An Open Response to "Open Response to the Defender of SMACK"

Also posted to: http://sororitylife.us/2010/open-response-to-the-defender-of-smack/ (We don't know if the comment will survive past moderation)

Karisha,

I opted to read your Open letter after seeing the URL published in my feed.

I want to start by reminding your readers that the piece you wrote is your OPINION, and is based entirely on what you percieve reality to be.

I run the site Sorority Life Strategy (http://www.SororityLifeStrategy.com/) and have a number of slapping characters all of the same caliber as those in SMACKhouse. I can attest from exact knowledge of my own, as well as those characters you point out that *almost all* of your assertions are wrong.

The one assertion I will concur with is that one of the main strategies behind slapping is to get people to attack or burn list you. Why waste your own stamina fighting when you can easily have other people attack?

To have a strong character one must do the following:

#1 Appropriately place skill points into the correct categories. Most/many players I run across do not, and thus fight very poorly.

#2 Have the correct amounts of glam. If you've ever bothered to calculate the math it's not the number of points in Charm and Pop in an item that are important as much as it is the overall volume of items. I.E. You'll fight far more effectively with a full house worth of lower caliber glam than you wil lwith one or two BP glam items. In addition to this, once a character has more than 100 points in either Charm or Popularity, then the overall value of Glam is progressively minimized until it is only a small percentage of the fight strength of a given character.

If you ask me, or just about any other slapper in my house I'm willing to bet, providing that you promise to do a factual piece rather than a a few paragraphs of emotional outrage, any one of us would be willing to share information about our Glam, skill points, fighting styles and the like.

As far as I am personally concerned, Stats are only relevant until the player has over 10,000 in any given category. That is the point at which most statistical aberrations such as you refer to are weeded out and the statistics themselves become more reliable.

I would be happy to teach you or anyone else how to make a good strong character. You can either contact me directly or visit my web site. In the meantime, I welcome you and anyone else to attack my characters at will. I can always use the stats boost.

-Igotta Hotbootie

Picking up Bonuses and Keepsakes

So, if you don't know about this tool already then you should. It's the Sorority Life Bonus Checker (and it does a number of other games as well). When it comes to tracking down those Ollivers, Level-ups and th elike, this tool makes it a miniscule task.

Make sure you're logged in to Facebook then follow this link: http://apps.facebook.com/slbonuschecker/

Faux Fur Keepsake Outfit

Another keepsake outfit was introduced yesterday. The items can be collected from your sisters' Facebook pages. They are dropped randomly while doing events, so please be sure to post them to your Facebook page to help your sisters out.

Also a quick note about expiration dates on events and items. I have noticed that although things will say they are available until a certain date, they seem to disappear at cookie time the night before. So this outfit would only be available until cookie time on May 3rd.

Changes to Burn List

New changes made to the Burn List yesterday make it pretty obvious that you've won a grat. As seen above, you can lose the fight and still win the grat. However, if you win both the fight and the grat, you get a pretty gold banner as seen below.

How To TD yourself.

How to TD yourself.....

1) Attack an In-Crowder and take note of the amount of damage that they do to you.
2) Calculate your SPA boundary level (this should be 20% of your confidence, give or take a point)
3) Attack others, slap yourself whatever to get between your spa boundary level and the amount of damage done by an In-Crowder.
4) Attack In-Crowd person and voila, you're TD'd.

Here's how it works for me.:
My Level: 24.

1) I attack GoToGirlee -> she does 27 damage
2) I have 108 confidence (subtract the free 8 it doesn't count) -> 20% is 20 Confidence
3) Attack/Slap whatever. My trick is no not ever spa up more than once, then fight my way down.
4) Attack GoToGirlee.

And, once you get the hang it's easy. My lvl 24 has 762 Depressons. 95% of those are self inflicted.

Finally, the Web Savvy Achievement we've all been waiting for! To get it, go to Playdom.com and create an account (if you already have one, just log in), connect to your Facebook Sorority Life account through the page and you should get a pop-up like the one shown above. In addition to the badge, you will also receive a full energy refill the first time you log in. Log in every day to receive other prizes. Some people have received energy, SL cash, Brownie Points, and even the Playdom T-shirt and Jeans outfit!

