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Fangs McWolf
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Note: Due to a post size limit, I remade this thread and broke it into smaller parts.
Anyone may use this guide, so don't feel excluded if you aren't making a McWolf. The basic intent of this is to make sure that little known secrets, ideas or ways of doing things are put out in the open, even if they seem so simple or common that you'd think everyone knows it. Also want to provide little tidbits of information that might help new players remember things by association. I do welcome helpful information that can be put in here, but no detailed instructions such as gag training, step by steps for individual tasks, etc. If a post is made elsewhere on here with that information, I will gladly link to it from here.
Table of Contents
GENERAL TIPS
Tasks and Task shopping
Gags and Gag choices
Fishing
"Help a new toon" tasks
Miscellaneous Tidbits
(see next post for the different playgrounds)
EDIT LOG
2008-10-25@03:42 Gag tips
Anyone may use this guide, so don't feel excluded if you aren't making a McWolf. The basic intent of this is to make sure that little known secrets, ideas or ways of doing things are put out in the open, even if they seem so simple or common that you'd think everyone knows it. Also want to provide little tidbits of information that might help new players remember things by association. I do welcome helpful information that can be put in here, but no detailed instructions such as gag training, step by steps for individual tasks, etc. If a post is made elsewhere on here with that information, I will gladly link to it from here.
Table of Contents
- GENERAL TIPS
- Tasks and Task shopping
- Gags and Gag choices
- Fishing
- "Help a new toon" tasks
- Miscellaneous Tidbits
- [post=930041]TOON PLAYGROUNDS[/post]
- TTC - ToonTown Central
- DD - Donald's Dock
- DG - Daisy Gardens
- MM - Minnie's Melodyland
- TB - The Brrrrgh
- DL - Donald's Dreamland
- [post=930045]COG HQ, COG SUITS AND ESTATES[/post]
- Sellbot HQ
- Cashbot HQ
- Lawbot HQ
- Bossbot HQ
- Cog Suits
- Estates
GENERAL TIPS
Tasks and Task shopping
- You do NOT have to get your tasks from a Toon HQ. You can get them from just about any shop except for gag shops, clothing shops and pet shops. There are some other exceptions but the main thing to remember is that if a Toon HQ doesn't offer you something good, go into a shop. Often times you can find tasks that are much easier when you go to shops.
As a personal note, when I was working Fangs, I was able to do many tasks to get frames for a gag track for just defeating cogs instead of tasks to visit shops where they have you running around for the same reward. - Task Shopping - Learn to TASK SHOP! There are some tasks that are tedious and are thought to be required but really if you shop you can avoid them. The best tasks to get are ones that give you something you need in return for killing a certain number of any-type cogs.
- Examples of good tasks: Defeat 10 cogs anywhere. Defeat 6 Level 2+ Cogs Anywhere.
- Examples of tasks to avoid if at all possible: Defeat 10 Two+ Story buildings. Defeat 20 Micromanagers. Defeat 50 Level 5+ BossBots in ToonTown Central. (The last one is not a real task, but if it were, you'd be stuck with that one for awhile unless you are around during good invasions).
- I promise you, if you learn to do competitive task shopping, you'll save yourself a LOT of headaches.
- Do smart task matching. When you can carry more than one task at a time, you will do good to find tasks that match up. Having 2 tasks that you can't work at the same time will only slow you down. Example, if you have to defeat some Minglers and Bossbots. When you get a task that requires you to visit a shop owner, then DO THAT TASK FIRST. Work that task until you are required to kill some cogs. THEN look for another task to work with it. If you're required to kill some cashbots in a certain playground area, then find another task that requires you to kill cogs or cashbots or a cashbot building.
Gags and Gag choices
- When fighting multiple cogs, remember that the strongest cog in the battle is the strongest gag you can use and still get gag points for using it, even if you use it on a weaker cog. Example, if you are in a battle with a level 3 and a level 1, then you can use level 3 gags on the level 1 cog and get credit for it. For that reason, kill the level 1 cog first and then work on killing the level 3. This is a good strategy to use to build up gag points quickly. Main thing you want to keep in mind is to kill off cogs that are stronger than your highest gag level because they can do more damage, and then use your strong gags to kill off the weak cogs before killing off the rest. It's hard to explain but once you understand the concept, it's rather easy to follow.
- Quick tips about gags in general (useful knowledge when you need gag points)
- All gags: When you are choosing a gag to use, look at the color behind the gag. If it's blue, you will get credit for that gag (if it works). If it's green, then you won't get any credit for it. Another way to tell is to look on the right when you have the mouse over the gag you want to use. You will see "Skill credit". It tells you how many gag points you will get if your gag works.
- ToonUp: So long as your toonup gag does at least 1 point of healing AND the toons laughter is not all lower case (is either HA HA or Hee Hee but NOT ha ha or hee hee), then you will get credit for it. So multiple people can use toon up gags and everyone can get credit for their gags.
- Trap: Is the only gag track where only 1 gag (from that track) can be used on a cog at a time. If 2 or more people trap the same cog during the same round, the trap gags will poof away.
