How to play

Trading and travel

Every town has its own prices, refreshed every 30 to 120 minutes. Spikes and crashes last 10 to 25 minutes. Use /towns to see every town at once, and watch the news channel for events.

Getting around

Travel is instant. You pay in energy and, for faster transport, in cash. Walking is free but costs the most energy.

Energy

You have 60 energy to start, and it refills at about 1 per minute. A trip costs roughly a minute of walking in energy, less on faster transport. Run out and you rest until it comes back, so plan your route.

Coats and guns

Your coat decides how much you can carry. The back-alley shop restocks every few hours, with shared stock, so be quick.

You can carry up to 3 guns. They take room in your coat and improve your chances in fights.

Heat and danger

Big trades and fast transport make a town hot for you. The hotter you are, the likelier a police stop, and then a raid. Heat cools in about two hours.

• Police stops: fight, run, or pay your way out. Strength and Speed skills help.
• Muggers: they go for cash in your pocket, so a stash in the bank is safe.
• Busted: you lose your stock and some cash and sit in the cells. /bail pays you out, and you can still play mini-games while you wait.
• The taxman: every few arrests he checks your bank account.

Bank, loans and skills

The bank

Camden has a bank. Cash in the bank is private, safe from muggers, and earns 1% a day on the first £100,000. Use /bank, which only you can see.

The loan shark

Borrow up to £10,000 at 8% a day. Let it grow too far and his enforcers come looking. It is optional, and tempting.

Skills

Permanent upgrades that cost a lot, grow dearer with each level (up to level 10), and survive even if you are wiped out.

If you do get wiped out, you restart with a small head start that grows each time, up to 50% extra.

Games and casino

Free games: /games

Quick games that pay cash or drugs, playable any time, even in the cells or on the road.

Win streaks: every win in a row raises the prize, up to double on win 10, and drugs get likelier and more valuable as it climbs. A loss or timeout resets it. /gamestop shows the best players.

The casino: /casino

Here you gamble your own cash (£100 to £50,000 a bet) at proper casino odds, and winnings are paid in cash.

• 🃏 Blackjack: beat the dealer to 21. Blackjack pays 3 to 2, aces count 1 or 11, and five cards without going bust wins.
• 🎡 Roulette: single zero wheel. Red or black, odd or even and high or low pay 1 to 1, dozens 2 to 1, a single number 35 to 1.
• 🎲 Craps: pass line. A 7 or 11 wins on the first roll, 2, 3 or 12 loses, otherwise roll your point again before a 7.

The Black Market

Trade drugs, guns and coats directly with other players. Open it with /blackmarket (or dw-bm). It is private to you, and for registered players only.

Selling

1. Press Sell something and pick a drug, a gun or the coat you are wearing.
2. Type how many (for drugs) and the price for the whole lot.
3. The item leaves your coat and goes on the board for 24 hours. You can have 3 lots up at once.
4. When it sells, the market keeps 5% and you collect the rest from the market menu.

Buying

Press Browse, filter by drugs, guns or coats, and press Buy on a lot. You pay cash, and you need room in your coat for what you buy. Deals are announced publicly with a receipt.

Fair prices

A lot must be priced between about 0.4x and 3x of what it is normally worth. Anything far outside that is refused, which keeps the market honest.

If it does not sell

• When a lot expires or you cancel it, the item comes back to you from the Collect button.
• If your coat is full, as much as fits comes back, and the rest waits for you until there is room.
• Guns need a free gun slot and room. An unsold coat comes back if it is still an upgrade, otherwise it goes to a fence for half its shop price.

Trades are between real, registered players. Accounts that look like the same person cannot trade with each other. See the rules.

Daily rewards and registering

Registering takes about 20 seconds: read the rules, sign in with Discord, done. It unlocks the daily reward, the weekly crate and the Black Market.

• /daily gives you a reward every 20 hours. Days 1 to 3 in a row bring a bag (cash and sometimes drugs), days 4 to 6 a stash (more cash and some drugs), and day 7 a crate with a chance of a better coat or a gun.
• They go in your coat and take space until you press Open (or use /crates). Opening gives the space back, cash goes in your pocket, and any drugs that do not fit are sold on the spot.
• Coat full? The reward waits on your doorstep for 7 days. Free some space and collect it, or it is sold for half its value.
• Bring a mate: /refer gives you a code. A friend who joins earns you a bag, a stash once they have played a week, a crate every 5 friends and a premium crate every 25. They get a bag too.

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All the commands

Typed versions use the dw- prefix where the server has it on, for example dw-shop or dw-trenchcoat.