Getting Started Guide

PLATOON LEADER’S TOONTOWN GUIDE

(Originally written by Pinky, converted to Wiki by MatthewH12)

Starting Out On The Right Pad

No one does anything from a single motive. 
                       - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When you are starting the game, you have to deal with something that is very important. What are your goals in the game? Do you plan on becoming the strongest? Do you want to be the weakest toon,with the strongest gags, or the toon that just wants to have a loony time? The list can go on and on. It's up to you to decide what you want to be your goal.

Making a new toon

On the 3-day trial, only the green box is avaliable. So, click on it. You will be taken to a screen with Mickey and Minnie. If you want a boy toon, click on Mickey. If you want a girl toon, click on Minnie. You'll be taken to the next screen. You can customize your toons from here. Choose from 3 different head designs of 7 different animals: Dog, Cat, Duck, Rabbit, Mouse, Horse, Monkey and Bear. Once you're satisfied with the design, click on the button with the right-pointing arrow. You'll now get to choose the color of your toon. You can choose to color the head, body and legs differently, or choose one uniform color for the whole toon. Make the selection by clicking on the "Parts" button. The choice is yours. When you're done, click on the button with the right-pointing arrow again. Finally, You'll get to clothe your toon. Pick the colour and pattern desired for your toon's shirt and pants, and click on the right-pointing arrow button. Now you'll get to name your toon. You could create a name using the name chooser, but if you're feeling adventurous, you can click on "Type a name" and enter a name. If you're feeling lazy instead, however, click on "Random" to have the game generate a name for you. If you're using the name choose, click on the checkmark to end the toon building process. If you're using the Type-a-name option, click on Submit. Once you do that, one of two things will happen: You'll be told that toon council will approve your name in 24 hours, or your name will be rejected immediately. If it gets rejected, you could either try pushing the name in by retyping the name and clicking Submit until it gets approved, or you could use a different name.

Why was my name rejected?

Well, there could be many reasons for this. Disney has a list of rejectable name reasons right here.

The start of a story: The toontorial

Well, from here on, you'll be doing the toontorial. The toontorial is where you learn the basics of the game. No instructions will be provided because the toontorial is a crash course of its own, so I'll leave you to the toontorial now. Good luck, and have fun in Toontown!

Why does having goals in the game matter?

Goals that you set for yourself are important, they give you something to aim for. In real life, in jobs, you are given goals. The online gaming world is no different. If you set these goals right, you can achieve what ever you want. Step by step and inch by inch, you can achive your goals. Also, with goals your game can stay on track, allowing you to have more fun time, doing what you want and being able to say "Sorry, I'm working on a task!" instead of running aimlessly in the game.

But aren't ToonTask's goals?

Yes and no. They are goals, but they are goals presented to you by the game. You should also make your own goal that doesn't tie in to any reward in the game. Maybe you want to defeat the Sellbot VP 20 times. In that case, make that a goal! You can't get that as a ToonTask.

However, shall you complete these tasks, you will recieve an in-game reward.

After Flippy

After you meet Flippy, walk into the arch, wait a bit, and see ToonTown Central!

It's amazing, isn't it? As a newbie (a player who is brand new to the game and sometimes is inexperienced in the game) you are a significant player in ToonTown—never think that you are not important! Complete the tasks presented to you, and work your way to the next area of ToonTown—Donald's Dock.

While in ToonTown Central, you are supposed to sharpen your toon senses, and see what works on cogs!

• Does my level one gag beat a level 3 cog in one hit?

• Should I rely on teamwork more?

• Am I strong enough to go onto the next area?

If you feel you are fairly able to take on one or two level three cogs at once, then you are more then ready to fight cogs! However, you may still have something to work on. If you feel that you are not ready to move onto the next area, then don't. Continue beating up cogs and getting experience and gags. It's possible for you to have low laff and have high level gags. Being patient never hurts!

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Communications

Using Chat

You have two ways to communicate with other players in Toontown: SpeedChat and Secret Friends Chat. For the protection of all children, you are NOT allowed to chat openly with all players.

