Getting started in Guild 2 is frustratingly slow sometimes. Expect if you play as a rogue. Just few simple steps and you make +3 million in few first turns. When you start the game, hit the pause IMMEDIATELY. Send your rogue to the market place. In very first few minutes, there should be helmet, armor and sword. But you seriously. Note: Alter files at your own risk and always make backups. Go to your The Guild 2 Renaissance folder and find a file named config.ini. Then look for the following lines: INIT-PLAYER-0 HasResidence = 1 Workshops = 0 Money = 10000 Married = 0 Change the money line and you will start with that amount. Tips & Guides Playlist! This Tips & Tricks strategy video, I teach you 7 of the b.
First of all: The headline says “no mods”. This means that I have not modified any files myself. However! This guide needs The Legacy Mod by McCoys! to work.
….Actually, the whole game desperately needs the Legacy Mod to work.
So if you don’t have it and need to know how to get it and how to install it, the guide is right here.
Getting started in Guild 2 is frustratingly slow sometimes. Expect if you play as a rogue. Just few simple steps and you make +3 million in few first turns.
1. When you start the game, hit the pause IMMEDIATELY. Send your rogue to the market place. In very first few minutes, there should be helmet, armor and sword. Buy them. But you seriously must be fast.
2. Send your character to your house and set him to train. By now you don’t have much money at all.
3. Stop when your character is at least level 3. Now you have two options. Cheaty: Wait for AI’s pub to have a dice game and go there, OR, not so cheaty, send your rogue to the road between two cities, attack civilians and rob them. You can get 600 gold from one rich citizen. Do this until you haven enough money to build Thieves Den.
4. Build your Thieves Den IN BETWEEN TOWNS, along the road. Like that you won’t be wasting time carrying your victim across half of the map. Don’t hire anyone, just set your character to wait and the only employee to the Den.
5. Wait for “the perfect catch”. Your character can kidnap people as often as he likes, but demanding ransom has ridiculous cool down. AI dynasty members travel a lot from city to city. Wait for someone who is nobleman, patrician or even prince, has over 1 million worth of assets and probably has a seat of office. It sounds difficult but I have found 3 of these walking one after another.
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6. Attack this person. With the armor and sword you should be able to gain the upper hand. As soon as your victim is in the in the cell, set your character to wait outside the Den. Send your only employee to demand ransom.
7. When ransom is accepted, the person you attacked will leave your Den with very low health. Attack him again and take him to the Den. If the ransom demand was accepted first time, they probably will accept second and third one.
8. Repeat this. After first 3 kidnapping, you should have about 3 million. You’ll notice that the amount of ransom you can demand (“Make them bleed!) is smaller and smaller. First over 2 million, then 1 million, then 900K, so on. But before that one dynasty is dried up, you will be rolling in gold.
9. (OPTIONAL) When you have the chance, upgrade your Den to Thieves Guild. After that, you can kill your captive. So when your demands of ransom is finally refused…. They will see how good idea it was.
Note: Sometimes per example husband and wife from the “perfect catch”-dynasty are traveling together. Don’t hesitate to attack, with your starting equipment, you rarely lose and almost never get killed. Take them both. Either you can get ransom from same dynasty twice, or, if you are beyond the step 9, you can kill one of the captives. I have noticed that dynasty which refused to pay is much more willing to do so if you have killed one of them.
Of course, this makes everyone hate you, but with that amount of gold you can buy yourself a partner and start a legitimate business. Your rogue will have terrible reputation, but your partner and children will be “Righteous” or “Respectable”. You can let your rogue to retire or keep him around, bombing buildings and murdering competitors, but either way, you are more than well set to be a “proper citizen who just happens to have a house made from pure, slightly bloody gold”.