How to earn 1 million fight money.

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Originally posted by IITWLLII -ES-:
Here is an older post / summary, to give you an overview
(weekly fightmoney missions were not available at that time):

Disclaimer

I was looking for answers in the guides but i couldn't find it and found this in the discussions. I just posted it here because it seemed like it belonged here. I dont take credit for this guide, all credit goes to OP IITWLLII -ES-

Good Luck

Originally posted by IITWLLII -ES-:
Here is an older post / summary, to give you an overview
(weekly fightmoney missions were not available at that time):

Per character / per event payouts:
View Each Character's Guide 500 FM
View Each Set Of Demonstrations 1,000 FM
Complete Each Character's Trials 1,000 FM
Raise a Character's Level 1,000 FM
Complete Story Mode 2,000 FM
Complete Survival Easy 2,000 FM
Complete Survival Normal 5,000 FM
Complete Survival Hard 10,000 FM
Complete Survival Extreme 20,000 FM
Complete General Story Mode 30,000 FM (1 time only)
Complete General Story Mode (Extra) 50,000 FM (1 time only)
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Time calculation:

Calculation for all 16 base game characters (generous calculation):
Character Stories ~6,5 minutes per character on average (without skipping the cut scenes).
16x 6,5 min = 104 min / 60
= ~1,73 hours total

Cinematic Story Mode (without skipping the cut scenes):
~3-4 hours x 2 difficulty settings
= ~6-8 hours total

Survival Mode (~10 seconds added to each round to select powerups):
1. Easy: 10 rounds x 40 sec x 16 characters
= ~1,78 hours

2. Normal: 30 rounds x 50 sec x 16 characters
= ~6,67 hours (no real challenge until round 25/28)
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3. Hard: 50 rounds x 50 sec x 16 characters
= 11,11 hours (minimum / unlikely not to fail here and there)

4. Extreme: 100 rounds x50 sec x 16 characters
= 20,33 hours (minimum / you will fail / replay a lot)

Demonstrations: ~30-40 mins total (if you don't skip the reading) / else, a few minutes

Trials: very hard to tell the time, depends from your skill level, the fastest you can go is ~2 mins per character, without any fails = 16 x2 = ~32 mins minimum.

So in total you can unlock the easiest portion of the fightmoney in ~20 hours, if you are efficient and don't fail in normal survival at all, else add 10-20 hours for 2-4 fails in normal survival with each character. Don't bother with hard/extreme survival, unless you want to cheese through these tedious 50/100 rounds, by exploiting the AI input readings.

DLC 2016+2017 characters times are not included above.
Each character levelup and each unlocked DLC character gives access to more fightmoney.

Here is a fight money overview which Punymeyer posted some time ago, it is a little outdated but still pretty accurate:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/895976-street-fighter-v/73944270
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Fighmoney calculation:

You can unlock ALL 6 DLC characters (Alex, Guile, Ibuki, Balrog , Juri and later also Urien) by playing:
- Survival Mode up to normal difficulty
- Character Story Mode
- Cinematic Story Mode on normal difficulty.
- Character challenges / Trial mode

Gameplay related content (anything that affects the outcome of a match), will always be obtainable with fight money, the announced upcoming daily challenges (targets game mode) will give you another source of fight money income.

https://www.vg247.com/2016/06/04/street-fighter-5-how-to-earn-fight-money-fast/
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Fight money overview:

Character Stories:
16 characters * 10.000 each
= 160.000 FM + char EXP/LVL

Cinematic Story mode:
30.000 on normal + 50.000 on extra difficulty
= 80.000 FM

Tutorial Demonstations (watch only):
- Beginner+Intermediate+Advanced = 3.000 FM
- Character specific: 1.500 FM each (16 x 1.500 = 24.000 FM + char EXP/LVL)
= 27.000 FM for 16 characters

Challenges / Trials:
Each trial = 10 tasks = 1.000 FM * 16 characters
= 16.000 FM + char EXP/LVL

Survival for each character
Easy: 2.000 FM + char LV/EXP (16 x 2.000 = 32.000 FM)
Normal: 5.000 FM + char LV/EXP (16 x 5.000 = 80.000 FM)
Hard: 10.000 FM + char LV/EXP (16 x 10.000 = 160.000 FM)
Hell/Extreme: 20.000 FM + char LV/EXP (16 x 20.000 = 320.000 FM)
=> Total survival fightmoney = 592.000 for 16 characters

Online / Multiplayer FM income is neglible in automatchmaking:
50 FM for every match you win
focus on LVLup your character LVL instead, it's not hard to level each character to LVL 20.

