busy night in this city look dead quiet. It now carries three at once (two on a phone) and rolls one on every few seconds, so you can see what the streets have been up to at a glance instead of waiting for the next line.

Every promotion now goes out on The Wire, from a fresh Hustler to whoever just made Godfather, and there is a Ranks tab on the full wire if that is all you want to read. Organised crimes now read the way the job actually gets talked about: someone's team robbed the city bank and got away with $4.2m.

I'm putting a job together, bigger than anything this city has run: crews, contracts, and a score you'll talk about for years. No date, no city, no details yet, but the schedule has a new slot that will tell you exactly as much as I want you to know. Keep your phone on.

Finish the Colombian Connection and Rosa Mendez has bigger work: open a new cocaine route into London, put down three rival runners and take their cars, crack her thieving accountant's safe while defusing the trap rigged to burn his ledger, and pay your way to the top with one last run into New York. Serious money, honour and prestige at every step, and clearing four full mission arcs now earns the new Rise Through the Ranks achievement.

The boss you are working for keeps their face on the job: their portrait now sits on your active mission page, on the safe and bomb screens, and in every conversation, from taking the job to collecting the payment. When word of a finished objective reaches you, it comes with the face of whoever sent you.

Running an organised crime meant sitting on that page hammering refresh to see who had accepted, who had bought their kit and who had finally reported ready, with the team's 24 hour clock running down the whole time. If you are the leader, the page now brings you every change the moment it lands, right down to the Start button appearing when the last of the four reports in. Half typed an invite? It waits, and tells you your team has changed rather than wiping what you were writing.

Last night's card went to four digits, which made it kinder to read and, it turns out, kinder to read for a machine as well. That is the wrong way round for the one thing in the game whose entire job is to be hard for a machine. It is five characters now, letters and numbers together, drawn from a set with every lookalike left out on purpose: no O against zero, no I or L against one, no S against five. Five million combinations instead of ten thousand. The card itself is drawn harder too, with the characters leaning into each other and the clutter in the same ink as the code so it cannot simply be wiped off. Type it in any case you like, upper or lower, we do not care which. If a card beats you, hit the link for another one and think nothing of it.

Say something worth building in the chat, a mail or the forums and the crew clips it. Now they can answer: a message lands in your inbox quoting your own words, and you hit reply like any other mail. They ask what you meant, you tell them, and the whole conversation stays on the idea.

The Missions page no longer scrolls through every boss and every job in one long list. It now opens on boss cards, each showing their city and whether they have work for you, and clicking one takes you into their office for their arcs and missions. Finish a job and you land straight back with that boss, ready for the next one.

That little code you copy out was far easier to walk past than it should have been. On some forms it could be answered without ever looking at the picture, and once you had solved one it kept working for the rest of the session, so a machine only ever had to get it right once. Every code is now good for one use only, it expires, and you get three goes before that card is torn up and you need a fresh one. The regular check that stops you every so often was also skipping anyone who only ever pressed buttons rather than following links, which is exactly what a script does, so it now stops everybody the same way.

The anti script picture has been redrawn in the game's own colours, and it is four digits on every form in the city, so no more squinting at a letter that might be a one. It also loads fresh every single time, which kills off the maddening case where your browser quietly showed you an old picture and then told you that you had typed the wrong code.

The Missions board now hosts more than one boss. Finish both of Don Corleone's arcs and reach Hustler rank, and Rosa "La Diabla" Mendez opens the Colombian Connection: fly to Bogota to earn her trust, then run 100 units of Cocaine into New York and get home to collect. She speaks with her own voice at every turn, big money and prestige are on the table, and completing an arc for a second boss earns the new Two Families achievement.

Post an emoji in the hospital ward chat and it came out the other side as a question mark. The ward now keeps them exactly as you sent them, and there is an emoji board next to the send box with sixty of them to pick from, faces, hands and a few the street will recognise.

Attaching a screenshot to a helpdesk ticket used to be a filename and a leap of faith. Every picture you pick now shows up as a thumbnail with its name and size, and you can drop any one of them before you send, so grabbing the wrong window is something you catch yourself instead of hearing about it from staff a day later. Ticket replies work the same way.

Finish Welcome to the Family and Don Corleone has real work: four new missions where you collect the family's money (any hustle counts, he only cares the envelope is full), fill a chop list of three stolen cars, crack a rival strongbox and silence a wired truck at a harder difficulty, and put two loudmouths down where the street can see. Bigger payouts at every turn, your fifth mission finally earns the old Missions badge, and finishing the arc awards the new Family Business achievement. Mission mugging steps now point straight at the mug page too.

Players awarded Car Dealer under the old 52-car count could still see it marked complete while a current street car was missing. It now shows Collection incomplete and the crossed vehicles still needed, without taking back rewards already paid.

Once a Keno draw has settled, its coloured number board now stays locked until you hit Reset, so clicking a winning number cannot quietly change the next bet. Every ticket is also checked for ten different numbers from 1 to 80 before the stake leaves your pocket.

The Car Dealer achievement was counting any 52 collection marks, which could award it while a boostable car such as the GMC Passenger was still missing. It now checks every car currently available on the streets, and the Achievements page shows that same live list.

On phones, the GTA result was cropping the top and bottom off your stolen car. The full vehicle artwork now stays in frame at its proper shape.

The friend's name in a successful invite could shrink to tiny print on a phone. It now matches the rest of the confirmation.

The District Boss description was printing a raw line-break tag between its instructions and link. It now breaks the line properly, while the rest of your achievement descriptions stay safely formatted.

The Get Armed mission objective asked everyone to buy a weapon, even players already walking around with one, which meant selling and rebuying a gun just to tick a box. If you already own a weapon the objective now passes the moment you open the Missions page, and the Don acknowledges it like any other job done.

The Don's acknowledgments now cover every mission objective, not just flights and muggings. Finish your petty crimes, boost the car, or pick up your weapon, and the next time you open the Missions page the Don himself marks the moment before handing you what is next.

Finishing a mission objective could pass without a word: fly to New York to meet the Don and nothing on the airport or the Missions page marked the moment. Now the city page greets you with a mission update when you land, and the Missions page opens with the Don himself acknowledging each objective you complete, whether you flew, fought, or bought your way through it.

The Missions page under Crimes has been dark for years. It reopens today with Don Vittorio Corleone in New York and his first full story arc: prove yourself with petty crimes, arm up and mug your first mark, crack Sal's practice safe, cut the right wire on a bomb wired to the family car, then steal your getaway wheels. Missions pay cash, honour and rank points at each turn, and there are two new achievements for making your bones, plus the old Missions badge is finally earnable again. More bosses and arcs will follow.

The history under each item was only catching a trickle before, because most of the game moved your gear without writing anything down. Every store counter, vote reward, Christmas and Halloween grab, turf gift, premium code, slots prize, jail card, organised crime cut and pile of combat loot now goes through the same set of books. Click anything in your inventory or your credit items and you will see what came in, what went out, when, and where it came from.

Spending an item used to be two steps: check you had it, then take it. Two clicks landing in the same instant could both pass that check and both get paid, which meant one jail bust-out card, one direct plane ticket, one turf move ticket or one pile of driveby gear could be spent twice. The item is now claimed in the same breath it is taken, so the second click gets nothing. Cancelling an auction has been fixed too: the goods were being handed back to whichever player happened to match the item first, rather than to the seller they belonged to.

The city talks to you wherever you are in it. An alert slides onto whatever page you are on the moment the action is on you at the poker table, when your hand is dealt or the pot pays out, and when the last expert on your organised crime team reports ready. Click the alert and it takes you straight there. If you are already sat at the table, we keep it quiet, you can see the felt yourself.

If every player wandered off a live poker hand, the table used to sit frozen with the whole pot locked in it until somebody happened to come back. A slow seat now gets folded when its clock runs out whether anyone is watching the table or not, so every hand plays to a finish and pays out.

The slots were keeping too fat a cut of every bet. The machine has been retuned so roughly 90 cents of every dollar wagered flows back to players over the long run, with every symbol on the paytable paying more than before. And the paytable now tells it straight: line wins pay on your per-line stake (your bet is split across all 20 lines), the scatter's real prizes sit on its own card, and the machine's long-run return is printed right on the page.

A payline opening with three or more wilds could settle as the cheaper symbol they were standing in for. It now pays whichever reading is worth more. Landing six or more scatters paid the smallest scatter prize instead of the biggest; that is the full 30 times your bet now. And free spins you have banked must be played before the machine takes another cash bet, so a fresh award can never wipe them out.

Click anything in your inventory or your credit items and you now get the last three things that happened to that pile, with the date and the time on each: what arrived, what you spent, and where it came from. The book opens today, so give it a day or two and the things you handle most will all have a trail behind them.

The Mystery Spin result used to hand you a plain link to your inventory and leave you hunting down the list for the thing you had just won. It now drops you on the item itself, on the right tab, lit up for a second so you cannot miss it. The board showing what everyone else pulled today is running properly now as well, which it quietly was not.

Your daily pull used to be a button and a line of text telling you what you had won. Now you watch it happen: the prizes roll past behind the glass, slow down, and stop on the one that is yours, with a flash when the drum lands on something off the credit shelves. The page also lays out everything that is in the drum, the real odds on each shelf, and what other members have pulled today. Refresh after a spin and you see your prize again, instead of being told you never had one.

Two spin requests landing in the same instant could both be paid, handing over two prizes for one daily pull. The spin is now claimed before any prize changes hands, so only one of them can ever win it. A booby-trapped page can no longer burn your daily spin for you either: it only goes when you pull the lever yourself.

