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Recettear: RPG Shop simulator - It's out and great and you should buy it
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I has a shop
I've got two questions:
1. How much damage do the time-up fireballs do if they hit?
2. How do the plusses on fusion items affect the end product?
First: Tear's haggling tutorial is awful - it should never have been included in the game - and following it to the letter is a sure-fire way to fail. Trying to gouge each customer keeps their relationship with Recette at rock bottom, and tanks your Merchant Experience gains.
Second: Each customer type and adventurer has a hidden relationship level with Recette. This level determines how much money they bring to the store, and the quality of the goods they try to sell you. Initially, Louie will only have around 1,000 Pix to spend. Work on making him like Recette more, and within a couple of weeks he can be buying 100,000 Pix items without batting an eyelid.
Relationships are a hidden value, but a heart in a speech bubble will briefly be displayed whenever one increases after a transaction.
Third: Merchant Level is all-important. It determines the size of your store and the value of the goods you can buy at wholesalers. You raise your Merchant Level by not haggling. Really.
Your primary goals until the endgame should be raising customer relationships and your Merchant Level. How do you do this? Pin bonuses!
First, completing a transaction (buying or selling) without having to haggle - your price was accepted the first time - starts a Just Combo. This gives you 2^n Merchant Experience, where n is the number of successive sales without haggling. It caps at a whopping 128 experience per sale after seven sales. This is the most important thing. Keep your chain going at all times, even if you have to buy crap off customers that you'll never shift.
Second, offering a customer the price they expect - not necessarily the highest they'll pay - gives you a Pin Bonus. 15 added experience if you're very close, 30 experience if you're right on the mark. This also greatly increases the likelihood of improving relationship levels with customers. Each customer has their own values, I've found, especially in booms and busts. But for normal business, you can quite reliably get Pin Bonuses every time by buying at 70% and selling at 104%.
When you get to the endgame, you can afford to price gouge every customer. Unless you're raking in a million plus Pix each day, you're not there yet.
They increase in level as you kill them. Rapidly. Damage starts off at very little, then increases to one-hit kills if you're in an appropriate dungeon for your equipment and level.
Simple: It's additive. If you're making an item and you have a +4, +3 and +2 of its ingredients, you'll get a +9 item out. It caps at +15, and not all items can reach this since it requires having at least four ingredients. Fusion will automatically take the best ingredients from your inventory.
It is so good. Crazy addictive, too. Pretty much devoured my evening.
360 Gamertag: NFJ TheNix
I've only played this game for 15 hours
but I played this game for 15 hours straight
I hate this shit.
Because now I'm going to boot back the game again and go do some customer relations work and earn phat Merch XP.
Cool beans. 50% off fits my "wife won't notice" level. Thanks for the heads up.
Also thanks for the tips Mumblyfish.
Second question, does anybody know if this will run on a netbook? I normally play my games on my desktop, but this seems like a great netbook game for me when I go on trips.
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No kidding. I'm at pass 2, but also a couple of days after the 200K payment, and she shows up, "Here's a luck cat for 5000% markup!"
uh, no.
You keep your stock, so just buy up everything, miss your next payment, and start over.
Once you unlock the third dungeon, you never have any need to visit the Town Square (in those time slots) again. If you reach Endless Mode without triggering Euria, she apparently falls off the planet forever.
(There should be an option to get Charme drunk, then tell her there is more booze. Inside Euria's skull.)
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To be fair you probably wouldn't even need the first step.
Delphin Twitch Stream:
I want neeeeeeeeeeews!
That isn't quite where we'll be droppin' the bombs, but it's close. Also no explosives fly until after the new year, we have some amount of mercy.
That sounds inordinately creepy!
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
The last payment was brutal for me. Part of the problem was my poor start (haggling too much, mostly), and part of the problem was that prices of stuff kept going down with nothing going up. In the end I had to play the last day something like 10 times trying to sell as much as humanly possible at as much as I could mark it up, and then selling everything I have to the vendor including my vending machine just to get enough money. I was usually ending off with ~460k, but I finally had a good day where a few expensive items sold, and I was able to reach 500k while actually keeping most of my ingredients.
360 Gamertag: NFJ TheNix
Eeeeeh, I wouldn't suggest skipping Euria. While Euria is an annoying combo breaker when she first starts showing up, once you have a lot of money she's actually sorta useful. Her stuff is overpiced, but she tends to sell things/fusion ingredients that are actually kinda hard to come by otherwise.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
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Yes. I've tried to buy something at 100% base price while it was red and they didn't take it.
360 Gamertag: NFJ TheNix
Blue = half percentages
For example, let's say you wanted to buy an item normally at 60%. If it was red you would have to offer 120%, if it was blue you can offer 30%.
The default Just Pin % is closer to
I came here to complain about that old man being a stingy bastard, but I read some old posts and apparently I shouldn't be haggling at all? Sell at 104% and buy at 70% 'cause that will increase my level quick, eh? Okay, if you wise men say so. I only barely made my first payment of 10,000 pix anyways.
360 Gamertag: NFJ TheNix