And it's really best to we start getting used to save Qi, cause based on the Discord it's very likely that Nicky will removes the "Treasure Refining feature" at some point by turning all artefacts one-time buyable.
I don't know if we'll have more opportunities to buy artefacts or if Nicky will add more in the pavillion. Something interesting in my view would be tying these Artefacts(Pavillion) to our Prestige, basically, to gain access to more powerful and expensive artefacts(And therefore more Qi that's what matter).
But if he just turn all them one-time buyable without reworking this system will be a bit disappointing. Like, what the **** I'm supposed to do with nearly 2.500.000 gold so far(1.000.000 Bohai, 750.000 Zhong Zhi and the ludicrously high amount of money we can gather by ourselves)?
The thing is money jumps in value in every rework, It goes from the least important thing ever, you give tigress as much gold as possible and buying the dragon ALLL she wants, to becoming the most important thing for any mortal/trash run.
assuming you have He deal you would spend,
75000 OR 50000 depending on heavenly mantle or lotus garb,
20000 OR 15000 depending on if you buy wisdom amulet or Buddha pendant,
the biggest cost is rings with each costing 12500 each, if you buy 10 it would cost 125000
or in total spending around
220K gold or 440k if no he deal/ no haggler
and adding say medical reasons and pills we can round it 550k(110k pills and medicine which would never happen)
40 k talisman + 5000 bracelet + 60 k auction pills + captivating beauty
so the total becomes 705k
i won't lie it aint a small amount neither mechanically nor narrativly, (idk who to spell someone please help me the grammar correcter can't find the word)
750k is enough money to put an extremely positive dent on our clan's finances.BUT it is so very easy to make that much money even without BoBucks and money scams
you can earn (assuming you play semi optimally)
750 Wu heir stipend
1000 inner disciple stipend (idk core disciple stipend
100-200 raven's gang
1500 protector tax
2000 he deal (no reveal)
~5000 in teaching disciples (both active and passively combined, though you can easily push this into 4 k passively and 4 k active making a total of 8 k )
~500 from jing guo ( it is very variable so ill just go on the extreme low end (btw niki fixed going to the wine shop skipping time, i luv you )
~3 k in sect points from arena
which brings us to a whopping
13850 a turn and sure this isnt that much (it is a **** ton actually)
it would take around 51 turns to buy all we need
but here is the thing
we can scam people (and yknow actively choosing things that give us money)
so to begin
mo long bucks 20k
fire king mission 10k + 5 k if we scam the mortal
30k jing guo + 20k su de
3 k selling the apple
15k looting peng fai's mansion
100 k xiao chun
6k drinking competition
2 k first gambling 4k the second round of gambling
10 k rock gambling
~10k if we scam Fu bing (the guy in expo who holds the other qi stone/expo stone , i dont recall the exact number ill be honest)
5 k if we extort the twins in expo
2k jing guo drinking
15k abyssal lion
10 k first disciple scam plus 30 k to leave them behind / help them
5k ma rin mission
so the total compensation is
267k
705k - 267 = 438 k
438k /13850 = 32 turns
and i can assure you we have MORE than 32 turns POST expo
this is of course without he deal, with he deal you can cut the turns in half( though i did include it in the revenue calculation)
and this is could far more (bo bucks, he mei the snake's money, he bojing the big ol ding's money our mother's money)
so yeah, unless decided for the ultimate **** you, i think we should get another money sink
(ai costs 100k total, alot but not impossible)
ALSO CORRECT ME IF I MISSED ANYTHING ELSE