OBEY
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Introduction to OBEY
By HexZyle
The ingame tutorial covers the bare bones mechanics, but live games are far deeper than just this.
This guide will hopefully give you a basic understanding on the core strategies and tips that are used regularly, and help you avoid making some basic mistakes.
   
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Intro
When you first join a server, you're probably going to be confronted by a wave of information as you find yourself as a helpless little bunny and havoc erupting all around you. Here are the basic foundations of the game:
The goal in a game of OBEY is to earn the most money
Usually this means 10,000 cents, but it depends on the server settings. You can earn money in two primary ways:

The first way is the easiest: You can OBEY by wearing a collar and delivering items to the Feed Box will generally earn you money.
The more arrows (autopay indicators) hovering above the Feed Box, the more money you'll get when you deliver items usable to the Overlord. This money comes straight out of the pocket of the Overlord player, and the items you deposit directly benefit them.

If you don't feel like you are being paid enough for your efforts, feel free to cry "mutiny!" or go on strike and demand a higher autopay.
Your collar is important!
While you are wearing it, you earn five times the amount of money you earn without one. Additionally, the Overlord can see the locations of all collars, so they will normally find you not a threat if you are wearing one.
Unless you are wandering around the map, the Overlord will often avoid killing you if you have a collar on.

It's generally a good idea to leave bunnies with collars alive if you're the Overlord. You can keep an eye on where they are. If a Dropship hasn't been purchased, and a bunny dies, they will spawn free in the world, usually where you can't see them.

Although the Overlord can zap a Bunny at any time by detonating their collar, it's often unwise to do so as it turns the Bunny into a charred corpse. (Explained at the end of this guide)
The Overlord gets the biggest paycheck
The second way to earn money is a lot harder, but has a much higher reward. If you manage to sneak up on the giant robot they are controlling, named "Robosaru", and enter its front door, you can take over and become the new Overlord.

You give the orders, you control the weapons plus whatever else the last Overlord spent their money on, and most of all, you get paid well for every second you're sitting in that seat!

Don't expect the Overlord to give up their throne of power without a fight though! You will be shot on sight if you don't have a reason for being somewhere you shouldn't be. Feel free to make up excuses on the spot if you need to!
Try not to dawdle too much when trying to overthrow the Overlord however: every moment you have your collar off, is time that you're not getting the collar's bonus money, nor are you getting money from depositing items into the Feed Box.
The Dropship

This is the silent overlord: the respawn room - your worst enemy. If a Dropship is purchased by the Overlord, it will hang around and drop purchased items onto the map, as well as causing you to respawn inside it whenever you die. You get less money while inside it, and you are dropped at the drop site: right were the Overlord can see you.

You can buy your own items in the Dropship too, if you so wish, but it comes out of your own pocket. This is often done when players are sick of the Dropship and want to crash it, which they can do by placing heavy items behind the dotted line BEFORE the ETA hits 30 seconds. If the Dropship is imbalanced, it may crash and burn, scattering the Overlord's precious items everywhere, and setting you free.
It's more than just shooting a big gun
If you do manage to become the Overlord, remember that it's not just about shooting everything that moves. If you can get a dropship (or kick the old Overlord out after they bought one) you can buy items into the map. Most of these items are weapons of various kinds, but one particular item you'll want a lot of, and that is Uranium.

If you can coerce bunnies to drop these babies into the Feed Box, you get a large money bonus! They cost 100 cents to buy, and when delivered they give you 300 cents. You can create incentive for putting items into the Feed Box by increasing Autopay (by default it's 0) which drops some of your money at the Feed Box whenever something useful is delivered to it.
Other ways of earning money
There are a couple other ways you can obtain money, but they depend on the situation. Examples include tasks like placing lights, mines and laser walls where the Overlord asks you to, or by spotting out players who are trying to overthrow the Overlord. If you do something you think is deserving of payment, feel free to ask for money. The Overlord can drop money manually for those who are exceptionally well behaved, and it pays, quite literally, to be around when he does so.
Play innocent
The Overlord is always expecting the bunnies to betray them. If you make a menace of yourself, expect to be singled out. Sometimes it's better to OBEY and build trust, you'll have a lot more leeway that you can abuse if you do. If you can shift the blame of things onto other people, then you've got better footing over your fellow bunnies too.

OBEY is sort of like a middleschool classroom, with the teacher at the front of the class turning their back to write on the blackboard. When they turn around and look at you, stop talking or shooting spitballs or whatever and pretend like you're doing classwork. Walk in the direction of the drop site if you don't have items, and walk in the direction of the Feed Box if you do.

Don't expect everything that other people say to be true either.
Corpses
The charred remains of bunnies sometimes occur from various burning or electrical related deaths. If placed in the Feed Box, these hit the Overlord with a massive money penalty. As a bunny, DO NOT be seen carrying corpses, and as the Overlord, DO NOT allow corpses anywhere near your Feed Box.
The Overlord can destroy corpses by shooting at them, so it's a good idea to hide them away.

You can generate corpses by frying yourself on laser walls (bonus points if these laser walls are hidden away so you can freely create corpses without the Overlord knowing) walking into fire left by explosions (or a flamethrower-happy Overlord) and finally, you can often find pre-fried bunny corpses around Robosaru's door. There'll tend to be a LOT of them there due to the sentries, but bringing those corpses back to the Feed Box is quite difficult without being spotted.
Scrap

Scrap is created whenever the Overlord spawnkills bunnies (within 9 seconds of them arriving by Dropship) or whenever the Dropship crashes.

Different sized scrap will award the Overlord with differing amounts of money when they are deposited to the Feed Box, (Small: 25¢, Medium: 50¢, Large: 75¢) and causes the Feed Box to drop money for the Bunny who deposited it.

If an Overlord has the autopay set high (Remembering that max autopay is 8 arrows, which means 200¢ is dropped for every item. It's generally unwise to set autopay so high as it will quickly bankrupt the Overlord) then the Overlord will lose money by allowing the Bunnies to deposit scrap. The Overlord should either lower autopay to 25¢ before scrap is deposited, or simply disallow Bunnies to deposit it in the first place.

Conclusion
Thank you for reading my first guide, and I hope you enjoy playing OBEY and ruling over your fellow bunnies. Please let me know if there's anything that can be improved.

11 Comments
@aol.com 31 Jan @ 7:07pm 
Rip :sacrificed:
Saul Goodman Is In Your Walls 30 Dec, 2023 @ 5:55pm 
People who sadly got the game when it died
Lobotomy Gaming 30 Nov, 2019 @ 6:55pm 
What about the tower? You forgot that.
SolarFlare1234 17 Apr, 2017 @ 8:08pm 
Autopay max is 200.
HexZyle  [author] 13 Oct, 2015 @ 6:45am 
Thanks; updated.
barlie7 29 Sep, 2015 @ 5:08am 
collars now give 5 times more money
Voidweaver 19 Aug, 2015 @ 5:56pm 
Amazing guide man well written and great for new players! 10/10
HexZyle  [author] 8 Jun, 2015 @ 5:02am 
Thanks for asking Aradorch, I've edited it to make it a bit more obvious what they do (give you a lot of points)
[TRINKS] Mittelspurschleicher 6 Jun, 2015 @ 2:51pm 
for what is the uran
Paladasch 24 May, 2015 @ 12:58am 
Very nice and big guide for every newcomer :)