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I am asked question about begging on a regular basis, so in order to cut down on the amount of mail I receive I thought I'd put my advice up for everyone to see.  
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Begging means going to the corner 7/11 and standing around with your cup for 10T to try and get some cash. The following is the brief rundown on begging; more information to be added.
  
4 Things affect your cash per beg, Beg stat, Intel, Hobo level, and gang beg level.
 
  
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==Basic Information==
  
'''Intel'''
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Begging is pretty simple, but requires a lot of patience to get anywhere with. Very few people that play Hobowars have ever maxed out their begging, so don't expect it to happen overnight. The first step on the long road to reaching your goal is to max out your intel - get to level 25 and train at the University until it's 1000, then you can start your begging career.
  
:Intel should be maxed before you start full time begging, or full time anything really.
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===Intel===
  
:1000 intel will triple the amount of cash you get per beg.
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[reserved for intel effects on begging]
  
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===Beg stat===
  
'''Beg stat'''
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Beg stat is your skill at begging. It goes up rather slowly, gaining more each beg, then at 100 beg the gains split and go up again, until 200 beg, when they split once more. Your begging stat is what allows you to upgrade your begging level.
  
:Not much to say about beg stat, just beg a lot and it goes up slowly. The stat gain per beg rises slowly, then when you reach 100 beg the gain halves and starts rising again... then halves again at 200 beg
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==Beg Upgrades==
  
 
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Your first beg upgrade will be at the begging stat milestone of 50, after that you start gaining exp from begging '''while alive.''' Getting the upgrades as soon as possible will increase the amount of money you gain from begging as well as the EXP you earn. The begging upgrades, and their prices, are outlined below.
'''Beg Upgrades'''
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:I started back before levelling was so easy, so I've gained most of my levels from begging itself.
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:Once you hit 50 beg stat buy the first upgrade and start begging while alive. Don't worry about the money you lose, over time the extra levels will more than make up for that. Get all the upgrades as soon as you can as each upgrade increases the amount of EXP you get per beg.  
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:Don't believe me? I've never begged while dead since the EXP from begging was introduced and look how far I come.  
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<tr><th align="center">Upgrade number</th><th align="center">Begging stat needed</th><th align="center">Funds needed</th></tr>
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<tr><th align="center">Upgrade number</th><th align="center">Begging Stat Required</th><th align="center">Money Required</th></tr>
 
<tr><td align="center">Upgrade 1</td><th align="center">50</th><th align="center">$500,000</th></tr>
 
<tr><td align="center">Upgrade 1</td><th align="center">50</th><th align="center">$500,000</th></tr>
 
<tr><td align="center">Upgrade 2</td><th align="center">100</th><th align="center">$1,000,000</th></tr>
 
<tr><td align="center">Upgrade 2</td><th align="center">100</th><th align="center">$1,000,000</th></tr>
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<tr><td align="center">Upgrade 5</td><th align="center">500</th><th align="center">$5,000,000</th></tr></table>
 
<tr><td align="center">Upgrade 5</td><th align="center">500</th><th align="center">$5,000,000</th></tr></table>
  
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===Other Sources of EXP===
  
'''Other Sources of EXP'''
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Rapes and sluts are your secondary source of EXP when a begger. With the money you make from begging, you can pay for people to lose to you one way or another.
 
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:Sluts/rapes are useful too if you can find any worth using.  
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:I'm guessing the quick leveling to 100 thing a lot of fighters are doing would be helpful to beggars as well, but it wasn't possible back when I started so I don't have any direct experience.  
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'''Gang Beg level'''
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:Gang beg level helps but it's best choose a good gang that you get along well with rather than base you choice just on beg level.
 
  
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==Gang Beg level==
  
'''Point Refills'''
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Gang beg levels helps with your begging, although you should never base your gang choice purely on their begging level. [More info to come?]
  
