My Summer Car: All prison sentences and how to escape jail

A bit like Monopoly‘s get-out-of-jail-free card, you can get out of having to do your time in My Summer Car, no matter the severity of your sentence. How? By escaping, course. Let’s find out what kind of sentences you can expect in the game and how to get out of having to sleep in a cell.

What are the prison sentences in My Summer Car?

My Summer Car features various prison sentences related to your vehicular actions. Here they are and the punishments they come with:

• Attempted manslaughter: If you have been attacking an NPC and punched them unconscious, you will get a 2-day sentence. This happens with everyone except for someone you have been fighting while in a drunk state, as they won’t report you to the police.
• Evasion: If you fail to stop when a police officer asks you to, you will get a 3-day sentence. You might get several such sentences in a row if you have repeatedly done that.
• Manslaughter: Killing someone with your vehicle (by running them over or any other means) will get you a 10-day sentence. Each casualty will add up to your prison time.
• Traffic fatality: Colliding with another vehicle is fine, but if the driver is killed in the accident, you will get a 5-day sentence. Again, each casualty will add up to your prison time.
• Unpaid fine: If you forget to pay a fine, you will get a variable sentence based on the amount owed and how many days have passed since the deadline.

Your final sentence will calculate all infractions together, so you might even end up with a month-long stay in jail. You can look at the current time by looking at the Teksti-TV. Spending time in jail will decrease your stress, but more than 10 days in the penitentiary will cause your character to tattoo their hands, which can’t be removed.

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Once your jail time ends, the game will spawn you at the bus stop in front of Teimo’s shop. That’s all well and good, but if you don’t want to spend all that time confined in a cell, there are a couple of alternatives.

How to escape from jail in My Summer Car, explained

Escaping from jail (which you can make easier with the “noclip” mod) means you will be on the run and will have to hide from the police forever. They will keep looking for you at all times until you either decide to go back to jail or continue being on the run and live undercover. They won’t get tired of this at any point, so this method is definitely not recommended.

Currently, the only safe way to escape jail is using the MSC Editor. This is a save file editor that you can use to modify many of the stats in the game. Once you have committed a crime and the police are after you, go to your bathroom and save your game.

Now, use MSC editor to open your save file, which should be called “defaultES2File.” Search for any values containing the words “wanted.” Each line will be a crime you have committed and that you are about to be arrested for, such as “wantedevasion” or “wantedattemptedmanslaughter”. You can use the editor to change those values from 1 to 0. Save, load back the game, and the police will be gone.

If you are already in jail and the game has already been saved, then you can search for the string “numberofbools,” which is the number of days in your jail sentence. If you reduce it to 0, you will be automatically teleported out of the jail. Be sure to also check for any crimes that you are still wanted for, or you will probably end up back in the slammer pretty soon.

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