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Investing is a charisma based skill that reduces the cost to invest in shops. Investment increases a shops rank, which increases the amount of gold the merchant carries as well as increasing the amount and quality of goods sold. In Elona+, there is also the option to spend more money at once to increase the shop's rank by exactly 50; this not only saves time, but is also cheaper in terms of gold per rank than investing the smaller amount of money over and over again.

The best shop to invest in is the magic shop in order to get more scrolls of change material, Blessed Restore Potions, potions of potential, flying scrolls...

An easy way to increase investing is to hire/fire cheap shopkeepers at your house and invest in them till shopkeeper rank 30-40. If you can't hire shopkeepers at your house, Food shop seems to be the cheapest to invest in.

According to the Japanese Elona:

Shop Amount of Goods (in size of pages) maxed at rank* Amount of Goods (in size of pages) Notable Items
Inn 0 1/2 page None
Fishing Store 0 1/2 page None
Food Store 50 1 page Herbs, Seeds, Fish
Baker 90 3/4 page None
Deed Salesman 100 1 page Easier to get Deeds you want
Magic Shop 100 2 pages Easiest way to gain the best scrolls and potions. Highly recommended
Souvenir shop 100 2 pages Treasure Maps and Potential Potions
Thief guild 100 2 pages Kitty Banks
Furniture Salesman 100 2 pages Godly furniture, gifts.
Firearms Salesman 100 2 pages Guns, BGM, and Computer Furniture
General vendor 2 pages Vindale Cloaks, ammo, furniture, gifts, ores.
Goods vendor 4 pages Equipment, scrolls, deeds, rods, food (seeds and herbs), furniture, gifts.
Armor Shops 120 4 pages Seven league boots and lightsabres.
SpellBook Writer 120 4 pages More books!
Black Market 4000-4500 24 pages (decreased to 1 1/2 pages in latest Elona+ versions) Amazing equipment. Highly Recommended

Quality of Goods would continue to improve after the listed max rank. The highest rank you can get without a overflow is 2147483647, however you would get a stable game crash when attempting to speak with the shopkeeper.

Pets[]

Pets in sight with Investing skill will help you and will train their skill too.

Trained skill[]

You may learn Investing from the trainers in Palmia, Port Kapul and Lumiest.

Races[]

Classes[]

  • None

Wishing[]

  • #investing may increase Investing by 1 level and train its potential, but may raise Greater Evasion instead.

Changes in Omake Overhaul[]

In Omake overhaul, investing in vendors have more pronounced effects, as follows:

Vendor Bonus notes
Blacksmith Quality of items sold, chance for rare items. Increases chance for rare items including seven league boots, lightsabre, kitchen knife, and skull bow to appear.

At 1000 shop rank, great quality goods will be frequently stocked. At 2000, rare items such as seven league boots will almost always be stocked and miracle quality items become a common sight.

General vendor Quality of mantle and ammo sold, and chances of rare items appearing. Also increases chance for rare items including Vindale cloak, monster balls, and sand bags to appear.

At 1000 shop rank, great quality mantles will be frequently stocked. At 2000, rare items such as Vindale cloak will almost always be stocked along with miracle quality mantles and ammo becoming a common sight.

Goods vendor Quality of items. At 1000 shop rank, great quality goods will be frequently stocked. At 2000, luxurious meals of highest quality will almost always be stocked along with miracle quality equipment such as mantles and ammo becoming a common sight.
Magic vendor Quality and rarity of items sold. Enhanced potions will start being stocked.

Increases chance for rare items including scroll of flying, scroll of inferior, potion of potential, and potion of evolution to appear.

At 500 shop rank, +20 potions becomes more commonly stocked. At 1000, rare items such as scroll of flying will almost always be stocked, along with miracle quality staves and long staffs becoming a common sight.

Blackmarket vendor Quality of items sold. At 10000 shop rank, great quality goods will be frequently stocked along with miracle quality items becoming a common sight.
Baker Rank of food along with number of lower ranked food sold. At 25 shop rank, flour and raw noodles will always be stocked. At 500, best meals available in all of Ylva will be served here.
Food vendor Quality and quantity of food, and chance for herbs sold At 25 shop rank, flour and raw noodles will always be stocked. At 500, best meals available in all of Ylva will be served here. At 2000, herbs being stocked on the shelves will become a common sight.
Traveling and guest merchants Quality of items sold. none
Shop of the crooked Quality of accessories and chance for speed rings sold. At 1000 shop rank, great quality goods will be frequently stocked. At 2000, speed rings will almost always be stocked and miracle quality items becomes a common sight.
Fence Stronger enhanced potions will start being sold. At 500 shop rank, +20 potions becomes more commonly stocked.

Technical Details[]

Note: This info applies to the latest version of Elona+. It may not match with figures from vanilla Elona.

The cost for investing in a shop can be expressed by the following formula:

Investing raises shop rank either 2 or 3 points with equal probability - an average of 2.5 ranks per invest. The "Invest 50" option is 20 times the result of the above formula.

The maximum invest cost before factoring invest skill is 500,000 gold, reached at shop rank 183. The minimum is 415 at shop ranks 1 or lower.

Invest 50 is far more gold efficient when the current shop rank is lower than 183 since all 20 invests are calculated using the current shop rank and the cost has not yet reached its cap.

Normal invest will be slightly more gold efficient after rank 182 due to skill gains occurring during the 20 invests rather than afterwards. In practice, single invests after rank 182 are less than 2% more efficient than invest 50.

Elona Mobile[]

In mobile, Invest is a Will-based skill.

Shops have an investment cap of 60 at first, it is raised by completing Town Achievements to 150 for most vendors and 375 for black market.

It is recommended that you invest in as many magic vendors as possible in the early in the game, so you have a source of several very useful items, like Pumpkin Comfort Potions to cure Pumpkin Nightmare quickly, potion of evolution, scrolls of flying, and magus scrolls.

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