Dispatch and Auto-Supply Tutorial

[Sibuscus]

Thirty hours in or so and I find out that you can "Dispatch" your staff to go collect Ingredients. I thought this button meant like to dispatch the staff away so that you dont have to pay their salary, so when I got an extra straff member by hiring a new one, I wanted to dispatch him and suddenly I get a menu to choose which Ingredient I need to choose. This was never mentioned in any tutorial nor anywhere, you have to kind of discover it on your own. Now that I think about it, this feature would have been amazing early game, not so much after 30 hours as I have a lot of ingredients and dont really have a need for them. This should be part of some kind of tutorial.

Also, I still have no idea how the Auto-Supply works, theres noting that actually explains its true mechanic, so Im afraid to use it, to not waste my high quality resources. There should be an explanation about it as well. There is a "Tips" app on the phone with helpful tips about certain topics and this should be in there somewhere.

Were you aware what these features did early game? It cant'be just me.

[thelefthorse]

Yeah, there are quite a few mechanics that aren't explained. I learned about dispatching employees when I came to the forum to figure out how I was supposed to reliably get items like soy sauce.

As for auto-supply, normally when you set the menu and say a dish should be prepared X times, it's as if Bancho makes all of those ahead of time (which, ofc, he doesn't, so it's weirdish that way), because as you know any that aren't eaten by the end of the night are pitched.

With auto-suppy, it's as if Bancho always keeps one of that particular dish ready to go, as long as you have the fish/supplies for it. So for party nights, I'll often put the popular party dishes -- very expensive ones -- on auto-supply; yes, it means you'll always 'lose' or waste one of that dish on a given night (assuming you don't run out), but that loss of one dish lets me not need to worry about micro-managing how many I think will be ordered, etc. Does that make sense?

I typically don't use auto-supply unless all of my dishes are on auto-supply, and then I typically only have two or maybe three items on the menu; I don't want the five plates of X that were prepared to all go to waste because people only order the auto-supply dish(s). But I don't worry much about min-maxing these things as money comes pretty easily in the game.

[Onyx]

Autosupply is actually mentioned and explained in one line during the menu tutorial at the beginning. It's only that one line and explained halfway with the other half implied, though, so it's easy to miss.