VuHunt castles & cool places to compete for to earn the Emperor of San Francisco
- VuHunt on iPhone
Congrats Emperor!
So you’ve joined VuHunt, conquered a few castles, and you’re now on your way to earning your first title. Prince/Princess of a cool city C, then onto the Duke and finally Emperor. We wanted to share a few tips and tricks in the game that aren’t yet in the tutorial..
1. Build it.
Build castles! it’s good karma, shows you are a great VuHunt citizen, and also earns you Vu$, and the honor of having your name as builder of a castle forever. Think about it this way, say you create an easy quiz castle, you get vu$2 to boot, then you can conquer that castle, and earn another vu$ 5, so that’s $7 for one simple contribution. Similarly, if you create a castle at say a Starbucks, make it a checkin challenge, and checkin right away, you’ll gain a comparable amount. Clearly, contributing castles improves the game for everyone, as the game world gets richer and more reflective of real-world places and captures the local trends and interests of the city’s residents.
2. Expand your empire! and dominate your country
Everyone likes a bigger powerbase. Ask any politician! It’s true in vuHunt as well! In fact, the # of castles you own isn’t only important for gaining the honor titles (prince/duke/emperor) and earning you a coveted spot on the leader-boards, but it’s crucial for growing your wealth. Each castle you own generates recurring revenue as long as you own it. That contribution is the sum of the daily net gain of the castle (revenue minus upkeep) in addition to the failed attack fees that you collect. This can be really significant income for your treasurey.
3. Protect your castles
One truly cool way to both protect a castle that you’ve struggled to conquer (either a difficult challenge or a steep travel cost) is to protect it with a guard battalion. This allows you to build 2 towers and hence two challenges for this castle. Now think about this as both a deterrant, and a source of additional revenue. Some players may just not want to go through the hassle, associated risk, and extra cost of attacking two towers. But also, it’s clearly highly likely that the revenue due to failed attacks will increase.
Guard battalions cost Vu$ to purchase so this techniuqe requires investment, but as you can see if can payoff handsome dividends.
Another mechanic to protect your castle, is to simply replace the challenge after you conquered it. Say it was an easy quiz qusetion, well you can purchase a challenge that’s a checkin or video upload and have the tower carry that challenge instead.
This only cost you the challenge purchase cost (typically 5 or 7 vu$)
4. Earn Real-life Rewards & get access to cool deals when you want them
So far, Vuhunt has integrated rewards from Kiip and daily deals from Groupon and Zozi. The kiip rewards are earned upon achievements such as building castles, gaining an Honor Title, etc. The deals are accessible through the Deals tab. At levels 2 and 3, which will be released for iPhone and Android very soon, you will be able to redeem VuDollars for gift cards. Also, a shortlist of VuHunt recommended deals will be available to you based on your interest and location upon demand.
5. Meetup and play against friends!
We are also very excited to announce that we have just started weekly meet-ups with our wonderful players. These meet-ups are informal brainstorm sessions to hear your ideas and feedback on the game and continue to enrich the experience with game elements that you find interesting. And we’ll play against each other real-time. The meet-ups are held in one city in California each week.
Please join the Vuhunt group here: http://www.meetup.com/VuHunt/events/46117612/
Happy conquering and best of luck!
Moataz Rashad