How do you make big money

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Buy the treasure maps and hunt for the treasure. Depending on how much you're earning every 20 minutes, just leave Ezio in a safe place and do something else for an hour, then come back and empty the bank (or do some of the secondary memories - they're often short but bring it quite a bit of cash).

At the start of the game, you should've prioritised getting rid of the towers and captains and then renovating all the shops. When money is abundant then renovate the landmarks. The landmarks cost about 20,000 each. However, the shops cost about 2000 to open but bring in considerably more money compared to initial money you spent.

Another tip is there's not that much in terms of weapons than you need to buy; crossbow and a decent sword, and then armour as it becomes available.

With everything renovated you get about 20800 florins every 20 minutes (~70% from shops and the rest from landmarks and paintings) - as I recall.

Ways of making money:



* Treasure chests are plentiful in Rome, find them. The money amounts inside might be miniscule but it adds up.

* Loot like your life depended on it. You might have just killed 40 or so guards in a huge battle, and you may know that almost all of them will have crappy single digit values of coin in their pockets but don't let it discourage you from looting every single body.

* All over the game are items that you can reap from enemies and treasure chests (sometimes as a reward from quests). These items are usually desireable to the local shops and you can sell these items to the shops for exceptional profits. Be mindful when doing this that certain rare items (a sapphire being one of them I think) are required to complete shop quests (which unlock a few items you can't otherwise normally buy) and from what I've been told one or two of the rarer (more expensive items) are actually items in the game that do not 'spawn' randomly but rather are set to be found and once they have all been located, no more will appear anywhere else in game. Once an item is sold to a shop vendor, it cannot be bought back.

* Pickpocketing. This is tedious, you make very little. It also increases your wanted level which means you have to be on the look out for posters to clear it (as you're needing money, going to a Herald and briding isn't an option). As others have mentioned, when you've completed a certain set of Thief challenges, you can hire a band of thieves to pickpocket for you as you wander the streets (and your wanted level won't even budge).

* Chase Borgia messengers. They'll run in any direction away from you but if you catch them and loot their corpse, you can actually get rare expensive items which usually sell pretty well.

* If you get pickpocketed, catch the guy before he makes off with your money - if you catch and tackle him, you'll earn back a little more than you had to start with. You can kill him also but killing him tends to alert the guards where as if you tackle him but let him survive, no one will bat an eyelid.

* Shop Investment. Everyone mentioned it, but it is one of the biggest factors to making money in the game and if you want serious money to do everything without having to knick it and loot it, then you're ultimately going to have to make some sacrifices. When starting out in the investment side of things you need to be really savvy about what shops are going to be more beneficial to open. It's true that all the shops in AC:B are useful (Sewing shop has pouches, etc, Art has maps and locations of items) but the only real shops that you should invest in until you're really raking it in are the bank and the blacksmiths - this way you're always near somewhere to withdraw money, and always near somewhere to repair your items, which becomes a frequent neccessity until you obtain the better armor much later in the game. If you're the kind of person who requires lots of apothicary supplies, then also invest in doctors, but the wiser of us learned how to just kill and loot the bodies of otherwise useless military for their poisons, throwing knives and bullets ;)

* Free Supplies. While not a way to technically 'make' money, this is a method which basically consists of you avoiding spending your hard-earned Florins on supplies that you require to survive (medicine, poison, bullets, throwing knives, etc). The game is smattered with guards at every turn, and they respawn (especially at certain areas, like gates and restricted sectors) and to keep your supplies up, quickly take out a few guards and loot their bodies for the goods. Yes, it takes its time, and requires you to clear the area before you can find time to loot every body, but the difference between paying for your ammo and healing pouch refills and just simply taking the items from corpses can save thousands of florins.