Pimp War - http://www.pimpwar.com 
FAQs and STRATEGIES V1.0 by Pepperouchou 
 
07/11/2001 
 
NOTE: All information in this guide is based on game 'PW5' (month of July 2001) 
 
Pimp War is a free, online game which you play using your web browser.  The 
game is not java-based, but instead uses simple forms to perform actions. 
You play the role of a pimp and the goal of the game is to become the best pimp 
in the nation by recruiting hoes and thugs.  You must keep your hoes and thugs 
happy by purchasing supplies and weapons.  You also have the ability to attack 
other pimps in the game or ally with others using the alliance feature. 
 
Table of Contents 
 
    1. Main Menu 
    2. Stores 
    3. Strategies 
    4. Alliances 
    5. F.A.Q.s 
 
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MAIN MENU 
 
 - Username and User ID: At the top of your main menu you'll find your chosen 
   username with your user ID in parentheses next to it. 
 
 - Ranking: Under the above, you'll find your local rank and national rank in 
   parentheses.  Your rank is based on a number of elements: your current net 
   worth, number of hoes, number of thugs, amount of crack, etc.  Ranks change 
   all the time, as players are constantly gaining and losing items. 
 
 - Net worth: Under your rank (at the top of the main menu) is the current 
   amount of money you are worth.  This number is based on: amount of cash 
   you currently have, number of thugs, number of hoes, amount of crack and 
   number of low-riders you currently own.  Keep in mind that this figure can 
   both increase and decrease depending on how much you gain or lose. 
 
 - City: Also near the top of the main menu, you'll see what city you currently 
   reside in.  All pimps start out in New York city but are given the option 
   to move to a new city if needed.  I suggest staying in New York unless you 
   want to join a tough alliance in another city, because you can only 
   transport six thugs with one low-rider and alliances in other cities are 
   pretty tough on you if you aren't in one yourself. 
 
 - Money: The more hoes you have, the more cash you make.  You will make money 
   after: scouting, producing crack and attacking another pimp.  The amount of 
   money you make depends on how many turns you use and how many hoes you 
   currently own.  Make sure you spend all of your money before logging out to 
   ensure nobody steals any while you're away. 
 
 - Turns: Without turns, you can do nothing.  You are given 2 turns every 10 
   minutes but the most you can have at one time is 200.  If you don't log 
   in for a total of six hours, you will be given 6 bonus turns and if you 
   vote in the poll they have, you'll get an extra 5. 
 
 - Payout: The hoe payout rate is calculated in percentage.  The 'normal' is 
   probably around 30-40% but you can always increase it if your hoes aren't 
   happy enough.  The lower this number, the more money you make, so try  
   lowering it from time to time to see if your hoes will be happy making less 
   money. 
 
 - Happiness: You need to keep your thugs and hoes happy at all times or they 
   will leave you.  To keep hoes happy, make sure you have a good stock of 
   crack, condoms and thugs to protect them as well as a good payout rate. 
   For thugs, all they really need is beer and guns.  Always keep a gun for 
   every thug you own as well as a good supply of beer and they'll always be 
   happy.  The max. is 100, lowest is 0. 
 
 - Rank movement: Whenever your rank goes up or down, this part of the main 
   menu lets you know how many ranks you went up or down locally and 
   nationally. 
 
 - Attack Count: This field is in red and lets you know how many attacks you've 
   made (out) and how many attacks you've received (in).  After about 10-20 
   minutes, attack counts will reset back to 0. 
 
 - Pimpwar News: On the left side of the main menu, this option will take you 
   to the main news page with the latest news about the game. 
 
 - Message Board: Just as it sounds, leads to the message board for threaded 
   discussion about the game. 
 
 - Recruitment Board: Where you can go to recruit new pimps into your alliance. 
   Do not recruit on the message board or you'll get some nasty flames. 
 
 - Pimpwar Chat: Real-time chat with other members about the game. 
 
 - Alliance Chat: Real-time chat with members of your alliance. 
 
