Fishing is OP for farming money

[Shin_Hell]

With around 40 minutes of fishing I get enough money to buy every memory slot for chips, to buy every chip available at the resistance camp, and buy every pod's program available at the resistance camp.

This in normal, I don't know if at harder difficulties the fish are sold for less, I think it's probably though.

[Nope]

Why do you even want to buy chips??? Those cost ton of memories

[synthohol]

If I remember correctly, selling prices are the same on all difficulties. On hard difficulty this may serve to satisfy the demand for more healing items and boosters. On any difficulty, there is one side quest which consumes a lot of money, so fishing may actually be there to compensate for that.

And apart from that I agree with

Originally posted by Nope:

Why do you even want to buy chips??? Those cost ton of memories

Do not buy chips but instead farm and merge them.

[Shin_Hell]

Wait, is it possible to merge chips? How?

[Nope]

Originally posted by Shin_Hell:

Wait, is it possible to merge chips? How?

I believe you do so at the Bunker (been a long time since I last play). At another S model YorHa like 9S

Or at another NPC in the resistance camp, I don't really remember

[Exarch_Alpha]

The game has those schticks you only learn later in the game.

Also, NEVER sell silver and gold because they are crafting materials. Without gold´s blade how you will kill a titanium robot amirite

[lPaladinl]

Honestly I never had issues with money with the game and I never tried to grind for anything.

This is said when I only completed most of Ending C. I don't have the DLC so I'm not going to be doing the Arena grind.

[Halcyform]

Originally posted by Shin_Hell:

Wait, is it possible to merge chips? How?

Resistance camp near the area of the city that you start the game at after prologue.

You'll need to be careful what you decide to merge. Ideally, you'll want to find chips that have a "star" next to their name/memory requirement. The star chips will give higher bonuses at lower memory slot requirements.

Pay attention to what you want to merge. The menu will show you what the two chips you are trying to merge will turn into, assuming it's a valid merge. You'll want to merge chips so you get the highest bonus possible with the lowest memory slot requirement. You'll achieve this with "star" chips.

Additionally, the chips you want to merge need to be identical with respect to memory slot requirement. You can merge two +1s, but not a +1 and a +2.

The +1..+2..,etc are the chip's memory slot requirements that you need available to equip them. The same vendor that can do the chip mergers also sells memory upgrades where you can increase your available slots so you can equip more/bigger chips.

[Cacosubthree]

Originally posted by Shin_Hell:

Wait, is it possible to merge chips? How?

You can merge chips with the same guy where you bought the pod programs. Basically, if you have 2 pieces of +1 chip of the same kind, you can fuse them to get a +2, then the space it occupies is somewhat the average of the +1 chips. There are a bunch chip fusing guides around that are generally spoiler free.

Every chip you can buy in game always takes the maximum space it can at its level, which is something you do not like. The best ones you can get (those with diamonds), you can get from enemy drops and fusing them.

Fishing is a good way to earn money

[uwurawr]

The reason why fishing is so good for money is cause the devs know no one likes fishing in video games. They don't expect you to be there doing it straight for 40 mins like a lunatic.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

Honestly I never had issues with money with the game and I never tried to grind for anything.

This is said when I only completed most of Ending C. I don't have the DLC so I'm not going to be doing the Arena grind.

The arena isn´t grind, With good weapons and chips they are easy, Only...the rank 99 aren´t because they are HELL. The shades are super bosses just like Ruby Weapon from FF7. It´s expected not everyone will beat it. I didn´t.

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by Exarch_Alpha:

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

Honestly I never had issues with money with the game and I never tried to grind for anything.

This is said when I only completed most of Ending C. I don't have the DLC so I'm not going to be doing the Arena grind.

The arena isn´t grind, With good weapons and chips they are easy, Only...the rank 99 aren´t because they are HELL. The shades are super bosses just like Ruby Weapon from FF7. It´s expected not everyone will beat it. I didn´t.

That's what I meant.

As far as I have seen throughout most of the game there's no real reason to grind unless you really don't keep up with your equipment and need extra help with the game.

Which is fine and why I like this game above some other games by Platinum. The RPG elements let you make up for some of the difficulty by letting you get more advantage if you need it with grind.

My experience however was very linear without a lot of need to make pit stops for grinding, be it levels or money.

[Scheneighnay]

absolutely nothing in the game requires you to farm for money from what I've seen
if I ever ran out, it's just because I forgot to sell off my machine cores, then I'll go back to having 300,000 more than I know what to do with.