Glad I could help!

Yes, also an option - but it will not maximize your profit. Only if that is the only (and most expensive) dish you are selling that night :D

Also dishes set to auto take longer to prepare which hurts your profits. I use a mixed menu with 1 or 2 dishes set to auto and fill out the rest with my most expensive recipes. The tropical sushi set is a great one to focus on in the early game.

Haven't even measured the preparation times - thanks for the info there!

Glad I could help! And I'm glad to see this masterpiece of a game still got traction :)

Nice catch - never noticed this! Thank you!

Heh, I sense a strong willpower here! Welcome aboard this awesome game!

Yay! Thank you! And happy to help ;)

Happy to help and welcome to our diver school! :D You are up for an awesome adventure here!

Glad I could be a help, happy to see this awesome game is still played!

@@MLMariss it was just released for PlayStation and added to ps plus, so I imagine tons of people ( like myself ) are trying it for the first time now

Happy to help! And happy hunting ;)

Fair enough, just that's another thing to manage then - I find the end-game gives a LOT of things to think and take care of, so I wanted to limit them :D

@@MLMariss Same, you mention , that the ingerients take a lot of time to get, but I have 5 guys in the waiting room, just gathering salt, soy etc. and I get 3-4 of each item every day. The dishes are sold way higher than (most) sushi

Very true! So we can agree that we can still skip ingredient farm underwater and use delivery guys instead :D

@@MLMariss From this point yes. But I don't see a downside, that it takes long to open the pot, as you usually do not lose breathing air in this time and can fill it up again. But this is maybe just another playstyle :). I don't care if my divetrips takes a bit longer.

I was going to mention this - only difference is the playthrough time! I have a bad habit to lose interest (because of grind) in game and leave them around 60-70% of competition, so I make these changes (and suggestions) for playthrough so they don't become boring, long and gaming fatigue doesn't run out :D But right you are - if you enjoy the hell out of it, then there is no reason to rush/skip anything ;)

Thank you, I will!

Thank you, I'm happy to help! I recall stalling for the first upgrade (to get more money to be prepared for what's next), but all other upgrades did as soon as they where available! There is some..new customer needs that needs to be satisfied with further upgrades, so that is only downside if your staff is not trained to service them (so you have to do it your own), but other than that it gives you chance to server more food, if I recall correctly ;)

thanks for these tips and for typing them out! i was wondering what auto supply was for haha

Damn nice! Thank you for even more awesome tips! Now I'm curious if I got that Bonito or not :D :D

@@MLMariss I have one 2-star Bonito in my fish tank and I am trying to get another one so they can multiply but have not seen that fish in a very long time. But I remember I caught the first one in that area, to the right of the yellow ship. All those small silver fish look alike but if you catch them all with a net gun you will one day catch the Bonito. If you are looking for the White Shrimp, there is almost always one in the Glacial Passage in the room with the mirror. If you don't see it at first leave to the room on the left and then come back in. It almost always spawns there and it's the easiest way to get it. Have fun, it's a great game!

@@ingeborgsvensson4896 If you care about efficiency use auto supply dynamically on your menu during the serving night. Put up whatever ingredient limited item you want to sell (ex tropical fish sushi) only on the menu at the start of the night. Once that sells down to say 3-5 servings, hit 1 which brings up your serving menu again and add on an auto supply dish (likely one you're close to maxxing) to ensure you sell out of that first item. You never want to auto supply a dish that makes multiple servings (ex shark head) as it'll likely waste 3+ servings. Auto supply always wastes 1 serving.

Not a big fan of auto supply - easier and faster for me is to know the size of dishes I can serve, set up the exact amount of most expensive, if there is room left add second next dish, and repeat until reach max dish serving. In most cases it's 1 or 2 dishes per night, per menu :D easy, simple and without micro-management and watching/checking how many what's when is left..and again - everyone has their ways of doing ;)

Fair enough man, fair enough - and we both know then your sushi bar serves way tastier food than my sushi bar :D

Thanks! So you can have 1 weapon at the time, when you are on the boat - you need to approach the yellow box that is not so visible there :D you can then select what is your equipment when you start diving. And when you are diving and have a weapon and find other, then you can swap out by dropping the current weapon on ground.

