Back to Basics

Introduction

• Underground Evolution is a game where you must train hard to defeat the competition. You must use strategy and choose your friends wisely if you want to come out on top, for they may betray you here. U-E offers both individual and team play aspects, that can take as little or as much time as you'd like. You could spend all day in the Gym training to beat your competition, or join a Gang and work as a team to destroy it. Same could be said criminally as well with solo or gang Crimes. eg. Robbing a bank or hijacking a plane. Have a read of this tutorial and you will have a much better understanding of the game... Good luck!

Sidebar

• As you can see, the Sidebar holds and categorizes most of the important links you are likely to need on a daily basis. All of these links will be talked about in detail later on in the tutorial.

Energy

• Energy is primarily used for training at the gym, costing between 10 and 70 energy per train depending on which workout you do. You can also use energy for attacking other players at a cost of 25 energy per attack. Energy is also used for the gym, crimes and school.

• As a non-donator, you receive 10 energy every 10 minutes up to a maximum energy of 100. If you are a VIP then you receive 10 energy every 5 minutes.

• Other than time, there are several ways of acquiring more energy such as:
  • By using various Black Market items gaining 5/10/15/20/25/30 energy each.
  • Buying an Energy Refill from the Resources page

• The maximum amount of energy you can have at any one time is 1,000. Reaching this for the first time will award the player with an honor bar.

Character Skills

These skills are essential for a successful gameplay on U-E. They determine success on both Fights, Prison and Crimes.

Fights: It's quite obvious. The better your skills, the better the the chance of beating your opponent.

Prison Escapes: These are determined by your intelligence and agility. If you are going to help someone escape, then it takes into consideration both skills from both players, so make sure you have enough of each skill before you try and bust a lower level player.

Crimes: Every crimes category requires a different skillset. For example, Public Order is based on your Agility and Endurance, whereas Property needs Agility, Endurance and Intelligence. So on top of meeting the minimum level requirements. you will also need to work on your skills to ensure that you succeed in the crimes. The higher the level, the more of the particular skill you need.

Home

• By clicking on the Home link, you can see nearly all of your stats. Most of them apart from Crime experience which is hidden. The 'Home' page shows basically everything about your account.

Events

• If anything happens to your account, for instance... If someone tries to attack you or if someone busts you out of jail, you will receive an event. You will know when you have an event as the link on the top bar will show you how many new events you have.

• You can delete all types of events individually at any time, or you can choose the delete all option at the top of the page, which will delete everything in your events Events will be deleted periodically from our server meaning you will lose older events.

Mailbox

• Your Underground Evolution mailbox is like an email account, players can send you messages and you can send them messages. Like events, when you receive a new mail, the link on the top bar will show you how many new messages you have.

• You can not send mails to multiple people at once.

• You also have an ignore feature which will prevent other players from mailing you or being able to send you events. So if someone is constantly mailing and you do not wish to speak to them, you can click the ignore link in the Actions column.

• You can delete your mails by simply clicking the trash can icon located next to each mail you receive, at the bottom of the page you can delete them all at once.

Work

• There are a few options of work and each of them last longer. The longer the work, the more you get paid.
• Once the work is done, there will be a green check mark in the sidebar menu next to Work. To get paid, you MUST go into work and finish the job.
• Whilst at work some activities will be blocked.

Gym

• There are a few options gym and each of them last longer. The longer the workout, the more stats you get.
• Each workout works on different set of skills.
• Once the workout is done, there will be a green check mark in the sidebar menu next to Gym. To get the skills, you MUST go into gym and finish the workout
• Whilst at the gym some activities will be blocked.

Education

• There are a few options of courses and each of them last longer. The longer the work, the more intelligence you will get.
• Once the course is done, there will be a green check mark in the sidebar menu next to School. To get the skills, you MUST go into school and finish the course
• Whilst at school some activities will be blocked.

Crimes

About

• As well as getting cash for doing Crimes, you also get crime experience allowing you to do better at the other crimes.

Outcomes

• Each crime has many outcomes depending on the results, you'll either experience a success, warning, or fail, possible outcomes could be prison, hospital, earning money, or escaping from the cops. Your crime experience will only go up if the crime is successful.

