The Perfect Employee achievement

Why the bill is not one number

Buying every card is the condition. Paying for them is the puzzle, and the public bill is messy. SunderedShadow estimates about 530 gears. A sum of the prices printed on canemall.site lands near 545 and still has no price for Starting Cash I. A player comment under the Spanish 100 percent guide says 567. Another comment says about 570 and tells you to hold 600. I keep all four next to the achievement because collapsing them would invent a fifth.

The cards themselves are on the permanent upgrades page: four Brute Force tiers, four Profit Boost tiers, the cash-start trio with the first price missing, Cold Storage at 100 gears, and the late combat cards. Cold Storage is the one guides buy on the first sale, because unsold cans otherwise disappear.

Sales, children, and order

Gears come from selling the factory. The first sale is also the achievement A Fresh Start. Each sale deletes machines, weapons, and the children-fed counter. World's Greatest Humanitarian is 100,000 children. If you sell first, you start that counter again. I would feed the 100,000 before sale number one, then sell, buy Cold Storage and the cheap cards, and repeat until the set is complete.

Nothing in the achievement text asks for the Freedom ending. Freedom at Last was 41.1 percent in the same Steam API snapshot, almost the same rate, and it is a cash purchase of $666,666,666 on the skill tree. Players who want both still need the casino mail and the sale mail accepted before they buy that ending, or Tanya's route says those letters can stop. The Perfect Employee itself does not depend on leaving the building.

Shiny Shipment, Luxury Cans, and Lucky Hits have fuzzier effect lines than the damage tiers. I do not need those effect debates to tell you the card must be owned. The achievement checks ownership, not your understanding of the tooltip.

Related

• Permanent upgrades
• Sell factory
• All achievements