CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
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Submitted by: David K.
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Written by nosta3824382
-=Tips for New Players=-
On the first day keep begging and collect scrape. You can find item in trash only
near water source for maintain hygiene. But don't eat anything from trash. If you
want to eat anything from trash. Use pill or vitamin. Sleep in open to get the dog.
The best item you should find is eye glasses. This item increase learning and
happiness when reading the book light novel or reading at library. The next best
thing is text book and light novel. Try to use reading as your main source of
happiness since is cheapest and it also add literacy that you need for job. Bus
pass and cheap winter equipment is also good. Buy the one you can see at shop.
Keep apply every job even success rate is 0 % to train perk. Take and working in
all jobs you can get. You should work in the morning then quit and apply for higher
job in the same day. This way you get money without losing your opportunity foe
higher job.
In summer collect money and food. Then in winter use library to avoid coldness.
Use library for 1-2 hour. Then quit to use worm time for begging people nearby.
Then re enter the library and repeating the same thing. Go back to your shelter
before curfew.
In summer sleep near curfew. Using time to begging as much money as possible
working job near dead line. But in winter without winter equipment try to sleep
early and working your job early to avoid coldness. Also avoid raining.
For people who don't mind cheese you can quit and reload at the beginning of the
day if you make gravely mistake.
You can stop the clock but not the time when you click at bus stop. The clock
stop but NPC still moving. Your hunger happiness and hygiene still drop. Stop
the clock waiting for the NPC to come close to beg them. This way you can beg
for more people. Avoid using this tactic in winter or rainy day without winter
equipment. Since your happiness drop fast in coldness so it can be pain more than
gain.
Tips and Tricks:
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Written by ThePlagueBeast
Odds and ends, details and other assorted hints to help players at any level
of the game.
-=Don’t Worry, Be Happy=-
Happiness is the most key bar to keep an eye on. If it hits zero, it’s Game Over!
It can be drained by rude people responding to your begging, cops telling you off,
or a pair of mean people who stand around and snark when you pass by (unavoidable).
You can also lose it thru different events, hunger hitting zero, low hygiene, being
wet from the rain, and sleeping outside in general.
To raise happiness you use different consumable items, eat at a restaurant, eat at
the bar or play pool at the bar, or have a positive interaction when begging.
* Magazines can do it but sometimes also give you study or perk experience.
* Juice gives 1 point
* Soda gives 2 points but drains 15 hunger
* Hot chocolate warms you up and gives you 1 point
* Fruit gives 10 hunger and 1 point
* Beer gives 14 points
* Cigarettes give 12 points and is addictive
* Chocolate (unlockable) for 18 hunger and 2 happiness
* Spirits (unlockable) give 21 points and is addictive
* Salad (unlockable) gives 2 points and 33 hunger
* Cake (unlockable) gives 3 points and 70 hunger
* Pillow gear item gives happiness when sleeping at a shelter.
Of special note is Bliss, available only via the Drug Dealer that lurks around.
It costs $6 and keeps your happiness at full for a day, but it is horribly addictive
and every day you go without you take a large happiness drain until you’re over
the addiction.
-=I’m So Hungry=-
Hunger is the bar that raises and lowers the most readily and will be a constant
thing to keep an eye on. If it drops too low you’ll start losing happiness, and
happiness is key.
You can get free food from trash bins, but you run the risk of getting ill from it.
You can prevent illness for a day with pills, or prevent your next illness (whenever
it happens) with vitamins. When you unlock the clinic building you can go there to
get cured for 3.99. Sometimes, with the right perks, you’ll pull food items from
the trash that you can then eat right away or stash for when they’re needed.
Food items can be purchased from shops, but there’s no guarantee any given building
will have any, and the prices can go up from a city event. Street vendors do not set
up every day but when they do they offer the exact same food options as shops for a
cheaper price, ignoring any price hikes.
The restaurant offers food and happiness. 100 food points and 8 happiness for $10,
or a variable amount for $5. You can also ask for any leftovers, but I’ve personally
yet to succeed at that.
The bar (an unlocked building) lets you in to eat, drink, and be merry for $5. You’ll
get 0-25 happiness, 40 food, and come out drunk.