Levelling up Characters = 1.000 FM for each LVLup
16 characters * 20 cLVL * 1.000 FM
= 320.000 FM when 16 characters are LVL 20

Total fightmoney from 16 characters @ LVL20
+ normal story/trials/demos/easy+normal survival:
= 665.000 total fightmoney = worth 6 DLC characters

Extra hard story not included (50.000 FM).
Hard/Extreme survival (480.000 FM) + matchmaking FM not included.

Total fightmoney for completing everything above @ character LVL 20
on all difficulties is:
~1.195.000 FM

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+ extra FM for each unlocked DLC characters:

Character Story: 10.000 FM (6x 10.000 FM = 60.000 FM)
Character Tutorial Demo: 1.500 FM + char EXP/LVL (6 x 1.500 FM = 9.000 FM)
Challenges/Trials: 1.000 FM + char EXP/LVL ( 6 x 1.000 FM = 6.000 FM)
Survival easy+normal: 7.000 FM + char EXP/LVL (6 x 7.000 = 42.000 FM)

Level 20 for each DLC character = 20.000 FM each (6 DLC chars = 120.000 FM).

Total fightmoney from 6 DLC characters @ LVL20
+ story/trials/demos/easy+normal survival:
= +237.000 total fightmoney = worth 2 DLC characters

Hard/Extreme survival (180.000 FM) + matchmaking FM not included.

Total fightmoney from 6 DLC chars for completing everything above at chararacter LVL 20
on all difficulties is:
~ +417.000 FM worth 4 DLC characters

[NeoStrayCat]

Quickie reference, be aware that fight money earned from single player modes [Story - General/Character, Survival - All Difficulties and Challenges - Trial and Demos] (except weekly missions, and FM earned from Ranked/Casual matches and character level ups.) will no longer earn you FM after Arcade Edition is released. So grind out ASAP until 1/16/18.

[Trevor Reznik]

Yeah it seems really tempting to just buy everything, but I gotta do some research to see what the stuff is I really want... I think I'll buy 2 characters that interest me the most from character pack one.

Perpahs I buy character pass 2 for real money (on a discount). And then I can save up some FM for a costume or a stage :)

[XeroValentine]

I only bought stuff with FM so far. But with how impossible it is to beat Hard and Extreme Survival with all characters I think the only way to get all characters while preserving sanity is to buy the season passes. For now just buy the characters you want to play as. I bought Balrog on accident and don't even play him. Wasted 100k FM. I would have prefered to buy a stage at that point lol.

[Trevor Reznik]

What DLC did you buy ?

Did you buy any microtransactions in game ?

I'm thinking of putting all my FM into season one characters that I want (I already bought Juri as she seemed pretty awesome :P )

I can use these new characters to unlock more FM too :)

If I buy stages I can't unlock new FM with that so it's not a priority.

I might buy the second season pass. But as for right now 30 euro is a bit too expensive to spend on DLC.

[XeroValentine]

Maybe they drop the price of the previous season every time a new one comes out.
Other than that I don't know why.

[Trevor Reznik]

Wow man that is a very long time !

I would like to buy characters in the store but the prices are pretty insane.

Why does the first character pack offer 6 characters for 19.99 ?

And the second character pack offer 6 characters for 29.99 ? Does it offer anything more since price went up ? :P

[XeroValentine]

I believe it's only in vs CPU and training mode if you're not playing online. If you could afford it I would say buy the characters with real money (preferably season pass) and use your FM for stages and colors for costumes because there is a limit to how much FM you can get without playing online and you can't buy everything unless you maybe wait til 2021(if so early) and buy the game with all dlc unlocked like they did with USF4.

[Trevor Reznik]

Thanks a lot for the advice, mate !

I'm thinking of spending my earned Figher Money on new Characters most of all (perhaps new costumes). But do you know in what modes I can use new stages I unlock ?

For example I can unlock a new stage for 70K. But what modes can I use this new stage for ?

[XeroValentine]

Cinematic story gives you 30k for first completion and 50k for the second completion on harder difficulty. You need to make sure that you're connected to the internet when you beat it or you won't get the money from it. And yes the most of your money will be from survival and weekly challenges. The challenge that gives the most FM (5k) can be done by completing certain actions on a specific map in vs. CPU, Survival or Online Modes.

Also at harder levels of Survival the AI starts reading inputs so you'll have to figure out a way to beat that.

[Trevor Reznik]

I'm more of an offline fighter so I'll get my money out of Survival and Story :)

Does the cinematic story offering something too ? or just character story ?