How to earn lots of money in this game?

[PossessingSpirit09]

I'm at the animal crossing part of the game

Was wondering when is the part where we get access to a process or activity that lets you earn a decent amount of funds?
Always finding I'm too short of money for most things

[agesboy]

Save scumming high stakes poker for valuables to pawn seems like the best way that involves minigames. Otherwise, spam dungeons. Dondoko Island has really nice one-time rank up bonuses, but it slows down immensely as a sustainable cash source- you can still use it to get gear capable of challenging EX dungeons, though

[tools guy-kun]

completing the entire dondoko island minigame nets you about $450k+ to use however you see fit. you get these bundles upon reaching a full star.

aside from that, once you hit level 35+, I strongly recommend inheriting the "Golden Finger" skill on any of your male characters, then hitting the dungeons to look for any tough enemies to use the skill on them. I use Ichiban for it personally but it could work the very same with anybody.

you can get "Golden Finger" by simply switching to the Host job, which unlocks the skill immediately since it's one of your four starting job skills, then inheriting it onto your desired job.

and tough enemies tend to be any enemy who has the large health bar at the top of the screen. this includes story bosses as well.

at minimum, you'll typically get $1-7k+ per successful usage of the skill, and that's in your early level 30s. level 40 tough enemies is where you start making BANK with that skill, where tough enemies will start giving you $20k+ per steal.

once I realized how strong Golden Finger was, I dropped dondoko island and relied on that the rest of my time for money.

remember, if you miss and the game says "you weren't able to steal anything," that doesn't mean they have no money to steal. you can keep trying until you get it. it has a fairly high success rate, so it will be rare to see consecutive misses in a row.

[r0ttingplague]

for starters, dondoko island is the way to go for sure. Took a while to endgame it but by the end its a pretty decent haul you receive to get by. Hell just following the main story and beating bosses gives you lotta muns. Dont forget to check briefcases and treasure hunt around the city they usually have valuables you can pawn off

[APeacefulWarrior]

The Labyrinth really is a blessing and a curse. If you WANT to power-level your team and give yourself five-star weapons while still in Chapter 5 so that you're stupidly overpowered for the next several chapters, you absolutely can. And it'll only take a few hours. OTOH, that's also going to make a lot of the forthcoming gameplay pretty dull. OTOOH, that's also a great way to quickly level up new jobs if you want to do a lot of job swapping or just want to cosplay.

I do appreciate when games like this let you "play it your way" tho. It kind of feels like a response to people who thought leveling was too hard/grindy in LAD7.

[Y8S8]

I'm still evaluating the yield from dondoko past its the campaign. Each tour cycle seems to be paying around 1.5m dokobucks that can be converted to $15k, plus direct 5k cash. It's still not optimal because I can't field 25 'S'-tier guests yet. My layout has a ton of "dokobucks UP" buildings and vending machines so the money is constantly ticking up from Guests using them. I still need to idle to determine how much that actually gives.
I guess you could do the dailies then farm and sell specialties while you wait. Wish you could just sleep past it. I'm also wondering what's the best way to liquidate Dondoko resources. Do all the DIY furnishings sell the same per resource required or do some sell better?

edit: Did some testing
Changed my layout such that only Dokobucks UP vending machines and other buildings are connected to roads. Had 25 guests with 13 S-tiers. I tried being as passive as possible only fending off enemies.
Each daytime/10 mins realtime/light blue part of clock gives about 450k dokos from building usage alone.
S-tiers all ended up 'pleased' (green) while everyone else was orange. Maybe a campfire would've boosted everyone to orange at least. Checkout fee was 1.8m dokos.

Earned about 3m dokos if you subtract things like accidental suggestion completion. That's 30k when converted to USD, plus direct $18k for the profits.

Conclusion is 48k USD for about 30 minutes of idling. Problem is that now majority of my Guests are on cooldown, including all my S-tiers....

edit2: There's a limit of 5m dokos or so at the exchange office, resets everyday. Also, none of the souvenirs seem to be worth crafting over selling the materials directly.

[GLeuN]

Find mini boss on the map -> use Housekeeper lvl 10 skill to suck money from them -> use smoke bomb to escape -> repeat until you're out of smoke bomb -> buy more smoke bomb

You can also try to suck money from bosses in the Hawaiian Haunt, they gives you more money than regular one I believe

[Spazticus]

In Chapter 8, you can unlock the Host job, and its Golden Finger skill. Use this skill on crowned enemies, and you'll get so much money from them it's borderline silly. You don't even need to stay as Host with Skill Inheritance. In Honolulu Haunt, crowned enemies in sector 2 and 3 are worth around $10K-25K from a single theft, on top of the usual rewards...while the level 52 crowned ones in sector 4 are worth $45K in a single theft.

Crown fights while you run around town are also worth stealing from; the ones around level 30 tend to give around $10K. The infinite Wealth was the crowned enemies we "fingered" along the way...

Definitely complete the island for its special move, and then you won't have to engage with it again (and I say that as someone who liked it for what it is, it's just horribly inefficient by comparison to Golden Finger.)

[Metal Izanagi]

I love that the most efficient money strat people have found involves fingering enemies.

[#DWB#Baki]

dungeons, towers and charms!