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- PIZZA TYCOON GENERAL HINTS
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-
- 1. After opening a restaurant you should create at least three
- standard recipes. If you don't, you won't give your customers
- much of a choice, so your restaurant will not become popular.
-
- 2. In the Suppliers book, you will see the amount of money you
- recently spent at each supplier, below the name of the
- supplier. This is the amount the supplier looks for when
- computing the default discount. If you stop buying at a
- supplier who gives you discount, the amount of discount will
- fall once per week.
-
- 3. If you keep stocks in your restaurant for a long time, the
- quality of the stocks will go down. If the quality of an
- ingredient drops below 5, the ingredient goes bad and is
- automatically thrown away. During summer, food goes bad much
- more quickly. Higher quality ingredients can be stored for
- a longer period of time than low quality stock.
-
- 4. If you have contracts, you can choose one of two delivery
- modes, displayed on page one of the contract at 'amount':
-
- 'According to contract' means you'll get exactly the daily
- amounts you ordered, printed on page two of the contract.
-
- 'As required' means you'll first get the amount you ordered
- on page two. But if you need more of certain ingredients
- mentioned in the contract, your stock will be filled up as
- needed. For the additional amount no discount is granted.
- Also the charge applies.
-
- Click on the contract to change the mode.
-
- 5. To pause the game use the standard Pause key on your
- keyboard. To restart the game, hit the Spacebar.
-
- 6. If you have a manager, he or she will buy from the Suppliers
- you've used before. If you need an ingredient you have not
- bought before, the manager will buy from the cheapest
- Supplier stocking the ingredient. So make sure you show
- your managers where to shop.
-
- 7. If you allow your managers to change prices, it is not a
- good idea to interfere and alter these prices yourself.
- If you do, the manager will not know about it and will
- continue to base his/her decisions on the prices he/she set.
-
- 8. If you wish to buy weapons, it is best not to be too obvious
- about it !
-
- 9. After you have bought some chairs, you may find that your
- seating capacity does not match the number of chairs you
- have. If this occurs, check to see that all of your chairs
- are close enough to the tables.
-
- People cannot eat at tables they cannot reach!
-
- 10. The easiest way to move between restaurants is to go into
- any one of them and press the TAB key. Doing this will
- move you to the next restaurant in the chain. This can be
- done from any menu within the restaurant.
-
- 11. Waking up regularly before 9 o'clock has the effect of
- reducing your health.
-
- 12. If you do have to get up before 9 o'clock, make sure
- you've set your clock first. The clock will default to
- 9 o'clock everyday.
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- 13. Yearly pizza competitions - unlike the other competitions,
- you have to make a pizza creation of your own. Make sure
- the pizza is one the judges will like.
-
- 14. After achieving a certain status (i.e. Godfather) the
- status will be shown on your C.V. If however, your rating
- goes down for some reason (i.e. failing or refusing a
- mission) your C.V. will not show this - your C.V. shows
- only your greatest achievements. However, the drop in points
- will be shown on your status bar. You could thus be a level
- lower than you think you are. For example, your C.V. will
- show the date when you became a Godfather, but your current
- status might be Mafia Big Wig.
-
- 15. You cannot carry more than 255 pieces of any one kind of
- weapon (e.g. 255 bombs) at any one time; however, you may
- carry more than 255 weapons in total (e.g. 155 bombs and
- 200 flame-throwers). You can store more than 255 pieces of
- one kind of weapon in your depot, but you will not be able
- to transfer more than 255 pieces from the depot to your bag.
- Nor can you buy any weapons from an arms dealer, if doing
- so would result in you carrying more than 255 weapons.
-
- 16. Dates - when presented numerically, dates follow the
- European format. So 12 September, 1994 will be shown as
- 12-9-94.
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- 17. If you buy stock from your Central Warehouse, your
- supplier will not sell you any stock if doing so will mean
- that he has less than 499 items remaining for himself. You
- may, however, buy more items if you order them directly
- from your restaurant.
