Interesting. So it should be easier to hit the influence target with the high level mercs. Hard to say on the money target since arena will be less profitable with high level mercs, but low level mercs can't really handle duraplate wearing, coilgun wielding raider kings and such. So I would think if you include the sale of assault weapons and coilguns, the high tier mercs would come out ahead on money overall. The money does definitely taper off though for a bit once I initially wipe out everything. I decided against buying the aim implant for now and am still just training up melee on my main. His ranged is still 30 but his melee is 60 now.You need Influence too, 10k or so for the Walton investment I think, Roo's might come sooner, I don't recall.
Aimee's shop opens up around day 40.
There's only 9 mid tier Arena specials, and only 9 of the lucrative top-tier ones. After those are gone you gotta make due on 6-700 money opponents, and while you'll still make a profit, the more that profit is the quicker you'll get the 75k up for Roo and the 200k for Walton.
I dunno about the implant, I don't have much trouble critting and training myself up to that level so I forgo it. I also don't like the idea of my poor eyeball being scooped out and some metal monstrosity put in its place. I loved the 'Six Million Dollar Man' when I was a kid, when I grew up I preferred the idea of having all my body parts intact!
I was going to hold off a bit on the classes, but since I didn't take any charm perks on my current build I really need Daria's Gift. So I went ahead and took 2 academy classes and read a bunch of books. It took me 3 weeks to get my first seduction far enough to get a blowjob with 25 charm. Definitely painful compared to taking Attractive or True Love early on but I do have Juno's happiness/affection high enough for free healing/showers though (sometimes with a blowjob included, sometimes not).
So day 22 my house upgrade status is better than it was in my previous game by day 50 but I don't have my aim implant yet. I'm making enough money that I think I will just go ahead and take all the classes and do a house upgrade here and there as money permits. The bedroom and yard are done but the rest of the rooms are only sitting at 2 upgrades each so far.
I haven't picked up Bud yet because I only have 3 coilguns so far so I gave one to the space marine. My main is still just using a regular dagger spending zero ammo and steadily training up his melee until I can get the aim implant and switch to guns.
Also on the subject of the arena, with the low tier mercs, I actually had to spend about a week fighting only the random easy fights that are only worth about $200 each because I couldn't beat the other ones reliably without some of my people getting critically wounded. With the high tier mercs I could clear out most of the mid range fights and then do the normal random fights after that. I also got access to the arena on day 7 with the high tier mercs. With the low tier mercs it took me about 13 days. It helps that the only person using any ammo is Doyle.
Edit: So just finished that second Academy class and took the ferry to go sell my loot and now I have $30k. Definitely making more with the high tier mercs once you take loot sales into consideration. So now I have my aim implant and am also ahead of where I was before on house upgrades. In between loot sales it's mostly a trickle though.
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