A little while ago, one of my Twitter followers invited me to play a new twitter game called Ninja Clash. The game itself is fairly simple, but addictive, and since I started, I’ve made some new friends, and rose through the ranks at a decent pace. To share this experience, I decided to write up a basic Strategy Guide, which provides details as well as some deeper insight on how to play and succeed in the game.
While this guide has been written for Ninja Clash, it can be applied to other LOLplaying Twitter games as well, such as 140Mafia and 140Army.
About Ninja Clash
Ninja Clash is a new Twitter game. Start a clan, recruit your friends, and rule Twitter!
Ninja Clash is an online strategy game, where you play with or against (many) people. It connects to your Twitter account, so there is no hassle of signing up for it. The game is hosted and run by LOL playing, who also run the popular 140Army and 140Mafia games.
The main idea of the game is that you play a Ninja Clan leader, and try to rule the world of Ninja Clash. You do this by expanding your clan with members, which makes up your army. You have to arm your members with weapons, so they are stronger in battles, and you have to purchase properties (farms, buildings) and perform Ninja missions to expand your income. The game uses a level-system similar to games like Final Fantasy, and the fight-area automatically puts you against players of similar levels.
Ninja Clash, The Basics.
Upon first sign in (if you have a twitter account, there is no registration process) you are given a choice of 3 classes. Each class provides its own benefits.
Pickpocket Ninja : Easier with money(faster income)
Speed Ninja : Easier with battles (faster stamina)
Spiritual Ninja : Easier with missions (faster energy)
Income is based on the amount of properties you have. The more buildings you have the more income you get, but as a pickpocket Ninja, the time between each property pay-out is less.
Stamina determines the amount of battles you can do. You start with only a few, and once you run out, you will have to wait until you can do another battle.
Energy is used for performing missions. The more energy you have, the more missions you can do. At the later levels, you get access to large missions, which give a higher payout, but require a large amount of energy. If you do not have the energy capacity, you will not be able to perform these missions.
You can not change classes later in the game, once you have picked one. The only way to change classes is to start over.
After you have decided your class, you are lead through the workings of the game. You will do your first mission (and gain your first experience point), purchase a weapon, and perform your first attack. Once completed, you are on your own.
Ninja Clash, The website.
In every view of the game you have your most important information visible:
Money, the amount of cash you have (and others can take during battle) and the time remaining until the next pay-out.
Health, the amount of health you have, the maximum health you have, and the time remaining until you heal 1 point.
Energy, the amount of energy you have to perform missions, and your maximum energy, and the time remaining to gain another energy point.
Stamina, the amount of stamina left for performing battles. Each battle takes 1 point, the maximum amount of stamina points, and the time remaining for getting one replenished.
Experience, the amount of XP you have gained in the game, and the amount needed for the next level.
Level, your Ninja’s power level.
Your Clan, the amount of members you have in your clan.
Your Profile, all your accomplishments in one view, including comments people left specifically for you.
The game offers the following options in the menu.
Home. This shows the menu, as well as the News Feed. The News Feed, one of the most important views of the game, shows what has happened with your Ninja. It shows the last battles you have performed, as well as the people who have recently attacked you. It also shows if people commented on your profile page.
Missions. This shows you the available missions, and the information about what you need to perform the mission. Besides the required Energy, almost all the missions have some requirement, such as certain weapons and defensive items, amount of clan members. The more that is required, the better the pay-out.
Fight. This shows a list of people who are at a similar level as you, available for fighting. If a person has a green checkmark, it means that person is in your clan.
Gear. This is the weapon shop. Here you can purchase all the weapons available to you. Each clan member (and your own Ninja) is able to fight with 1 long-range weapon and 1 short-range weapon as well as one defensive weapon. While it might be cool to save up for that one great weapon, your army will be stronger if you have weapons and defense for each member, rather than one super ninja and a bunch of sheep. When your Ninja becomes more experienced, you will have access to better gear. Most of the stronger gear even requires “upkeep” to make sure it functions properly. To be able to use these weapons, make sure you have enough income to be able to pay for the upkeep.
Properties. This is where you can purchase land, farms and buildings. The properties you own provide you with a steady income. The more buildings you own, the higher the income. Especially in the later levels, it is important to have a steady income to pay for the upkeep of the better weapons.
Ninja Master. The Ninja Master can help you filling up some of your Health, Energy, Stamina etc. By providing the Master with 10 Honor Points, you can replenish these things. You earn Honor Points either by paying for them, or by sending invites to your twitter followers who are not playing Ninja Clash yet.
Temple. If you have money in the bank, you can visit the temple to restore some of your health.
Bank. The bank allows you to store your money for safe-keeping. If you hold onto your money yourself, and lose a battle, or get attacked and lose, you will lose money. However, the bank does take a 12% cut on each deposit. Withdrawing is free though.
Revenge list. Not used as much, but if you have a grudge on someone, you can (if you can afford it) put a bounty on their head. Someone who kills the mark will get the bounty. The higher the level of the person who gets marked, the higher the bounty.
Scoreboard. This shows the top players of Ninja Clash (at that time) There are a few different categories, such as most wins, highest income, most bank etc.
