RurouniZel said:
Okay, I need some help. I spent all of yesterday and today trying to get the True ending, only to come up incredibly short and just got Rorona's ending (despite hitting all of Mimi's flags and doing a Character Quest to place her above Rorona, it still defaulted to Rorona).
I namely have two problems. I have no idea how to possibly make enough pies to keep the Chims going without wasting a fuck ton of days to trigger their ending flag, and more importantly have NO idea how to get upwards of 500K cole for the Store ending flag. I'm going to take a break from the game just because I've literally spent some 16 hours on it yesterday and a couple more today to finish and I'm a bit disappointed I fell so short.
Help? Tips?
From what I've read, a Chim will never eat any faster than 1 pie every 10 days, so if you don't obtain enough Chims soon enough, it will be impossible to meet the pie count requirement.
You could just have all the chims synthing pies (and make sure the bin never gets totally full). Chim synthesis is basically item duplication, so it's not like you need to use up actual ingredients for the pies. The upside is that you can pretty much ignore your Chims, but the downside is that doing so isn't particularly profitable.
For the purpose of making money, you could use your Chims to duplicate 120 quality alchemical yeasts with as many price enhancing traits as possible, and you should be able to sell the yeasts, periodically buy out Ceci's supply of pies, and still make a huge profit. You can always switch them back to making pies before setting sail on those long ocean voyages.
Another way of making money is registering a spring cup with the spring water+ trait at Pamela's shop. An average spring cup will produce 15 liquids and will result in a profit of around 800 cole IIRC.
Abusing spring cups for profit is admittedly pretty dull, but the upside is that you can obtain some nice ingredients for things like equipment and items (although this will hurt spring cup profitability).
At any rate, you could try again in new game+ since it lets you keep your equipment and your money (but nothing else). Sell everything in the item box prior to the game ending and you'll be that much closer to 500K (by maybe ~40K haha). Also, you probably won't be using up as much time on leveling up characters or making equipment and can focus more time on obtaining the Chims as fast as possible for the purpose of making money.
Rorona's ending takes priority over pretty much the rest of the other endings. Once you've triggered it, you're not likely to see any other ending (aside from the True one). Unfortunately her ending is probably the easiest to trigger by accident.
True, it sucks not to get everything on the first try, but if your equipment is good, many things will be much easier/faster the second time around.
