No cash for rent... always...?

[xC0DEB10C]

I keep my rent so they say the room rocks, but I always have about 1-2/3'd of my complex not having cash to pay rent. It's realy annoying that I have to go through all my apartments after each day and turn off rent for those that can't pay and rise it back for those that can.

Is there something I'm doing wrong or not understanding with the rent system?

[Dentorhedge]

That sounds about right- if you really like your tennents. If they keep going into debt, and you don't really want them in your apartment, then give them the boot! If you just kepp the rent the same, and your tennents reach a certain dept, then they'll just flee in the night. It'll take longer, but that might be prefered if you want as much money as possible out of them before they go. If you give them a break from rent until they aren't in debt that would keep them from leaving, but do you want the money or do you want them? If you do kick them out in some way, you will have a beautifully furnished room for a higher class guest, with a better job. It is beneficial to see what a monster's job is before giving them a room.

[Binx]

I agree that it depends on wether or not you want the money or want the tennents.
I've also found that if I lower the rent to 0 and keep it there for a few days even after they are out of debt, they seem to be able to pay rent better. I like to think that lowering rent to zero, allowing them to get out of debt and live free for awhile allows them to accumulate money.

[Babyburger]

I find that the job has less of an impact than how often you get attacked (by activating quests). I once tested a richeepy that had a certain amount of debt, I knew he could pay off 240G if he had fully worked. Then I kept fighting and he was forced to retreat in his room every time and suddenly he couldn't pay off a single gold piece, as in, the debt stayed the same with me charging no rent. That means if your tenants are blocked from working, then they won't earn anything.

[Chuncone]

the cheepies are poor so dont expext money from them, my cheepy went in debt when he had 1G to pay

[Shiro]

From what I understand, you have to take a slight break between quests, otherwise your tenants are constantly stuck at home fighting, and not out earning a paycheck. Or in other words, them simply having a job isn't enough, they need to actually leave the building and go DO said job (not counting a few jobs that are stay-at-home), or else they won't have any money to pay the rent, even if you drop it to 1g.

[Kerttuchan]

Originally posted by Shiro:

From what I understand, you have to take a slight break between quests, otherwise your tenants are constantly stuck at home fighting, and not out earning a paycheck. Or in other words, them simply having a job isn't enough, they need to actually leave the building and go DO said job (not counting a few jobs that are stay-at-home), or else they won't have any money to pay the rent, even if you drop it to 1g.

Ah thanks that helped a lot.

[shadowvvolf323]

Thanks Shiro! I don't know why I didn't realize that before now lol. While I'm making loads of money from quest rewards my tenants are not working, doh!

[Ryoko]

Thank you guys! It helped me a lot :)

[recovering HMC addict]

Also, a tennat may be so happy with you that it wants to pay money, but simply can't because they have a bad job like window washer, or are actually programmed to not pay rent that much like succubbus

[madcapbeatitude]

One way I was able to mitigate this problem somewhat was by putting my family Richeepies in Room 101. They had a much shorter walk to work, and were actually in less danger since they had such a short retreat to make if trouble arrived. Once you have a third floor in there, let alone a fourth, the portion of residential space that constitutes battle space simply changes somewhat. I also like spreading units out inside the building by range of attack, in case I suddenly want to surround a problematic intruder with melee attackers. I might move more of them into 102 if and when I get that unit maxed out. It's nice to be able to not charge some tenants and still have enough cash inflow to be making upgrades.

That said, you also don't want your slow walkers too high up or they'll never make it outside to earn their rent money. I liked using the second tier Chimeras for their super-powered, super-range attack in early game, but it became ever harder to place them physically in a larger and larger building so they could still make their rent.

[James with the Games]

Personally I've noticed that it half depends on the job a person has on how much they are able to pay. Since often times you can raise the rent above what a monster can usually pay and keep the 'this place rocks' level of satisfaction. This seems to cause problems for virtually every monster type I've come across sans 2. Which are the t3 and t4 elementals, they give no ♥♥♥♥♥ how high the rent is or if they can make it out of the apartment complex.

Every other monster type NEEDS to be able to go to work in order to make the income to pay rent. Personally this becomes a riot to me for when I got a skeleton who was a mafia don who couldn't do her work (yes a female mafia boss) without leaving the apartment complex!

Also personally I avoided the t2 chimeras like the plague cause the t2 elementals have a far better attack than they do imo. And overall this is the strategy I've employed right now: room 204 is my tank usually a boneymusha and room 104 is my alt tank which I'll be placing my t4 elementals in, then 103 is my flamen storage once the enemies are pincer'd these guys start firing at will. After this room 102 has the frigideers who can shoot over the flamens, and in room 101 are the flowers who get behind the frigideers and create a barrage of bullets that encompass the screen!

[ᐱᙆᕐᒻ ᖴᔇᒃᔉ]

i think its a personality thing rather than actual hardship. if any of my tenants don't make rent twice, they get evicted. i also don't change the rent when they say they are in debt. most will make rent next month regardless, and those that don't, as i say, get the boot.