Crime City Quickie Questions

[Chica]

Have trouble building new buildings dunno about buying equipment I'll try in a second.

[Chica]

All seems fine.

[BigMoney]

How do you deal with a good rob target that you take from regularly, but has started to post on your wall (rather nicely) asking you to stop. Do you give in and lose a good rob target? Or do you talk smack to them? Do you just ignore them and continue pillaging?

How do you deal with the whiner that can't take the heat?

Depends on who they are. As much as I enjoy robbing huge amounts of cash from someone, I wouldn't constantly harass someone for no reason. That said, it's not my fault if they're consistently not collecting on their buildings on time or have a weak defense, and it's not like if I don't rob them, then no one else will. So I would probably avoid going overboard if someone's nice (perhaps just grabbing their biggest earners, NCs, LTBs, etc.), but robbing is part of the game.

However, if someone is a blatant time traveler, then I have no mercy for going to town on their buildings at any hour of the day, no matter how nice they are to me.

[BigMoney]

Is anyone having problem purchasing equipment on android crime city version 3.7. I never had a problem with pervious version i could replace consumable explosive in 2 minutes now it half an hour to replace them.

I'm having this issue too, like it takes 2-3 seconds to purchase one consumable. Basically I've coped by just tapping the buy button a hundred times while it's frozen, put the phone down, and returned to it in a few minutes when it catches up to itself.

[Bala82]

I'm having this issue too, like it takes 2-3 seconds to purchase one consumable. Basically I've coped by just tapping the buy button a hundred times while it's frozen, put the phone down, and returned to it in a few minutes when it catches up to itself.

i have tried that but when i try tap 100 times only 25 get purchased when

[Sideline Sal]

I have been playing CC for quite a while and I think I have been doing things wrong.

#1 question: What is camping? I have heard a lot of comments about it, even read a guide to camping that was uninformative, what is it?

#2 question: Can you create multiple profiles on the same device? ie iPhone

#3 question: Without spending a ton of real cash on gold, how do players get crazy stats at low levels? I understand about syndicate bonuses and I am active in the mini tourneys that give extra loot items...but it seems like some players have WAY inflated stats, how?

#4 question: I have a relatively low IPH for my level (lvl 199; IPH $169k), I am trying to constantly upgrade my loft and brownstones, any advise to get my IPH higher quicker?

#5 question: Is it true that your skill points for Attack and Defense max out at 100 for the modifier?

#6 question: Did I make a mistake by reaching level 199?

#7 question: Does having 499 mafia hurt or benefit me? I can always trim down the number of mafia, but I thought having as many weapons brought to a fight (5 x # of mafia) was best. I know that being over 500 mafia creates a target on your back because of the respect point bonuses for Thug Life.

I think that's all for now...just trying to get some help in becoming much stronger for my benefit and the benefit of my syndicate.

lvl: 199
Mafia: 499
Attack: 82495
Defense: 103166
IPH: $169231

[Cooler]

I see this symbol what is it meaning [/:\] is in peoples names?

[The Fonz]

How do you deal with a good rob target that you take from regularly, but has started to post on your wall (rather nicely) asking you to stop. Do you give in and lose a good rob target? Or do you talk smack to them? Do you just ignore them and continue pillaging?

How do you deal with the whiner that can't take the heat?

There is an unwritten 'code' among thieves that suggests what they should / shouldn't do, but there's no mention that one thief can not steal from another, or that one should relent if asked nicely.

I've never had anyone ask me to stop robbing them, but then again, I've jumped a few levels in the past few weeks, so chances are if they're camping, my visits would be temporary anyway, and I'll have to start scouting rivals again for LTBs.

[Bala82]

1 question: What is camping? I have heard a lot of comments about it, even read a guide to camping that was uninformative, what is it?

Camping is where player choose not to attack/rob or do anything that causes them to get experience. Most campers only rob laundromats to get boxes. The focus is on building their hood.

