Help with Time is Money achievement

Campaign Discussion
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Is it in the first 3 minutes of the mission? Can it be done at any time during the mission as long as it is within 3 minutes from the first resource pick up?? Any tips or advice on how to go along this is appreciated.

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Yeah, it’s the first three minutes of the mission (including the seconds wasted with Kerrigan).
I did it in several playthroughs:
1st – find out where the pickups are located to devise a plan on how to get them;
2nd – try the plan and analyse where it can be faster;
3rd – make it work!

For me this was:
0) start the viking training;

  1. send one marine to get the upper leftmost pickups;
  2. send one marine to get the bottom leftmost pickups and those below Artanis base;
  3. send two marines to get the pickups from below Zagara’s base (one aimed for the leftest ones and one for the top and rightest. The latter is a suicidal mission so prepare to cry over the brave marine);
  4. the first viking flies to get the bottom island pickups and then flies to get those on 2 o’clock. As the first viking exits the starport the second one is being trained;
  5. the second viking collects the pickups from the top island and then flies to get the hidden pickups from to the top of Raynor’s base.

I may have forgotten something but these were the key moments of my plan, and it worked nicely. The master achievement – that was the real pain of the mission!

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No kidding. All right I’ll give it a shot now. I tried vikings and land units running all over the map, land units and 1 or 2 medivacs. I even got reapers on my last try because they can get the 2 hidden beyond Zagara’s base hitting the eastern wall and escape with their lives!

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All right so I got it finally but I didn’t get the box to pop up. Confirmed in the Achievement menu though.

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Ditto. I kept thinking I didn’t get the achievement, but I looked in the achievement menu, and there it was.

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For future reference, the achievement “Time is Money” is a 10th Anniversary achievement in the mission “Essence of Eternity” of the Legacy of the Void campaign, more accurately the 2nd mission of the “Into the Void” epilogue mission.

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The stupidest achievement task I have ever faced in SC since WoL. Still trying but thanks for the advices

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Like a couple others mentioned, be sure to check the achievement after each run. It seems that the notification doesn’t pop up on the screen as soon as you get it.

I ran that mission over and over, probably 10 times, only to realize I had already gotten it.

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Thanks for reminding me Leviathan, I will check it this evening. Cheers man :wink: