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 #5

Garry John Riechert (Australia) wrote on Jun 20, 2008 at 9:45 AM Advice to newbies (any one with less than the Swiss army trap and hunting in the meadows or town). There seems to be a little confusion how the hunt happens. Heres the walk through. Lets keep things in Gnawnia.(Meadow,Town,Harbour,Mountains) action1/ You set your trap, baited with cheese. *pants heavily* action2/ Depending on the type of cheese you will attract or not attract a mouse.(this is dependent on your cheese, your accuracy value and now possibly your location) -If you fail to attract then there is a chance your cheese will go stale, is independent of everything except your trap which has an effect on your cheese.(If it goes stale you lose the cost of your cheese.) *bugger I'm going to get that cheese shoppe charlatan* -If you attract a mouse you move to the next action. action3/ Forget the cheese its gone. Your mouse has taken the bait, be it 10goldCheddar or 450goldSbrie. This is the cost of catching a mouse. - Your luck is tested, if you are lucky, you catch the mouse no questions asked.*OMG I caught a Zombie with Glue and Target base* -If you are not lucky, the power of your trap is compared with the power of the mouse with a random roll to mix things up. If you prove stronger you catch your mouse.*smug look of satisfaction* If you prove weaker you miss your mouse who is now dining on a 10goldCheddar or 450goldSbrie.*lips smacking* If you prove weaker in the Harbour or the Mountains by too great a margin, the mouse waits for the hunter and steals more cheese or gold or says 'boo' and takes away some courage(points). *I can't take it no more I'm going to the meadow for rehab!* 200gold and Sbrie at over150gold is a waste of gold if you fall under these criteria. You have a low powered trap (Anything under Swiss) or if you hunt in the Meadow or Town. ::::::::::: :::::::::::: It is because the majority of the mice you do catch won't cover the cost of the cheese you used. :::::::::::::::::::::: You'll do better using Swiss and Marble, you won't attract as many mice but you'll collect gold quicker which means you can upgrade to the next trap quicker and thats how you can steam ahead. Once you get the Swiss army trap and/or are in the Mountains or Harbour more factors get involved so you might have a new opinion. Do not confuse cheese attraction with the chance of catching a mouse. The more you hunt the more chance you have of getting ahead. Although there is some correlation between what cheese you use and what types of mice the cheese attracts.

Checking your completion status

Caryn K (New York, NY) wrote on Jul 5, 2008 at 10:50 PM Why don't I see the % of where I am to the next level? Laurie Martin (Toronto, ON) replied to Caryn's post on Jul 6, 2008 at 5:14 AM Caryn, you must "hover" your mouse right over the red/green progress bar, which is located by the little coloured badge which indicates your rank. Try moving it slightly to the right side of the bar and waiting for a minute, it will show you a percentage of how far you are to the next rank/ level. Cheers.

Walkthroughs #1

Demi Demdem (New Zealand) wrote on May 6, 2008 at 9:19 PM After realising I had just typed the same thing about 4 times in a row.. here goes... from my limited experience.. Starting off: 1) buy a base - try wooden 2) but a trap - i recommend the tacky glue for accuracy 3) buy some cheese - i recommend starting with marble Catching mice: From here, you will receive 1 trap check per hour, and every 15 minutes the (horn) pops up at the top of your screen and you can sound it. Friends: 1) You or anyone in your hunting party (your hunting party are your friends who have the application and are hunting in the same location eg, town, meadow harbour or the mountains) can sound the hunters horn. 2) Whoever sounds the horn receives bonus points for every friend who is online at the time and hunting in that location. Catching mice2: 1) Because, try as we might, we can not be at the computer 24/7, add friends from the mousehunt application and increase your hunting circle. 2) Leave the application open when you are afk from the keyboard but make sure you stock up on plenty of cheese first - with up to 5 catches per hour you can run out pretty fast - but also make a lot of gold and points. Accuracy vs Power vs Luck 1) Accuracy is the chance to attract a mouse to your trap 2) Your Power vs Mouse power in (I think) a random roll based on probability, determines who wins 3) Luck gives you a small chance to catch a mouse regardless of its type. Trap/base upgrades: 1) You should be able to get a new trap and/or base upgrade every 24 hours until you end up with the treb/stone base (or rocket/stone if you prefer). 2) Always keep your cheese stocked up. 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. 4) Once you have the swiss/explosive set up, head to the mountains with lots of cheese - at least swiss by this point, perhaps even some super brie for a 40-55k per day gold return to save for your death bot. Super brie: you can obtain super brie one of two ways 1) donating real money to the developers 2) buying it from other players Super Brie has a 99.9% accuracy (chance to attract a mouse to your trap), however you still need the power (trap/base) to catch the mouse. The advantage of Super brie is that in places with more vicious mice, they can not steal it in bulk (nasty mice can steal not only the 1 piece of cheese but up to about another 7 too). I'm still a novice!!: And you will be until your points get to 67000. that is the hard cap upgrade. Tariff: If you are buying super brie, you need to be aware that you *should* have more points than the person you are buying from. If you have less points, you will be charges up to a 50% tariff so the person you are buying from ends up with less cash :/ Begging: 1) Don't do it, we don't like it and it is a real pain. If you really need some money/brie, talk to your friends, most people like helping each other out. 2) Alternatively, please find a creative way of asking/earning the money, people appreciate that. 3) Watch the forums for give aways and hand outs. ****Note: How you personally choose to go about things is obviously up to you, these are ideas and suggestions and if you have queries please feel free to ask on the forums or send me a message.****