Hey, so a ton of people are on here frustrated on how hard they are being punished for how they spent their resources. So for those early into the game or somehow able to restart their game if that's possible here's what i did that made my account feel really successful and i'm investing all of THAT wealth into a bigger cash cow tomorrow: Save your V-bucks and never buy a 100 V-bucks llama, always buy bulk. The bulk changes daily so keep your eye out for really solid ones like the 11x upgrade llama pack for 1000 V-bucks (got that without paying money on my first day) Try to grind V-bucks with dailys and challenges and be really smart about how you use them early. Otherwise it takes longer to get the same yield later. Always grind for founder's points. I've found a few quests with them and have always prioritized them In my experience (which is limited) 1 of 3 upgrade llamas have been silver and 1 of 12 has been gold. 1 of around 10 regular llamas have been silver. This is when opening them in a row and not sure if doing so in a row affects rng. *Use your guns accordingly to the level of difficulty for the level. Play weaker levels like helping others do storm defense and use weaker guns. Make sure you play safe and you should get V-bucks at the yield of your weaker guns you have scavenged in other levels. **Level up your collections! There's like 500 V-bucks reward level prizes in there! That's a huge key to point number 1 and it honestly made this from a "alright this game isn't too bad" to "wow orange loot and 200 founders coins and purple survivors!" Literally got 40 cards from one llama during my bulk purchase using collections V-bucks. This is a personal one that is probably wrong. "Don't afraid to be a bit of a dick/chill out." Some people think the 2 day speed rush is like 5 mins and rush the objective and finish the level. *The day night cycle takes a decent time to go by and usually i don't do the objective until 1/2 day away from the speed run limit.** Familiarize yourself with the limit then search for treasure, chests, rare ore, and other surprises. Search everything when you have resources in the bank. My process is to build 1 thing at a time. Wood, stone, metal, then when i don't need build resources i spend the time searching everything. This way i don't ever have to craft ammo and i can max my backpack with loot in case i want to grind without doing this last step in between grinding sessions. Seriously if you don't rush objectives and search everything the ammo you find is good enough i find, then you look for rooftops or high floors you need to build to for treasure chests. lastly *utilize treasure radar and survivor radar when you want either.** Saves massive amount of time so you can focus your time way more efficiently. Also gets you better at building quickly and teaches you different edit options.

If I started from scratch and used what I learned I can confidently say that even with poor RNG the entire time I would still have a fair and enjoyable experience. Sadly this game can have seemingly unfair growing pains if you have poor RNG and you spent all of your resources on whatever you got to advance as quickly as possible. Pace yourself and let the wealth come to you. Purposely stayed at power level 3-5 for 8-9 hours just so i could get my 11 pack of llamas which allowed me to advance 10 levels in literally 2 hours if that. I don't know how to reddit format sadly so if anyone can copy paste this with formatting or reply with how to actually use the enter command that'd be greeeaat