Group Hunting or Hunting Party

Alexander Emmanouilidis (Greece) wrote on Jun 18, 2008 at 4:29 AM I have some questions about group hunting. 1) Its said that hunting in groups gives you better results. Thas is only when you are on-linwe? Your friends can not use your turns when you are away? 2) You only hunt in groups when you are online and you are ready to hunt? I mean if I am ready to hunt and someone of my gorup sounds the horn I hunt with him and loose my turn with better results or even if I am not ready to hunt and one of my group sounds the horn I hunt with him? 3) Is it better to wait for all your group to get ready to hunt or as soon as you get the horn you should hunt? 4)Does it make a difrence if I am the one that sounds the horn or someone else coserning the results I will have? Please feel free to add any other advice you think I may find usefull! Terence Wong (University of Toronto) replied to Alexander's post on Jun 18, 2008 at 7:07 AM Hi Alexander, I`ve only been trying the group hunting thing for about one or two weeks , and I find you can catch alot more mice. I`ll provide a brief intro to what I understand about it, and then try to answer your questions and add any of my experiences if they haven`t been covered. 1. When you hunt in groups with the hunters horn, you will only benefit from your group members horning if you have been active within the last 60 minutes. So yes, you will only get better results if you are ``online`` (i.e. active within the last 60 min). 2. In addition to the hourly check; you can get an extra turn every 15 minutes to blow the horn. However, you can only blow the horn if ``are ready`` (at least 15 minutes since your last hunter`s horn hunt) and you will only join someone else`s hunt if you ``are ready``. So, if you are ready and someone blows the horn, it`s that that you don`t lose your turn; basically, you and your groupmate took your turn together. 3. You don`t really need to wait for all your group to be ready because many people have many multiple friends that can blow the horn for them. If you wait for some people, then other members will probably placed into the ``waiting to hunt`` status after one of their other friend have blown the horn. 4. I don`t know if there`s any difference between who blows the horn. Right now, I have about 140 friends in my group that are spread out throughout the various locations. Although, you won`t be joining people`s hunt in other locations, you can still get alot of extra points (if that`s what you`re looking for) if you have friends in other places. As long as they are ``ready to hunt`` you`ll get an extra 10 points. When I press the horn, I range from 65-185 points with an average of about 105 I would say. Of course, it`s great to have people in the same location because you can help your friends initiate the hunt, and when you`re too busy to check back for your hunter`s horn or going afk soon, you know you`ll get a couple extra hunts by joining in on your friend`s hunter`s horn. Good luck and happy hunting! Garry John Riechert (Australia) replied to Alexander's post on Jun 18, 2008 at 7:56 AM Two pennies worth. A/ Group hunting should garantee more hunts - nothing else. More hunts gives you greater chance of catching more mice - whether you catch is only dependent on your trap power and your cheese and where you hunt and your luck. Any other results in relation to other factors, would seem to perceived rather than real. B/ When you log on, be sure you blow the horn straight away; if you have a good hunting group this may be the only hornblow you get points on until you are offline for another hour. C/ Because of the staggered nature of when people go on and offline there is no point in waiting for more hunters - in this time theyll beat you to the horn anyways. D/Sounding the horn and being online are key elements of moving up rank, so its in your interest to try to sound the horn. E/The bigger the group the better chance of a larger number of hunts - but remember your huntbuddies must be in the same location as you. You can always use your buddies for other fb apps. The maximum number of hunts is 120 in 24 hours, good obsessive hunters with good groups get 80+ hunts in a day. good hunting ~^..^

Hunting with Friends

Yannis Panagiotopoulos (Greece) wrote on Jun 30, 2008 at 6:28 AM Why all hunters want to hunt as a huge group?? What is the advantage?? Reply to Yannis Townsend Duong (Stanford) wrote on Jun 30, 2008 at 6:50 AM You get up to 4 horn hunts per hour which must be initiated by a player sounding the hunter's horn. If that hunter's horn is not sounded exactly when your 15 minute timer is done, then you will not have the maximum frequency of hunts. When you are hunting with a large group in the same location, there is a higher chance that someone in your group will sound the horn close to your 15 minute timer even if you do not sound the horn yourself. This keeps your number of hunts high. When you become idle in MouseHunt, you continue to stay included in these hunts started by your group until 60 minutes of no new activity in MouseHunt. You also get more points up to 250 when you sound the horn if many others in your group are in the same location and have already met their 15 minute waiting time. Finally, some players send random gold and SB+ to their friends. If you are not friends, you can't receive this.

Walkthroughs #2

Demi Demdem (New Zealand) on May 9, 2008 at 7:17 PM Hunting parties Having more people in your hunting party helps in two ways.. 1) If you sound the horn, you get more points for everyone of your friends that is hunting in that area who is online at the time 2) If you leave the application open when you are afk, then they can sound the horn on your behalf, increasing the number of potential traps per hour from the standard 1, to the potential of 5 (1 trap check and 4 sounding of the horn). If you decide to sleep - and clearly you are not a real addict if you do :p hehe, then leaving the application open and having other people hunt for your is a great idea (or if you have to go to work or something), but you need to make sure you have stocked up on cheese! Marius Eriksen wrote on May 10, 2008 at 12:55 PM 3) With the treb/stone plus at least 80 or so swiss cheese you can head to the harbour. With this set up you will yield about 20k per day so your swiss army trap will not be far away. Some people prefer the explosive base first, that is fine too. Hmm... I doubt it with 20k, but 10k is absolutely within reach. I got explosive base and trebuchet and I have earned 7,7k so far after 22~ hours.