Can you create multiple profiles on the same device? ie iPhone

NO

Without spending a ton of real cash on gold, how do players get crazy stats at low levels? I understand about syndicate bonuses and I am active in the mini tourneys that give extra loot items...but it seems like some players have WAY inflated stats, how?

By playing the game slowly and building their stats usually 3-6 months this where camping help.

I have a relatively low IPH for my level (lvl 199; IPH $169k), I am trying to constantly upgrade my loft and brownstones, any advise to get my IPH higher quicker?

Get a nightclub but also join a syndicate like my camping synicate which 25% income boost. Upgrade all Type A buildings to 6-8 ( Loft ,movie theatre, chinese pagoda and nightclub).

Is it true that your skill points for Attack and Defense max out at 100 for the modifier?

No idea where you got that idea

Did I make a mistake by reaching level 199?

Hell yes you should level up slowly with your stats you should be between level 70-100

Does having 499 mafia hurt or benefit me? I can always trim down the number of mafia, but I thought having as many weapons brought to a fight (5 x # of mafia) was best. I know that being over 500 mafia creates a target on your back because of the respect point bonuses for Thug Life.

So your a rat but honestly it makes no difference you already in the shark tank

[Sideline Sal]

Camping is where player choose not to attack/rob or do anything that causes them to get experience. Most campers only rob laundromats to get boxes. The focus is on building their hood.

Okay, thanks for the explanation...but if I camp and collect a bunch of money and build my hood more, wouldn't I lose out on the LTQ events and so forth?



NO



By playing the game slowly and building their stats usually 3-6 months this where camping help.

But building stats from cash collected from buildings isn't really helpful because the items you can buy are so inferior to those that are won from LTQ events or from prize loot.

Get a nightclub but also join a syndicate like my camping synicate which 25% income boost. Upgrade all Type A buildings to 6-8 ( Loft ,movie theatre, chinese pagoda and nightclub).

My syndicate also has the 25% bonus, but if I camp and grow my hood and upgrade more...I feel that is selfish because I wouldn't donate to my syndicate.

No idea where you got that idea

I thought I read it in a guide to CC, when I first joined the forum

Hell yes you should level up slowly with your stats you should be between level 70-100

Yeah, thought so.

So your a rat but honestly it makes no difference you already in the shark tank

lol. Rat? Why is that? I thought I was just being smart.

[Sideline Sal]

lol. Rat? Why is that? I thought I was just being smart.

And obviously I am new to forums, as I did the quote/reply thing all wrong! Wooops

[BigMoney]

I have been playing CC for quite a while and I think I have been doing things wrong.

#1 question: What is camping? I have heard a lot of comments about it, even read a guide to camping that was uninformative, what is it?

#2 question: Can you create multiple profiles on the same device? ie iPhone

#3 question: Without spending a ton of real cash on gold, how do players get crazy stats at low levels? I understand about syndicate bonuses and I am active in the mini tourneys that give extra loot items...but it seems like some players have WAY inflated stats, how?

#4 question: I have a relatively low IPH for my level (lvl 199; IPH $169k), I am trying to constantly upgrade my loft and brownstones, any advise to get my IPH higher quicker?

#5 question: Is it true that your skill points for Attack and Defense max out at 100 for the modifier?

#6 question: Did I make a mistake by reaching level 199?

#7 question: Does having 499 mafia hurt or benefit me? I can always trim down the number of mafia, but I thought having as many weapons brought to a fight (5 x # of mafia) was best. I know that being over 500 mafia creates a target on your back because of the respect point bonuses for Thug Life.

I think that's all for now...just trying to get some help in becoming much stronger for my benefit and the benefit of my syndicate.

lvl: 199
Mafia: 499
Attack: 82495
Defense: 103166
IPH: $169231

1. "Camping" is the process whereby someone levels as slowly as possible in order to maximize the stats they gain relative to the amount of experience they must spend to do so. It's called camping because they spend so long on each level (sometimes not moving at all, just building up their IPH, etc) and only performing jobs/events that will give them nice stats for little XP (typically boss events and syndicate wars).

