Why should I manage businesses?

[The Minted Lady]

I've finally gotten to the point in the story where I can manage a business. The tutorial was interesting, but then I noticed it said you can't get money from the businesses you run. So I have to wonder what the point is? Does it impact the main story at all? Or is it just another minigame that I could potentially do for some rewards? Are there unique rewards to this minigame?

[Seamus]

Publicado originalmente por The Minted Lady:

Eh. I get the points on why I should play this; just not really having fun trying it.

Right now I'm at Rank 30 and need to reach Rank 20. I'm finding it difficult to keep people levelled to deal with the shareholders' questions. I'm also wondering what would happen if I gave up Ichiban Confections to buy a more lucrative shop, because right now my issue is having these entry-level shops that aren't making enough confident money. I can do a max of 5, and I replaced two businesses with others that seemed to be more worth it financially. My last reward for doing the shareholder meeting was 500k.

It honestly feels like such a slog trying to get through this. I need the 20 mil to upgrade the Romance Workshop, and I am nowhere near it. I wish this part of the game was somehow more efficient.

You can't get rid of ichiban confections.

Selling any other shop gets you like 1% less than you have spent upgrading it, so it's not hard to sell old stuff to get new ones.

Just periodically sell your lowest performing business that isn't ichiban confections to buy something farther down the list that brings in more money.

You only ever get five slots for businesses you can buy/sell, so there's no reason to keep early ones.

[The Minted Lady]

Yeah, I've swapped out several. Right now sitting at Rank 10. The money rewards are up there but I'm still not halfway to my goal.

But at the very least, I have one of every kind of business. I do have some of the DLC employees but to be honest, except for maybe one of them, they've all been a major disappointment during the shareholder meetings. I have primarily focused on training up the Roomba, the former baseball athlete, the lady who owned the questionable restaurant we bunked in, and the leader of the Geomijul (probably not spelling that right). Those four have slapped down more shareholders together without me having to employ begging/apologizing.

And even though you can't sell Ichiban Confections, at least you can upgrade it to stay relevant.

[Seamus]

I ended up using the kid you get from one of the substories at the burger place, Majima and the geomijul chick for the shareholder meetings. They all have good attack (charisma) and low cost to use their attacks. Fourth slot was just always the old lady who runs ichiban confections.

[Zaltys]

Almost the same, but I used Nugget as the third. Felt good to finish those meetings by getting a chicken to shut someone up.

(Also ended up running Ichiban Confections with Nugget as the manager, supported by the street cleaning robot and the old lady.)

[The Minted Lady]

Well I'm rank 4 now, but I'm really having a problem with the shareholder rank not going up, even during shareholder meetings. I'm not sure what moves this number. I don't lose meetings with my current setup, but I don't seem to be moving higher, either.

[SadPlatty©]

The last couple ranks are a pain to raise - I felt like the last 2% required me to actually do 2 shareholder meetings to get. And that was with the commercial deals always being purchased (though I didn't hire anybody or invest in anything when brought up between business). Did also let 1 or 2 people walk to just use cheaper employees on certain occasions.

My shareholder meetings was also Goro, the old woman you start with, Geomijul woman, and Nick. I raised them to max rank and trained them to cap, and at this point I just mash buttons to breeze through the meetings.

Basically - it seems like you need to make almost 1 billion per quarter or whatever in order to conclude this mini-game/side-story.

[The Minted Lady]

Well as quickly as I posted that, I also seemed to finally reach Rank 1. And at 19 million, I'm prettymuch done with this minigame. I already have enough random items to sell for the last amount.

In the end, it was Majima breaking people's shields and the leader of the Geomijul who won it for me. Their low move requirement meant I could just spam them and win every time.

Overall, I'd have to say this is my least favorite minigame in Y:LAD. I'm really hoping it's not in LAD:IW. Once I understood it, things were fairly simple, but it was not an enjoyable aspect of the game in the least. If not for needing the money for the Romance workshop, I wouldn't even have bothered. That's how frustrated I was at the beginning. But, the experience was definitely something else. I just wish it was better explained in-game.

[Seamus]

It's at least more involved than Kiryu's job minigame in zero. That was mostly just standing around doing nothing then dealing with the plot missions occasionally.

[The Minted Lady]

More involved doesn't always mean better, lol. If anything, it was needlessly complex. I stopped trying to invest after three came back with no returns, and I never once went for a loan. And as far as keeping my employees happy went, I used Autocare instead of browsing the choices.

[Seamus]

Oh, yeah, NONE of the investments except commercials are worth it. Commercials straight double your income until the next investor meeting.

Just pick up commercials and hit auto care after every second business period.

[Mithra Invictus]

Publicado originalmente por The Minted Lady:

Eh. I get the points on why I should play this; just not really having fun trying it.

Right now I'm at Rank 30 and need to reach Rank 20. I'm finding it difficult to keep people levelled to deal with the shareholders' questions. I'm also wondering what would happen if I gave up Ichiban Confections to buy a more lucrative shop, because right now my issue is having these entry-level shops that aren't making enough confident money. I can do a max of 5, and I replaced two businesses with others that seemed to be more worth it financially. My last reward for doing the shareholder meeting was 500k.

It honestly feels like such a slog trying to get through this. I need the 20 mil to upgrade the Romance Workshop, and I am nowhere near it. I wish this part of the game was somehow more efficient.

Just proceed with the game, do side quests and you will find employees able to help you progress with the business. This content is made to you succeed.

[Captain Flappy]

I personally loved this management minigame. each to their own.