Quote Originally Posted by BG-57
I didn't think you could get more than 270 publicity points in Chapter 1, without resorting to spending credits.
1st thing: When you start a New Game Plus your PR score goes back to Zero (So does the "bride" score and you also lose all spherebreak coins you got). I know that for a fact.


Easy way to complete Bride & PR missions

The bride one is a cinch! The PR is a bit more trouble, as you need tons of gil

Buying your way into level 5 PR

You will probably not have a lot of gil in your first game but if you do you can do it on your first try. You can buy your way into level 5 even if you are still level 1 by chapter 5: With half a million gil you can go from 0 PR points to 400 PR points by loosing 80,000 credits on any of the games, provided you play them at the company you picked to advertise. Sky slots goes faster to loose: Up arrow 5 times to bet, X 3 times to play (and loose). Loosing 80,000 credis on level 5 would bring you to level 4 with 400 points. You need 460 PR points to get to level 5, and you can get 60 points by advertising, can't you ?

It is much easier to buy PR points on a second pass at the game as you inherit tons of gil from your first gameplay. You can start buying your points in level one: every 20 credits you loose in the games give you one point in PR. So if you want 100 points you only need to loose 2,000 credits. It is useless to try to buy a level higher than your chapter +1 (level 2 is the max you can achieve on chapter 1) but you can keep on buying points and they will still count when you reach the other chapters.

- Chapter 1: you need to loose 20 credits to get a PR point. But Sky slots only lets you bet 5 credits per turn so it goes slooooooow
- Chapter 2: you need to loose 50 credits to get a PR point. But now Sky slots lets you bet 25 credits per turn so it goes faster
- Chapter 3: Now 1 PR point costs 100 credits, i.e. you have to loose 10,000 credits to get a measly 100 PR points. And that costs 100,000 gil! So if you left all your PR buying to chapter 3 you have to spend 300,000 gill to get from zero to level 3 PR (300 points "bought" and some PR points earned advertising). The good news is that you probably high enough on your levels that can bet 50 per turn at this time.
- Chapter 4: You can't play sky slots or do PR
- Chapter 5: Now 1 PR point costs 200 credits, i.e. you have to loose 20,000 credits to get a measly 100 PR points. Which cost 200,000 gil!!! Sky slots lets you bet 125 credits per turn (I think)

The best strategy if your PR points are still low by chapter 5 (or if you changed companies mid stream) is to do some pretty good advertising AND spend some serious cash to get the 460 points you need to get PR level 5 and complete the mission.

Bride quest - Men marrying men ?

Did you know you can offer the bride to men too ? They will always answer with "strange, he doesn't seem interested" which gives you 2 points, a lot more than if you get a lady offended by your proposal.. Just do the Bride question to everyone you do the PR and you get over 50 points in no time!