 - Forums: Supposed to lead to the forums, I suppose, but I get an error when 
   trying to access them. 
 
 - Report a Bug: Supposedly an automated bug reporting system but does not 
   current work. 
 
 - Pray to Pimp Gods: Here is where you can pray to the pimp gods and make 
   sacrifices to them.  If you sacrifice enough to meet their demands, you will 
   possibly be rewarded in some form.  You can only pray to the Pimp Gods 
   once a week. 
 
 - Pimp Links: Here you can post links to any site as long as: 
 
     a.) It's a non-commercial site 
     b.) There aren't tons of banners or pop-ups on it 
     c.) It has a good design 
 
 - *VOTE*: This option leads you to the current poll.  You can only vote once, 
   and when you do, you'll be rewarded with 5 bonus turns. 
 
 - Alliance: If you are in an alliance, the name of it will be displayed here 
   and you can click on it to see the members in it.  For more information on 
   alliances, see the alliance section. 
 
 - Pimp Ranks: Leads you to the pimp ranks page where the top 10 pimps are 
   listed first followed by the 15 pimps above you and the 15 pimps below you 
   with you listed in the middle. 
 
 - Alliance Ranks: Lists the top 48 alliances.  Alliances ranks are based on 
   the total sum of all members' net worth and ranks updated hourly. 
 
 - Scouting: On the top of the right menu is the scout link.  Click this to 
   use turns on scouting for hoes and thugs.  There are five different areas 
   you can scout in, but I've yet to find a significant difference in any of 
   them: 
            Casino District 
            Wino Slums 
            Low Rent District 
            Nightclub District 
            Urban Ghetto 
 
 - Produce Crack: This option allows your thugs to produce crack on the streets 
   and bring it back to you.  The more thugs you have, the more crack you 
   produce, but make sure your thugs are happy before attempting to produce. 
 
 - Attack Pimp: While you can always attack a pimp via a link from his/her 
   profile, this option on the right side of the main menu lets you attack 
   quickly if you already know your victim's number.  There are five methods 
   of attack you can choose from, all requiring two turns each: 
 
      Drive by shooting: You'll need to have at least one low-rider to do one 
      of these.  The good thing about doing a drive-by (probably the only good 
      thing) is that you don't lose many thugs and you'll get to see how many 
      weapons your victim has before performing a home invasion. 
 
      Home Invasion: The most commonly used attack method, here you'll go into 
      your victim's house, your thugs will engage in combat and you'll be able 
      to steal and money found in the house if you win. 
 
      Jack vehicles: Jacking a low-rider is pretty tough unless your victim 
      has no thugs left to protect it.  I only suggest using this method if 
      you find a pimp with 0 thugs and at least one low-rider, but you'd better 
      do it quick before someone else does. 
 
      Infest hoes with diseases: Just as the name says, this will infest your 
      victim's hoes with diseases, possibly killing some of them if your 
      victim doesn't have enough medicine. 
 
      Steal hoes with crack: Normally used right after a pimp has lost all of 
      his or her thugs.  You'll need to specify the amount of crack you want 
      to use (I normally use 200) but make note that some pimps will protect 
      against this type of attack by setting their payout to 99% making their 
      hoes so happy, they won't leave. 
 
 - Online pimps: This option will let you see all pimps from your area and 
   within your rank that are currently logged in. 
 
 - A nice little feature that lets you search for any pimp in the game by 
   either username or user ID. 
 
 - Pimp Travel: Here, you will be able to move you, your hoes and your thugs 
   to a new city.  However, it won't be cheap.  For each hoe you decide to 
   move with you, you'll have to pay for a bus ticket and you'll only be able 
   to carry 6 thugs per low-rider.  The cities you can move to are: 
 
       Detroit         Miami Beach 
       Seattle         Beverly Hills    Las Vegas 
       Los Angeles     Atlanta 
 
 - Pimp's Bible: Basically a guide (similar to this one) to the game teaching 
   you the basics of playing, but doesn't contain any strategies. 
 