@@MLMariss thank you!!

Glad it helped!

Happy to help!

Glad it was helpful, thank you for your kind words and happy hunting ;)

Good point! That is the most disagreed point of all times! :D I get that, for me it's an extra micro-management that kills the joy in longer games, but if that is not an issue, then you are right and you should gather them ;)

I've never used this option mainly because I want to sell the most expensive dish first, so I set custom amount for example 30 expensive dish and then 5 next most expensive, otherwise I think it would sell 50:50 no?

@@MLMariss No. There's RNG attached to it.

@@psycheout4733 uh 50:50 means 50% which means that's exactly what RNG is. And unless it's a specific formula that calculates supply level into the choices, it's extremely simple rng to understand. If there are 2 choices on the menu, 50% a customer will pick each. 4 choices then each choice has a 25% chance.

@@nicholaskinkaid 50:50 means 1:1. RNG means while there's technically a 50% chance, by no means do you end up with a 50:50 outcome. There's a massive difference between the two. This is why you try not to auto supply early because the dish you WANT to sell out may not sell out as RNG may have 3 auto supply dishes sold for every 1 of the recipe you want to sell as a priority. Basic statistics here, 50% chance doesn't mean 50 rolls out of 100 in practice.

@@psycheout4733 50;50 is not 1;1. The 50;50 are literal percentage points of something. So in this case, if you have 2 items on the menu then customers have a 50% chance to choose option A and 50% chance to choose option B. 1;1 doesn't make sense as a % because then that means you're saying customers have a 1% (or 100%) chance to choose option A, and a 1% (or 100%) chance to choose option B. Neither % amounts make sense. What *I think* you may be referring to is 'One to One' which means choice A is essentially the same as choice B. So example would be: You're needing to buy cough medicine. You're at the store and see 2 options. Option A is a cheaper generic brand that is identical to the more expensive name brand option B. 1 to 1 has nothing to do with RNG nor %.

If I recall correctly - it was main mission progression that give more new, shiny things - the drone was one of them. Not all missions contribute to the main mission progression (there are those side missions for gathering and side activities) - that might be the only explanation I can come to.

@@MLMariss thanks! I still dont have it yet :(

@@rodneyalacan9473 I bet you'll get it right around the corner! Happy hunting ;)

Yes, another micromanagement and annoying part of the game that can be entirely skipped ;)

Very much yes - I tried to NOT relay on any recipe where I need to grow something, that part of the game (farming) was not fun :D

@@MLMariss what do you cook with max money without grow ?

I recall making biggest jump in earnings when tuna showed up a bit later :D a lot of them in a group and easy to catch if you locate their swimming pattern (usually swimming in figure 8) and then stand out of their way and attack them on every chance. Just shoot at them and hit one by one - I remember them being pretty durable, but will fall one by one, then collecting them all was greatest catch of them all :D

@@MLMariss but wish dishes with tuna

I went through the game 95% relaying on dishes without any additional ingredient :D Just cooking fish alone, as other pointed out it might not be the most efficient way from money per meat perspective, but the fact that I don't have to deal with any ingredient picking up (ignored all the red pots) and also didn't send couriers that also is pretty tedious task, then I 'd say it was still pretty doable and easy! I hope this hasn't been changed since I played, just update the dish keeping an eye so there is decent amount of servings left for the night and you'll be fine ;)

Once you count in the time and effort you have to put into gathering the resources you will get very little out of it. Then you'll see how rank matters more and more ;)

The 3 fish in the recipe are all found the first 100m and you get the rice from the farm it saves a lot of time. You don't even need the seasonings. Whereas your method requires player to play longer and go deeper to get the higher ranked fish. My method can be done extremely early in the game.

