D O P E W A R S: T H E U N O FF I C I A L G U I D E By Steve Novicki ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 – Introduction 2 – How to Make A Ton of Money and Win the Game 3 – Legal Information 4 – How to Contact Me 5 – Farewell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello! I am Steve Novicki, and I will be narrating this guide for the awesome PC game, Dope Wars. Dope Wars is a game of buying and selling illegal drugs, and you have to be clever enough to pull it all off and make it to your best advantage by making a lot of money. This game is basically a version of Drug Wars, an awesome game I have on my TI-85, but is for Windows. It is much, much easier to use than Drug Wars, though, so you shouldn't get Drug Wars after getting Dope Wars. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 - How to Make a Ton of Money and Win the Game ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The main aim of Dope Wars is to buy and sell a variety of illegal drugs to make a lot of money. The most I've ever made was about $500,000, and you start out with $2,000 and a debt to the bank. What I normally do to make a lot of money is to, in the beginning, wait until the price of acid goes way, way down. You normally get it from $3,000 - $5,000; wait until it goes down to like $200. Then buy as much as you can afford and/or stuff in your coat. Now just keep jetting around town until you get a really, really expensive price on acid, like $4,000. Now sell the whole load, and you should have around $50,000. It is crucial that you pay off your debt now with the money you just made or else it will haunt you the rest of the game to a point that you can't pay it off at all. Now that you have some serious money, wait until the pigs are selling cheap heroin from last week's raid (the price of heroin is about $900 or $1,000). Buy as much as possible. Now jet around until addicts are buying heroin at outrageous prices (the price of heroin is extremely high, maybe around $30,000). Sell all of the heroin you have. This should bring you in some serious money. Now the best thing to do is to buy as much cocaine as you can when the price is average (around $18,000 or so). Jet around until cops have made a big coke bust, prices are outrageous (the price of cocaine is extremely expensive, like $100,000). Sell all you have. You should now be well boosted into the millions of dollars. You should have so much money now that it is extremely hard to go bankrupt by accident. Therefore, you can just play around with all of the drugs and see what you can do. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 – Legal Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This FAQ/Document is protected by the international Copyright laws. This FAQ is Copyright © April 8, 2000 by Steve Novicki. All rights reserved. The owner/author of this document reserves the right to, at any time, change this document without any notification whatsoever. If you rip off of (plagiarize) this document, I can and will sue you and easily win. Just don't do it. Or unless you wish to copy this document into a web site, or almost anything excluding commercial use, just send me an e-mail at Aristotle47@aol.com and I will be happy to respond. Thank you very much. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 – How to Contact Me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I check my e-mail approximately every day about two or three times. If you send me an e-mail containing questions, comments, complaints, updates, or anything like that, I will be more than happy to respond to it. My e-mail address is Aristotle47@aol.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 – Farewell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It has been fun writing this FAQ, as well as playing the excellent game Dope Wars. It always gives me great pleasure to help other people, and this time has been no exception. Once again, thank you for taking the time to read my short mini-FAQ. And remember, have fun gaming!