Failing

• By going to Jail you lose a large amount of crime experience. It is very important that you avoid prison at all costs, not only are you stuck in there for a long time, but it can leave a big dent in your crime experience. It may take a long time to regain it again.

Newspaper

• In the Newspaper you can find the latest news generated by other U-E users like yourself, as well as chronicles on past events and other forms of news, ie. classified ads and popular black market listings.

Prison

• You go to Prison if you do a crime and get caught by the cops, you can also go in for failing a faction organised crime. When in there, you are restricted access to most of the pages in U-E. You can try to escape from prison while in there. When not in prison, you can also bust or buy people out of prison. Busting will get them out. Certain things to take into consideration If you bust them out, you will be rewarded with crime experience, which also helps you do other crimes easier. Level also plays a role in making busting, it is easier at higher levels, and easier to bust lower levels. If you take the risk of busting someone out and get caught, you will go to jail yourself. Buying them out will not do anything, just cost you cash.

Hospital

• You can end up in the hospital in many ways whilst playing Underground Evolution. The most common way is by getting hospitalised after an attack. Unlike Prison, you are only restricted if you start a treatment, but beware if your health is too low, you may not be able to do much in the city. Once you start a treatment, some sections of U-E will be blocked.

Slots & Roulette

• A place to chill out and maybe win yourself a little cash! Details of how to play the games are in the respective game. You will need to have tokens to play all the games currently listed.

Preferences

for information on the preferences please refer to the following page:

Preferences

Attacking

About

• You are more likely to beat someone who has less stats than you, if you lose, you could find yourself in hospital for quite a long time.
• You can attack someone directly through their profile, or choose a random player in the fight arena.

Calculations:

• When you begin attacking someone, you must select which weapon you wish to use. It is probably a good idea if you are battling someone with a lot of dexterity to hit them with a melee weapon. Melee weapons are quite easy to hit your opponent with, they do not miss as much as secondary and primary weapons. Once you have clicked on the weapon you are using, it will bring you to another page showing you the results of that turn... eg. Using your Dual Axes you hit -Clansdancer in the throat for 1523 damage

• You can view the images to either side of the text above and see how much 'life' you and your opponent have remaining. Then click on the weapon you want to use once again. You keep doing this until the battle is over. If you beat your target, you have three choices. a) Leave them, b) Mug them and c) Hospitalize them. Leaving them will do nothing extra to them- They will go to hospital for a short period, you will only gain level experience. Mugging them will usually get you some of their cash, you will still get a little exp too, but you will probably also annoy them! Last you have hospitalize, this will put them in the hospital for a very long period but you will gain very low exp. If they are in a faction, this could start a war.

Actions:

• Hospitalize

When you Hospitalize someone they will go to hospital for a period of time, this is usually between 3 and 3.5 hours.

• Mugging

When you mug someone you will steal some of their money. You will usually get between 1% and 10% of what they are carrying depending on merits spent on "Masterful Looting", sometimes you wont find anything.

• Leaving Them

When you leave someone they will go to Hospital for a period of time, usually between 30 and 40 minutes. This action only gives experience.

Weapons and Armor

• Better weapons will increase your damage, armor will decrease the enemy's damage to you. Pretty simple really. Weapons are very important as some can even triple your damage! Be sure you choose the right weapon for your stats though, check the details of each weapon before you buy them. Accuracy is a great asset to any set of stats.

Ammo

• In order to attack someone using one of your guns, which is any weapon other then the Melee types, you need to first buy some ammo for that specific weapon and then load one of the clips into that gun. During Attacking, you can reload ammo clips, but you cannot buy more clips, so if you run out you will have to switch to a different weapon.

Leveling

• One of the most important things in the game is leveling. You get EXP (which, like crime experience, you cannot see) every time you use the gym, do crimes and attack people. Unlike most games, it is very hard to level. You need to do a lot of crimes to go up! When you are able to go up a level, you will be notified in your home. By gaining Levels, as well as many other benefits, you also get access to special areas. For example, some of the areas are shown below. Please keep in mind there are pros and cons to everything and leveling is not an exception. If you level too quickly, your stats will not be equal to those who took their time, this leaves you wide open to being what is known as a 'leveling target'. Basically you become the high level with low stats everyone uses for experience.

