I need help

[Your Best Friend]

Hi Cory and Andrew and all the people in this forum, I bought Cyber Knights Elite and i enjoyed it i played 3 hours but i struggle to find a way to earn money and the worst part of all is Los V thugs chase me for no REASON!, idk if you have a walkthrough or guides but i need help earning fat cash, i was thinking of merching but i dont know what items to buy and sell because i fear those yakashimas are chasing me because i work with bravestar and etc.... but anyways my money is 4k i still have enough bullets to kill thugs and i think thats all.

One last thing... Are there cars in-game?

[grävling]

There are no cars, aside from the taxis.

The NBZ is a violent place, and you will always have encounters. The secret to having fewer encounters is to keep your heat low. The way you keep your heat low is to a) stealth exit rather than normal exit your battles and b) use weapons that stun rather than kill your opponents, and c) when you start generating heat, sleep in hotels and safehouses until it dies down.
Staying in the same safehouse again and again will not work, you need to move around in order to get rid of heat.

The other thing that will help keep your heat down is to have a good rep with the faction that controls the zone you are operating in. The way you increase your rep is to do jobs for the faction -- and since when you sleep your good and bad rep will fade (tend to 0), the trick is to do more good for the faction between sleeps than you can sleep off. Which means you should buy a computer that holds as many jobs as you can afford -- at least in the early days. When you get to the point that spending 250K+ for a much fancier computer becomes possible, you can decide if it is worth it for you, or if a 4 job computer is plenty for your purposes, and spend the 250K on something else.

Reputation, both good and bad does not tend to 0 linearly. If they like you a little they will forget that quite easily. If you have a rep of over 100 with a faction, you can ignore them for weeks and they will still think the world of you. And if you have a faction that hates you to the tune of -100 or so, then they won't forget about your misdeeds at all. You will have to actively work doing missions for the faction if you want to get rid of this bad rep.

Becoming a merchant only works in this game when your negotiation skill is rediculously high, so it is not an effective way to make cash in the early part of the game. And by the time you are in the late part of the game when you could, well, you will have other more profitable things to do. What you really need to do, as a new character, is to get your athletics to 6 or above and your AP to 9 or above. Your problem isn't really that you do not have enough cash -- though it sure can feel that way, especially when you want a new computer -- but that your abilities and skills are still poor. Focus on improving them, and the money will come a lot easier. Focusing on getting rich while still having fewer AP and athletics than the enemies in the zone where you operate is a sure bet to take you to the Morgue.

Best of luck,
and welcome to the Forums.

[nemesis]

Pretty much whatt she said ;D

To add to that, get cozy with either Los V or Fennians. Build rep and athletics because it equals movement in combat. Movement = Survivability.

Welcome to the forums and please make an account

[cooperton]

What they said.

If you do want more nuyen... I've found hacking to be a easy way for quick cash. Once you have a contact who will buy data, anyway.

[Cory Trese]

Jun 5, 2012 6:44:54 GMT -5 grävling said:

Reputation, both good and bad does not tend to 0 linearly. If they like you a little they will forget that quite easily. If you have a rep of over 100 with a faction, you can ignore them for weeks and they will still think the world of you. And if you have a faction that hates you to the tune of -100 or so, then they won't forget about your misdeeds at all. You will have to actively work doing missions for the faction if you want to get rid of this bad rep.

This is a critical fact of CK.

Like juggling ... how many Factions can you keep "in the air" at 100+ at a time?

A novice at the game would focus on one Faction and work to stick to it's territory.

An expert could have several gangs, a security company or two and a megacorp all with moderate Reputation.

The game is still developing and I don't think it's "complete and fair" in the same way ST is. Time...

[yourbestfriend]

Jun 5, 2012 6:44:54 GMT -5 grävling said:

There are no cars, aside from the taxis.

The NBZ is a violent place, and you will always have encounters. The secret to having fewer encounters is to keep your heat low. The way you keep your heat low is to a) stealth exit rather than normal exit your battles and b) use weapons that stun rather than kill your opponents, and c) when you start generating heat, sleep in hotels and safehouses until it dies down.
Staying in the same safehouse again and again will not work, you need to move around in order to get rid of heat.

