Money in Tale of Two Towns is broken!

[Juxapose]

I was looking into some threads in this forum, and I see that money is hard to get in this game. Not for me. Money is by far too easy to get. In Winter 30 of Year 1, I made over 1,000,000 gold already. The game has these "Sweet Days" that you can take advantage to increase your gold by either 68% or 72%. The more gold you have, the more gold you get.

Example:

If you have 400k gold, and you get the 72% "Sweet Day", you automatically earn 288k + 400k in a day. Plus whatever you shipped that day too. So you end up with at least 688k the next day.

If you still have that amount of money during the next "Sweet Day" with 72%, You can get 688k + 495k which adds to 1.183 million gold. 

Please remember that Sweet days can take hours to complete, but the gold is well worth it.

Farming and Ranching is pretty much pointless in this game except to impress that girl or guy of your dreams. Unless the girl or guy of your dreams need no crops or animal product to impress, you can literally make millions without ever touching a hoe.

[Butterscotch]

I've literally never heard of this. How do you know which days are sweet days?

[Simfarmguru]

Completely lost as well, I thought the money was well balanced...

[Juxapose]

It's pretty easy. "Sweet Days" are days that Raul and Diego are selling Rice/Flour. They sell it randomly everyday with 10% probability on days that they are open.

So you check their stores everyday until they sell it. Once they do, you spend ALL your money on Flour or Rice. Then cook the ingredients, and make massive profits.

Example: Buy flour for 150 gold a piece. Cook the flour into bread, and you can resell the bread for 180 gold. But if you cook the bread into toast, you can sell the toast for 220 gold.

Rice starts off at 180 gold, but once fully cooked as rice porridge it resells at 310 gold each.

Buy these items in massive stacks, cook everything, then resell everything. Your money literally grows each time you do this. Best of all, cooking bread and rice is a great way to unlock new recipes at a quick rate.

[Butterscotch]

Ohh, the rice trick. I've heard of that. I never heard anyone call it sweet days before.

[Simfarmguru]

Huh, didn't know about it. Ahh well, will probably avoid, I have more fun doing other things

[Juxapose]

The reason I call it "Sweet Day"s is because everytime they sell rice or flour, I say "Sweet!"

[Simfarmguru]

Now that does make sense

[Juxapose]

I have found another great money making plan for the game.

Money is hard to get in the game. Some upgrades to the farm may cost millions to do. I have already discovered the Rice/Wheat trick which is an easy and effective way make your millions. But like Simfarmguru has mentioned, this method is cheating and there must be a more legit method of making the money.

One of the reasons money is tough is the crops/products are low in profit, and expenses are insane. Buy fodder, chicken feed, pet food, treats, gifts for potential spouces, tool upgrades, clothing, new tools, seeds, and of course farm upgrades. When will it ever end?

I have discovered the answer.

While I was harvesting my cucumber crops, I was saddened by the low 180 gold each crop sells. I can raise the star rating to a full star, but that won't help much, plus it only adds the cost of making cucumbers. Plus I have not found any recipes that can add the value of Cucumbers.

But I need seeds for the next year, so I made seeds. But I forgot to leave some crops to ship. So after the seeds were done, I shipped the seeds I no longer want. What I discovered is that the seeds sells for a whopping 350 gold each. But that's not all! Each crop makes 2 bags of seeds, so each crop makes a grand total of 700g a piece. 700 gold x 40 crops per harvest makes 28,000 gold per harvest. Plus if you keep making seeds year after year, you will incur no cost every single year for seeds! SI I plan to multiply the amount of cucumbers I grow next year.

Strawberries is similar, but with lots of money potential. Each bag of seeds are 850 gold. 2 bags of seeds are 1700 gold. So if you have 100 Strawberry plants growing, each strawberry harvest is worth 170,000 gold. So in 6 harvests, you have made more than a million gold.

In summer, Pineapple seeds are worth 4,000 gold each, and each plant makes 2 seeds, so that's 8,000 gold a piece. 100 pineapples plants are worth a grand total of 800,000 gold per harvest. Only 2 harvests makes more than a million gold.

Yams are 950 gold a bag, you do the calculations.

Bok choy seeds for winter are only 370 gold. Not too profitable, but it's something. I plan to take a break in the Winter seasons.

(Note) You need to live in Konohana to have the seed maker. If you have it, you can easily move to Bluebell, and the seed maker is still accessible to you.

[Juxapose]

Sorry about the double post, but I have an update.

I harvested Watermelons on Summer of year 3, and my profits were incredible. I have 200 watermelon crops (600k gold in seeds) growing that summer. I got the seeds late, so I can only harvest twice that season. I made an income of 1.2 million gold. I got 2.4 million gold, but I subtracted 600k for the original seeds, and another 600k for seeds I will use in Summer year 4.

In year 4, I estimate having 3 million gold in profits. 3.6 million gold in seeds, No cost for seeds, but I will be taking 600k in seeds for year 5 again.

[Simfarmguru]

So, buy a seed maker, sell seeds. Profit. For once, there's a step 2!

[Love Cam tott]

The second will help me!I hope...the flour and rice one works but it takes FOREVER!!!

[TBustah!]

That's a major oversight.

My initial thought was that this game must be one of Natsume's early solo efforts (which I've heard were not that great), but nope: this was the second-to-last (the word of the day is "penultimate", boys and girls) Bokujo that carried the HM brand.