[zenith]

Welcome to the game! I'm glad you like is so far. We've been adding and adjusting things for crimes, combat, and other tasks to keep them balanced. We want to try and keep things a bit challenging.

As for your first few crimes, the success rate and jail prevention rate is highly dependent on your happiness level and statistics. A 25% success rate seems a bit low, I'm thinking you are either low on happiness, or just been the victim of bad luck. Not to give away any game secrets, but you should see your success rate climb a bit with more attempts, as long as you try the 1-point crimes!.