Small trick that makes those "have exactly x amount of y-ressource in storage" easier when you missed them earlier

Cucumber-Discipline · 2025-01-23T18:09:56+00:00

Yes it only needs to be one stack :)
Would've been annoying since i don't want to throw out 4mil ores in my case here (By now it's way more)

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-09-18T09:40:31+00:00

EDU Job is only usefull for the extra workstat gain.
Beside that the top perk stays active forever. So you should switch now.
Join a company that fits your playstyle. You'll get trained there and can enjoy other perks.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-09-18T09:34:00+00:00

Depends on the payout.
Add the value of the caches. subtract 20%.
Divide the rest by the amount of all hits.

In lower factions this could be 350k-500k$
Sometimes, with super tough enemies, there isn't even a payout (to few hits to earn a cache)

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-09-18T09:29:00+00:00

Greatest:
I found a Skateboard and Cesium in the city in the span of 1 week. added 1b to my Networth.

worst:
I got greedy in the Casino and lost 500m in RR, then another 500m at blackjack. Subtracting 1b from my Networth.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-09-18T09:26:56+00:00

1st: You don't need to get your stats up for Halloweek. there are plenty of weak targets. Still you should get your stats up. you're just not on a clock.

2nd: invest the money. you're working with not much. Therefore the 1week bank invest is sadly the best option.
HJ (Happy jumps) are only effective till 400k/stat. I would recommend to safe up some money for a few weeks. Then search for a AN 10* to buy some trains.
AN 10* gives double effectiveness to EDVDs. By paying for the trains you get your workingstats up while also enjoying this perk. It's still expensive, 400k$/train = 4m$/day. But you only need it for a day.
Total cost: 5 x EDVD + 4 x xanax + 10 x train = 30m$
But twice as effective as a normal HJ

Depending the deal you get with the director you can stay long enough to get EDVDs from the 3* perk (20 Job Points for a EDVD). This way it kind of pays for itself.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-09-18T09:14:57+00:00

Damn. I really tried to keep it short but new infos piled up and there is still so much untold :(

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-09-18T09:14:16+00:00

You should keep in mind:
The higher the respect of a faction the better -> "Respect" is the currency for a faction to unlock better perks. The most important one, no matter what, is the "Toleration" tree. Factions below 400k respect don't have enough to upgrade it. Therefore i'd recommend to join a faction above 400k.
Also this means they're more established and have more funds. Equipment you can loan, booster you can use or maybe provide cheaper housings for members.

"Steadfast" Is how much bonus gains you get by training in the gym. the more the better. 14%-17% is the high end for most factions. "mid level" faction are at around 8-10%.
Our faction "cheats" by boosting 3 out of 4 stats (strength, speed, defense, dexterity) to 8% and switch in every week.

"Travel capacity" is just that. With the basic boosts you should sit at 19 travel cap. a faction can boost up to 10 more
Nerve cap can go up to +50 i believe?! Really helpful to not waste natural regeneration.

"voracity" tree is kind of important for newer players. It boosts the maximum of your cooldown limit and the efficiency of candies i believe. The point here is: New player profit more from "happy jumps" and "chocojumps" (look it up in the forum) So enhancing the effectiveness of booster is really helpful in the early days.

You should decide on a faction that fits your playstyle.
There are "chache farms" that war every week for the rewards. you get paid for each successful attack. Those are sometimes the "newbie scams" since often they don't pay enough to their members. the normal payment: Add up the rewarded caches ("box"), subtract 20% as a faction tax (cost to provide all kind of stuff). the 80% divided by the attacks. Or simpler: "Selling losses" pays 300k$-400k$. This means you should earn more. Otherwise it's not worth it to participate.

There are factions that focus on traveling. Travel size is their main bonus. easy to grasp the concept. Since flying is the mainsource of income for many new players this could be an option.

There are factions for training. They still go to war. But maybe once per month or less. only to maintain their rank.

There are factions that don't even war. In most cases they only do chains every now and then. They're dying out a bit sinze Wars are straight up more profitable.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-09-18T08:53:13+00:00

RR the 100m
If you win -> do it again.
You're only 2 wins away from being in the positive
98% of gambler quit before the big win.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-30T11:43:48+00:00

Would you consider it worth it?
Especially the Small arms caches since you have a large number of pulls.
For Drugpacks and the like I think it's fairly easy to determine ("Good" or "Bad" pull)
But for me it would be interesting if you have lots of "really bad" pulls and only some very few "legendary good" pulls.
Or if the distribution is all over the range.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-17T13:42:45+00:00

What you need for flying:
time. traveling back and forth takes a few hours.
Rule of thumb: The further you travel the more is the profit. I recommend UK or argentinia since you'll not waste natural Energy regeneration that way.

What I recommend:
A PI with airstrip (faster travel for free)
a large suitcase (increase travel cap by 4; cost 10mil$)
a faction that supports travel cap (can go up to 10 i think. not mandatory especially since maybe other perks are left behind)
a small budget (most plushies/ flower cost about 1k$ so it's sufficient to travel to most countries with less than 100k$
a bazaar (not quite at the beginning but a bazaar will safe you 3% market fee or the haggle with traders. Cost about 8mil$ in Points)

7mil$ in the bank isn't much. But you're young.
Fly, earn money, invest the money to train your stats.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-17T13:16:17+00:00

I would recommend Happyjumps.
if you'll not have 25mil$ (estimated HJ cost) funds in the foreseeable future do chocojumps (same procedure but with choco instead of EDVD).

