Beginners guide


Chapter 2 - Welcome to San Andreas
- You spawn at the airport. You have no money, no weapons, no vehicles, nothing. You must work and rob your way up.
- Explain active cities (every 1 second irl is a game minute = 24 minutes a day = 168 mins a week) - city changes Sunday 23:59, explain 'Players of the Week' etc. on city change stats
- Explain inactive cities are accessible, just less content (players/vehicles/stores to rob etc.)

- SA is a big place, you need to get around
- You should find a vehicle straight away to add a form of protection to yourself
- You can rent a bike from the bike shack (BS icon on radar) near the airport for a small fee
- It's GTA - steal vehicles! You have to tap ENTER/F repeatedly to break in
  - You will only get a wanted level if a cop is nearby, or if you drive past a cop
  - You can change the licence plate on a stolen vehicle to prevent the cops from noticing you are in a stolen vehicle
  - If you buy a garage, you can store it and call for it at any time
  - You can mod it, pay 'n' spray etc., gas station menu etc. bulletproof tires yada yada
- GPS system, gps sub-commands such as '/gps hospital' or '/gps bank'.
- Locate players with /loc
- Find weapons/vehicles/bribes at a payphone (/gps phone).
- Trains
- Taxis (/taxi or press Y near an on-duty taxi)
- Explain Mechanics
- Tire/engine repair kits

- Cash is the most important commodity in San Andreas. With no cash, you can't do jack.
- Of course, as the name suggests, you can rob cash, OR you could be a law-abiding citizen and earn it legitimately.
- You can rob players by looking at them and pressing Y and selecting Rob, or by pressing H (I think?) or by using /rob.
- You can rob any shop/store/stall by aiming at the cashier with a weapon (see below about weapons)
- You can rob the bank alone or with others, see below
- You can rob ATMs by pressing N at them
- You can scrap and export vehicles
- You can do a selection of missions, activities and challenges (/missions)
  - Enter any Trashmaster to start that
  - Enter any Sweeper to start that
  - Sell food from food trucks and Pizzaboy bike
  - etc. for most missions brief explanation and point to /missions to navigate via GPS
- Explain how bank/ATM works (set up ATM pin at the bank first)

- While cash is important, score/xp comes second
- You need score/xp to level up and unlock features and lift limits
- Explain unlocks (skins/weapons/vehicles) and max level is 100 and you can see info about this with /level /lvl /xp /score /rank etc.
- Explain you can tail suspects in a police helicopter (as a cop) or news heli (as a civ) for a bonus

- Find weapons around the map
- Buy weapons from Ammunation
- Weapon licence
- Weapon skills
- Shooting range
- Fighting styles (gym)
- Petrol cap
- Drive-by
- /dropweapon
- Store weapons/ammo in house safes (see below)
- Health and armour and death
- Hospital fee
- Respawning in jail if die near cop with wlvl 2-5 or 1 in 5 chance if MW wl 6
- Revival system
- Call for medics
- Bounties

- Explain wanted levels
  - 6 levels, yellow (1), orange (2-5) and red (6 MW)
  - Explain cops will ticket (1), taze/cuff/arrest (2-5) and taze/cuff/arrest/kill (6 MW)
  - Explain cuffing/tazing system, how to break free from cuffs etc.
  - Explain ALL players can kill MW level 6 for vigilante bonus

- Many stats for individual players and the entire server
- Complete daily objectives (/obj) to earn cash and score
  - Complete all 3 daily objectives for consecutive days to get (days*1000) cash and (days*10) score.
- Complete many different achivements for cash and score

- Skin change
- Clothing
- Vehicle mods
- Buy cars
- Buy garages
- Buy properties