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−	Gangs as of Janurary 28, 2006	+	A gang is simply what is sounds like: a group who are band together under a single name, a single flag, against all enemies. While Hobowars probably lacks the dynamics of true-to-life gangs, a Hobowars gang is quite like an extended family within our twisted network.
−	{|  border="1px solid #000000" cellpadding="8"	+
−	!  align="center" | ID !!  align="center" | Gang Name !!  align="center" | Level !!  align="center" | Begging	+	==Gangs: A Brief Historical Timeline==
−	|-	+
−	| 10 ||  [CrAzY] DïdžĆÖR§HîP || 30 || 15	+	===Gangs in the Old Days===
−	|-	+	Gangs, as far back as anyone cares to remember, used to cost 200 points. This was their sole cost at the time. One must remember, these are the days when points cost $3,000 each, Dude was level 40 and packing your own AK was a rare treat. Gangs were non-transferable entities and the warchamber had not yet been created. The sole form of battle between gangs was the [[Fight Club]], which had a large user-run ladder for itself. The deletion, inactivity or dissatisfaction of a gang's leader would result in the death of the gang itself, as there was no method in place of selling the gang. Also, in this era, the coleader had the ability to transfer funds from the gang to its members, which would result in many "hackings".
−	| 25 ||  Freaks || 30 || 12	+
−	|-	+	===Gangs in the Middle Ages===
−	| 6 ||  Silver Assassins || 27 || 11	+	At this point in history, gangs now have warchambers, a level-30 leader requirement, the downgrade of the coleader position and armouries. These golden days were simple times, with very little changes to the dynamics of the system, beyond an expansion of actual recognition. With the rise of the warchamber came the downfall of the Fight Club.
−	|-	+
−	| 23 ||  The Planet || 26 || 13	+	===Gangs, the Modern Age===
−	|-	+	At this point, a massive economic bust drove point prices to an all-time low. With points so commonplace, the number of gangs exploded from 30 odd gangs to around 90. At this point, the [[Audit]] took place, which is a dark period in our history. Shortly after the audit finally subsided, the price of gangs rose to 500 points and the secretary ranks were introduced.
−	| 61 ||  •CP• Palace Rejects || 25 || 12	+
−	|-	+	===Post-Modernism and Its Effect on Gang Dynamics===
−	| 68 ||  †ëh Nameless || 25 || 11	+	In today's cold, concrete world, gangs can no longer be created. The hospital coverage, gang tokens and begging levels were all introduced in this period were currently live in. The next step in gang evolution can only be dreamt of.
−	|-	+
−	| 98 ||  Moobs International || 25 || 12	+	==The Statistics of a Gang==
−	|-	+	Gangs have various stats assigned to them. These include their ID number, their gang level and their begging level.
−	| 58 ||  [[TBHL]] || 24 || 12	+
−	|-	+	===Gang ID Number===
−	| 84 ||  Zero Tolerance || 24 || 11	+	This indicates the order in which the gang was originally purchased. In today's age, this means little as no gangs can be made. There are numbers missing from the count, as gangs have been deleted in the past.
−	|-	+
−	| 78 || BOOOOOOOOOOOBS || 23 || 11	+	===Gang Level===
−	|-	+	Representing little (or a lot) in the actual power of the gang, this number indicates the number of times the upgrade has been purchased. Each level upgrade increases the Warchamber health and speed by a minute percentage, as well as allowing the Begging Level to be increased further.
−	| 86 || Darkside of the Moon || 23 || 11	+
−	|-	+	===Begging Level===
−	| 94 || Flaming Fist || 23 || 11	+	A recent update, the begging level grants the gang a cut of their beggars' income from empty space. For each level, they receive 0.4% of each beg from the system and each beggar receives an additional 0.4% to their beg from the system.
−	|-	+	The begging level can never exceed the Gang Level.
−	| 57 || Lost City Rogues || 22 || 11	+
−	|-	+	==The Benefits of a Gang==
−	| 71 || Evil Empire Returns || 22 || 9	+	A gang provides a support structure, consisting of information, allegiances by association and member support in terms of weapons, token pools and et cetera.
−	|-	+
−	| 72 || BomB ver  3.0 || 22 || 11	+	===Information===
−	|-	+	Gangs often instruct their members on how to act and how to train, as well as what they have the potential to become. More importantly, gangs are allowed to trade between their members information about the Arena Pass, which is used in fighting the Old Man and his friends.
−	| 104 || MinionsOfDestruction || 22 || 11	+
−	|-	+	===The Armoury===
−	| 74 || Pieman || 22 || 11	+	Each gang can establish an armoury for a reasonable fee of 25 points and 50000 experience. The armoury allows the gang to physically own and lend out weapons to their members. These weapons are branded and cannot leave gang control unless "unBranded" by the gangs owner.
