Money tips for a newbie?

[SilverHawk]

So as someone who is new to this game what sort of things should I avoid doing in the first few years of my first playthrough? To avoid going broke? I would like to make her magic based in some form but obviously I need gold for some lessons.

[Ogami]

Let her work at the farm and go out adventuring. Run from most monsters and try to discover/loot all the chests you can find. Sell the stuff you dont need. With that you should have no money problems in the first year. Concentrate to build up her stamina with the farm work and give her sword fighting lessons. You can go for magic but its more difficult since you need to raise her intelligence for it to be effective. Its pretty easy to win the fighting tournament when she is 11 just with pure power.
Just save before, can be a bit tricky depending on the draw.
Anyway, with the price money you should have no money problems anymore. Buy her decent equipment and keep adventuring, since its the best way to make money all year long.
When you have enough money concentrate on raising the stats/skills you want to go for your chosen ending.
This is one of the easiest ways to make money at the start.
If you dont want to do that, just concentrate on one job to get real good at. But it helps if you try to win one of the yearly contests.

[SilverHawk]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Let her work at the farm and go out adventuring. Run from most monsters and try to discover/loot all the chests you can find. Sell the stuff you dont need. With that you should have no money problems in the first year. Concentrate to build up her stamina with the farm work and give her sword fighting lessons. Its pretty easy to win the fighting tournament when she is 11.
Just save before, can be a bit tricky depending on the draw.
Anyway, with the price money you should have no money problems anymore. Buy her decent equipment and keep adventuring, since its the best way to make money all year long.
When you have enough money concentrate on raising the stats/skills you want to go for your chosen ending.
This is one of the easiest ways to make money at the start.
If you dont want to do that, just concentrate on one job to get real good at. But it helps if you try to win one of the yearly contests.

Ok thank you I will do that.

[erobotan]

it's been years since i play it but here are some things that I usually do:
1. Winning cooking contest, you need cooking skill & sensitivity: do housechores to increase cooking skill, when you've some experience take then restaurant job, don't forget to go adventuring in the forest, drink & party with the fairies there to increase your sensitivity (you need to camp in some kind of stone ruins. I think there are other spot in the forest but i'm not sure ..). Going vacation to mountain during winter also increase sensitivity i think.

note: house chore is the only thing that increase your daughter's temperament. Not sure what it does though ..

2. This is semi cheating & kinda grindy since you might need to do a lot of reload so i don't always do it .. go adventuring the snow area, get a katana on top of a very tall ice pillar. go home & sell it for 2k.

[Sue]

If you really want money, I would recommend learning combat skills and constantly adventuring, find all the treasure chests. You can also rack up money by stealing money from merchants (they give around 1400g and an item if you're lucky). Beware, if you steal 10times your daughter will be automatically taken to prison and will lost A LOT of stats. You want to mug the merchants 9 times then go to church and repent or donate money to lower your karma.

This should give you enough money to learn without having to work part time for a year. Also having high combat stats mean you will win the harvest festival every year.

Then you can spend the rest of the 6years learning and raising other stats to get the ending you want.

Although the true experts seem to know how to get whatever ending they want without taing this method.

Look up guides, there might be one in the princess maker wiki[princessmaker.wikia.com]

[SilverHawk]

Ok thank you everyone I will do. So far Willow is good at cooking but not much esle and appears to have become a bit of a robot. So adventuring here I come. xD.

[Bonnford]

Raise sensitivity very fast and you'll be able to run from most monsters by selecting Talk instead of Run. (I don't know which stat determines Run accuracy, sorry!) The few remaining monsters that dont work with Sensitivity (mostly demons and other desert area creatures) require high Faith instead. With both or either of those at 300-400 you can run into every errantry area with no weapon, no armour and no combat skills at all. Grab all the chests (if necessary, you can find map locations online) and you have a quick and easy 1000-4000 gold early on! Just try and avoid the middle of the dragon ruins, the hidden area with the two chests in the meadow, and the quicksand pits in the desert. These all have event battles that can't be escaped.
Also if you win the cooking contest you can get a lot of money and a special event that raises your Sensitivity quickly. All the events triggered by items from the shady merchant raise sensitivity too, but they cost a lot of money and are difficult to figure out.
I'd just say try hard not to raise all three of your housework stats, cos housework reputation takes priority over a lot of other endings. It sucks to have massive battle stats and end up getting the Bride ending instead of the one you wanted. The chef job looks worthless at first since it only raises cooking while cleaning the house raises all three housework stats. But to win the cooking contest you only need cooking and sensitivity. (Having only one or the other makes you lose, even if its maxed. Cruel!)

[LostAngel1000]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Its pretty easy to win the fighting tournament when she is 11 just with pure power.

I must not been having the luck you have of not getting placed against like 600+ HP pools like Bam Bam Bizzaro in her very first fight :/

[Ciecieji]

No, Bizzaro will always make it to the final rounds, you can just own him if you focused your combat stats for a year.

[Lonesomepoet]

If you want a guide then go here

http://princessmaker.maison-otaku.net/princess.htm its got a lot of game info that could be useful

[LostAngel1000]

Originally posted by Ciecieji:

No, Bizzaro will always make it to the final rounds, you can just own him if you focused your combat stats for a year.

yeh but I am getting him first round so.....

[Ogami]

Originally posted by LostAngel1000:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Its pretty easy to win the fighting tournament when she is 11 just with pure power.

I must not been having the luck you have of not getting placed against like 600+ HP pools like Bam Bam Bizzaro in her very first fight :/

Well you need a lot of luck for winning at 11. But its possible. With 12 its pretty easy and from 13 its pretty much guranteed as long as you focus on strength/stamina and learn the combat skills.
A bit of magic training can also not hurt, especially against the big HP enemies in the tournament.

[Mr. Shady]

for starter go out and loot all the areas for static loot. easy +2k gold right there. just try not to die ;)

[SilverHawk]

Thank you everyone. Oh and I just found out that even if you don't manage to get your cooking to 95 you can still get second place or win the cooking contest depending how high the sensitiviy is.

[CrimsonDX]

Ive always found that blitzing for the festival can take care of all of your money troubles. If someone wants to say my method sucks they can since even I would love to see a better way, but I have found it useful to first get your stamina to 200 and your morals to 100 before doing anything else just to make managing stress easier. After that you can spam farming for money to take art or fighting classes, or just max cook/temp/clean with housework before spamming sense at day care or hair dresser till you have 100 sense. No matter your path, getting to the point where you always get first place in your choosen event is doable by second one, and almost guaranteed by the 3rd. after the 3rd you will win every year and just be rolling in money.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by CrimsonDX:

Ive always found that blitzing for the festival can take care of all of your money troubles. If someone wants to say my method sucks they can since even I would love to see a better way, but I have found it useful to first get your stamina to 200 and your morals to 100 before doing anything else just to make managing stress easier. After that you can spam farming for money to take art or fighting classes, or just max cook/temp/clean with housework before spamming sense at day care or hair dresser till you have 100 sense. No matter your path, getting to the point where you always get first place in your choosen event is doable by second one, and almost guaranteed by the 3rd. after the 3rd you will win every year and just be rolling in money.

The best way to make money is adventuring. Period. If you farm Harpys in the desert you can make around 10k every month. Also adventuring does not generate stress, so double win.
Karma is no problem to get down before the end so you dont get any point deductions.