By jokerboy1994 [1365327]
Is spending merits on bank still the best option even after the update?
If you use it regulary...but you dont even have access to the bank yet...and are less than a week old..whose multi are you?
Take a look at my profile, my friend hooked me up and helped me out I'm clean!
He gave me some advice and stuff but I never properly understood something called drug dealing, he said something about going to other countries? Can you help me out?
By jokerboy1994 [1365327]
Is spending merits on bank still the best option even after the update?
If you use it regulary...but you dont even have access to the bank yet...and are less than a week old..whose multi are you?
Take a look at my profile, my friend hooked me up and helped me out I'm clean!
He gave me some advice and stuff but I never properly understood something called drug dealing, he said something about going to other countries? Can you help me out?
Once you reach level 15 you can travel, You can buy drugs in other countries and re-sell them here, people can make a profit from doing this by selling them at a higher price in TC...drug prices change daily too, people can make money from this too..buying cheap, then waiting for the price to increase, and selling then
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Merits get a lot of questions, so heres a complete guide to what they all are, hoe effective they are and when to use them.
(Inc) - incremental, is where you need an increasing amount of merits to get to the next stage of that certain merit type.
Incremental upgrades
Increase your max nerve bar by 1 - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
Nerve is used within the game for doing crimes. It takes a lot of effort to gain nerve within the game by doing crimes and busts. People use their merits to upgrade it faster. The benefits of using your merits on nerve is that you can do more crimes, therefore it brings in more crime exp and better pay....faster. Although on the other hand, to make it some-what effective you will have to upgrade to 5/10 to gain 5 nerve, which means 15 merits. You don't get advised to be any certain level to do this upgrade. It does not affect your crime experience.
Usefulness: 8/10
Increase casino tokens gained each day +5 - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
Casino tokens are used within the casino to play all the games (apart from poker) The games can be pretty tricky, and hard to win on. Using a merit would give you an extra 5 goes on a game, but is not really worth a merit. You increase your chances of increasing your networth (winnings from casino) But its only 5 tokens. Not really worth it.
Usefulness: 2/10
Increase critical hit rate +1% - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
A critical hit, is a hit you perform upon someone in a fight, its where you hit your enemy for a large amount of damage. It can be very helpful fighting people with high HP and high amounts of defense. Although getting a crit hit in on someone isn't often. (I usually get a crit in, 1 in 12 attacks, based upon 1 hitting people) But even if you upgraded this to the max (10%) you would only gain an extra 10% which is only 1/10 chance extra. Still pretty low odds. Although I have heard it is pretty effective. Advantages are that you increase your chances of hitting someone with a crit. Disadvantages are that your chances are still pretty low.
Usefulness: 4/10
Increase awareness - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
Improves your chances of finding an item whilst walking around the city. The chances of finding things around the city are very very low. Some people don't find things for months. Someone has upgraded this to 7/10 he told me he finds things pretty often each week. Although they are very useless, and not worth much. The advantage of using merits on this is that, you increase your chances of finding items in the city, which can consist of the rarest items including, stat enhancers and the famous RPG. Although the chances of finding something useful or worth something are too low to even bother. Be warned: Can vary depending on your activeness and so on.
Usefulness: 3/10
Masterful looting - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
This is where you attack someone and mug them. Looting is the % of cash you mug your victim of. Without merits the average person mugs someone for around 1% of their current total of cash they have on them. Although some believe its a random between 1-10%. Although when upgrading no-one is sure about the % it increases your chances by, although I believe its around 0.1-3%. Advantages are that you gain more money from mugging people. Disadvantages costs energy to mug someone, if they have nothing on them then the merits are a waste.
Usefulness: 3/10
Improve stealth - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
When you attack someone, it will either come up with 'someone' or 'yourname' what determines this is stealth. Its mainly based around dexterity, you have a high % of it will more than likely come up with 'someone'. Although its not a big issue, if you want it to be a secret attack and don't want your victim to know who it was this is a good upgrade, although it really doesn't matter. Advantages are that you get away with a lot more kills with people not knowing who it was. Disadvantages are that it only improves your chances so you still have the chance of your name appearing.