Secret Friends Chat

The blue button in the upper-left of the screen is for Secret Friends Chat. It allows you to communicate openly with your Secret Friends. (There is still filtering on certain words). A Secret Friend is a player with whom you've previously shared a "secret code" outside the game, for example a real-life friend who also plays Toontown. Here's how it works:

Normally, anything that you say using the blue button will be seen by other Toons as incomprehensible animal noises (like "woof woof", or "eepy eepy eek"). Also, anything that another player says using the blue button will be seen by you as animal noises. But your Secret Friend(s) will see your text clearly, and you will see theirs clearly.

Becoming Secret Friends

To become Secret Friends with another player:

• Open your Friends List window.
• Click the "Secrets" button, located in the upper-right of the Friends List window.
• At this point, you can either generate a secret that you can give to someone else, or enter a secret that someone else has previously given you. To generate a code, click the "Get a Secret" button. It will generate and display a secret code that will look something like "uev 9gc". Be aware that is a unique code -- whomever enters it will become Secret Friends with your toon. It will expire within two days of being generated, and it can only be used once.
• Depending on your security settings, you may be asked at this point to enter your Parent Password.
• Communicate your secret code to the other player, usually outside the game. If the other player is a real-life friend, obviously you can pass the code by telephone, email, etc. If the other player is a member at the Toontown Central website, you could post the code in the "Secret Swapping" forum, or send it to them in a Private Message (PM). One way to pass the code inside the game is via a 3rd player who is already Secret Friends with both of you.
• Once the other player enters the code, he/she will be added to your Friends List (if not already there) as a Secret Friend.

Once you’ve made a Secret Friend, you can speak ‘openly’ to those players. If the other toon is near, you need only to start typing to send a message. You can click on another toon’s message to bring up their image. Select the chat bubble on their image to return a message. Those who are not a secret friend to you will only see animal sounds (‘mew meow’, etc). Be careful of the length of your message, cause once it fills the chat bubble it will send the message. There is a filter in place, so if you use bad words (and even some that may not seem bad to you) the other toons will not see or hear your message. If you type a '.' at the beginning of your message, your message will appear in a thought bubble and stay there, generally, until you say something else, get tooned up or fall asleep. This method is often used to pass a secret between friends so the message doesn't have to be repeated.

Speedchat

SpeedChat is a list of pre-set phrases that you can use to communicate with anyone. To use SpeedChat, click the green button in the upper-left of the screen, then choose a SpeedChat phrase from the drop-down menu. Toontown provides dozens of useful and fun phrases, and you can purchase additional phrases from your Cattlelog.

Vocalizations

Every toon animal has 4 distinct vocalizations - 3 of which you can hear in the toontalker.

1. Any generic (unemphasized) statement
2. ‘?’ by itself or somewhere in your question
3. ‘!’ by itself or somewhere in your statement. '!' overrides '?'.
4. ‘Ooo’ by itself or somewhere in your statement. ‘Ooo’ overrides ‘!’ and ‘?’.

Emotions

Toons show emotions (actions) when using some toontalker phrases.

• Wave Hello with:
• HELLO
• Hi!
• Hello!
• Hi There!
• Hey!
• Howdy!
• Hi everybody!
• Wave Goodbye with:
• GOODBYE
• Bye!
• Later!
• See ya!
• Jump With Joy with
• HAPPY
• :-)
• Yay!
• Horray!
• Woo hoo
• Whoopee!
• Yippee!
• Yee hah!
• Sad Face with:
• SAD
• :-(
• Oh no!
• Uh oh!
• Shrug with:
• SORRY
• I can't understand you.
• Mean face with:
• STINKY
• Hey!
• Please go away!
• Stop that!
• That wasn't nice!
• You stink!
• Nod "yes" with:
• Yes
• Shake head "no" with:
• No

Common Abbreviations

ToonTown Related

TT

ToonTown

TTC

Toontown Central

DD

Donald’s Docks

DG

Daisy’s Gardens

MM

Minnie’s Melodyland

TB

The Brrrghs

DDL

Dreamland

DL

Dreamland (commonly-used abberated form)

GSW

Goofy's Speedway

SHQ

Sellbot HQ

CHQ

Cashbot HQ

VP

Vice President (Sellbot HQ Boss)

CFO

Chief Financial Officer (Cashbot HQ Boss)

CJ

Chief Justice (Lawbot HQ Boss)

PG

Playground

TP

Teleport

HQ

Headquarters (Where you get tasks in a PG)

JB

Jellybean

Others

AFK

Away from Keyboard

LOL

Laughing Out Loud

BRB

Be Right Back

BRT

Be Right There

ATM

At The Moment

OMW

On My Way

HO

Hold On

Shortcuts

F1

Display coordinates and client version

F6

Display latency (lag) information. (No longer works?)