Along with all the scrap on the ground you can sometimes find food items. These
items will respawn in the same place with some regularity, but should not be
depended upon for meals.
Spending a night in a shelter will always grant some food, so checking in early
can save you if you really need it, and there is a perk to increase the amount
gained. Spending a night in jail will always fill your food meter, but you can
only do that if your crime level is high enough.
The park sometimes has events that can result in food, and the picnic area allows
you to beg once which will result in food items if successful.
You can trade with the homeless for various items, food will show up the most if
you already have the gear. They’ll most often take beer or cigarettes, both of
which can be pulled from trash bins if you’re lucky.
Food items include:
* Hotdog for 65 points
* Sandwich for 56 points
* Energy Bar for 25 points and a day of increased walk speed
* Sausage Roll for 42 points
* Snack Bar for 28 points
* Crisps for 20 points
* Plain Bread for 100 points and -1 happiness
* Fruit for 10 points and 1 happiness
* Meal Deal for 85 points
* Burger (unlockable) for 100 points
* Salad (unlockable) for 33 points and 2 happiness
* Fish n Chips (unlockable) for 100 points and -25 hygiene
* Chocolate (unlockable) for 18 hunger and 2 happiness
* Cake (unlockable) for 70 points and 3 happiness
-=Dirty Filthy Bum=-
Hygiene is the most important stat for how other people respond to you. If you
stink you’re less likely to get money begging, and you can be barred from the
library if your meter is too low.
Searching trash bins without a litter picker or thick gloves will always lower
your hygiene. Some perks will give greater bin rewards at a cost of increased
hygiene loss.
A scrap perk increases the value of scrap but gives a 1 point hygiene penalty
for every piece picked up.
You can get yourself cleaned up for free inside a toilet, or at a water fountain
on the street. If you do your laundry you’ll also get a full hygiene bar out of it.
I recommend only doing your laundry when you get the Dirty Clothes malady that
caps your hygiene meter at 50.
Hygiene Gear:
* Soap, an unlockable, will prevent all hygiene decay for six hours after every wash.
* Fresh Socks lower the base hygiene decay rate.
* Fresh Underwear increases the efficacy of hygiene items.
* Spare Top increases the time it takes for clothes to get dirty.
* Toothbrush gives hygiene when you stay at a shelter.
Hygiene Consumables:
* Wet wipes are a single use consumable that grants 50 points of hygiene immediately.
* Bottled water gives 8 hunger and 15 hygiene.
* Deodorant spray prevents ALL hygiene decay for two full days.
* Sanitiser, an unlockable, prevents hygiene loss for the next 5 incidents that
would reduce it. Must be activated by using it.
* Shampoo, prevents hygiene loss for the next 2 incidents, auto-used.
-=Money Money Money-=
The safest way to earn money is to collect scrap and turn it in to be recycled.
It can be found on the ground both in the background and foreground, sometimes
hiding behind benches or trash cans or the trees that hide the bottom edge of the
screen. There are a few perks that can adjust how much scrap you can carry and the
value of it. Using a trash bag allows you to carry more and gives a bonus bagging
fee when you turn it in, but it’s used up when you do so, so try to cram as much
in there as possible! There’s also a book rental bonus from the library that ups
the value of scrap and automatically collects it for you, so if you’re lucky enough
to get it skip everything else and just run around!
Begging also gets you cash, and fast if you stack perks for it and get lucky with
the weather. There’s a lot of options to tweak the best times of day and best status
for you to have for successful begging and you’ll have to play around to find the
best setup for your run. Begging in the rain always gives a better chance, as does
begging with the dog. Beware doing it too near any other homeless who are loitering,
they’ll get mad that you’re infringing on their territory and you’ll lose reputation.
A special person to beg from is a person who sometimes spawns who’s asking for
donations for the homeless. I’ve never gotten less than $5 from them, so it’s always
worth it if you see them! They never turn you down.
After you unlock the subway building you can hop on the train to enter a special
begging section. You’re on the train and beg in general and either get some money
or just irritate those around you. It costs $4 to get on the train but I’ve always
had great success earning that back and more. Time moves normally while you’re down
there, and when you get off you exit the same station you entered from.