−	|-	+	Gangs will tend to collect a large amount of top level weapons (at this time, +700 and -700) for use by their warchamber, while collecting other weapons as an incentive to join.
−	| 77 || [[40ozCasualties]] || 22 || 11	+
−	|-	+	===Token Pools===
−	| 107 || Superior eXodus || 22 || 11	+	A token pool is a simple concept: everyone pays in their tokens, allowing them to upgrade their members to top level carts at a faster speed. There are various philosophies for token pools, all of which have the same general goal behind it: increase the rate of gathering.
−	|-	+
−	| 19 || Old Mans Tomatoes || 22 || 11	+	===Gang Boards===
−	|-	+	Each gang gets a message board for their members, on which the members can do pretty much whatever they please. This may include gang lotteries, gang hitlists, gang help threads, gang counting threads or various other trivial or nontrivial discussions. Each gang tends to have their own flavour, but the basic concept is always there: the gang board is a primary location for intergang issues, such as tokens and discussions on where the money goes.
−	| 47 || The Belligerents ||22 || 11	+
−	|-	+	==Starting a Gang==
−	| 14 || Fallout || 22 || 10	+	At the current time, starting a gang is no longer an option. With the updates of late '06, gang production was halted. There is now a finite number of possible gangs.
−	|-	+
−	| 26 || ~SoCo Down Under ~ || 22 || 11	+	==Brief Gang Types Listing==
−	|-	+
−	| 38 || We Divide by Zero || 22 || 10	+	===The Dead Gang===
−	|-	+	These gangs may have deleted or inactive leaders. Very few have any active players in them. They are the sunken treasureships of the gangladder, existing at the very bottom, as 10% of the gangs.
−	| 9 || Adrenaline || 22 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 119 || Rainbows & Puppies || 22 || 11	+	===The Noob Gang===
−	|-	+	These gangs typically appeal to new players, offering large ammounts of relatively weak weapons as well as the social dynamic and support structure required by fledgling players. They typically exist in the lower end of the ladder and represent approximately 30% of current gangs. The vast majority are named after pop culture references in an attempt to gather instant recognition, a strategy that usually succeeds as these gangs balloon in size of upwards of 100 players. Purging of these gangs in not uncommon, as new players frequently go inactive and aging players tend to advance their standings.
−	| 52 || 12 Monkeys || 21 || 8	+
−	|-	+	===Climbers===
−	| 75 || Phoenix Wake || 21 || 10	+	Typically consisting of a legion of middleweight players, rallied by several old players, these gangs represent the middle of the ladder. They do not excel in any particular field, but they do not fall. These gangs are rather well established, but cannot draw away other large players for the simple reason that they cannot offer the upperlevel support.
−	|-	+
−	| 110 || Indecision || 21 || 10	+	===Elite Gangs===
−	|-	+	A now extinct breed of gang, elite gangs were groups of between 10 and 20 old players, usually dedicated to preserving the old ways of life. The vast majority have met their end or adapted to another form, while some are still going strong. The prime historical example is Genesis, who met their end during the [[Audit]].
−	| 66 || Engineered Plague || 21 || 10	+
−	|-	+	===The Old Ones===
−	| 148 || FREE NUMBERWANG || 21 || 10	+	Any gang that has survived since our early history has garned a certain level of fanatic loyalty by their members. Because their members are now the upper eschelon of Hobo society, these gangs dominate the top of the ladder with an iron fist. Fighting between them becomes fierce and many of the gangs operate several different warchamber rotations. Their member volume is usually between 40 and 50 members, of which a significant portion are below 100,000 IDs. Their armouries are old and filled and their levels bloated by years of healthy growth.
−	|-	+	Proud flagbearers of these gangs are: Freaks, Pieman, TBHL, OMT (formerly EWO), the Planet, Crazy and CP, amongst others.
−	| 37 || Wu-Tang Financial || 21 || 4	+
−	|-	+	===The Syndicate===
−	| 96 || [[Genocide.]] || 20 || 10	+	The Syndicate is the enigma of all gangs. It is host to the admin, as well as several of their old friends. They remain at the bottom of the ladder out of fairness, as Malord is known for tweaking his stats "slightly".
−	|-	+
−	| 103 || Warlords || 20 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 28 || The Xavion Empire || 20 || 4	+
−	|-	+
