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Animal Boyfriend Play Guides

I finally had a chance to sit down and compile some of this.  I’ve seen quite an influx in players that are trying Animal Boyfriend for the first time because they are finding it through other Ambition Games apps and I’ve gotten a lot of questions from people about the various play aspects.  Here’s a list of the guides I have for the game as well as a link to the Wiki. Also, if there is a guide for a feature or something related to Animal Boyfriend that you do not see here, feel free to send me a message/ask for it.

Current Event - Clover Town

Sample Game Play Videos - 1, 2, 3

General Politeness Tips - Please read this as it explains memo abbreviations and may explain why a player is mad at you

Gacha - No you can’t cheat these, but this explains them

Currency - Mostly explains how to earn K/JIN/G

Leveling - How to get to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th students asap

Events - How to rank, among other things

DSR - What it is and how to rank

Graduation - The ins and outs of the graduation process

Animal Boyfriend Wiki - Everything else you need.

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Animal Boyfriend Play Guide- General Politeness Tips

There’s several things in Animal Boyfriend that are considered polite and rude behavior.  Most people follow the common courtesy of returning advice, recommendations, socializations, JIN, and comments (A/R/S/J/C), but there’s a few other nuances to keep in mind.

 Memos

One big point for being polite is being mindful of memos.  This applies to what you put in yours and taking the time to read what is in other’s.  You’ll see lots of different things listed or requested in the student’s memos.  Most of them will either list what they want/don’t want or have a role play going (RP) going with another player.  A fair amount of the RPs that you’ll encounter are sexual in nature and have as explicit content as the game’s filters will allow, but some of them are PG13.  If you are doing an RP with another player, please leave the sex out.  The audience in Animal Boyfriend (AB) is varied and there are quite a few that are offended or too young to be exposed to this content. If you wish to have an RP that is sexual, simply take it to one of the many social media or messaging places.  Aside from RPs, you’ll also see the various notes about what players want you to do with their students.  These are very important to pay attention too.  ‘Going too fast’ is NOT an excuse for laziness, disrespect, or inability to pay attention.  There are several reasons why people will not want various things done.  If you are trying to rank in the Daily Socializer Ranking (DSR), then please be sure to check the comment option (great, thanks, sorry) BEFORE you click anything else. If you break your habit of first clicking advice or rec, you’ll be able to catch the memo requests and people will be more likely to be happy with you and return your socialization.

 Advice

The reason people get so upset over unwanted advice is because the game actually punishes you for missing it.  If you don’t cheer your student before they finish work/study, their affection will drastically drop.  Remember AB does not have notifications like the other Ambition Games do so people don’t know they received advice.  When affection drops, you will miss level up events.  If you miss a level up event, then your boy will not confess.  The conversations also change when affection lowers, but missing the confessions is the number one reason why people do not want advice at certain times.  Please, please be mindful of this and do not let advice be the first thing you click on when visiting other students.  You’ll see memos like noA@200 or <10min, A@200 or <10min okay, noA@<10min, noA!, no advice!, and so on to indicate the type of advice people want.  Also remember if you see busy, zzz, asleep, off, and things like this then the person is not on the game and may not be able to check their boy.  Do not advice in this instance either.

 Recommendations

One of the other things you’ll see in people’s memos are requests about how they’d like their recommendations (rec/s).  There many people who are trying to level and will want a full rec and many people that do not like recs and can’t afford to buy the rec blocking.  If you see a request for a full rec, please honor it.  This is probably someone trying to level as quickly as possible, or someone who just likes seeing their boy dressed up.  More frequently you’ll see things like ‘no face/hair rec’.  This means they player wants an accessory only rec.  The main reason for this request is they want their boys to look like the character they created, but they don’t mind seeing different outfits on them.  A few people are like myself and can’t stand recs.  To be mean for a moment here, I don’t like recs because many people just throw whatever items they recently got on their boys with no regards to aesthetics (i.e. they look like someone went to a thrift store and are trying to make themselves into an ugly clothes monster….).  I can buy rec blocking every month, but not everyone can so please if someone has no recs in their memos, please don’t give them  a rec.

