Festival/Event question.

[Jhaeme]

Since no one answered my last query for help, I'll rephrase, since I died anyway and had to scrap the last two hours worth of grinding.

I have the Marlin Festival this evening; apparently I can scrap the Stormy Weather thing until later, but not the festival, as far as I can tell. The ''make sure you get good ingredients to make a lot of money'' seems useless, since all I have are two non-help basic sushi available. The two VIABLE recipes that I'd researched both have an ingredient unavailable to me. One that I can't even get into the area to find, and the second was literally *just* made available as a farming seed, but nowhere near harvest. Is this done deliberately to aggravate the f*ck out of me, or am I somehow playing the progression parts incorrectly? It seems so forced and linear half the time that I'm not sure where I've gone wrong. I feel like I need to start over at 125 hours (I really struggle with the controls so die constantly) at the very beginning of Chapter 6 because I'm nowhere near making the kind of money people claim they're pulling in nightly. I thought the festival would help, but it won't. Not with sushi.

Please help.

[Tinkamara]

Sounds like you are grinding too much tbh. 125h before the first marlin festival is a lot of time on the clock, even with dying a lot. You are still in early midgame as far as i can tell (didn't finish yet), so you won't make endgame money by now. I think I made around 10k (or even less?) each night around marlin festival, but didn't even unlock the farm at that point. Festivals are a nice bonus, but aren't that big of a deal. Don't worry about it, upgrade some sushi and maybe put another valuable plate on the menu.

If you are really struggling with money/grind, check the following:
1. Do you use auto cooking to not waste ingredients?
2. Do you send your staff gather cooking ingredients?
3. Do you focus on 2-4 recipes and upgrade those?
4. Is your fish farm set up correctly? (Capacity available, only producing, what you need..)

[Disco-Stu]

like Tinkamara said
1. Auto cooking is not explained in the game and SHOULD be standard from the game!
2. since SEND STAFF was badly translated in my version I never clicked it till near the end of the game cause I thought I would fire them instead of sending them out to "find" some salt
3. at the start of the game you will make very good money with sharks only especially if you got the drone! a sleeping droned shark/bigFish will get you 27x meat. save this meat and upgrade it till its lvl 10 , from now on only sell this lvl 10 shark food with autocooking and you will be rich in no time!
very lategame you will get more expensive recipes ( only cucumber ) and also with low lvl ingridients like made out of the angry titan yellow fish 0-50m and the red and blue fish from 50-130m +rice will get you a meal with 9 plates each for 1300 gold!!! its only hard to get the rice for the upgrades takes some weeks!

[Jhaeme]

Omfg, thank you so much. I think I see where I've been going wrong. The one thing I can't help is how long it takes me, since the controls hate me, so that's a given. Sucks, but there it is. I'll grind out a dive for hours, hoping to find weapon and harpoon upgrades to help me, hoping for roe of fish I actually want/need by killing them, then dumping the heavy ones... only to get nailed by a hammerhead, marlin...even a tuna, ffs. Argh. I'm just not fast enough with this set-up. Still want to game; just don't usually have so much trouble. Not many key-bashers out there anymore. XD

I have honestly just become aware of several features, the fish farm/garden are both extremely new (just got my first rice harvest), etc. And those were mostly by reading this board, looking for answers to the festival conundrum, among other bits of perplexity. There really is a learning curve attached. Which I'm normally okay with; just feels like a stab to the heart after so carefully fishing/dumping/surviving for hours, then getting rammed by a new aggressor or straight-up running out of air by a mere second. Oof. Stings. XD

Originally posted by Tinkamara:

Do you use auto cooking to not waste ingredients?

I do put one dish on auto: an enhanced mega-mouth (usually) sushi, because I always get the sharks from the Depths every dive. And it only takes more of itself to enhance, rather than precious salt or whatever else. I'll only lose one dish, as opposed to multiple.

Originally posted by Tinkamara:

Do you send your staff gather cooking ingredients?

Have just started this and am hiring more for this purpose.

Originally posted by Tinkamara:

Do you focus on 2-4 recipes and upgrade those?

I do have a stock of a few that I have enhanced; higher taste but not yet enough to go Platinum, as I can ill-afford that much enhancement. I seem to never get the jellyfish/sea-grape maps lately, which was my biggest seller monetarily. Unfortunately, it's single dish, and I don't have much salt at the moment. Since my best hope is around two dozen customers, I put up four multi-dish recipes, and one shark on auto, to minimise wastage and maximise income/taste. At least I try, haha.

Originally posted by Tinkamara:

Is your fish farm set up correctly?

No! It totally isn't. Thank you for this. :-)

Originally posted by Disco-Stu:

at the start of the game you will make very good money with sharks only especially if you got the drone! a sleeping droned shark/bigFish will get you 27x meat. save this meat and upgrade it till its lvl 10 , from now on only sell this lvl 10 shark food with autocooking and you will be rich in no time!

This is extremely helpful; thank you SO much. Didn't know about the meat salvaged by the drone; just use it for the heaviest. I was at the end of my rope, honestly. Had to stop and post this and step away for several hours after running out of air by one tick, hahaha. Sailfish and hammerhead rammed me too many times; couldn't get out of the boat wreck quite fast enough. Occurs to me now that I might have been able to get out, get air, and then go back into the boat for the sailfish meat...oops. Just now starting that WHOLE dive over...

Originally posted by Disco-Stu:

very lategame you will get more expensive recipes ( only cucumber ) and also with low lvl ingridients like made out of the angry titan yellow fish 0-50m and the red and blue fish from 50-130m +rice will get you a meal with 9 plates each for 1300 gold!!! its only hard to get the rice for the upgrades takes some weeks!

Dude...I can't wait. That will be so much less anxiety.