Overview
How the water tester can make you a quick $5000
What you need.
The first thing you need to do is make it to the DMC. After starting the game head strait there. Scavange as you go. keeping high value items for seed money once you get there(wisky is my favorite becasue you can keep the bottle after you sell it)
When you get there you are going to need the following:
- Water tester
- AA Batteries(2 are better then 1)
- Empty Bottles
- A water source
Bonus items:
- Spare batteries to hold more charges
- A vehicle to hall the water in
- All Plastic bottles to help keep the weight down(I have burdened a strong Character)
- A water source within 5 spaces(1 turn) of the DMC store(2 spaces if you are super lucky)
“So I know now I just start testing water and making money right”
Slow down there or you are going to waste some of that tester on useless infected water. We first need to pre-test our water in the inventory screen.
Pre-Testing
How pretesting works is that infected and sterile water CAN’T stack. If you try and stack a known sterile or infected water with a none identified water drop and it swaps places instead of stacking then you have the other type of water. This allows you to Pre-test and in the end destroy all infected water before testing with the water tester itself.
“Oh God this is going to take FOREVER if I have to pre-test every drop of water”
Good point. Come closer children and let me show you a little trick.
-Once you have 10 drops(5 stacks of 2) of clean water through pre-testing arrange the ground section of the inventory screen so that they take up the first line as 10 single stacks.
-Then place a marker item below that so you know where the pre-tested water ends(pre-tested water is still just marked “water” and can get mixed up with none pre-tested water easily)
-Now “use” your water source to draw more water from the well.
-Clean water will fill in with the Pre-Tested water and dirty water will be added after your marker item.
-Continue to use the Source water until all you single stacks are doubles. This allows for auto Pre-testing of the water as it comes out of the source.
You can repeat the above process to get as many single stacks of water as you want. I like to go with 40 single stacks as it allows me to pre-test a full battery charge for the meter in one shot.
In Closing
This method allows you to make 40 drops(20 bottles) of sterile water in 0.4 of a move. To boil that much water would take 8 moves (1.6 turns). The only real problem with that speed is that the dang store gets full. 😛
Have fun with all the money you are making.(I average about $600 a day)
- Empty the bottles out rather than selling them
- Being close to the shop helps speed things up. if you are lucky you can get there and back in one turn
- try and get a camp on the south side of the DMC as there are less looters there.
- Leave some sterile water outside of your camp. Looters tend to take that and run, leaving your good stuff alone.
- try and make sure you water source is not in a forest. it limits your actions early in the morning.
- You will run out of room in the junk shop every day. Spend the extra time scaving the area around the DMC as the guards tend to kill looters and leave the stuff behind.