Level 4 - Play Blackjack in the Casino!

Level 5 - Auction House, sell your items to the highest bidder!

Level 5 - Missions, (some easy, some hard) to earn some cash!

Level 7 - Russian roulette, challenge people and win big money!

Level 10 - Take out loan, if you need extra cash!

Level 15 - Travel agency, travel to other countries around the world!

Items

About items

• All items you own are in your Items page. You can view them by clicking 'Items' on your sidebar. With some items you can perform certain tasks, such as [Equip][Unequip][Sell][Send][Call][Open][Eat][Drink][Watch][Enlist][Propose][Trash]. You can send any item you want to someone if you need to, you can equip items which are weapons or armor so you can use them when battling, you can also use and take many other types of items. When something like 'use' is clicked, you will carry out the specific task which the item does. The images name can also take you to an info page, highlighting interesting statistics such as the items value, circulation in the city and offers a detailed description of the items, so to learn more of any specific item, click directly on their name.

• Some items come with a Item Cooldown, such as cans, bottles, candy, FHCs, DVDs, and stat enhancers. These sorts of items cannot be used together. Similarly Drugs come with a cooldown effect, though drugs cooldown effects can do a host of different things, and is also applied to drug overdoses.

Factions

About factions

• Factions are one of the main parts of Torn. By joining one, you agree to work with the other members to make your faction the best. While in a faction you will need to participate with the other members in organised crimes, requires teamwork, meaning you have to remain active. organised crimes can help earn your faction cash, crime experience and respect. Factions also expect you to attack enemy factions when at war with them.

Joining a Faction

• Before joining a faction be sure you choose wisely. If you choose to be in an Aggressive faction, check their war base and speak to their leader. Some factions require daily chaining, minimum stat requirements, or that you have a Donator Pack. It's wise to speak to the leader and find out just what they expect from you before you apply.

The travel agency

• Once you reach level 15, you will gain the ability to Travel to other cities around Torn City. In these cities, you will be able to buy items that are not available in Torn City, you can also do many other things that you cannot do in Torn. You can still be attacked and hospitalized while you are in another country, so be aware of this before leaving your account in another country far from Torn. You cannot use morphine in other countries so leaving your account there could cause you to be stuck in that country for a period of time.

Stock Market

• In order to use the Stock Market you must first purchase a stock ticker. You can purchase this at the Points building located in the city, it will cost you 25 points to purchase. Each stock listed offers a special bonus and requires you to own a certain number of shares to receive that benefit, you can view what stock benefit each stock offers by clicking on each stock and reading the information on the page. It will give you the details in how many shares you must own and what the benefit will be. if you meet the share quota required it will show in your portfolio and mention you are earning a bonus. You can choose to do stocks this way, or play them by watching graphs and forecast, deciding which one looks like it might rise soon and investing to make profit. This may be a more risky way to invest, but potentially could make you a very decent profit.

Splitting and Stacking

• You are given the option in your portfolio to split and stack your stocks. Splitting means taking the larger block and making it into smaller ones. Stacking means to take as many small blocks of a certain stock you have and making it one large block. If you are holding stocks and earning benefits you may choose to split the profit from the larger block you need to earn benefits. You would simply look at how many shares the larger of the two blocks required for the benefit and break the remaining shares off the smaller block. This giving you 1 block for the benefit and 1 block you can sell. If you are holding many small blocks of stocks and wish to combine them to sell or receive a benefit for, you can click stack and it will group all the stocks of the same kind together.

Drugs

• Drugs are definitely a player choice in this game. There are both pros and cons to taking drugs in game so you will need to be sure to decide before you start- if the pros outweigh the cons. Some drugs give you an energy boost, or get you out of the hospital. However they all come with addiction levels that will require rehab to get rid of at some point. You can attempt to wait the drug addiction out, but this is a very long and slow process. Rehab is in Switzerland and costs 250k per treatment, it normally takes several treatments if you take drugs on a consistent basis to lose your addiction. There are also company specials which help remove addiction (Herbal Cleansing, R and R).