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Lähes jokainen ns. älypuhelimen omistava on todennäköisesti tutustunut oman luurinsa sovelluskauppaan ja myös todennäköisesti ladannut jotain puhelimeensa. Pelejä, hyötyohjelmia, viihdettä – mitä vain. Sovelluskaupat ovat täynnä toinen toistaan oivaltavampia luomuksia ja peli on kovaa. Väärä ajoitus, ikoni tai muutama tyrmäävä arvostelu saattavat pistää kuukausien työn roskakoriin, kun sovellus ei pääse lentoon ja hautautuu sovelluskauppaan roskan alle.

Sovellusten ansaintamallit ovat kehittyneet nopeasti viime vuosina. Tyypillistä on esimerkiksi tarjota mainoksia, premium-sisältöä ilmaisen tutustumisen päälle (freemium), helpotuksia pelissä etenemiseen tai vaikkapa parempia välineitä tai toiminnallisuuksia ilmaisen perustoiminnallisuuden päälle. Toki se ”perinteinenkin” malli on vielä voimissaan, jossa sovellus ostetaan johonkin hintaan ja sillä saa käyttöönsä kaikki toiminnallisuudet mitä sovellus tarjoaa.

Uudet hinnoittelumallit ja sovellusten hinnoittelun taso ovat luoneet erikoisen tilanteen: peli, joka tuottaa tunneiksi hyvää viihdettä pelaajalleen saattaa maksaa vaikkapa 0,99€. Tai olla ilmainen, mutta tarjota jonkin bonustoiminnon vaikka tuohon hintaan. Pelin tekeminen on saattanut vaatia kuukausien työn ja nyt sitä ollaan tarjoamassa sinulle euron hinnalla – ja silti pähkäilet voisiko tuota euroa peliin sijoittaa. 

Tämä runsaudenpula ja luovan työn halpamarkkina on tehnyt meistä saitoja. Itsekin olen tähän syyllistynyt lukuisia kertoja – joskus tiedostamatta ja joskus asian tiedostaen. Ehkäpä kukkaronnyörejä olisi kuitenkin syytä löysätä?

Tässä muutama syy:

  • Tukemalla luovaa työtä mahdollistat myös seuraavat elämääsi helpottavat / parantavat sovellukset. Vaikka tämä sovellus ei olisikaan ihan täydellinen – niin seuraava voi olla. On erittäin todennäköistä, että ensimmäinen sovellus ei vielä mene tekijältään / tekijöiltään maaliin, mutta pienellä panostuksellasi mahdollistat tekijöiden kehittymisen ja tarjoat oppirahat
  • Hyvästä viihteestä kannattaa maksaa. Mieti mitä maksat elokuvista ja harrastuksistasi kuukausittain, miksi et voisi tukea myös sovellusten tekijöitä? Vaikka peli olisi pelattu läpi tunnissa ja et siihen enää palaisi, on se kuitenkin jo sinua viihdyttänyt
  • Ostetut lisäsisällöt voivat tehdä vaikkapa pelaamisesta hauskempaa ja tarjota siihen uusia ulottuvuuksia. Hyvä peli voi tulla paremmaksi ja tarjota lisätunteja viihdettä.
  • Ostoillasi, erityisesti kun ne kohdistuvat pieniin indie-pelipajoihin, tuet ihan konkreettisesti nuorten työllistymistä ja yrittäjyyttä. Tähän ei ole nyt heittää mitään faktaa tiskiin, mutta monien edes jollain tapaa tuntemieni pelintekijäpumppujen ikärakenne on nuorehko
  • Olet ehkä mahdollistamassa seuraavaa suurta suomalaista menestystarinaa. Se ei välttämättä ole vielä juuri nyt käsillä, mutta seuraava tuotos voi olla jo suurempi menestys.

Osa ansaintamalleista on järkevämpiä ja paremmin toteutettuja kuin toiset – eikä huonosta kannata maksaa. Usein epäonnistumisen taustalla onkin väärä ansaintamalli. Ehkäpä yksinkertainen happotesti voisikin olla seuraava: mikäli palaat sovellukseen vielä asennuksen jälkeen toisenkin kerran, on siinä ehkä jotain minkä vuoksi siitä kannattaisi pieni korvaus maksaa.

My Fallout Shelter Strategy Guide part 2

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Wasteland Survival Guide

The most important thing of your Vault survival is to explore the Wasteland. If you are not properly equipped, you’ll eventually fail. Longer your Dweller survives, the better gear they’ll find (and get more XP).