-
- 18. When you take part in the end-of-month pizza competition,
- you first see your total earnings and your stake. While
- your competitors are making their pizzas, you will see
- their total earnings displayed. When the competition
- finishes you will see your total money plus or minus the
- value of your stake depending on whether or not you won the
- competition.
-
- 19. You can make any amount of money in Pizza Tycoon, but should
- you somehow get to earn above two billion dollars, you will
- see your cash total on every screen except your Balance Sheet
- which will stop counting at two billion. So if your Balance
- shows two billion when you know you have more, don't worry!
-
- 20. If you break into a restaurant owned by a human opponent, the
- other player may defend the restaurant by using his chef to
- attack you. To control the chef, your opponent must use a
- joystick.
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- SOLVING COMMON PROBLEMS:
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- 1. No customers come to my restaurant!
-
- * Make sure you create enough (at least three) recipes that
- have decent values on the popularity screen AND have
- non-negative trends (shown in the status window when looking
- at recipes).
-
- * You need some floor covering, tiles or carpet - just
- something people can properly walk on. If you leave your
- restaurant with no floor covering (the way the restaurant
- looks when you first see it) you'll get poor restaurant
- popularity values; check 'customer ratings' in the
- furnishing sub menu.
-
- * You may be addressing the wrong ages. Check customer
- statistics in the restaurant statistics sub menu, to see
- which customer groups are in this area; the yellow bar
- shows the potential customers for each group.
-
- * Take a look at your furniture and ask yourself what kind
- of people will feel comfortable here. Check 'customer
- ratings' in the furnishing sub menu.
-
-
- 2. I keep getting the message, 'There aren't enough supplies
- to satisfy the demand,' but I'm sure I've bought enough.
-
- * You may have put a new recipe on your menu, causing a
- need for ingredients not yet bought.
-
- * Demand changes frequently. There may be a new trend
- causing greater demand for a certain ingredient. Check the
- demand value in your menu for each pizza selected and look
- at what each Pizza needs.
-
- * Supplies may be rotten, so would have been thrown in the
- garbage. So check on the quality of each ingredient.
-
-
- 3. My manager is not going shopping properly, and I don't
- know why!
-
- * Make sure that in the manager menu you set the option
- 'Supply shortage' to 'act yourself' AND the option
- 'Shopping if needed' to 'yes'.
-
- * Take a look at the motivation of the manager. The value
- is equal to the probability in percent that he/she will go
- shopping each day. So if your manager has a motivation of
- only 75%, the probability for him/her to go shopping is
- only 3 in 4. Give the manager more money to increase
- motivation.
-
- * The manager may be sick, like anybody else. This will
- be shown in the manager menu.
-
- * If your manager is on a course, he/she obviously cannot
- go shopping. Again, this will be shown in the manager menu.
-
- * If the option 'staff shortage' is set to 'act yourself'
- and the manager has to assist either the cooks or the
- waiters at their work, the manager will have no time to go
- shopping that day.
-
- * On rare occasions, it may be that the Supplier you told
- the manager to use is temporarily out of stock. You can
- check this if you have a central warehouse in that city or
- if you try buying from the supplier yourself.
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- MANUAL AMENDMENTS
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- 1. Correct Underworld ratings: As good as dead
- Loser
- Amateur
- Gambler
- Pickpocket
- Thug
- Gangster
- Racketeer
- Professional
- Killer
- Boss
- Mafia big wig
- Godfather
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- 2. Jobs for the Underworld: Courier jobs are assigned to levels
- up until the rank of Thug. In addition to the courier
- missions, you will be asked to do arms deals once you have
- achieved the rank of Gangster. Money Laundering will be
- assigned to those who have achieved the rank of Professional,
- and share deals to those who become Bosses.
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- 3. Zucchini - in both the manual and the game, Zucchini are
- described by the European word, 'Courgettes'.
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- AUTOEXEC.BAT
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- Make sure, if you are using a Soundblaster card that it is
- correctly set-up in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. This should at least
- contain the line SET BLASTER=A220 or whichever address is
- set for your sound card.
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