This is because he’s impatient and stupid: he doesn’t realize that the best subjects for the Photography Skill are foreign, though there are more subjects for Photography domestically. Pyro makes his purchases, then heads all the home to Pyroville. Part of the reason is practical, which we’ll get to in a moment. Photography is the opposite: you’ll see the fastest initial gains and the most money by just reading about it first. For example, Martial Arts and Painting are best taught just smacking a training dummy and painting a picture respectively rather than reading about it. Now, some skills are best taught using the associated action.

He also runs over to the Egyptian bookstore nearby and buys a book to teach the Photography Skill. All in all, it’s a poor choice… which is fine, because the Falkons have nearly $200,000 in the bank, so Pyro just goes ahead and buys the best camera. Further, the cheapest camera really is cheap: it can’t do much but take pictures, and the frame size is pretty small, just a hair bigger than your cell phone. However, better pictures lead to bigger skill gains, and of course the best pictures come from the best camera. All three countries always sell the cheapest camera, which is basically a disposable one. Pyro lucks out here, as all three camera types are available. If the cameras don’t appear in the general goods merchant’s inventory, wait until the next day: their stock tends to change daily (and the relics merchants always get new stuff every day), and you may get lucky. Since we’ve patched, it seems that the better types of cameras are only available at Egypt… and not always. Now, before we go further, an aside: prior to the first patch for World Adventures, all three types of cameras were available randomly in all three countries. There, he hits up the general goods merchant, who is selling three types of cameras. Pyro decides he’s had enough of writing for a bit, and books a flight to Egypt.

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