Borderlands
80 Achievements
1,750
71-89h
Pandora-dog Millionaire
Earned $1,000,000
50
How to unlock the Pandora-dog Millionaire achievement in Borderlands - Definitive Guide
The fastest way to get money is to always check mailboxes, cartons, anything with a green light on it. also enemies drop a lot of money. to simplify picking up items hold X to pick up all items with in range.
*UPDATE*
Now that the game has been out for more than a year there are much easier ways to get this achievement for example most new weapons are worth 9,999,999. Join anyones game and a 1,000,000+ weapon should drop soon enough, join a friend, have someone duplicate their weapons for you.
My pandora dog millionare glitched and I was ticked until I just went splitscreen with a second controller and gamer profile. Transferred 1 million in items to it and saved. Then created a new character under the gamertag I wanted the achievement for and splitscreen again and transferred the 1 million in items to that new clean character. Played off xboxlive by myself and sold the 20 extra junk items I had for a million and the achievement went off. Took about 10-15 mins. Better than another play through....
When leveling the character, place points into your Hawk's skills...Notably Swipe, Ransack, and Bird of Prey. Everything else is up to you, but I'd suggest your other skill points be placed into skills allowing you to throw your hawk more frequently.
Lastly, I highly suggest finding a class mod with + to the skills "Team Scavenge", "Swipe", "Ransack", and "Out for Blood". It'll make mobs drop even more items, and make killing said mobs much simpler. Giving your hawk a high-level artifact when available is also recommended (Corrosion(Acid Wing) or Explosive(Explosive Wing) are my suggestions).
If you continue to use your hawk in this manner, maximizing the number of drops per mob, you'll accumulate the million dollars needed in very little time. Likely time to completion, level 30.
Also, joining groups online of 3 other players will increase the value of item drops. You'll get a smaller chunk of cash, but it may be worthwhile to try this since guns' values dwarf dropped cash amounts. While in groups, have any Sirens equip cool-down reducing class mods.
Just keep at it, and hopefully Valve will fix the glitch, or this time around you'll luck out with an un-glitched achievement.
***Note*** This method is far-faster than searching lock boxes for cash. It almost makes the "normal" method seem like a waste of time as each mob will be easily dropping 4-5 piles of cash and notable amounts of ammunition.
A list of all the New Haven weapon crates can be found here:
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/New_Haven:_Weapon_Crate_Lo...
If you dont have such a friend it will just take time im sorry, you will just have to wait.
You can still spend all your cash, it is accumulative. Just play through the game, collecting and selling weapons as you please.
If you don't recieve it in P1, then playthrough 2 will definetly supply enough high-end guns for it.
Also, do the claptrap side quests. More space - More guns to sell.
Thereafter the way I got this was to find all the claptraps to increase your backpack size and then pick up and sell all weapons and shields you get from dead enemies.
The best place I found to accumulate this was in Old Haven. Most of the shock troops drop shields and weapons, and you can easily rack up 100,000 credits in about 30 mins.
This should come naturally as you progress through the first playthrough. Simply collect and sell dropped loot as you complete the main storyline. If you do not have it by the end of the first playthrough, some weapons/class-mods during the second playthrough will sell for around $100,000+. This is cumulative, so you don't have to have it all at once. Progress can be tracked in the challenges menu.
The most active way to getting money is to pick it up everywhere you go (lockers, piles, etc.). Additionally, selling all items (the higher the quality, the more it will sell for) is a good idea as well. This will come naturally as you play through the game so I would not worry if you do not pick up everything along the way all the time. It should unlock by the time you finish Playthrough 1.
Happy Hunting :)
This should come naturally as you progress through the first playthrough. Simply collect and sell dropped loot as you complete the main storyline. If you do not have it by the end of the first playthrough, some weapons/class-mods during the second playthrough will sell for around $100,000+. This is cumulative, so you don't have to have it all at once. Progress can be tracked in the challenges menu.
You can see how much money you have collected in the quest menu by pressing triangle