100k+ gold in 15 minutes - Professional difficulty gold farming

The fastest way of earning gold in the game I've found. On Professional. Only half as effective on other difficulties.

What do you need?

Unlock Professional difficulty first by finishing the game at least once.
Go to Chapter 3-2 Execution Grounds. Proceed through it until reaching Oil Field - Dock area, i.e. the very last area of this chapter, where you have to get to Josh's boat within 2 minutes.

Why Professional?

Simple. On Professional difficulty all money pickups are doubled in value, so the usual 3000 gold pickup we'll be farming is 6000 gold on Pro. You can still farm on Amateur, Normal, or Veteran, but it's half as effective.

Actual farming route

1. Once at the Oil Field - Dock area, turn right.
   
2. Then turn left.
   
3. Go forward until reaching the cutscene trigger.
   
4. Skip the cutscenes. Turn around 180 degrees and go left.
   
5. The attache case with the gold is right there.
   
6. Take the gold, quit to main menu and save the progress.

Why is this so effective?

As mentioned previously, on Professional it's a 6000 gold pickup. On my PC it takes around 40 seconds to go through the entire loop of Main Menu > Continue > Ready up > Loading screen > Go take the gold > Quit > Loading screen.

40 seconds per run in 15 minutes is around 22.5 runs. Rounding down to 22 x 6000 is 132.000 gold! Even if you are not speedrunning, it's still an easy 100k+ gold in just a quarter of an hour. On lower difficulties it's half, which is still pretty nice TBH.

Prepare...

...to have "That's Irving's boat! Let's go!" burned into your brain.

[Badgerman790]

"Seven Minutes. Seven minutes is all I can spare to play with you"

[HelenaEX2]

if you defeat Wesker on 5-3 when Jill´s battle starts you walk down the stairs and a treasure will be there "Heart of Africa" regardless of the difficulty you earn 10k. Wesker´s figth can be done in less than 30 secs on amateur and treasures value are not affected by difficulty. .

Asuming that you need 90 secs to defeat wesker 3600secs/90secs= 40 times and 10,000*40= 400k.

Not to mention theres another 3 treasures on that area and you could also pick up the LH and sell it multiple time to not just farm gold but also farm magnum ammo. But if we go to the "fastest" route to farm gold. 5-3 is probably the best scenario for that.

[December Man]

Haven't thought of trying that.

[HelenaEX2]

5-3 is more lucrative. 10k for defeating wesker in 30 secs. Plus it can be done on amateur