I'd argue against 'extremely early' as farm is not then introduced yet :) And also you ignore the fact teleports exist - once you got those you can get there easy and skip all the 'deep diving' ;) But yea - I loved that recipe! But I gave up because of the farm micromanagement and really bad randomizing where sometimes weed destroys 1/3 of the fields and requires so much attention. Kind of felt bad playing Farm in the game where diving should be the focus :)

I'm doing this as well. He really gave some bad advice in the video. He almost crap himself when he saw the shark. 😂

@@TheSeeker225 He doesn't seem to understand that you should sell off extra fish inventory you don't plan to sell in the restaurant nor the biggest fish don't make the most expensive dishes... nor seem to really understand the staff skills and how important grabbing as much of the red pot ingredients as possible for recipe upgrades is needed.

Heh, you might keep that thought as I'll give you one valuable property you are missing out: fatigue. Not for Dave, but for player in real life. Every single thing you mention - yes, it's left on the table and for good reason. Saving the grind, minimizing the micromanagement you have to do every day, reducing the pointless clicking through again and again, and again...and for what? Oh right - 50k a day when all the upgrades are purchased so for just an arbitral digit? Yea..fun! Extra hire, extra sending for ingredients, extra time picking shrimps, extra time picking red pots, extra selling them off for 3x cheaper in fish market, extra grinding to upgrade, to get small fraction closer to get money you don't need anymore and what can be done with ease, fun and dynamic gameplay ;) When you take that in account and trying to see bigger picture here it all makes more sense ;) But hey - that's just an advice: take it or leave it and most importantly is to have fun ;)

@@MLMariss ... This much justification over not passing on things you're already encountering...? This is a new low for trying to give life lessons about picking up some stuff in a game? As for the grind, do you not understand you're playing the game 2x more than I am because I can pick up stuff as I encounter it? Hence why you're playing months longer into the actual game? The bigger picture here is you seemingly NEED to be the authority on the subject. Who's the one who needs to make excuses for NOT doing some VERY basic things that take little to no extra time? I think you should take a look in that mirror for the same advice you're trying to give, especially since you're the one trying to make a living being a game authority - that's not me. What a shame your viewpoint is this 'I play how I want to play and I have to cap on anyone else'. SMH

It's a simple as giving advice should provide bonus - less time spent, less grind, more fun etc,. where your suggested approach has a huge trade off I pointed out. You refuse to acknowledge that and instead go for personal insults, thus this conversation ends here.

Glad it helped and happy hunting!

:D Hard to understand that was a compliment or an insult, but thank you?! :D I got a feeling this game attracted everyone! This high rating with such a magnitude is something you have to see to believe ;)

lol meant it as neither, just an observation :D it is a lovely game, playing it right now@@MLMariss

Oh and another thing is your menu is dynamic through the night. Meaning if you want to ensure an item sells out with no waste, especially for the multi dish recipes (the ones with a number higher than 1 below the recipe next to the bowl and chopsticks), place that one on the menu with a set amount you want to sell and only that and maybe one other item. Then when you see that number get toward say 2 servings left, hit 1 which brings up your menu again, and add more items to your menu to ensure you can serve every customer with a high value dish to make the most out of every dinner service.

We always love more viewpoints on the games - thank you for this! I see how some of your points work together to make them more efficient, that's great! The money calculation vs kg goes away with one thing - you are limited how many servings you can get every day! Small fish will rarely if ever have a higher price dish as big ones (excluding ingredients). ;) And you gave my peace of mind about those damn reservoirs - was not sure if eggs are collected or not! Now I will sleep in peace at night :D