Drugs was the last racket the police worked off a fixed list: same odds of getting picked up every single trade, whatever you had been up to. Not any more. Every buy and every sell now draws heat, the same heat you build on crimes and stealing cars, and the page tells you straight what it is costing you with a bust risk next to the buy and sell buttons. Deal cold and the odds and the sentence are exactly what they have always been, right down to the seconds. Deal hot and they get longer, and a deal that goes bad up there can put you in a hospital bed instead of a cell. Cool off before you move a big load.

The hospital was a wall of plain text and it now reads like a proper ward. Your stay sits up top with a countdown running down in front of you, your cures are in a panel beside it with your morphine count on show, and every other patient in your city is listed with their crew, their health and how long they have left. The ward chat works again after quietly dying, so the beds are no longer silent, and you get the tail of the conversation the moment you open it. If Heat put you in that bed, the page finally says so instead of leaving you guessing: a petty crime gone wrong, a car theft that ended in a crash, or a mug that went badly for you.

Paying another patient's treatment could be set off by a booby-trapped page, moving $615,000 of your cash without you ever clicking anything. It now takes a real click from you on the hospital page, and the thank you note reaches the patient who actually got the treatment rather than whoever happened to share a number with their hospital record. While we were in there: a double click could spend one shot of morphine for two lots of time off, or charge you twice for one treatment, and medical supplies smuggled in by two crew mates at once could cancel each other out. Every one of those settles once now, and once only.

Anything the desk needed telling used to go round one message at a time, or wait on whoever happened to be awake to pass it on. Staff can now put out a single notice to the whole helpdesk, the moderators, the admins or all of them at once, and it stays up on their board for whoever clocks on next, so the crew working your tickets are all going off the same word.

Everyone who has been round here a while has a graveyard behind them, and until now only the staff could see it. Head to My Account, General tab, and the Account History table has a new column: tick any of your dead characters and they get listed on your profile under Former Lives, with the year each one went down. Nobody sees a thing until you tick it, untick takes it straight back off, and only your own dead names are on offer.

Running an organised crime meant sitting on the crime page hitting refresh, waiting to see whether your last man had told you he was ready. He tells you himself now: the moment the fourth seat reports in, a notification lands in your inbox naming the city, with a button straight back to the job so you can start it there and then. Drop someone from a ready team and the next full line-up calls you again.

A turf attack could stall at the finish when no heavies were lost, and booting someone from an attack team could fail before returning the bullets they put in. Both routes are sorted: the attack completes, the report opens, and every booted teammate gets their attack bullets back.

The public list at street-crime.com/online was still wearing the old layout, and it looked a state next to the rest of the site. It now shows everyone active in the last half hour on proper cards: your character art if you have built one, your profile picture if you have not, and the plain silhouette if you have neither, with rank, crew and wealth beside it. The city counts and the split across the eight cities sit alongside. Send it to anyone who asks whether people still play here.

The crew clips the good ideas straight out of chat, your mail and the forums. When one of them actually gets built, whoever said it can now be paid credits into their account, along with a note quoting the words that earned it. Keep talking, we are listening.

Rest your cursor on any of the new little chips on Petty Crimes and GTA and it now explains itself in the proper tooltip style the rest of the game uses: what the number means, what the crowbar does, and what failing at this Heat would actually cost you.

The job rows on Petty Crimes and GTA now deal you the full picture in one glance: your practice at the job, GTA's street tip and crowbar bonus, the exact Heat tax coming off your odds, and jail bars and a hospital cross that light up as the streets get hotter. Less clutter, and the one true number stays right on the button.

Right after the Heat launch, hitting GO on Petty Crimes or GTA reloaded the page without actually running the job: the click was getting lost between your browser and the street. Sorted. Every GO and RAID now rolls for real. Nothing was spent and nothing was lost while it was broken, the jobs simply never ran.

Petty Crimes and GTA no longer make you wait out a clock: go again the second you land, but every job raises your Heat, and the hotter you run the worse your odds and the harder the fall, jail or even a hospital bed if it goes wrong. Both pages are rebuilt around a live Heat meter that cools with every quiet minute, and the percentage on the button is the exact number we roll, always. Premium members run 30% cooler on Crimes and GTA.

The chop shop tells you when a job is finished, then used to leave you to find your own way back and pick the car out of the line-up yourself. That notice now carries a button straight through to the shop, with your motor already pulled up and Pick Up sitting there waiting. Follow it from another city and it still opens on the right car and reminds you which city it is parked in.

The bank takes its cut off every transfer and never once showed you the sum. Type an amount and it works out what reaches them and what the bank keeps before you send a penny, and your transfer history now lists what actually landed instead of what was sent. The figure the bank quoted could be a dollar over the truth on some amounts as well, so it is the real number everywhere now, including money sent from your pad.

Adverts have to be approved before they run in the top bar, but nothing was telling the crew who approve them that yours had arrived, so it sat there until somebody happened to look. They get pinged the moment an advert lands now, and the one advert a day rule finally holds, it was never actually stopping anyone before.

Visiting Street Crime on a phone used to mean scrolling past a wall of wrapped menu links before you could sign in. The menu now folds away behind a proper button, Log in and Play free sit right at the top of every outside page, and the front page puts the login form first so returning gangsters can get back on the streets in one tap. On a desktop nothing moves, it all looks the same as before.

The credit shop used to hand you over to a payment page somewhere else and hope you found your way back. Now you pick your bundle and pay right there on the page, by card, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and a card you have used before is a single tap. If you are not in Britain you can flip the prices to dollars or euros to see roughly what you are spending, though the charge itself is always in pounds and it says so before you pay.

Anyone who has just signed up gets 25% knocked off their first credit purchase, so long as they make it inside their first 48 hours on the streets. The credit shop runs the clock down for you so you know exactly how long is left. It is one use only, so pick your moment.

The getting-started guide now lays out your opening moves through petty crimes, Grand Theft Auto, cash protection, rank and crews. Account help and player-owned casino pages have clearer names too, so the right advice is easier to spot before you step into the city.

Doing the sums turned up packs that were barely a discount at all: the RPG Pack was asking 295 credits to save you 15. The thin ones have been filled out rather than marked down, so nobody ends up with less than a pack used to give. The Energy Pack now carries ten refills instead of five, the Organised Crime Pack two timer resets instead of one, the Drug Baron Pack two run hints, and the RPG and Sniper Packs eight rounds each instead of five. Every pack in the shop now saves you at least a fifth.

The packs tab has always promised bundled items at a discount rate and never once showed you the sum. Every pack card and buy window now prints what those same contents would cost bought one at a time, struck through beside the pack price, with the credits saved and the percentage. It works that out the cheapest way you could buy them yourself, so it is not flattering the pack: five RPG rockets counts as the 160 credit bundle, not five singles at 35.

The jobs board was picking its opening tab off your rank, so anyone who had climbed the ladder without grinding the jobs landed on the level 3 board with every mastery bar sat at zero, two tiers past the work they had actually got to. It opens on the lowest level you still have jobs to master now, and moves you up a level only once you have topped out the one below. If your rank does not reach a level yet you will not be dropped on it either.

There is a new bundle on the credit store shelf for anyone in a hurry up the ladder. Sixty five credits buys a full day of Double Exp, an organised crime timer reset, a Rank Bar that stays on your account, five get out of jail cards, three direct flights and five energy refills. Bought separately that lot runs to a hundred credits.

Pack cards in the credit store used to be a picture with a price stuck on it, so you had to open each one to find out what you were buying. Every card now lists the contents item by item, and the buy window shows the same list, read straight off what the pack actually hands over. Nothing changed about what any existing pack gives you.

The life insurance page has been rebuilt. The cover you are on right now sits at the top, no policy included, and every tier shows its cash, ammo, inventory and gym return as a bar you can read at a glance, with a table underneath that puts all five side by side. Three things it used to tell you were wrong. Without a policy your turf is gone completely, which the page never mentioned. Buildings do not stop at some level, they drop by a set number of levels, so Silver knocks ten off whatever you had rather than capping you at five. And every tier advertised ten health an hour, which no policy has ever given you, so it is gone. Buying now asks you to confirm on the page instead of dropping a form on top of it.

Two clicks on the same policy landing together could both get past the price check, and the second one emptied your pockets instead of being turned away. A player holding twenty million buying one twelve and a half million policy could end up on nothing. The policy is claimed before any money moves now, so a second click is refused and you are charged once. The page also refuses purchases sent from anywhere but the page itself, so a booby-trapped link can no longer spend your cash on cover you never asked for.

Every job on the crime jobs board has been laid out fresh, with your mastery running as a bar you can read at a glance and the tools you are short of marked in red. Two jobs had been quoting the wrong money for years: the Corner Shop Hold-up promised up to $150 and paid up to $100, and Assassinate Gang Boss promised up to $5,000 while paying up to $4,200. Both now advertise what they actually pay. The Petrol Station Job had also been demanding a decoder it never once checked for, so stop buying one. A job you cannot take now says why on the button, missing tools, short on energy or not the rank yet, instead of taking your click to tell you afterwards. Master every level 1 job at low rank and the board no longer dumps you on a locked tab.

Jobs fired off together could all pass the energy check before any of them paid for it, so one job's worth of energy could do several jobs and leave you on less than nothing. Energy is taken first now, and the job only runs if it went through, so a job you cannot afford is turned away instead of paid out. The board also refuses work sent from anywhere but the board itself, so a booby-trapped page can no longer spend your energy for you.