−	| 89 || VÎÑÐÎÇÅT€Ð¤HØßا¹³ || 20 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 50 || PowerPuffGirls || 20 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 17 || Edge of the Earth || 20 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 115 || Project Mayhem || 20 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 102 || †ëuƒelhùnÐe || 19 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 60 || +Phoolz+ || 19 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 69 || Resurrection || 19 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 67 || The Animal Alliance || 19 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 70 || We Survived Malord || 18 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 90 || Kazkan Fury Lair || 18 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 95 || ~Velvet Hat~ || 18 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 141 || .:*TrailVoy*:. || 16 || 5	+
−	|-	+
−	| 99 || Alter Egos || 16 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 124 || [[The Ǿмëga]] || 16 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 146 || Devils Advocates || 16 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 131 || Sinister Territory || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 117 || Eternal Evolution || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 130 || [[Armia Krajowa]] || 16 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 133 || [[The Ünion]] || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 132 || Satans Puppets~> || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 145 || ~Silent Kingdom~ || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 91 || Chicken Regiment || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 82 || [[Kindred]] || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 46 || G☼tham City || 15 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 140 || Morning Wood || 14 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 114 || The Droogs || 14 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 55 || Double Nickel || 14 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 113 || C.S.A. || 13 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 109 || X-Rated || 13 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 48 || Asylum || 13 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 108 || Redeemed_OutKasts || 13 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 43 || The Mafia || 13 || 5	+
−	|-	+
−	| 36 || For Sale || 13 || 0	+
−	|-	+
−	| 54 || Mutant  Warriors || 13 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 144 || Tornado Of Soulz || 12 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 127 || FM || 12 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 93 || Rogue Agents || 12 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 65 || Insane Welfare Bums || 12 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 135 || £ocust of Oracles || 12 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 138 || Magic Hat #9 || 12 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 122 || Phallen 2 Phate || 12 || 3	+
−	|-	+
−	| 137 || Ж Killer Koala || 11 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 139 || [A$$]Lovers Inc. || 11 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 49 || Legion of Doom™ || 11 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 30 || †Sanctuary† || 11 || 6	+
−	|-	+
−	| 112 || I hax0red it! || 11 || 5	+
−	|-	+
−	| 118 || Sesso e Caramella || 11 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 79 || -) SWAT (- || 10 || 4	+
−	|-	+
−	| 150 || •Arris Associates• || 10 || 7	+
−	|-	+
−	| 151 || [[Holy Cuppa]] || 10 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 51 || The ЄlementaLs || 10 || 5	+
−	|-	+
−	| 147 || Da Boyz || 10 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 106 || NATO || 10 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 129 || Žion || 10 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 123 || Pandemic || 10 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 120 || Aces High || 10 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 116 || Mahora Åcademy || 10 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 152 || The Kuiper Belt || 9 || 7	+
−	|-	+
−	| 153 || §exy ₣amily || 9 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 134 || [[Slugabed Samurai]] || 9 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 8 || Formenos || 9 || 2	+
−	|-	+
−	| 100 || Cave || 9 || 9	+
−	|-	+
−	| 142 || Union Jacks || 8 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 136 || The Insane Saints || 8 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 149 || Naked Alone Complex || 8 || 8	+
−	|-	+
−	| 143 || †The Cremisi Family† || 7 || 7	+
−	|-	+
−	| 22 || Neighbourhood Watch || 6 || 0	+
−	|-	+
−	| 154 || The Regulars || 4 || 2	+
−	|-	+
−	| 126 || Gee eM || 3 || 3	+
−	|-	+
−	| 1 || The Syndicate. || 1 || 10	+
−	|-	+
−	| 121 || ~Chaos Kingdom~ || 1 || 1	+
−	|}	+

