If you ever wanted to do an efficient and perfectionist playthrough, this guide is for you. Story missions overview The start and main challenge of the game will be how to progress and naviguate the story missions efficiently. Story missions seems strategically made with a few well placed ones that will poison your money supply with marked / fake money. However, they are easy to spot and avoiding those source of marked bills is the best way to progress efficiently and still achieve perfect mission results. The story mission that will deliver you marked/fake bills are: Fifty shade of cash (gang marked) The light test (counterfeit $) From chaos to Cash (gang marked) Fake fluff (counterfeit $) No stains (police marked) Different values (FDI marked) Fragile treasure (counterfeit and gang marked) Combo heist (polie and gang marked) Financial exorcisme (counterfeit $, Police and FDI marked) And the Vault is almost entirely filled with marked money (FDI and Police) Some of those mission delivery can be either easily filtered or maximize the amount of real money you can safely remove. Any of the missions not in the guide below means that there isn't any easy filtering possible and should be filtered via a machine. The goal is simply to filter as much as possible through safe method to reduce the amount of bills that need to be filtered via a machine. Most of the deliveries are safe and running them all through a marked bills sorter would be huge loss in efficiency. Effect of story mission on purple ones Be aware that while some story mission are active (already selected on the dark net and delivery not completed), purple mission that are generated during that period can be affected. This only apply to story missions that requires fake/marked bills which is only 3 of them: Backlight evidence The Vault of Truth Operation black file When those are active was the only time I saw purple mission without "no marked money" that would contain marked bills. With the Operation black file active was also the only time where I had a purple mission contained FDI marked money in a pack. So I would be mindful to accept those mission only when I'm already ready to complete them. They don't provide anything when accepted anyway. The light test This delivery is suppose to be the tutorial for detecting fake/marked money, however you can almost entirely filter it wihtout any UV light. The delivery is nicely filtered. 100$ in 2 bags (one with thrash, one with coins 50$, 20$ and 10$ already in unmixed packs First the 100$, don't mix the 2 bags!! The bags with coins = 100% real money The bags with thrash = Fake/realy mixed I generally recomment to put this one aside and filter it later once you have a machine with counterfeit detection. Then the bills packs. 50$ = 100% real 20$ & 10$ = 100% fake I would even recommend to knife and repack the 20$ bills to have 4*100 packs. You will need 8k counterfeit bills later and this is easily done with this. From chaos to cash The delivery consistent of multiple bags. Don't mix them immediately! Bags with bullets and jewelry = marked Bags with only bills = 100% safe Simply put the bags with bullet, jewel and bills on the side and take the rest. There's few enough that you could filter them by hand on the workbench, but I prefer to wait until I have a marked bill sorter. However, being able to filter most of the delivery without an automated sorter net you enough cash to complete the mission and more. Different values Different values is delivered on pallet, but it should be split in 2 parts. There's money in boxes and loose bills on the pallet. Loose money on the pallet:All 50€ & 20€ = 100% safe All 100€ & 100$ = 100% FDI marked 10$ = mixed gang marked Money in boxes100% FDI marked I would recommend to set the bills that are FDI marked, they are all 100% marked, so no need to sort them and there's more than 500 bills which will be needed for the last Panther mission. Fragile treasure 0% useful money. All the Yen provided are either counterfeit or gang marked. However, this means that you can filter them without a marked bills sorter. Simply put them through any money sorter that filter counterfeit. Anything not counterfeit = 100% gang marked. Combo heist Combo heist can be split in 3 parts: Sportbags XXL box Ink bags Sportbags:All € = 100% safe All $ = mixed Police marked XXL box:Mix between gang marked, counterfeit and real money. However there's pattern that can be used. It will have to be done by a machine or by hand. Ink bags:Ink bags are similar to the XXL box, there's no easy way to filter them. Ink bags contains gangs, Police and FDI marked bills and a sizeable amount of real money (~188k$) So it is largely worth filtering them to get the real money into use. Vault The vault is in good part marked (and inked *Beurk*) bills, but there's a good amount of easily reacheable real money. There's a large pile of loose bills and some bills on the ground =100% real unmarked money There's a few packs on the shelves: 1 of the pack has gangs marked money, but only 1, every other pack is 100% safe. I could always spot the pack on the workbench, as the top bills was always marked. Note that not 100% of the pack has marked bills, only partially so worth throwing the pack into a sorter. The marked money is also only 100$, 50$ and 20$. 10$ and € are 100% safe, but as you can filter them easily it's not that useful. Everything else in the vault is 100% marked either Police or FDI. Bags with inked money = each bag is either 100% FDI or 100% Police marked Bag with dirty money (on the pallet) = 100% FDI or Police, but mixed Bills in boxes (on the pallet) = 100% FDI Financial Exorcisme This delivery has 0 real unmarked money. All bills are either marked or fake. They are all inked as well, so not worth bothering with that much. On efficiency in general What I really liked about this game is that it is easy in principle. You can completely ignore marked money for 90+% of missions or use a sorter and most tasks can be done through some machine. However, there's still a lot of room for improvement. Even if you have a few XXL sorter, using them efficiently will greatly increase how many bills you can sort every hours (and how fast you can complete missions in general). A XXL sorter will take 30sec to put 900 bills into the tray (assuming you are emptying them and it doesn't stop). However, it will take 2min for 900 bills to be "spat" out. This also greatly speed up the progress at the start of the game. When you have just 1 basic sorter, if it spend 75% of his time spitting out unwanted bills, it will work very slowly. Speed of the various sorter: Basic sorter: 300 bills into try = 10 sec (or 30 bills per sec) 300 bills spat out = 40 sec (or 7.5 per sec) L sorter: 600 bills into tray = 20 sec (or 30 bills per sec) 600 bills spat out = 80 sec ( or 7.5 per sec) XXL sorter: 900 bills into tray = 30sec (or 30 bills per sec) 900 bills spat out = ~2min (or 7.5 per sec) Marked bill sorter: 300 bills into tray = 10 sec (or 30 bills per sec) 300 bills spat out = 40 sec (or 7.5 per sec) This is where I find the way most early game mission are generated to be interesting. Let's take an example with "The wet case" which is the 3rd mission of the game. The wet case come in delivery in box and you already have a money sorter. Meaning you can simply take the bills out of the boxes, make a big pile and put it on the bills sorter and filter the 100$, then 50$, then 10$ But doing it this way is rude and inefficient. If you check carefully before throwing everything on the machine, you can notice that each box only contain 1 bill type. Either 100$, 50$ or 10$. If you unpack each box separately, then group the similar pile, you will already have sorted bills without much work. Wait a little for the bills to dry on their own and you can complete this mission much faster. The same apply to Europhoria. Some boxes are 100% 50€ bills Some boxes are mixed 100€ and 20€ Careful keep them separate and you can even complete this quest without buying an Euro money sorter. There are enough 50€ to complete the quest and you can save your money to directly buy a XXL later skipping the L money counter entirely. Even in random purple mission, there's always something that can be done to pre-filter some of the content. Many normal/hard mission will come with a small amount of another currency in it. It's often only in part of the delivery. Instead of having 100% of the delivery contamined with €, $ or ¥, you can filter that specific part and avoid your chain from chugging along useless bills.