 - New Pimp's Guide: A short little guide for newcomers to the game.  Doesn't 
   contain any strategies. 
 
 - Pimp Stats: There are a few statistical categories here... 
 
     Hoes that have left you             Thugs that have left you 
     Hoes stolen by you                  Hoes stolen from you 
     Thugs you have killed               Thugs of yours now dead 
     Low-riders you have jacked          Low-riders jacked from you 
 
   Each day, the leader of any category will be assigned a title on their 
   profile.  You also have the option of clearing your stats. 
 
 - Options: the options menu is where you can change your password, change the 
   appearance of your game, reset your account, edit your profile, be notified 
   via e-mail of incoming attacks or instructions on how to include stats on 
   your web site. 
 
 - Official rules: The official rules of the game. 
 
 - Support Center: Seems to be down at the moment.  There's some sort of 
   'slot machine' game here where if the number 1111 pops up, you supposedly 
   win something.  I've not yet won, so I don't know what that's about. 
 
 - Logout: Logs you out of the game. 
 
 
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STORES 
 
 - Corner Store: Here is where you buy all the goods for your hoes and thugs. 
   You can buy three items from this store but do not have the option of 
   selling any of them back (due to the low prices): 
 
                  Item                         Price 
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                  Condoms                      $1 each 
                  Medicine                     $20 per crate 
                  40 oz. New Eubonics beer     $2 per bottle 
 
 
   Condoms:  Obviously to protect your hoes from diseases, you'll need to keep 
             a good supply of these to keep your hoes happy.  When starting  
             out, you should have around 1,000 - 5,000 until your hoe count  
             starts to increase.  Soon enough, you'll need to have around 15 to  
             20 thousand of these. 
 
   Medicine: Cures hoes that contract diseases.  You don't really need to keep 
             a good supply of these.  20-50 should suit you fine for the 
             duration of the game.  If somebody is constantly infecting you 
             with diseases, then you'll need a few. 
 
   Beer:     For some, condoms are lost more rapidly than beer, but not in my 
             case.  The more thugs you have, the more beer you'll need.  It's 
             wise to stock up on these early (you should have around 10,000 to 
             30,000 at all times once you get over 300 thugs) before you get a  
             lot of thugs. 
 
 
 - Tek9 Tommy's: This is the weapon shop of the game.  Here you will be able to 
   buy and sell weapons for your thugs, as well as hire thugs for protection. 
   You can sell any of your weapons, but not thugs. 
 
      Item (Buy)     Description                          Price 
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      Thugs          Your basic thug                      $1,000 each 
      Pistols        Standard Pistol                      $250 each 
      Shotguns       Side to side double barrel 12 gauge  $1,250 each 
      MP5's          10mm Semi-Automatic Submachine Gun   $2,500 each 
      AK-47's        Fully Auto 30 round clip             $5,500 each 
 
 
      Item (Sell)    Description                          Price 
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      Pistols        Standard Pistol                      $188 each 
      Shotguns       Side to side double barrel 12 gauge  $398 each 
      MP5's          10mm Semi-Automatic Submachine Gun   $1,875 each 
      AK-47's        Fully Auto 30 round clip             $4,125 each 
 
 
   Thugs:    In the start of the game, it may seem like you won't be buying 
             many thugs, but that changes quickly.  Since you won't get many  
             thugs when scouting later in the game, you'll have to buy them  
             instead.  Make sure you keep an even amount of weapons for your  
             thugs. 
 
   Pistols:  The weakest weapon in the game, you should avoid buying these and 
             instead purchase the other three types of weapons.  The only time 
             you'll want to buy many pistols is when you need to make your 
             thugs happy.  This is known as 'pistol packing' and should only 
             be done when you have a good supply of AK-47's and MP5's. 
 
   Shotguns: Also pretty weak, but stronger than pistols.  These can be good 
             to stock up on in order to increase thug happiness, but you should 
             still have lots of AK's and MP5's to back you up. 
 
