I only wanted the pickle to get the GNG, so happily paid 600k for the GNG today and now I don't care about the pickle lol. Hope you can get yourself another one though :)
hard work mostly. I'd cleared out my coins last week buying cubimal boxes and just made it all back by selling sparklies, milk, meat, butterfly eggs, seeds, practically anything I could make I'd sell plus I sold a couple of my rare cubies as I now have the cubi trophy (that came to 125k).
Awesome stews are good to sell! you'll get 160c for each one from the tool vendor at cebarkul and also I solk 48k worth of crystals that I'd collected! :)
I guess really you'd be looking at earthshakers and flaming humbaba's? If I was you I'd just go out and do what you normally do but squeeze and pet every darn animal you come across. Meat sells for 8c each and butterfly milk 6c each! It soon adds up. The same with hooches and of course sparkley rocks. I can spent an hour mining sparklies and get an easy 18k out of them and the gems I get also.
It's easy to game the game. You just have to spend a bit of time working out the specifics. I found a good method of getting currents and levelling but after gaining a few levels and several hundred thousand currents, it gets boring.
Get yourself a spreadsheet, find some recipes. You can then start to work out the best ones depending on whether your looking for profit, or trying to gain levels, or a mixture of both. Note, recipes such as common crudities and hash need REALLY simple ingredients, both give good exp and sell for a profit. You can also buy the ingredients, make a batch, eat a couple to recover your energy and sell the remaining ones and still make a profit.
But I would advise against gaming the game as yeah, it does make you lose interest.
Well there is a daily limit to the xp you can get from cooking, at least each item. For the investment in time growing & collecting ingredients plus the energy to cook stuff I think the better way to gain funds is via mining. I cook because I enjoy it, and sell on the auction. But when I need to get quick value for shrines or currents I go do some mining. Using the earthshakers and humbabas keeps the energy cost from being too high.
Use no-no powder at the end of each day to turn as much milk as you can into cheese and very stinky cheese (50/50 of each.) Three packet sniffs will get you about the daily limit for sandwich cooking, which means starting out with about a large bag full of milk. Then make catsup and buns to make Expensive Grilled Cheese to sell. They're 170-something in energy and sell for a lot.
The stew pot recipes are way over-rated. The Exp Grilled Cheese means all you need to do is grow tomatoes and accumulate a lot of butterfly milk with Remote Herdkeeping. You can begin to see the bean trees as the eyesores they really are. (always so tempting to poison and plant something (anything!) more attractive)
Always use the no-no when there is about 25-30 minutes remaining in each day and make sure you get back from hell before the new day turns over.
Yeah, Fogwoman, but if you have 4 or so recipes which need readily available ingredients (like crudities where all ingredients are available from vendors), then it'll easily take half a game day to reach cap. And if you're playing for more than a few hours strait, you have issues! :p
But yeah, it's all about doing a bit of research into what suits your gameplay and what you want.
Warning, *possible spoilers* - the following message contains currant-making game tips if you're after senor funpickle, the dolls, cubimals or just a Mr Burns-style hoard.
Camphor is worth 16c each. Spawns every couple of minutes in East Spice. Gather spice, throughout Ix and grind while waiting among the trees at the opening of East Spice.
Or, save the spice and distill lots of hooch while you're away from the game or doing other things (like gathering spice) and make spicy grogs. This is the easiest, as in least time-consuming ingredient-gathering-wise, if not most obvious money-making cocktail to make. Make around 40c a pop rather than the 12c just for grog.
Mine metal and sparkly (Groddle Heights or Callopee if you want to build up both at the same time) and make grand ol' grinders. 1600c each.
Grow ingredients for awesome stew. Again, they grow while you're out of game or while doing other things, like gathering the beans, and that's another 160c each.
I make expensive grilled cheese to eat for myself, but, yep, that's also a goodie to sell. Them tomatoes grow in five hours. And once you've got the butterfly milking down or can make butterflies for your garden, it's like lake o' milk time, all the time.
Nibble those pigs. They love it. A half hour run through Groddle Forest can easily net you up to several hundred meat - again, another several thousand.
