Help Guide for daHUSTLER
This guide will help you get started playing daHustler. As with everything, actual experience will help you much more! If you have questions, please ask one of our HELP players, their names are colored green. They will be happy to help you out.
The object of the game is to climb to the top of the ranks. You can do this in various way, such as extortion on the grids, and bringing the net worth of other pimps down lower than you by hitting them.
When you start the game, you automatically are alloted a number of turns to play with and an assortment of items (drugs, weapons, etc) / units (thugs, whores, etc) which can be seen in the table always visible on the right side of your screen The entire game is controlled using the buttons to the left of the screen, some often-used links are also located in a bar toward the top of your screen.
Turns and Net Worth:
The amount of turns you have, your net worth information, and message control center are located in the upper part of the right hand table.
Turns are required to perform actions such as scouting, making and pushing drugs, travelling to another continent, attacking another pimp and many other things within the game. Make sure to have some turns stored to do things like retaliating against someone that just attacked you.
Currently a free player gets 15 turns every 10 minutes. If you really want to expand your pimping operations, buy turns or a subscription. A subscription also gets you special TURBO TURNS, that can double what you earn when extorting money or scouting for units. A junior subscription will get you 30 regular turns + 15 Turbo Turns every 10 minutes, a senior subscription gives you 40 turns and 20 Turbo Turns.
Networth is what your rankings are based on. Your net goes up every time you increase the number of units, drugs, autos and cash in your operations. Beer, guns and Kevlar do not increase your net worth.
A pimp’s net worth is important as it can give you a good picture of how much drugs and money a person may have on hand but it also determines who is in range to attack or who could attack you. More on different ways to attack and how to steal other pimps’ drugs, cars or cash later in this guide.
Units:
Pros will earn you cash turning tricks for johns.
Thugs are the protectors of your operations. You need these guys to protect your dealers and prostitutes. They will keep everyone in check, and help defend you if some other thug wants to beat you down. You need these guys to attack another pimp and whack them or to steal all their assets and get rich, whatever it is you’re after.
Dealers are the guys that bring in the $$$ selling dope. The more dealers you have the more drug money you will make for every turn. Make sure to have at least 2 thugs per dealer though or you'll find that your dealers unhappy ( more scared than anything else ) and will start to leave you.
Infos Any decent pimp has to have informants, even if it only makes him look good with the other pimps on the block. Informants can be trained to become thugs though, so they do have their use.
Items:
Condoms are to be used for your whores. They offer them protection when they are on the job…if your pros don’t have condoms while working, they’ll run from you faster then you can say VD.
Crack is also used by your prostitutes. Keep crack rocks in stock and your girls will be happy…if you don’t have the necessary dope on hand, they just won’t do their job and you could go bankrupt in a blink.
Smack is another drug you deal... but make sure to have some in store to keep your dealers happy so they don’t run off never to be found again.
Beer will quench your thugs' thirst...always make sure you have lots of beer!
Hondas, Fords, Volvos, and Mercedes allow your thugs to get around and attack the next pimp in a drive by shooting…get the most expensive and your thugs will kill more when it comes to a fight…mainly because they have to drive around in cool cars or they won’t show their faces around the block.
Heaters, Shotguns, Tommyguns, and M16’s. The more expensive, the better! Load up on M16’s and your thugs will enjoy killing masses for you. You need at least one weapon for every thug you have or they’ll start to leave.
It’s important to keep an eye on the happiness levels of your units, shown at the bottom of the screen, make sure to keep enough supplies of what they need or you’ll see their happiness levels fall fast, and your units will eventually start leaving you!
Cash:
Every turn you use while playing, your prostitutes earn you money turning tricks, but, again, bear in mind to keep them happy or they will start to leave you.
Using the payouts button (under ACTIONS), you can determine how much of this money goes back to your units every turn.
Make it to the top:
All new pimps want to know how to make it to the top. You might want to become the richest pimp in town, be the most feared of all or just steal as many cars you can lay your hands on….it all depends on you. The entire game is controlled using the buttons to the left of the screen.
CREW One of the most fun parts in this game is to team up with other players, form a cartel and expand your network. The more members you have the stronger you are against your enemies ( or at least you may think so ). Cartels can set a cartel cut rate, which automatically takes a percentage of your operations’ earnings. Be sure to join a cartel that has a reasonable rate, some cartels can have rates that soar up to 100 %...so watch out. Make sure to join the right cartel as well, if you join a naughty one that pisses people off, they may come after you for revenge! Cartels can store a load of drugs, cash and weapons. Cartels can also purchase thugs to help protect their members if (when) a fight arises. More on that later on, when we get to attacking. Cartels can donate things to you but these donations are limited to 5 a day so having too many members may not really benefit you.
SCOUTING is a great way to recruit new units into your operations, but beware…sometimes you come back with tons of new units, sometimes you come back with almost none! Keep trying and scout different places, different places offer more of one unit than the other.
CONVERT Not enough thugs? Convert your pros, dealers and informants to thugs!
STORE is the place to check out if you want to buy and sell items for cash.