   MP5's:    A very powerful weapon, the MP5 isn't as strong as an AK-47, but  
             is much stronger than shotguns and pistols, plus they're pretty  
             cheap.  These are good weapons to buy for your thugs when you  
             don't have enough money to buy AK-47's. 
 
   AK-47's:  Obviously the most powerful weapon in the game. I strongly advise 
             you buy tons of these in the start of the game - they are very 
             valuable in attacks.  If you go against someone with 100 shotguns 
             and you have 100 AK's, who do you think is going to win?  The 
             more of these you have, the better. 
 
 
 - Charlie's Chop Shop: There's only one thing you can buy and sell in this 
   shop - low-riders.  While they may sound cool to have, you really shouldn't 
   buy many of these.  In fact, I suggest you don't buy any in the start of 
   the game.  They make you an easy target to attack plus they're really a 
   waste of cash.  You should only need about one low-rider to do drive-by's 
   (which enables you to see your victim's weapons before performing a house 
   invasion) and maybe a few more to increase your net worth later in the game. 
 
 
                         Item (Buy)          Price 
                         ------------------------------ 
                         Low-rider           $5000 each 
 
 
                         Item (Sell)         Price 
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                         Low-rider           $3000 each 
 
 
 
 - Pip's Deals on Wheels: As with Charlie's Chop Shop, there's only one item 
   for sell here: crack.  I rarely visit this shop, as the crack is far too 
   expensive when you can get much more by producing it yourself.  However, 
   if you have a lot, you may want to sell some of it for extra cash. 
 
 
                         Item (Buy)      Price 
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                         Crack           $10 per rock 
 
 
                         Item (Sell)     Price 
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                         Crack           $3 per rock 
 
 
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STRATEGIES 
 
 - Before logging out, set your payout rate to 99%.  This way, your hoes will  
   be very happy and if someone decides to steal them while you're away, they  
   most likely won't go due to their happiness.  Just don't forget to set it 
   back down when you play again. 
 
 - Spend all of your cash before logging out!  Don't even leave $1 left for  
   somebody to steal.  If you have no cash, nobody can steal it from you. 
 
 - Always keep an even weapon / thug count.  For every thug you should have 
   a weapon.  Early on in the game, you should have more AK-47's and MP5's 
   than anything else.  The more AK's you have, the more protection you have 
   against attacks.  In fact, it's a great idea to have an AK-47 for every one 
   of your thugs if possible. 
 
 - Trying to swap low-level weapons for AK's?  The easiest way to do this is 
   to buy as many AK-47's as possible with the cash you make, then sell the 
   same amount of a lower-level weapon to even the count.  The only downfall 
   to this is that your rank will probably drop on account of not buying 
   thugs very often. 
 
 - When you get higher up in the ranks and you've joined a good, tough alliance 
   (or you have lots of AK-47's to protect you with) you can start buying lots 
   of pistols to keep your thugs happy then stock up on thugs.  This method of 
   'pistol packing' is only recommended if you have a good alliance to back 
   you up or you're loaded with AK's. 
 
 - Prior to attacking someone who is weaker than you, check to see if they are 
   in an alliance.  If so, check out that alliance and its members to ensure 
   you won't be getting some heavy retaliation. 
 
 - When your thug count passes your hoe count, your hoe happiness will drop 
   dramatically for some reason (I'm guessing that this is a glitch in the game 
   that has not yet been corrected) so you will have to raise your payout  
   briefly.  Once you continue gaining more thugs, however, the hoe happiness  
   will return to normal (Note: this has occurred in the game of 07/01). 
 
 - Do not buy lots of low-riders.  Early on in the game, you will become a 
   sitting duck if you have a bunch of low-riders.  Instead, spend your money 
   on thugs, weapons and supplies until you get higher up in the ranks.  You 
   only really need one low-rider because with it, you can do a drive-by and 
   see your victim's weapons while losing very few thugs before performing a 
   house invasion.  Of course, later in the game, you may want to buy a few 
   more to increase net worth. 
 