One other thing on recs, giving one items recs is considered rude.  Granted there isn’t a penalty for players that get or give one item recs like there is in Dream Girlfriend, but it’s still considered rude.

 JIN

Another thing you might see is requests for JIN.  Though most people anymore have hoards of the stuff (I’m sitting over 100,000 JIN…) you’ll see newer players asking for this.  You don’t have to buy something off a student and give them JIN if you don’t want to, but it is considered courteous.  Also, if someone gives you JIN, it’s considered polite to return the favor and buy something from them as well.

 Socializations

The final things to keep in mind are around socializations (socs).  There isn’t as much drama in the game around this as there used to be, but there’s a few things that are considered common courtesies and no nos.  One that bugs me is don’t soc mule accounts (accounts that no one plays).  You’ll see a lot of these guys on the DSR and it drives me nuts because those shiny gacha tickets can go to accounts that are actually played and not to accounts that no one uses.  Also, it is polite to return socs.  Granted if you are busy this might not happen (I’m really bad about returning socs just ‘cause I don’t have time for it).  Some weird no nos about socing are called soc stealing.  The DSR competition isn’t what it used to be and I haven’t seen as much drama around it as there used to be so I’m guessing this isn’t as much of a thing, but people used to get their garters in a bunch if you soc stole or soc stalked.  Basically soc stealing or soc stalking is going through someone’s memos and socing everyone that gives them a soc, advise, rec, or comment.  Silly yes, but at the time this was a big thing because you needed over 9,000 (no pun intended) socs to beat out the inactive accounts and get the top DSR slots.  So competition like that made some people antsy.

 Retaliation

So, if you’ve ever gotten that hateful player that changed their name to something to specifically insult you and called you out in their memos, chances are you were rude enough to ignore that hateful player’s memos and they are trying to get back at you.  I consider both sides at fault here and both players to be rude, but you shouldn’t be too mean about the players that ignore other’s memos.  Honestly there are people that will purposely do exactly what your memos say you don’t want.  I’ve been given two ‘excuses’ for this behavior.  One is ‘no one pays attention to my memos so I purposefully ignore other’s memos’ and the the other is ‘I only do it to rude players’.  No matter the justification, don’t disregard memos.  Aside from being disrespectful, there are in game penalties for missing things like cheering. Be nice everyone and respect one another.

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Animal Boyfriend Play Guide - Currency

G

This is the currency used by ‘paid’ players to purchase special items, play gachas, and access premium features.  There are two ways to get G; by buying it or doing free offers.  Buying it is the easiest way to get this currency, but the free offers will give you a decent amount.  As a free player the best way to get G is by doing a few free offers each day and take advantage of any double TapJoy campaigns.  One other more creative way to earn G is with the Google Opinion Rewards app.  This will grant you 0.10-1.00$ in Google credit which you can use to buy things in apps.  The downside to this is it can’t be used in the Apple App Store.

K

This is the currency used by ‘free’ play.  You can earn this from working, recycling items, daily challenges, daily login, daily omikuji, or via event drops.  The amount of K you earn from work is based on the type and length of work you do.  Premium subjects will earn the most K, but cost G to unlock.  Special work will also earn a higher amount of K.  Recycling your duplicate items will earn you 25-50 K per item.  Events often drop 10-100 K for answers to choices and 500-1,000 K for achievement awards.  The daily things will grant you 50-1,000 K.

JIN

This type of currency is a bit different from the others as you can not buy it or work to earn it.  You gain JIN from buying items, people buying items from you, events, daily login, daily challenges, or daily omikuji.  Spending 1,000 K or 100 G will earn you 2 JIN.  There’s not any easy way to earn this type of currency, but players that have been playing for a long time will often have plenty of K to use to buy items from you and help you earn it.  This is the best and fastest way to earn JIN.  If you have a goal amount, leave a note in your memos and wear K items for people to buy from you.  Most players will buy a few items to help you out.  It is considered good manners to return any JIN by buying from the people who bought from you.  