Usefulness: 1/10
Increase interest - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
Interest is the % of cash you receive for banking your cash, very useful. Although you can find people who will bank your money too, so its a split choice, heres a table of the interest rates: Thanks to tcbasic.com for the info
Usefulness: 8.5/10
Hospitalize for +10 minutes - Cost: 1 merit (Inc)
Once you've attacked your enemy, you gain the ability to hosp them for +10 mins for every upgrade you've bought. (+100 mins max). Advantages are that your opponent has to sit in the hosp for longer. Although, either way they are going to get out sometime, and extra hour'sh is 1 morph. Not worth it at all.
Usefulness: 1.5/10
Non-Incremental upgrades (Recommended level)
Increase your life by 50 x level - Cost: 1 merit (unlimited)
Very useful has it adds 50 x your level to your total health. Helps in battles a lot, less chance of getting 1 hit. Can be used as many times as you want. Recommended level of use 20-25+. Although health is gained every time you level and can be gained via the medical job.
Helps (supposedly) increase your crime success rate, no idea how it works. Nothing but bad feedback from this.
Usefulness: 0/10
Respect bonus +10 on current faction - Cost: 1 merit (unlimited)
The only merit that can be sold, you join a faction that buy it of you, you then use it and it adds +10 respect to their total. Sells for a couple of 100-k. Useful and wanted by factions.
Usefulness: 2.5/10
Strength bonus +10 x level - Cost: 1 merit (unlimited)
Adds 10 x your level of strength to your total strength. Very useful for stat building and improving those low distributed areas of stats. Recommended level of use 25+.
Usefulness: 4/10
Defense bonus +10 x level - Cost: 1 merit (unlimited)
Adds 10 x your level of defense to your total strength. Very useful for stat building and improving those low distributed areas of stats. Recommended level of use 25+.
Usefulness: 4/10
Speed bonus +10 x level - Cost: 1 merit (unlimited)
Adds 10 x your level of speed to your total strength. Very useful for stat building and improving those low distributed areas of stats. Recommended level of use 25+.
Usefulness: 4/10
Dexterity bonus +10 x level - Cost: 1 merit (unlimited)
Adds 10 x your level of dexterity to your total strength. Very useful for stat building and improving those low distributed areas of stats. Recommended level of use 25+.
Usefulness: 4/10
Buyable items
Yasukuni sword - Cost: 10 merits
A rare sword, worth around $2-5mill. Not worth 10 merits, might aswell buy one.
Usefulness: 1/10
Xbox 360 - Cost: 2 merits
Everytime you press [play] uses 5 energy to help regenerate between 15-20 happiness, helpful but not worth 2 merits.
Usefulness: 5/10
Rusty Sword - Cost: 1 merit
Peice of junk, might aswell fight with your fists. Good for the cabinet though.
Usefulness: 1/10
Coat hanger - Cost: 1 merit
Allows you to rob cars via the GTA crimes, helpful. Although you can buy it for 50-100k off the market. Not worth a merit.
Usefulness: 7/10
Firewalk Virus - Cost: 1 merit
Needed for the level 25 mission, can also be bought and programmed via a computer in your items. Although you can buy them of the market for $20-50k.
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What is BBCode?
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BBCode is an abbreviation for Bulletin Board Code.
It is a lightweight markup language used to format posts in forums.
The Purpose of BBCode
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BBCode was devised and put to use in order to provide a safer, easier and more limited way of allowing users to format their messages.
We can describe the purpose of BBCode is to make your forum/message board posts more stylish by adding styles/colours, centralizing your text or give them special effects like bold text underlined text italic text or all of them together.
Now the codes....
