The very first thing you have to do is walk to the 7/11 and buy Smokes. Give them to the
kid that you first saw on the corner of the block. You'll get a skateboard that will make
you move a lot faster. just hold "Shift" while you walk. After that, the first thing you
want to do is cap your intelligence to 400 (It's not the max, but it's all you need.). To
do this, work at McSticks for a few days, and get the CD Alarm Clock from the Pawn Shop
(you won't anything else from there for a while) and a batch of Caffeine Pills from the
7/11. These will give you a full 12 hour day (when you get the money, max your Pills. You
won't worry about them again unless you play the same file for days at a time), which is
vital to getting things done. Go to class (Not study, pay for the classes) at the
University of Stick until you get to 20 intelligence. But even after that, just keep
paying for the classes, you'll take less time getting promotions at the company just below
the bank, where you can start working at once you get 20 intelligence. Just worry about
getting enough intelligence to be the CEO of the company. After working whole days (a 1/4
of the clock at a time, you should end up working 4 shifts), go to your house and save.
Then, go to the Casino and play Blackjack by betting all your money (this helps early in
the game, but not by much), and if you lose, just close the window, open the game again,
and load your progress. You'll be right where you left off.  After you won the hand, go to
the bank and deposit your money (Do this every night, even if you didn't go to the Casino.
It gains interest while in the bank, giving you more money.). Once you've gotten at least
$10000, get back to getting 400 intelligence. Take only $240 from the bank every day, and
take classes for the whole day. Once you get to 400 intel, hotwire the car outside your
apartment, and you can use that to go anywhere around town much faster. Just press "c"
while walking, and you'll be in your car. The next thing you'll want to do is get your
Charm up all the way to 400 (all the stats need to be 400 minimum before you can really
get ahead in the game.). Doing this is easy, you just do what you did for intelligence,
but instead you'll be drinking at the bar. It even costs the same. Plus, the first time
you buy a bottle of beer and give it to the bum outside of the bar, you'll get 6 charm.
The same for when you give him $10. A way to help get Charm is: if you bought a house
along the way while you were betting your cash every night, and you went to the furniture
store to find a Minibar for sale, and you bought it. This gives you 1 charm every night.
The Xgenica encyclopedias do the same for intel, and the treadmill for strength. Once the
Charm is out of the way (trust me, that was the easy stat), you can successfully rob the
7/11 and bank, but that wastes the day, and you have to spend money on a gun and 95 ammo
sooner than you need it. After charm, you have to do Strength. For this, you have to train
at the gym, 1 point at a time, in the University. True, you get 3 points every time you go
in a bar fight, and they are kinda fun, but it glitches up, and you have to heal
afterwards, so it's not that great. But if you wanted to take that path like I did, You
have to get the knife from the Pawn Shop. It's +2 attack in bar fights. Once that's capped
to 400, the real fun begins.Buy the gun if you haven't already, and all the ammo (you have
to go out and back in when you buy the gun to get the ammo, by the way), the cell phone so
you know where to go in this next set of adventures, and 49 of each: Beer and Cocaine.
That guy between the shops, walking back and forth, will sell you the coke, and you buy
the booze bottles from the bar (but you should know both of those things). Basically after
that, you can buy bus tickets to go to different places to sell your stash, but you have
to keep in mind 3 things:
1) Always save before you leave your house to sell commodities, so you can restart if you
lose your money and stash on a bad trip
2) The buses will only leave at 12:00 (blank clock)
3) Your gun has to be fully loaded before you leave. That's just the way it is.
Once you make all your profits, stow it in the bank. When you take a break from being tony
Montana, make the high stakes Blackjack bets, and remember to save first! Everyone's goal
is to get a castle and completely furnish it, and that's not hard to do. And that's
basically all you need to do to survive and have millions of dollars. Some may suggest the
stock market when you buy a computer, but that doesn't work as well, in my opinion. And
one last tip (for Blackjack): when you have a lot of cash on hand when betting, press tab
until the chip you want is highlighted. Then, bot your enter key (set something up so the
enter button stays pressed). If you choose the $5 chip, which I like to do, you can just
set it up, and walk away. After a good 10 minutes of doing something else (not on the
computer, I'm afraid, it won't work that way, obviously), your whole cash cache will be in
the betting pool. If you lose the hand after all your work, pick the $500 chip and do the
same thing to save time. Good luck!