Tips on the big purchase?

[Herr Gutentauben]

How the hell am i expected to save 100 million when i'm barely scratching 50m as max amount even tho i have every gold upgrade avaliable. Is there one after the gold increment based on mana? It's a pretty steep increase

Edit: I just noticed i did not have mana expansion unlocked in this retirement....i guess that applies to the max gold?

[Herr Gutentauben]

With every upgrade avaliable, with everything i can buy with the current limits, mana expansion and mind level 40 i'm still only at 92 million...i don't know what i'm missing.

Edit: Improving mana expansion in spellcraft left me at 99.3....aaaaaaaaa

[MangoPDK]

Do more progression. There's a furniture unlock that increases your storage. With 23 of that, spell crafting, and gear my gold storage is 4 billion. I'm working my way up now to 20 billion for an endgame storyline.

[Herr Gutentauben]

I managed to force it with the mana expansion life and poison upgrades from the spellcraft menu.

[Wraith_Magus]

There's an enhancement that gives you more gold storage the more mana you have. (Ethereal currency.) You need that enhancement before you can get serious about storing money. IIRC, that takes books, which you get somewhere around mysterious woods.

You don't sound like you're far enough in the game to have them, but if you have any spell catalysts or mana altars, make sure you turn those off, as they lower your max mana (someone else forgot to do that). Likewise, take off the ring of mental exertion, it halves your max mana.

You need to buy as many safes as you can. If you're using modern mode, destroy other things to make room for safes if you aren't already at your earth cap. Having more earth capacity will increase your ability to buy more safes, so complete the earth pilgrimage as early as you can (although try to do death and holy as early as possible, just because those bosses get harder as you complete other pilgrimages.)

Equip items that increase your max mana, and especially equip a snake staff (Lv 29 mind) and cast mana expansion (mind magic, around lv 30-40ish). You need to upgrade the equipment's quality to multiply their effects. Just getting a staff with a bigger base mana increase will be better at first, but past +7 quality, the power of a snake staff really shines through. Mana expansion gives at least a +50% bonus to your mana, which grows to up to +700% with a snake staff and max mind level. (Every 10 levels multiplies your spell power by x 1.33. This is geometric growth, not a linear +33% like the text implies. It's very powerful, and four misleadingly-labeled "+33%" does not equal +132%, it equals +216%, because it's x1.33^4. Likewise, quality isn't +10% each time, it's 1.1^Q, with Q = quality level, so +15 actually gives +318% (over quadruple the base item), not +150%.) Just getting your mind magic level up to the next number evenly divisible by ten will give a significant jump in your gold capacity. Later mind magic equipment (especially the fool's cap) can give you bonkers huge mana capacity upgrades, such that I've had 2.5 billion max mana before, and I didn't even upgrade the fool's cap more than half-way.

You probably can't do this yet, but with the space element unlocked and booster, you can boost space for "+2%" (actually x 1.02 ^ level) each. (37 boosts = doubled capacity.)

The way the max mana enhancement works, the amount of gold each safe can contain is multiplied by your max mana, so if you have, say, 50 safes and 37-ish space enhancements, you can get up to a trillion gold with something around 2 billion max mana, which should allow your safes to contain 20 billion gold each. ("I'd like to buy the kingdom, please.")

If you need just a little more, earth-mind connections on the synchro board give you +300 each, so you should be able to get at least +1200 mana. Remember that multipliers (like mana expansion) come after the flat additions, so +1200 mana might mean +6000 mana after the mana expansion.

If those things above seem impossible, just keep in mind that I retired after triggering that storyline, but before completing it, but then came back again (as an earth primary) and was able to easily complete it the next time. Simply progressing more makes expanding storage much easier. I wouldn't worry about having to repurchase the land one more time, regaining more gold is trivial later in the game, especially if you have electric prisms or electric jewels by the millions to sell and a merchant mask that has quality upgrades. (As I joked about with the blessed land storyline, immediately after the main character bemoans how 50 billion gold is such a horribly difficult amount to pay, they say that buying a 70 billion gold elemental textbook is a "good purchase" because it gave me a few minutes' worth of research. I make billions of gold a second, so the latter is more accurate.)

[Harry Myachaz]

A simple tip is to remember to turn off your Spell Catalysts. They reduce your max mana, effectively reducing your max gold holdings while they are on. I went from under 100k to over 140k mana when I realized it. That also made my gold cap explode.