Tips
The Tips page allows you to bribe various city officials to gain information used to help you in your mafia-related activities. It also allows you to sell Witness Statements for cash.
Officials
When you open the Tips page you are presented with a series of options that boil down to five persons open to bribery. Each serves a different function, has a different cost, and, depending on whether or not you have the Timer Package active, may have multiple options available. The Officials and their respective cities are as follows:
| City | Corrections Officer | FBN Agent | Detective | Madam | Warden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia | Ray DiDomenico | Georgie Mitchell | Ed Ryan | Miss Savoy | Joe Delaney |
| New York | James Christie | Jim Howe | Gary Edwards | Lavina Crane | Connor Smith |
| Detroit | Albert Lore | Joe Melizzano | Josh Hendrickson | Cordelia Boothe | Joe Thorpe |
| New Orleans | Mike McKenna | Harry Donahue | Al Stokes | Beryl Greene | George Ransom |
| Chicago | Joseph Reiss | Daniel Meehan | William Powell | Analia Walters | Ben Macinnon |
| Las Vegas | John Schaefer | Bill Doyle | Karl Kohler | Ivy Pepper | Frank Crook |
| Boston | Ed Bradley | Drew Berry | Martin Clasby | Mitzi May | Stanley Tipple |
The Corrections Officer
When you bribe your city's Corrections Officer it will cost you $5,000. The result will be a message detailing the fullest jail in the cities reading, "Word on the street is that 79 tough guys just got locked up in New York." It will list both the number of people currently locked up and which city they are located in.
The FBN Agent
Each city keeps count of how much you have tipped that city's agent. The amount of money that you will be charged for a tip increases as the number of drug units you can hold also increases. This is the first of the two officials to offer more options if you are using the Timer Package. Without timers you see only FBN Agent XXX, which offers general information such as: "Rumor has it that Chicago is paying top dollar for Barbiturates at this moment. Or you may want to consider picking up some Cocaine in New Orleans. I'm not sure how long these prices will last though." This is the cheapest option as you have no control over what you will receive.
With the timers, you gain two new options:
- A tip based on a specific drug: "Rumor has it that Philadelphia is paying top dollar for Marijuana at this moment. Or you may want to consider picking up some Marijuana in Boston. I'm not sure how long these prices will last though." with price based on the drug you are searching for.
- A tip based on a specific city: "Rumor has it that Boston is paying top dollar for Morphine at this moment. Or you may want to consider picking up some Heroin in Boston. I'm not sure how long these prices will last though." with price base-lined at the cost of a Marijuana tip regardless of city chosen.
One thing that is of note: The min and max are directly related to your search and the city-wide drug scene when you pay for the tip. In the first example, Philadelphia's marijuana price could be fairly low making it a bad sell. This doesn't mean the tip lied to you, but rather that even at that low a price, Philadelphia was paying the most for marijuana.
The Detective
The detective of the city can be tipped to find the name of an inactive civilian and the city that they are currently located in. The tip will cost you $25,000. The tip looks like: "Word on the street is that Diana has fallen out of favor in Philadelphia."
The Madam
The Madam is the second official to offer extra options if you have timers. Her first, and standard, option is simply to offer you the name of a city with at least one bodyguard belonging to some dead guy. If there are none currently available, you aren't charged. Her second, and extra, option is to offer up the city and the name of the dead guy with the bodyguard(s). This second option will cost you half (.5) a credit. Her message looks like this: "Honey... word on the street is that 13 of those "big boys" are in hiding in Philadelphia. You slide her an envelope containing $30,000 and give her a wink."
The Warden
The warden will let you buy scrambled Witness Statements (WS) that were sold to the warden. They come out looking like this: "Connor Smith slides you a letter. Inside it reads: "2012-08-19 11:13:23 You witnessed XXXXXX WACK bransford". You slide him an envelope containing $10,000 and walk away with your new found knowledge." The shooter's name's visibility is dependent on the original WS that was sold. Selling a WS can be done using the button located beneath the other tip options with is line above it: "Sell Info To The Warden ($5,000):". The warden will pay $10,000 for each WS sold, but only accepts WSs resulting in the death of a person that haven't already been sold to the warden; wack attempts, bodyguard wacks, and pickpockets are not accepted.
