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[beorn080]

You can be a ghostbuster with a proton pack. Fun chasing people around Freedom City while cocking it at them.

[piecewise]

You can be a ghostbuster with a proton pack. Fun chasing people around Freedom City while cocking it at them.

I'll probably go back and try again later. This is the kind of game that, right now I want to go and play again, but as soon as I start playing I end up rage quiting because some annoying fucker is repeatedly killing me or the like. It's a vicious cycle.

[Tack]

I gotta say, Mid-game is vicious.

Spoiler: bitching (click to show/hide)

For everyone who Knows my pain, those with 8 or 9 raw in their preferred weapon, There's no grindable killable thing. to kill. I mean, I kill arachnos easily. 500 cash in the bag, 12 xp. Screw that.
So, What do I kill? Ice yetis, yeah, that works well, But then, the grizzlies that hang around the place continually rape and maul me, added to the fact that you can rely on dodge for ice yeti, but every hit takes away roughly half your health. Spectres at Ediths, well, that's certainly fun, or, as fun as hitting a 'Ha, You can forget about it' With a crystal spike is, and then killing it while taking about four damage. I will admit though, they give good EXP, it's just too easy to accidentally kill Edith.

Whut do I grind on!? Is there any place where I can be GUARANTEED to find spectres or poltergeists? (Oh, and I tried The... Whatevers in the crater rim. They kill me. Tried killing rock leeches too, Seemed to work pretty well, though now I'm down to 11xp now, and I lost a fair bit of my gear due to El... Whatever his fucking name.)

Oh, and I can't track for shit. Byebye, racists.

Bitch over.

[jashman]

I think about everything has been covered by others, but the simplicity of the game is definitely what kept me coming back.  I've found you can get the "I see no *whatever*" here message if you try a command that doesn't work with that object specifically as well.  But cutting it to one word should solve most of your issues.

Ironically, the beginning is probably the most confusing part of the game, and not just because you're new to it.  If you're still an orphan, then you need to head to the museum to actually start character generation and "grow up."  As an orphan you can't gain skills, but also suffer zero penalty for death.  It's basically to get you used to the game, it's parser, and try commands without worry.  While a nice thought, it's also a bit confounding if you don't realize that is what's going on.

Once you go to the museum, start the Dreams of Before, tag skills and allocate stats, then you'll be thirteen and ready to die properly.  As a N player, which is under 5k (or 5.5k?) total experience, a given player can only kill you once in a 24h span.  If this is happening more, as mentioned earlier, they should be reported for griefing (but don't bother if you're still an orphan).

Beyond that, just update your clone anytime you get stat/skill gains you don't want to lose, and carry a white cocoon to preserve your gear on death.  It's ironic that I'm advocating cocoon carrying, considering I didn't start carrying one until I had ten mutations... and even now, it's mostly because I don't want to have to regather up cheap shit.

Edit: @Tack I'm around the same stage as you are, arachnos are giving me 6xp per kill and I have 11 in my weapon raw.  I've mostly been doing contracts for the job experience lately (chuds, prisoners, mine rescue, etc.).  Yeah, I feel the pain on the track nerf for racists as well.  If I'm actually in the mood to grind experience, I kill karnivores since they are 48xp a kill for me.

[Tack]

Where do I get Cab, and How much does it cost!?

[jashman]

Can't help ya there.  The fanciest thing I've had is the rather sub-par kevlar from Cripple Red.

[Ancient Thingy]

Caballero armor is gotten from Threads in corpclave. Jacket costs 40k and the pants cost 30k, but it's well worth it, makes you invincible against karns if they hit anywhere other than your head/face/hands/feet. It's 18-32 bullet soak if you don't have high density, I believe.

don't forget to hide it with a leather jacket and pants overtop, since it's relatively valuable, and don't carry it into melee combat since it'll get dinged up pretty quickly

[beorn080]

You can find poltergeists in gangland I believe, but they've stopped giving me xp a long time ago.

[piecewise]

How long does it take to get to endgame away? We talking WoW where you can hit max level in a few days of grinding or is it more of a "play for a year and see what happens" sort of thing?

[Grendus]

You can find poltergeists and lovecraft monsters in gangland, but the Old Ones only come out if you drop a ghostbait so you can avoid them easily. Only difficult part about ghosthunting is you get rad sickness if they hit you, so you need to eat rad-q pills or bring along detox if you have decent medic.

I'm still working on getting craft and getting my corp's designated sciency person to actually do research. I have decent enough craft, but nothing to make with it, annoying. Then it's off to find the rock leeches.

[EuchreJack]

Would it be possible for someone to either link to a discussion of all the corps, or perhaps attempt to briefly describe each of them?

Is there some trackable statistics that can be gathered on the Corps, like size, experience, and wealth?

[beorn080]

If you need rfesearch done and you can get a siom, im your man

[head]

Im currently playing this name is ronkiv do contact me if you need another member in your corp im currently useing WHORE as a corp.

[piecewise]

so I didn't know you could throw someone in a furnace. But I found out that you can. Thanks for that Stabs. Who is that asshole anyway?

[MagmaDeath]

Hah, Stabs is awesome. Once you grow up and lose your N-tag, You'll see his better side. Also, you can ghostbust in luskentyne, but its mostly Great old ones. Piecewise, Its around a few weeks to midgame, Not sure about endgame.
EuchreJack, the corps
DSI: Yeah, just dont
WHORE: As above
GRU: Running out of steam, but still one of the top corps around, Wealthy.
TPC: Oldbies, Wealthy, dont piss them off.
TRANS: Iridiums's corp,
GOKU: BONGHITZ corp, Sucked in a ton of Newbies, Only  a few strong people
SEWERS: A new, non-human corp, will probably die out soon.
SOL: New corp, on the downturn.