Okey, so I didn't got any satisfactory answer in my last thread. Since I haven't played for years, alot of things have changed. I would like to discuss current strategies for different gameplays. I don't really know any myself, but as I remembered from playing years ago, I always had a problem being assaulted, even though the players always had the same amount of respect, or even lower. Even thoose time I played as an assassin, this would happend. Now I couldn't accept that anymore, and since I started this thread, I guess I will start with my strategy. However, remember I'm a noob, and this strategy might suck, but this is what I'm going with right now.
Here it goes.
I always buy a diaper the first thing i do, and start off with the second crime. I keep doing hits, and spend all the money on gear, for the fastest advance.
I stop at the 400k armor, and 75k weapon. After that I buy breweries, untill I can't hold more. Then I spend very little money on hookers, just to get atleast
some income from them atleast.
(Notice; Little and much money is subjective)
I don't remember if you need any specific level too enter the training center, but as soon as I can start training, I start to boost Tolerance, which also gives a small Strenght bonus
Now, I don't like being assaulted, I would very much like being able to assault people. Now I find some comfort in the clubs max respect, but you could still get your ass kicked from a player with half your respect. I don't really know what stats that counts in an assault, but I've always guessed that it is tolerance and strenght
that determites the winner.
So from this point I start buying creatine fuel for all my money, because of 2 reasons. Having less money gives me lower respect, and the obvious reason, gaining more tolerance. More tolerance = more buildings + better fights. And as we all know, the more buildings, the more money, and then we have a circle.
As the stats rise and the prize money from crimes becomes higher. I start to buy heroin labs instead of breweries. Pretty soon your buildings produce alot
of cash, and your tolerance is sky high, especially in comparision to your other stats. If you haven't bought the nomex armor yet, then do it now. Also buy a new weapon (%) if your str allow it more damage than your current weapon. And always keep a full amount of drug labs.
Because you got so much tolerance, the creatine fuel will be very expensive at this point, but in exchange, the anabola will be cheap, since you only got a 1/4 of str per tolerance during training (I think, not sure). Either, you start training the Strenght priority program at this point, and spend a few tc days on boosting strenght. Or you keep training tolerance and expanding your drug imperium, increasing your income, and instead spend your money on filling up with hookers.
Hookers get more expensive for everyone of the same kind you buy, so there is a calculation for this. TC days left*hookers income per day= The max price she can cost before she is a loss instead of a profit. After all, you would like to buy the hookers as early as possible to gain the most income. Now, the guide told me that you get respect from buying hookers, which I don't know is true, because the guide is wrong about most things. Either way, I don't think it would be any amount that would matter.
I never buy love potion, because I dont think the Charisma increase is worth the income increase from hookers, and I acctually don't think charisma has any other effect :S I did buy brainstim for a while to increase my buildings productivity, untill I realised intelligence does NOT affect their productivity. (unless you have under 5000 intelligence, after 5000, you get max productivity bonus)
After writing this, it makes me think that maybe intelligence after all does matter in fights, what else would be the purpose? Useless after 5000 int? Sounds weird.
How ever, this has been my gameplay yet this round, and I have no idea if it is the way of playing or not. I know there is other MUCH better strategies out there, becuase I have seen people with 3000 respect, and over 600kills, I've been attacked and killed by them myself even though I had over 100k in all stats. I just dont understand how they get so good stats and still keep so low respect.
Please share your guides with me, and let me know how to be the one assaulting people instead of just being the punch bag.