So you finally downloaded the game and took the plunge into Gangster Land right?

Well first you have to create a new account.

You must remember your username/password and enter a valid email address.

Your Username will stick with you throughout the whole game, and your password must stay with you.

Now you created your account, you have taken a Really Big Step!

Firstly you need to know how to communicate with all the other Punks on the game.

In this Entire Tutorial I will use the Name Admin as a test subject.

To communicate use ; eg. ;hello all. This should come out as:

[Admin yells] hello all.

Ok now that's the first step to communication. There is another form of communicating which players may find useful, which is, aim or shoot now, ask questions later.

Now its time to learn how to move.

You can either use N, E, S, W OR the arrows on your keyboard.

Each City consists of 841 squares (29 x 29).

When you start you will start with $100.

You have to use that to by drugs, and sell them back, to rank and make more money to become powerful.

Its a good Idea to start at N0 E0 (Players usually call it 0 0 rather than N0 E0 as its easier to type).
I find its easy to find things if I go in a pattern: eg. N0 E29 then N1 E29 then to N1 E0 and so forth.

Now that you have mastered the moving part, its time to learn how to deal.

First you should walk around, (use step above as an effective method) until you find a dealer, eg.  Greg the Dealer. Type Buy Greg (or buy druggiesname) and buy some stuff off him. Then walk around and try to find a druggie. Once you find the druggie type: sell druggie (where druggie represents the druggies name) eg. Sell Seth (if Seth was druggies name).

Once you reach Street Punk or Thug, you can buy a cell phone which allows you to locate Dealers and Druggies.

The Buttons on the client should be self-explanatory.

Map portrays:

-The location of the airport which can be used to go to different cities for lots of money.

-The location of the pawn shop where you can buy stuff and sell stuff.

-The location of the Hospital which can be used to heal.

-The location of the bank which can be used to deposit or withdraw money.

To do this you have to be a Street punk or thug. Then go to the bank and type deposit amount (eg. Deposit 1000), and to withdraw type withdraw amount, eg (withdraw 1000).

The Skills button, displays the players current Skills.

This Consists Of:

-Hiding (Type HIDE to hide from people or to raise this skill)

-Tracking (Type Track Player name eg. Track Admin) to track the players city. If your tracking is high enough you will also get their Co-Ordinates aswell. This proves useful for payback :).

-Accuracy, plays a Big Part! Each Successful hit gives higher acc. Read the Attacking Part for More Information.

This applies to all the skills. Each success in each skill will raise it. It will be harder to raise it as you go up higher in each skill though.

Attacking and Defending is a really big part in this game too. If you are attacked by someone high ranked or stronger, either flee, or fight.

If you are attacked and are on low health use: Flee N Or Flee E or Flee S or Flee W. Then you run and HIDE or just run away in general to another city etc.

Attacking is a different story. To attack type aim name, eg if you were to aim, Simon then you'd type aim s or aim Simon to aim that player/npc.

Then use either F1 to Punch, F2 to use Melee weapons (Knife, Steel pipe, Baton etc.), F3 to shoot (make sure Gun and Ammo is Equipped).

If you start NEW you should attack a bum, and punch them.

They will be very hard to kill, but it will raise your acc, and give you some money. Also NPC's do Retaliate.

Always make sure you equip your armour if any, and weapons if any.

Attack tweakers when you have a switchblade or a gun and don't try to attack, cops until you feel you are able to.

DO NOT try to attack dealers or druggies, as you not only lose rank points, but wont be able to kill them, as dealers and druggies have 100 accuracy.

Also be careful of the players you attack, you might not want to make enemies too early in the game...

Healing can be done remotely or locally. By remotely I mean you can carry a medstick with you which gives you 10 health each time you use it, which can be anytime, even during combat. However medsticks now cost a lot of money, so use it wisely, knowing that it will use money.

Healing can also be done locally at a hospital.

Type Healinfo at a hospital to see how much money you need and how much you can afford to heal up.

Then type healme amount. Eg. to heal 50 points type healme 50.

You must be carrying some money to heal otherwise the nurses wont heal you.

Items range extensively from weapons to ammo.

You can buy and sell items at the pawn shop for certain price.

Certain ranks can buy certain things, for example a Street Punk cant buy A Glock .60 SPCL. When you kill an NPC or player, they drop their stuff which you can either use or sell.

Remember you cant sell drugs to a pawn shop and you cant sell items to a dealer.

Ranks will determine how tough you are. The higher the rank the tougher you are as the better the weapons and armour you can afford. But high rank does not always mean high accuracy.

There are about 12 ranks, and it is hard ranking but it does give respect.

There are ranks lower than the one you start off with too.

Ranks Can be raised by dealing, and killing computer characters.

Pimping, will also raise rank once its implemented.

Changes are made over time, some small unnoticeable, and some major changes affecting gameplay.

Either way have fun and hope to see you on the Forums at http://swoforum.tk