Suggest Edit: Wanted Level, Militia Raids & Arrests

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<p>Crime on Isla Sombra raises your <strong>wanted level</strong>, the game's name for a pool of "raid points". The level has three named states (<strong>person of interest</strong>, <strong>suspect</strong> and <strong>wanted</strong>). Higher states change how police and militia treat you and make a <strong>militia raid</strong> on one of your hideouts more likely. If a fight against police goes badly you are <strong>arrested</strong>; if a raid or a militia fight goes badly you end up in the <strong>work camp</strong>.</p>

<p><strong>Contents:</strong> <a href="#states">The three states</a> · <a href="#points">What raises it</a> · <a href="#raids">Militia raids</a> · <a href="#stops">Police stops and thug robberies</a> · <a href="#arrest">Arrest and the work camp</a> · <a href="#confidence">How sure is this page?</a> · <a href="#missing">Not found in the game files</a></p>

<h2 id="states">The three states</h2>
<div style="overflow-x:auto"><table>
<tr><th>State</th><th>Timer in the balance table</th><th>Timed by editors</th></tr>
<tr><td>Person of interest (lowest)</td><td>900 s = 15 min</td><td>About 15 minutes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Suspect</td><td>1,500 s = 25 min</td><td>About 20 minutes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Wanted (highest)</td><td>1,800 s = 30 min</td><td>30 minutes</td></tr>
</table></div><p>Editors report how the states behave:</p><ul>
<li>Committing crimes first gives <strong>person of interest</strong>; more crime raises you to <strong>suspect</strong> and then <strong>wanted</strong>.</li>
<li>Each state runs on its own timer. When one wears off you drop to the next lower state, which starts with its <strong>full</strong> timer.</li>
<li>Sleeping in a bed applies a well-being bonus that takes a chunk off the cool-down (see <a href="/wiki/dds2/stamina-health-rest">Stamina, Health &amp; Rest</a>).</li>
<li>In the game files the player controller stores one raid pool value and one wanted timeout, and the game can lock the raid timeouts. The player character reacts to police chases, police aggro, attacks on police and being caught in a raid.</li>
</ul><div class="warning-box"><p>The suspect timer is 1,500 seconds (25 minutes) in the balance table, but editors have timed it at roughly 20 minutes. Treat 20–25 minutes as approximate until the timer is measured precisely. The point thresholds for moving between states are not stored in the tables.</p></div>

<h2 id="points">What raises it</h2>
<p>Different crimes add different amounts of raid points. Making sales adds a little; killing someone adds a lot.</p><div style="overflow-x:auto"><table>
<tr><th>Flag</th><th>Action</th><th>Raid points</th></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-BOMB</code></td><td>Raid points for blowing up a car.</td><td style="text-align:right">100</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-KILL-MIL</code></td><td>Raid points for killing a militia officer.</td><td style="text-align:right">80</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-ASSASINATION</code></td><td>Raid points for a beating carried out on contract.</td><td style="text-align:right">65</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-KILL-POLICE</code></td><td>Raid points for killing a police officer.</td><td style="text-align:right">60</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-KILL-CIVIL</code></td><td>Raid points for killing a civilian.</td><td style="text-align:right">45</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-ATTACK-POLICE</code></td><td>Raid points for attacking police (the developer note repeats the "fleeing" text).</td><td style="text-align:right">35</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-KILL-THUG</code></td><td>Raid points for killing a thug.</td><td style="text-align:right">32</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-CHASE</code></td><td>Raid points for fleeing from the police.</td><td style="text-align:right">25</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-INFL-PACKAGE</code></td><td>Raid points per influencer package.</td><td style="text-align:right">10</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-BREAKIN</code></td><td>Raid points per break-in.</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-SALE-RANDOM</code></td><td>Raid points per sale to a random client.</td><td style="text-align:right">1.45</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-SALE-REGULAR</code></td><td>Raid points per sale to a regular client.</td><td style="text-align:right">0.75</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-SALE-DEALER</code></td><td>Raid points per sale by a dealer.</td><td style="text-align:right">0.4</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>RAID-PT-THEFT</code></td><td>Raid points for every B1,000 of stolen goods.</td><td style="text-align:right">0.23</td></tr>
</table></div><p>The <strong>Wanted points multiplier</strong> cartel setting scales these gains (Economic 0.6, Gangsta 1.2, Chillout 0.2). See <a href="/wiki/dds2/cartel-settings-difficulty-presets">Cartel Settings &amp; Difficulty Presets</a>.</p>

