Trina's blog: "Bounty Hunting 101"

Bounty Hunting 101

First thing to know is that winning the fights are not the name of the bounty hunting game. You PREFER to lose each fight! You don't have to do the MOST damage to win the bounty, you have to do the LAST damage. It is important to stay as low level as possible for as long as possible so you can fortify yourself for the next level. Each time you win a fight, that makes you 1 or 2 points closer to the next level. 

You will want to get your usable mobbies up to level and equip yourself with the best offensive equipment that you can buy. If you find that you are winning too often, you can either aim for only larger bounties or decrease your armor/vehicles (though this will make your attack a little bit weaker). 

There'€™s no good reason for a bounty hunter to spend money on defensive equipment. Winning when someone attacks you is doubly pointless—not only does it add to your experience and eventually make you level up, but there’s no way that you can collect a bounty when YOU are the one who was attacked. In short, a bounty hunter wants good offense and the worst possible defense stats.

Another difference between a traditional hunter and a bounty hunter is how you apply your skill points that you get each time you level and as loot with some mission completions.

For levels 10-20, you will put them to stamina and health. 

**Stamina allows you to continue to fight. There'€™s nothing like running out of stamina for stopping a hunter in their tracks and it usually happens when a big juicy bounty is up! So we want to make stamina high enough so we don't run out before we are done playing!!

**Health. This one is tricky. As a hunter you want yours high. The amount of damage you do is partly dependent on how high your health is. If your health is high and you see yourself doing a lot of damage, then the mobster you are attacking has high health as well. If you find that your are doing very little damage, this is because the mobster you are attacking has low health. The downside to high health is that you have to heal more often and it is more expensive to heal. The plus side is that you will do more damage and get more bounties so you can easily support this hospital cost.

An example of applying Skill Points:

1) Starting pt
2) 5 pts stam (stam 8)
3) 5 pts stam (stam 13)
4) 5 pts stam (stam 18)
5) 100 pts health (health 200, stam 18)
6) 100 pts health (health 300, stam 18)
7) 100 pts health (health 400, stam 18)
8) 100 pts health (health 500, stam 18)
9) 5 pts stam (health 500, stam 23)
10) 100 pts health (health 600, stam 23) (sometime before lvl 10 you will finish a diam msn or two and get additional pts, these can be put into health/stam/atk as you wish)
11) 5 pts stam (health 600, stam 28)
12) 100 pts health (health 700, stam 28)
13) 100 pts health (health 800, stam 28)
14) 100 pts health (health 900, stam 28)
15) 100 pts health (health 1000, stam 28)
16) 5 pts stam, (health 1000, stam 33) 
17) From here it depends on how you want to build, can keep pumping health/stam or can put pts into atk. 
18) Put pts where you feel you need them. (atk/stam/health)
19) Put pts where you feel you need them. (atk/stam/health)
20) Now you want to start pumping pts into energy to get your energy to 300 at least to do missions. Then go back to atk/stam/health


For levels 30-40 you want to concentrate your points between health and attack. 

Now that you are set up, how do you bounty hunt you ask?!

First you need a good rendered or refresh speed, to make sure you will see the bounties come up every bit as fast as every one else. If you go to the hitlist screen and scroll to the very very bottom, you will see something that looks like: home.php' rendered in 0.1601 seconds on machine '230'. The lower the rendered number, the faster the screen is refreshing. If you get a crappy render time, the way to change this is to click your Mafia home, then click hitlist again and check the speed. Continue to do this until you feel you have about as good as there is at the moment. If you find that you aren't seeing much or not getting many hits in, you might change again even if the rendered number is not lower than the one you were just on. Silent feels that the machines in the 180 range are pretty good. 

You want to be sure you have some money banked as you can only heal with "laundered" money. So if you see the message "you can't afford to heal", you need more money in your bank. You want to choose the hossie that is most appropriate for your health size. IE. if your health is 200, your choices are the 100 point hospital or the 25. You want the highest hossie you can use so that you can heal quickly and keep moving. If that hospital is closed, then you have to make a different choice. To see your choices, if you go to hospital and then click "change hospital" it shows you them all, which are open, which are password protected and which are closed. Sometimes you can get the password if you ask nicely and they know you aren'€™t riding the hitlist.

There are a couple of quick keys: Ctrl/shift/L takes you to the hitlist. Ctrl/shift/H heals you without having to leave the hitlist. Hold down Ctrl/Shift then HHH to get maximum quick health. (This works on computers, but on touch-screen tablets and smartphones, not so much.)

When looking at the hitlist, it will show who is listed, by whom, how long ago, and for how much. They start out with the button saying "wait". Bounties can show ready to attack right away or can take up to 5 minutes. So you watch the list. Sometimes it will turn yellow and say "chance". If you strike at that time, there is a "chance" that you will get first strike. Or there is a chance it will say you must wait and you have wasted a few valuable seconds where someone else might get hits in instead. Its up to you, as you work the list you will find what is comfortable for you. If it says fight, click it and look up top immediately, it will say you are fighting, someone else is fighting them or they are no longer on the list. If you get a hit in or someone else is fighting them, you just click that fight button like crazy fast because you want to be the next one to get a shot in. You can't win the bounty if you don't get shots in. So don't get frustrated if you don't get the bounty, getting shots in means you are doing it correctly. It is a very fast paced play portion of this game. When it says they are no longer on the list, check your health, and move on to the next target.

If you see that someone is on the list for more than five minutes and you have hit them a bunch of times but they are not dying, they most likely are doing that on purpose. They buy health to stay on the list, either to be annoying, to get their ‘win’ statistics up, or to get their bulletproof badge (when you manage to stay on the list and not die for 1 hour). So you might just determine that is what they are doing and move on to a more ready to die mobster. Once they are on over an hour, they usually drop, at 1 hours 10 minutes, they will no longer be able to buy health. 

If you get a bounty that is more than $1,000,000,000, copy it from the feed and put it in the bosses shoutbox (chat), we post those on our turf board and have a friendly contest every week and we can also tell you how much you have earned for the week!! It is about besting yourself, not necessarily other people. 

Some people like to have multiple windows open when they play. Some do one with the hitlist and one with the turf room so they can keep track of everything going on. Some like to have multiple hitlist screens open to see which ones are refreshing (targets show up) faster. That part is entirely up to you! You can even experiment with different browsers (like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.), you might find that one browser works better than another for the hitlist.

IMPORTANT:
The reason you are bounty hunting is for the money honey!! You need to invest in property in stacks (quantities) of 10. Each time you make a purchase you can buy 1-10 at a time. However many you buy, once the purchase is made, the price goes up!! Best to get the most you can at the sale price. So if you get a bodacious bounty, be sure to look and see what the best property you can buy in quantities of 10!! (See Spreadsheet/instructions for more investment help)