When you register you will start off with the basic stats, little money and no dimes. Therefore it may be a challenge to get started, so to avoid this, we have added a few simple system to help you get started.

Firstly, you should consider robbery. The robbery option can be found underneath the "Streetz" tab. When you start off, the options that you can complete successfully will be highlighted green. So do some robberies until your energy is all gone.

Now, to get energy, you go into "Citylife", that can be found underneath the "Streetz" tab. Firstly, you need to enter an area on the Citylife page. So at the bottom of the page is a list of areas available, you need to make note of area crime and area costs. You need to find a place that is perfect for you, so when starting off, its advised you go into "Artic Circle" that has the best options for you at the moment.

Then on the "Artic Circle" page, select a cclub that you want to enter (They are at the bottom of the new page). Then when you are in the club buy your drugs. Use the "Drug table" to work out how much quantity of the drug you need to buy. Then when your happy with your new energy or you have no more money, go back to robbery.

Complete this process until you have a sufficient amount of money and you then can start scams.

Also, we advise that you go to the "Gym" and "Library" frequently, for the services here enable you to get stats for cheap and little energy required, so you should visit these frequently.

When you get more money, you can create a gang, complete gang robberies at a much higher level, do gang scams (more payouts!!), buy clubs, buy businesses, mug people, and much more!!

Well a new feature is weapons. Weapons are a new system that are in place to boost your power up. Weapons cost are relevant to what they output. However, we have added a system so that you can not do this..

Stats: 150 (average)
Weapon: 15000

If you purchase a weapon that is too strong for you, your accuracy will massively decrease and the damage inflicted will not increase (maybe only by 1 each time). So to get the best outcome, you have to keep scaling the weapons to your power

Stats: 150 (average)
Weapon: Samurai, WoodenX

Probably using something that has your average stat score as the lowest value is best, that way you will get a good accuracy and average damage outcome much higher than that of a higher weapon that you can't use.

Weapons boost both your gang power, single power, attacking power. So having one truly helps ;)

Dimes can be bought in exchange for money. Within the game dimes can be used to get you access to secret areas, offer you protection in clubs (so you won't get busted), give you robbery assistance, so you see what you can rob and much more!!

There is a large variety of options for you to use your dimes on, you can purchase dimes in game by following the header navigation link and then complete the form using paypal

If you have any problems concerning purchasing dimes, please email me and tell me a system that you would like to see in place.

Future Systems
SurfPin
Google Checkout
Moneybookers

Local places are a perfect place for you to tone yourself up, meet new people or just get to do other activities whilst living your double-mafia associated criminal life.

Local Park
The park is home to random events that take place on random days and can have again random effects on you. The park is also a place for you to communicate with other people by just leaving your comment "talking" to people and seeing if you get a response

Local Gym
The local gym is an easy way to tone yourself up, with the variety of different machines to use, the gym enables you to undertake a 15 minute workout of which you pay a supplementary fee to use the machine and once you have completed the 15 minute cycle you will receive a message notifying you of how much the workout effected you and increased your stats

Hospital
The hospital is either a place where you will come once you have overdosed or been badly assaulted or a place where you can visit to get prescription drugs (increase stats) or to detox. In order to detox, your addiction has to be greater than 10% and the detox cost will scale according to your skill level and your addiction level. This is an expensive procedure, so things may not always be cheap

Prison
The prison is again another place where you will come if you have been busted by the police. You will stay in a jail cell for a length ranging between 6 hours to 24 hours. Your addiction levels will decrease whilst you are in the prison, but also your leadership will decrease. However, you can pay money to cover the lawsuits and get yourself out of prison or you can get yourself out in exchange for dimes

Library
The library is a strange place for you to be. It is a wilderness of strange things, books.. Yes books, these things can increase your knowledge and boost your ability to control a gang and manage harder situations. You can read a book once every 10 minutes. All books are free to read and once you have read the book your stats will increase (charisma and knowledge)

When you first join Streetzone Mafia, you will be given 15 assisted robberies to aid you. Basically, the select list will be green if you can rob it and not get jailed or red if you will get busted because you are too weak. So only rob the ones that are green when you start off!!