2. Not that I know of.

3. Camping. And syndicate wars-- you can't compete with someone in a top syndicate. That's a stat gaining snowball that's hard to catch up to without yourself also being in a top syndicate (e.g. if I'm in a top 10 and you're in a top 25, that means every syndicate war I'm getting an extra ~10k/10k item, and that's a stat difference that is hard to make up via the non-war events like LTQs, so I imagine the difference between Top 10/25 and Top 500 or whatever is probably absurd-- not to even mention how those modifiers like +5% gun attack etc accrue over time). Back in my day, huge stats at a low level typically meant either RP hacker or big gold spender. I don't have a low level account, but I'm guessing that there are a lot of high stat/low level players who got there via syndicates. Many top syndicates have low level players/campers that they just use as DL killers (2 power attacks). Ignoring the modifiers, which are the really valuable part, the Top 10 prizes of the upcoming syndicate war sum to a boost of 29,800 attack / 34,486 defense (not to even mention modifiers, syndicate bonuses, etc). And that's just one war. You can't compete with that as a free player, or even as a gold player completing all the other events (especially because a camper gains no XP, I believe, for losing power attacks to the DL, whereas you'd level a ton by doing the LTQs at a low level).

4. Yeah, quit upgrading the Brownstones, keep leveling the Lofts until you can save up enough for a level 2 Nightclub ($40mil + $66mil upgrade without modifiers-- or actually, save up $40mil to build an NC, but don't spend any money on anything else until you get the NC to level 2). Then build the NC, upgrade it to level 2, and save up enough to do that again (building a second one and upgrading that to level 2). Then you alternate upgrading NCs. The Nightclub is by far and away the best building and should be the center of your economy-- meaning you should always be saving to upgrade the NCs, and spending your money on smaller upgrades to kill time while you save (I never spend more on an upgrade during this period than what that building's upgrade time is times my IPH. This is just my rule of thumb, but basically if my IPH is $2mil/hr, and a building upgrade I'm considering takes 30 hours, I would spend no more than $60mil on such an upgrade. If it costs more than $60mil, I need to dip into my bank i.e. "Nightclub upgrade fund" to do so, and that's never worth it. Among these qualifying upgrades, I upgrade the one that will boost my IPH the most. Typically there's a hierarchy of buildings I have to upgrade, which is something like NCs > Pagodas > Lofts > Gentlemen's Clubs > Rock Cafes > Upscale Clubs / etc. Typically the Type A buildings (NCs, Pagodas, Lofts, Movie Theaters, etc) are the ones that boost your IPH the most, and the relative worth of upgrading those Type B buildings depends on their level. I haven't even upgraded a non-NC/Pagoda building since the start of the LTBs, though, and I probably won't for as long as LTBs are going on, because it's better to save for future LTB upgrades then spend them on a Type B building upgrade that provides only a tiny IPH bump for a relatively large cost. I don't even know where my LTB upgrades fit on my hierarchy, because currently all of my LTBs cost more than my NCs to upgrade.

5. What modifier? Don't waste your skill points on atk/def anyway. Energy and stamina only. Energy is becoming more valuable with these LTQs, but I also like having 50+ stamina.

6. No idea. Do you not enjoy playing the game any more because you're not strong for your level?

7. I don't know anything about having 499 mafia, but I always visit someone's hood with 499 mafia at least once because I take it as a sign they're afraid / worried about their stats, and so I always look to rob these people who are trying to avoid the attention. Though with your IPH, I wouldn't bother. No offense.

[BigMoney]

I see this symbol what is it meaning [/:\] is in peoples names?

This took me a while to notice since I'm usually scrolling through the Rival List quickly while looking for someone, but my best guess is it is some sort of weird syndicate tag.

[Sideline Sal]

1. "Camping" is the process whereby someone levels as slowly as possible in order to maximize the stats they gain relative to the amount of experience they must spend to do so. It's called camping because they spend so long on each level (sometimes not moving at all, just building up their IPH, etc) and only performing jobs/events that will give them nice stats for little XP (typically boss events and syndicate wars).

