Buying Equipment: the FULL story

[crashnsmash]

Originally Posted by FatDragon

Erm, I'm not picking up what you're putting down... what's that you're saying about 'the best from both'?

if one account has the best attack gear, and the other the best defense gear, the attack will still have more +att.

As far as the level requirement goes, how does that work? I thought you could only buy them in CT, and I thought CT had a requirement of 45

screenshot messed up, but heres a screenshot of my lvl 23.
You can buy it in Miami, I didn't notice it was off in the spreadsheet.






whoops...meant to edit not repost

[BigAussieAL]

Originally Posted by crashnsmash

Another browser game (ogame) does something similar, you aren't able to leave vacation mode until after two days are up.

I'm an ogame veteran myself. Was Dangermouse in Universe 4 until real life forced me out of that engaging, but time-absorbing multiplayer wonderverse.

[crashnsmash]

Originally Posted by BigAussieAL

I'm an ogame veteran myself. Was Dangermouse in Universe 4 until real life forced me out of that engaging, but time-absorbing multiplayer wonderverse.

Yea, my r/l friend is a super mod and her boyfriend is one of the 3 admins or so on .org.

Used to play W1, reached 8 when I couldn't handle the stress anymore. Few years ago.

[G-Dog Bossman]

WOW!! Thanks for the research. Now I have a headache. lol

[BigAussieAL]

Originally Posted by crashnsmash

Yea, my r/l friend is a super mod and her boyfriend is one of the 3 admins or so on .org.

Used to play W1, reached 8 when I couldn't handle the stress anymore. Few years ago.

Ah yes! Stress! That's ogame alright.
I made near top of the leaderboard too,
but it's hard to do that without it blurring with real life.
Somewhere in my dreams, my 4 gated moons and fleet of RIPs are still real to me,
it took so much planning and patience to make them a "reality" in the first place.
Looking back, it feels like a stage of life I went through, lol.
I never got to know the mods or admins, just too busy in-game.

[BigAussieAL]

Originally Posted by G-Dog Bossman

WOW!! Thanks for the research. Now I have a headache. lol

Oh, woopsy, soz bout that.
The idea was supposed to be me having the headache
to save others having it.
Well done indeed wading through all the logic.

[Don of Montepulciano]

Originally Posted by FatDragon

I'll probably be working on police cruisers and armored trucks before I've bought my requisite exos, jerichos, and Napalms.

Just a little heads up on police cruiser, I have 3 and am in middle of platinum lvl. With their poor stats I wouldn't even bother with them after finishing the mastery. You'd be better off doing missions for money and buying vehicles.

Honestly, and I feel bad about saying this, the higher you get the less use there are for items. I haven't bought anything except mission items since lvl 70ish. There are so few high lvl mobsters that you see almost noone outside caymans and you've probably got max equipment for downtown, bronx, and coney. I suppose I could try to fill up CT in the hopes that I'd have a safe place to park from all those lower lvls I can't see, but it just seems like a lot of trouble to go to.

Course, Fatdragon you're different since you hit the jackpot and got 600 FP's you've deffinately got more options

[FatDragon]

Originally Posted by Don of Montepulciano

Just a little heads up on police cruiser, I have 3 and am in middle of platinum lvl. With their poor stats I wouldn't even bother with them after finishing the mastery. You'd be better off doing missions for money and buying vehicles.

Honestly, and I feel bad about saying this, the higher you get the less use there are for items. I haven't bought anything except mission items since lvl 70ish. There are so few high lvl mobsters that you see almost noone outside caymans and you've probably got max equipment for downtown, bronx, and coney. I suppose I could try to fill up CT in the hopes that I'd have a safe place to park from all those lower lvls I can't see, but it just seems like a lot of trouble to go to.

Course, Fatdragon you're different since you hit the jackpot and got 600 FP's you've deffinately got more options

My goal was always to stay in CT most of the time anyway. Really, the jackpot has resulted in me having four or five more HG's, an assortment of about 20-25 FP items, and the jet - I dropped down to about 20 FP not too long ago, now I'm back at 42, planning on saving up to master CT (or possibly dropping $5 on the extra FP (I think) I need - I play it enough, after all).

I've noticed what you said about the Police Cruisers - I was under the impression they dropped more often, so I was gonna stop requesting Cigar Boats to fill out my vehicles (well, to upgrade from Ducatis...) and start requesting energy instead, but the drop rate is pretty mediocre. I got three for Bronze, zero for Silver, and I'm two attempts into Gold so far. I'm pretty sure someone mentioned that Armored Trucks have a good drop rate, though. If not, I might end up adding some vehicles to my purchasing queue, though I'm not sure what I'd go for just yet - maybe Dump Trucks or Ambulances.

Then again, one of the new locations will be 500/500 or something like that... I might just have to leave CT as my camping spot even after the new territories open up.

[BigAussieAL]

Ah! Sad to hear about the Police Cruisers, they used to drop at 90%.
I think something similar was done with Steroids.
Those used to drop at 100% or close, but now drop at a much lower rate.

[FatDragon]

Originally Posted by BigAussieAL

Ah! Sad to hear about the Police Cruisers, they used to drop at 90%.
I think something similar was done with Steroids.
Those used to drop at 100% or close, but now drop at a much lower rate.

Hmm, they seem to have inverted the Police Cruiser drop rate, then... =\

I got 100% with the steroids mission - I only use them for the red risk missions anyway, so I've got a bundle left. Still, considering that you have to do 8 missions for a chance at a dose of steroids, one would think that the drop rate would be pretty good...

If they nerfed the Armored Truck and Lovestruck Mayor's Aide drop rates, though...