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Restaurant City, A Primer
OR There IS a Cure for Stupidity, and Here it is! Watching you guys play RC was so inspiring that I wrote this. Basics ♠ Ingredients (sometimes called “food”) are shortened to “ings”.
♠ Keeping your Restaurant open for shorter periods is always more profitable and gives more xp.
♠ If you don’t know the answer to the daily quiz, refresh the page. If you are 1% uncertain about having the correct answer, refresh the page.
♠ Always complete your lounge bar drinks from the glass icon instead of from the menu icon. Doing so allows you to toss out a free ing instead of a 500 coin bonus. Tossing out a 500 coin bonus is rude and stupid.
♠ The employee dialogue has a “visit” button. Hire the people you want to visit regularly.
♠ Having less friends makes the game run faster. Trying to decide who to delete and who to keep is part of the fun!
Gifts There are several kinds of things which are all called “gifts” – The “free gift” which you can give to your friends once a day, that appear as requests, and two kinds of gifts which you collect from FB walls. The free gift can be given to 40 people at a time. It resets every ½hour. The two kinds of wall gifts are – GK (sometimes called “FK”) gifts from other people’s walls (which appear on your feed) and Crates, which people post to your own wall. There are two kinds of Crates. The two kinds of Crates are – “normal crates”, or just “crates”, are gotten from harvesting penguins, bears and other fauna. “Magic crates” appear as a little icon next to your friends’ pictures in street view, and give different ings from normal crates. GiftIng – - Gifts are
- Free/Daily Gifts
- Wall Gifts
- GK/FK Gifts (henceforth called “GK”), including the bonus for completing Lounge/Sushi Bar dishes
- Crates
- Crates
- Magic Crates
To collect from walls, you DO NOT have to load the game each time you collect an item. Right-click “open in new tab” on a few of the links (I usually do five at a time). Select the first one, wait for the URL (web address) to change, then close the tab (CTL-W). It’ll automatically jump to the next tab, which you will CTL-W again. And so on. You get to collect 20 × GKs from your feed and 10 × Crates from your wall. These expire in 48 hours. Pay attention, this is important – The GKs are divided into 5,000 coins, ings, recipes or furniture. Therefore, you get to collect 100,000 coins a day (20 × 5,000), and each time you collect an ing, you are giving up 5,000 to do it, which means that you are paying 5,000 for that ing. This should be self-evident, but a lot of people don’t seem to understand this. Free ings are NEVER worth 5k. Which brings us to ings. Ingredients Free ings are ings that can be gifted. This changes from day to day, but, if you pay attention, you’ll learn which ones they are. Free ings are worth as much as you paid for them, which is nothing. Just barely above the free ings are the low ★ ings. This means ings below four (yes, four) ★s. Above the low ★s are previously free ings. These are ings which used to be giftable but no longer are. Currently, this includes crab, saffron and some others. This entire group is classified as “worthless”. This is an inalienable truth. That some people do not think that they are worthless does not change the fact that they are. Lots of people like Twilight. Most people like air. Twilight, air and free ings are equal, in that if you give them to someone, that someone will stop being your friend. When shouting for ings, DO NOT list your worthless ings as stuff you are willing to trade, as this is distracting and stupid. When trading people, DO NOT offer your worthless ings, as this is insulting and stupid. The only exception to this rule is that you are allowed to trade worthless ings for worthless ings; it is acceptable to trade Twilight for Eclipse, for example. In general, people do not like stupid people, so it is best to avoid being stupid. Above the worthless ings are the spawnables (“spawn” means “appear”), which are ings that appear on GK or in Crates. For example – ♠ Peach and coriander appeared on GK until recently, and falls into this tier.
♠ Water, vanilla, sugar, mint, etc. appear in Crates or on GK/lounge bar.
♠ Oranges, mint and cheese appear in Magic Crates.
This group is classified as “worthsome”. As you can imagine, you can trade worthsome ings for other worthsome ings and worthless ings, but not for more valued ings. Offering someone a peach for their egg is... yes, insulting and stupid. The next group, the worthy ings, are the ones that spawn in the shop. A good ing being sold is rather uncommon, so it is best to stock up on these ings to trade with later on. Chocolate, ice cream, milk and flour were all sold recently, and hence are worth less than the next, final group. Over time, as people trade away their stockpiles, the value of these ings will slowly rise to the final tier. The final tier are the OMG ings (pronounced “OMGings”). These are the ings that only appear in two ways – your daily four ings (three for logging in and one quiz) and the first visit ing you get for visiting someone for the first time. As these two methods spawn ALL ings, and the OMG ings are 4-5 ★s, the chance of getting an OMG ing is slim to none, and they are hence named for the sound one makes when one is found. You’ll know the OMG ings because these are the ings that people are constantly shouting for. This used to be cheese. Right now, these are eggs, potatoes and tomatoes. SummarisIng – - Worthless
- Free Ings
- Low ★ Ings
- Previously Free Ings
- Worthsome
- Found in GK/Crates
- Worthy
- Sold in shop
- OMG
- What’s Left
This brings us to how to get all the ings you need and have enough left over to help pretty girls and make them like you. How to Get All the Ings You Need and Have Enough Left Over to Help Pretty Girls and Make Them Like You The ings used in recipes determine their demand. The cheeseboard dish requires 30 cheese to master, and there are many other cheese dishes besides. This was why cheese used to be the single most expensive ing; you can trade your cheese for any other ing, but you can’t trade any other ing for someone else’s cheese. Cheese was epic. Other such high usage ings are water and rice. The value of ings constantly change. When an ing is sold in the shop, people will stock up, driving its value down; as their stocks deplete, its value goes up again. Even though Cheese is now found in crates, people still value it higher than the other stuff found in crates. But the key to the game is mint. See, when they introduced the lounge bar, which requires mint for most of its drinks, most people were in a hurry to complete the drinks as they were released. Mint spawns rarely in crates, and sometimes spawn on GK when someone completes a lounge bar drink without being stupid. You can collect 20 mints from GK (if you make the effort to find and add friends with mint on their walls) and get more mint from your crates and crates you’ve found that other people open. This means around 20 mint a day, depending on how much of an effort you make. Now, you have 20 mint on hand and you can either complete one lounge bar drink or trade it away so someone else can complete one lounge bar drink. Most people do the former. This is stupid (and keep in mind we don’t like stupid). You, not being stupid, will know that 20 mint is a lot of trading power, because everyone wants mint. And “everyone” includes all the old players who have already completed all their recipes and have stockpiles of the OMG ings. So you, not being stupid, will trade your mint for cheese. This is because you know that mint will still spawn tomorrow, but someone willing to trade you cheese for mint won’t be there tomorrow. You know this because you are not stupid, mainly because when I say “you”, I mean “me”. Between the lounge bar being launched and the time mint became worthless, I collected probably around a hundred cheese, and lots of other ings besides. The only time I didn’t GK mint was when an ing I wanted was sold in shop, when I GK’d 5ks to fund the stockpile (remember that GKs last for 48 hrs so the mint links will still work tomorrow). I completed my drinks about three days after each drink was launched, when I had excess mint and I wanted the bonuses. The FAQ You deleted me. Why?
