Gulf City

1. What is the Federal Raid?

The official Help Center describes a Federal Raid every seven days.

Plots, bases, weapons, and cash are cleared and converted into jail time and authority.

The reset creates another cycle in which players rebuild and compete again.

A weekly wipe is part of the progression system. It is not the same as an ordinary death.

2. What carries over?

The official carryover list includes:

• Cosmetics.
• Player name.
• Tutorial progress.
• Settings.
• Accumulated jail time.

Banking does not exempt your money from the Federal Raid. Its protection is against theft during the cycle.

3. Authority versus Notoriety

Notoriety relates to your criminal streak during a city visit and the benefits available during that run.

Authority relates to the longer-term sentence/progression system.

These should not be treated as the same meter.

Community documentation connects accumulated sentence with tattoo rewards and access to certain Shipments.

4. What tattoos represent

Tattoos are associated with accumulated prison progression and provide a visible record of that progression.

Do not assume every tattoo increases damage, loot quality, or earnings. A visual progression reward and a gameplay bonus are different things; inspect the actual reward description.

Tattoo appearance alone is not a reliable measurement of someone's combat skill.

5. Arrest, temporary detention and federal confiscation

These are different systems.

Police arrest: deals with the current city encounter and confiscation rules.

Temporary detention: relates to applicable city-offense rules.

Federal confiscation: concerns your wider property and the sentence/authority cycle.

Do not expect every normal Police arrest to award the same progression as surrendering your whole operation to the Feds.

6. What is the payment to Lenny?

The commonly discussed $1,000,000 payment is described in community documentation as repaying the debt associated with your release.

That reference reports:

• A one-time debt payment.
• The "New Chapter" outfit.
• The related achievement.
• A ten-year jail-time reward.

Check Lenny's live dialogue and reward screen before paying. Do not treat the payment as automatically preserving your base, cancelling a wipe, or granting unlimited authority.

Business advice: compare the confirmed progression reward with what the same money could still earn through your operation.

7. How much time remains before the wipe?

Use the selected server's current information, countdown, and official announcements where available.

A fresh-server opening announcement is not a universal countdown for every server.

If the exact reset time is not shown clearly, do not calculate it from a random post about another state.

8. Spending strategy near the end

Earlier in the cycle: long-term equipment can have time to repay its cost.

Later in the cycle: favour purchases with an immediate practical use.

Before buying a production upgrade, ask:

• How many batches can I actually complete?
• Will I be online to sell the output?
• Does the upgrade improve my final result enough to justify it?

This is financial planning, not a claim that a particular asset has a guaranteed authority conversion rate.

9. Voluntary surrender to the Feds

The official server-transfer instructions use the Prison location and "Surrender to Feds" interaction.

Read the confiscation warning. This is not a harmless teleport to your friends.

If your aim is to continue the current business cycle, do not surrender merely to experiment with the menu.

Gulf City community guide. Reviewed 9 November 2026. Exact wealth-conversion formulas and future wipe schedules are not asserted here.
Official wipe explanation (https://kefirgames.helpshift.com/hc/en/14-rob-run/faq/1346-what-is-the-federal-raid-wipe/)
Community Lenny's debt reference (https://wikily.gg/rob-run/lennys-debt)