We are aware of the new changes to the grab bag gifts and bonus limit. The hybrid leveling guide will be updated soon with the changes. In the meantime, the green striped stockings sell for the most money so that you can purchase bikes. Also, if you have the Jessica Dress and Love Potion from the Valentine's Day gifts, they have great pop so request them from your main and collect on your mini. Thanks and happy playing. ~Gwen

For the second time now, Playdom has released the Web Savvy medal but no information to go along with it. It states that it is given for finishing playdom.com registration, but I have been a registered user for several months and do not have the medal. If anyone has this medal, please let us know how you managed to get it!

Loyal Sister Recognition

Another of today's updates to Sorority Life is the addition of a bonus when you vote for 25 of your sisters using the button located under the Catwalk. This bonus is given to you along with the option to share it with your sisters by posting it to your Facebook wall.

New Keepsake Collection

A new keepsake collection was released today. To complete the collection, gather the needed items from your friends' Facebook pages.

This collection requires three items: Ruffled Teal Top, Black Shorts, and Red Beaded Jewelry.

Once all three items are collected you will receive the Flirty Shorts Outfit with 14 charm and 8 popularity.

New Articles on the Site!

Hey all!

Gwen and I have been madly writing, correcting, editing and adding more content to the site. We've got maybe 1/2 of our stuff ready to publish, and have jus released some new stuff!

New Articles!

Achievements

Sweethearts

Adding Sisters


Updates & Corrections

Hotbootie's Penultimate Hybrid Leveling Guide - Added levels 11-20, corrections to levels 1-10

Skill Points List updated!

Brownie Point List updated!

Boarders List updated!

Hybrid Leveling Guide

I get asked all the time how I build my Characters for Sorority Life. In reality I don't make them as Fighters, Bounty Hunters or Organizers. Instead I make very strong Hybrids that are able to do all aspects of the game!

Today I've uploaded the first installment of Hotbootie's Penultimate Leveling Guide. This guide is a step by step on how to build strong Hybrid characters like mine. Today's installment covers levels 1 through 10. So, if you were thinking about starting a new Mini, today's the day!

Have fun!
Hotbootie

New Site Additions (5 new pages, 1 updated)

Hey all,

We managed to get another 5 pages added to the site today, primarily in the Events section, and relating to Mastery Awards. Additionally, we corrected and updated some of the information in the House Events page.

House Events

Skill Point Mastery List

Brownie Point Mastery List

Boarders Mastery List

Cheers!
Hotbootie & Gwen

Tonight's BP Glam

Tonight's Glam. Can we say extreme electric sherbert disaster?

I mean sure, it's got 33 popularity, but I think that's mainly from blinding your opponents..... eesh.

What do you think?

Sorority Life Changes!

If you hadn't noticed already, there were changes published to Sorority Life this afternoon at 4:30pm PST. This is one of the biggest structural changes to Sorority life I've seen in a while. To find out about these changes look at the Screen tutorials in the SL101 section. In particular you'll want to check out:

• Masthead


• Bank


• Spa


• Fight


• In Crowd


• My Self


• Jobs


• My Style

Welcome to SororityLifeStrategy.com!

Hi!

On SL I'm Igotta Hotbootie, and my site co-author is my wife Gwen Mars. We've been playing Sorority Life for quite a while now and reached a stage where we now spend significant amounts of time answering questions on the feed. Rather than eternally repeat ourselves, we figured that we could put together this web site, blog and Facebook fan page to more easily help you get the most out of playing Sorority Life.

In this site you'll find basic information, tutorials, guides, tips, tricks and nerfs in the game. The whole goal is to put together all of this information in a concise and easy to read fashion. As you can see from the site's navigation, we've not quite written all the articles we intend to write, but we are adding them daily! We'll let you know, via the blog, when the site or game gets updated.

We weren't quite ready to fully launch the site, but considering today's changes on Sorority Life we figured that there was no better time than the present! Become a fan today by visiting our Facebook Fan page!

Have Fun!
Hotbootie.