Squeeze those chickens. They love this too, and they'll give you lots of musicblocks. As with all of the above, sell to the tool vendor for the best rate.
If you have a wood tree at home, fertilidust and harvest every time you're ingame. Then head to the Caverns and feed those batterflies 10 planks at a time (= 2 guano) to gather guano. Remember to click on the batterfly you're feeding as soon as you've fed it to feed it again - you can gather guano several times from the same batterfly quickly this way. Sell guano on auction at peak US times.
Generally: set TP points, write TP scripts, have a vague kind of schedule according to whichever of the above you prefer. But make sure to factor in plenty of fun. Like jumping in poured rainbows a zillion times, chatting to lots of lovely other glitches, going to parties, running through the ancestral lands on spinach and dodging the juju bandits, and giving away lots of freebies (for that karmic feegood bonus :)). It's what Senor Funpickle would want, I'm sure.
All of this is, of course, contingent on getting those higher level skills.
Tho, likewise, I think Senor Funpickle is really priceless :) And one day I'll get one.
I don't think that price is correct. The last few sales I've seen ended up going way over that in total. (Maybe 600,000c, but also dolls, icons, rare cubimals in addition.) I suspect all those who were willing to part with them have done so at this point.
I started playing on release day, so I never had one and would dearly like to buy one too, but none seem to be available. :(
You want to get back from hell so you do not lose your new day boost in energy and mood. You start with no mood and about 100 energy when you get back from hell, so you want a new day to be soon after.
And definitely, take a trip to hell. It does not hurt much and they did a great job with the design.
i am almost at 200k :)
400k to go.. LOL
but still trying these methods and any other i can try :)
still getting guano and selling it. i keep finding myself doing that alot.
My plan right now:
I am putting varieties of rock and gems on auction,
Will put up meat, grain and butterfly milk soon,
any tree harvest,
MBs,
and i might make some diff foods to sell.
Stroll around harvesting gas, beans, bubbles, fruit and eggs. As soon as you get a full stack of any of these, put them up for sale. They auction for a significant premium over their 'list' price.
Have a few bigger bags for drops. Eat all food drops and when your bags are full of musicblocks, head to the tool vendor and sell them to him. Skill up in AK and nibble pigs for energy, but remember that it's the tree harvests that will make you money.
Oh, WalruZ, I find that piggy nibbling can be VERY profitable. I think it is 9c per meat at the tool vendor and I can EASILY harvest a couple of thousand meats in a short wander around a few piggy-rich streets. They do take up a lot of space though - only 60 per slot - so you fill up your bags quickly.
ETA: yes, when you add in music blocks, harvesting is very profitable. But they take up so damn much bag room. I usally donate them to free up bag slots.
i have ALOT of stuff on auction right now :)
from rocks, to jewels, to animal harvest, MBs, and tree harvest :)
this will earn alot of money hopefully.
It's not a matter of doing all the actions; it's a matter of getting all of the results that are possible. The results are not related to the actions on the pickle at all.
I think I did each action in order at least 10 times and did not get all of the results. It took me quite a while to get the GNG from the pickle, when others were luckier and got it fairly quickly.
Thanks Shmoopie & Miss Giggles :) I will try again. LOL.. my daughter started playing a couple of months ago and got it almost right away from spinning a game ticket :)
For those that don't want to collect a ton of beans and grow all the veggies for awesome stew try making Abbasid Ribs.
Need a LOT of spice and meat that's it.
Granted this burns a ton of energy because you need to make 3 different type of spice but here's the run down on profit - 40 Ribs uses 80 meat @640c and 560c worth of spice but they sell for 2800c for a profit of 1320c.
Best advise for making these is grind the spice and collect it over a few days period while harvesting other stuff.
BW, i am going to try that :D
i harvest my 4 wood trees every game day, and some days my friends as well
that totals for over 1k a day just for my trees :)
so the wood + the ribs might get me closer.
Would that be the grain that you have thread asking people to mail you? HMM to lazy to work yourself and save the money you need for something you sold for money in the first place. Sorry if I sound harsh, but your conning people with your sob stories as you did in a previous game.