Odd Notes for beginners

A few more notes about UWE. They're just opinions, guidelines. Your mileage may vary.

• ALLIES. If you put your army code into your profile, people can add you for free. Take a look at other people's profiles, and make yours better.
• ALLIES. You want to get to 500 allies as fast as you can. I think that you can buy allies for $100 (game dollars) at your level. You can buy like 20 at a time. I'd do that as much as you can afford it. Allies for higher level players cost millions. (But you can add them for free if you know their army codes).
• ALLIES. Go through the empire and ally with everyone if you're not allied with them already. Your empire mates will give you guns and things.
• FACTIONS. My advice is to pay respect to Mafia until you get to 100 energy, and then to Cartel until you get to 100 Stamina. Then work your way to 6000 on each of the four in whatever order you prefer. You get great gifts as you do.
• PROPERTIES. Based on return on investment, I recommend that you build 8 restaurants (you have 3 so far), then upgrade your safehouse for 40,000, and then build the other two. You can only have 10 restaurants (later you can increase that number, but let's just say 10).
• PROPERTIES. After the restaurants, I would build 3 condos and then upgrade the safehouse for 80,000. 
• SAFEHOUSE. I try to upgrade the safehouse when it can't hold 10 hours worth of revenue. I figure I can empty it every 8 hours or so. Be sure to periodically collect from your safehouse and put the money into the bank.  

Get out there, tear it up. Get killed, lose money, blow your energy and stamina. It's just a game where you tap on a phone or a tablet. Gotta have fun.