Apartments

Tired of sleeping in the Crash Landing Cube Hotel? Want a big place of your own to store your stuff? Then get an apartment!

Don't worry! You'll never be that safe again, but then again, this is a milestone of personal independence. Go you.

Where to Find Housing

You could sleep in your corp's HQ or simply doze off in the middle of the street somewhere, but for a variety of reasons (see: rape, death) most players decide to invest in their own apartment.

It's a bad idea to run out of money while renting - failure to pay rent twice will get you kicked out and your precious items will be up for sale at Sargo's Discount Warehouse.

To give your friends access to your apartment, scan them into a Voxguard lock by typing -<door number> scan <player name>. To add them as a resident, type @addresident <player name>. This can be a bad idea, as explained under "Challenges and you".

City	Location	Down payment	Monthly Rent	Security	Notes
Gangland	Broham Gardens	$300	$60	Two easily killed Gorillabots.	Economy housing in the truest sense, vaguely preferable to a cardboard box. You will probably get robbed on a whim if you live here.
Gangland	Astral Complex	$375	$40	Better than Broham, worse than Bradbury. Consists of 4 Gorillabots and 2 Owlmen.	If you have to choose between Astral Complex and the Broham choose this, otherwise get anywhere else.
Slagtown	Bradbury	$500	$200	Weak Gorillabots and surprisingly tough Owlmen. Similar to Astral Complex.	Easy access to the Bradbury Basement, sewers and nearby Galleria. Lockpickers that don't live here won't care about ruining their Bradbury reputation.
Freedom City	Sweaty Palms	$1000	$300	Electrified floors and FCPD security cameras.	Private lounge on the ground floor, showers on every floor.
Freedom City	Final Rest Home	$15000	$600	FCPD cameras	Only players older than 80(?) years can rent here. No internet access.
Shoreline	Innsmouth	$2200	$320	FCPD cameras	It's a hotel on the beach, chuting yourself places you into the ocean. There are also multiple holes in the wall that you can jump into the ocean from on each floor.
Freedom City	Helliday Inn	$2500	$1000	Electrified floors, FCPD cameras, and close proximity to FCPD HQ.	Best security in Freedom City. Has a lounge that comes with a bartender and drug vending machine.
Sewers	Chudhive	Free	Free	There are climbs, but otherwise, no known security.	Only Chuds can rent these apartments. Also, it's free.
Burbclave	Halliburton Arms	$500000	$1500	Criminals in the HA are shocked by the electrical floor and ganged up on by spiderlings, however it's nowhere near as good as having your own mansion.	Comes with multiple rooms. Spiderlings will rape most players with their curare darts, but can still be cleared out or nuked.
Burbclave	Mansion on Keaton Ave or Snow Boulevard	$1500000	$2000	An ODC camera shoots lasers at people with enough Stars. Spiderlings deploy from across Halliburton Arms. Largest and possibly most secure non-custom housing.	Each mansion has 13 (blinkblocked) rooms, open air tiles to construct planes on, their own private cloner, as well as 5 nanotube doors and a landing spot right outside. Limited availability.
Village of Lurleen	Lurleen Estates	$10000	$40	Nothing but obscurity.	For Freaks who want to live close to FC - or people who just like a little isolation. Has a cloner and merchant that sells food.
Wasteland	Vault 4	$10000	$500	Roaming security bots armed with lasers that attack any nonresidents.	Vault 4 is hidden in the Wasteland; you'll need to search around to find it.
Necropolis	Freak Tunnels	$499	$10	Its very location is a form of security, and recently addded are three abomination NPC's.	Housing for Hideous Freaks; others trying to rent an apartment will get irradiated.
Botany Bay	Rodger Young	$7500	$1100	Five pretty strong guys with assorted high level weaponry.	Roomkits can't be installed here since it's a goddamn boat. Freak friendly.
Weezer Village	Unterbeight Hotel	$1000	$750	Drones armed with flame chains and lasers. Biggest deterrent is that most outcasts live here and can't afford ruining their Weezer rep, for fear of getting evicted.	Requires 50 Weezer Collective reputation to rent.
Luskentyre Plateau	Luskentryan Mansion	$1000	$500	Mundane enforcers attack criminals. Not so tough, but come in swarms.	Requires 200(?) Church of Luskentyre reputation to rent. Great for early on, since you have rock lampreys, Necropolis and Weezer practically outside your door.