PUSH DOPE (under ACTIONS) is for those that really want to earn cash with dope! But you need dealers for this. Make sure to have enough dealers to run your drug operations and make sure that they are happy. You will make random amounts of each type of drug available. The more dealers you have, the more drugs you make for every turn. Once you’ve made the stuff, your dealers can push it, distributing all over your continent.
GRIDS Easily the most effective but also the most dangerous way to make fast money is to extort the businesses in a certain part of the continent you are in, also known as a “grid”. To do this, you will first have to gain control over a grid by challenging whoever owns that part of town, keeping in mind you can only gain control of a grid if you have more thugs then there are controlling it. Once you have successfully gained control, you will need to update to at least 1 thug to pay off the local businesses enough, unless you want these people to call the cops on you as soon as they see your thugs coming for their hard-earned cash! The next step is to update to the amount of thugs you want to send out and extort with. The more thugs you use, the more cash they will bring back for you. Once you’ve done all this, all you need to do is enter the number of turns you want to extort and hit the extort button. Be careful though, while you have your thugs on a grid ready to extort, another pimp might decide he likes the scenery and try to take over your part of town. If this person has enough thugs, they can kill yours in the blink of an eye, especially If you didn’t give them the necessary guns to defend themselves while extorting. This is known as “gridding”. Bear in mind that while extorting your thugs have no cartel protection, so be fast.
ATTACK Currently there are five ways to attack other pimps, the amount of turns it takes for each of these is marked between ( ) :
--drive by shooting : you will need cars for this, 1 car will fit 4 thugs…buy your thugs better wheels and they’ll kill more bad guys…
--break and enter : mainly used to piss someone off, because if you manage to win the battle you take their money as well…all your thugs will fight for you, so make sure to arm them with the best guns your money can buy…
--grand theft auto : allows you to steal another pimp’s rides, but make sure they have no thugs watching them or your guys might come back empty handed…
--sabotage drug operations : basically the same type of attack as breaking and entering another pimp’s home, but instead of taking their money, you swipe their drugs…
--snatch some snatch : need some more pros…pay your rival’s prostitutes a visit…they might be happier with you…
An important thing to remember when attacking someone is you can only attack pimps that are “in your range”, ie that have a net worth of up to 6 times your own or as low as 4 times that amount.
It’s also a good thing to join up with other players and form a cartel…a cartel has it’s own offshore bankaccount it can use to set up it’s own army of thugs that help cartel members when attacking or under attack. When attacking, the same amount of cartel thugs as your own will come and help you out, when you are being attacked, double that amount come and help defend you.
Hitmen for hire. Are you being hit by pimps you can't even dream of hurting ? If so, this is the place to hire someone else to do your dirty work and kill them for you. Post a hit you want done and see if anyone will do it. Make sure to set the rates to whatever you think will attract hitmen to take on the job. Keep in mind they will lose thugs attacking your rival and use turns doing so, so make sure it’s an attractive offer or your money is out the window. Of course, you might also want to check the hitlist and decide to take on a job to earn some extra money as a hitman yourself. Here’s a good tip : check how many contracts are out on a pimp, because the more contracts, the more cash you will make whacking them!
HOSPITAL is where your injured thugs go! Been battling your way into the killer ranks or defending your hard earned bucks from other pimps ? Every time you end up in a fight, attacking or defending your ops, a certain amount of your thugs will live to see another day, but they’ll need some TLC in a hospital first. Of course, this costs money, so make sure you have enough cash on hand to pay the doctors’ bills when you go check your thugs out. Every continent has it’s own hospital, so while pimping the world over, you may need to travel back and forth to pick them up.
AIRPORT the world and see what each continent has to offer. Once you decide who's going with you and where to go, click the calculation button and you will be given the option to fly. Once you’ve decided how many thugs and prostitutes come with you, all you need to do is hit the travel button. When thinking of moving to another place, make sure to sell your cars first though, because you can’t take them with you.
BANK The truly professional pimp can’t live without his bankmanager keeping a watchfull eye on the cash you earn. The only place to keep your money safe from other pimps robbing you is the bank, where free pimps can deposit up to 20 % of the total amount you have on hand. Supporters may deposit up to 40%.
Make sure to watch your turns though, each deposit requires 25 turns.
Protection
Every player has a counter called protection, which can be viewed when you click on your PROFILE.
The higher the protection level, the better! If your protection is at 10% it means that when you get attacked you lose 10% less thugs and the person who attacked you will loose 1% more thugs.
If, for example, your protection is 90% then you will loose 90% less thugs - only 10% are killed. The attacker will lose 9% more than normal.
How can I get protection?
Protection is added for new players. All new accounts receive 90% protection.
Other players will get 5% protection for every 50 incoming attacks. This protection is limited to 15%.
When does the protection go away?
Everyday you will lose 5% protection.
When a new player buys turns or a subscription his protection will be reduced to 15%
Please keep in mind the protection is not available on grids.
Tips
Here is a way to start out:
- Sell car, take a grid, pay it off, and extort
- Pay off grid
- Buy Crack and Beer
- Scout 10 turns
- Extort, pay off
- Buy heaters, more beer and crack
- Scout 100 turns
- Extort, pay off
- Buy heaters, beer and crack
- Scout 1000 turns
- Extort, pay off
- Buy m16's and beer... and so on. Keep your eyes peeled!