Beginners Guide
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Beginners Tutorial
Welcome to HoboWars Beginner's Tutorial. This tutorial will cover the basics of HoboWars and how to jump straight into the game.
Fighting
Fighting is one of the three classes in HoboWars and can be done by anyone. The battle ladder can be found on the battle page.
How to get Started
You can start fighting at any point in the game and can fight one of three. You can only fight if your alive and if you do die you must heal yourself. The cost is determined by how much health is needed healing. The base cost is $5. From 60HP+ the cost goes up by $1 for each 10HP. So if you needed 153HP healing then you would have to pay $15. But if you needed 25HP healing you would have to pay $5. Where they are located and how to fight them:
Trolley Boy: Located at WalMart where there will be an option to fight him if you haven't beaten him yet. It is advised that you gain a few levels before trying to attack him and also we suggest you get [weapons and armor]. These can be purchased at Toys 'R' Us.
Old Man: [Corner 7/11], there will be an option to "Visit the old man" Now you must explore the city to find an arena pass. Once you have found an arena pass go back to the 7/11 and click Visit the old man. You will then have a selection screen with NPCs listed in order from weakest to strongest. You get very good bonuses from fighting these people. Just make sure you are ready before you battle. They are tough. You can get things from points to explore turns.
Other Players: Located on side menu and labelled Battle! or City > Hobo Meeting Area > Start a fight. On the battle page enter the HoboName/ID and click search. After their page comes up, you may enter their profile and click attack hobo or click battle.
Battling another hobo
- Battle whoever you think you can beat. The deciding factor of the battle is stats and weapons so make sure your stats and weapons are greater than your opponents. Attacking costs 5 [awakeness].
Leveling
- Leveling occurs when you reach the amount of experience needed. Experience is gained by beating other hobos. The higher level their hobo is, the more experience you will gain.
You can view how much experience you have before leveling by viewing your living area. Higher levels help with higher stat gains.
Fighting Stats
- Fighting stats are the basics of a fighter and will determine who the stronger hobo is. These stats are trained at school. The schools have certain levels you need to range in to too be able to use them. Primary school (lvl 1-10) is located on the East of the city, High school (lvl 10-25) is on the West side and University (lvl 25+) is located on the North.
The stats are:
- Speed - The higher the speed you have the more hits you will get in against another hobo.
- Power - Increases damage that you will do to another hobo. This can be combined with weapons to become extremely offensive
- Strength - Increases defence and adds a little bit of damage. This can be combined with armor to become extremely defensive
- You can train these stats at Primary School, High School and University.
Weapons and Armour
- Weapons and Armour are rather essential in fighting, weapons add to damage whereas armor adds to defense.
You may purchase them from Toys'R'Us or from Gangs. Gangs may lend you branded weapons.
The weapons and armor you buy from Toys'R'Us are listed below. This includes name, extra damage and cost.
Weapons & Armor Available
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Exploring the City
After clicking City you will find a link on the East side saying Explore the City. The only requirement to explore is a trolly which can be beeten from the trolly boy at the WalMart and a city map which can be purchased cheaply.
Each reset (one day) 200 turns are available (free) to explore the city. You can purchase more turns with points. It costs 1 point for 50 turns. One turn is a move in any direction. You always start in the middle of the city which have the co-ordinates of (50,50). From there you choose what direction you wish to move in.
Each time that you move into a new space, you will be shown what you find there. The options for what you can find are cash, cans, food, or nothing. The exploration area is 100 spaces by 100 spaces. This means that there are 10,000 spaces to explore, but you only have 200 moves to use.
Cans
Cans can be sold for money at the [Can Depo]. At the start the cans you collect might not seem to be worth a lot. In the low levels this is true, but when you become a higher level they can be worth quite a lot. You will not want to sell your cans unless you seriously need the cash. Otherwise it is advised you keep them. Since the price that you can sell your cans at the can depot increases with both your level and intelligence, the cans that you collect early on in the game are worth many times more later in the game. The only hard part is staying in the routine of collecting cans and only selling them when you must.
Cash
The cash that you find can easily pay for a full set of KFC meals early in the game. That is even if you do not find any KFC meals while exploring. This is why you should always go exploring before you buy your meals. Your hobo can find either $10, $20, $30, or $40 at a time.
Food
There are lots of food that can be found whilst exploring. There are several types of food that are available while exploring that you can't buy anywhere. When you find food it is automatically put into your trolly unless it is full. You can store 10 items of food within your trolley. If your trolley does become full then you will recieve a warning the next time you find an item of food.When this happens, the typical response is to click on your Living Area and empty out whatever food you do not want. Don't do this. When you click away from exploring, you lose your place. As you will see later, this is very inefficient. Instead, right click on the link to your living area and open it in either a new tab or new window. This way you can do the needed rearranging of your food and then come back to the tab/window that you are exploring with. You can then continue on from where you left off.
It is best to only keep the KFC meals that you find. This is because all that you should ever eat is KFC meals whether they were purchased or found.
Below is a list of foods, how much T they give, and if they are sold at Walmart.
| Name | "T" Gain | Walmart |
|---|---|---|
| KFC Meal | +10 | Yes |
| Chocolate Ice Cream | +5 | Yes |
| Cooked Chicken | +5 | Yes |
| New Pizza | +5 | Yes |
| Bottle of Coke | +4 | Yes |
| Meat Pie | +4 | Yes |
| Packet of Fries | +4 | Yes |
| Can of Coke | +3 | No |
| Half Eaten Burger | +3 | No |
| Half a HotDog | +3 | No |
| HotDog | +3 | Yes |
| Piece of Bread | +3 | Yes |
| Piece of Pizza | +3 | No |
| Vanilla Ice Cream | +3 | Yes |
| Apple Core | +2 | No |
| Chewed Chicken Leg | +2 | No |
| Fresh Apple | +2 | Yes |
| Half a Donut | +2 | No |
| Raw Chicken Leg | +1 | Yes |
| Raw Potato | +1 | No |
| Rotten Fish | +1 | No |
Awakeness
Awakeness is required for the majority of actions in HoboWars. Picking a fight, going to school, etc. all take awakeness. Exploring does not take awakeness. Awakeness can be regenerated in four ways:
- Eating food
- Trading points for it
- Refills over time (5T every 10 minutes for Donators, 5T every 15 minutes for Non-Donators)
- Voting
Schools
In HoboWars training in the schools is esential. If you want to get far in the game and make your hobo more of a force to be reckonned with or more of a productive begger, you WILL need to train it. Training is done in different places. These places depend on your level. You are able to train at Primary school, High School and University. Each of them have a level range for who can use it. The levels are below.
| Location | Level | Cost Per Train |
|---|---|---|
| Primary School | 1-10 | $0 & 5T |
| High School | 10-25 | $20 & 10T |
| University | 25+ | $50 & 10T |
Each of these schools as an entry fee. The entry fee is a one off. The only fee after that is how much it costs to train. There is a one level lap between each school. This allows you to look at the next school before you are unable to train.
