Most people use the island, but i only got that today (6 days in) early game tips that i used to make money:
- shake tree's, honey bee drops and you can avoid the bee's by walking into a house (but if they sting you so be it) they sell for 500 at re-sale each.
- Visit other people's towns and exchange fruit and sell fruit at higher price
- Collect shells on beach, if you're lucky you can get 3000, save and quit, load back up and bam, shells are there again. Rinse, repeat.
- Those wide green butterflies (raja b or w/e) sell for alot, if you see those. Snag em.
- Talk to all the villiages, sometimes they give you quests and items, item you dont need = sell.
- Hit all rocks with shovel, they can drop nuggets OR it will drop a coin, keep hitting it if it drops a coin (like a mario ? box) it will keep dropping money that gets bigger the more times you hit it, if you pause between hits then you miss the chance, its possible to get around 10k if you hit it everytime.
- Fish. xD
- If you need a fishing rod or Net, i have both in my re-sale atm. Just give me a reply and ill open gate for you to buy em (500 each)