F7

Open your Friends List.

F8

Open your Schticker Book.

F9

Take a screenshot. The resulting file will be in your Toontown folder.

'End'

See your current tasks. Scroll over the tasks with your mouse to see the reward for each task.

'Home'

See your current gags.

'Page Up'

Look up.

'Page Down'

Look down.

'Tab'

Change the camera view.

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Exploring Toontown

Moving Around

Get used to reversing while turning away from vendors—turning alone may cause another interaction with the vendor. You can be pushed by other toons (even into street battles or buildings) unless you have your schticker book open or are in a 'safe' playground location, like in the lake at Donald's Docks or in the middle at Minnie's Melodyland or Donald's Dreamland. Be aware that you will go from schticker book to sleeping after only a few minutes if you do nothing.

Noobie Combat

• Stay in Toontown Central!

Your Noobie Toon won't be able to handle the Cogs in other areas of the game until you have advanced a bit. Going to other areas of the game, such as Donald's Dock, will only slow down your Toon's development. Stick around the streets off Central and fight the lowest-level Cogs that will count towards your ToonTasks. Wandering to the other areas early on will do you no good, and only make it tough for you to find your way back to Central since you won't have Teleport access to Central yet. I constantly see noobies running around in Dreamland or The Brrrgh with less than 20 Laff points. Higher-Level Toons can't help them much

• Complete your ToonTasks!

Your Toon needs two things as quickly as possible: Laff points, and Toon-up. Extra Laff mostly comes from completing "laff boost" tasks, and Toon-up is earned by completing "gag training"/"frame" tasks (assuming that you chose Toon-up as your first gag to train). With Toon-up, you can be a real benefit to a group, making the assault of buildings possible.

• Throw, Throw, Throw!

You start with two Gag Tracks, Throw and Squirt. But, which one do you use, and develop, first? Read the title of this section. Read my lips. Read this: Throw, Throw, Throw! "Howcom and for why, Kid Bugs?" you may ask. "Squirt is High Accuracy, it hits more than Throw, why should I develop Throw first?" Because, my tasty day-old pudding, you want to be able to make the dreaded: One-Hit Kill! A developed Level 1 Throw Gag will kill a Level 1 Cog with one hit, but your Squirt Gags will not One-Hit Kill at the same level as the Gag until Level 6. As you fight higher level Cogs, it will become more important to be able to dispatch the vile machines quickly. Throw is your fast track to becoming the scourge of Cog-kind! "What about Squirt", you continue to ask? Persistent, aren't you? Well, build Squirt when you can't build Throw. Sometimes you will encounter a Level 1 Cog and have no Level 1 Throw Gags. Fine, Squirt the rotter. Just remember, Throw is your Bread and Butter Gag, it is what will keep you alive through your noobyhood, it is the most important Gag for a Solo Toon until you get Lure.

• Know where to look for stuff!

Inevitably, you will get Tasks to defeat a certain number of Cogs of a certain type. If you want to finish Tasks like that in a reasonable amount of time, know where to look! Elsewhere in this Doc are lists of Cogs types, and the levels that Cogs of that type can be. There is also a list of the Streets, with the type and level of Cogs that can occur on those streets. For example, if you have a Task to defeat Back Stabbers, you can look in this Doc and see that Back Stabbers are Lawbots, and that they are level 5 to 9. Streets that can have Lawbots at level 5 to 9 are Lighthouse Lane, Maple Street, Walrus Way, Sleet Street and Lullaby Lane. Knowing this, you don't need to waste time looking for Back Stabbers on Elm Street.

• Kill Cogs in the Right Order!

