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DA`s Essential SoL Guide 
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^{Ver 10.7.10 — A Discount Armor Guide} 
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First of all: Make sure you go to the "Wheel of Destiny" and do your 100 free spins per day. If you do that, you will get lots of rice, gold, yen and other sellable stuff. 

Take some of the rice that you receive and go to the Rice Patties and buy the daily limit of 45 extra spins every day. Spin those, get more stuff. 

Sell all those sculptures, carvings, books, chopsticks, frozen fish, mochi, and wasabi back to the game, using the SELL button. Some people collect some of these items. But they don`t pay much more than the game does. Just sell to the game. Get the yen! Turn everything into yen! Yen earns interest! 

If you are a miner (and you should be a miner! It is very profitable!), sell any gems. It *seldom* pays to make weapons or armor in the Workshop. The only ring worth making is the one you make for your spouse. If you can't find anyone else to buy your gems, contact me, DA. I'm always buying. 

Get in the habit of banking all yen before mining. There are robbers down there. There are players who have lost more than a billion yen to one mining robbery. Repair broken mining equipment. It's not worth collecting. Get your IQ to 380 times your level before REFINING gold. Otherwise you will have losses. Buy more MINING POWER as you become eligible for it. It is well worth it at least up until 

And look near the top of each page for the red " Vote for Samurai of Legend ...." link. Click it and VOTE on each of the links. You will get 40 Rice and 70 Gold and ¥5,000. Every day. 

If muggers and robbers are a problem (which, of course, they are), then learn how to use the Trading Center for large purchases and sales. (I have a Guide to the Trade Center if you need it.) 

Rather than sell your rice and gold on the public markets, you can sell through the Trading Center. You can sell to me, but there are other would~be buyers out there too. 

I buy rice and gold (95k each) and PGAs (23 million each). I buy GPEs @ 1.4 million each. (But even if you don`t sell them to me .... sell your gold, rice, PGAsto somebody. Get that yen ... put it in the bank ... and get a steady income from the bank.) I also buy donator items for yen. 

The thing about the Trading Center is this: The money recipient can control the exact second that he/she receives the money .... and can therefore BANK it instantly. So common sense requires that the Money Sender Accepts the trade as soon as all trading items are in the box. The Money Sender then tells the Money receiver, "I have accepted." The money Receiver now knows that s/he can ACCEPT and immediately bank the yen. Divergence from this sequence can lead to mugging disasters. 

You also want to learn how to handle money quickly. It is an essential skill in this game. If you don't, the muggers and the robbers (yes, they are different) will take your hard-earned money away from you. Eventually, you will want to buy Theft Protection a $5 donator item that will protect you from robbers (but not muggers). But I would suggest that it is more important to first acquire two other $5 donator items, a Grab Bag Opener and Bank Card. They can be acquired by donating $5 or you can purchase them in the Item Market for around 900 million yen. 

I also sell Donator items, usually for a price 20 million yen cheaper than the cheapest seller in the Item Market. 

Up until you hit about Level 100, you want to turn everything into yen, because SoL pays a *phenomenal* rate of interest on yen: 2 percent PER DAY (Once you start to get close to having 150 million in the bank, get a Bank Card, which increases the interest rate to ***4*** percent PER DAY). At a four percent rate, the money in your bank doubles every 17 days! 

That interest rate is the source of almost all the wealth in the game. Turn everything into yen, and collect your interest income! 

As soon as you get close to topping out your bank, take advantage of Long Term Investments. You can have up to 30,000,000 invested at a time. The 20-day rate gives by far the best return — more than 4 percent per day for non-donators, and approaching 6 percent per day for donators. As soon as an investment matures, start a new one. 

When you hit Level 100, ask for the Discount Armor Guide to Hitting 100. 

If you don`t have a Grab Bag Opener, then you are missing out on The No. 1 Biggest Money~Maker in the game. Ask me to send the Discount Armor Guide to Grab Bags. Incidentally, my price on GBOs is almost always cheaper than the Item Market. 

Always try to use all your ENERGY and all your BRAVE. Don't let either of them just sit there at 100 percent. When they get there, use them up, so they'll refill. 

ENERGY, of course, is best used for leveling attacks. No one to attack? Use it to train. There'll be someone to attack by the time if refills. 

BRAVE is best used for Jailbreaks to help you level. You can only do this up to Level 175. No luck jailbreaking, or over Level 175? Then the best bet is the STEAL RICE crime. Three bags of rice for 50 BRAVE. Too weak to do that crime? FELLOW APPRENTICE will cost you eight BRAVE and get you a Shinai (plus 360 yen). Shinais can be sold to collectors. My friend Psycho [779303] currently pays top dollar for the things, 24k each in lots of 100 or more. 

