Capture a local radio tower to broadcast your freedom vibes and listen in on enemy comms - this will influence stability and the appearance of intel reports.

Simply clear out the guards and hold the location until the notification appears.

Fast vehicle inventory management
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Use the Y menu when in a vehicle to easily transfer equipment to and from storage. If you are planning on doing a sell run to the shops, select "Transfer Legit" to move anything from nearby containers that can be sold into the vehicle.

Better looting!
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So, you've won the battle but the lovely new military hardware is strewn about the area in piles of corpses. Don't try and collect it all yourself, hire a lackey!

Walk up to a villager and go into the Y menu, select "talk" on the right and hire him (costs between $100-300 or so).

When you've taken him in your car to the area of the fight, select him in his Function key (ie. F2,F3,F4...) then press Y again - this will give you an option to have him access the inventory of the closest storage (vehicle or ammobox), or the option to fill the nearest storage with all the goodies he can find in the area.

You can combine this with the fast vehicle inventory transfers (again, Y key whilst in a vehicle) to quickly collect and move equipment!

Moving stuff around
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ACE3 has a handy feature that allows you to pick up and move items around, or even drag the heavier ones. Just go up to an item you own/have placed (such as your ammobox) and hold the Windows key, selecting "Carry".

If an ammobox is too heavy to carry, get in a vehicle first, drive up next to it, press Y, transfer your items from the ammobox and then move it and transfer them back.

This feature is especially handy for moving static guns without having to disassemble and reassemble them.

Originally posted by ARMAzac:

Moving stuff around
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ACE3 has a handy feature that allows you to pick up and move items around, or even drag the heavier ones. Just go up to an item you own/have placed (such as your ammobox) and hold the Windows key, selecting "Carry".

As an addition, you can use this feature to attach/remove items to vehicles, including:
- Carrying/attaching/removing car wheels (repairs!)
- Attaching explosives to vehicles
- Linking explosives to firing devices
- setting off explosive devices amongst military targets

I'm probably on a CIA watchlist now

No more running simulator with the fast travel feature!

Using your trusty Y menu, you can place a camp or build a base that you can then instantly return to from anywhere on the map. Captured locations such as bases, airfields, and radio towers will also be activated for fast travel.

To beam yourself around, press Y, and select fast travel, and then click your desired destination on the map.

If you are in a vehicle, it and your passengers will be transported along with you.

Smart Starting and Careful managment
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When you start out with a group or alone, it's a good Idea to check you map before running into town with your new gun(s) shooting any Police or gang members you see. Try and find a location with a lower police population to get starter weapons together, and avoid attacking a position close to - (Within one to two or fewer kilometers) - NATO instalations.

It's also a good Idea to realize when it's time to take what you can and extract into the forrest or load up into vehicles via road.

(I learned this the hard way when me and my buddies didn't do any of these things, and wound up sticking around to take everything we could - and we where subsequently slaughtered by NATO forces that pushed into the town with eight heavily armed soldiers and an MRAP with a machinegun)

Originally posted by Foofski:

No more running simulator with the fast travel feature!

Using your trusty Y menu, you can place a camp or build a base that you can then instantly return to from anywhere on the map. Captured locations such as bases, airfields, and radio towers will also be activated for fast travel.

This feature has been revised to only allow fast travel within the same island. You can still fast travel to captured airbases anywhere on the map.

Capture radio towers asap. The earlier you get them the more you benefit from their long-term effect.

I don't consider myself an expert, but I found this method very easy and rewarding. When you do the Tutorial, the guy tells you to go kill two Gandermes in the area. You can do this one of two ways. One, leave and a random spawn will usually run up to them and kill them. Or two, and this is the main thing I am saying here so:

TLDR: Use your quadbike (or any other vehicle) and run the cops down when they are marching in a line. Then scoot out of sight, wait for wanted to go away, rinse, repeat, collect loot, profit.

Some Stuff that help getting started
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1. Craft some Bandages with clothes (buy clothes at the "shirt-icon"- shops) and sell it. Look for towns that have a "$"-shop and a "shirt"-shop=less driving around. You will get about 270-360 § for one Bandage depends on the stability (the lower it is the more § you get).

2. When having about 20-30k cash get some Mortars from the Black market guys (little flags on map) and recruit some civillians to mount them. this will make capturing Towns very easy. Same goes for stationary HMG. Get an AA stationary when fighting for Towns AI will have Heli (at least on Altis).

3. To make REAL money find a town with a hardware shop (hammer and sickel icon on map). Use your mortars to capture this Town. Buy a house near that shop. Dont place Police station to let the stability at 0%. Buy a Kamzac Transport, drive to the Harbour, buy a house close to harbour, import the items that cost around 270-280 (doesnt matter which one u choose) and sell them at that town in the hardware shop (using fast travel). Rinse and repeat. U will have 1 million in about 30 minutes. Oh when u save and load a persistant save all destroyed buildings are up again (in case u destroy the Town with mortars;) )

4. Attacking a Town with near Nato base will help getting good stuff. Troops from that Base will come to support the Town which makes it easy to get good items for free. Recruit civillians to loot the stuff automatically. For example on Altis attacking Kore works nice. But be aware of MRAPs get some AT to deal with them.

5. Vehicles : U can disable MRAPs and repair them fully with a Repair truck (buy at Gas stations cost about 6k). Then (having the Factory already) u can reverse engineer them to have the ability to build them there (costs around 140k and some metall).

6. Build your base at captured NATO bases.

Great starting tips:

1. Start small, and dont get any big ideas. Take out towns and minor bases first, but be aware if its a millitary asset, they will reinforce it, and you have a 10 minute window to prepare.

2. When you want to arm up, Start with Police. They are easy to kill and have the P90, the best SMG in the game. Then work your way up to millitary police in towns.

3. Allways look out for gang camps, or pay a dealer to find one. You get a lot of money just for killing a few soldiers.

4. Take over towns before attacking bases. Its best to be well equiped.

5. Save gear like the Underwater gun, for later. You might need to run a Water Op.