  • SPECIAL stats affect Wasteland survivability different ways. Better stat = Better results. This is my guess how different SPECIAL stats affect your Dweller survivability:
    • Strenght. How well your Dweller handles the combat situations
    • Perception. Dweller notices enemies before they notice him/her.
    • Endurance. Maybe Radiation resistance?
    • Communications. What happens when your Dweller meets someone. Are they friendly or not?
    • Intelligence. How your Dweller manages to resolve different tasks (eg. opening boxes)
    • Agility. Maybe Damage resistance?
    • Luck. How often your Dweller finds rare items.
  • Level affects your Dweller hit points
  • Outfit boosts SPECIAL stats
  • Weapon affects the outcome of battles
  • Stimpacks replenish health
  • RadAways remove radiation levels

Fallout Shelter Vault Management

Early Game (-30 Dwellers)

Basically you lack everything: dwellers, resources, weapons and outfits. Now it’s time to make your Vault self sufficient by building the right rooms. Do not over expand – you’ll lack power quite fast. I’m not explaining how to build your Vault, it’s pretty straight forward – but after first floors always make sure you can link three same kind of rooms together. Do not build three rooms straight before you have enough Dwellers to actually use them.

  • Recruit every Dweller who happens to wander to your door. Don’t look at the stats – you’ll improve them later on. Build Radio Station as soon as possible.
  • As soon as possible send some Dwellers to scout Wasteland. Pick the Dweller with the highest SPECIAL stats and if you have any extra weapons or outfits, feel free to equip your Dweller as good as possible
  • If you lack weaponry or outfits – as you will – leave them to the storage and equip them only when Incidents occur. This way your best equipments will always be easy and fast to reach and you don’t have to try to find them from your Vault
  • Rush as often as possible, but be careful to follow your Dwellers Health.
  • Do not leave guards to your door, but instead send your best fighters to combat only if raiders attack.
  • If you lack Power your rooms will shut down. This is dangerous, because eventually you are not producing any water or food.
  • If you lack Food your Dwellers health will start to weaken. This is dangerous, because you are more vulnerable to radroach and raider attacks
  • If you lack Water your Dwellers will gain Rads and their health will weaken. Again, they are more vulnerable to raiders and radroaches.

Mid Game (30-70 Dwellers)

It’s time to expand your Vault. Be careful not to over expand.

  • Train your Dwellers as much as possible. Once your Dweller reaches maximum level, send him/her back to work and take new trainee to training center
  • Send your male and female Dwellers to Barracks and let them make babies! As soon as the baby has grown into a healthy Dweller, remember to give some work to him/her
  • Rush as much as you can to get more Caps. Put Caps to Upgrades and expansions.
  • Explore as much as possible.
  • Equip every Dweller with right outfit and weapon
  • Follow Happiness. Generate enough resources, build Radio Station and make sure everyone is working. If needed, remove very unhappy Dwellers by sending them to the wasteland with one way ticket.
  • If you have manpower, put permanent guards to Vault door. Equip them with best weapons and make sure they are high level Dwellers. This is not mandatory, but you’ll get lazy and you can just let your defences work automatically

Late Game (100+ Dwellers)

You are now expanding and burrowing deeper underground

  • Maximum Dweller limit is 200. Leave some space for possible Lunch Box characters. If you need to make space, just send your lvl 1 Dweller to the wasteland without any gear… or if you are very sympathetic person give your Dweller a .32 gun for self defence. Few hours later Wasteland has removed your extra population problem
  • Explore aggressively. Send at least 5 % of your population out at any time. If your high level Dweller dies in the wasteland, it costs only 1000 CAPS to revive and usually your Dweller has at least that amount in his/hers pockets. So it’s worth the risk to let your Dwellers explore as long as possible and then get them back when they die. This way you’ll get the most chances to acquire rare weapons and outfits.
  • Send extra Dwellers to Warehouse. Do this only if you lack space in your Training facilities
  • Raiders will get eventually better equipped and harder to kill. So make sure you have two well equipped and high level guards at your Vault door. Reinforce your door if you haven’t done so yet to get few more extra seconds to prepare your defences
  • Upgrade your Dweller weapons and outfits regularly
  • Put your high level Dwellers to training centers – try to get at least one 10/10/10/10/10/10/10 SPECIAL stat Dweller
  • Your ultimate goal is to get Nuka Cola room ready. It’ll resolve your food & water problems.

