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		<title>Spymaster Advances</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="wp-caption-text">Spymaster on Twitter</p>
<p>Hi folks, a few of you may well have seen my previous post a week or so ago about the great and addictive little game on twitter, called <a title="Spymaster game on twitter" href="http://playspymaster.com" target="_blank">Spymaster</a>.</p>
<p>Now, you&#8217;ll forgive me for thinking that it might get boring after a while, indeed I was getting [...]]]></description>
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<p>Hi folks, a few of you may well have seen my previous post a week or so ago about the great and addictive little game on twitter, called <a title="Spymaster game on twitter" href="http://playspymaster.com" target="_blank">Spymaster</a>.</p>
<p>Now, you&#8217;ll forgive me for thinking that it might get boring after a while, indeed I was getting into a little cycle, play all my energy, leave it for half an hour, then play all my energy, amass $$, or ££ (depending on your chosen agency).  But then I started getting better, playing every half hour increased my levels, I&#8217;m now at level 23 for <a title="The Assassin on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/the_assassin" target="_blank">The_Assassin</a> and Level 25 on my other account.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s only really on these last 5 levels when things have been getting good, I didn&#8217;t take much for the assassinations of others, as I felt I needed to progress with my experience on the tasks that were set, now I&#8217;m on tasks which require 45 points of your energy, you can Train Revolutionaries, Assassinate Diplomats, Steal Military Weapons or even Extract Defectors&#8230;.. how cool &#8211; better than the previous&#8230;(Coerce a Mafia Boss and collect a Dead Drop)!</p>
<p>Of course, I learned during the various levels that there are unscrupulous opponents/spies out there who will assassinate from the word go&#8230; especially because I&#8217;ve got a cool name, and face it &#8211; I have &#8211; The_Assassin, how cool!?!  so Learning the process, the ropes is difficult sometimes!</p>
<p>One thing you must do is protect your assets, obviously your cash is first, then second is your spymasters, so ensure you have enough of the defense items to cover all your spymasters!</p>
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<p>Cash &#8211; deposit in the bank! &#8211; nobody can get it in there other than you!</p>
<p>It took a while for me, so just remember &#8211; you need a fair old whack before you can open an account! &#8211; nigh on £500k</p>
<p>So &#8211; Ensure you build up your portfolio of Safe Houses, get the £1 million property, AND get the rest, as every 5 minutes you WILL get something, it might not be a lot, but if you are sleeping and not playing and don&#8217;t have safe houses, you aren&#8217;t gaining dosh&#8230; so have properties, if you do, then you will awake in the morning with a good bit of dosh &#8211; the most I&#8217;ve awoke to is approximately £250k and that was with no failed assassinations on me, so that was pretty good going!</p>
<p>Now, I know that people have been spending ages on Spymaster, so don&#8217;t let it rule your life&#8230; (just your online one)! haha! &#8211; credit to<a href="http://twitter.com/ucana422" target="_blank">@ucana422</a>, who has been playing 25 hours with 3 hours kip &#8211; you rock&#8230; ya nutter!</p>
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<p>Examples of Level 25 armoury : M107 Sniper Rifle and for Defense : an ARMOURED CAR! &#8211; one serious piece of kit at around £200k as well..!</p>
<p>The Sniper rifle is around the £16k mark</p>
<p>Remember though, that the best way forward is to get the same number of these as you have SPYMASTERS in your group&#8230; and watch your Attack and Defense sum rise&#8230;.</p>
<p>Maybe I am on my way to being the best <a title="Spymaster game on twitter" href="http://playspymaster.com" target="_blank">Spymaster</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>Hell, I got a mention from the CEO of spymaster on his twitterfeed about my initial spymaster post, so I must be on the right track! (<a title="CEO of iList and Spymaster" href="http://twitter.com/chrisabad" target="_blank">@chrisabad</a>)</p>
<p>Just one thing though &#8211; don&#8217;t attempt to assassinate any of the founders, you could end up with serious crap on your tail&#8230;.!</p>
<p>Signing off<br />
Craig a.k.a. The_Assassin</p>
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		<title>Twitter Game Spymaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 17:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two hours I'm addicted, Spymaster for Twitter, it's a great SPY Game with Tasks &#124; Assassinations &#124; Conversion of Spies &#124; Black Markets &#124; Buy Safe Houses &#124; Swiss Banks, fantastic for a laugh with people who follow you, and who you follow - read more in the post itself and remember to add your own comments about Tips and Tricks for "Spymaster in Twitter"]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p>So&#8230; Twitter has some Games, this is the first one I&#8217;ve joined, It&#8217;s called <a title="Play Spymaster on Twitter" href="http://playspymaster.com" target="_blank">Spymaster</a> an off-shoot website by the tweeple that bring you <a title="iLink, inc." href="http://ilist.com/" target="_blank">iList, inc.</a></p>
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<p>The First thing you need to do when you get signed up is choose an organisation for your <a title="Play Spymaster on Twitter" href="http://playspymaster.com" target="_blank">Spymaster Game</a>, is it going to be: CIA? MI6? or the FSB? Let&#8217;s look at them in more detail:</p>