Invite. This allows you to send Ninja Clash invites to your twitter members, as well as access to the list of clan members you have gathered.
Forum. This provides access to the LOLplaying Forum.
Unwritten rules:
Never hit clan members unprovoked. Unless you get hit by a clan member, do not hit them unless they “want to trade XP” Always ask, otherwise there will be consequences. Especially the more experienced players always find ways to get back at you.
Karate Chops. These are low-blows. While they do damage to stronger higher-level players, they are considered low-blows. Unless you get being picked on by someone bigger (multiple hits). Nobody benefits from these, since they don’t get you money, and they don’t give you XP points.
Ninja Clash Tactics:
Clan Members: Get as many clan members as you can. Getting buddies in your clan is fine, but the more clan members you have, the bigger your army is. Even if you do not fight, clan members will defend you from attackers. Visit peoples profile pages by clicking on their name, and harvest the invite links found on the pages. Open a new tab in your web browser, and paste them in there. It does not matter if you know the person or not, as long as you do not hit them, they will not hit you. If they do, consult with the higher-level members of your clan.
The level of the clan members you have do not affect anything. Their weaponry or bank amount do not have any effect on your fighting abilities. Each clan member is just another Ninja who is using your gear when you fight a battle.
Money: The easiest way to get money quick is to attack Ghosts or Farms. LOLplaying randomly creates fake players (NPC) that are loaded with money. You can recognize these fairly easy. They use a default twitter-icon (the brown-orange square with o_O in it) and usually have a weird name with plenty of _ (underscore) in it. Do keep in mind that there are a few players who do have the default icon as well. When you see a Ghost, click on its name to view it’s profile page, and then bookmark it. If you use Firefox, you can create a group of bookmarks, so you can open multiple at once. Do keep in mind that if you view a profile page of a Ghost, it will become visible to anyone that has a similar level, so hit it quick before its dead. Similar as people-players, Ghosts do regenerate health, so after some time, visit your bookmarked ghosts again to get some more money.
You can also do missions to generate money safely. Ghosts do not give much experience (if any), and while they do not fight with a lot, they can do a little bit of damage. With missions, there is no risk, as long as you have the energy to do them.
Experience: The easiest way to get experience is to do missions. With missions you don’t lose health, but you gain money and experience. There are a few missions that generate a lot of money, while others offer more experience. A 30-energy mission might get you up to 800.000 in money, but it only gives you 35 XP for 30 energy. You can do a 10-energy mission 3 times, and get 45 XP, but you only get up to 15.000 per time. If you are lucky, you can try hitting a high-ranking player from the Scoreboard, and if you are successful, you can gain a decent amount of XP as well, but you might get hit back harder than you accounted for.
Wins: The easiest way to win is to look for someone weaker than yourself. The winner of a battle is determined by the amount of clan members, and the gear they have. When looking for a target, the first thing to look for is to make sure that the amount of clan members of your target is not too much. If it’s double of what you have, you might want to harvest some more clan members. While it is possible to win from someone who has way more members than you, it’s more about being lucky that being tactical. At the higher levels, players often sell most of their “upkeep” weapons to save up money for the bigger buildings. Keep an eye on the scoreboard, and have a look at their income and bank money. If the income is low, but their bank is high, that means they are saving up.
Another thing to look for is to view what they actually have. On the profile page of the target you can see the weaponry they have (without actual numbers) as well as the buildings they have (without count as well) It gives you a basic idea on what they have. While you are there, look at their badges as well. If you are looking at someone with a lot of wins and kills, you might want to consider someone else.
To defend yourself, it is wise to purchase at least one of each of the stronger weapons. Even if you have only one Katana, it will put the picture on your profile, and when people view your page, they have no idea you only have one. It could be 1, it could be 30. Selling the less-powerful items (if you have enough of the stronger ones for all your clan members) can also show that you are stronger than you actually are.
Kills: To achieve kills, you will have to be able to hit your target harder than 21 hit points. At a health level of 21 you can attack (or be attacked) anything less and you are “in the temple” safe from harm. If you attack someone and the amount of hit points you deal is more than the amount of health points this person has left, you get a kill. Especially if you are “farming money” by hitting Ghosts, it’s easy to rack up the kills. As long as a Ghost keeps giving money, you can keep hitting them (hammering) until they are in the temple. If you go back to them after a little while, you have a big chance of getting a kill out of them.
Leveling up: Once you get enough XP you get to level-up. For each level you get a few points to distribute over some of your attributes.
Depending on your interest, you can choose to increase stamina, health, energy, offensive or defensive strength.
At the later levels, you will need plenty of energy (30+) to be able to do the bigger, more rewarding missions. If you want to get money quick, or want to fight a lot, stamina and offense would be a good choice. If you get hit a lot, defense and health might help you more. Do keep in mind that there are differences in playing-style at the different level categories. Level 0-10 is a free-for-all, level 10-20 is more about building up your army and strength, and when you get higher, it’s more about getting buildings up, so you can buy the bigger weapons to eventually hit the people on the scoreboard (or get on it yourself).
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