============================================================================ PIZZA TYCOON GENERAL HINTS -------------------------- 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. 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. 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. SOLVING COMMON PROBLEMS: ------------------------ 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. MANUAL AMENDMENTS ----------------- 1. Correct Underworld ratings: As good as dead Loser Amateur Gambler Pickpocket Thug Gangster Racketeer Professional Killer Boss Mafia big wig Godfather 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. 3. Zucchini - in both the manual and the game, Zucchini are described by the European word, 'Courgettes'. AUTOEXEC.BAT ------------ 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.