Wanted level

A wanted level is a visual representation of the police attention towards the player. The more crimes the player commit in a row, the more police and other forms of law enforcement chase him.

GTA 3D

Chaos Level

The severity of each possible crime is measured in 'chaos points', which is added to the player's current chaos level, when the player commit a crime. Commiting crimes and gaining chaos points may result in one or more wanted level stars. Here's the table of correlation between the chaos level and wanted levels.

	Chaos points
Game \ Wanted Level	1	2	3	4	5	6
GTA III	40	200	400	800	1600	3200
Vice City	50	180	550	1200	2400	4800
San Andreas	50	180	550	1200	2400	4600

The value of the player's chaos level is decreased by one per second if the wanted level is 0 or 1, and there is no police near the player in radius of 18 units. In San Andreas if the player is within the Bone County weather region, the chaos is decreased by two points per second.

Chaos Points

When the player commit a crime, his chaos level is increased by the number of points as described below. This number is multiplied by the wanted multiplier, which is equal to 1.0 by default. Setting it to another value will result in faster or slower attaining of the wanted stars.

Game	Crime Id	Crime Description	Chaos Points
	1		0
	2	Punching/attacking ped with blunt weapon (excludes law enforcement), punching/attacking vehicle with melee weapon	5
	3	Punching/attacking law enforcement with blunt weapon	45
	4	Attacking ped with bullet or explosive (excludes law enforcement)	30
	5	Attacking law enforcement with bullet or explosive	80
	6	Stealing vehicle, i.e. entering vehicle not marked as owned by the player	15
	7		10
	8	Forcing law enforcement to do an evasive dive	5
	9	Killing law enforcement by vehicle	5
	10	Killing ped by vehicle (excludes law enforcement)	18
	11	Quickly killing law enforcement by vehicle	80
	12	Destroying a police helicopter	400
	13	Lighting ped on fire (excludes law enforcement)	20
	14	Lighting law enforcement on fire	80
	15	Lighting vehicle on fire	20
	16	Destroying a DeadDodo plane	500
			400
	17		25
	18	Attacking ped with sharp weapon (excludes law enforcement)	35
	19	Attacking law enforcement with sharp weapon	100
	20		70
	21		2
	22		2
	-	Collecting a pac-man package	10

Some crimes raise the player's wanted level directly. The following will instate a minimum wanted level of 1:

• Attacking or shooting a police vehicle
• Committing any crime in front of law enforcement
• Driving an alarmed vehicle in front of law enforcement

The following will instate a minimum wanted level of 2:

• Aiming a gun at law enforcement
• Shooting at law enforcement

Mission Script

Game	Opcode	Description
	010D	alter wanted level
	010E	alter wanted level no drop
	010F	is wanted level greater
	0110	clear wanted level
	01C0	store wanted level
	01F0	set max wanted level
	03C7	set wanted multiplier
	050F	get max wanted level

External link

Wanted Level – at Grand Theft Wiki