Apartment Security

Apartments are generally safe - other players can only mess with your apartment in one of two ways:

A) Picking. People can't just walk up to your door and start picking the lock, unless you, anyone else scanned into the door lock or any other residents have a challenge out. Also, if you're inactive for more than 2 months. Note that you can get picked while offline.

B) Barging. You open the door without peeking out first and someone just walks in.

Your apartment building's security will only go so far (not very). It's better to be a little paranoid and spend some cash on protective measures than to pay for it by being robbed down the road.

A variety of options are available to you.

Challenges and you

A challenge is issued when you mess with other players in yellow/green zones - such as attacking, picking, looting and butchering their body, insulting, groping and so on.

Now your apartment and any other locks you're scanned into are vulnerable against pickers (apartments of friends, planes, corp HQ etc).

In return, your own apartment is vulnerable if a friend you have scanned into the lock challenges someone.

What this means for apartment security: Make sure to have as few other people scanned in as necessary.

Basic Security Options

• Move to a better apartment. Living in places like Broham Gardens is asking to be bullied. Consider moving to an apartment with some semblance of security (for example Sweaty Palms).
• Buy a peephole. Smoot's Security Shack (Sm) in Freedom City sells inexpensive peepholes that can be installed in doors. Before leaving your apartment, make it a habit to peep out and make sure nobody's waiting to barge into your apartment.
• Upgrade your lock. Locks can be bought at security stores such as Smoot's Security Shack (Sm) or Securite Entiere (SE). The best locks are crafted by players.
• Buy tin foil. Tin foil is available at Hell Up in Hardware (HH). Installing it on the walls of a room will keep players with the Clairvoyance mutation out.
• Store valuables in safes. While not as good as safe deposit, safes take more time to smash than regular containers. For advanced players, there is a craftable E-Mag nanotube safe.
• Buy door kits. Door kits are addons for your doors that add an extra bit of security. Read more below.

To sum it up: No apartment, not even a mansion or custom HQ, is completely safe. Your best bet to keeping your text safe is A) picking your fights carefully, B) using a layered defense to slow pickers down and C) not storing all your text in one place.

Doorkits

Name	Shop	Notes
Peephole	Smoot's Security Shack	Allows you to peep out of a door. No apartment or plane should go without one.
Informer	Securite Entiere	When a door gets picked, it broadcasts a warning message on a select radio channel. Useful for when you own multiple apartments and planes.
TrickrTreat	Securite Entiere	Explodes, sets off explosives (and fuel pumps) on the same tile and has a chance to knock the picker into another tile. One-time use.
Super Shockmaster	Crafted	Shocks the picker, has a chance to stun them and to set them on fire. Unlimited uses.
Spoilsport	Automated Defense Solutions	Similar to an informer kit, but broadcasts on your corporation's channel. Overpriced.

Protips

• Make sure to spread your valuables between the safe deposit boxes, different apartments and planes. In case you get robbed, you won't lose everything at once.
• To give planes additional security, store them in hangars (Corpclave and Weezer Village) or park them on tiles with security turrets.
• Install locks both on the outside and inside of your apartment door. This gives your corpmates and security more time to react.
• Plenty of items can be bolted down with bolt <item>. In case you get robbed, people won't be able to just load your safe on a hoverplatform.

NPC Housing

Familiarizing yourself with the places NPCs lay their heads can be useful. New players may find that robbing NPCs is a challenging but fun way to get items (TVs, jewelry and guns) to sell, for instance, and it's often easier to get protection contracts from NPCs outside of their stores. You can sell stolen TVs to Mung at Rough Trade for the Burglar Job.

Note that some NPC apartment buildings have rentacops patrolling the halls during the day, who will give you stars and do other bad things to you if you try to pick a lock or break down a door in their presence. The distract <name> command runs a Persuade check; on success they'll leave the building for a few seconds.

On top of this, when you enter an apartment with sleeping npcs, they may actually wake up and call the cops on you, netting you more stars. The way to go is picking during the daytime, when everybody is out. You can throw in pipe bombs to kill them, but a cheap TV isn't worth blowing yourself up over.

City	Location	Map Abbreviation
Freedom City	Propecia Suites	PS
Freedom City	Xolair Plaza	XP
Freedom City	Humatrope Tower	HT
Corpclave	Weyland-Utani Building	WU
Corpclave	c14L1.s t0.w3.r	c.