how to get money fast in chapter 1?

[serega0789]

okay so to get some money in chapter 1 you need to do some easy steps
1:when you kill enemyes "humans" rob them they have minimum 5 dollars

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Not much can do for easy money that early besides Hunting and then selling stuff.
You can sell extra herbs to the Doctor in Valentine as well; they don't give much but you can sell a bunch early on as you'll always be finding and grabbing more over time anyways.

To really make $ you need to progress til you unlock the "Fence" then he can buy jewelry you've found, and any Gold stuff, such as Nuggets and Bars. Once he is unlocked go find Gold Nuggets and Bars and sell to him.

[JuiceWSA]

Publicado originalmente por serega0789:

okay so to get some money in chapter 1 you need to do some easy steps
1:when you kill enemyes "humans" rob them they have minimum 5 dollars

I doubt if they had $5 - all 200 of them put together...lol

You don't need money in Chapter 1, but Loot everyone, for ammo at this point. Any spare change thay had is inconsequential.

Plenty of money laying around to be picked up in Chapter 2 - and that's when the fun starts.

[DargonBlak]

Publicado originalmente por serega0789:

okay so to get some money in chapter 1 you need to do some easy steps
1:when you kill enemyes "humans" rob them they have minimum 5 dollars

You seem to be answering ur own question...

So was this an FYI post ?

As Juice mentions, even with looting the 20 or so dead bodies at the mine, i always start Chapter 2 with far less than $100.

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Why do you need money in chapter 1?

[auss]

I think you mean chapter 2, there's a gold bar in the burned village next to camp that you can sell at the emerald ranch fence after the hosea coach robbery mission

[Rusalka]

yeah, treasure maps, stranger requests, and missions get you a lot of money in Chapter 2. Hunting gets you some, usually around $2-$16.80 per animal - it's easy to collect a lot of small to medium animal skins, so it's worth doing.

Robbing people works, too, and so can selling wagons and coaches, but it isn't super lucrative - you get between $1-$10 per person and $25-$40 per wagon, respectively, and NPCs often raise a stink. I found I made more money per minute hunting than I did fencing wagons. Robbing people on trains is fairly effective, but the more violence you commit, the higher your bounty will be, and it can get bothersome to constantly have large posses after you.

The law mechanic is pretty sensitive - I got reported for Animal Cruelty for accidentally bumping into the dead rotting horse of a bounty hunter, and reported again for Disturbing the Peace after shooting a seagull near town. Bounties in storymode are pretty damn big compared to in Online. Killing an NPC gives you a bounty of something like $40, so going on a rampage can get a bit expensive, and you'll end up with the towns in lockdown and posses of a dozen bounty hunters plus dog after you constantly. Not really worth the ~$5/person you get looting corpses.

[PrinceXavieR™]

I deeply regret going for the treasure hunts and gold stuff early on,.. by the later chapters im swiminng with money a which evidently ruined my immersion.. but thats me

[JuiceWSA]

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I deeply regret going for the treasure hunts and gold stuff early on,.. by the later chapters im swiminng with money a which evidently ruined my immersion.. but thats me

'The Immersion' for me was making myself rich:
(Arthur is at Chapter 4 in this playthrough)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2830434154

I'm on track to leave John about $30K (give take a $K or two). The Goal is that when John Stupids Away Everything - I want him and his Goofy Bride to lose big.

It's a Rags to being given Riches and Blowing It All Story.
I'm immersed like you wouldn't believe....lol

[JuiceWSA]

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Why do you need money in chapter 1?

an impulse, so i can buy anything i want, asap, for no apparent reason? ;D

Exactly.
I bought every stitch of clothing in the game, every item - everything.
Why?
I didn't have it. I wanted it.

:D

[Man o' War]

Here's a radical thought.

What on earth do you need the money for?

The money system is so broken that beyond horse feed and unlocking later weapons through vanity.... money it seems to me is pretty insignificant.

[Zombits]

You don't need money in chapter 1, just loot a few gang members to start the game . Starting at chapter 2 you will earn more cash then being able to spend. with Legendary satchels from camp i still found nothing to buy. You can waste cash to have 99 items in every consumable.

It's raining thousands of $$ after a few story mission. i stopped taming horses , buy your favorite ones cause there is no reason to save $ in story

[Man o' War]

Render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar.

Financial and monetary systems in games and the real world have been flawed since the year dot.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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Why do you need money in chapter 1?

an impulse, so i can buy anything i want, asap, for no apparent reason? ;D

Not everything is unlocked to buy that early. Some stuff simply won't unlock until later in the Story. You can't really do anything with freedom until Chapter 2 starts and you go to Valentine. Even then I think you need to wait at least until Hosea has you get a .22 Rifle from the Gun Store. You can't sell any Gold Nuggets or Bars until the "Fence" is unlocked. All in due time. You will have plenty of hours to just go your own way and take a break from story stuff to explore and find stuff.

[JuiceWSA]

Publicado originalmente por Zombits:

You don't need money in chapter 1, just loot a few gang members to start the game . Starting at chapter 2 you will earn more cash then being able to spend. with Legendary satchels from camp i still found nothing to buy. You can waste cash to have 99 items in every consumable.

It's raining thousands of $$ after a few story mission. i stopped taming horses , buy your favorite ones cause there is no reason to save $ in story

Do people really eat canned food in this game?
Huh... my food is running around on the map and it's wrapped in an airtight, waterproof coating made primarily of hair I can sell, or give to Pearson or The Trapper to make a comfortable something or other out of.

Oh, I remember...
During Chapter One I ate some Salted Assorted Offal - and it was truly awful. Swore I'd never do that again just as soon as I hit Horseshoe. I think Offal is the reason I can't poop.

[Rusalka]

lol, I actually really like offal irl. I make my Arthur eat canned food sometimes because I'm too lazy to cook.