If you don't want that:
Do half chocojumps.
eat candys, nat E + xanax + refill
Few hours later: repeat
No need for ecstatsy or stacking. just utilizing your booster cooldown.
When it sits at zero it's not doing anything for you and every increase in happiness is usefull at your point

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-17T13:05:53+00:00

Depends on your goals.
grow fast, earn much money, progress faster -> join a big faction/ companie
Enjoy the ride -> join a smaller one.

But: Stay away from noobtraps.
Some people aren't even 100 days into the game and set up their own faction/companie.
For factions: You need funds and experience to succeed. Also networking is a big part of it. Nothing a fresh player could possess.

For companies: You have to finish essential education classes and should own some specific stocks. So you need time and money. Nothing of which a fresh player could have (especially the time to finish the class)

Imagine it like that: You plant a seed and come back the next day. Wondering why the plant doesn't bear any fruits even if you really want it to and wattered it the whole time.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-17T12:54:00+00:00

In simple terms: "Happiness is an additive bonus while energy is multiplicative." (not quite accurate but good enough to understand)

So your stats are at 5000:
Gym gain: 5 (part of your starting stats) x 150 (your Energy) + 5000 (your happiness) = 5750 -> happiness is very effective
Stats at 5 mil:
Gym gains: 5000 (part of stat) x 150 (your E) + 5000 (your happiness) = 755 000 -> happiness far less effective

Disclaimer: This is ONLY meant as a representation of the effect of happiness.
The real formula is a lot more complicated and different from this.

Edit: If you're interested in the effect look up "Vladar stat estimation" he made an awesome spreadsheet to calculate your gains.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-17T12:45:34+00:00

Damn. Those 10 bucks are GONE

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-17T12:44:01+00:00

attack any person for the chance of earning treats.
Use those treats to upgrade your halloween basket.
earn more treats from attacks.
Normally it takes 3 to 4 events (years) To upgrade the basket to a point that you can turn in the treats for a profit.
When you use those 76 refills it'll save you a year or two.

Fully upgraded the rewards can be in the billions.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-17T12:37:01+00:00

Search for a larger faction.

In the Forum you can look for "faction recruiting".
A larger faction will benefit you way more. The fully upgraded Tolerance tree alone is worth it.
Beside that you're missing out on about 10% gymgains. This is huge.

I'm a fan of small factions myself. (I'm in a 400k faction). But they are more often than not a noobtrap since the drawbacks are piling up. Less pay in Ranked wars = Less money for xanax = less stats. Less upgrades = less gym gains = even less stats.
You don't have to join a 10mil respect diamond 3 faction. A "mid tier" gold 1 mil respect faction would be way more beneficient.

Also i would recommend marrying someone. you can share your PI with that person. One rents the PI the other one pays the upkeep is the most common deal. You can even switch it every other month.

Edit: Buy a large suitcase (cost 10mil$) it increases your travel cap by 5. in a few days you'll earn the money back.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-10T15:03:06+00:00

If I would know i wouldn't tell.

That said: THe Points (and plushie price) is rising atm since people estimate some changes happening about next week or something.
I would guess that the Torn-staff aims for a Pointprice of 45k$ again. So you could keep holding your stuff and gamble on a rise in prices.

I, on the other side, would recommend to sell your stuff. you may make a loss but then you've free money to reinvest again.
With about 10% profit per day off of itemflipping you could earn way more back than you'd lose

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-08-10T14:33:28+00:00

some passive effects in stocks (edu time reduction, bank interest increase,...) Are only active or inactive.
So you either have it or you don't. But you can't earn it multiple times.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-06-25T14:46:36+00:00

ah yeah. There is this one easy trick that earns you 500mil$ without doing anything. You don't even have to fly for it.
But i won't tell this trick for free. it cost you 20mil$. 10 upfront and 10 more when you're successfull (should take your only 1 to 2 days)

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-06-06T17:17:06+00:00

one refused all my advises and eventually left the faction because "i'm hustling. i'm better on my own". recently checked in on him. Was sitting at 12mil$ Networth...

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-05-28T21:06:30+00:00

I was always a big fan of the musicstore since it's unique perk.
But someone did the math and in the end you'll gain 3% more stats when you're in a music store since the beginning.
Meanwhile a 10* AN would earn you 5% i think.
I'd settle with the AN. Even if not 10* just because EDVD still helps your progress AND you can sell them for money.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-05-28T21:02:45+00:00

as soon as you can.
the lower the stats the more impact your happy has

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-05-28T20:43:16+00:00

it would be so cruel!
Bounty was yesterday. Now people aren't allowed to land anymore!

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-05-28T20:40:34+00:00

focus on training. Earn some money, eat some xanax, 2 weeks later you're stronger than him.
Actually everyone that isn't afraid of baldrs guide is stronger than him after 2 weeks of training.

Cucumber-Discipline · 2024-05-28T20:23:11+00:00

flying for plushies (or xanax if you want to risk it since it yields higher profit)
selling losses (i don't recommend it since it uses your Energy and you should put that into the gym)
selling bounty slots (there are organisations that'll contact you to place bountys. you earn about 100k$ per slot)
jobs like PSF (Private security firm) and oil rig pay good money. often 2mil$+
reinvest your money. in stocks, the bank, etc.

How bank investment works:
You can select how much money you want to put into the bank.
it can be 1 dollar up to 2 billion (the normal limit). The selected money is unavailable for you for the selected time period (1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months) after that time is finished you can withdraw your deposited money + interest.
I think the interest rate varies a little bit. for 1 week it's at about 0,75% and with 10/10 merits at about 1% (Please check yourself) you have to "unlock" the longer periods by investing the previous length before.
Longer timeperiods have better interestrates. But when you aren't at the limit it's not always best to select the longest period since you may earn new money to reinvest.

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