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Animal Boyfriend Play Guide - Events

This is a topic I get a lot of questions about.  Mostly people wanting to know how I rank high in every single event.  The answer is easy; I spend money.  But, that doesn’t mean you need to spend money to rank.  If you want to make top tier on every event, then yes you’ll need to spend.  If you are looking at getting a decent rank, but not necessarily top then you can do this as a free play.  You can also rank in a few events without having to spend money.  Here’s the rundown on how events work and what you can do to rank in them.

 One of the major reasons I rank as high as I do is because I have multiplier items and I use event boys.  You will need either the multipliers or event boys to rank.  Unlike Dream Girlfriend the competition isn’t as bad and you can rank fairly well without a multiplier.  

Multiplier items

These are super rare outfits from the gacha and each event will have 3-10 items that count as multiplier items and will have 1-3 gacha that have these items in them.  The events have changed a bit, but older events had a multiplier from a normal and mini gacha or from a limited gacha.  Now we usually get a limited gacha followed by a normal gacha about halfway through the event.  Some of the events will have two normal gacha that have multiplier items.  The reason these are key is they can grant 1-5 additional event points (EP) per item and you can have up to a max of 6-45 additional EP.  If you are a free player, you’d want to save as many tickets and free G as you can so that when an event you really like shows up, you can go all out and get a super rare.  There’s always a chance that your free spin will grant you a coveted super rare, but the chances of this are very low.

Event Boy/Jrs

The other key component to the events are the Event Boys (EBs) and Event Boy Jrs (EBJs).  You can earn EBs from events, daily omikuji, daily login, login bonus campaigns, or buying them in the shops.  EBJs you get from events, gacha points, and assorted shop plays.  The reason these are important in events is they restore your event stamina.  An EB will restore all stamina while an EBJ will restore 30-100 depending on the type of event.  Using these to advance through stages will help you in ranking, and you can rank with EB/Js alone.  It takes roughly 10-15 EBs and the same for EBJs to get a top tier rank in an event (depending on the event popularity). If you are free play you will earn 3-4 EBs every month.

Ranking

There are 3-4 ranking tiers in events and the brackets change from event to event.  The lowest tier is usually a gacha ticket and the top tier is all of the previous tier’s items plus a limited outfit.  Ranks are determined by the amount of event points you have in relation to the other players (i.e. the person with the most event points will rank number one).  If a player has the same amount of event points as another player, ranking is determined by who entered the event first (even if it’s by half a second).  There is no special prize for ranking in the top 10.

Achievement awards

Limited outfits as well as useful items are awarded based on the number of EP you earn throughout the event.  You can earn these without having to rank in the event and as long as you play it daily, you’ll get all of them way before an event ends.

Event gacha/drops

Events have several ways you can acquire items.  The main purpose behind events is to give players a variety of outfits and accessories for their students to wear, though often times event non-playable characters (NPCs) will give you things like K, JIN, exchange tickets, business smiles, chewing gum, and moody.  Some of the newer event types will also give EBJs.

Types of events

The most common event type is a dialog event where your answers to NPC questions will either grant you items, outfits, or event gacha play items.  These events are usually really easy to rank in if you are a paid player and are easy to get all of the items from.  It’s easier for someone who spends money on the game to rank in these because you can just burn event boys and skip through the event without too much hassle. If you are a free player and trying to rank in one of these, you’ll want to burn through EBs.  Unlike Dream Girlfriend though, you DO NOT want to burn through your EBs during the last half hour of the event.  Rankings update slower in AB and you’ll end up wasting EBs and still may not rank.  AB events work differently from DG so the same techniques don’t work.  In AB you’ll want to burn EBs at key times.  Wait for conversation up campaigns and double EP campaigns.  This is when other players will also be spending EBs and there’s no guarantee that there will be an EP campaign at the end of an AB event.  It is better to maximize the effectiveness of your EBs.