I deleted you? I’m sorry. I’m so so sorry that you’re stupid. It is for people like you that I am writing this. I know that learning is difficult, but I hope that you work your way through the pain of reading and come out a better, less stupid, person.
This guy has 200 eggs and I wanted some so I traded him my free ing for it. Am I stupid?
Yes, yes, you are. You’d think that someone with 200 eggs would be willing to share some with you, and he would, because he is really a kind kind soul. Except, he has 500 friends and they all want his eggs too. So, if he really wanted to give away his eggs for worthless ings, he would have already done so. He wouldn’t be waiting to trade it to someone who has just added him, who he has never spoken to, and who probably has an ugly profile pic. He really is a kind kind soul, but he’s not stupid. You are.
But he has 200 eggs! Why am I stupid?
Because 200 eggs doesn’t fall from the sky like your free ings did. If eggs fell from the sky like pineapples, you wouldn’t be begging like the worthless leech that you are. How do you think he got 200 eggs to begin with? He added 200 people and got really lucky? People make an effort to collect ings.
I make an effort! I trade!
No, offering stupid trades is not making an effort. It’s just plain, vanilla stupid.
I have 200 eggs and this guy wanted some for his free ings and I accepted. Am I stupid?
Yes, yes, you are. Because accepting just one trade encourages them. As long as they get an acceptable acceptance rate from the hundreds of trades they send out, they’d consider sending an infinite amount of stupid trades as “making an effort”.
This guy has two eggs and he wanted seaweed so I traded him and he accepted. Am I smart?
Yes. Also, you are a bad bad person for taking advantage of a noob.
But if I don’t, someone else will.
That is true. And that someone else is a bad bad person for taking advantage of a noob. The difference between you and him? He would have done it, you actually did it.
Okay, fine. How do I trade fairly?
A lot of people seem to view trading as – this guy has something I want, I shall give him something I have a lot of. This something they offer is inevitably a free ing. This is stupid.
If you can’t decide what a fair trade is and you really want to send an unsolicited trade, send him an ing that he does not have. Inevitably, this will likely be an ing that you have very little of.
You’re awesome, can I add you as a friend?
Yes, you may. I delete people after giving them some time to collect their free ing, though.
I want to maintain no more than 200 friends so that my game is still smooth enough to play. I used to delete people who annoy me in the slighest, then those with ugly pics, but there were still more than 200 non-ugly, unannoying people.
As such, my list is now made up of people who are pretty, interesting or helpful (and by “helpful” I mean someone who can actually help me, the one who actually wrote this thing you’re reading now; not someone who is “helpful” because they say they are.)
As time passes, a higher and higher percentage of that 200 is taken up by interesting AND pretty girls. As offensive as this sounds, I’d like to point out that the interesting, pretty girls don’t find this offensive at all, so if you’re offended, we both understand what that means.
If you like your game experience to be slowly scrolling through ugly pictures, that’s your choice. I prefer to, you know, enjoy my gaming. A radical idea, I know. Some Final Words The way to win at Restaurant City is the same as the way to win at life, except the part about personal hygiene, which you can ignore if you want to win at RC and you are okay with failing at life. The way to win is – ♠ Be good. Help others. Do this even though a side-effect of doing this is that some people will want to help you, and you don’t want that, because –
♠ Don’t take advantage of others.
♠ Don’t let others take advantage of you. This is the unkindest cut. By accepting stupid trades, you reward and encourage unacceptable behaviour. When someone sends them a nasty mail calling them nasty names, it’ll be all YOUR FAULT, because you taught them that it’s okay to be stupid.
♠ Learn the game. Completing a lounge bar drink and spitting out a 500 coin bonus instead of an ing is inconsiderate. Read the status updates of players that give tips. Post status updates of tips.
♠ Manners is important. Don’t send nasty mails calling people nasty names. Just delete them and be done with it.
♠ Lenny the Singer is awesome. Many Lennies the Singer are epic awesome. Know this. Know this in the deep recesses of your ♥. This knowledge will serve you well in life as in RC.
♠ Be fair. Trade fairly. Bounce gifts. Crate the people that crate you.
♠ Be generous. Send the level locked items to your friends who are too low level to buy them themselves.
But, most importantly, the way to win at RC is the same as the way to win at life, which is – ♠ Be good.
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