The whole inventory has been rebuilt. General, Weapons Locker, Items, Credit Items and Character all read cleanly now, your three weapon slots sit side by side with their levels and experience bars, and every round you are carrying is counted in one row. The tabs still switch without reloading, but the address bar keeps up, so you can link or bookmark a tab and the back button walks you through them. Your character loads when you open its tab instead of weighing down every visit.

Open Items or Credit Items and the top item is picked for you, but its button was missing, so you had to click another item and click back before you could do anything with it. It is there straight away now. Pumpkins, briefcases, the Christmas drinks and a stack of credit items had no button at all on that first look, and five items showed a broken picture. All sorted.

Setting a piece of equipment into your equipment slot could report itself as failed after it had already worked, leaving you clicking again wondering what happened. Fixed. Selling a weapon is tighter too: two sale requests landing at the same moment could both pay out for the same gun when only one of them took it off you.

Get Health Boost has been rebuilt. Pizza, the small med kit and the large med kit each get their own card telling you exactly how much health it puts back and what it costs, and the pizza card runs a countdown on your hour so you know when you can eat again. The prices come straight off the shelf now, so what the card quotes is what you are charged, and anything you cannot afford or cannot use yet is greyed out instead of taking your click and telling you no.

Med kits bought in the same breath could take payment once and hand out the health from every one of them, and pizzas ordered together all went down inside the same hour instead of one an hour. Health items now take the payment first and only patch you up if it went through, your hour is claimed the moment you eat, and if the healing cannot land your money comes straight back. Credits can no longer be taken for something that gives you no health at all.

Your cash has always counted itself up or down in the bar above every page, flashing green when you earn and red when you spend, with the amount floating off the top. Bank, bullets, credits and lead now do exactly the same, so you can see a payout land or a purchase bite without hunting for the number. Your lead was the worst offender: it sat frozen on whatever it said when the page loaded, so a factory run only showed up after you clicked somewhere else. It keeps itself honest now.

The Criminal Record has been rebuilt. Your details, wait timers, equipped gear, personal casino book and full crime record now sit in clean panels you can actually scan, and your own mugshot is back at the top of the page instead of the blank silhouette everyone has been staring at. The Next Energy timer also stops counting backwards once your energy is due.

Clearing a game's running total on your Criminal Record used to happen just from loading a link, so a booby-trapped page or a doctored image in a post could wipe your blackjack or keno history without you ever pressing Reset. Those Reset buttons now only fire when you press them yourself.

Planning Orders now unlock the next level of Flats, Apartments and Council Housing even when an older turf has an upgrade limit lagging behind the building. Found orders and 15-credit orders will no longer be spent just catching that hidden limit up.

The Fixer made GTA shipping keep hold of your stolen vehicle when no destination is selected and restored GTA vehicle artwork, while defence reports now turn their colour and emphasis codes into the proper result. Roulette tables that are played broke now return the stake behind every winning bet before paying out the house cash, and both credit counters stay in step after credits are spent.

The Cities page's max-bet, Bullet Factory stock and cheapest-price hover details now use the game's styled pop-up in both city views, matching the rest of Street Crime instead of showing the browser's plain tooltip.

Dismantling a crew during an active crew war ended the fight but left the rival crew boss without the closing notification. That notice now arrives with the dismantled crew's name and confirms the war is over.

Hover the high-roller mark on the Cities page to see that casino's exact max bet, or hover a Bullet Factory to see how many rounds it has ready. The cheapest stocked bullet price now gets a green arrow in both city views, including ties, so you know where the deal is before you travel.

Graveyard smileys now show their faces instead of spilling image code into the condolences. Chop Shop vehicle menus stay readable, gangster spies refuse targets in hibernation, and the biggest Car Market prices keep to their own columns instead of crashing into the next price or the city flags.

There was a gap between the Car Market checking a motor was still for sale and actually handing it over. Two buy requests landing in that gap both went through, so you could be charged over and over for a single vehicle and only get one, while the seller was paid every time. A buyer holding enough for one car could also grab two at once and keep both. Buying now claims the vehicle before a penny moves, and if the cash is not there the motor goes straight back on the market with nothing taken. The buy form is also sealed, so a booby-trapped page cannot spend your money on a car for you.

Buying a motor now matches the rebuilt Car Market. Your cash, your free garage space, how many are listed and which city you are standing in sit across the top, and every listing carries a colour coded condition badge next to its city flag, so you can tell a clean motor from a wreck at a glance. Click a column to sort by condition, price or seats. Listings from every city are still there, the out of town ones tell you where to travel, and the buy button only shows up when there is something you can actually drive away today.

Every motor you have in a chop shop anywhere in the world now sits on the page as a card with its city flag, and the ones that are finished are marked so you can spot them at a glance. Click one and you get a live countdown, a progress bar and the time the job lands. Choosing a vehicle to work on shows you its damage, how many bombs it can carry and what is already fitted.

No more leaving a motor on the ramp because you forgot about it. The moment the work finishes you get a notification naming the vehicle, the city it is waiting in and exactly what was done to it, whether that is explosives fitted, a detonator wired in or the whole lot stripped back out.

Hitting Place Order twice, or getting impatient on a slow page, could take the money off you several times over and still only put one motor on the ramp. Five orders at once billed $225,000 for a single $45,000 job. The shop takes the vehicle first and charges once now, so a double click costs you nothing extra.

Anyone logged in could go fishing through the chop shop records and read back somebody else's vehicle: its name, the shape it was in, the work being carried out on it and the city it was parked in. That door is shut. You only ever see your own motors now.

Planes and ships sit on their own cards under two tabs now, with whatever you already fly and sail shown at the top and a confirmation before your money goes anywhere. Every card says what the thing actually does: how long a flight takes once you own that plane, how much quicker and safer a ship gets a stolen car to its buyer. The FNSLV had also been quoting you the F15's sale price every time it went on offer, so the number on that shelf is finally its own.

Buying a plane or a ship now claims the slot and takes the payment in one move, so two buys landing at the same moment cannot charge you twice over for the one vehicle. If you were short when that second charge hit, it used to clear out your pockets completely rather than leave you the change. A booby-trapped page cannot buy transport on your behalf either, not without you hitting Buy Now yourself.

Crowbars, guns, body armour, getaway motors and the code decoder sit on cards now, split into Weapons, Armour, Vehicles and Tools, with what you own and both prices on every row. The till was loose at both ends too: fast repeat clicks could land you more gear than you paid for, or pay you twice over for the same stack. Trades settle one at a time now, and the buy limit finally does what the shop always said it did.

Every trade is a card now, spelling out the cash, bullets, energy, health and timer resets you get before a single stone leaves your hand, with your ruby count and your credits sitting at the top of the page. Anything you cannot afford yet greys out and tells you how many rubies you are short. The extra weapon slot trade sits alongside the three packs where you can actually see it.

The ruby counter charged you 20 credits for every stone you asked for and then handed over exactly two, whatever you paid. Anyone buying more than a pair has been short changed, and the page cheerfully told them the full order had arrived. You now get every ruby you pay for.

Redeeming a pack used to count your rubies and then take them, which left a gap: an impatient double click or two tabs going at once could cash the same three stones in twice, and the same trick worked on your credits at the buy counter. The stones and the money are now claimed in one move, so whatever loses the race walks away with nothing. A booby-trapped page cannot spend your rubies or credits either, not without you pressing the button yourself.

The Car Market has been rebuilt. Across the top you now get the numbers at a glance: how many motors are on the market, how many models, and the cheapest and dearest asking price out there. The table still shows every city at once, with seats and a flag for each city a model is sitting in, and every column now sorts when you click it, so you can line the whole board up by price, by seats, or by what is actually available. Sort by price and the models nobody is selling drop to the bottom instead of pretending to be the cheapest car on the lot.

An optional SMS notice could break a completed turf or loot attack page after the result was already saved, and leaders returning to an underway attack saw no progress. SMS notice problems can no longer interrupt the attack, and leaders now see the arrival bar and report status.

Turf and gangster spy pages no longer tell you a hibernating or banned target is dead. Each unavailable state now gets the right explanation, while spy hires remain blocked until the account is active.

Body armour is laid out on cards now, with what you are wearing and the bonus it gives you at the top of the page, and a confirmation before your money leaves your pocket. There was also a way to get charged twice for the same vest if two buys landed together, which emptied your cash for gear you already owned. The till now takes one payment or none.

Every piece is laid out on its own card now, sorted into Pistols, Shotguns, Assault Rifles and the rest, so you can see at a glance what is yours already, what is still locked and what it costs in cash or credits. Click a gun and it opens up properly: the picture, the write up, the price, and if it is out of your reach, exactly which rank and how much prestige you are short. Buying happens right there without kicking you off the page.

The counter used to check your wallet and your locker before it took the money, which left a gap. Two orders landing together could buy you the same gun twice over and charge you twice for it, or stuff more guns into your locker than it has spaces for. Payment and handover are now a single move, and anything that loses the race is torn up and refunded. A booby-trapped page cannot spend your cash or credits at the store either, not without you hitting Buy yourself.

Sniper rounds and rockets now sit on clean cards showing the weapon they feed, how many you already own and exactly what one costs, still split across Sniper Bullets and Rockets. The Panzerfaust has also stopped lying about its price: it has always taken 45,000 bullets a rocket, but the counter advertised 40,000.

Buying ammo now takes the payment and hands over the rounds in a single move, so two orders landing at the same moment cannot walk off with more than your bullets and credits actually cover. A booby-trapped page can no longer spend your stockpile either, not without you hitting Buy yourself.