And if you are online at least five days a week ... start a rice farm. You can get 160 bags of rice per week at VERY little cost. If you are only on, say, three days a week, your won`t be as productive. Farming rewards reliable follow-through. 

The beginning schools are all a good deal. Up to the 100 million yen school. That one, and the ones after it, are not a good deal. 

BTW, I *ALWAYS* beat the cheapest price ( yen or gold) in the Item Market ... weapons, armor gems or GBOs by a substantial amount. Just mail me when you are ready to buy. 

If you are upgrading your gear, I will buy your old gear, paying 99 percent of Shop Price. If you are not buying, but simply selling, I will give you 95 percent of Shop Price for any weapon or armor that costs more than 60 million yen. 

Of course, the easiest way to get yen, if you have plenty of RL money ... is to DONATE. Buy GBOs, WoD Spinners, Bank Cards and sell them to another player for yen. I offer the best prices. I am happy to accept donator items(GBOs, etc.) as part of any deal. I'm also happy to buy them outright for yen. 

After you have been playing about a month, go to Honor Awards on the Explore screen. Here you can win credit for some of your various accomplishments in the game. The credits can be exchanged for goods. The best ones are the "stat scrolls" which boost your Strength, Guard or Agility for 50 percent for 30 minutes. This allows you to attack (or mug) much more powerful players. Or you can sell them on the market (or to me) for like 140 million apiece. 

BTW: You are welcome to forward this guide to others —or post it in your clan forum—if you post it "as is" and do not edit it. You can preserve the color formatting if you copy it from ARCHIVE MESSAGES/INBOX. 

DA Also publishes "The DA Guide to Buying Arms", and many others. 

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The DA Guide to Grab Bags 
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^{Ver 10.8.20} 
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You need to know that grab bags ~~ on average ~~ contain stuff that is worth three or four times their 5000 yen cost. You buy them at the Grab Bag Center (middle column on the EXPLORE page). 

Therefore, you can make money by opening bags and selling their contents. 

Unfortunately, this is very time consuming and boring. 

However, if a player scratches together like 900 million yen or so -- the price varies -- he can buy a grab bag opener (GBO), which can open 2000 bags -- with one click -- every day. This produces 80-90 million worth of stuff every day. (It pays for itself in 5 to 6 days). Most of the wealth is in the form of Power Gym Admittance (PGA) scrolls, which appear about once every 400 Grab Bags. Players above Level 120 need these things and are willing to pay millions for them. PGA scrolls gain you one admission to the "Power Gym". At the Power Gym, you will get four times as many stats for each workout. Note that NOT ALL PGA scrolls can be sold. If it is a ``Personal`` PGA Scroll, you can use it, but you cannot trade or sell it. 

Grab Bags also contain Gun Powder Explosives (GPEs), which can be used to attack *anyone* in the game, regardless of level. You gain no EXP experience by doing so, but perhaps you gain the satifaction of revenge. A better use of these, in my opinion, is that you can sell them. 

GBOs are sold in the Donor Section of the Item Market, where they cost about a billion yen. The good news is that I almost always have some in stock. I charge 30 million less than the cheapest one in the Item Market. (Same pricing deal on all donator goods, Bank Card, Theft Protection, WoD Spinners, $3 DP Packs.) Of course, if you are willing to donate to the game, you can pay $5 US and get a GBO by clicking ``Donate to SoL`` and going to the ``Create your own package`` page. 

The GBO is an essential key to wealth in the game. 

What I did, when I started the game (and learned about GBOs) is: I opened 2,000 of the damn bags one at a time, every day -- and sold the contents -- until I could afford to buy an opener. 

At the Grab Bag Center, you can buy as many as you want ... but you have to buy them in batches of 9999 (almost 50 million yen) or less. Buying Grab Bags for future use, by the way, is an excellent way to hide money, say, if you need to keep your City Bank balance below 150 million. (If you ever need to turn them back into cash for some sort of emergency — which I do not recommend — I will buy Grab Bags at 90 percent of cost ... 4500 yen each...in lots of 10,000 or more. ) 

The GBO will open 120,000 bags. That means it will last at least 60 days. By then it will have earned you enough yen and other good stuff that you won't mind buying another. 

BTW: If you need a secure way to sell stuff. Consider using the Trading Center, where players can protect themselves against robbers and muggers. I use it to buy rice and gold (at 95k each), PGAs (at 23 million each), and GPEs @ 1.4 million each. 

If you haven`t already seen it, request The Discount Armor Essential Guide to making Yen on SoL. I also publish several other guides, including The Discount Armor Weapon and Armor Buying Guide. 

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