A type of event we don’t see very often is a shopping event where you have to spend K or JIN to get drops.  Shopping events don’t have ranking prizes in them or multiplier items.  We haven’t seen one of these in a long time, and it’s probably because a lot of players complained about having to spend their K and JIN to get items instead of having them as drops.

Fashion shows are another rare type of event.  These are much harder to rank in as you can’t use any EBs and you have to rely on others seeing your student and voting for them.  Even then you may not rank, though everyone does have an equal chance in these as you can’t spend money to tip the scale in your favor.  

Recipe events are some of my favorite events.  You have to gather items from drops and mix them in the right amounts to get the various items.  It’s easy to rank in these because you can burn through EBs, but it’s harder to get items from them.  

Board game events are another favorite of mine.  These are harder for paid players to rank in and easier for free players.  The reason for this is even though you can use an EB/J to restore your dice, it doesn’t guarantee that you’ll land on squares that grant you points.  If you are free play and watch your squares, you can get EP easily and end up ranking fairly easy.  Also a lot of players hate board game events and don’t play them which will work in your favor as well.  One key thing for ranking as a free player in these is to save your cards and use them to move your piece to EP squares instead of relying on the dice.

There are also memory game and farming events.  Memory game events are easier for paid players to rank in as you just have to burn EBs and save items to unlock cards.  Farming events are another ball game altogether.  I’m not fond of these because EP gains are so slow.  You only gain EP from harvesting items that grant EP and items.  It’s super easy for someone who is free play to rank in these.  All you have to do is save your special seeds and fertilizer for the double points days and plant all of those special seeds.

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Animal Boyfriend Play Guide - Gacha

There are several types of gacha in the game, but all of them operate on the same principles. Each time you play a gacha, your ‘spin’ is given a number per the random number generator (RNG).  This generator operates on a global basis, so the more people that ‘spin’ at the same time, the higher your chances are to get a rare drop.  There is not a way to cheat this system and there is no guaranteed way to get an item or all items from any of the gacha, but doing spins when the others are most likely to play the gacha (during ending campaigns and when the gacha is first released) will give you the best chances to get higher rarity items.  Also, 5x spins have a bit better chances for rare drops just because the more spins equals higher chances of RNG giving you a good drop.  Below is the list of gacha and what is required to play them:

 Limited Time gacha

These are the new formats for the gacha and come out in sync with the events as well as infrequently throughout the month to bring back old gacha sets in the new gacha format.  Everyone gets one free spin from this type of gacha.  After your free spin, you can either spend 300 G, one pink gacha ticket, or three blue gacha coupons to play again.  Each spin has a chance to drop a normal, rare, or super rare item, but earning 1,000 GPT will guarantee you a super rare drop.  The drop rate for the super rare is up from .05% chance to a whopping 6% chance so you’ll most likely get one for free even if you only have your free spin and/or a few tickets/coupons.  If you are wanting to get the 1,000 GPT and guarantee a super rare drop, it’ll take 5-20 tickets, 15 - 60 coupons, or 1,500 G - 6,000 G (16.48$ - 60.47$).  If you wait for the gacha GPT up campaigns, you’ll need 5-13 tickets, 15 - 39 coupons, or 1,500 - 3,900 G (16.48$ - 39.44$) to get the 1,000 GPT bonus super rare.

Normal gacha (Retired format)

These are the gacha that come out frequently and usually last for a few months.  Everyone gets one free spin from this type of gacha.  After your free spin, you can either spend 300 G or one golden gacha ticket to play again.  Each spin has a chance to get a normal, rare, or super rare drop, but earning 1,000 GPT will guarantee you a super rare drop.  If you are looking to get a ‘free’ super rare, you’ll need to have 5- 20 tickets on hand.  If you are wanting to play for an SR using G, you’ll need 1,500 - 6,000 G (16.48$ - 60.47$). When these gacha are getting ready to be retired, you’ll get a gacha campaign that will grant 30 extra GPT per spin.  Saving tickets for this time is the most efficient way to use your plays as you’ll need 5-13 tickets (1,500 - 3,900 G [16.48$ - 39.44$]) to get a super rare and the rare drop rate is increased.

