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Finally got the hard badge! If anyone is wondering about the dollar amounts assigned for the trophies, here are the totals for each category. Collect Trophies (top row) = $102,000 / Depth Trophies (bottom row) = $64000. I think the two biggest depth trophies, along with the big/small diamond collect trophies, are pretty important for pushing your total up. FYI: I got the badge w/ $309k post-tax, and I had all of the trophies.
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Ending 5. Ignore collectors trophies focus upgrades (primarily drill, hull, fuel) getting as deep as you can to the big diamonds, an occasional nitro, steering and radar upgrade will help you along the way. With 7 weeks, hopefully sooner, you should have maxed everything except maybe steering, so get down to around 2000 feet right along the final change in earth density then strafe laterally and farm those diamonds with the mech mole for the final weeks. You should make at least 30k per dive and the connoisseur badge while you're at it. Save your nitros while you dig, try to keep vertical dodging the occasional rock. Constantly send out the mole, prioritize the highest value treasure in the area or send it along a line that hits multiple caches. Good luck!
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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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Fun game and a true "hard" badge. It's odd for the trophies to be worth money at the end but not during the game but it works mechanically. I love the salesman laughing at me if I don't have enough money.
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finished less then $4000 short of the 300k!!!! and on my last run i could have gotten more money but was going for the 2600 depth and missed it :(
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When you get to the point where you level off to hunt for giant diamonds, it's helpful to go left. Your instruments block a bit of your view on the right side of the screen (but on the left side be careful not to click the Kongregate logo - it'll open another tab/window)
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When I used a nitro bottle when I was right about to run out of fuel, it made me run out of fuel twice, using up 2 days to get double the money for my current day. This only happened to me once, so did anyone else encounter this?
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That feeling when on the last day you were 1 diamond short of the 25k statue but you end up being 20k short on cash for 300k ending...
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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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I know it seems really hard but after playing for a while you get the hang of it and you can figured out how to prioritize which upgrades you need to upgrade faster and in what order. I was about to complete it at week 7. (Then again this was after two hours of gameplay.)
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meh, grindy games aren't worth badges. if you don't get the badge your first time through there is very little desire to replay it.
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Some hints for the badge: Focus on fuel, drill and hull and a bit radar in the beginning. Get the mole 2 as soon as you can. Mole 3/4 can destroy small/large rocks blocking your way. Don't waste nitro in upper areas. If you become too slow, stay higher and go horizontally. You can reach 2600ft (trophy) by using nitro at 2500ft. Good luck!
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Hmm. This all seems very familiar...
http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/e/e6/WarioLandBoxArt.jpg/250px-WarioLandBoxArt.jpg
Not that I'm complaining.
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There should be a sandbox mode. Even with all of the upgrades I can only get to 20 large diamonds. The spawn rate needs to be increased.
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its annoying that you much collect 25 big diamonds in one dig of the 25 days. it doesnt add the ones you collect onto previous ones just the amount you just gotten