The other thing that will help keep your heat down is to have a good rep with the faction that controls the zone you are operating in. The way you increase your rep is to do jobs for the faction -- and since when you sleep your good and bad rep will fade (tend to 0), the trick is to do more good for the faction between sleeps than you can sleep off. Which means you should buy a computer that holds as many jobs as you can afford -- at least in the early days. When you get to the point that spending 250K+ for a much fancier computer becomes possible, you can decide if it is worth it for you, or if a 4 job computer is plenty for your purposes, and spend the 250K on something else.

Reputation, both good and bad does not tend to 0 linearly. If they like you a little they will forget that quite easily. If you have a rep of over 100 with a faction, you can ignore them for weeks and they will still think the world of you. And if you have a faction that hates you to the tune of -100 or so, then they won't forget about your misdeeds at all. You will have to actively work doing missions for the faction if you want to get rid of this bad rep.

Becoming a merchant only works in this game when your negotiation skill is rediculously high, so it is not an effective way to make cash in the early part of the game. And by the time you are in the late part of the game when you could, well, you will have other more profitable things to do. What you really need to do, as a new character, is to get your athletics to 6 or above and your AP to 9 or above. Your problem isn't really that you do not have enough cash -- though it sure can feel that way, especially when you want a new computer -- but that your abilities and skills are still poor. Focus on improving them, and the money will come a lot easier. Focusing on getting rich while still having fewer AP and athletics than the enemies in the zone where you operate is a sure bet to take you to the Morgue.

Best of luck,
and welcome to the Forums.

Hi i just made an account basically i think i know the basics and what to do and not after i read alot of threads i decided to switch to hacking, what i do is i work at carnifex in city hall i think and i earn 500-900 per mission(i even bought a Loft Apartment) but anyways i was wondering about hacking i tried hacking but its difficult, i have 6 hacking and i dont get what pay data,run decoy, and download does i tried to find courier jobs(i think) but i cant find one? i read a thread about hacking but i didnt understand a thing on what hes saying and about the 2 job computer where can i find one? and currently i have 8k cash i plan on working with bravestar but i dont know how to hack...Thanks

[grävling]

To get data courier jobs, or to hack, you first need to have a data port installed in your head. If your CK is a hacker, you already have one (though you might want a nicer model). Then you need to get Memory installed in your head. More is better. Some data courier jobs require a certain amount of memory, and they won't offer the job to you if your head memory is too small. (Actually, I am not sure that this check is in yet, but that is the way it is supposed to work).

All data courier jobs are currently found in VIP rooms, and I don't think there are any in the ganger VIP rooms, but I could be wrong about that. Just talk to people in the room when they show up. Talk to the receptionist at the front desk -- she sells some nice 4 job computers that you can nearly afford, and some other expensive ones that are better for hacking. 2 job computers are sold a lot of places; one place is Back Bay Importers in Old Kenmore.

The hacking interface changed just the day before yesterday, and I haven't tried the new one yet, so I cannot help with that question at present.

[nemesis]

To add to what grav mentioned, you can find data courier jobs in VIP rooms. I've found connectors in the VIP rooms of Yakuza, Bravestar and Knights Horizon for courier missions. Memory is active and if your memory hard drive is not up to par, they will not give you the job. I suggest you save up for a 4 job computer which you can still find by talking to any staff of any VIP room.

As for hacking, I'd suggest you wait til they fix the arrangement of the interface since you can't read the bottom section of the console

[yourbestfriend]

Jun 6, 2012 5:11:56 GMT -5 nemesis said:

To add to what grav mentioned, you can find data courier jobs in VIP rooms. I've found connectors in the VIP rooms of Yakuza, Bravestar and Knights Horizon for courier missions. Memory is active and if your memory hard drive is not up to par, they will not give you the job. I suggest you save up for a 4 job computer which you can still find by talking to any staff of any VIP room.

As for hacking, I'd suggest you wait til they fix the arrangement of the interface since you can't read the bottom section of the console

Hey guys thanks for helping, i just got a yakashima or yakuza information (idk if i got that from hacking) but ill look for couriers and ill still continue with Carnifex at the moment to buy 4 job computers and Implants