***NOTE: ALL GAP MUST BE REMOVED IN ORDER FOR THE CODE TO WORK***
Text Codes
[ b] [ /b] - Creates bold text Usage - [ b] This is bold [/b] Example - This is bold
---------------------------------------------------- [ i] [/i] - Creates italic text Usage - [ i] This is italic [/i] Example - This is italic
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---------------------------------------------------- [ s] [/s] - Creates Strikethrough text Usage - [ s] Strikethrough Text [/s] Example - Strikethrough Text
---------------------------------------------------- [ font=NAME OF FONT] [/font] - Changes font type Usage - [ font=Arial Narrow] Arial Narrow font[/font] Example - Arial Narrow font
List of font Names:
Arial
Arial Narrow
Arial Black
Century Gothic
Book Antiqua
Courier New
Comic Sans MS
Garamond
Franklin Gothic Medium
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Sans Unicode
Lucida Console
Palatino Linotype
Microsoft Sans Serif
Tahoma
Palatino Linotype
Trebuchet MS
Times New Roman
Verdana
[ size=?] [/size] - Changes size of text Usage - [ size=15] Size 15 text [/size] Example - Size 15 text
[ left] [/left] - Aligns text to the left Usage - [ left] Left align [/left] Example -
Left align
---------------------------------------------------- [ profile] [/profile] - Creates links to someones profile Usage - [ profile] 181564 [/profile] Example - Profile for ID: 181564
---------------------------------------------------- [ fac] [/fac] - Creates link to faction Usage - [ fac] 5024 [/fac] Example - Faction ID: 5024
---------------------------------------------------- [ IMGURL=http://www.url.com]image here[/IMGURL] - Creates an image/link Usage - [ IMGURL=http://www.google.com]http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/google_logo.jpg[/IMGURL] Example -
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- Quotes someone Usage - [ quote] This is a quote [/quote] Example -
This is a quote
---------------------------------------------------- [ code] [/code] - Creates a box to show people codes Usage - [ code] [/code] Example - [code][/code]
---------------------------------------------------- [ img] [/img] - Shows a picture Usage - [ img] http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumbimg_4/109837096136S6G3.jpg [/img] Example -
---------------------------------------------------- [ mail] [/mail] - Links to mail someone Usage - [ mail] 181564 [/mail] Example - 181564
---------------------------------------------------- [ url=urlhere] [/url] - Creates a link toy your text Usage - [ url=http://www.google.com] Click here [/url] Example - Click here
---------------------------------------------------- [ url] [/url] - Turns a url into a hyperlink Usage - [ url] http://www.google.com [/url] Example - www.google.com
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Forum Signature sizes!
Everyone is always asking about their sig sizes, or what the rules are so heres a tutorial, so no-one can ever moan about it again. I created templates for people to use, just right click on the image and copy it to where you want to create your signature (Photoshop, Paint, Gimp etc...)
Rules
-Do not use any profanities as it will result in a forum ban and possibly a game sentence. eg. Swearing, racism, discrimination etc....
-Flash files are allowed, but they cant be big files or have music playing on them.
-No advertising other games in your forum sig.
Consequences
Hold to the following rules above or you shall recieve...
First Offence: Warning issued
Second Offence: 3 - 7 day forum ban (depending on severity)
Third Offence: 8 - 14 day forum ban (depending on severity)
Fourth Offence: 15 - 30 day forum ban (depending on severity)
Further Offences: 30 - 365 day forum ban (depending on severity)
Note: If the forum sig is extreme, it may violate other decency policies and shall be punished accordingly.
Quoted : LeukyBear on 19/01/08 : Forum sig rules changes.
The sizes:
Example:
Max size - 500x150 (WidthxHeight) and 1 lines of text
(approx - give or take)
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Thank you for reading!
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Edited by: bevete on 20/01/09 at 3:23:41 PM[/quote]
By VenTum [23949]
So... You make a 1-10 scale of usefulnes but your merit with highest usefulnes has a value of 8.5... Why not make it an 8.5 scale then?????
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Because none of them are 10/10 perfect, different people have different opinions...if one was given 10 out of 10 that would make it the 'perfect choice' and you'd get many people disagreeing
By goodboy11 [1373689]
i would like if they give metrits more elery more like then 50 days
they do,see sites like tcbasic
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By Slagteren [1304947]
How do i add a friend/enemies and unfriend them again?
You need to have had donator status, you get this by using a donator pack on market and using it (Or for $5 using paypal), or exchanging 100 points for 31 donator days
This gives you a number of extra things, including friends/enemies list, you can add people then, this list will then stay with you forever
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