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Listen up kid, because I'm going to divulge the money making secrets your game is lacking.

I had an algorithm in Balmung that calculated the amount of money earned per enemy based on its difficulty, keeping every stat in mind. The best way to write the previously mentioned algorithm is in such a way that defeating a party of enemies can net you 1-2 healing items in a store per battle won.

What follows will require a small amount of effort on your half. You need to gauge a min/max amount of gold that can be earned per area and average that out. The total costs of new equipment between each available area should reflect that with a bit of randomization. This is pretty easy if you have an electric calculator, but if you are stupid and have random battles you'll have to factor in more variables to figure out how many average steps will be made in each hostile area.

The sweet spot is a place where full equipment upgrades are a bit out of the player's affordability range. They should have enough money to afford shiny new equips at each new shop, but not enough to upgrade everything. This creates a dilemma that the player will have to solve and will ultimately make the game marginally more interesting. With a few extra battles they can return knowing what they want to purchase.

If you are bad at balancing this and find the player is strapped for cash on basic necessities you can also just "give" things away by throwing chest items on the field adjusted to a curve for demand. This will require you to actually play through your game, however!!

The patented Balmung money management philosophy netted me 7 Misaos and 4 project imitations, so I'm stamping it with my personal seal of gurantee!!

Kid I'm 25...

Anyway I don't use random encounters, I use on screen touch encounters. So I think that it will work out well.
I am working on an upgrade system right now. So this advice should be very helpful. Thank you.

In the recent review Mr. Nemo did of my game Glacia. He states rightly so that the gold the player receives is way to high. While part of this was due to the lack of necessary things he had to buy. Some of it was due to the fact that monsters were dropping to much money.

So I was thinking of ways to balance how much money the player should get. I want them to receive enough that they wouldn't feel cheated. But couldn't become badasses without proper grinding. So how does everyone balance their money. Is there a ratio I could use. Or is this sadly something else I will have to endlessly play test.

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As far as evil existing goes. I believe that people choose to be evil. God lets this happen because he allows us to have free will. If he were to example stop a murder he would be taking away the murders free will. As far as the devil goes. That would be up to extreme debate. So we'll just leave everyone to their own beliefs.

I believe that god wants us to decide if and how do believe in him. Which path-belief gets you into heaven or hell.
ect.. Is completely impossible for anyone in this time period to absolutely prove. This is where FAITH comes into play. God wants us to have faith that he is out there loving us.

The huge problem is that when people make up their minds about there beliefs. They usually become annoyed with other view points.

I totally agree however that no church can get you closer to god.

Just let me bee.

What's it gonna bee.

Buzz off.