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TOPIC | EF vs notes
The conversion rate for EF to notes is, at its lowest, 1:400. Is it just me, or is it way easier to get 1 EF than 400 notes?? IDK but I'm always struggling to get above 200n, meanwhile Adventuring with low-level cats always gets me 2-3 EF per run . . . is anyone else struggling to get good deals on the Open Marketplace because of this? It just seems like 2 EF for catmint tea is a better deal than 500n for me.
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i feel the opposite way lol, 1 ef in itself isn't hard to get but eventually it adds up, and ef is just objectively harder to get than notes. i don't mind spending bigger amounts of notes because i can easily get them back, and to me 400/500n isn't that much to spend at all bc i can make that amount back if i go on an adventure or two, or even just sell one cat without grinding
i feel like at some point you reach a specific point where you've aquired a lot of notes and have gotten MOST things you wanted, so spending like 5k in one sitting isn't that bad because you can get that amount back in a week or less. meanwhile with ef the most efficient way to get a bigger amount is from level up packs, which takes more effort. i train up 2 cats for packs and then city them, and at the end of the day only get 6 ef
so yeah personally im more willing to spend notes than ef bc i know i can get them back easily and in a shorter time
i feel like at some point you reach a specific point where you've aquired a lot of notes and have gotten MOST things you wanted, so spending like 5k in one sitting isn't that bad because you can get that amount back in a week or less. meanwhile with ef the most efficient way to get a bigger amount is from level up packs, which takes more effort. i train up 2 cats for packs and then city them, and at the end of the day only get 6 ef
so yeah personally im more willing to spend notes than ef bc i know i can get them back easily and in a shorter time
jellyjam said
i feel the opposite way lol, 1 ef in itself isn't hard to get, but eventually it adds up and ef is just objectively harder to get than notes. i don't mind spending bigger amounts of notes because i can easily get them back, and to me 400/500n isn't that much to spend at all bc i can make that amount back if i go on an adventure or two, or even just sell one cat without grindingi feel like at some point you reach a specific point where you've aquired a lot of notes and have gotten MOST things you wanted, so spending like 5k in one sitting isn't that bad because you can get that amount back in a week or less. meanwhile with ef the most efficient way to get a bigger amount is from level up packs, which takes more effort. i train up 2 cats for packs and then city them, and at the end of the day only get 6 ef
so yeah personally im more willing to spend notes than ef bc i know i can get them back easily and in a shorter time
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Agreed! If you have good RNG in one adventuring session, 200n is pretty easy to get
i'd agree that notes are much easier to get than ef. i mean, i am selling high value items like nestor exclusives and rare cats, but even excluding those i get several hundreds notes a day from just a few adventures through extra decor, clothing, collectables, and trinkets, not including level-up packs. selling a business card is super lucrative too, getting thousands of notes every ~8 runs if your luck is around average. meanwhile, i struggle to get large amounts of ef (30-50, which is what you would typically need for a piece of custom clothing) because i only get 0-4 ef a day, depending on what level the cats i'm adventuring with are and depending on how much i can adventure.
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cat salesHow are you people doing this?! I haven't gotten a single business card from adventuring, and decor/collectibles/clothing comes by at 5 per adventure (125n).
KalynaAnne
Huerta
@Blueberries If you haven't found it, Quick Sales under Markets and Trades is your friend for getting notes! If you've been doing a bunch of adventuring , I would guess that you likely have collectables and decor from the woods piling up in your inventory. In Quick Sales Brian will buy any you don't want to hold onto for 25 notes each (which adds up in a hurry).
Blueberries said
How are you people doing this?! I haven't gotten a single business card from adventuring, and decor/collectibles/clothing comes by at 5 per adventure (125n).depends on how much u adventure but quickselling duplicate collectibles/decor/clothing etc gets u around 150-300 (or more) per adventure depending on how lucky you are. eventually it adds up, n you can get 1k in just a few adventures :)
and of course you can also just sell items and cats on the open marketplace, the floor price for cats is usually at 400n so u can just sell any average cat u don't want
KalynaAnne
Huerta
Which path do you take? I usually go cliffs and the forest hounds are my best source of collectables. I don't go check after every adventure, but I accumulate at least twice as many smashed electrical devices as anything else on average. (Not sure if they drop them at a higher rate or if there are just that many forest hounds)
KalynaAnne said
Which path do you take? I usually go cliffs and the forest hounds are my best source of collectables. I don't go check after every adventure, but I accumulate at least twice as many smashed electrical devices as anything else on average. (Not sure if they drop them at a higher rate or if there are just that many forest hounds)I go stream because the fairies drop pretty high, but I'm definitely not reaching the 1kn every 3-4 adventures that other people seem to be getting
meanwhile leveling up cats gets me easily 2-3 EF per adventure . . .KalynaAnne
Huerta
I think for me part of the difference is that I've been playing for longer. The stream of notes is mostly steady because it doesn't depend on leveling cats up, but every adult cat (except the one Nestor gave me yesterday) in my village is already level 4 (and every traveling cat is at least level 3, most are 4), so I'm definitely not getting 2-3 EF leveling cats every adventure these days XD
To level a cat from 1-4 I find it usually takes 1 adventure to get to level 2, 2 more to get to level 3 and then 4 to get to level 4 (though on a few lucky occasions where I was a training a cat with good stats that could pass pretty much every roll and I also got several chests worth of xp bonus I've managed to get them to level 4 in 6 total adventures)
I should try actually keeping track of the drops I get for a few adventures...
To level a cat from 1-4 I find it usually takes 1 adventure to get to level 2, 2 more to get to level 3 and then 4 to get to level 4 (though on a few lucky occasions where I was a training a cat with good stats that could pass pretty much every roll and I also got several chests worth of xp bonus I've managed to get them to level 4 in 6 total adventures)
I should try actually keeping track of the drops I get for a few adventures...