Afterwards, the select list will turn white and you will have no help. After 15 turns, you will roughly see how much your stats have an impact on the power that you can apply and roughly what you can rob

However, I will give a little section of the source code, but this is not taking into account 4 random sections that I have defined that only I (Lewtheo) know. So there is some area for mistakes, but a rough code is:

Stats: ((3 * leadership) + (2 * knowledge) + fitness + (charisma / 8) + (2 * strength))/8

Robbery: Stats * random;

Power: (Robbery * 1.5 + (Stats / leadership)) / random;

When you are robbing, it is the power section that is used. The four random parts scale in correlation to other factors on your account and work in correlation with other things that scale to it.. So they are not completely random - but I just don't want to make the game boring with no secret challenges now do I

Gangs
You can start your own gang, of which you can do gang robberies and plan co-operative scams. Also you can use the gang to boost your overall skill level and the better the gang, the more known you will be

Friends
Relationships can be used to communicate with one another. You can get random relationships off people when you see them in clubs that are also in, also you can get friends via a gang and you can add them using the request tool

Overall they are not that important, but to get far, you need to have homies there to assist you when you need it.. If you have a new relationship it will appear as a little icon on your main header area, of which you can simply click the image to be taken to either accept/decline the user

Planning a scam is the perfect way to make money, it mainly requires time. That is right, the big factor that changes your success rate is time, you must plan it for at least the recommended length, and of course you can spend dimes in exchange for a help service that will tell you when you can pull the scam off..

Scams change with length depending on there skill and demand. The skill is worked out using a rough formula that scales your stats in the following ratio:

Stats: (charisma * 2) + (leadership * 4) + (random * fitness) / (scale of random into stat)

Scams will increase over time, and random events can change the scale factor that works out your power, but remember time is the vital factor!

The citylife is a perfect section for you to restore yourself and get back your lost energy. The citylife is divided into sections:

Citylife
-- Areas
---- Clubs

Areas can have different crime rates and different costs, primarily the cost is equvilent to the crime rate, so you need to be careful which areas you go in, because if there is high crime you may get busted. However, protection is available in exchange for dimes, whereby you will not get busted in any areas that you visit (last for 5 days)

In any selected area, there are different clubs. When you are in an area, scroll down to the bottom of the page for a list of clubs, enter a club, pay the entrance fee (if it has one) and then buy the drugs. Use the drug effects table (on a previous post) to work out how much X amounts of X drugs will increase your energy buy

Also in areas, there is a "buy club" button, only press this if you actually want to create your own club. This will give you the option to setup your own club, whereby you can add your own drugs into it and make money of users that want your drugs for cheap.. Your clubs can be managed by going into the Users tab -> Businesses

You have a dealer that changes each time, dealers bring with them different costs + different volumes in stock. You can't choose what dealer you have, but if you do good business with your dealer, you will receive bonus drugs, because dealers likes friendly people

Buying drugs from the dealer can be used in a club (if you purchase one) and can be sold to other users for higher prices (in the park).. But you can't take them yourself, you must use the clubs in citylife to do this..

The dealer will have a great selection of drugs, you have just got to purchase them, build them up and then sell them when an event occurs that may alter prices of drugs etc

Well when you buy drugs (from citylife) they have different effects on your energy depending on the drug that you buy. Different drugs will add different volumes of energy to your energy bar in relation to how strong the drug is.. The list of the effect they have is beneath:

Drug effects table
Crack	Heroin	Cocaine	Speed
15	13	12	11
Crystal	Fantasia	Special K	Amphetamine
10	10	9	9
GHB	LSD	Ecstacy	Steroids
8	10	7	20
Ketamine	Opium	Methadone	Morphine
6	5	4	4
Magic Mushrooms	Skunk	Ritolin	Poppers
3	1	5	1
Alcohol		Solvents
2		1

The table is drug name and then the energy factor beneath

Examples

5 x Ritolin = 25%
5 x Steroids = 100%

Other Factors
Your addiction affects how much the drug energy factor actually works on your. So higher addiction less effect it is. To detox go to the hospital and select the detox link where you will be prompted with a further screen to confirm paying that much money

You increase your addiction by purchasing drugs from Citylife clubs. With a higher addiction level, the amount of drugs you need to fill up your energy will increase because you are more addicted and therefore need to take more drugs.