<ul>
<li>CIA:  The Americans use their money and prestige to win over defectors, so therefore you obtain 10% more money than other starting groups.</li>
<li>MI6: The British rest between the superpowers, giving them unmatched speed, so therefore you obtain 10% more energy than the others</li>
<li>FSB: Russian Cold War projects and extreme physical training make the FSB strong, so therefore you get 10% more health.</li>
</ul>
<p>Right, so that sounds reasonable&#8230;  (I choose MI6) next up is choosing your notifications&#8230; if you choose ALL the notifications:</p>
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<ul>
<li>Assassinating a user</li>
<li>Wiring money to another spymaster (reply)</li>
<li>Securing a new Safe House</li>
<li>Spymaster level increase</li>
<li>Performing a task</li>
<li>Failing to assassinate a user</li>
<li>Depositing money in my Swiss Bank account</li>
<li>Buying new items from the Black Market</li>
</ul>
<p>if you choose them all, then you get 8% of your Total Money increased.</p>
<p>Then it&#8217;s Continue and Game starts&#8230;.<br />
During this process for me &#8211; someone tried to assassinate me, but failed! #spymaster &#8211; denied !! haha! (@sjalan on twitter)</p>
<p>Well &#8211; where to now I think&#8230;.. hmm, it turns out that all of your followers are now Spies.<br />
and it would seem that 10 of them are already playing Spymaster Game on Twitter, superb&#8230; these 10 people are called Spymasters, and my current aim is to gain more of these.<br />
I seem to be starting on £2156.82 &#8211; Hey, at least it&#8217;s in ££&#8217;s&#8230;! (good start in my opinion)!</p>
<p>Anyways, my tasks : While they&#8217;ve started you with enough money to buy a knife or a vest from the Black Market, you’ll       need to perform tasks to make money and progress through the levels. With the money, you can       buy items on the black market for tasks or for assassination plots.. woohooo&#8230; AND: Once you have weapons, you can plot assassinations against other real       spymasters in your own spy ring or in others. Attacking them will set them back and       you may even have the chance to steal their assets</p>
<p>It of course dangles a wee carrot, &#8211; you can be &#8220;perhaps&#8221; the greatest spymaster of them all&#8230;. I wonder&#8230;</p>
<p>So &#8211; I need to invite people&#8230; &#8211; Join me now if you want: <a title="Play Spymaster on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/the_assassin" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/the_assassin</a><br />
Then you need to buy stuff, of course&#8230; I bought Makarov PM, 9x18mm (as you do&#8230;) then I done my first 2 tasks..<br />
Coerce a Mafia Boss and collected a Dead Drop&#8230; then eek&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>My status gets updated on twitter&#8230; now to find out how to lose that&#8230;<br />
Dashboard | Tasks | Assassinations | Convert Spies | Black Market | Safe Houses | Swiss Bank<br />
Hmm, nothing strikes me as &#8211; remove status updates&#8230; aarghh.. what have I done&#8230; I&#8217;m starting to worry &#8211; as I don&#8217;t want my twitter stream to be an endless cascade of #spymaster this and #spymaster that&#8230;. however, I&#8217;ve found it &#8211; it&#8217;s down the bottom of the screen! phew &#8211; panic over&#8230;</p>
<p>Now&#8230; the Assassination of someone on twitter &#8211; result &#8211; congratulations, however &#8211; you only wounded them<br />
When you click Start Assassination, you are presented with a rather funky flash type screen when you are attempting your plot, then it automatically refreshes you to your result..<br />
In my case here it was good: &#8211; You were also able to take some of   		your opponent’s assets; see the overall gains and itemized gains in the rightmost   		column.</p>
<p>What next, well, it&#8217;s really just there to have a wee bit of fun&#8230;<br />
Keep doing your tasks and your energy levels go down&#8230;.<br />
I currently only have 15 for my energy level..</p>
<p>And now I&#8217;ve just realised that your energy level is increased every 5 minutes&#8230;!<br />
It looks like it&#8217;s 25 energy each 5 minutes&#8230; upto a total of 120&#8230;</p>
<p>To get to the next level you must gain:</p>
<ul>
<li>Current Experience: 74</li>
<li>46 to Next Level</li>
</ul>
<p>So what next&#8230;.</p>
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<p>Safe Houses&#8230; superb, you can buy Safe Houses in Spymaster as well&#8230;<br />
Ultimately they bring in funds on a regular interval, of course &#8211; associated with that is RISKS, as you can see &#8211; the lower you pay, the higher the risk of losing the income stream, the more you pay, the higher the income and the lower the risk&#8230;</p>
<p>Decisions Decisions Decisions</p>
<p>Wow &#8211; then there&#8217;s banks too, and not just any banks, SWISS Banks! &#8211; you can store your hard earned cash in these institutions, just like you would any bank, AND withdraw at any time too &#8211; which is a really cool feature.  Another feature is that you can transfer funds to someone else, and they can do the same to you &#8211; nifty&#8230;</p>
<p>2 Hours of playing, and I&#8217;m on level 2 now, (that was around the point when I started to realise how to play it)!</p>
<p>Hopefully with the help of this guide you can start playing it.<br />
If you want to add any comments &#8211; with tips, hints, etc etc then please do so &#8211; just leave a comment, remember to put in the comment your @ twitter name so I can add you to my follows&#8230; and ring of Spies!!!</p>
<p>Comment below remember!</p>
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