:Do them as often as possible, I started doing them back when it took me 2 days to save the cash for 1 refill. At first the cost of the refill will be much more than the cash from begging but the extra beg stat/EXP will start to pile up over time and you will break even and then start making a profit
 
  
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==Further Advice==
  
'''Fighting Stats/Rats'''
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Try to keep enough points with you to refill three times or so, begging uses a lot of T and an extra bar spent on it can make all the difference while trying to get to your first upgrade or whatnot.
  
:Not much can protect you from fighters at the same level or higher than yourself.  
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There's not much you can do about even or higher level fighters beating you, although if you're nice when caught begging, you can probably get back your cash. Otherwise, you can always get your gang to hitlist them.
  
:I do 2 things to help my draw or win fights with lower level fighters:  
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There's two things you can do to help yourself out against inferior-level fighters:
  
: 1) Your rat can usually do a lot more damage than you can so train it's agility to make sure it gets as many hits in as possible
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1) Rat. Train his agility more than anything else, allowing him to get in the max number of hits. Speed bonuses from respect make this even more important.
  
: 2)Train Strength, this will reduce the damage done to you and can drag the fight out longer giving your rat time to do more damage or causing a draw.  
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2)Train Strength, this will reduce the damage done to you and can drag the fight out longer giving your rat time to do more damage or causing a draw.
  
::Don't spend too much time training or your begging will fall behind. The 2 best times to train are when theres someone refreshing your profile and not letting you get 1 beg in before dieing, and when you get as 14+ at the University.
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Don't spend too much time training or your begging will fall behind. The two best times to train are when theres someone refreshing your profile and not letting you get 1 beg in before dieing, and when you get a 13+ score at the University. At the start of the day, it's a good idea to see what kind of score you can pry out of the University, you may get lucky and not waste time later.

Revision as of 06:20, 4 January 2007

Information from Binary ID=67628

Begging means going to the corner 7/11 and standing around with your cup for 10T to try and get some cash. The following is the brief rundown on begging; more information to be added.


Basic Information

Begging is pretty simple, but requires a lot of patience to get anywhere with. Very few people that play Hobowars have ever maxed out their begging, so don't expect it to happen overnight. The first step on the long road to reaching your goal is to max out your intel - get to level 25 and train at the University until it's 1000, then you can start your begging career.

Intel

[reserved for intel effects on begging]

Beg stat

Beg stat is your skill at begging. It goes up rather slowly, gaining more each beg, then at 100 beg the gains split and go up again, until 200 beg, when they split once more. Your begging stat is what allows you to upgrade your begging level.

Beg Upgrades

Your first beg upgrade will be at the begging stat milestone of 50, after that you start gaining exp from begging while alive. Getting the upgrades as soon as possible will increase the amount of money you gain from begging as well as the EXP you earn. The begging upgrades, and their prices, are outlined below.

Upgrade numberBegging Stat RequiredMoney Required
Upgrade 150$500,000
Upgrade 2100$1,000,000
Upgrade 3200$2,000,000
Upgrade 4300$3,000,000
Upgrade 5500$5,000,000

Other Sources of EXP

Rapes and sluts are your secondary source of EXP when a begger. With the money you make from begging, you can pay for people to lose to you one way or another.


Gang Beg level

Gang beg levels helps with your begging, although you should never base your gang choice purely on their begging level. [More info to come?]


Further Advice

Try to keep enough points with you to refill three times or so, begging uses a lot of T and an extra bar spent on it can make all the difference while trying to get to your first upgrade or whatnot.

There's not much you can do about even or higher level fighters beating you, although if you're nice when caught begging, you can probably get back your cash. Otherwise, you can always get your gang to hitlist them.

There's two things you can do to help yourself out against inferior-level fighters:

1) Rat. Train his agility more than anything else, allowing him to get in the max number of hits. Speed bonuses from respect make this even more important.

2)Train Strength, this will reduce the damage done to you and can drag the fight out longer giving your rat time to do more damage or causing a draw.

Don't spend too much time training or your begging will fall behind. The two best times to train are when theres someone refreshing your profile and not letting you get 1 beg in before dieing, and when you get a 13+ score at the University. At the start of the day, it's a good idea to see what kind of score you can pry out of the University, you may get lucky and not waste time later.