Talking Shop (Player Tips and Tricks)

[arkleus]

TBDRP7 Storm8ID:Arkleus

[0rasfoto0]

Sorry if I repeat something thats already been posted. This has worked for me so far in all ofthe storm 8 games. When I first start an account, I stop everything & add 8 people. This gives new 9 people as a whole. Add an atm. And attend an event. After you get this large amount of $$$, u can now purchase enough income to start u off right. This is a good leave to camp for a while. People level fast from attacking to much on the first few levels. I dont arm up.i could, but I would receive experience points. If you choose to artm up it won't cost much with only 9 people in my crew. Plus the loss pay out are fractions of my hourly income($15,000 on level 25). Find out ahead of time which missions loot the best prizes. Buy land by the best return of your investment. Thats the most important thing to know when trying to raise your income. While you are camping, it's best to buy income often. I purchase income every 24 hours, and every 24 hours my income rises that more. Because I'm buying the best ROI, I can buy land when ever I have the money. I never comment anyone. I communicate by commenting on my wall. If I decide to retaliate on a farmer, I payback, multiple times. I'm level 25 with $1,185,000 income and climbing. This may be a boring way to play, thats why I play all the storm 8 games. My account is stronger than 90% of the players in my range. I get attacked every 3 days or so. Be respectful. Some of us have alot of friends. Spy on peoples profile before u attack. Use skill points on defense for the first 20 levels. Its helps. Leave your game with low integrity When u get off, if you lose alot. atms are fun, but the make u level fast. If you have an android, an easy way to get adds is to go to the game in the android market and leave your code in the comments area.

[Gunzah]

I have read guides but this remains unclear...
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Best defending car is used to defend
Best attacking car is used to attack
But. Those guides do not tell me, if I have to have a GOOD car for each teammate, or is having "a car" enough ?

Is there a difference if...
I have 1 good attack car, 4 good defend cars
or
I have 1 good defend car, 4 good attack cars
or
I have 1 good attack car, 1 good defend car, 3 crappy cars.
(((Personal experience: have many good cars)))
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This is also something I want to know...
In what way does attacking with 3 cars, change things, compared to attacking with 1 car.
Let's say I have only 1 opponent. What's the bonus of have 3 cars to attack with ?
Do they each fight at once, all stats combined in a big ball of twine or is it like..
Car 1 tries and fails, car 2 tries and fails, car 3 tries and wins.
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Personal experience: everything you have drivers and cars for is made to 1 value
Even if you have 2x the parts your opposition has, you can still lose.
If this is because of> not enough of good cars> not enough speed> them having too much defense, I can't say.
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What about those Extra items...
Do I need 1 police radio per teammate or is 1 enough.
Also, that carbon wheel thingy from local races, I can only get 1 of those, do all my teammates use that 1 item ?
(((Personal experience: everything you can get more than 1 of, you need more than 1 of)))
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The damage I take when I win a race, is determined by... what ?
I wonder if the defense rating of the car I'm attacking with determines it.
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How are the people appearing to be attacked selected ? The list rotates, taking into account your level ?
I want to be able to give people a way to attack me. No attacks on me for 2 hours.
Maybe active players appear more often ? Or so I would like to think, but I have gone hyperactive for 5 hours without an attack on me.
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When I attack someone, they lose money and I get that cash.
When someone attacks me and loses, I do not get the cash !!
If that worked with logic, defensive build would be an option.
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When I keep attacking the same car over and over, the exp I get can vary between 1-6.
Why ? What is the logic behind this ?
Now I know this game is all about making money for Storm8. But comon, some rules to the people who have a brain.
(((Personal experience: it's random. For me it averages 3,6 exp per race)))
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This wasn't covered by guides either but I assume this is true:
I doesn't matter what your real people teammates have in their cars or whether they still play or not.
Having teammates has no benefits considering regeneration, cashflow or luck.
There is no way to see what your real attack/defend ratings are without counting equipment
The game shows the opponents attack car, which is useless when what I care about is their defend car,
Accelerating focus regen is not possible.
Having different kinds of money bringing real estate doesn't give bonuses, compared to having only parking spaces, for example.
Your handling does not matter at all, when you attack someone.
The Cheatcodes you find on the net, is just some A**HOLE trying to get more teammates. There is no cheat.
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Personal experience:
* It's ok if your teammates are dead in real life
* estate type apart from gasoline type doesn't matter
* there is no cheat code ? But I keep having about 100,000 appear in my credits now and then. I can't explain it.
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Don't get angry if someone puts you on the payback. That just means they are too weak and unable to handle you themselves. They are admitting defeat and being a loser. Feel good about it.
Do I need to make it any clearer ?

You won, they can't win against you, so they hire someone else to defeat you.
That's like having someone arm wrestle in their behalf and they get the title because their hired gun won. Or having someone else win a debate for you. Payback people are a sad bunch.
You could compare that to having a manhood you get up by surgically implanted pump.
I'm sure they don't see it that way, but whenever someone adds me to payback, I think to myself: YES !!!
If peoples had the "initiated paybacks" visible, you could have a good laugh.
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Improvement ideas:
Add sound when Focus is full

There are 3 buttons on the top. Gas - Integrity - Focus.
2 of them take me to the Agent.
You should change the Focus or Gas icon so that it takes me to City. I think that's a pretty damn good idea.
You could also add a shortcut to everything in text format, in the menu button on my phone.

Because I'm using 3g/4g, there can be 15 !!! Second delays after a click. (why !? My max delay time is under a second)
I wish you'd add a configuration to cache stuff, so I only need to download html. Unless I'm wrong, this "game" is all about loading the next html page in your browser.

