Pick up money or not?

[Zottel]

As asked in the title, I'd like to know if it's worth collecting the money right away or if it's the same if I leave it and have it collected automatically at the end of a wave? To be honest, I haven't quite understood this yet.

[Pirate]

Depends.

If you have monkey, it's worth saving some on the ground so that you can run over it later when you need that bit of extra healing.

However, there appears to be a limit on how much resource can be on the ground at once (and unlike in other games, they do not stack on itself beyond x2), so if you don't pick it up for long enough, you start losing out on potential resources.

[thunda]

Its almost always worth it to pick up all the money you can before the round is over. For starters, its XP that you'd otherwise leave behind. Secondly, you need money up front as much as possible. This game is all about snowballing, and if you miss a chance to snowball some more because you left money behind it just means you will start lagging behind which compounds wave after wave.

Money isnt collected automatically at the end, its put in a different storage where you cannot use it to buy anything, but it doubles in value for the next round's drops. So if you leave 30 money behind, next round the next 30 money drops are worth double. This doesnt carry over multiple rounds, so you need to collect those 30 bonus money that round or theyre lost forever.

Always pick up money if you can without risking dying

[Zottel]

Thank you guys :)

[Casurin]

Short answer:
it is NEVER worth leaving it laying around. Picking it up is always the better option.
Just a small test - oneArmer, slingshot, first wave pick up nothing so we got some banked mats.

Second wave pick up nothing:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025382652/screenshots/

Second wave pick up most:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025382652/screenshots/

basically you have the same amount of total mats, but with one you can actually use it.

[Kotli]

You want to collect money as more money = more and better upgrades & items (plus piggy money) = more money gained snowball.

Any money not collected goes into the "carry over money bag" and is used to make drops worth double until the bag is empty.

It from trying to find out if there is a "carry over money bag" cap that I confirmed there's a money drop limit since I didnt pick up any money on the character at all and spotted that after a point no more money dropped and "carry over money bag" stopped emptying.

[Vexille]

One time I was considering not picking up materials is when I had metal detector. If you have some mats in the "carry over money bag" and your metal detector takes effect then you get x4, basically you get +2 bonus instead of +1 from the item. But still I would say it is not worth it, main reason for me was it being annoying to avoid picking up mats, your map becomes smaller.

[Draednaught]

You'll want to pick it up, but you don't want to do it immediately. Lucky's passive, the Elephant item, and the Monkey item all do things on item pick up. Lucky's passive and elephant both deal damage based on luck on material pick up and the monkey heals. When you have those items or if you're playing lucky, it could be worth it to wait until you need the damage or healing to grab all your materials, or when the wave's about to end.

[thunda]

Originally posted by Draednaught:

it could be worth it to wait until you need the damage or healing to grab all your materials, or when the wave's about to end.

But if you constantly keep grabbing you might never get to the point where you need extra damage or healing. If you let it get to that point you might be risking too much and death could come knocking. Always worth thinking about when playing this game on D5, efficiency