[slimgrin]

Does any one else find themselves in perpetual poverty in this game? I am in chapter 4 and still I have had scant opportunity to buy new armor, forged swords, or new weapons. About all I can afford are alchemy ingredients, books, and other menial items.

Any tips on how to make more money?

[*Tommy*]

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Does any one else find themselves in perpetual poverty in this game? I am in chapter 4 and still I have had scant opportunity to buy new armor, forged swords, or new weapons. About all I can afford are alchemy ingredients, books, and other menial items.

Any tips on how to make more money?

Dice Poker,Fistfights, and sell all those additional substances e.g. albars crystals, ginatz acid , sulfur etc. they bring in pretty good orens

[Cassandra31EEE]

I used to go in the crypt down to the sewers in chapter 2, and kill the necrophages. You go out when you 're done, and enter again (or sleep in the fireplace). You can do it when you want to... relax a bit (what a witcher do when he's bored? He kills a ghoul or two *grin* ), and then you can sell their bones, marrows, teeth and so on, to Kalkstein.

Don't worry much for money in this game, though.

Have fun!

[Corylea]

The additional armor doesn't actually make a huge difference, so you don't need to worry about collecting 5000 orens for it.  And one reason why you're impoverished is because you dropped all those contract scrolls; finishing contracts is a good way to earn money.

In the books on which the game is based, Geralt is frequently hurting for money, so the developers of this game actually give us a lot more money than the "real" Geralt usually has.  Of course, they're gamers, too, and they know that no gamer wants to be a pauper.  But it does explain why you don't find lots of orens on every monster or in every chest; Geralt isn't really supposed to be rich.

[SibirianCat]

Really? I brought my armour in the beginning of chapter 3, really. I suppose it's just the matter of goals: in the first run I did buy the armour somewhere in C4, but in the second run I thought 'let's make money' - and voila, chapter 4 with branded silver sword, solid armour and 15000+ of change... And I think you can actually made much more than that - some people I heard, made 1000's through the chapter 2 apparently.

1. Don't buy alcohol (unless in dire need) You can make w' gulls.
2. Sell books. (Buy only necessary ones and sell them back. Some info can actually be obtained from 'old women' in towns.)
3. Sell jewellery.
4. Sell expensive/common alchemical ingredients (vinegar, pyrite, sulphur...50 drowner's tongues, 50 celandines)
5. Sell the best weaponry found on thugs.
6. Sell more. In dire need sell all food you can find.
7. Search a lot. A LOT. Trunks, caskets, crates and corpses.

...and there is a guide here: http://witcher.wikia...te's_Guide

Making money is relatively easy once you set your mind to it.

[stevephillips79]

HI,
I suppose it's just the matter of goals: in the first run I did buy the armour somewhere in C4, but in the second run I thought 'let's make money' - and voila, chapter 4 with branded silver sword, solid armour and 15000+ of change... And I think you can actually made much more than that - some people I heard, made 1000's through the chapter 2 apparently.


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[OBOM]

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1. Don't buy alcohol (unless in dire need) You can make w' gulls.
2. Sell books. (Buy only necessary ones and sell them back. Some info can actually be obtained from 'old women' in towns.)
3. Sell jewellery.
4. Sell expensive/common alchemical ingredients (vinegar, pyrite, sulphur...50 drowner's tongues, 50 celandines)
5. Sell the best weaponry found on thugs.
6. Sell more. In dire need sell all food you can find.
7. Search a lot. A LOT. Trunks, caskets, crates and corpses.

...and there is a guide here: http://witcher.wikia...te's_Guide

Making money is relatively easy once you set your mind to it.

Don't forget:
8. Complete as many side quests, contracts and trophy searches as you're able, they almost everytime rend you Orens.
9. Steel them blind! Enter every house, mansion or hut you can, collect the goods and sell them. A lot of times you'll also find Orens in barrels and trunks.
10. Don't forget to loot fallen enemies, they also posses Orens most of the time.
11. Don't buy weapons, you'll find pretty nifty ones while questing. Sell the rest.