Car bombs can now damage a single building without the attack collapsing, and an empty Saved Messages box opens normally. Replies finish cleanly on older mail records too, while routine email and text alerts no longer turn attacks, auctions or messages into server errors.

Friends who sign up with the address their invite was sent to now appear in My Referrals, with the chosen gift kept for collection once they reach Hustler. The usual referral checks still apply, so operating both accounts from the same connection will not earn rewards.

Profiles showed Available for organised crime even when a gangster was below the required rank. Hobo through Dealer now show Below OC rank, then the usual team, cooldown or availability status takes over from Bodyguard onwards.

The advert ticker claimed it could be silenced in My Account, but that setting does not exist. Its tip now correctly explains that these are player adverts shown across Street Crime.

The screen you land on when a sign in goes wrong was still wearing the old grey look from years back. It now matches the rest of the city, tells you straight what went wrong, and keeps the email you typed so you only have to fix the password. While we were at the door, the sign up page's Continue button now sits properly in line with the email box.

The Complete Tasks achievement could unlock at 24 of 25 after Get Street Crime updates joined the beginner board, even with Refer a Friend unfinished. It now follows the full task list and only pays out once every task is complete.

The Stores page was three ragged rows of icons with nothing but a name under each, so you had to already know what a shop sold before you picked one. Every shop now sits under a heading, Combat Gear, Vehicles, Equipment and Jobs, or Premium, with a line telling you what it deals in. Same eleven shops, and the whole lot fits on one screen.

Yesterday's chat alert fix came with a side effect: the chat drawer opened empty on every page and only filled in a few seconds later, and could blank itself mid-conversation when a new message landed. The room now loads instantly with your messages in place, and the alert fix still works as intended.

The Car Market now matches vehicles by their real model number, so newer rides such as the 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS show the right name and can be bought normally.

Deleting the latest Global Chat message could make its replacement borrow the same number and look already read. The unread badge now spots the new message and refreshes the room correctly.

If your Storage Box holds less than $1,000,000, you can now withdraw the full remaining balance. The minimum still applies to partial withdrawals.

The official Street Crime pages on X and Facebook now sit in the front-page footer and the footer under every game page, while a larger follow card rotates through the game over time. New gangsters get a Get Street Crime updates task too: pick the channel you actually use and it counts towards the Complete Tasks achievement, then release notes, events, promotions and service news can find you after you log out. The task records that you opened the official page, not whether you followed it, and there is no separate payment for the click.

Three things wrong with the smiley list that opens when you type a bracket. Enter did nothing, which is the one key the list itself told you to press: you had to reach for Tab instead. It takes the highlighted face now, whether you have typed a search or just opened the list, and Escape still shuts it if you wanted the new line after all. The list stayed away entirely for anyone writing with Vim mode turned on; it now works there the same as everywhere else, and the preview follows what you type. And a run of smilies sat slightly out of line with each other in that preview, which is straightened out.

Every release note The Fixer puts on the Street Crime changelog now goes to the official Facebook page as the same one-per-release post sent to X and Discord. Fixes, upgrades and events land together with a link back to the full record, and a repeated release cannot post it twice.

If you keep a PIN on your account, the login step gave you three different edges to read down: the anti-script code boxed off at one width, its small print running wide underneath it, then the PIN lower down at a width of its own. It is one column now, numbered one and two down the side, with the code picture, the code box and the PIN box all the same size on the same line down the page. Both boxes are bigger and spaced out like a code rather than a name and address field, the small print sits up on each heading instead of crowding the box beneath it, and the whole thing fits on screen without scrolling. Clear a step and it stays exactly where it was and turns into a green tick, so nothing shuffles about between tries, and once every box is full the way in lights up.

Every box you write in, messages, replies, forum posts, world chat and crew chat, now watches for the bracket the smiley codes start with. Type ( and the whole set opens right at your cursor, then narrow it down by typing: co brings up (cool) and (coffee), lol finds the laughing face, pint finds the beer. Arrow keys move through the list, Enter or Tab drops the code into your message, Escape shuts it. Underneath the box a preview shows your message with the faces already drawn, so you can see exactly what lands at the other end before you send it. The smilies tray is still there on the toolbar if you would rather browse, and a bracket in the middle of a word is left well alone, so writing (see you later) does what it always did.

The About page now names DHEWY LTD as the team behind Street Crime, links the official @StreetCrimeGame account and puts the facts in one place: this is the free-to-start browser gangster world that has been online since 2007, with no separate download. The Guides page now explains what makes a persistent browser crime RPG and points new players straight to the Games Like Torn comparison, so somebody meeting the name for the first time can tell this long-running game from unrelated Street Crime apps and find the right way into the city.

Get the anti-script code right and fluff your PIN, or the other way round, and the login step used to throw away both, drop you on a dead end that needed a Try Again click, and hand you a fresh code to squint at. It keeps what you got right now, only asks for the part you actually got wrong, and tells you which part it kept. Refreshing leaves you where you were instead of sending everything again, and pressing Enter once your PIN is filled in signs you in, which it did not do before: it fired the reset instead and mailed you a new PIN you never asked for. If you did want a new one, asking twice in a row used to quietly kill the PIN in the first email, so the one you were reading had already stopped working. That is sorted, along with the way an account with no PIN at all could be handed one out of nowhere and then be asked for it. Five wrong PINs still holds the account for five minutes, but the wait is honest now: it used to start over every time you so much as reloaded the page, so anyone who kept checking was never getting back in. The hold page names the real reason, counts the wait down in front of you instead of saying a few minutes, and drops you back at the login step when it lifts rather than making you type your password again. One more, quietly: a correct code and PIN could walk straight past a hold that had only just been announced. It cannot now.

The credit transfer page has been rebuilt. The old one never said whether your transfer authorisation was actually open, so you filled the whole thing in and only found out you needed a code from My Account after you had hit send. It tells you now, up front, and if you are authorised it counts down exactly how long you have left of your three hours. Your balance sits at the top, the amounts you can send are laid out to pick from, and your recent transfers read as a proper list with who got what and when. That list is honest about itself for the first time as well: it said Last 10 Transfers and then showed every credit you had ever sent anybody, going back years. Two ways the page could be worked over are shut. A doctored form could send any number of credits you could cover instead of the five amounts on offer, and hammering the button, whether that was an impatient double click or two tabs open at once, could send the same transfer more than once. One transfer goes through per press now, for one of the amounts on the page, or nothing does.

People looking for a free browser gangster game now get a straight answer before they sign up: the front page explains the no-download crime RPG, the ranks guide lays out all thirteen titles in order, and a new Games Like Torn guide gives an honest comparison with the other browser crime worlds fighting for their time. Existing players can use the guides too, and every route points newcomers toward playing Street Crime instead of leaving them at a dead end.

The hint named the two drugs the street wanted and the two cities wanting them, then left you to guess how long that was worth anything. It says it now, on the drugs page under the rumour and in the message that lands in your inbox: both runs move at midnight, game time, and they move every single night. What is in demand today will not be tomorrow, so if you are going to fly on it, fly on it now.

The tasks board told you what each job wanted and, since the last update, where to go and do it, but never why you should bother with any of it. Vinnie opens the page himself now and tells you straight: the tasks are the short version of what he had to learn the hard way, where the money is, how to hold on to it, and what happens when you walk into a fight with nothing in your pockets. What he says at the end changes with how far along you are, so nobody who has cleared the board is still being told to start at the top. The greeting new players land on wears his face too, instead of a stranger doing the same job one box further up. One thing worth knowing if you found the list confusing: the task list was jumping to the wrong place when the page opened, leaving the task it had picked out for you off the screen entirely. It sits where it should now.

The drugs page has been rebuilt. It now tells you the city you are dealing in, how many units you are carrying against what your rank lets you hold, how much room you have left and what is in your pocket, all above the table, and the wait between deals runs down in front of you with the buy and sell buttons locked until your head clears. Three ways the old page could be worked over are shut. Hammering buy or sell, whether that was an impatient double click or a bad connection retrying on you, used to send several deals through at once: that could take your money more than once for a single lot of drugs, or pay you out several times over for stock you only had once. One deal goes through per wait now, whatever your finger or your connection does. The carry limit could be talked around, so a low rank could haul far more than their rank has any business holding, and a doctored form could conjure up units of a drug you never paid a penny for. Both are dead. The drug run hint stays what you paid for as well: the page no longer points out the day's run to anyone walking in without the hint, so those rumours are worth having again.

Every task on the board told you what it wanted but never where to go and do it, so a new player was left hunting the menus for the Getaway or the Protection Store. Vinnie has stepped in. Open any task and under what you have to do there is now a Where you have to do it: Vinnie tells you which menu it sits under and what to expect when you get there, and a button takes you straight to the page. All twenty four are covered, from Petty Crime through to the Security Light for your pad, and every one points at the page that actually ticks the task off. The two you cannot just walk into, buying yourself out of a cell and the security on your pad, tell you how to reach them instead.

Searching the FAQ was close to useless. Type two words and it came back with nothing at all, every time, whatever was in there. Type one word and it only ever read the headings, so an answer that spelled the thing out in its third paragraph stayed hidden. Whatever did come back was littered with visible code tags instead of readable text. All of that is sorted: search reads every word of every answer, marks the words you asked for so you can see why something matched, and puts the answers covering the most of what you typed at the top. The page is rebuilt around it, with categories that fold open and shut and tell you how many answers are inside, and the tip, the navigation, the search box and the way through to the Helpdesk gathered down the side. Today's Top Tip is a real rotation now, changing each day and reading properly, instead of the same tip from 2019 sitting there with its formatting showing. Staff get their tools back in working order too: tips added from the FAQ panel actually reach players, and editing an answer leaves it in the category it was already in instead of quietly moving it.