Mini gacha (Retired format)

These are the gacha that are paired with the normal gacha.  Everyone gets one free spin from this type of gacha.  After your free spin, you can either spend 100 G or one silver gacha ticket to play again.  Each spin has a chance to get a normal, rare, or super rare drop, but earning 1,000 GPT will guarantee you a super rare drop.  If you are looking to get a ‘free’ super rare, you’ll need to have 5- 20 tickets on hand.  If you are looking to buy a super rare, you’ll need 500 - 2, 000 G (3.96$ - 19.98$).  When these gacha are getting ready to be retired, you’ll get a gacha campaign that will grant 30 extra GPT per spin.  Saving tickets for this time is the most efficient way to use your plays as you’ll need 5-13 tickets (500 - 1,300 G [3.96$ - 12.99$]) to get a super rare and the rare drop rate is increased.

Limited gacha (Retired format)

These are the gacha that come out a few times a month and are usually tied to an event or  have holiday items.  Everyone gets one free spin from this type of gacha.  After your free spin, you can either spend 400 G or one blue gacha ticket (only 3 of these have ever been given) to play again.  Each spin has a chance to get a normal, rare, or super rare drop, but earning 1,000 GPT will guarantee you a super rare drop.  If you are looking to get a super rare you’ll need between 2,000 - 8,000 G (19.80$ - 79.20$) unless it’s an ending campaign then you’ll need 2,000 - 5,200 G (19.80$ - 52.46$).

Premium gacha

This is a special gacha for people that bought premium packs to unlock it.  Each spin costs 100 G and there are no free spins or tickets you can use on it.  Also, you only have access to this gacha for as long as the month you purchased the premium pack lasts.

Friend gacha (Android only)

You can play this gacha if you are using and Android device and someone enters your friend code.  You’ll get one pink gacha ticket for every code entered.  This feature is not available to iOS users.

Daily gacha

These appear very infrequently and often have some of the best items in the game.  There are 3 tiers to it and they are only available for 4 days.  Each tier has a different set of 3 items and the cost range from 300 G to 600 G per tier.  On the final day of the gacha, you have a chance to get an item from any of the tiers.  There are no free plays or gacha tickets available for this gacha.

Assorted shop/Hair salon

Neither of these are ‘gacha’, but they work in a similar fashion.  There is a K version and a G version of the items available.  Each spin costs either 500 - 1,000 K or 150 G although you can use 500 - 1,000 G to buy packs with some of the items in them.  These do not have free spins or tickets that you can use.  They also show up once or twice a month and are available for a few days.

Fun Bags

These appear reasonably frequently and aren’t ‘gacha’ but work in the same fashion.  There are 1-3 tiers and normally cost G, but occasionally one will cost K.  The first tier is bronze and these items will cost 1,000 - 20,000 K or 50 - 300 G per play. The item drops are random.  The second tier is silver and these are packs that you can buy for 300 - 500 G.  They often have several of the items from the random plays, but not all of them.  The final gold tier has packs as well and often has items the other two tiers do not.  These packs cost 500 - 5,000 G.  There are no free plays or tickets available for the fun bags.  

Box gacha

These are a newer type of gacha and so far have been coming out once a month.  They have amazing items and lots of recolors of older gacha items.  Each play is 300 G and there’s usually a 6x spin option.  There are no duplicates in this gacha which is very nice.  The number of items vary and there are all three tiers of items, normal, super rare, and rare.  As of yet there’s not a free spin or gacha ticket available for these, but the Japanese version has a login bonus campaign that grants an orange box gacha ticket so we may see this in the future.

Recycle Bot

This is not a gacha, but the way it works is similar.  You need 8 exchange  tickets for an accessory spin and 10 for an outfit spin. There is also a background you can purchase with your exchange tickets.  As of yet there has been no updates to the Bot’s contents in English.  In Japan you get recolors of gacha items from the Recycle Bot so hopefully we’ll get an update.

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