I ended the game in Normal Mode with 12000 Orens or more to spare, having any weapon and armour upgrade my little looter's heart desired....!

[snapper.fishes]

Yeah it's hilarious how you can just walk into someone's house and take everything. RPG games. :D

[KeybdFlyer]

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Yeah it's hilarious how you can just walk into someone's house and take everything. RPG games. :D

Totally agree!  Would it be so difficult to implement a "Sneak" skill and an "Intimidate" skill?  Increase your Sneak ability to improve your chances of entering a house undetected & steal from under their noses, and/or increase your Intimidation factor to enter the house and scare the occupants into not reporting your actions as you ransack their property.  Yes, I know it's "just a game", but it's an RPG - let's have a little realism?

[General Jarate]

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let's have a little realism?

I think that if we want realism than we should be worrying about the fact that people keep fried chicken in the place where they're supposed keep their clothing in first, then we can worry about sneaking.

[Pangaea]

Stealing people blind doesn't bother me the least tbh. It's part of RPG games and tbh it would be annoying if I got the guards on my arse every time I looked in a cupboard and nicked a piece of cheese or a fish.

In my 2nd run I didn't play dice apart from the people I had to beat, but still had plenty of money to buy all the weapons I wanted. Seriously, I had like 4 made swords because I'm using a mod so I can access the storage at all times. Money isn't a problem in this game as long as you do the contracts and sell stuff you don't need. Follow the list above and you can't go wrong.

[GratuitousViolets]

snapper.fishes said:

Yeah it's hilarious how you can just walk into someone's house and take everything. RPG games. ›››

In certain games I've played (RPG) if you're caught looting the people inhabiting the house attack or call guards. This game I was surprised no one queries of Geralt's what he thinks he's doing stealing their liquor and going into their cabinets.

[Corylea]

GratuitousViolets said:

In certain games I've played (RPG) if you're caught looting the people inhabiting the house attack or call guards. This game I was surprised no one queries of Geralt's what he thinks he's doing stealing their liquor and going into their cabinets. ›››

Geralt kills a LOT of monsters that normal humans can't kill, and by doing so, he helps to keep everybody safe. There are an awful lot of monsters that he doesn't get paid for and an awful lot of other good deeds that he doesn't get paid for, but he does them, because -- as Zoltan says -- "it's the right thing to do."

So, when I take a book Geralt needs from someone's house, I consider it the Witcher Tax. It's what people pay for Geralt's keeping all of them safe from the monsters.

[GratuitousViolets]

Corylea said:

Geralt kills a LOT of monsters that normal humans can't kill, and by doing so, he helps to keep everybody safe. There are an awful lot of monsters that he doesn't get paid for and an awful lot of other good deeds that he doesn't get paid for, but he does them, because -- as Zoltan says -- "it's the right thing to do."

So, when I take a book Geralt needs from someone's house, I consider it the Witcher Tax. It's what people pay for Geralt's keeping all of them safe from the monsters. ›››

Of course there should be a witcher tax...I just find it odd there's no one in the house saying "uh...what are you doing?" or "take what you need" in a nervous tone.

To be fair though, most of them don't have much more than bottled water and flints, not much to steal, lol.

[ritual_assassin]

Ok.... I am making enough grinding to make Geralt reach level 50, as well as playing enough dice-poker...
I have earned almost 20.000 orens from selling ingredients here and there... you sell the most expensive and you keep the cheapest, as there is not any difference to their usage in the potions...
also, make sure you loot every single house in every chapter and sell any kind of food you have... If you use potions, then it is quite useless for your quests...
the most fun part of earning money, is to play dice-poker.... I have become a very addicted poker player... you always play at high stakes and the best way to succeed, is to save a game just before you play dice-poker and after YOU WIN. If you lose, you just load the last savegame and you're on again... You might be in chapter 4, but you still have many opportunities to earn some orens... Kill the meanies, earn some coins and soon you will have enough to be satisfied..