The tasks board has been rebuilt. You get a bar showing how many of the twenty four you have cleared and how many are left, the list ticks off what is done, and clicking a task opens what it wants from you without reloading the page. It tells you straight what clearing the lot is worth (the Complete Tasks achievement, twenty five honour points and fifty prestige) instead of the made up rewards the old draft promised, and there are links to petty crime, the gym, drug running and your achievements to get you moving. Land on it after finishing something and it names what you just did before it clears. The Tasks counter up in the bar could stick on forever, because it only ever went out if you arrived by one particular link, so anyone reaching the page from the menu was stuck looking at a number that would not shift. Opening the board clears it now, whichever way you got there. Reading through the tasks no longer costs you clicks either.

The city package depot has been rebuilt, and it now says what each kind of package actually holds: the plain boxes carry cash and either lead or bullets, the fragile crates always carry an item and bullets, and the blue ones hold a credit item off the store shelf. The old page listed honour points among the contents and no package has ever held any. Your waiting count ticks down as you open them and the whole thing works on a phone now. The handling is locked down tighter too: opening the same package from two tabs or two devices at once could pay it out more than once, that is done with, and a booby-trapped page can no longer open your packages for you.

Everything on sale for honour points now sits on a proper card with the price on the front, and anything out of your reach is greyed out so you can see at a glance what you can actually afford. Click one and you get a quantity box, the same as the credit store: take up to twenty, watch the running total, buy the lot in one go. There is a search box for when the shelf gets long, and your respect point conversion sits up top next to your balances. One more thing worth knowing: with the store open in two windows you could spend honour points you did not have and finish up in the red. The till takes the points before it hands anything over now, so that is shut.

Prestige was three bare lists and nothing about you. The page now opens with your own standing: your total, your rank, what you have earned since Sunday, and how far off the next ten thousand you are. Both top twenties carry medals and a bar showing how you measure against the leader, the weekly board counts down to the Sunday wipe, and if you or your crew miss the cut you still get your real position at the foot of the list. Your crew was being told it sat one place higher than the board above it said, and a week spent down at the honour store used to wipe out the bars; both sorted.

The bar across the top of every page showed you what you were holding and then left you to find the page yourself. Bank, Bullets and Lead are now proper links: Bank drops you at the city bank, Lead takes you straight to your lead factory, and Bullets opens your inventory with the weapons locker already showing.

Waiting on your next flight, the countdown would run down to zero and just sit there, still refusing to sell you a ticket until you reloaded the page yourself. Now the moment your wait is up the airport hands itself back with the destinations open, and it catches up properly if you tabbed away and came back mid wait.

From ten tonight until midnight ends Tuesday, crime, jobs and getaways pay 40% over the odds, every GTA job is 40% more likely to land, the whole credit store is 40% off, the shooting range hands out double weapon experience, sentences run 40% shorter and the organised crime counter drops to three hours. The man who started building this city almost twenty years ago is having one of the big birthdays, and he is not telling anyone which one. It runs once and it does not come back.

There is a wall up with room for one line from every player, and whatever you write stays there permanently with your name on it. Turn up any time this week and you also collect The Big One, a medal nobody will ever be able to earn again, plus a drink on the house sitting in your inventory. The man who built the place has left a letter there too, in his own voice for once instead of mine.

The storage box, where your cash, bullets and items sit safe after you start a new character, has been rebuilt with clean cards for your cash, bullets, items and retained weapon levels, and it now spells out the storage fee you pay before Bodyguard and exactly what stays protected while it is in the box. The money handling is locked down tighter too: a booby-trapped page can no longer withdraw on your behalf, and hammering a withdraw button can never pay the same balance out twice.

The new Casino Tax rate landed on the Cities page cards but skipped the classic table layout. The classic view's overview table now carries the same column, next to Interest: 1% where a first-place Domination crew runs the city, 0% where the tables are free.

The transfer dropdown at the City Bank was printing white names on a white list, which made picking a friend a guessing game. The list now uses the bank's dark colours so every name is readable.

The refitted City Bank's transfer dropdown was reading an old ledger of names, so it came up wrong or empty for most players. It now lists your real friends, same as the compose page: settled friendships only, under their current names.

Joining an attack team without adding ammunition could knock the page over, and some older conflict reports failed to open when they had no building or pad-security damage recorded. Both now finish cleanly, including reports with nothing to show in those sections.

A hiccup while adding a new account to the mailing list could leave the account created but stop the automatic login, and sending a text under the Crew-only privacy rule could fail while checking membership. Signup now carries on without the optional mailing-list step, and texts compare both players' current crews properly.

New counters, same dirty money: transfers, deposits and withdrawals are laid out properly now, with a live countdown ticking on your savings. While we were in the vault we fixed the withdrawal lock too, so a 1 week saver actually stays locked until it matures and a 1 day account can always be cashed out, and the tellers now refuse forged paperwork, meaning a booby-trapped page can't move your cash without you clicking.

The back-office ledger got rebuilt from the ground up. Staff can now see exactly which card payments went through, which ones failed, and which got abandoned halfway through checkout, so if a payment of yours ever goes sideways, support can spot what happened and sort you out faster.

The Fixer stopped life insurance returns from getting stuck after restoring a dead player's goods. Death clean-up can now finish handling open gym fights and heavies stationed away from their owner's turf.

Hover any reaction under a chat message and it tells you exactly who threw it, with you named first when one of them is yours. A message can wear a whole row of different smilies from different people, and when a pill gets crowded it names the first twelve and counts the rest.

When a few people went in on you at once, the hitlist sent an email and a text message for every single hit. Five backers in a minute meant five of each, at the exact moment you had better things to worry about. Going up on the board still tells you the second it happens, because that is the one worth waking up for. Anything piled on while your name is already up there is now gathered up and sent as one message, telling you how much has been added and how many hits it took, rather than one alert per backer. Nobody in that batch gets named, so paying for anonymity still buys it.

New on the weekly schedule, twice a week: Wednesday and Saturday evenings, 7pm to 11pm, the precinct pulls its patrols in for the shift-change briefing and every option on the GTA page rolls at +25% success chance, the crew garage raid included. The percentages on the page glow with the boosted numbers while it's on, and a banner counts the window down.

Whatever's running right now shows in the boxes at the bottom of every page with a countdown, so you'll never miss a window just because you were busy elsewhere. The Schedule page now shows the day of the week on every date so you can scan your week at a glance, and a new Calendar file button lets you pull the whole weekly schedule into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. One more thing: raiding a crew garage now grabs a random car from what's on offer, not always the same one.

Hold first place Domination of a city and your crew now skims a 1% cut of every casino win of $100 or more there: blackjack, roulette, keno, war, numbers, yahtzee, the slots and poker alike. The cut comes out of the winner's payout and lands straight in the crew boss's pocket, every casino page shows who runs the town, your win report says exactly what they took, and crew bosses can watch the take grow on their crew's activity yields. The Cities page shows which towns are paying.

New on the weekly schedule: Saturday 8pm to midnight the tables run hot and the crew running each city collects double its casino cut, on the house. Winners never pay a penny extra, so get your crew to first place before the weekend and let the city work for you.

The refitted bullet factory went out with the security code box squeezed clean off the edge of the buy form on desktop, so you could read the code but had nowhere to type it, and no bullets could be bought. The form's been straightened out: the code sits above its box now, on the buy form and the takeover form both, and the factory is selling again.

Helpdesk tickets now take up to four screenshots per message instead of three, on the opening report and on every reply, and staff can attach the same when they answer you. Each image can be up to 4MB and a ticket holds twelve in total. If you pick too many, or one is too big, the page tells you before you send instead of quietly dropping them, and pictures that break the limits are named so you know exactly what to shrink.

Team leaders can now list their organised crime on the new OC Teams board and take applications for their open seats. Find the board from the Organised Crime page or the new link on any profile's organised crime status, apply for the seat you want (driver, weapons, explosives or lookout), and the leader accepts or declines you straight from their notifications. Accepted means you are in: gear up, ready up, rob the bank.

A player's organised crime status on their profile could report the wrong thing to everyone but the player themselves. It is now a proper status badge showing exactly whether they lead a team, sit in one, are still hot, or are available for yours. Inviting from a profile also got cleaned up: the invite window no longer offers seats that are already taken, invites genuinely expire after their 24 hours, and a stale invite can no longer shove out whoever took the seat in the meantime.

The slide-out chat panel's left edge is now a grab handle: drag it to widen the chat up to three quarters of your screen, and it keeps that size on every page until you change it. Double-click the handle to snap it back to normal. On phones the chat still fills the screen like before.

The whole Prostitution racket got the full refit: five clean tabs for pimping crimes, send-outs, hiring, managing your girls and your brothel, with proper cards, colour-coded health and live countdowns on every timer. The street worth on a girl's card is now exactly what she sells for (it used to pay the performance bonus on every sale whether she earned it or not), and a girl who dies on an outing no longer brings money home from it.

Closed a hole on the Prostitution page where another player could sell or cure a girl that was not theirs, with the sale money landing in their pocket. On top of that, a booby-trapped page can no longer hire, sell, cure or send your girls out without you clicking the button yourself.

Hover any name on Gangsters Online and a small dossier card slides up: their character's face (or the empty silhouette if they never made one), their rank, their crew, and whether they are open for organised crime right now, on a cooldown, already out on a job, or still too green for that life. Handy for scouting OC partners without opening a dozen profiles.

