Fast Start

1. Go to the Hire section and scout for some operatives and subordinate units
2. Go to Black Market and buy some drugs, tobacco to make your guys happy. Also get weapons for your subordinate units. Keep in mind that subordinate units without weapons won't do a thing. Also keep an eye on your guys happiness. It's easy to keep them happy but if you don't they will start leaving you.
3. Start by making some money by collecting money from your casinos, brothels, loan sharks, gambling dens.
4. When you get enough turns, go get some more operatives and subordinate units and repeat from step 1
5. When you feel strong and rich enough.You can attack other inmates in your range.Be careful, nobody will let you attack them without revenge. This is the real prison life "an eye for an eye, an arm, and a leg".
6. Don't forget to protect part of your money in the bank or you can loose it if somebody mugs you.
7. Join a family since you won't be able to survive by yourself. Otherwise start your own.
8. Finally, enjoy the game as much as you can and watch your back :)
   

Rounds

Each round will last about 7-12 days to make it fair for newcomers,plus it gives everyone a better chance to win. Once the round ends everything starts over from scratch you can change your name family name everything. You don't carry anything from one round to the next, this mean no money guy's and any turns (you'll see more about turns in the next section)

Turns & Reserves

Turns is what you use to do everything. For example: to attack someone, it sometimes requires 2 turns. Every 10 minutes you will receive a certain amount of turns, depending on the rounds settings. Each round, you also start off with a given amount of reserves. Reserves are also basically turns, except reserves can be saved for later in the round until you decide to use them.

Networth

Awards are given to Inmates based on their networth ranking. So here is how networth is calculated:
Drug Dealers ($2,500) + Thieves ($2,000) + Crooked Guards ($1,500) + Hustlers ($1,000) + Serial Killers ($500) + Male Bitches ($1,000) + Thugs ($500) + Bodyguards ($300) + cash + bank + tobacco ($1) + Weed ($2) + Coke ($5) + Bats ($400) + Homemade Knives ($800) + Alcatraz Knives ($2,000) + Shotguns ($4,000)

Families

The-Prisoner is a simulation of the the prison life. Just like real prison, you can join gangs - a group of people who believe in the same thing, have the same ideas or just trust each other. A gang brings protection, it brings respect from other members and it gives you trust in other members. Trust and respect can save your life, but it can also get you killed. Gangs have a size limit of 20-30 inmates / gang.

Hire

One of the basics of organized crime is to be able to do things your way and not end up on death sentence. Partly this is accomplished by not doing any crimes yourself, instead paying others to do so. In order to maintain your empire under control, you'll need different types of personnel to perform all the different tasks and duties.In order to get some staff in your gang you could scout for them. To scout for gang members, just use your turns and look in the place where you would find the kinda of guys you need.

Operatives

Operatives are the kind of units that would work in your businesses and produce different kind of goods. The operatives that could be part of your family are:

• Drug dealers - deal with your drug.
• Thieves - do your steals.
• Crooked Guards - do arrins for money.
• Hustlers - work in your loan shark and will help to push people to collect loan payments.
  
• Serial Killers - do your killing outside the slammer.

Subordinate Units

Subordiante units are units that would protect you and your operatives, and would attack other inmates. The subordinate units that could be part of your family are:

• Male Bitches - nice and strong from the gym.
• Thugs - are not as intelligent and well mannered as gangsters. They will also be used for attacks and to protect you.
• Bodyguards - are really easy to get and will protect you well. They are not that good for attacks though.

Happiness

Having your family happy is one of the most important things that you would be looking after. If your operatives or subordinate units are not happy, they would start leaving you as soon as you ask them to operate.
Your operatives need some tobacco and coke to be happy. They would also need to have subordinate units to protect them at work which would make them happy as well. Your operatives payroll is also a part of their happiness.
You subordinate units need tobacco and weed to be happy. They insist to have from 2 bats to 1 shotgun per subordinate unit to be happy.

Black Market

In the black market you are able to get whatever you need for you guys. Your able to buy drugs, weapons. You could also sell drugs at wholesale price

• Drugs are mainly used to make your guys happy. Your subordinates units need tobacco and weed to be happy. Your operatives need tobacco and coke to be happy too. Try to get a big stock of them.
• Weapons are used for attacks and are important for you guys happiness. You could get bats, homemade knives, alcatraz knives and shotguns. The more expensive the weapon, the more the kills it makes.


Produce


Productions are part of your illegal activities. So you could use turns to produce coke, weed, alcohol and fake cash.
• Your thugs are used to produce coke and weed in you drug lab
• Your bootleggers are used to produce alcohol in your speakeasy
• Your serial killers are used to earn hit money


Collect


You could use some turns to collect some money from your businesses. You own drug factories, loan sharks etc...
• Your Drug dealers are used to run your drug factories
• Your thieves are used to steal shit
• Your hustlers are used to collect loan payments in your loan sharks
• your serial killers are also used to collect hit earnings


Cash and the bank


Just like the real world, you have a bank account and a pocket. The money you use anywhere is the cash you got on you. However, keeping money in your pocket is risky. Another inmate can mug you and take whatever you have there. So, depositing a part of it in the bank is a good idea. You are able to put 15% of your money wich will cost you 15 turns each time. Later, if you want to add more money in safebox, you would have to withdraw all the money and put 15% of all the cash you got. You can withdraw it when you need it at anytime for free.
From your cash you can also transfer deposited money to another inmate. This can be useful if you need to pay them for something, bribe them, or just give a cut of your organized crime.
If you want cash right away, you could use the Prison Pawn to exchange turns for cash.


Attacking


There are 5 different types of attacks. To attack a player, goto the attack or goto find the inmate you want to attack and click on his name. When you are viewing his profile, click on attack!!! If you see Out of Range, you may not attack this inmate. You can only attack players with 1/2 or up to 2 times your networth. The-Prisoner will automatically take your best crew members armed with the best weapon you got them in order to have the most efficient attacks ever. There is a limit to the amount of times you can be hit. You can be hit 10 times every hour but the damage of each attack must equal at least 1% of your networth. If you win or tie the attacks, they do not count against you and the revenge hits do not count either.
• Cell Invasions - Most common attack done by inmates. Invade your enemies cell and kill his subordinate units! You could also steal money if you killed enough of his subordiantes
• Drug Labs Sabotage - This attack is meant to steal drugs from your opponent.
• Armory Attack - This attack is meant to steal guns from your opponent.


Revenge


The revenge is an option that would give you the chance to hit back when somebody attacks you. Whenever somebody attacks you, you will have a revenge (as many times as opponent hit you) on him for 24hrs even if he is out of range. You could check your revenges in your mail box > revenges.
If somebody attacks you, you got a revenge on him but he will get a revenge on you until you attack back.


Staff


These are the admins of the game. They monitor your actions and make sure everyone is playing fair. It's best to stay on the Staffs good side. If you have any problems, found a bug in the game or found a game abuser, let them know by leaving a message under the Staff link.


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