 - It's best to stick in New York throughout the game, as most other cities 
   have tough alliances that will pretty much destroy you if you aren't in a 
   good alliance.  Plus, you can only move 6 thugs per low-rider, meaning if 
   you own very few low-riders and you decide to move, you will lose lots of  
   thugs and will probably have to start anew.  If you really want to move, 
   make sure you do it as soon as possible after the game starts and start/join 
   an alliance once you get there. 
 
 - If you are attacked badly (i.e. - losing all of your thugs) while logged 
   out, don't fret.  If you set your payout to 99% like I advised earlier, you 
   should still have a good hoe count meaning you'll be able to make a lot of 
   money.  With this money, you'll be able to buy back a lot of your killed 
   thugs without having to worry about providing them with weapons because you  
   can never lose any of your weapons. 
 
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ALLIANCES 
 
 - To make the game more interesting, you have the opportunity to join forces 
   with other pimps using the alliance feature.  Anyone can join an alliance, 
   or you can start one yourself if you wish.  Just keep in mind that each 
   alliance can only have a maximum of 20 members. 
 
 - Alliance thugs: There are two types of alliance thugs: offensive and 
   defensive, both costing around $15,000 each if I'm not mistaken.  These  
   thugs will aid you in attacks, which is why it's good to be in an alliance.   
   The only downfall is that to pay for these thugs, all members of the  
   alliance must pay dues from the money they make (amount deducted from your  
   total depends on what the alliance founder has the rate set to). 
 
 - The 99/99 trick: After you purchase over 99 offensive or defensive alliance 
   thugs, the price increases.  The 99/99 trick is rather simple: once you have 
   exactly 99 of both types of thugs, stop buying them and stockpile your cash 
   until you have around $9,000,000-10,000,000, then buy tons of thugs at one 
   time.  This saves you lots of cash because you bought them all at the normal 
   rate instead of the increased price. 
 
 - Alliance net worth: Your alliance rank is based on one thing: your net 
   worth.  Combine all of your members' net worths to get the overall net worth 
   of your alliance. 
 
 - Don't form super alliances (two or more alliances with 20 members each that 
   team together to cause destruction). It's cheap and unfair to the other 
   players in the game, plus it's against the rules. 
 
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 
 
  Q. How many turns should I use for scouting? 
  A. I tend to use about 30 turns every time which gets substantial results. 
 
  Q. How about producing crack? 
  A. 15 turns works well for me, but you may want to use 20 early in the game. 
 
  Q. What's the best area to scout in? 
  A. I really haven't noticed any significant changes between the different 
     areas to scout in, but I prefer to do my scouting in the Low Rent  
     district. 
 
  Q. How is my net worth calculated? 
       Crack = $3 each          Thugs = $750 each 
       Hoes = $2,000 each       Condoms = $.10 each 
       Medicine = $5 each       Low-riders = $3,000 each 
 
  Q. What should I keep my % payout set to? 
  A. Whatever keeps your hoes happy, really.  The lowest I've set it to is 8% 
     with 100 happiness, but the normal is around 20-40%. 
 
  Q. What should I spend my money on? 
  A. Thugs and weapons if you have a good amount of beer/condoms. 
 
  Q. What's the point of living in another city? 
  A. Each city has different variables which affect your pimping, plus since 
     most cities aren't as populated as New York, your local rank is bound 
     to be pretty high up. 
 
  Q. What's the 99/99 thug trick? 
  A. See the 'Alliances' section. 
 
  Q. What happens when I pray to the Pimp Gods? 
  A. If you sacrifice a lot, something good may happen, though this is entirely 
     random so I can't really explain what happens. 
 
  Q. It says signups are disabled. When can I sign up? 
  A. Spots go fast, so if you don't snag a name near the start of the game, 
     you'll have to wait until the next one starts (at the beginning of the 
     following month). 
 
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Pimp War (c)2001 Happy Empire 
This guide (c)2001 Pepperouchou