The city Bullet Factory has been rebuilt into clean cards: the factory's owner, stock and price per bullet on one side, your buy form on the other, with your own bullet count right where you need it. Owners get a proper dashboard showing their price, stock, hourly production and costs, and queued price changes now show exactly what the price becomes and when. Under the hood the tills got tightened too: a booby-trapped page can no longer fire off a purchase without you clicking it yourself, and two buyers hitting the last of the stock at the same moment can no longer buy more bullets than the factory holds, same for two gangsters racing to snap up an unowned factory.

The Schedule has been rebuilt so you can plan your week around the money. Look ahead one week, one month or three, filter for boost windows or the weekly fixtures, and hit Details on any event to see exactly what it pays and how to work it (Gym Boost, Crime Spree, Happy Hour, Fight Night, Chop Shop Sunday, the Saturday draw). Anything running right now sits at the top with a live countdown and a straight link to where the money is.

The Recruiting page under Crew has been rebuilt. Every crew that is hiring now shows as a card with its colours, boss, founding date, motto and a bar showing how full their roster is against their actual HQ capacity, and once you apply the card shows your application as pending so you know it went through. Crew bosses also get a better look at who is knocking: applications now arrive with the applicant's rank and respect, and a handled application finally clears itself out of your notifications instead of loitering there forever.

The who's-online page has been rebuilt into clean sections for staff and players, with the colour coding you know (admins yellow, mods purple, helpdesk blue, friends green, casino and factory owners orange, crew bosses in bold) now easier to scan, and a colour guide that matches what's actually on screen. The Leaderboards shortcut is still one click away, top right.

When a character dies, the skill on their guns gets banked for the next life, but the bank was hoarding a copy from every death and handing back the oldest one when you rebought the gun, so a veteran could get their weakest ever level returned instead of their best. From now on, rebuying a gun claims the best skill you have ever banked on it and clears out the stale copies. Cheers to Misery for the sharp report.

The Character tab in your Inventory had been sat behind a coming soon poster for years. It now shows your character portrait as the street sees it, which of the five crews you have recruited, and takes you straight through to the Character Builder. No character yet? You will see the looks other players are wearing, and one click starts your own.

Rest your cursor on someone's picture in the chat, in the messages or the roster, and a bigger square of their portrait floats up beside it so you can actually admire the character behind the name. Move away and it tucks itself back in.

The deals box at the bottom of the page was pushing seasonal stock months out of season, a discounted Brain Slushy in July that the Street Crime Store would not actually sell you. The footer now follows the same rules as the store shelves: Halloween gear around Halloween, Christmas gear in December, and the countdown only shows deals you can genuinely buy right now.

The little tray for reacting to chat messages now floats open over the room and carries every smiley the chat knows, not just a dozen, each drawn sharp at its proper size. Pick your face, it lands on the message, and a tap anywhere else tucks the tray away.

The Porn Studio could demand a car for a shoot that left the streets in the garage refresh, a Viper say, which nobody can boost any more. Shoot requirements now come from the cars actually out there to steal, the new fleet included, and the truly elite metal stays off the demand list. Cheers to Thodlum for calling it.

The text message service is properly back. UK and most non-US numbers had not received a single text in years, attack alerts included, while the game swallowed the failure without a word; texts now go out worldwide. Player-to-player texting is mended too: it was checking the wrong player's SMS credits and misreading the privacy settings, and it now charges the sender, honours your Friends, Crew and Public choices, and tells you the real reason when a text is declined instead of a shrug. Your SMS credits were never touched, so what you bought is ready to use.

You can now react to any message in the chat: tap the little smiley on a message and hang one of the street's own emojis on it, thumbs, hearts, beers, even a gravestone. Everyone sees the count grow, tap yours again to take it back, and it works in the crew room too. While we were in there, staff now wear a small badge next to their name in the chat, Admin, Mod or Helpdesk, so you always know when the person talking actually runs the place.

The crew forum had quietly stopped recognising who's in charge: bosses and members with forum rights lost the power to delete, pin and lock topics, hidden topics disappeared for everyone, and the topic flags at posting time did nothing. Your powers are back. Editing a topic after posting returns in a coming update.

Some achievement unlock popups arrived with no badge on them, and a finished achievement could still show an unfinished progress bar if it tracked something that resets, like your daily gym training. Badges show up and completed means completed, on every tab.

Four more finds from the Helpdesk, squashed in one pass: the check-all box on the spies pages now works every time instead of exactly once, loot victories print the cash properly instead of raw gibberish (and no longer brag about stealing $0 from an empty turf), the hitlist total in the game stats stops counting bounties on the dead, and the garage's dropdown menus are readable again. Keep the reports coming, the bounty pays.

Chatting from the slots page was a costly habit: with the chat window open, every space you typed spun the reels and took your bet, and the space never even landed in your message. The spacebar shortcut now stays out of it whenever the chat is open or you are typing in any box, and it comes back the moment you close the chat.

The notice banner at the top of your pages was printing its raw formatting tags instead of showing the words in bold. That's sorted: staff notices, special offers and downtime warnings all display properly again, and anything dodgy someone tries to hide inside one still gets stripped before it reaches your screen.

Every release The Fixer stamps in this ledger now gets called out on X at @StreetCrimeGame the second it goes live, same as the Discord changelog channel. And when you drop a street-crime.com link anywhere that shows previews, it flashes proper Street Crime artwork now instead of a grey nothing.

The Helpdesk bug bounty now pays out on up to five confirmed reports a week, up from three. Same rate per bug, more bugs that count, so if you keep finding real ones the credits keep coming. Report them through the Helpdesk as always.

Street Crime's thirteen gangster ranks now sit in a clear order with both male and female titles, from Hobo or Tramp through to Godfather or Godmother. The homepage, guides and FAQ also point to the ladder more clearly, so you can see the climb before you start it.

Two very different nights at a casino were being reported as the same thing. Take a big win off a house that pays up in full and The Wire announced you had broken the table. Actually break it, clean the owner out and walk off with the place, and The Wire said nothing whatsoever. A big win now reads as a big win. Breaking a house gets its own line, on keno and the slots as well as everywhere else, which is where it had been going unreported. The slots knew full well it had happened, told you on your own screen and then kept it to itself. What you will not see is the city named, because where you were standing is worth paying a detective for, not reading off the front page. Cheers to Thodlum, who worked out both halves of this himself before reporting it.

Starting an attack with no ammunition selected could knock the attack page over, and disbanding a crew after its boss died or was banned could stop before freeing the members. Both paths now finish cleanly.

Owning a casino was never supposed to let you sit down and play it. Own the table and you are on both sides of every bet, which is not a game, it is a tap. The rule was being enforced the long way round, by turning away anyone connecting from the same place as the owner, and that only holds while the owner is connecting from where the game last saw them. Now it simply checks whether the table is yours, and if it is, you are not playing it. That covers slots, keno, roulette, blackjack, war, numbers and yahtzee, in every city. Playing anyone else's tables is entirely unaffected.

The only way into Mystery Spin was that slim tab stuck to the right hand edge of the screen, and it is a picture with no words on it. Play on a phone and the whole page gets shrunk to fit, tab and all, leaving you poking at something about the width of a matchstick. Since nothing else in the game linked to the page, that meant no spin for you at all. There is a Mystery Spin entry in the menu now, showing whenever you have one waiting, so you can get at it from anything. The tab stays put for anyone on a desktop. Cheers to SomeBadMofo for reporting it, and for mentioning it was not just him.

Turn down a friend request and the game was supposed to let the other player know. It never did. The message was being addressed to nobody at all, so 34 requests were quietly declined without the sender ever hearing a word, leaving them wondering. Accepting always worked, which is why this went unspotted for so long. Both halves of the game that handle friend requests had the same fault and both are sorted.

Two from the same player, both about the game jumping the gun. The friends list on the compose page was counting anyone you had ever sent a request to, whether they answered or not, so people who never accepted sat there looking like mates. It only lists people who actually accepted now. Over four hundred unanswered requests were being passed off as friendships across the game. Separately, an organised crime team sheet with no vehicle added was claiming to have a Volkswagen Fox. Nobody was being given a car, the sheet was just reading a blank space as the first motor on the list. An empty slot reads None again. Cheers to Memphis for both.

When a crew raided somebody's turf, The Wire was printing exactly who led it and which crew they brought. That is not the wire's to give away. When you get raided the game tells you a rival group of gangsters came for you and nothing more, then hands you the keys and tells you to chase them down, because catching them is how you learn who they were. Anyone reading the front page was getting that for nothing, you included, so there was no point giving chase. Raids stay off the wire now. If you want the names, go and catch them.

If your deposit at the city bank came due at exactly the wrong moment, the vault could pay the whole thing out twice: double the deposit, double the interest, and two matured letters in your inbox to prove it. The books are squared now, one deposit means one payout and one letter, every time. The ledger remembers who got lucky.

The Guide's front page has been rebuilt the way it was always meant to look: eight proper sections, Getting Started, Crimes & Jail, Money & Trading, Combat & Conflict, Crews & Domination, Turf & Business, Casinos & Gambling, and Accounts & Community, each with its own card, icon and article list, with Guide and FAQ badges so you can see what kind of read you are in for. Every section has a view-all page, the articles themselves got roomier type and cleaner panels, and search highlights your term properly. Same knowledge, far easier to find your way around it.