<h2 id="raids">Militia raids</h2>
<p>Each time the raid pool fills (<strong>500</strong> points) a raid can fire, but a full pool is the trigger point, not a guarantee: the <em>Raid chance multiplier</em> setting also applies (Economic 0.5, Gangsta 1.3, Default 1.0). Raids only unlock from cartel level <strong>6</strong>. Enemies start to spawn from cartel level 4. See <a href="/wiki/dds2/cartel-progression">Cartel Progression</a>.</p><ul>
<li>A raid is announced by the sound of an approaching helicopter, after which militia jump out to catch you.</li>
<li>If you hear it coming you can try to carry drugs out of the hideout, but the longer you wait the harder the escape.</li>
<li>When the raid ends, the drugs in the hideout are taken; if you are caught you end up in the work camp.</li>
<li>While a raid is running the stress bar climbs fast (6 per second, the highest of all stress events).</li>
<li>Hideout <strong>Security</strong> increases the response time when a raid comes, and hideout <strong>Visibility</strong> affects how noticeable your actions are to the community and authorities. See <a href="/wiki/dds2/hideouts-properties">Hideouts &amp; Properties</a> and <a href="/wiki/dds2/hideout-equipment">Hideout Equipment</a>.</li>
<li>Raids can be switched off in the cartel settings (Chillout does). The game warns that this changes access to the prison camp.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="stops">Police stops and thug robberies</h2>
<p>Police and militia can stop you and check you for illegal substances. The stop is a short dialogue, and the options include:</p><ul>
<li>producing your papers, or a joke reply about your mother eating them;</li>
<li>talking your way out ("just minding my business") with a percentage chance shown, or admitting to selling drugs;</li>
<li><strong>bribing</strong> the officer: B25,000 with a percentage chance shown;</li>
<li>using a special item, when you have one that fits;</li>
<li><strong>fighting</strong>, which starts combat. Losing to police means arrest; militia officers call you scum and fight on the same terms.</li>
</ul><p>The game reports three outcomes of a search: the police found nothing on you, the police took your bribe, or the police took your drugs. The tables do not list which option leads to which outcome.</p><p>Thugs behave differently: they demand your money, and being robbed costs <strong>40 street cred</strong>. Thug-run <strong>road blockades</strong> appear around the map and are not always guarded; they are easier to pass with more street cred. Street cred is scaled by a cartel setting and is lost when you are robbed.</p><p><strong>Secret slots</strong> only lower the chance of being found: the game says a secret slot "significantly reduces the chance" that items are found in a robbery or search, and items in a backpack's secret slots <strong>will be found</strong>. Editors report that hidden-slot items survived a police stop search. Your character starts with 1 secret slot and some clothing adds more (see <a href="/wiki/dds2/clothing-apparel">Clothing &amp; Apparel</a> and <a href="/wiki/dds2/inventory-special-slots">Inventory &amp; Special Slots</a>).</p><div class="info-box"><p>The tables do not say which stats drive the "chance" shown in a stop, so the effect of Sus, Visibility or Swag on these odds is unconfirmed. See <a href="/wiki/dds2/player-stats-attributes">Player Stats &amp; Attributes</a>.</p></div>

<h2 id="arrest">Arrest and the work camp</h2>
<ul>
<li>If police defeat you in a fight you are <strong>arrested</strong>: the drugs you carry and your weapons are taken.</li>
<li>Editors report that contraband is lost even from hidden slots when you land in jail (secret slots only lower the chance of being found in a stop search). Whether cash is also taken is unconfirmed.</li>
<li>The <strong>Loss multiplier</strong> setting text mentions an "arrest fine" and a "prison bailout", and the prison controller keeps a <strong>sentence-card count and a bailout amount</strong> for each imprisoned player. The amounts are worked out in script and are not in the tables; editors have not seen a fine on arrest.</li>
<li>A militia raid that catches you, or losing a fight to militia, sends you to the <strong>work camp</strong>, a town of its own with a seven-task <em>Camp works</em> questline. Chores such as baking bread and washing prison uniforms earn <strong>labor cards</strong>, and handing good labor cards to the guard reduces your sentence. See <a href="/wiki/dds2/prison-work-camp">Prison Work Camp</a>.</li>
<li>The camp is also a small drug market with its own demand for weed, amphetamine, meth and opium. A developer hint says you can smuggle drugs in to serve it; that text is not referenced by the hint table.</li>
<li>There is a prison-break timer of 1,800 seconds (30 min) to return to prison.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="confidence">How sure is this page?</h2>
<div class="info-box"><p>The numbers on this page (raid points, timers, the bribe, stress) come from the tables and code, and the three wanted states are confirmed by editors. Several descriptions (raid behaviour, the police station, street cred, smuggling into the camp) come from developer hint texts that no row of the hint table references, so they may be unfinished or shown by another route. Treat them as unconfirmed until seen in play.</p></div>

<h2 id="missing">Not found in the game files</h2>
<div class="warning-box"><p>The game has no police checkpoints (the road blockades are thug-run, and each blockade has its own checkpoint chance and ambush chance set on the placed actor), no numbered "search levels" beyond the three wanted states, and no stop-and-frisk zones in the tables. Raid chance per hideout, the state thresholds and the exact arrest sequence are handled in Blueprint scripts, which the class dumps list but do not include. Enemy stats are on <a href="/wiki/dds2/enemies-opponents">Enemies &amp; Opponents</a>.</p></div>

<p><small>Source: game DataTables (BalanceFlagsDatabase, StressEventDatabase, CartelConfigPresetDatabase, strTable_Oponents, strTable_GameHints, ItemDatabase). Values are as stored in the current Steam build; bolivars are written with a leading B.</small></p>

<p style="text-align:right"><small>by xDqwg</small></p>