This can get a bit complicated, but it can be very important if you want to develop your Toon quickly and safely. When you have a group of Cogs in front of you, the highest level Cog will determine the level of Gag that will give experience. If you have a Level 1 Cog and a Level 3 Cog in the fight, Gags up to level 3 will give experience. That means that you can kill the Level 1 Cog with up to a Level 3 Gag, and get experience for it, as long as the Level 3 Cog is there. So, in this example, you should kill the Level 1 Cog FIRST, then kill the Level 3 Cog. Besides giving better experience, your noobie Toon probably can not kill a Level 3 Cog in one hit anyway, but you probably CAN kill the Level 1 Cog in one hit. That means that you will only have one attack against your Toon, instead of two. When playing with a group, this is even more important. You might not have any Level 5 Gags, for instance, but your friends might. Killing the highest level Cog first may prevent your friends from getting the best experience from the fight. If you mess up too much, they might not want you to come into buildings with them :).

• The Prime Directive:

When in a group of higher-level Toons, don't use Sound unless others in your group pick sound first.

• Strange item, probably meaningless:

Having just advanced Throw to level 3 and Squirt to level 2, and getting the Sound Track (all at once!), I re-Gagged, and got rid of all of my level 1 Squirt Gags. So, what was the task that came next? Yup, "Deliver a Squirting Flower". Coincidence? Fate? Bad Luck? Or was it something more sinister, a part of the design within the game to give you the most annoying delivery tasks possible, in order to break your Toon Spirit? You decide....

Settings

You can change your Toontown settings on the first page of your schticker book.

• Turn music on or off
• Turn sound effects on or off
• Turn friend requests on or off. Every time you enter Toontown, it will be on.
• Set your video resolution [800x600, 1024x768, etc.]
• Set your SpeedChat color

Shortcuts and Districts

When you do not have teleport ability for the playground of your destination, travel to the second street, then open your schticker book and select 'Return to Playground'. This will 'return' you to the next playground rather than the one you came from, even if you have not yet been there. All districts are the same, and you may change districts at any time. The only thing that does not 'come with you' is the amount of building floors you have completed. Those are counted separately for each district. If the vendor you desire to visit is now a cog building, you may find that it is not a cog building on another district. Try changing districts.

Changing districts brings you to the last playground you visited. If you teleport to someone to help with a building near another playground, when you change districts you will go to the last playground you were in, not the playground near the street you were on.

Estates

In your schticker book, on the map page, you may press the button to “Go Home�?. Each of your six character slots has a house on this estate. The color of the houses correspond to the background color behind the toon’s head on the toon selection screen. You may swim, fish, collect ice cream cones and invite other toons to your estate. In your house is a bank that stores all of your extra jellybeans. You may add to or pull from the bank, which has a initial maximum capacity of 1000 jellybeans. While playing games, the overflow of jellybeans past your carrying capacity automatically goes to the bank. In your house is a closet that automatically stores your older clothes after you earn/purchase additional clothing. While in your house, other toons may try on the clothes in your closet.

Battles

The toons always get first strike. Only four toons can be in any battle or building at one time, and only four cogs can be involved in the battle at the same time, but more may arrive as reinforcements. You may 'escape' from a building once a level is clear by teleporting to a friend or clicking 'Return to Playground' in the schticker book. You may not teleport to any friend who is inside a building.

'SOS' allows you to call for a particular friend to assist in a street battle. The friend receives a message indicating your need for assistance. Calling for help from the toons around you (with the Toontalker) may prove to be more effective.

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Cogs

Cog Health Calculation

Cog Health = (Level of cog + 1) * (Level of cog + 2)

1. 2x3 = 6
2. 3x4 = 12
3. 4x5 = 20
4. 5x6 = 30
5. 6x7 = 42
6. 7x8 = 56
7. 8x9 = 72
8. 9x10 = 90
9. 10x11 = 110
10. 11x12 = 132
11. 12x13 = 156
12. 13x14 = 182 (Changed to 200)
13. 14x15 = 210 (not in game yet)
14. 15x16 = 240 (not in game yet)
15. 16x17 = 272 (not in game yet)

Cog Gallery and Radar

When you defeat the first set of cogs across an entire row (30/25/20/15/10/5/2/1), the icon (button) on the left side of the row, when pushed on a street, will show you the number of cogs of that type currently on that street. This is referred to as 'Cog Radar'. When you defeat the second set of cogs across an entire row (45/40/35/30/25/20/15/10), the icon (button) on the left side of the row, when pushed on a street, will show you the number of cogs and buildings of that type currently on that street. This is referred to as 'Building Radar'. The first cog on the row can be level 1-5, the second can be level 2-6, the third can be level 3-7, etc. The last cog can be level 8-12.