The waiting is over and drug wars are coming on the server next week on 26th February!
This update is one of the most complex updates that have ever been introduced on our SA-MP server! First, you need to purchase the drug base, there will be several drug bases and you can purchase any number of the bases. In your drug base, you will store your drugs to sell on your drug hoods and also you will plan your attacks on the drug hoods map. The number of NPC dealers in the drug base interior is affected by how many dealers you have on your drug hoods.
The drug wars update is a basic strategic game, where you buy dealers on your hoods and you can either move them onto another hood or make them attack a hood, which might be belonging to another player. In such a case, your dealers will fight the dealers on the attacked hood, whoever's dealers survive, takes both hoods. When you have more dealers than the enemy, you will have higher chances of winning in the drug war. So be careful when attack a hood, you might lose a hood if your attack fails.
There are several improvements you can buy on your hoods - drug lockup, drug den, drug palace and drug fortress. Whereas lockup and den increase income of money and DP (drug points), drug palace heavily increases loyalty of your hoods and drug fortress helps you to train new dealers for lower prices and you can also place more dealers on the hood with the drug fortress. That brings a lot of strategic advantages for that hood.
The key to maintain your drug empire will be to keep loyalty on your hoods. The more dealers you have, the more loyalty you gain. You can also improve your loyalty by building drug palace, drug dens or drug fortress. Should you loyalty drop to 0 on one of your hoods, you will lose it and some new player can buy the hood or it can be taken over by one of the players who already have the drug hoods.
Drug wars can earn a lot of money for you, you will gain income for each hood you control. But to make the cash, you need to have a lot of drugs which are being sold on your hoods. You need to either setup your own drug business to keep the inflow of the drugs by buying weed farms, cocaine lockups or by cooking meth, or you can wisely buy the drugs from other players. But keep in mind that some product will be necessary for making tons of cash from your drug hoods.
There will be also optional missions, which you can start do gain more DP or to help your dealers during drug war. Although most of the action will take place on the strategic map, since this update is not any action packed update, but with these missions, you can also feel the interaction of your drug empire with the game world.
Drug wars might feel sort of slow, because each drug war will take 12 hours, so other players, who are not online on the server, can react on the current situation. But to make the start faster, we have decided to speed up the drug wars, so all the times will be reduced by 50% until 15th March. This will bring revenues faster (basicaly double revenues), but will force players to check the situation on the drug map more frequently.