So Hard?!!?!?!?!?!

[M4dcowz]

Is it just me or is this game ridiculously hard?

[Hydrakana]

Depends on how observant you are.

[Siren]

I'm observant. I never miss one but the line is slow. xD

[Krogith]

its tough to make enough money to live on but I think thats part of the point, its not like you were trained for this job after all. if your having trouble, try just looking at relivant information and keep your rule book handy. <edit> also it may help to know that you dont have to wait for the stamp to lift after stamping a passport, as soon as the stamp hits the passport you can slide it out and hand it back. it saves a little time.

[Kowala]

Just let your mother-in-law go.

[charleswhendersonjr]

I've heard that you can try to get a nice nest egg going on day 1 when the rules are a bit more lax.

[Silvador]

It's hard at first because you're not accustomed to it. There is SO MUCH information to go through and compare, and it takes some time to find your own niche and get used to what you have to check, what papers to check first, and all that. As you keep going you'll find that you slowly get faster and more efficient, and you'll remember certain details like city names and stamps, which in turn will speed things up as well. Practice and perseverence is key.

You may also start to notice minor details that help, such as the fact you don't have to wait for the stamp to rise up before returning the passport. As soon as it's down you can slide it away. Another tip is that when you interrogate someone about something, like an expired date, there's nothing they can say or do to change it so while they are responding you can be stamping denied.

[SexSynth]

At day five my son and mother-in-law died, it was very hard in the beginning.

[BPilgrim]

Yeah, you normally have to play it a few tmes and really make sure you do well in the beginning. If you get behind, it's so hard to catch back up.

[Phanthak]

Well you can go into options and set it to easy, you'll get an additional 20 credits everyday which should help you keep your family alive. So if you don't get any penalties, you will always be going positive.

[Oh My Potato]

yep

[Savage]

Originally posted by Kowala:

Just let your mother-in-law go.

Best advice.

[Dorus]

You can also turn off heat and food every other day (not both on the same day!), it's cheaper to pay for medicine. Skip out on the apartment upgrade and things should get a lot easier.

Also, you can rack up points on day 1: The colour and logo alone is enough to identify a Arstotzka passport.

[gnewna]

I aim for around 8-12 processed applications per day, and usually manage it. With the occasional bribe and being frugal with heat (I don't skip food unless desperate, but as far as I'm concerned I have the heat on half as much each day) I'm doing fine. I have never bothered to upgrade the apartment, as it's just more expensive (the heat gets cheaper after a certain point, I think, but the rent can't be skipped where the heat can). So far, my mother in law has never gotten sick, not going to say whether or not that is a pity...

Roughly 10 a day is manageable, it's a pace at which I rarely get more than two (and usually not more than one, and quite often not even one) citations, so I hardly ever get penalised. If I were trying to go quicker, I'm sure I'd screw up all the time. (I don't mind a citation or two a day, because I have, erm, reasons for not wanting it to stand out if I occasionally let someone through that I shouldn't.)

[Vulpix]

have you try playing it on easy?

[Scaredog20]

not for a cashier