I request an optional confirmation option to buy screens. Cars, equipment, city.
Too many times, I have bought more stuff than I wanted to because of no response from the server.
Just to see I have 4 of something when I meant to buy 2.
When I accidentally increase a parameter I didn't mean to, my head explodes.
You shouldn't force confirmations to everyone, just make it an option.

A way to uninvite/cancel invitation.
I invited someone, got tired of waiting, so I invited someone else. Now I have a teammate and don't want to invite the first 2 anymore.

Bought Extra Member, cannot be removed.
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Useful info for players:

*) You have mastered all of the Rank 2 "Miami" street jobs and earned an item...
30 seconds reduction on Fuel timer

*) You can compensate for not having Good cars with Speed. But at about level 40+, you will get in trouble
*) You can compensate for not having Speed by using good cars But at about level 40+, you will get in trouble

*) Stay at crew size 4 until you need more members. Otherwise, you will race in the crowd with 9 members
*) Stay at crew size 9 until you need more members. Otherwise, you will race in the crowd with ? members

*) If all you do is attack, save money by not buying the parts that only have defense.

*) When you lose a race against me, I will steal about 10 percent of your cash. To prevent that, put your money in the bank when you have more than what you would like to lose.
I bank anything over 30 000.

*) If you have a high defense rating, you get exp when people lose against you.

*) To complete NYC street jobs, you need crew size 15, that's no fun now is it.

*) You can easily get to level 46 without spending a single point in handling or speed. After that ? I can't say yet.

*) Just because you have completed a string of job 4 times, doesn't mean you can't keep doing it for parts or credits.

*) You can waste a lot of time trying to decide if you want to be someone who has:
-High Fuel (complete a lot of missions fast)
-High Focus (get cash, miss out on bonuses you get from missions)
-Balanced Fuel and focus (Best of both worlds) But without Speed you will still get stuffed !
-High defense (This is a simple and stupid logic game, so this is the slowest to level up or get credits)

Maybe calling this game stupid is too much. Well, let me explain what I mean...
This game is chess, where you have the choice of selecting Yes/No, without seeing the game board.
Yea that's brilliant.
Then when you have a checkmate, the game rolls a dice to see whether you just won or lost.
Why is it made that way? So that people who don't know what they are doing, can win against those that do.
It's a game of rolling dices, correct choices improve winning.
(oh, you can get better by paying real money for credits that do not exist, so everyone buy virtual credits ! Your parents will be proud)

It's not like I'm against gaming for real money, I do it myself.
But the difference between Casino gaming and storm8 gaming is this:
1) Casino: You get the money you win
2) Storm8: You cheat in a game that no one knows or cares about
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The way this game forces you to get teammates to do missions, suxxors.
It doesn't matter who you invite, as long as the crew size increases, it's ok.
That's not multigaming. The fact you can buy virtual teammates for real money, surely has nothing to do with this.
I mean, you pay money to increase the number of your team by 1. Great deal I tells you.

By the way, do you know how to get 20 euros from a fool ?
Send me 20 euros and I will tell you.

Sorry about the sarcastics, but I don't think the kids understand anything else.
We already have max level people. What would you benefit from becoming one of them ?
World wide fame? Super respect from your friend? Self satisfaction from your number?
Just asking.

Aff never mind. This game is too simple to keep me interested.
So I have restarted once again and selected the tactic that requires least interactivity: Max fuel.

[Jagxkr]

I broadcast a message to my crew and it never shows up. I have 3 devices and 3 crews, 1 on each device. When I broadcast a message to my crew, it never shows up on my other 2 crews. What am I doing wrong or is there a setting or something. I did get a broadcast from another member of one of my crews saying, "I can finally broadcast". It is not a level issue because all my crews are over level 100. Any help would be most appreciated.

[tatonkatank]

is it true that sum parts dont get used if if you have a better part? for instince bullet proof windows dont get used if u have lexani windows and so on is tis true?????

[chadbuck]

This property calculator will help with this advice.

Originally Posted by skt168

I've written some strategy guides for Racing Live but here are some key ideas:

1) Buy Real Estate based on ROI (Return on Investment). This has a large impact in the long run and will help you build up your income.
2) Buy 1 car for EVERY crew member. A crew member is NOT used if they do not have a car.
3) Keep upkeep costs as low as possible. Only increase if absolutely necessary (you start losing more than you win).
4) 9 crew members is the perfect number for the first 20 levels or so. Do not max out your crew size right away.
5) There is no benefit to the higher level cars unless you can buy them in large quantities. It is better to have a lot of a lower level car then a few high level cars.
6) Do NOT put any points into Integrity.
7) The best class is Bankroller followed by Speedster. Do NOT choose Gearhead.

The spreadsheet on my site (iMMOforums.com) automatically calculates Real Estate ROI, usable cars, usable car parts and will give you attack and defense points to help you make strategic decisions.

[elijah1213]

Helped a lot, THANKS so much!!! Add me 673 HVE. Level 82

[MidnightRevenge]

Thank you to all of the tips and tricks. I am at level 61 and have basically sold anything with high upkeep to gain more income. I am saving right now for more property.

When it comes to buying stuff with upkeep, do you purchase and max out on the lower stuff or do you go for the highest upkeep and max out on it as needed? I know the upkeep would be more, however, the speed and handling is more as well than all of the lower upkeep items as is one per car??

MR

[MidnightRevenge]

Originally Posted by elijah1213

Helped a lot, THANKS so much!!! Add me 673 HVE. Level 82

Added!!! LOL

[joshuacerotres]

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