Black Market

Gangster Nation Guide

The Black Market is where you can buy and sell various products.

Buy

The buy area allows you to acquire upgrades, items and perks.

You can use the button at the top of the screen to change your purchase asset, i.e. what you are exchanging to buy the product on the screen.

Any perk bought in the Black Market is non-transferable except for those found in the Daily Special, which are transferable if your account was created over 30 days ago.

Money

Daily Special

The Daily Special gives you the option to purchase one perk from a choice of three random perks. The third choice is only available if you're a Certified Gangster.

There's a fourth option, the "Mystery Perk", which enables you to buy another unknown perk for a fixed price of $400,000. The Mystery Perk could turn out to be poor value or good value, so you should only use this option if you're happy to take a gamble.

Prison Bribes

You can buy 10 Prison Pribes once per hour for $150k. Each prison bribe will enable you to leave prison immediately.

Firearm upgrade

You should always upgrade to the latest firearm when one is available in the Black Market. This gives you a better chance of survival in a shoot out, whether you shoot on someone else or they open fire on you.

The firearms available are:

Garage upgrade

The garage upgrade enables you to increase the maximum amount of vehicles your garage can hold. You can upgrade in 5 car steps with each upgrade costing more than the previous. The largest garage you can have is 100 vehicles.

Vehicle crusher upgrade

The vehicle crusher upgrade enables you to increase the maximum amount of vehicles you can crush in your-garage each hour. Each upgrade costs $500k. You upgrade once for every 5 levels, up to a maximum limit of 10 vehicles per hour.

30 x Petrol Bomb

You can use petrol bombs to attack properties which reduces their security strength.

1h x Safe Assist

Receive a clue ("Try higher" or "Try lower") on every Crack The Safe attempt for an hour. Can be purchased once every 2 days.

Hustle Coins

You gain Hustle Coins with each Accolade you earn.

You can buy perks with Hustle Coins, a description of each one is shown on the screen or you can check the perks page in this guide.

Please note: Some perks here may be unavailable if your gangster is below a certain age and you've created more than one gangster in the week before creating your current gangster. Most players are unaffected by this restriction.

Product Cost Timer
XP Boost 1 Hustle Coin 1 Day
Respect Refill 5 Hustle Coins 1 Day
10 x Scratch Cards 5 Hustle Coin 1 Day
1h x Bomb Technician 10 Hustle Coins 1 Day
30m x Small Crimes Half Timer 15 Hustle Coins 1 Day
30m x Police Chase Half Timer 15 Hustle Coins 1 Day
30m x Looting Half Timer 15 Hustle Coins 1 Day
30m x Bomb Defusal Half Timer 20 Hustle Coins 1 Day
30m x Prison Busting Half Timer 20 Hustle Coins 1 Day
30m x Vehicle Theft Half Timer 20 Hustle Coins 1 Day
1h x Double XP 50 Hustle Coins 1 Day
1h x Half Crime Timers 100 Hustle Coins 1 Day

Other

30m x Family Double XP (1 x Prestige Coin)

You and all members of your family have Double XP for 30 minutes.

You earn 1 Prestige Coin for each prestige level you reach.

Sell

Anything you sell here is distributed back into the game at random times via the Auction House, the quantities may be split up (e.g. 10,000 bullets may be sold in lots of 100 or 1,000 bullets). The price of each "offer" is based on the market rate, so it will change over time depending on demand.

Item Timer Daily limit
100 Bullets 5 minutes 100
1,000 Bullets 15 minutes 30
10,000 Bullets 30 minutes 10
1 Credit 5 minutes 100
10 Credits 15 minutes 30
25 Credits 30 minutes 10