Cartels

"Cartel Life is an incredible experience which embodies true competitive spirit and provides a new way to play Arma 3 at the highest level."

Walt (Top 10 War Kills, Civilian Council)

Introduction

A portion of Olympus players don't consider cartels a mere event. Fighting and owning cartels is what they do. Cartel fighting is highly competitive and difficult to learn for most. Cartel fighters have an interesting type of culture that is rarely associated with any other portion of the community.

All cartels are located in either the warzone or the peninsula positioned parallel of warzone. New Life Rule (NLR) and Random Death Match (RDM) do not apply inside the warzone or at cartels. Players do not have to engage people inside the warzone in order to kill, tase, or titan them.

Perks

Every illegal processed drug on the server can be sold at drug dealers or distributors. Each of those drugs are taxed by the owners of the corresponding cartel. If you sell heroin at a drug dealer, 15% of your profit will automatically be transferred to the gang who owns the heroin cartel. If your gang owns the cartel, you will not pay any taxes. The only drug that cannot be taxed through cartels is Acid, which is also known as LSD or frogs.

When you gang owns the arms cartel, you'll receive a 15% discount on all purchases you make at the rebel outpost. When you make purchases at rebel outpost without owning the arms cartel, 15% of the normal item purchase cost is automatically transferred to the owner.

Passive Cartel Income

Players capturing cartels will have a passive income based upon the server’s population. This makes cartels a nice place to defend and make money as time goes on.

How much will you make? There's a simple calculation you can do. The passive pay cycle lasts for 10 minutes. Simply divide the current players on the server by 100. Then multiply that by 30,000. For example: if the total player population is 50, you would divide 50 by 100, which equals 0.5. Then multiply 0.5 by 30,000, which equals 15,000. This means that every 10 minute cycle, you'll make $15,000. That comes out to $90,000 of passive cartel income every hour.

A map of the warzone.
A map of the entire warzone, including the cartel peninsula (circled).
=='''Capturing Cartels'''==
The progress bar when your gang is capturing a cartel.
The progress bar when your gang is uncapping a cartel.
The progress bar when the cartel is contested.
The notification you'll receive if a gang begins capturing your gang's cartel.
The map marker when a player is inside the cartel capture zone.
The normal cartel map marker.

Map Locations

Normally, the cartels rotate. "Meth & Weed" cartel will sometimes switch locations with "Moonshine & Heroin". An important thing to not is that, unlike all other cartels, the arms cartel is always in this central location. Note that the walls surrounding the Church location are now indestrucatble.