Starting Off - How to expand your shop as quickly as possible.

Shoppe Keep 2 is a unique game, starting fully manual yet slowly becoming an automated empire with an ever-growing economy. However, starting is a difficult predicament if proper time isn't put into the beginning of any new playthrough. This guide will (hopefully) sufficiently explain how to support a baby-empire within the least amount of time.

Starting Broke, yet Prosperous.

While there is no specific foolproof, automated, method to begin Shoppe Keep 2, with slight manual effort anyone can create a business capital in no time.

However, keeping these tips in mind when you press "New Game" will surely help you make the absolute most of your time.

• Expensive > Cheap Products

This is a fairly self explanatory topic, although allow me to explain exactly what I mean.

After you purchase your stools from the vender, *(I would suggest grabbing 3 in your first run), you'll have limited space to put items. Because of this limit in space, water bottles are a slow investment and, while they may give a better percent, take ages to gather revenue. Directly off the bat, you should be purchasing clothing items, which leads me to my next point.

The % Rule

In Shoppe Keep 2, the NPCs will only consistently purchase items if under a certain % markup. Through very limited testing, I would wager the greatest sales to monetary gain % seems to be around 125. Clearly if you're going for even faster sales you can mark it down slightly, or if you're attempting to "automate" early on, raising the price will force only specific NPCs to purchase it. However, be aware, this will increase theivery.

Expansion - Taxing and Buying

However confusing the expansion system may seem, it is actually quite simple.

When you go to your Banker, there are sliding bars, tax %'s, and a "Pay Taxes" button.
Each of these contribute to your future ability to buy property to expand the amount of items you can sell. Any and all tax collected is directly put into a seperate fund that can only be used to expand your city, this can be accesed through the "City Management" table inside of the "Bank."

With this system, there are two quite simple strategies, each with its own benefits and detriments.
Your tax % is, quite honestly, personal preference, although to expand quickly there are two strategies you can implement;

• Near-Max Tax
  
  This strategy is fairly simple, although it could put you deep in the red monetarily if your shoppe doesn't sell fast enough. If you are going to follow this path, you will gain greater tax revenue, but your shoppe may not be able to recover, so you MUST keep your shoppe open at nearly all hours. Simply put the tax amount as high as you can without completely failing. I would recommend starting at 30% and slowly increasing until you reach a point where you're breaking even on profit.
  
  
• 20% Rule
  
  Even though this method is simply personal preference, it works fairly quickly and allows for a more casual playing experience. With this, you may close your shoppe at any time, but your city will not expand quite as quickly.
  
  

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[Casper]

Mine for stone and ore. You'l come across a Stone Bow recipe. Build it and then kill the barbarians up north for their equipment to sell. OP Bow, free items and great profit.

[Cpottzy]

Good guide. As an improvement add selling high value items manually. It will let you bump up your taxes even higher.