Tuesday, October 27, 2009

NY Tutorial Pt. 1 - The Beginning


VERY IMPORTANT

For this to work, you must be placed as someone's Wheelman.

We had a loophole for anyone becoming wheelman, but that has been "fixed" by zynga... so now the ONLY way to be a wheelman is by becoming a Fearless character type.
As of January 14, 2010; all characters are without a "type" designation until level 9.
Once you level up, you will HAVE to deal with this screen. Simply choose to recover health faster:


Now that you are Fearless, you can become a Wheelman on others' top mafia team.
You MUST get on someone's list as wheelman AND mastermind.
Mastermind: 1 of 20 jobs will award an extra 50% experience.
Wheelman: 1 of 20 jobs will be done at NO ENERGY COST.
These two together are massive: roughly an extra 15% experience is accumulated for the energy spent.. this can take you straight through to level 1000+ non-stop if you wish.

Build a large friends/mafia network.
Our friends at Top Mafia Disabled has the best solution in town:
http://topmafia.info/forum/index.php?topic=313.0

This is going to be important because
1. when you request help, you want it answered right away. Once I got to 4000 mafia, any request is fulfilled typically within 1 minute.
2. You will also want PLENTY of free job opportunities. Even if Zynga limits how many you can partake in, we'd rather have 500 to choose from than 10.
3. A larger family is going to help you collect vault SO much easier than a small little clutch of friends.


Vault everything in NY, CUBA and MOSCOW

If you have help, this can be done right out of the gate at level 2.

Collecting vaults is easier than you may think! This link will let you add cuba and moscow vault items to your wishlist at level 2:
Just put three items on your list and ask for help from a HIGH level player. Rinse, Repeat. most folks have a ton of vault junk laying around doing no good (because most boosts are truly worthless) As long as you explain what you are trying to do, point them to this blog, and promise you'll make it worth their while when you are doing Moscow (hint: think ep6 eggs or loot)... most high level players with nothing to lose except junk will be happy to help out a little. You may even earn some new friends!
So get a big mafia, find a LOT of high level players who are willing to help a little... and you are done in no time. :)

DON'T WASTE LEVELS COLLECTING CONSUMABLES.

  • Concealed Camera - 169
  • Computer Setup - 263
  • Untracable Cell Phone - 535
  • Blackmail Photo - 403
  • Illegal transaction Record - 424
  • Politico Corrupto - 1182
  • Satelite Phones - 674
  • Pirates - 619
  • Drug Shipments - 468
-- enforcer tier consumables cannot be gifted; so tough through it
--moscow consumables are nearly self-sufficient-- what you acquire is nearly enough.

That is a LOT of consumables... about 4800 total This can take MANY levels to accumulate if you do it all on your own. If you choose to go the lonely road; I recommend you go to Moscow ASAP so you can get cams and ucp more easily in the first two Moscow jobs. Much better than the electronic store.
Otherwise, add items to your wishlist and ask for help just like the vaults. It will take a while, but sometimes you find generous people...

Sound daunting?

There is a better way!
Soldiers of Peace has a mentoring program where we will provide new characters with all the vaults and consumables-- as well as place you as wheelman and mastermind so you can follow this guide smoothly! If you are interested in following this guide-- but are concerned about acquiring the massive consumable and vault collections, or getting someone to throw away their wheelman bonus for you; be welcome to contact me: www.facebook.com/killfear
or any member of SOP about being mentored.


Property;
I wish Zynga would figure out a way to make Mogul a worthwhile choice... by the time we finish NY, we will have many $billion-- but properties will NEVER earn you the Trillion achievements.
Rackets; DO NOT put points in influence. You do not need any of what rackets offers. It will only prevent you from leveling quickly at higher levels.
(you cannot have both rackets and property in NY)
You are going to make plenty of money in NY to never have to worry about upkeep costs for inventory. Just forget about it.



Now that you are properly set up....

For the first 10 levels, you're pretty much stuck doing the 1st tier jobs. Just do them in order. You are not required to do each in direct order one after the other... but you want to be sure to take care of all 3 mastery of the first 3 tiers before you move too far along... there are a lot of skill points you pick up in these jobs, and that is important to stay ahead of the rising xp costs per level. It may initially force you to take a break for a few hours, or even overnight once or twice to regain energy to get through these first jobs. Do it. it's gonna take you a while to build up your mafia anyway... so burn your energy on poor jobs and take the time to go build a big team.
***If you acquire ALL the NY, Cuba and Moscow energy / stam collections right away; you will have virtually NO downtime.


The next challenge you will face is the high demands for $ starting in the Soldier tier. This stuff is expensive, but there is an easy solution...
Get a hit.

Man, this is sweet! Hitlisting is a bit of an art too. It may take you a while, so as soon as you get access to hitlisting, start dumping your stamina there.
1. don't waste stam on anything less than $800,000. That is the "magic number" to buy all the inventory for Soldier... or you'll need $4million for everything through hitman tier.
2. if it is a 7 digit bounty, that target probably has quite a few levels.
On a slow day, most big bounties die in less than 1 minute. so I typically count to 5 and then attack and attack again slowly until either I run out of stam or the target dies.
On a busy day, it could take hours for a target to be killed.. so if they have been on the list more than 1 minute, skip the attack, and wait for another juicy target to pop up.

Next part, we'll look at actually clearing levels through NY.



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Thanks for reading! More to come.

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