You can replenish your addiction by "Detoxifying" in the hospital but you can only do this with an addiction above 15%. Addiction level should not rise past 50% and above 75% you will end yourself into hospital.

A higher addiction level also decreases your overall robbery/attacking power. Because you are addicted, your actions become more sloppy as you are more focused on the drugs, and therefore your robbery level will decrease.

Character types are used in-game to separate your stats. Depending on your character, your stats will be proportional to your characters advantage and dis-advantages.

Assassin
The Assassin is a natural born killer striving with the advantage in his Strength, Fitness and Leadership

Consigliere
The Consigliere, a powerful, sharp and appointing character with advantages in his Leadership and Knowledge that give him a lead in marketing and business

Mafioso
The Mafioso is not an outstanding character but has the advantage of Charisma, Knowledge and Leadership giving him the increase succession on robberies and scams

Dictator
The Dictator is a true leader that shares no specific advantage whilst maintaing a controlled pattern of power, strength and charisma. The character has equally divided stats

Your character can be changed once you have selected your character; but it will take you a day to learn the new skills and you can pay using money/dimes

The Referrer service is a perfect way to earn yourself dimes and get your account some money!

When a user registers using your unique URL your account will be topped with dimes (1-5) and money (10-50.000); and for every user that they get to register, you will receive an extra dime.

Your referrer URL can be found beneath the navigation tree on the left-hand table.

The bank is a perfect place to store your money that you would prefer not to spend. Money in your bank will also gain 5% interest (for that not above

Buildings can be used to generate drugs. Buildings will produce there drug units for you once every day. To run a building you will be charged

The Casino is a perfect place to earn yourself some money. You can play RPS (rock, paper & scissors) or you can play Blackjack. Maximum bet on each game varies.

More games and a lottery service will be added in the near future

What is it?
The grange is a place where local businesses will visit. They will come on random days and with there visit brings increase in the market drug price of a specific drug. If you have that specific drug you can sell it to the company for 100% and make a good profit

When do businesses come?
It is as random as random, admins have no say over what day things come, its all down to a random system that we use (dates are pre-decided). However, you can find out when the next businesses come by using the Rouge Trader

What is the Rouge Trader?
The Rouge Trader is a very old man that is in control of the Grange. He will be available at the Grange whenever you chose to visit. He is the only person that is able to tell you when the next business will arrive, what day and what drug they will be collecting. However, to get this service you will have to pay the Rouge Trader 10 dimes

Why bother?
Well this is an easy answer. If you find out before the business arrives what drug is coming, you purchase the drug at a cheaper value. Then when the business arrives, you can sell the drug for a higher price (unlike at the dealer where you will be commissioned to sell your drugs). This means that you will increase your money by however much % the drug price increases by - making easy money if you plan it right!

You may use BBCodes within your texts to jazz them up, some available BBCodes are:
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Smileys can be used in the park, gangchat, profiles and guestbook..

The following smileys are available:

[noSmiley]:p
:d
:)
:D
:cry:
:o
:@
:u[/noSmiley]

You can disable parsing smileys in a message by using [ noSmiley ]{content}[ /noSmiley ] without the space either side of the brackets

Your guestbook is a place where any user can leave a message. This could be to inform you of something, ask you for a gang, ask you for a 1vs1 attack or just for a general chat. All BBCode works in the guestbook

Users can delete any comments left in there guestbook and/or report them to the crew if they violate the game rules

Your profile is a place whereby you can leave notes, write robbery successes, write attack messages. You can use BBCode here.

Any content is allowed as long as it isn't breaching the rules. Users can report a profile if they feel it is breaking the rules.