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Revision as of 06:25, 23 February 2007

A gang is simply what is sounds like: a group who are band together under a single name, a single flag, against all enemies. While Hobowars probably lacks the dynamics of true-to-life gangs, a Hobowars gang is quite like an extended family within our twisted network.

Gangs: A Brief Historical Timeline

Gangs in the Old Days

Gangs, as far back as anyone cares to remember, used to cost 200 points. This was their sole cost at the time. One must remember, these are the days when points cost $3,000 each, Dude was level 40 and packing your own AK was a rare treat. Gangs were non-transferable entities and the warchamber had not yet been created. The sole form of battle between gangs was the Fight Club, which had a large user-run ladder for itself. The deletion, inactivity or dissatisfaction of a gang's leader would result in the death of the gang itself, as there was no method in place of selling the gang. Also, in this era, the coleader had the ability to transfer funds from the gang to its members, which would result in many "hackings".

Gangs in the Middle Ages

At this point in history, gangs now have warchambers, a level-30 leader requirement, the downgrade of the coleader position and armouries. These golden days were simple times, with very little changes to the dynamics of the system, beyond an expansion of actual recognition. With the rise of the warchamber came the downfall of the Fight Club.

Gangs, the Modern Age

At this point, a massive economic bust drove point prices to an all-time low. With points so commonplace, the number of gangs exploded from 30 odd gangs to around 90. At this point, the Audit took place, which is a dark period in our history. Shortly after the audit finally subsided, the price of gangs rose to 500 points and the secretary ranks were introduced.

Post-Modernism and Its Effect on Gang Dynamics

In today's cold, concrete world, gangs can no longer be created. The hospital coverage, gang tokens and begging levels were all introduced in this period were currently live in. The next step in gang evolution can only be dreamt of.

The Statistics of a Gang

Gangs have various stats assigned to them. These include their ID number, their gang level and their begging level.

Gang ID Number

This indicates the order in which the gang was originally purchased. In today's age, this means little as no gangs can be made. There are numbers missing from the count, as gangs have been deleted in the past.

Gang Level

Representing little (or a lot) in the actual power of the gang, this number indicates the number of times the upgrade has been purchased. Each level upgrade increases the Warchamber health and speed by a minute percentage, as well as allowing the Begging Level to be increased further.

Begging Level

A recent update, the begging level grants the gang a cut of their beggars' income from empty space. For each level, they receive 0.4% of each beg from the system and each beggar receives an additional 0.4% to their beg from the system. The begging level can never exceed the Gang Level.

The Benefits of a Gang

A gang provides a support structure, consisting of information, allegiances by association and member support in terms of weapons, token pools and et cetera.

Information

Gangs often instruct their members on how to act and how to train, as well as what they have the potential to become. More importantly, gangs are allowed to trade between their members information about the Arena Pass, which is used in fighting the Old Man and his friends.

The Armoury

Each gang can establish an armoury for a reasonable fee of 25 points and 50000 experience. The armoury allows the gang to physically own and lend out weapons to their members. These weapons are branded and cannot leave gang control unless "unBranded" by the gangs owner. Gangs will tend to collect a large amount of top level weapons (at this time, +700 and -700) for use by their warchamber, while collecting other weapons as an incentive to join.

Token Pools

A token pool is a simple concept: everyone pays in their tokens, allowing them to upgrade their members to top level carts at a faster speed. There are various philosophies for token pools, all of which have the same general goal behind it: increase the rate of gathering.

Gang Boards

Each gang gets a message board for their members, on which the members can do pretty much whatever they please. This may include gang lotteries, gang hitlists, gang help threads, gang counting threads or various other trivial or nontrivial discussions. Each gang tends to have their own flavour, but the basic concept is always there: the gang board is a primary location for intergang issues, such as tokens and discussions on where the money goes.

Starting a Gang

At the current time, starting a gang is no longer an option. With the updates of late '06, gang production was halted. There is now a finite number of possible gangs.

Brief Gang Types Listing

The Dead Gang

These gangs may have deleted or inactive leaders. Very few have any active players in them. They are the sunken treasureships of the gangladder, existing at the very bottom, as 10% of the gangs.

The Noob Gang

These gangs typically appeal to new players, offering large ammounts of relatively weak weapons as well as the social dynamic and support structure required by fledgling players. They typically exist in the lower end of the ladder and represent approximately 30% of current gangs. The vast majority are named after pop culture references in an attempt to gather instant recognition, a strategy that usually succeeds as these gangs balloon in size of upwards of 100 players. Purging of these gangs in not uncommon, as new players frequently go inactive and aging players tend to advance their standings.

Climbers

Typically consisting of a legion of middleweight players, rallied by several old players, these gangs represent the middle of the ladder. They do not excel in any particular field, but they do not fall. These gangs are rather well established, but cannot draw away other large players for the simple reason that they cannot offer the upperlevel support.

Elite Gangs

A now extinct breed of gang, elite gangs were groups of between 10 and 20 old players, usually dedicated to preserving the old ways of life. The vast majority have met their end or adapted to another form, while some are still going strong. The prime historical example is Genesis, who met their end during the Audit.

The Old Ones

Any gang that has survived since our early history has garned a certain level of fanatic loyalty by their members. Because their members are now the upper eschelon of Hobo society, these gangs dominate the top of the ladder with an iron fist. Fighting between them becomes fierce and many of the gangs operate several different warchamber rotations. Their member volume is usually between 40 and 50 members, of which a significant portion are below 100,000 IDs. Their armouries are old and filled and their levels bloated by years of healthy growth. Proud flagbearers of these gangs are: Freaks, Pieman, TBHL, OMT (formerly EWO), the Planet, Crazy and CP, amongst others.

The Syndicate

The Syndicate is the enigma of all gangs. It is host to the admin, as well as several of their old friends. They remain at the bottom of the ladder out of fairness, as Malord is known for tweaking his stats "slightly".