Folks, I've discovered a way of getting infinite money in Chapter one in Flotsam. Just keep arm wrestling Big Max for 30 Orens each. He's EASY to beat and NEVER RUNS OUT OF MONEY!! Yea!!! I'm purchasing lots of cool receipies, diagrams and stuff this way.

30 orens only? fail.

I dislike how they limit the amount of orens you can plop down as a single bet for pretty much anything. Then again my W1 import gave me with like 5k.

You might as well arm wrestle Bartholomew Barge for 200 orens a pop if you wanna do it this way.

edit: i guess i should add, you arm wrestle him, wait for him to walk away then talk to him again and you trigger the arm wrestling option again and you get 20xp each time also.

You don't even need that many Orens in Act 1 and yeah 30 orens is extremely small. I farmed like 5k from Adam Pangratt in Act 2 in like 20 minutes.

Wasn't that fixed in patch 1.2?

no. i can still do it.

As soldiergeralt said, you can still do it after patch 1.2

Its not 30 Orens you get .

You bet 30 Orens but you get double each time.

The most important thing its ultimate xp in Act 1. Big Max is easy to beat, and Bartholomew is not that easy.

Beating Big Max - 60 Orens and 10 xp

Beating Bartholomew Barge - 200 orens aand 20 xp

i thought they were all not really difficult, except of course mighty numa on steroids.
has anyone beaten him while he's on steroids or is it just plain impossible??

You are absolutely correct. I should have said 60 Orens each time. And yes, I also gained a level while getting money at the same time. The extra talent came in handy in the final scene of act 1. :D. I 've barely gotten to act 2. didn't get there yet and I wanted to get as many diagrams as I could buy before the next act...just in case. I could not find a diagram for Robust Cloth anywhere (*sob*) but I could get diagrams for just about everything else that doesn't grow organically..

Robust Cloth is made with the Solid Cloth diagram. Localization issues...

I've beaten him on steroids (without taking any myself) it's ridiculously difficult and took me something like 40 attempts. I can safely say, unless you simply want the satisfaction of achieving it, it's not really worth doing! There's no additional bonus and in fact the game doesn't even acknowledge you did it - you even get the same journal message (which implies I stopped him using steroids).

interesting. i guess you're not supposed to beat him without steroids.

Ah....that would trnaslated into BUG!! CD Projekt folks, observe...BUG...please fix. Thanks for your brilliant obsertation. I assumed if it didn't match exactly it wouldn't work...