Empty restaurants

[Lilaria]

Whenever Remy had a refresh of customers he had 4 of them, restaurant was packed and it was nice to just quickly cook 4 meals for the quest or friendship. Now that I placed Tiana place I usually get 1 and 2 customers at random in them. From 4 to 3 customers and spread out, but why? I thought it'd make sense to put even 3 3 customers since we have so many villagers. Like that restaurants seem very empty, it's harder to do star path quest, or just gain friendship with characters we want etc. As well it's just a bother, it just takes more time to serve customers for less profit. They can maybe change the star path quests, but let more villagers go to the restaurants at the same time.
It's a small thing but funny things like Scar and Simba sitting at the same table or Anna and Kristoff etc was often happening with 1 restaurant, those have basically 0 chance to happen now.

[wesnef]

Hmm. This past week, before I unlocked Tiana, Remy's restaurant had 6 customers usually. Now that I have Tiana's Palace placed, they each have 3-4. I've been able to do all the "serve 6 meals" star path duties right away.

Hmm, I wonder if time of day makes a difference. This is mid-day (11 to 2) US.

[Tilarta]

I have seen less customers in the Palace then in Remy's.

But keep in mind the Villager roster is only 50% complete.
Perhaps when all the Villagers have been added to the game, the restaurants will have equal customer attendance.

[Resolved_Domovoi]

I think as Wasnef mentioned, time of day makes a difference, and I think each restaurant pulls from a different list of potential customers at different rates. For example, and this is entirely anecdotal and based off of incomplete observations, I very rarely saw Mother Gothel in Remy's Place, whereas she (so far) quite frequently dines in Tiana's Palace. However they program in the diners, it could be that each venue has, every X increment time period or so, a % chance of drawing between X-Y customers, which are drawn for their availability table for the time of day, which are then checked against the other venue.

So, it could be that, at 8:00am, each venue rolls to determine number of diners (which can be variable depending on how many you have unlocked... so, lets just say 24). So for programming purposes we can contend only 1/3 of the valley is permitted to dine at any one point in time, so that would be 8 dining spots, a quick roll is made to determine the split, so we'll just surmise 4 and 4. Both roll from the table of available diners, where venue 1 gets Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Daisy, and venue 2 gets Mickey, Mother Gothel, Stitch, and the Beast. Since Mickey can only be in one place at once, we check this against an already weighted value, such as Mickey's chance to be at Remy's, and voila, Remy's has four diners, and the Palace has three.

Again, I have no idea if that is how it is set up, but that could be one way for them to have done it. There are probably max limits on number of folks dining, weighted tables to determine who goes where, and that is then checked against the other establishment to prevent duplication. This could create the effect of having fewer diners at one than the other sometimes, where other folks generally show equal distribution.

[Lilaria]

I'll try to observe it more, as it might be a time thing. Now for example I had 3 people in Tiana's place and 2 people in Remy's, which is a decent amount I guess. I never had 6 people at once at Remy's and I do have every character from base game, and I do not have Oswald only from the DLC. It's quite annoying, I never could do the star path quest instantly, I always had to wait for a refresh.

[wesnef]

Hmm, popping in to the game to check, at 9pm Eastern time, there's only 2 in Remy's and 1 in Tiana's.

edit: and at 10pm, it was 2 & 2. But one in Remy's was the same as last hour, so only three new diners.

11am: 3x Remy, 3x Tiana

[Lilaria]

For me at my local time at 4pm there was 3 people in Tiana's place and 2 in Remy's.
Now at 9pm there was 1 at Remy's and 2 at Tiana's.
It really feels empty

[Jellie Juice]

Yeah, it emptied out a bit since they added Tiana's restaurant. I'm sure it will start to fill up again as they add in more characters to the valley.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Lilaria:

For me at my local time at 4pm there was 3 people in Tiana's place and 2 in Remy's.
Now at 9pm there was 1 at Remy's and 2 at Tiana's.
It really feels empty

Checked a few times today.
10am: 1 & 1
11am: 3 & 3
12am: 4 & 4

I wonder if there's more people there at "typical" meal times.

[POMPOKO]

For me most people are around evening times in the restaurant. But I had no case so far where the restaurant was empty