Companions. Do not underestimate the amount of pebbles a companion can give, even just using Nana's play all. I consistently get 20k pebbles for paying only like 8k pebbles. ON top of that, they can also give you useful stuff, or more stuff to sell.

second Synesthesia, companions are how I make my money. use the 450p ones and you always make a profit. As far as I've seen rarity doesn't effect how many pebbles you make per hour so you can easily pick the bonding times that work best for you.

(the orange rarity companions make the same amount has the gray per hour based on my findings, same with the other rarities)

Yes, companions are huge money makers. I've been collecting as many epic and rare ones that I come across and that my resources allow. The ones in the MM might seem expensive initially, but they pay for themselves over time. Currently I'm making 21k-35kish pebbles per 6hr playtime through Nana, and that's minus the fee and I've only started really collecting them like 1-2 weeks ago. I've set myself goals like collecting enough Kapros and Rockbreaker Ox to one day bring in 100kp per 6hr play time and it keeps me motivated ^^

On top of that I recommend combining tasks when you do things like exploring. If you explore in the campaign for something like finding WWs, Rockbreaker Ox, Kapros, lvl up companions, etc. use that time to lvl up fodder as well. Even if it's only for one extra wolf and you don't get to lvl 10 before releasing it, it's still those extra pebbles that add up really fast. On top of that, selling the trinkets from that same run can bring in thousands/hundreds of thousands of pebbles depending on how long you go far and what you bring in. All of that adds up really fast.

Also, things like swords, armor pieces, stacks of food, metal bars all sell in the FM. I only started selling about a week ago and it's brought in hundreds of thousands of pebbles.

Edit: There's a lot of other companions that bring in decent pebbles too, but the ones I mentioned are the main ones I've been focusing on.

Grougers are good because they provide that sweet sweet luck pysnergy for hunts. It takes a bit to get your pebbles back from buying them, but they work for you. I also like the Brothers Tavon and Perth for the same reason, but for the healing pysnergy. Furmus aren't bad to invest in either. Kapura's are good to start with since you'll get back what you make off them quickly enough.

I thought initially it was clever of the developers to open up custom apparel to the user base. That drove a fair part of the Moonstone economy, let's be honest, although lately it has mostly been the same custom apparel artists trading the same stack of moonstones back and forth as they buy each other's apparel, lol. However with the drop in active players I think even Moonstone apparel sales have gone down lately. Depending on Independent Artists within your player base to drive your income by buying custom apparel tokens with moonstones and then other players buying moonstones in order to buy the apparel, is not sustainable as an income stream if you don't have new players coming in and you don't have ways for players to earn currency in the game to trade.

I recommend buying the furlong deer, both of the kapuras and the common basido when you see them. they all only cost 450p each and make up their purchase price within 1-3 bonding sessions.

I really hate grinding so being able to make a passive 10kp an hour in profit is pretty good with me (this is not including the random drops the companions and give you, that adds atleast an additional 10kp a day to my profits)(If i manually bond my wolves I can get 20kp/h but i really can't be bothered with that)

edit to add:

the value of the companion doesnt effect pebble payout, only rarity(same amount of pebbles per hour, just less bonding presses the higher the rarity), so you want to buy the cheapest companion to put on your wolves for passive income.

i won't address this reply to anyone in particular, just wanting to throw it out there as an explanation for my lack of hope: lorwolf had an alpha test and two beta test phases, spanning more than a year of potential development time. i wasn't here for the alpha, but i was part of both beta tests, and many, many concerns that were brought up in the original beta test are still issues now, several months into the live game.

we've had a couple things added and a couple things tweaked (the biggest system change was the addition of more synergy types. i think this was a really good choice! it makes the battle system more interesting by far.) but for the most part, the game looks and plays just like it did in beta. same currency balance issues, same "difficulty getting a nice WW" issues, same wolf overcrowding issues, same tedious pebble grind. and absolutely nothing from the devs regarding these concerns, and many others.

the achievement system will probably turn out nice, given all the extra time they're putting into it. but i'd prefer they got some of the ground-level gameplay balancing issues sorted out before they start putting icing on an underbaked cake...

I think campaigning for new wild wolves has been the best way to make money for me. I enjoy the chance of getting a really good one, and the pebbles are not bad.

I enjoyed arena too as it's fun but unfortunately it currently doesn't pay off from a time standpoint. It takes a long time to get enough tickets for a companion.

For me, the main bulk of the money I make is, yeah, companion bonding. I do it every couple of hours, I think I get a range of 20kp-50kp or so depending on which ones get played with that hour. I'm a strange one who manually bonds (though idk how long I'll be keeping that up in the long run), so I'm not even losing the money from Nana. I did take someone else's advice to give everyone who doesn't have a specific one a kapura/deer so I can get money from those too. It adds up.

I also get a lot of money from campaigning, though it's slower. I've been slowly leveling my wolves to 10, and if you have the food, taking a group of three wolves + two companions (I use two level 10 kits + two level 10 companions who have intersect (the gettable ones for people who didn't get kickstarter stuff are the brother perth and furmuses) + the wolf I am leveling) to one of the final sword areas with the boss to get loot. I recommend either Goldsea 4 or Darkspine 4 since the non-bosses also drop good stuff in those areas. They drop things like plushies that have a good vendor-sell value. It does add up. And the nice thing is, I can also passively go for WWs in those areas.