Press Pass is the final special of a TV network, when you use it, you receive "Special Privileges".
This specials costs 25 job points and gives you 1 of 14 different prizes ranging from 10 boxes to tissues to 0.25% increase in a single stat (Usually referred to as a mini SE).
This a list of possible outcomes of the press pass specials are:
- +Crime XP
- +300 Energy
- Business Class Ticket
- +250 to a random working stat
- +0.5 Racing Skill
- Erotic DVD
- +10m max Duke loan (In my case it was 40m)
- +25 nerve
- Lawyers Business Card
- +100 casino tokens
- 10 boxes of tissues
- +0.25% to a random fighting stat.
- Happiness boost (+2500 happy)
- List of items to be found in city (does not generate new ones)
Q: Do you think its worth it? Should you gather job points and use them? Or is the special worthless and just a waste of time.
A: In my opinion, its not worth it unless you have a shit load of job points laying around that you forgot about, like in my case, I found over 3500 job points laying around begging to be used.
Q: Why isn't it worth it?
A: Joining a 10 star TV network is no easy feat. You're even lucky to find one which is hiring, it took me around 10 days to get into one and I have over 520k total working stats. If you're looking to make extra cash at a slow pace, i would say go for it, if you are in it for the stats, its a 1:14 chance every 2.5 days.
Q: Why isn't it worth it if I can get huge stat gains (0.25%) which is a quarter of a stat enhancer (SE cost is 450m)
A: 1:14 probability is almost a 7.1% chance, if you got the luck for it, and wanting to have decent stat gains, do it.
Here is a list or all the rewards I got by using all my 3500+ job points.
- You received a Lawyer Business Card. x13
- You received an Erotic DVD. x4
- Your credit score with the loan shark has been increased. (40m) x13
- You gained 3,829,424.3980 Defense.
- You gained 3,846,797.1207 Defense.
- You gained 3,863,930.5465 Defense.
- You gained 3,883,274.3488 Defense.
- You gained 3,892,982.5346 Defense.
- You gained 3,873,590.3728 Defense.
- You gained 2,820,022.4991 Dexterity.
- You gained 2,827,072.5553 Dexterity.
- You gained 6,375,047.0817 Strength.
- You gained 6,390,984.6994 Strength.
- You gained 5,127,531.9135 Speed.
- Your Racing Level increased by 0.5. x8
- You gained 300 Energy. x8
- You received 10x Box of Tissues. x11
- You gained 25 Nerve. x11
- You received a Business Class Ticket. x10
- You gained some Crime Experience. x14
- You received 100 Casino Tokens. x15
- You gained 250 Endurance. x4
- You gained 250 Intelligence. x2
- You gained 250 Manual Labor.
- You gained 2,500 Happiness x10
- List of items to be found in city (does not generate new ones) x7
Some basic calculations:
These calculations are based on my gains based my my total stats but the percentages don't differ.
10 job points a day needs 355 days to get.
Battle Stat gains:
- Defense: 23,189,999.3214 (65,323.94 extra def a day = 20 energy)
- Dexterity: 5,647,095.0544 (15,907.31 extra dex a day = 5 energy)
- Strength: 12,766,031.7811 (35,960.65 extra str a day = 10 energy)
- Speed: 5,127,531.9135 (14,443.75 extra speed day = 4 energy)
P.S: Energy values are approximated and not the exact value.
Stat gains are usually exponential over time and not constant, so the values will vary a bit if I tried this step by step and not all at once, but the general idea is there.
Working Stats Gain:
- Endurance: 1000 (2.8 gain a day)
- Intelligence: 500 (1.4 gain a day)
- Manual Labor: 250 (0.7 gain a day)
Items and stats to cost:
- Lawyer business Cards: $18,200,000
- Erotic DVDs: $15,000,000
- Box of tissues: $6,600
- Business Class Ticket: $99,000,000
- 11 stats gain = 2.75 SEs = $1,237,500,000
Total: 1,369,706,000 = $3,858,326 a day.
Energy to cans to cash value:
- 300E x 8 = 2400 Energy
If you are in a 10 star TV network you are most probably in a good faction too (Saying you are active daily)
On warring specials: Can of Xmas can give up to 45 energy so 2400/45= 53.333 cans = 213.3m = $600,000 per day
Nerve to beer to cash value:
- 25 nerve x 11 = 275 nerve = 275 beers = $412,500 = $1162 a day
Happy to cash value:
- 2500 happy x 10 = 25000 happy = 10 Edvds= $37,500,000 = $105,633 a day
Casino Tokens to cash value:
- 1500 casino token = 20 refills = 500 points = $23,000,000 = $64,788 a day
Overall:
- Cash value: 3,858,326+600,000+1162+105,633+64,788 = $4,629,909 cash value a day
- Energy value: 39 energy a day
Is press pass worth it?
Yes if you're not too active
No, if you're active and you can gain better gains from other companies
"These calculations are only viable for the long runs so don't expect getting the average of these results with 200 job points, its "Luck" Afterall"
Thank you for reading this, please if I missed something I would appreciate it if you could point it out
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TBH this is what I'm most happy about, if you ever got close or had a huge amount, post in here :D