Laundering
Dirty Money cannot buy a building. Wash it first. Laundering runs as a queue: pick an amount, the front business processes it hour by hour, and the family keeps a cut. The queue works while you are away, up to about eight hours at a time. Diamonds can speed it up, but they never raise the capacity.
The numbers
- Normal laundering: the family keeps 30% of every batch.
- The Accounting Office lowers the cut by 1% per level, up to 10% (down to 20%).
- The queue holds up to 8 hours of your fronts' capacity and keeps working while you are away.
- Example: 1,000 Dirty Money in, 700 Clean Money out.
- Speed it up: put Black Book in the Restaurant as manager. (Laundering speed +5%.)
Laundering capacity per hour
| Level | Restaurant | Laundry | Auto Showroom | Jazz Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lv 1 | 1,800 | 450 | 300 | 600 |
| Lv 2 | 2,250 | 563 | 375 | 750 |
| Lv 3 | 2,813 | 703 | 469 | 938 |
| Lv 4 | 3,516 | 879 | 586 | 1,172 |
| Lv 5 | 4,395 | 1,099 | 732 | 1,465 |
| Lv 6 | 5,493 | 1,373 | 916 | 1,831 |
| Lv 7 | 6,866 | 1,717 | 1,144 | 2,289 |
| Lv 8 | 8,583 | 2,146 | 1,431 | 2,861 |
| Lv 9 | 10,729 | 2,682 | 1,788 | 3,576 |
| Lv 10 | 13,411 | 3,353 | 2,235 | 4,470 |
Fast laundering
- Fast laundering is instant, but the family keeps 45%.
- Up to 2 a day, each one up to 2 hours of your laundering capacity.
- Each fast batch costs 8 Wanted, and it waits like any other job when your Wanted is too high.
Methods
| Name | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | In game | Cheap, steady and quiet. About a third goes to the family; the Accounting Office and research lower that. |
| Fast | In game | Instant but dearer, and it raises Wanted. Limited uses a day. |
| Council Laundering | Coming soon | Through a Council's Landmark. Cheaper, with a weekly quota. |
Why is there a cut?
If washing were free, "dirty" would mean nothing. The cut is the price of the easy money.