New to the game, have a few questions...
1. Are there any more complete and up to date guides outside of the the one in this thread?
2. If you agree to "work" for Rudesin (or whatever his name is) in the backstreets, where you become a slave and all that, is there a method to progressing through that? Because I tried to mess with it for awhile and it just was all a little absurd. You can't sleep without losing your full inventory (even food that you bought from your captors, a bit dumb), and trading in coins for "repayment" to Rudesin just... doesn't seem to do anything. He pulls up a sheet that is things you "owe" him I think, but it's always 0 in all the fields outside of some "protection" one that's only like 50 or so, and can reduced back to 0 with trade points, but seemingly not coins.
Overall, it's just very confusing. If there was a visible "debt" to pay off or something, it would be interesting to actually invest time into, but I just have no idea what I'm doing with all of that. Any ideas?
3. Are there feasible ways to get out of horrible situations? i.e. You go down, you get enslaved, all your shit taken, etc... Are there viable ways to get out of situations like this? Ideally, obviously, the easy method is to just save scum, but if there are realistic ways to go through fucked up scenarios, scrape through them, and get back on your feet to continue the game, that would be a much more fun way to go about it for me, but it just never seems doable for me. If you get defeated in battle, having such low stamina and losing your items seems to just make it an 100% death sentence.
I'm guessing the only way to do this would be to sneak out of the area somehow, and have a stash to fall back on in the bank, but is that really the only possible to way to get through scenarios like that? Even just persisting in bad situations like this seem futile, since even if you can prostitute for trade points and whatnot in something like the crystal mine just winds up costing too much stamina to offset the cost of food.
Any tips or ideas to get through the worst of situations? Or are you just supposed to die?