Apartments

Early on in your HellMOO career, you're going to find that you can no longer sleep in the Crash Landing Cube Hotel.

Don't worry! You'll never be that safe again, but then again, this is a milestone of personal independence. Go you.

Where to Find Housing

You could sleep in your corp's HQ or simply doze off in the middle of the street somewhere, but for a variety of reasons (see: rape,death) most players decide to invest in their own apartment.

City	Location	Down payment	Monthly Rent	Security	Notes
Gangland	Broham Gardens	$300	$30	Virtually none.	Economy housing in the truest sense, vaguely preferable to a cardboard box.
Slagtown	Bradbury	$500	$50	Weak Gorillabots and Owlmen. Rooms come with a basic scanlock.	Easy access to the Bradbury Basement, home to zombies.
Freedom City	Sweaty Palms	$1000	$150	SP-FCPD security cameras.	Lounge and shower room on the ground floor.
Freedom City	Helliday Inn	$2500	$500	Electrified floors, FCPD cameras, and close proximity to FCPD HQ.	Lounge and shower room on the ground floor. Best security in Freedom City.
Burbclave	Haliburton Arms	$500000	$750	Criminals in Burbclave are blasted by a giant laser beam, which is a fine deterrent to most crime.	Highly pricey.
Burbclave	Custom Mansion	$1500000	$1000	This is your fortress.	Not always available.
Village of Lurleen	Lurleen Estates	$10000	$100	No security except, perhaps, obscurity.	For those who like a little isolation.
Wasteland	Vault 4	$10000	$100	No security, but the roaming security bots will attack anyone.	Vault 4 is hidden in the Wasteland; you'll need to search around to find it.
Necropolis	Freak Tunnels	$499	$10	Its very location is a form of security.	Housing for Hideous Freaks; others trying to rent an apartment will get Down's Syndrome.

Apartment Security

Your apartment building's security will only go so far (not very). It's better to spend some cash on protective measures than to pay for it by being robbed down the road.

If all of an apartment's residents are inside and asleep, nobody can pick your door's lock. Make sure to set your home as you apartment with @sethome. However, if you have more than one apartment, the apartment you're not asleep inside is vulnerable while you are disconnected. Furthermore, if you're disconnected but you have one or more roommates who are connected, your door can be picked.

If you're connected and out and about, your apartment is at its highest risk. Luckily, a variety of options are available to you.

Basic Security Options:

• Buy a peephole. Smoot's Security Shack (Sm) in Freedom City sells inexpensive peepholes that can be installed in doors. Before leaving your apartment, make it a habit to peep out and make sure nobody's outside.
• Upgrade your lock. Locks can be bought at security stores such as Smoot's Security Shack (Sm) or Security Matters (SM), or crafted by players.
• Buy a homecam. Homecams (also available at Smoot's) can be installed to watch your rooms. In the event of a break-in, you can play back the security footage and possibly identify the intruders.
• Buy tin foil. Tin foil is available at Hell Up in Hardware (HH). Installing it on the walls of a room will keep players with the Clairvoyance mutation out.
• Buy door kits. Informer door kits from Security Matters will inform you when a break-in is occuring. TrickrTreat door kits will explode when the door is tampered with.
• Install additional rooms. You can add additional rooms to your apartment, such as closets, trophy rooms, and shower rooms. Creating more rooms means creating more doors, and more doors means you can install more locks.

For the most effective results, employ a variety of security measures and take a layered approach. Keeping your valuables inside a locked floor safe within a closet means that an intruder has to get through your front door, closet door, and into the safe. (Additionally, closets can be installed within closets). Install locks on both sides of every door, on cabinets and safes, etc. While you may not keep talented thieves out, the longer it takes them to get to your possessions, the more time you have to stop them, call friends for reinforcements, etc.

NPC Housing

Familiarizing yourself with the places NPCs lay their heads can be useful. New players may find that robbing sleeping NPCs is an easy way to get items (especially porn) to sell, for instance, and it's often easier to get protection contracts from NPCs outside of their stores.

Some noteable NPC apartments:

City	Location	Map Abbreviation
Freedom City	Propecia Suites	PS
Freedom City	Xolair Plaza	XP
Corpclave	Humatrope Tower	HT