- Lure: You only get credit for lure if (a) it works and (b) at least one of the lured cogs gets hit for damage before it wakes up from that lure.
- Sound: Only gag that doesn't get knock back bonus when used on lured cogs. Sound per person is weak, but when used by a group, is very powerful. It's the only gag where 4 non-level 7 gags can take out a group of 12's in 1 round.
- Throw: You will need to get to at least a whole cream pie in order to proceed past MM tasks. Is one of the more powerful gag tracks that everyone has.
- Squirt: Not as strong as throw but is usually more accurate. Is also the recommended stunning gag to use when someone is going to use drop.
- Drop: Is the only gag that won't work on lured cogs.
- Gag choices - It's important to learn which gags to use during a battle and how to make good gag choices based on what others are doing. I won't go into much detail but I will touch on a couple of important facts. There are some gag combinations that work well together and some that are absolutely horrible. Learn them and worship them.
- Good combinations: Trap/Lure, Squirt/Drop (squirt is the recommended stunner for drop gags)
- HORRIBLE combinations: More than one person trapping the same cog at the same time.
- Other combinations: Sometimes, it's a horrible idea to use sound gags on lured cogs. Other times, it's a great idea. If the only sound you have is a bike horn, you've got only like 65 laff points, the only other player is luring and you've got 4 level 12's in front of you, it's a safe bet that you'd be an idiot to use your bike horn at that time. HOWEVER, if you're in a boss battle with a row of 9's in front of you, one player is fogging and 2 are using elephant, then it'd be a wonderful idea to try to use lure. If lure works, then it's almost a guarantee that sound will work, but even if sound misses, the cogs are lured and won't attack.
- Gags - with the exception of organic gags and level 6/7 gags, the cupcake is the only gag that can kill a cog of the same level (level 1) by itself when it's maxed. (Starts out doing 4 points damage, when maxed does 6 points damage and a level 1 cog has 6 life points.) This can come in handy when you're still a new toon.
Fishing
- When possible, fish on a pier that is aimed right at the fisherman. That way when you hop off to sell your fish, you just run straight, sell, turn around, run back to the pier and poof, you'll be automatically turned around to face the right way again.
- When Bingo Fishing is on, fish at your estate (or at a friends estate). When your bucket is full, just cast another line and you'll be given the option to sell your bucket. Then you can continue to fish, without ever leaving your pier. This is the best time to fish at an estate and you might get one of the rare fish in the meantime.
"Help a new toon" tasks
- First, if you have a choice between buildings and cogs, pick cogs if the number of cogs is like 20 or less. Otherwise, pick a building if it's for only 5 or less buildings. But if you pick to do buildings, make sure you have friends who will follow you to other playgrounds to fight buildings. There are pros and cons to both tasks.
- If you help 2 or 3 toons at the same time then you get credit not only for each toon, but for each cog (or building). Example, if you are in a battle with 3 new toons and the 4 of you fight 3 cogs, then you will get credit for 9 cogs. If the task is to help a new toon defeat like 3 buildings, then take 3 new toons with you into the building and your task will be complete.
- Wait it gets even better. If you have 4 of that same task, you get credit on all of them. Simply put, its one of the easiest tasks there is when you know you can work it quickly.
Miscellaneous Tidbits
- If you're on a street and need to return to the playground to get gags or to get onto a different street - open your book and "return to playground". Some people don't catch onto that idea until they're almost done with DL.
- Learn to change districts - If a shop you need is a building, then if you can't handle it on your own, change districts. It's usually faster than calling on friends because by the time you complete the building, you could have changed districts and run to the shop there. Don't get me wrong, it's good for your gag points, but if you are looking to get the task done, try changing districts.
- Invasions - they can be your friend and they can be your enemy. If you are ever in a building, factory, mint, DA office or CGC and someone says "Let's catch the next one." or "There's a cog invasion!" followed by "No.", then they are telling you that they want to wait for a new cog invasion to begin. Don't be a goober by ignoring them. While on the streets or in the playground of a cog HQ, you will get double the normal gag points while there's an invasion going on. For buildings, it's a little different. If there is an invasion when you enter a floor of a building, then you will get invasion points for the gags you use even if the invasion ends while you're on that floor. Likewise, if you enter a floor when there is no invasion, then you won't get bonus gag points even if an invasion starts. This is helpful when you want to work your gags. Go into a 5 story building and if there is an invasion on when you enter the 5th floor, then you will get 6x the gag points (without an invasion, you would get only 3x the points). So invasions can be your friend. They can also be your enemy! If you need to defeat cashbots and there are constant lawbot invasions being called, then you're screwed. If you're only 15 laff and you're faced up against a Big Cheese in TTC and you're by yourself, then chances are, you're screwed. Don't forget though, you can always change districts.
- Talking to shop keepers - if you jump up and while in mid-air start talking to the shop keeper, to others you will appear to be floating. On your screen it will appear as normal.
(see next post for the different playgrounds)
EDIT LOG
2008-10-25@03:42 Gag tips