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Some DF hints

1. Ranking

To rank you must gather experience. You gather experience by doing the following:

  1. Crimes
  2. Jailbusting
  3. Trading
  4. Stocks
  5. Messaging and posting on the forums
These things make you lose experience again:
  1. Going to jail
  2. Failing without going to jail
So to gain a lot of experience and to keep it, you must do everything in a, b, c, d and e, without doing f or g.

Doing crimes without going to jail

To achieve this, you must pick the crimes easy enough for your criming skills and rank. Start with the lower ones. Failure is not an option, so always aim for success. As you can see you gain all kinds of points by doing crimes too. Learn points/Rank points and stat points. Learn points is for increasing crime skills and/or stats, rank points is the amount of points that goes into your rank.

Crimes can be done ever so often. Get an egg timer to count down the seconds for you. and another word about Failure: Failure is as bad when you go to jail as when you get away, at least for your stats.

Jailbusting without going to jail

You can only do a certain amount of successfull consecutive busts, depending on your busting skills. The target you bust is easier if the rank is lower. Your busting skills depend on your stealth stat. After your max of consecutive busts, you must take an amount of rest in trying to bust.

Trading without going to jail

Sell and buy all your goods in one go. It used to be so that jailtime depended on amounts of goods sold. This is no longer so, jailtimes are random. Thus, buying and selling in one go gives the least amount of chance of going to jail.

Doing stocks

You can't go to jail for trading stocks. Experience points you recieve are thus lower. But stocks still generate a big deal of experience points.

Messaging and posting

You can't go to jail for messaging. However, spamming other players or the forums with useless messages is not allowed. Spamming people may get you killed when you are really annoying, and spam in the forums will get deleted by the cleaners, and this will cost you points.

2. Earning

Being a gangster is all about making money. There are several ways to do so:
  1. Stocks
  2. Trading
  3. Russian Roulette
  4. Black Jack
  5. Guess a Number
  6. The lotteries
  7. Banking your money

Stocks

This is the almost the safest way to increase your cash with up to 90% each day. Stocks are best done if you got some spare time to monitor their progress. You can make more if you play for an entire day then playing 5 days for a couple of hours with stocks. You can leave your stocks when you log out. This is a gamble. Stocks can drop or go bust. If they go bust you will lose the money in the stocks.

Trading

Not as profitable as stocks, but you can make quite a buck, between 100k - 300k depending on your vehicle. Risk of going to jail does exist.  

Best vehicles: Bus, taxi, train, helicopter, huge jet. imho the others are not worth your money. To buy the huge jet you have to start a crew. You can keep the jet if you stop the crew again. Only buy the helicopter if you don't plan to buy the huge jet soon.

Russian Roulette

This is the uberriskiest way of making money. YOU CAN GET KILLED! And fairly easy too. chances are 1/3 you die. The crew will shun you after you die if you do this without permission.

Black Jack

According to the admins, this game is totally according to the rules and random. But some people have seen the dealer get exactly 21 in very long rows, 5 times after eachother. I advise against playing it. But if you insist on doing it, the safest tactic is this one:

The tactic is as follows: put all your money on the bank. Take out a part you can miss, say 1/20th of your total cash. Divide that amount trough 64. This is the start amount you play with. If you lose, you triple the money in the next game, until you win.

When you want to know when to hit, stand or double, look down here. 

The dealer's card
Your
hand		 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A
8 H H H D D H H H H H
9 D D D D D H H H H H
10 D D D D D D D D H H
11 D D D D D D D D D D
12 H H S S S H H H H H
13 S S S S S H H H H H
14 S S S S S H H H H H
15 S S S S S H H H H H
16 S S S S S H H H H H
17 S S S S S S S S S S
A,2 H H D D D H H H H H
A,3 H H D D D H H H H H
A,4 H H D D D H H H H H
A,5 H H D D D H H H H H
A,6 D D D D D H H H H H
A,7 S D D D D S S H H S
A,8 S S S S D S S S S S
A,9 S S S S S S S S S S
A,A H H H H H H H H H H

H = Hit   S = Stand   D = Double

Example:

  • start out with a $1000
  • -> dealer wins
  • next bet $3.000
  • -> dealer wins
  • next bet $9.000
  • -> dealer wins
  • next bet $27.000
  • -> you win. You win $54.000 in total now, while you put 40.000 in. That's $14.000 overall profit.
  • Now you start over with the low bet of a $1000
Don't play too long, if you play too long in a row the dealer gets mighty lucky after a while. And you play on your own risk, as I said b4.

Guess a Number

Nearly as destructive as Russian roulette. There are tactics for GaN, but in the end you get addicted and lose all your money, because countermeasures have been built in against these tactics.Try to stay away from it. It is uncontrollable.

The Lotteries

If you know the tricks you can make lots of cash here. You can also buy tickets in groups of several people and share the cash. If you don't know how to win lotteries you will just be donating cash to the players who know how to win them. There is also a luck factor involved, some players are luckier then others.

Banking your money

Put money on the bank and recieve interest. Slow but steady. If you are logging off for an extended period of time, always bank. It's free money. If you are overflowing with cash, always have 15 mil in there.

3. Survival

Your survival depends upon a few key factors.
  1. Don't disrespect other players, ever. Don't spam the forums or other players.
  2. Don't shoot at players who are in a crew. Without permission you are likely gonna get killed, whether you miss or hit. Read the crew rules about it.
  3. Stay in the big cities, especially at night, and when you log off:
    • Chicago
    • Paris
    • Rome
    • Sydney
    • Amsterdam
    • Hong Kong
    Be ware in the medium sized ones:
    • Rio de Janeiro
    • Tokyo
    Stay out of the small ones:
    • St Petersburg
    • Johannesburg
    • Calcutta
  4. Try and keep your safety as long as possible. You lose your safety when:
    • You (try to) kill someone;
    • Someone buys your safety off;
    • Your safety expeires.

4. Killing

Killing is something that should always be thought about first. You can't just kill anyone, look in the rules for when. You will always need permission first. This is about the how.

The manual has a new addition about killing that everybody must read carefully, so I'll repeat it here:

If you try to kill too often in a short timespan your stats will decrease radically! so try to kill only when really required to!

So, killing too much in a row will destroy your ability to kill, and maybe even your defense too!! This is prolly a safeguard against the decreased kill compared to the beta version, so a really high ranker can't wipe out an entire city in a couple of hours.

If you kill, you will experience a period of general weakness after it. You are very vunerable after killing someone.

5. Further info

The AHC (Apprentice Help Center) in the street forum, is a good place for more info.


 



 



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