Ask Vinnie stumbled out of the gate: the brain behind him got retired by its supplier the same week we hired him, so every question came back with an error. He is on a working model now and answering properly. While we had him in the chair he got his actual portrait instead of a stand-in, and he has done his homework: on top of the guide library he now knows the in-game FAQ and the latest editions of The Fixer's Word, so you can ask him what is new around here and he will answer with dates. If he ever tells you he is swamped, that is the free line he works over being busy, give him a minute.

Adding the Guide link to the bottom of the page shoved the footer links onto a second row. They are back on one line where they belong.

The Wire already reported it when somebody took a car out of another player's garage, but nicking one off the street, which is what most of us are actually doing, never got a mention. It does now, and it names the motor, so the new metal that turned up last week gets its moment. It sits with the everyday work rather than the headlines, so on a busy night the killings and the turf still come first and you will not see the street steals for the war going on above them.

If you bought a membership after your first three days were up, the game never took the trial mark off your account, so the banner at the top kept telling you to buy a membership before a date that had already been and gone, dangling 30 free credits you could no longer claim, while you were sitting there fully paid up. Every player currently seeing that banner had already paid. The mark now comes off whenever you buy, and there is a nightly tidy that clears it off anyone whose three days are behind them, so it cannot creep back. The banner also stops showing once the offer date has passed. If you are on a genuine trial right now, nothing changes, the offer is still yours. Cheers to Thodlum for reporting it.

The Guide page now has Vinnie, a veteran of these streets who answers questions in plain English. Type what you want to know, how to raise your crime success, where your cash is safest, how crews work, and he talks you through it, drawing on the game's own guide library rather than making things up. His answer streams in live as he talks, there are one-tap suggested questions to get you started, and he is on the guide's article pages too for follow-ups while you read. He is marked BETA because he is new on the payroll: if he gets something wrong, the guides themselves are the final word.

Review Street Crime was a blank box and five radio buttons, with nothing to show that anybody had ever written one. It is a proper board now. The reviews the crew have published are up there with the stars their authors gave them, next to the running average, how many are published and how many rated the game five. You pick your rating off a row of stars, and a counter under the box tells you where you stand against the fifty character minimum. That page has always claimed a five hundred character limit and never once held anyone to it, so long reviews went in and got trimmed later; it holds now, and it warns you before you submit. Get knocked back for a missed rating or an overlong write up and every word you typed is still sitting there, rating and all, instead of being binned. The average was being dragged down by old reviews written before ratings existed, which were counting as nothing out of five; those are out of the sum now, so the number on the page is the one players actually gave. It lays out properly on a phone, and a booby trapped page can no longer file a review in your name.

The artwork behind the red, green and black buttons had quietly stopped loading everywhere in the game, leaving you with bare text where a proper button should be. Same story for the brick backdrop and the slots button on the menu. They were being fetched from the wrong place and coming back refused, so nothing was drawn at all. All of it is pointing at the right place again. The firing range got its own fix while we were there: the bar showing progress towards your next weapon level was invisible until you had shot something, because it was losing its colour before you ever picked a gun. Cheers to Thodlum for spotting both.

Your garage is now a proper collection: total value, fleet size, what needs shipping and what is in transit sit up top, every motor gets its own card with a rarity badge that matches how hard it is to boost, and the info button deals any car out as a collectible stat card. The housekeeping was overdue too. The two minute wait between car market listings was never actually counted, typing junk into the asking price wrecked the whole page, and Santa's sleigh could be put up for sale when it was never meant to leave your hands. Sell All and Scrap All would happily move a motor that was out on an attack, and a paperwork dodge let a freshly boosted car skip the haulage yard without paying. All of it closed, and a booby trapped page can no longer sell, scrap or ship your motors behind your back either.

The full Street Crime guide library, six player guides and nine FAQ sections covering crimes, jail, money, crews, turf, casinos and the rest, now lives inside the game at the new Guide page. Before tonight those pages sat outside the wall, and clicking through to them while signed in just dumped you back on your main page. Read any guide without leaving the game, search the whole library, and jump between topics from the sidebar. There is a Guide link in the footer whenever you need it.

The hitlist and its details page have been rebuilt into clean cards: target, rank and the price on their head laid out plainly, and a search box that finds players as you type. Plenty was wrong underneath. The reason someone typed when placing a hit went onto the details page uncleaned, so a well chosen line could run in the browser of everyone reading it. Clearing a hit was a plain link, which meant a booby trapped page could spend your cash on someone else's bounty without you ever clicking Buy Out. Part paying a bounty could wipe the whole thing off the board when your payment happened to land exactly on one hit, and the money still owed on that player went missing with it. Those stray hits were then waiting to land on whoever went up next, close to a billion in phantom bounty. All of it sorted. Hobos still cannot put a price on anyone's head, only now the rule actually holds. And when the hitlist texts to tell you there is money on you, it names who paid for it.

When you send the helpdesk an idea or a request, the crew can now file your exact words into the planning log straight from your ticket, the same way they already clip the chat, mail and the forums. Good shouts made through a ticket stop dying in the archive.

Support used to be a grid of icons that told you nothing until you clicked one. It now opens with your own situation: how many voting sites you have left to claim today, whether staff have replied to a ticket you have not read yet, and how many answers are sitting in the FAQ waiting for you. If there is a reply waiting, that is the first thing on the page, with a link straight to it. Every door is labelled with what is actually behind it, and the ones the old page never mentioned are on there too: Discord, the player rules, the bug bounty and the referral scheme.

Staff could only look back at the fifty most recently closed tickets, which on a normal week is about two days worth. Admins can now filter the closed pile by whoever dealt with it and page back through the whole archive, so an old answer can actually be found and checked. Thousands of tickets opened by accounts that have since gone were being hidden from that list entirely; they show up now too, marked as such. Nothing changed about who can read what: helpdesk and moderators still see the tickets they closed themselves.

The Manage tab told you to send your staff between cities using the form below it, then showed you an empty space if you had nobody on the books. No button, no list, no word of explanation, which made it look broken rather than empty. It now tells you straight that you have not hired anyone and sends you to the Hire tab. Two more while we were in there: the city names next to your actors came up blank right after you hired someone, and the studio was quietly complaining to itself every time the page loaded. Cheers to Manic666 for the report.

The Get Energy page has been rebuilt with a clean card for each pick-me-up: the pack of sugar, the Boost Bar and the Powerzade. Every card now shows you up front exactly how much energy it gives and what it costs, in cash or honour points. The buy buttons grey out when a purchase would be wasted, whether your energy is already full, your pockets are short, or you are still waiting out the hourly sugar timer, which now counts down right there on the page.

Clicking Street Crime in the copyright line at the very bottom of the page dropped you on a dead end. It was pointing at an address that shut up shop years ago and only stayed alive long enough to shunt you on to another one that no longer exists at all. It now goes somewhere that actually answers. Cheers to Thodlum for spotting it.

Pitch an idea in the chat, drop a request in someone's mail, spin something up on the forums: the crew can now clip your exact words into a planning log the moment they spot them, tagged and searchable, so good shouts stop getting lost in the scroll. Nothing changes on your screen, but if you've got something worth building, say it where the city can hear you. The best ideas get picked out, worked over and, when they're ready, they end up right here in the Fixer's Word.

The competition page had been showing the same Valentines contest since 2013, closing date and all, telling you the prizes had already gone out. Worse, every casino table, the bank and the bullet factory carried a link inviting you to take control of your city, for a competition that finished in 2010. It was meant to appear for a fortnight and had been sitting there for fifteen years. All of that is gone, and the page now just tells you straight when nothing is running. The Santa leaderboard has been sorted too: it never forgot the last contest, so out of season it kept crowning a winner who had long since stopped playing. It only shows standings while the competition is actually on. Cheers to Hardcode for reporting both.

Open a ticket now and there is a box on the form: tick it and we will email you when staff reply, and again when the thing you reported gets fixed. It was buried in a setting nobody ever found, so in practice those emails went to nobody at all. Now it is asked for at the point you file the report. And if your character did not survive long enough to see the fix, we will still let you know it landed. You told us something was broken, you deserve to hear that it is not any more, even if you are not around to see it.

That little counter at the top of the chat panel was hiding a trick: it opens the list of who's been in the room lately. Now it actually looks like the button it always was, so give it a press.

Every message in the chat panel now shows who's talking properly: your character portrait if you've built one, otherwise your profile picture, otherwise the familiar blank mugshot. Same faces on the recently-in-chat list. Want to be seen? Build a character or claim a profile photo and the room will know you on sight.

The new chat panel could leave you staring at old talk: fresh messages landed below where you were looking and the panel didn't always follow them down. It now sticks to the newest message like it should, whenever you open it, switch rooms, or someone speaks.

The chat is no longer a page you have to trek to. Hit Chat in the top bar from anywhere in the city and it slides out beside whatever you're doing: same room, same faces, plus a Crew tab so crew business stays off the record. It follows you from page to page until you fold it away, the Chat link shows a badge when new talk lands while it's shut, and the one click formatting buttons and smiley tray the boards and messages got are on the chat box too. Where the old page listed members, the panel now shows who's actually looked in on the room lately. Mods keep their delete powers everywhere the panel goes, and posting too fast now gets you told to ease off instead of your message quietly vanishing, which the old chat had been doing for years.

