Race or Die Tips: Respect Points

The true, and obvious, purpose of Race or Die is so The Godfather can sell Respect Points. Race or Die Respect Points are like commercials for broadcast television: it is the main reason it exists. This is how The Godfather procures income from its free MMO text-based iPhone RPGs, and is the prime reason they try to maintain playership. Here are some tips for using the Race or Die Respect Points.

When you open Race or Die select Sponsor from the middle of the task bar, which is in between News or Blacklist. Once you are in the Sponsor you are going to see all the options for spending your Race or Die Respect Points. At the very top of the Sponsor you are going to see how many Race or Die Respect Points you have currently. Below that are going to be several options: free money, a single crew member, full fuel refill, full nitrous refill and full health refill. Each of these has their own unique Race or Die Respect Points cost.

Below the areas where you can spend your Race or Die Respect Points are a few options for buying more Race or Die Respect Points. You will have a number of different packages that offer you different amounts of Race or Die Respect Points for different prices. Just select one and you will be taken to the iTunes' App Store page for the Race or Die Respect Points package you selected. Once you are here, buy and download it like any pay iPhone application, then open it once it has been downloaded. It will then open up Race or Die with the Respect Points in the account.

There is a hierarchy for spending your Race or Die Respect Points, which means that getting the free money for ten Race or Die Respect Points. This amount of money changes depending on how far in the game you are, and since you will want to find money without leveling up early on you may want to use this. After that will be to get more friends, but since Race or Die has a Friend Code system this should not be the first place you go.

The Race or Die Friend Code system usually makes adding friends to your account relatively easy. Instead of wasting your Respect Points on more friends you can just browse online forums for Race or Die Friend Codes. Only resort to this if you are having a lot of trouble with Race or Die Friend Codes.

If you are farther in the game and want to level up you can use the Race or Die Respect Points to refill your energy bar, but only do this if you have a large energy bar. Normally using Race or Die Respect Points to heal yourself is not a great idea, but since it only costs a single Respect Point it can be used on occasion.

Although there are no free Respect Points packages for Race or Die available yet, The Godfather does have a tradition of giving away free Respect Points. Keep your eye out for updates and free Respect Points packages and be aware that once you install Race or Die you will automatically be given ten free Respect Points.