How To: Ambushing

For those players looking for a bigger challenge, they can choose to ambush other teams delivering in Tier 2 in an attempt to steal 50% of their incoming earnings and unbanked pay on their current delivery.

Choosing Your Ambush Team
You cannot ambush with a team that is currently on delivery so you will need to make a new team or wait until your Delivery Team finishes their shift to use them to ambush other players. Once you have an available team to Ambush, go to the Neon Pizza tab and select Criminal Activity to be taken to the Activity Overview page.

Ambushing
To Begin ambushing, select which team you want to ambush with at the top and you will be taken to the Target page. Your current ambushing team will be shown at the top of this page, if you wish to change which team you are ambushing with, use the Switch button. If you are ready to ambush, you can review the Target list to see which teams you can "Gather Intel" on or which are "Recovering"

Cost
The scum of Neon district don't work for free, so because of that you will need to pay for the location information of teams to ambush. This information costs 5 Neon for the first ambush attempt against a target and increases by 5 Neon each time the target successfully defends against the ambush. A Target Team can be ambushed multiple times for an increasing fee on each attempt until they are unable to successfully defend. Once a target has been successfully ambushed they go into Recovery and are removed from the board until the start of their next delivery.

Gather Intel
Prior to paying for the location information of a Target, you can Gather Intel on them and view everything about their team from what class the characters are, their stats and their cards. This is a good way to size up their team before deciding if you can defeat them and take half their Neon. Once you have decided on a team you wish to Ambush, click the Ambush for X Neon Button. An ambush battle will automatically resolve instantly via an AI battle and show the results on the next page. If you won, it will show how much Neon, Juice and Parts you managed to steal from the delivery team. A player that succeeds in ambushing will steal 50% of the incoming pay for the current delivery along with 50% of everything the Target team has unbanked. A player may also choose to watch the Battle Replay of every ambush regardless if they won or lost.

Fencing
Once you have stolen enough illicit goods, you now need to clean those goods before they can be moved to your personal bank. Luckily there are many within Neon District willing to fence your illicit goods for you for a flat fee of 40 Neon. From the Criminal Activity Overview page, a player can view how much Stolen Profit they currently hold and can select the Fence Profits button and pay a 40 Neon fee to move their gains to their personal bank where they can now be spent. It is recommended to Fence your Stolen Profit often as players you ambush can take retribution against you and open a hit contract in an attempt to steal 100% of all Neon you have unfenced.