Certain hours of the week are worth more than others from today, and they come round on a fixed schedule so you can plan your week around them. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday between 18:00 and 23:00 the gym pays out half as much again on every session, so a point becomes two. Tuesday from 19:00 to 23:00 petty crime, jobs and getaways all pay a quarter more, and Thursday from 20:00 to 23:00 those same three pay half as much again, which makes it the best earning window of the week. Friday from 19:00 to 23:00 is Fight Night: a kill is worth a quarter more prestige and honour, and if the police pick you up you serve half the usual stretch. Sunday from 12:00 to 20:00 is garage day, with chop shop work at half price and shipping a motor between cities at a quarter of the usual fee. Saturday's lottery draw at 20:00 sits on the same timetable. The full week is under Communication, there is a What's on box on your main page, and when a window is open the page it applies to tells you so and counts down how long you have left. All times are game time, the same clock as every other timer you see.

When a Helpdesk member picks your ticket up it comes off the queue, and until now that is where some of them stayed. If that person never got back to you, nobody else could see it and nothing ever handed it back. A few had been sitting like that for years. From now on, a ticket that is waiting on the Helpdesk and goes a week without a reply goes back on the pile for any of the crew to pick up. On top of that, tickets where you were the last one to speak were being closed off with a note claiming they had been answered, which was plainly not true when you were still sat there waiting. That has stopped: only tickets where we are waiting on you get closed for going quiet.

The new formatting buttons went onto the quick reply window last release, but nobody widened the window to suit, so they sat jammed against the edge of it and the row was one button away from spilling onto a second line. The window opens a little wider now and everything sits comfortably, whether you have the typing mode switched on or not.

The ticket count the Helpdesk crew see next to their menu link was lying to them, and badly. Most of what it counted was old tickets raised by accounts that have since been deleted, which cannot be opened or answered by anyone, so the number was several times bigger than the real pile of work and pointed at a queue that was often empty. Worse, the moment a staff member picked your ticket up it stopped being counted at all, so a ticket somebody had claimed and not yet answered was invisible to everyone including the person holding it. The count now shows exactly what is waiting on that member: unanswered tickets in their queue, plus the ones they have taken where you were the last to speak. Those get flagged and pushed to the top of their list. If you have raised a ticket and heard nothing back, it is a lot harder for it to be forgotten now.

Rome's Domination map now handles empty districts and missing studio markers cleanly, and hourly turf rent uses the player's actual crew when deciding automatic collection. Drug sales now validate each drug separately; spy reports, attack setup, auctions, profiles, Getaway missions and promotion messages also handle missing optional details without tripping over them.

When the boards were rebuilt they got a row of one click formatting buttons sitting above the box: bold, italic, underline, strike through, link, image, centre, colour and a player tag. Sending a message and firing off a quick reply did not get them, so over there you still had to open the tag list and pick the tag out by hand every single time. That was daft, and it is fixed. The same nine buttons in the same order are now on the message box and the reply window, they work on whatever you have highlighted, and the tag list behind them matches the boards too, quote tag included.

Uploading your picture to the Photo Gallery now completes the beginners task, the way the task always said it should. Before this it only ticked when a staff member approved the photo by hand, and nobody had worked that queue in years, so the task was impossible to finish and a lot of you were stuck one short of the full set. Reclaiming a picture from an old account counts too. Approval still decides whether your photo goes up on the gallery wall and pays the 200 prestige. Cheers to Cyborg for chasing it up.

The hourly heavies payroll now handles low-rank bosses and cleans up impossible old counts before working out wages, so each of the three heavy types is charged correctly. The main page now always shows your real honour points and a zero ruby balance when your inventory is empty, while My Account and profiles no longer trip over missing optional settings, crew details or seasonal rankings.

Every board in the place was running as its own separate copy of the same tired page, which is why fixing one never fixed the rest. They all run off one thing now, and before you ask: every thread and every reply ever written is still there, word for word, exactly where you left it. Nothing was thrown out. You can vote a thread or a single reply up or down, and sort a board by what is hot, what is new, what scored highest, or what is simply busiest. Replies sit underneath the person you are answering instead of piling up at the bottom, and you can fold a whole argument away by clicking the line beside it.

Type an @ and a player's name and they get told about it, same as a message, and it turns into a link to them. The front page now pulls every board you are allowed to read into one list, each thread marked with where it came from. Threads you have opened before tell you how many replies have landed since. There is a search box that goes through titles and posts, the list itself is a lot tighter so you can see two dozen threads at a glance instead of five, and voting, replying and posting no longer reload the page under you.

Sending a message, firing off a quick reply and posting on a board each gave you a different writing box with a different set of tools, so whatever you learned in one place was the wrong thing somewhere else. They match now. The same formatting buttons and the same tag list sit on all three, and the Vim mode that only the message pages had is on the forums too, so :w posts and :q backs out whichever box you are typing in. Turn it on once and it stays on everywhere.

The shop you spend your credits in was a wall of cramped little boxes you had to squint at, and finding one thing meant reading every tab until you tripped over it. It is laid out in proper cards now, with the packs shown full size so you can actually read what is in them. There is a search box that hunts across every tab at once, so type "bullet" and it tells you what it found and where. Click anything and you get the full details, what it costs, what you get, and a quantity picker, before you part with a credit. Your balance sits at the top and updates the moment you buy.

The Halloween drinks and the Christmas gear had been sitting on the shelves all year round, which rather took the occasion out of them. The Christmas pack was worse: it sat there looking available and then refused every sale, no matter what month you tried. Sorted. The Halloween items come out for the fortnight around the night itself, 24 October to 7 November, the Christmas stock and the pack are there for all of December, and the pack actually sells when it is on the shelf. Out of season they are off the shelves entirely, and nobody can go round the back and buy them anyway.

When you open a ticket, the alert that goes out to staff used to say only that something needed attention, with a link that dropped them on the queue to go looking for it. Now it names what you raised and who raised it, and takes them straight to your ticket in one click. Less time spent finding your report means less time before somebody answers it. Names in those alerts also stopped coming out as a jumble of stray characters.

Keno's number board could lose its colours before a bet, jobs could stumble over an empty item slot, and trades could carry on with missing details instead of sending you back safely. Those are fixed, along with the same rough edges in turf attacks, the target range, jail buyouts, brothel upgrades and property management.

The Wire had taken to labelling every line with a little three letter shorthand, which meant learning what BLD and CSH were supposed to mean before you could read your own news. They are gone. The colour down the edge of each line already tells you what sort of word it is, and you do not have to memorise anything to see it. The headline on the front page has come down to a sensible size too, so it sits with the rest of the page instead of shouting over it.

The Wire now knows the difference between news and noise, and the busier the city gets the pickier it becomes. When there is real word going round, somebody put in the ground, turf changing hands, a casino owner cleaned out and losing the house, a team walking off a bank job, that is all you will see. When the streets are quiet it drops back to the smaller stuff so you are not staring at an empty board. Nobody has to set a dial for this: the more that happens, the higher the bar goes on its own. It also got a lot lighter on its feet behind the scenes, so it will keep up when there are a lot more of us watching it.

Profile pictures and gallery photos were capped at 250KB, and while PNG was always on the guest list, hardly any real PNG squeezed under that line. So you picked one, got told your image was no good, and reasonably concluded PNGs were not welcome. The limit is 1MB now for both, which a normal PNG fits inside comfortably. The upload box on your account page also says what it takes and stops offering you files it is only going to turn away.

You can now pin screenshots to a helpdesk ticket, both when you open it and on every reply after that, and staff can send pictures back the same way. Up to three per message, PNG or JPEG. Half the back and forth on a bug report is staff asking what you are actually looking at, so put the picture in and skip that round trip. They stay private: only you and the staff working your ticket can open them, and nobody can pass the link around to anyone else.

If you have tried to put a picture on your profile or send one to the gallery since around the turn of the year, it failed and told you to try again later. It was never going to work no matter how many times you tried, or what image you picked. The keys the game uses to file your uploads had been changed underneath it and nobody told the game. Sorted. Upload away.

The helpdesk counter in the menu was showing staff a pile of tickets that were not theirs to work, and the same wrong number went out in the daily nudge, so helpdesk crew were being chased over a queue they could not even open. Everyone now sees the count for their own queue, and if your queue is clear you do not get the message at all. The helpdesk pages themselves also stop rebuilding the same figures on every single click, so they come up noticeably faster. While we were in there we tightened up who can open which tickets behind the scenes.

The cars you boost on Grand Theft Auto have not changed in years, and it showed. There are twenty six new ones out there now, every one with its own picture. Muscle worth keeping: a 1967 Impala, a 1969 Charger R/T, a 1970 Chevelle SS, a 1963 Lincoln Continental and a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado. Proper modern metal at the top: the McLaren 720S, the Ferrari 488 GTB, the Lamborghini Huracan, the Rolls Royce Cullinan and the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Electric has turned up too, a Tesla Model 3 and a Rivian, along with the Supra, the M4, the Nissan Z, the RS6 and the AMG GT. Two superbikes for anyone who likes their getaway light: the Kawasaki Ninja H2R and the BMW S1000RR. And at the very bottom of the pile, a Smart Fortwo, so there is still something to be ashamed of.

Eleven tired motors have stopped turning up: the VW Fox, Citroen C1, Fiat Multipla, Mondeo Estate, Corsa VXR, Clio Sport, Evo X, Dodge Viper, SLR McLaren, Ferrari Enzo and the Rover Metro. Read that carefully, they are retired, not crushed. Anything you already own stays in your garage, keeps its value, still sells on the car market and still works as a getaway or a car bomb. You just will not find another one at the traffic lights, so if you were sitting on an Enzo, it got rarer tonight.

One repair while we were under the bonnet: the tally behind the boost every car in the game award was miscounting. Stealing the same motor twice could nudge it up, and once you got hold of anything new it started crediting you for cars you had never actually had. It counts what you have genuinely boosted now, so the number on that award finally means something.