2. Not that I know of.

3. Camping. And syndicate wars-- you can't compete with someone in a top syndicate. That's a stat gaining snowball that's hard to catch up to without yourself also being in a top syndicate (e.g. if I'm in a top 10 and you're in a top 25, that means every syndicate war I'm getting an extra ~10k/10k item, and that's a stat difference that is hard to make up via the non-war events like LTQs, so I imagine the difference between Top 10/25 and Top 500 or whatever is probably absurd-- not to even mention how those modifiers like +5% gun attack etc accrue over time). Back in my day, huge stats at a low level typically meant either RP hacker or big gold spender. I don't have a low level account, but I'm guessing that there are a lot of high stat/low level players who got there via syndicates. Many top syndicates have low level players/campers that they just use as DL killers (2 power attacks). Ignoring the modifiers, which are the really valuable part, the Top 10 prizes of the upcoming syndicate war sum to a boost of 29,800 attack / 34,486 defense (not to even mention modifiers, syndicate bonuses, etc). And that's just one war. You can't compete with that as a free player, or even as a gold player completing all the other events (especially because a camper gains no XP, I believe, for losing power attacks to the DL, whereas you'd level a ton by doing the LTQs at a low level).

4. Yeah, quit upgrading the Brownstones, keep leveling the Lofts until you can save up enough for a level 2 Nightclub ($40mil + $66mil upgrade without modifiers-- or actually, save up $40mil to build an NC, but don't spend any money on anything else until you get the NC to level 2). Then build the NC, upgrade it to level 2, and save up enough to do that again (building a second one and upgrading that to level 2). Then you alternate upgrading NCs. The Nightclub is by far and away the best building and should be the center of your economy-- meaning you should always be saving to upgrade the NCs, and spending your money on smaller upgrades to kill time while you save (I never spend more on an upgrade during this period than what that building's upgrade time is times my IPH. This is just my rule of thumb, but basically if my IPH is $2mil/hr, and a building upgrade I'm considering takes 30 hours, I would spend no more than $60mil on such an upgrade. If it costs more than $60mil, I need to dip into my bank i.e. "Nightclub upgrade fund" to do so, and that's never worth it. Among these qualifying upgrades, I upgrade the one that will boost my IPH the most. Typically there's a hierarchy of buildings I have to upgrade, which is something like NCs > Pagodas > Lofts > Gentlemen's Clubs > Rock Cafes > Upscale Clubs / etc. Typically the Type A buildings (NCs, Pagodas, Lofts, Movie Theaters, etc) are the ones that boost your IPH the most, and the relative worth of upgrading those Type B buildings depends on their level. I haven't even upgraded a non-NC/Pagoda building since the start of the LTBs, though, and I probably won't for as long as LTBs are going on, because it's better to save for future LTB upgrades then spend them on a Type B building upgrade that provides only a tiny IPH bump for a relatively large cost. I don't even know where my LTB upgrades fit on my hierarchy, because currently all of my LTBs cost more than my NCs to upgrade.

5. What modifier? Don't waste your skill points on atk/def anyway. Energy and stamina only. Energy is becoming more valuable with these LTQs, but I also like having 50+ stamina.

6. No idea. Do you not enjoy playing the game any more because you're not strong for your level?

7. I don't know anything about having 499 mafia, but I always visit someone's hood with 499 mafia at least once because I take it as a sign they're afraid / worried about their stats, and so I always look to rob these people who are trying to avoid the attention. Though with your IPH, I wouldn't bother. No offense.

Thanks BigMoney...The advise about upgrading buildings is very helpful.

What is your rule of upgrading versus donating to your syndicate?

[Bala82]

lol. Rat? Why is that? I thought I was just being smart.

don't worry about it it's old term that people don't use much any more but when i was a newbie last year it refer to someone who purposely stay at 499 to prevent other players from complete the hitman rounds.