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Tips:
Get and upgrade the mech mole as quickly and as often as possible. Fuel and drill are the next most important ones
Once the mole is completely upgraded, focus on getting at least one badge a day.
A good way to help with this is to hover just above the thicker strata level, giving you more time, allowing you to pick off the needed gems as you see fit.
The rewards are worth roughly 160000, so you need to end with a 140000 balance at least.
To get the 26000 depth reward, save three nitros until you're as deep as you can go (around 24000), then mash the keyboard.
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BIG TIP: If you fail to get what you want, just refresh the page when the game is on the score paper part to try that day again
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The hard badge is hard. You need $300,000 for the badge. With all trophies, that's $134,000 (+5,000 end fee). You can get $30,000 a day with max upgrades by collecting 31 large diamonds -- go horizontal at 2,000-2,500 feet, using boosts to fill the screen with more diamonds.
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HARD TROPHY TIPS: Always be digging deeper every round to collect a better depth $ bonus. Don't worry about pickups for the first 5 days. The first day upgrade choice is ALWAYS Drill Strength. Always find out WHY your round stopped and buy the appropriate upgrade (Fuel or Depth) depending on which one popped. You HAVE to get all trophies if you want a chance at the Big Boat. Never buy the mole unless you can upgrade it to level 2. ALWAYS leave cash for the next round, never "spend it all".
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For anyone who can't get the medium badge - at the end of the last week, if you've failed to collect 25 large diamonds you can refresh the page to play week 25 without having to start all over again.
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My only complaint is that it's too luck based. There needs to be treasure to even collect, particularly early on when you can't go far.
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The irony is that getting 25 big diamonds is the easiest trophy in its row, and the hard badge basically requires me to keep refreshing the page until I get all the others. It's frustrating, but at least there's a "Laugh" option on the menu!
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I'll have to add my two bits to the "try Motherload" comments. Not that this is a bad game, necessarily, but I like the freedom of exploration of Motherload vs. the timed constraints of MegaDrill.
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@lmaocetong - When the "." at the end of a badge description is a link, it is a link to the badge's namesake, which as far as I've seen is always a youtube video. i.e. the "i'm on a boat" badge links to the video for the song I'm On A Boat.
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I upgraded the fuel tanks first, and was at 300 feet pretty quickly. It's basically another game where the game writers didn't know how to spell certain words, and didn't bother to look them up in a dictionary.
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Total winnings $299,999... "Sorry sir you are 1 dollar off I cant sell you this boat" :) ... :I ... :l ... :o ... >:O ... :( ... ;(
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151000 at the end, and all I got was a small powered boat D:
Still, a great game, fun to replay and improve your score.
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NOOOO!!!!!! SO close on my first try..... 299,973 stupid government official lady took $27 too much.......... THAT JERK SHALL DIE!!!!
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know what this game needs? a link to kong so that I can open up kong in the middle of a game that i'm playing on kong
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Protip: If you're having trouble getting 25 big diamonds and your weeks are running out, keep track of how many you manage to collect on a particular week, and if it isn't enough, refresh the page when you run out of fuel. You'll be able to pick up where you left off without having to start over. Infinite retries! :D
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Did anybody else notice, by clicking the final period in the I'm on a boat achievement takes you to the Lonely Island I'm on a boat song?
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the key to getting the final ending is when you fully upgrade focus on the last few trophies and forget about the ones that give you little money. Just keep going to around 1800-2200 and collect the big and smalol diamonds. I at the end I earned close to 230,000 even before I was awarded any trophies.
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Tip: go as deep as possible in the first levels, instead of chasing loot; upgrade fuel, hull and nitro to support this. By turn 12 you should be having a Mole level 3 if possible, and start getting the good loot. It's best to aim getting the "Connoisseur" trophy first, before all the others.
Alas, the whole game lies in the loot chance you get in turns 1-5, because it greatly affects the way you develop.