How to survive Pipstycoon when just starting out

This is a guide to help people who are just starting out playing PipsTycoon and want to learn to play for a while before making a decision about investing in the game.

If you are like most of us who recently started playing PipsTycoon you probably want to play the game for a while in order to see if it is worth making an investment. However, you may have found it difficult to scrape by during the first couple of weeks as you have tried to get familiar with the mechanics of the game. I wanted to write an article to share with you all some tips on how you can make ends meet for as long as you need to in order to make a decision about investing in the game. 

Your first day you probably push the “work” button and you received a small salary for your days’ work. Once you saw the amount of money you made and you started multiplying it by a month or two you begin to think of all the money you would be able to earn once your experience raised a little. Then comes day two and to your surprise you needed a specific amount of energy in order to work your second day. This means spending some of the money you made on the first day which wasn’t all that much and now you realize it is going to be difficult to make ends meet. 

PipsTycoon is not just giving out money for free, there needs to be a give and take which is why they require you to invest back into the game by buying energy. When you click on “work” it will tell you how much energy you need in order to work that day. So in order to gain energy you simply buy clothes, food, etc. in order to reach the level of energy the game has mentioned. 

The problem is that over time you will find that you are not making enough money to buy the energy you need every day, this is because wages are very low right now and prices for energy are fairly expensive. There are a couple ways to make ends meet. 

The first way though not the best way is to simply work every other day. When you miss a day of work the game calculates that you didn’t make any money the day before and so they decrease the amount of energy you need to work. Since there is no work bonus at the moment, you won’t be losing out by not working consecutive days. This does hurt your experience however so it is obviously not the ideal, but when you are out of money and can’t buy enough energy for that day it is the only option. 

The second way to keep afloat is to strategize when you buy your energy. Since we all live in different time zones I can’t tell you exactly when to buy but the game starts a new day at the same time every day. At that time you can work again even if you just worked a couple hours earlier, this means that if you buy a piece of clothes for instance just 2 hours after the game’s new day starts it will last for 24 hours. The clothes do not expire at the end of the next day but exactly 24 hours from when you bought it. This means that the following day if you buy another piece of clothes before your first pair expires you can work with twice as much energy because you are using the clothes you had used the day before. Using this method you will be able to use each item twice before it expires which will save you money. 

Lastly you can write articles. This will help you get that extra money that you need to be able to buy another piece of clothes etc. That is what I hear at least. 

Hope that these tips help you all as you start your journey playing PipsTycoon.

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