Day labor requires finding a sign post and then standing around waiting for a truck
to come by. It’s always legal, but always has a chance to injure you. Additionally,
you may not actually get paid at the end of the day. If another homeless character
is standing by the sign when a truck pulls up, they’ll undercut you and you’ll have
to take a lower pay to get the job. Overall it’s risky and not much worth it unless
you’re trying to avoid begging at all costs. There are perks that increase day labor
wages and decrease risk percentage, however.
The actual Jobs building offers up a job to apply for each day with variable pay,
and variable Study and Paperwork requirements to even apply. Application does not
guarantee success, and you won’t find out if you got it until the next day. If you
don’t get it, leave and re-enter the building to apply to a new job.
The Jobs building is closed the day after winter ends. It’s your day off if you’ve
got a job, but you can’t apply to a new one that day.
All the jobs turn into a timer you simply wait out except for the daily paper selling
job (which has the lowest requirements). That one runs off a variant of begging and
seems to use the same perks and numbers to calculate sale success. The daily paper
costs .50c to buy one and sells to the public for 1.75. Standard jobs have perks
that can increase your pay or increase the odds of a good event happening, which
can include a pay raise.
You can also pick up a guitar at a shop or via homeless trading and busk (play music
on the street) by selecting it in your gear inventory. This opens up a minigame
where you click floating notes to fill up a multiplier bar. Each fill up results
in a small amount of money. It’s not a great way to earn cash unless you’re waiting
for your job to start or a shelter to open for the night, but it is always perfectly
legal and won’t piss off other homeless.
The Bank building will allow you to stash your cash to prevent losing it during a
mugging event, but it requires having a residency at a shelter, and costs $5 to
open an account. You can deposit and withdraw as much as you want as often as you
want.
-=The Passage of Time=-
Time ticks ever onwards every moment you’re on the street. It pauses when you enter
a building, interact with a street vendor, a vending machine, or a payphone, but
the people on the sidewalk keep moving. That makes checking payphones a great way
to wait for an officer to move off screen so you can get up to mischief.
Waiting for day labor at the white sign, doing a day labor job, doing a job at the
job building, studying (at the library or with a textbook), having a meal at the
restaurant, drinks at the bar, or sleeping on a bench all speed it along.
-=The Cops, Crimes, and You=-
The police are a constant source of potential unhappiness for the begging player.
If a roaming officer sees you while you are begging, or digging through the trash
after the appropriate city event has occurred, they will freeze you (while time
continues, so watch out!) until they reach you and give you a reprimand. If you
have the siren icon in the upper left, you’re out of chances and they’re going to
kick you to a new (randomly generated) area.
There are perks that will change this situation, one will prevent them from moving
you along so long as your crime level remains below 20, and one will give them a
chance for kindness (giving you some change) if you’re below 15.
Watch out for stationed officers along the road, sometimes they’re hidden by parked
cars. They’ll behave similar to patrolling officers but they yell from their post.
If you listen carefully there’s a little siren blip sound before a patrolling officer
comes on screen, so keep an ear out! There’s a perk, as well, that gives you a siren
icon on the side an officer is about to approach from.
Officers will not stop you from picking up scrap or checking phones for spare change,
nor will they stop you from busking or sleeping on a bench (even with a cup or sign).
If you steal from a shop unsuccessfully you will get the ‘laying low’ debuff that
will prevent you from entering a shop until the next day. There’s a perk that will
allow you to attempt to steal from street vendors, but if you fail that in front of
an officer you will immediately be taken to jail.
You can break into vehicles parked on the street and you will either get food, money,
or steal the radio which can be traded with other homeless people either on the street
or under the bridge in the park. It starts a timer that runs down to your successful
break in, pedestrians will run off and potentially alert nearby police. An officer
seeing this will result in an instant arrest. There are crime perks that can lower
the time taken for a break in, and you can potentially get a rock for an instant
(but loud) break in. There’s also a perk that means pedestrians no longer react
to your attempt,.
For the extremely pyromaniacal popsicle, you can use a lighter to set a trash can
on fire to warm up.
Jail isn’t the worst place in the world. It immediately ends the day (and skips
winter) and you risk losing items, but it fills your hunger and hygiene and warms
you up.
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