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After creating your Para in Paralives, you’re probably ready to get stuck into creating your dream virtual life. Unfortunately, as in real life, living a luxurious lifestyle – or in fact, any lifestyle at all – requires knowing how to make money in Paralives. While you may start with a seemingly generous 30,000 Paradimes (the game’s currency), that nest egg is quickly depleted by property costs, bills, day-to-day living expenses, and the occasional little treats.
While making your Para get a job is the most straightforward way of earning a regular income, there are plenty of other ways to earn a bit of extra cash that utilize your Parafolk’s creative skills, luck, philanthropy, or neighborliness – or, if that sounds like too much work, you can always cheat to speed things up. Below, we’ve broken down our top tips for making more money in Paralives.
Get a job
Let’s start with the most obvious way to make money in both real life and Paralives: getting a job. Paras can look for jobs by selecting the ‘Find a job’ option when using a phone or computer, or by searching for job advertisements outside workplaces or in the daily newspaper. The job positions available change every day.
Job postings show the pay per day for each occupation and the requirements for that position, so even if a job looks well paid, you need to ensure your Para has the required number of application points needed to apply. Most likely, you’ll have to work your way up from the bottom, starting with a few hundred dollars per day.
However, by performing well at work, you can earn upgrade points that can be used to upgrade your job rank and therefore increase your salary and chance at applying for better positions. While there is the option to choose a work perk instead, from a random selection of cards, we recommend taking the job rank upgrade, as these perks often come at a cost. For example, one card offers you a 500 Paradime bonus, but there’s a 33% chance your Para will lose a random perk.
Complete Townie requests
Fulfilling Townie requests is a great way to make some extra money in Paralives. Scattered around the town are request boards featuring daily requests for Parafolk in town, which you can choose to accept or ignore. These tasks can also be picked up from Parafolk wandering around Town who have exclamation points over their heads.
Accepting a request adds it to your Goals menu, accessible from the left-hand live mode menu. By hovering over a task, you can see the rewards that completing it will grant you, which is typically around 100 Paradimes and a Friend relationship label card (granting you one Friendship level with the requester).
Complete all the listed objectives within the request and then find the Townie who made the request. Speak to them, choose the relevant Together card to hand in the completed request, and then claim your reward from the Goals menu. It’s worth picking up as many requests as possible and completing them as and when you can for extra cash, as these long-term goals have no time limit.
Pull the right Story Cards
This method is mostly down to luck, and just how lucky you are will depend on which Storyteller you have activated. Each night, your Storyteller will offer you one Story Card, which directly affects a Parafolk by offering them bonuses, temporary buffs, new life goals, and more.
Occasionally, these Story Cards will offer a monetary bonus or free item (like a computer) that you can sell for more money. We’ve found that Story Card books themed around work are worth opening, as you have the chance to get a work bonus card that can net you a tidy sum.
However, this is the riskiest method to make money in Paralives, and we advise using Stella the dog as your Storyteller for the kindest card draws.
Donate collectibles to the museum
Feeling adventurous and/or philanthropic? Making donations to the town museum can help you make some extra cash. The museum will accept donations (select the box beside the front door) of various artifacts, gems, and mushroom species you find in the world, and will reward you for every five items you donate. Sometimes that reward is a gift like a laptop, and other times it's a tidy little sum of Paradimes. The more you donate, the better the rewards.
The catch is that you can only donate an item once, so if you donate a Quartz, you cannot donate a Quartz again. This means that, as time goes on, gaining rewards through donations becomes more difficult as you try to find rarer artifacts, gems, and mushrooms that you’ve not already donated. In some cases, you can donate duplicate items to the community center, which offers rewards for fulfilling donation bundles, but this can often cost you more money than it saves. So, if you have duplicates, we advise selling them – though not every collectible will earn you extra dough.
Sell paintings
It pays to level up your Para’s Painting skill, because you can sell finished paintings for a good chunk of change – so you’ll soon pay off the price of the easel and materials.
Para’s begin with the ability to paint small, illustrative, studies, and abstract paintings, which sell for less than 50 Paradimes each. As their Painting skill increases, more styles and sizes become available, which you can sell for even larger sums of money, from a few hundred upwards. Though the cost of the materials also rises, the profit is well worth it.
Use money cheats
If all that sounds like simply too much work, you could always cheat your way to riches. Paralives cheats are the easiest way to make Paradimes quick, with various money cheat commands available to instantly increase your household funds. One that’s worth remembering, for those after a quick and painless injection of cash, is “jackpot,” which adds 50,000 Paradimes to your funds. Who needs a silly job anyway?
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