Cyberdunk Guide For Dummies (10 Steps for Beginners)

This might help some guys here who have just started playing Cyberdunk:

Congratulations on joining Cyberdunk, the best basketball MMORPG in the internet today. As a practical guide to newbies like you, i have listed 10 basic steps for you to follow. Here are my suggestions:

1. Stay with the computer team for the time being. Don't rush joining a human-owned team if your value is not yet that high. Why? Because chances are, the human team manager would not offer you a higher salary and signing bonus. More importantly, once you have signed with a human manager, transferring to another team will be more difficult since your current manager now has the say on whether he will allow you to leave the team. For the time being, train, train and train. I assume that you don't have enough money yet, so use the 1 day, $60 dollar trainings.

2. Once you have reached a value of 19, then go to the forums, and try to sell yourself. Im sure several offers will come your way. Here are things to look out for:Contract period: Look for a 1 season contract onlySigning bonus: When i was valued 19, i got a 35k signing bonusSalary: I got an 800 salaryWinning bonus: i got 200 winning bonusPrice Tag: should be very low (around 2500)

Contract negotiation depends on the following factors:

a)It depends on how well you sell yourself. Posting your stats ain't good enough for some human managers. You have to convince yourself that you will be an active member of their team. If they have a team forum, you also have to convince them that you will actively participate in the team discussions.

b)Team need - If a team is in dire need of a good Center, they tend to overpay a bit just to get their man.

c)Market demand and supply - Since the game is just in its inception stage, market demand and supply changes rapidly. Time will come that a human owner will only get players with value of 25 and up. Of course it also depends on whether the admins will create more teams or if more humans buy their own teams. Again, its a combination of supply and demand. Simple

3. Choose a team that has a team forum (my team, the south east rollers/dogs, has a very active team forum where we get to discuss tactics, development plan and everything under the sun). Check out our team forums - http://www.talkdep.com/forumdisplay.php?f=315 I am currently valued at 23.15 but as you can see, im still with their developmental team. Hopefully, i can crack the main team next season. You should have similar goals i believe.

4. Since you have 35k in signing bonus, start betting. For great tips, visit this thread - http://www.talkdep.com/showthread.php?t=12236I started with 35k, now i have almost a million to spend. Their bet advices would usually focus on the underdogs, where a 35k bet will give you a payout of 150k

5. You can also play 1 on 1 during free days. A 250k would surely be a big bonus for you

6. Now that you have enough money, start to train like crazy. The best training would be those $20,000/3 days/+5 skills trainings. Make sure to schedule your training properly, such that you can train a +5 skill twice on every available skill. (e.g. if you currently have 15 confidence, a 20k training on confidence will result to raising your confidence to 20, which means that you can still put another 20k on confidence training, since the min/max level for that particular training is 10/20.

7. Once you achieved a minimum of 20 on all skills, i suggest you put emphasis on certain skills. For Centers, its obviously, shotblocking, rebounding, strength, inside shooting. For shooters, speed, 3 point shooting, floor shooting and some bit of confidence is needed.

8. Before i forget, invest in some equipment. For starters, items like grandma's favorite and metal talad gives you great value for money. +15 in skill for 5,600 is already a bargain.

9. As far as tactics are concerned, there is no clear cut rule on this. Its always good to set your play intensity to hard but at the beginning, playing hard will surely drain your stamina which will surely affect your next game. Playing "extended" time will also have an effect on your stamina. Lastly, as far as playstyle is concerned, playing ballhog will give you a chance to score more points, but you are prone to miss a lot of shots, especially if your related skills (e.g. confidence, shooting) are not high. Stamina is also affected.

10. Lastly, visit the forums regularly. You will gain lots of knowledge by reading posts of fellow cyberdunkers. Enjoy the game and i hope this helps.

This information was taken from talkdep.com.
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