Trap Upgrades #3

Townsend Duong (Stanford) replied to Nafees's post on Jun 7, 2008 at 4:50 PM This walk-through was written by Demi based on her experience going through the early parts of the game. However, she blazed through those early parts of the game because she's the Voodoo priestess of trap curse removal. Other hunters may not have such good luck. More importantly, there have been several updates to the game since that time, the most significant being the restrictions on travel and the addition of the Burglar mouse. The Harbour is more dangerous now than it was back then, and I get the impression that the Pirate mice that made it so worthwhile have been harder to find/catch lately. To answer your questions, Q. Should I keep using Explosive base or Stone base with Trebuchet??? Explosive base. You paid a lot for it, and it gives you a good boost. With the Trebuchet, you can afford to take a slight hit in the cheese effect. Q. What Cheese should i use with those combinations in Town??? Swiss with both combinations Q. Should I dare to travel back to Harbor now or should i wait for upgrade? Stay in Town. I think your trap is strong enough to go to the Harbour, but you will take a lot of beatings before coming out ahead. Might as well play it safe in the Town until you get the Swiss Army trap. Good hunting! :-)

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Rachel Townsend wrote on May 18, 2008 at 4:45 AM ok, I have some questions... should i upgrade to stone base, or mary first? should I stay in the meadow for now, or move once I'm able to upgrade? If so, to where? Townsend Duong (Stanford) replied to Rachel's post on May 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM Looks like you have already moved on beyond that, so this answer won't really apply to you anymore. Most hunters will categorize the weapons into these levels: 1: Tacky Glue or High Tension Steel Spring 2: 500-lb Spiked Crusher or Mary O'Nette 3: Mouse Trebuchet or Mouse Rocketine 4: Swiss Army Mouse Trap 5: Mouse Deathbot Generally, there is very little benefit to owning all weapons within the same level, so the question is really whether to upgrade your trap's weapon to the next level or the base when you meet the requirements for both. You always get a bigger benefit by improving the weapon first. Some people choose the Explosive base before the Swiss Army trap or before the Deathbot. That's okay. You'll have to raise a lot of money to buy either of those weapon upgrades, so improving the base might help you get there. As for what to do when you have Mary and Stone, some people stay in the Town/Meadow, and others have good luck in the Harbour. I would not recommend going to the Mountain until you have the Swiss Army trap. Since you have the Treb/Stone now, I'd suggest going to the Harbour.

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Demi Demdem (New Zealand) on May 14, 2008 at 1:43 AM thanks for bumping the thread (and thanks townsend too!).. glad you are finding it useful.. so here is the next thing.. the break down of trap upgrades and WHY we do what we do.. ************* TRAP UPGRADES ************* I had planned to move from my treb/stone to the explosive and then to the swiss.. however, I went to the harbour feeling quite nervous and new about the whole thing, 88 pieces of swiss cheese to my name and caught 7 pirates in 18 hours.. The harbour tends to give you revenue of about 20k per day.. so even though i had that initial lucky pirate streak, it only actually took about 2 days to save for my swiss that way.. Then with the extra power of the swiss (remember that traps and bases tend to double the power of the previous, but the traps have more power than the bases so it was a much much bigger upgrade).. i had my explosive trap within 24 hours at the harour. Stayed until i would have enough to buy supplies and travel costs in town, and i went to the mountains where the revenue is about 50k per day, and had my deathbot within about 4 1/2 days. With all of the equal level traps (like treb/rocket) there is obviously a choice and some of it is personal preference. Personally with my choices i went tacky glue (not spring), mary (not crusher) and treb (not rocket).. all of those worked brilliantly and i had my deathbot within 12 days of playing the game. ****Okay, enough of your silly rant demi.. tell me what i need to know**** these are the things you need to consider when buying a trap.. 1) Accuracy - your chance of catching a mouse.. eg brie (90%) + trap bonuses 2) luck - your random chance draw - mary is the only trap really renowned for her luck! 3) Power - your power vs mouse power + roll = winner.. 4) power bonus - work out how much the power bonus is.. *****Calculated example ****** Crusher - power = 200, power bonus = 10% Mary = 250, power bonus = 0% assuming you have the wooden target base and you are considering which weapon to upgrade.. (75 power for stone + 0% power bonus) Crush/target would be 275 power + 10% bonus = 303ish total power Mary/target would be 325 + 0% bonus = 325 total power And in the case of Mary vs Crusher.. 20ish power + 5 luck is obviously a better choice.. ***** The eternal question ***** TREB OR ROCKET ***** This has got to be the most common thread (other than the begging threads).. Assuming you have the stone base: Power = 150 Power Bonus = 10 % Accuracy = 0% Luck = 0 Cheese Effect = Positive.. With the Treb (600 power, 2% power bonus, 1% accuracy, 1 luck and cheese effect = very positive) And the Rocket (650 power, 6% bonus power, 0% accuracy, 0 luck and cheese effect = very negative) Treb/stone = 750 + 12% power bonus = 840 power, 1% accuracy, 1 luck and very very positive cheese effect Rocket/stone = 800 + 16% power bonus = 928 power, 0% accuracy, 0 luck and negative cheese effect So, you are probably upgrading from Mary/stone (440 power including power bonus).. With either option you are basically doubling your power.. just under that with the treb and just over that with the rocketine.. either way that is a huge upgrade.. and you though you were catching mice before..!! To work out which is better, you need to work out what is it that catches mice? Accuracy attracts them, power catches them, luck is just an extra chance draw and cheese effect means that you don't lose cheese all the time.. Accordingly it is up to you to make your choice.. One more thing to consider is the effect of your next upgrade (either your explosive trap or your swiss army - if you go for the explosive when you have the rocketine, you may find you lose a lot of cheese with a very very negative cheese effect and if you are losing cheese, you aren't catching mice.. Personally I went from stone/treb/swiss/explosive/deathbot.. and even offer a money back guarantee on hunting that way lolz :p but there you are.. you have the information now and what you need to base your decision on.. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ enjoy.. demi :p

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Demi Demdem (New Zealand) replied to Jen's post on May 12, 2008 at 7:49 PM <3 oh and an update for people who want to know what order to buy things in.. ************* wooden base - tacky glue - target base - mary - stone base - treb - swiss - explosive - deathbot ************* In this order you should be getting a new trap and/or base every 24 hours until you save for the swiss, which in the harbour is up to 48 hours, but took me 36, then another 24 hours for the explosive, then to the mountains to save for your deathbot - about 4-5 days max. obviously this is just my opinion, worked fantastically for me, you can go treb instead of rocket, and/or explosive before swiss (or after deathbot). ***Amount of cheese you should take travelling.. *** to the harbour - about 80-100 swiss cheese (or higher) to the mountains 100+ swiss cheese (or higher). Once in the mountains, use your profits to buy super brie - saves a lot on the travel costs.. (and i never went to the meadow) ***Travelling*** I recommend to harbour once you have the treb/stone set up And the mountains once you have your swiss/explosive, but you can go there with the swiss/stone. ***If you are having a bad day*** stick it out, don't go running with your tail between your legs, sometimes you have a bad day, get over it, the next day will be better. When your luck turns you don't want to be making half the money you could be back in town because the mean mice scared you. ******Important****** If you: 1) go to the harbour/mountains with the appropriate traps as recommended 2) take that amount of cheese with you to the harbour/mountains When it runs out, IF you have not made more than your monies worth back, then i will personally send you gold/brie to compensate.. hows that.. a money back guarantee! dem ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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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.****