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Contents 1 Helpful Links 2 Cards 3 Collections 4 Your Pack 5 Vault 6 Credits 7 Markets 8 Rats 9 Friending People 10 PackRat Helper 11 Questions

[edit] Helpful Links

• Help - Learn how to play the best game on Facebook
• The New PackRat - A quick guide to what's new

[edit] Cards

• When you flip over a card in your pack or vault, you can click the name of it to go to a page that displays the entire history of this card. If you bookmark this page, you can track where your card ends up in case you lose it overnight.

• If you have pack space, try to have a high value card (2500+) to trade if you see an elusive rare on a rat that has been flushed out of someone's pack. You can usually get these through trading up – e.g., you get a two piece (500) as a bonus draw, then you trade it up for a 750 or 1000 point item, then a 2500 point item, then 5000 point item, etc.

• There are several ways to get cards you need:

• Buying cards from one of the markets is the most common way to get new items.

• You can steal cards from the artificial Rat characters or your friend's "shared stash".

• If the markets don't have what you need and you can't locate the item in a pack from which you can swap, you can post or search for a message on the official PackRat trading boards for current cards or for retired cards, and trade with another player.

• If all else fails, you can join the unofficial PackRat Bazaar Facebook group, Packrat Packers Union Facebook group or Card~Trades and trade there.

• Making recipes gives you points equal to the resulting cards value. Vaulting cards gives your points equal to the total vaulted cards' value.

[edit] Collections

• When working on older collections its easier to get the higher recipes done first and work your way down.

• If there is a collection retiring it would be best to complete that collection while you still can, once collections are retired they are no longer sold in markets. The only way to obtain these cards is through trades, finding them in the rats or purchasing them at the premium markets if and when they appear there.

[edit] Your Pack

• A way to free up a loaded pack is to swap out some un-needed cards for three of the same card that is part of a recipe. Cards that are easy to find in the rats, easy to pick up with any card such as corn, bucklers, rubber trees, and tomatoes amongst others.

• To post your pack link, scroll down to your history feed right click on "You" and "copy link location", or click on the Leaderboard, right click on your name and select "copy link location" from the popup box. This is your pack link. Go create your post and then paste the link in it. Should look something like this http://apps.facebook.com/packrat/user/u*********

• When leaving comments on people's walls a lot of people prefer that you whisper comments as to not push their message down.

[edit] Vault

• You can vault 5 of the same thing or 5 (or more) different things from the same collection or just from the same colour family.

[edit] Credits

• When surfing for credits, ignore what's in the packs, just watch for a gold credit coin. If after going one direction for more than 5 clicks and no coins pop up, change directions and go back the other way. Sometimes just going back and forth over three rats in a row results in a coin every second click. If no coins appear after going both directions for a while, click on any item in a rat pack to attempt a steal, then click on cancel.. a coin usually follows a canceled steal. Sometimes after surfing for credits and none are showing up, click on Swap with Friends, and choose any friend other than a rat, a coin usually appears after this too.

• Coins also often appear on pages of friends of friends; just look on your friends walls and activities for their friends and click on them—you won't be able to steal from them (unless they're your friends too), but you'll usually get credits by going to their pages.

• If you are surfing the packs for credits/items and accidentally click the next page button before the credits that you were delayed in noticing, just click the credits and then RE-CLICK the next page button and you will keep your credits.

• If you click on a credit coin (particularly a bigger amount, say 20 or above) and it disappears when you scroll to the next page click back to the page you just left, & see if its still there. Then refresh the same page and click forward to the next page again and it usually sticks. Doesn't work every time, but it has several times. It's worth a try at least.

[edit] Markets

• Using the Bookmark Toolbar in Firefox, you can bookmark your markets for a quick jump from one to the other.

• If there is an item you want in multiple markets try to buy it from the market that moves the slowest (London & NY have really slow turn over rates). This helps keep the markets moving.

• An item will stay in the market for 30 minutes. If, after 30 minutes, the item has not sold out, a new item will replace it.

• Say an item you're surfing for is either in London or Sydney, and you'd normally be clicking from London to NY to Sydney and back to NY then London. Skip NY by first going to London, then in the address bar for the browser backspace over London and type in Sydney and hit enter, now you're in Sydney. From then on just click back and forth on the browser navigation arrows to switch between London and Sydney without going thru NY.

• There are a number of Firefox extensions (Tab Mix Plus, ReloadEvery, etc.) that allow you to auto-refresh a tab at a specified interval. This can be very useful for watching a market for a specific item to come up.

• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users can use the Safari feature Web Clips to put a snapshot of a market (or pack, or any other page) on their Dashboard, which will automatically update every time you bring up the dashboard. See this discussion thread for detailed instructions. Warning: Facebook or Alamofire code may currently be breaking this.

• It is only possible to buy from a specific slot once per item. After purchasing an item, you may not purchase from that slot until the original item has been sold out.

[edit] Rats

• Using the Bookmark Toolbar in Firefox, you can bookmark your rats allowing you to surf only the rats.

• If you're surfing the rats for a particular card and they are flooded with a card you don't need, try collecting and vaulting those cards. It's easy points and helps clean out the rats while you wait for the card you need.

[edit] Friending People

• If you're having trouble finding a newly added friend in your "Swap with Friends" rotation check your Leaderboard. New friends are always immediately added there first.

[edit] PackRat Helper

If you don't have Firefox, get it (or if you're using Flock, Mozilla Suite or Songbird this will also work in those browsers], then install the Stylish add-on. After you do that, install these styles:

• PackRat Header Cleanup - Required for optimal PackRat game
• Facebook Welcome Bar remover - optional

They'll change the way you play PackRat :)

Note: To manage these styles (disable/enable/delete), follow the directions under 'Manage Styles' in this site. Also, these styles were designed for the new Facebook layout. However, the PackRat style has been tweaked to also work (more or less) with the old layout.

The first style alone which is PackRat specific will:

• Remove the large PackRat logo (and reclaim the space it takes)
• Move the credits/level/score layout to the right, over the ads
• Fixes the position of the credit and card pop-ups, having them ALL be next to the pack navigation icons.
• Moves the dev's notifications under the credit/score panel on the right
• Makes the user and market navigation icons smaller for more vertical space while browsing

Screenshots: Before, After

Notes:

• This is NOT an automated script. It does not violate ANY terms of service (except maybe a small point, read later) and it doesn't interfere with the normal operation of PackRat. It just moves the little credit and card pop-ups to a fixed location so you don't have to hunt for them - a small convenience. It also does NOT remove PackRat ads, I believe the devs need to get as much support as they can. This is only done because the ads take up so much space, and it IS a separate style from the PackRat changes one. You don't need to have both.
• This does NOT interfere with the frequency of pop-ups in any way whatsoever. It just relocates the pop-up whenever one shows up.
• You must MANUALLY install future updates, IF you want them
• NONE of the changes are permanent, they're all revertible by just disabling or deleting the installed style
• It's absolutely safe. If you get confused by any of the changes, just remove the style and don't think about it again, it doesn't stick around after you remove it :)

Additional Info:

• Facebook ad removal - optional, slightly buggy

This will remove the Facebook Ads, but it's buggy. Use at your own risk.

[edit] Questions

If something isn't covered here please refer to the discussion link to ask any questions, we'll try to help as best as we can =)