Fallout Shelter Hints and Tips

  • Pregnant Women can use Outfits even they seem to be using yellow pregnancy outfit
  • Sell everything you don’t need
  • As far as I know, it’s not worth to put a multi stat bonus outfit for a Dweller, only the highest SPECIAL stat matters. So sell Merc Outfits etc and save your +3 basic gear.
  • SPECIAL stat is limited to 10, but it can be raised above 10 with right outfit
  • Those pesky Radroaches are easy to kill? Think again – if you have few lvl 1 Dwellers defending a room they can be easily defeated, if the room is large enough. Large room = more fires, more radroaches.
  • Raider weapons will improve over time, so they become more powerful
  • If you have to rush your production to keep up your consumption, consider expanding resource production rooms. You’ll fail eventually, because Incidents hamper your resource production.

Remember to read My Fallout Shelter Strategy Guide part 1.

My Fallout Shelter Strategy Guide part 1

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Hello, and welcome to the first part of my Fallout Shelter Strategy Guide. I’ll give you hints and tips how to survive and make your Vault Dwellers to flourish. Overseer – failure to follow this strategy guide could lead to the termination of your Vault-Tec contract.

So – What is Fallout Shelter all about?

Fallout Shelter is a survival game, where you manage your vault as an overseer. You must expand your Vault by recruiting new dwellers and building new rooms while handling the daily troubles of Vault life. You get more room options when you get more Dwellers to your Vault.

Basics of surviving

  • Take your G.O.A.T. seriously! Always assign right Vault Dweller for the right job. Check your Dwellers best SPECIAL attribute and assign him/her to the job where he/she is the most talented (eg. high Perception = Water Purification)
  • Always react fast to the Incidents. Raiders will steal your resources as long as they roam your Vault, fire will expand and Radroaches will kill your Dwellers
  • Kids and Pregnant Women are vulnerable to Incidents. So even a Pregnant Woman can work, she can’t defend herself. So – don’t let any room to be occupied by pregnant women.
  • High Dweller Level = more hit points
  • High SPECIAL stats = better Wasteland survivability, faster production, less incidents, more Caps (Luck)
  • Explore, explore and explore! Wasteland is your main source of outfits and weapons
  • All work no play makes your Dweller a happy boy. So no coffee breaks – give tasks to your Dwellers.
  • Put three rooms horizontally together and upgrade them as soon as possible
  • Rooms consume energy – no energy = no production

How to make Caps and gain Lunch Boxes

  • You get Caps from the following places
    • rushing production (High luck SPECIAL will give more and more often)
    • exploring wasteland
    • accomplishing missions
  • You can get Lunch Boxes if you accomplish missions (or just buy them)

How to accomplish missions

  • Raise the X SPECIAL STAT of Y Dwellers. Assign Dwellers to the right training room and train those stats. Note – sometimes you’ll get these missions even you don’t have the right training room available. If so, just remove the mission and do something else
  • Assign Outfit or Weapon to Y Dwellers. Pretty easy – just assign a weapon to Dweller. If you lack weapons or outfits, remove weapon / outfit from Dweller and assign it again to different Dweller. Vóila.
  • Stop Y Incidents. Just Rush productions and then put out fires and radroaches. Be careful and check out the health of your Dwellers
  • Collect Y of X Resource. Pretty straightforward – just Rush your productions and collect resources.
  • Make Y Couples Dance. Assign male and female Dwellers with high Communication SPECIAL to your Barracks. Wait for a while and magic happens. If you are trying to limit your population growth, remove either of the dancers to limit further exposure…
  • Let Y Dwellers Deliver Babies. …or just let them dance and magic of life will follow. You’ll get a female in yellow outfit and within few our a child will appear. After few more hours you’ll have a young new lvl 1 Dweller ready for work.
  • Assign X Dwellers to Right Rooms. Just match Dwellers highest stat with the Rooms Stat.
  • Upgrade X Rooms. Pretty straightforward. If you wish to rush this, build one new room first, then upgrade it twice. Then build new same type room next to it and upgrade and repeat. You’ll get a total of six upgrades with only one new room.

How to make happy Dwellers

  • Always assign your Dwellers to do some work. Staying in barracks or taking coffee breaks is not work.
  • Make sure you have enough water, electricity and food
  • Rush productions successfully – extra effort will make them happy
  • Let them dance and take some private time behind the curtains…
  • Start your own Galaxy Radio station

How to level up your characters

  • This will level up your Dwellers
    • Dwellers gain experience and level up when they produce something
    • Exploring wasteland will give you experience
    • Rushing production will give experience
    • Defeating Raiders and Radroaches and putting out fires
  • This won’t
    • Training Dweller SPECIAL stats will only increase stats – not give experience
    • Taking coffee breaks or hanging out in barracks
    • Guarding Vault door
    • Waiting outside Vault

This should sum up the basics. It’s time to move to Vault management part. Please continue to the My Fallout Shelter Strategy Guide part 2 – The Wasteland Survival Guide