@@MLMariss The reason why you care about efficiency in $$/kg is you can't serve more than ~40 servings a night even at the highest level. Hence to be efficient you can sell the extra meat to the fish market for VERY little space in your inventory used for more than even prepped shark dishes. It's extremely easy to max recipe level cliones and shrimps in a few dives because they're so common and take up very little space. 10kg of clione represents 300 pieces. 10kg is less than 3 servings for most sharks. Examples: Clione takes 0.1kg inventory and makes 3 pieces and sells at the restaurant for $129 at max level and to the fish market at $25 a piece. This means the value per kg of a clione $3870 in the restaurant and $750 selling the meat alone. Black Tiger Shrimp: .1kg, 3 pieces. $185 served or $17 sold. $5550/kg selling in the restaurant and $510/kg selling to the fish market. Megamouth Shark: 11.5kg per slot, 5 pieces per 2 star. At Lvl 9 (my current level and it takes forever to level) it is $323 plate in the restaurant $31 per piece just selling. This means a minimum value of $13.5/kg selling the fish or a Lvl 9 sold at the restaurant is $140.4/kg Tiger Shark: 15kg per slot, 5 pieces per 2 star. Max level is $185 per plate in the restaurant and $17 per serving selling to the market. Minimum value of $5.7/kg selling the fish or max level sold at the restaurant is $61.7/kg. In both cases you'd make a TON more money filling your entire inventory with cliones and shrimp then selling all of them to the fish market. Being that there's not an unlimited supply of any of these specific ingredients you simply balance both and pick up as many shrimp and cliones as possible every dive while also collecting ingredients for recipes you want to serve in the restaurant to best utilize the ~40 plates you can serve a night. They'll take up less than 5-10kg of inventory per dive are the most valuable for that inventory space regardless of if you serve them or just sell them.

I see the thought process here, and again we are falling back to the kilograms :D Lemme take your numbers and run once again - let's say at current level you can handle 25 person per night: Clione: $129 per serving = 129 x 25 = $3,225 per day Megamouth Shark: $323 per serving = 323 x 25 = $8,072 per day Clione profit is maxed out at $3,225 where you can server only 10 Megamouth Shark dishes to reach the same (and the sell anything else for rest 15 dishes). How many is 10 dishes? Oh right, 2 sharks. So you see we have the same profit per full bag of farming, grinding and picking all over the place versus go to 2 spots where they spawn and that's it. + I'll let it slide how you downplay sharks with only 2 star dish (the cheap one), where by my guide I show and explain how and why to catch them alive ;) ++ let' s not forget about 15 more dishes of any kind you can sell off with the shark dishes

@@MLMariss Again you're missing the point entirely. You make a bunch of assumptions that are wrong. 1) You assume max level shark is open as soon as max level clione or black shrimp. It's not, it's not by a long shot. You're not getting max level shark until a month plus into the game. You can have max level clione or shrimp literally a few days after you open up the bug net. 2) You ignore the startup costs to shark or any of the other big animals. In order to get it to level 10 recipe, you literally need to sacrifice 200+ samples to the upgrades. That costs weight, the limited number of sharks per dive and which costs time. 3) You ignore that 3 star sharks are only possible post drone AND you're limited to 3 drone pickups a dive for ALL. You're not continuing to upgrade the Tiger Shark while also upgrading the Megamouth, Narwhal and Frilled at the same time. The VAST majority of the shark catches one has while leveling up the recipe is exactly 2 stars and 5 pieces. 4) ANY drone pickup has ZERO weight bearing. It doesn't take up any inventory space. It has a literal infinite $$/kg ratio since they weigh nothing. 5) Let's assume you use all your drone pickups on the sharks you're upgrading. You miss out on taking advantage of the Tuna day and many other celebration days because you're spending your drone catches on the single shark you're upgrading. Even then it's likely another shark unlocks while you're still struggling to upgrade the first shark. 6) Your entire view is about selling the fish in the restaurant. You don't care anything about what WEIGHT requirements to get there which is idiotic as the entire game is about weight management. We're literally talking about the best use of the carry capacity BECAUSE each of these animals are limited spawns. You're NOT filling up your entire inventory with a single shark. So what do you do instead? Pick up some extremely weight efficient items to sell NOT IN THE RESTAURANT. 7) The most expensive dishes AREN'T SHARK ONLY DISHES. So again, trying to farm sharks like you're trying to emphasize ISN'T ideal at all. Vegtable sushi, Seagrapes Jellyfish sushi, tropical fish sashimi are ALL much more valuable than your sharks or "farm big fish only" mentality. Bottom line: NO ONE is trying to compare 10 plates of the more expensive dish is going to make more money than 10 plates of the less expensive dish. That's silly to try and think otherwise. What is being said is yes, you're limited to selling 10 or 25 dishes a night. HOW ELSE DO YOU ADD TO THAT VALUE? 5kg of clione or shrimp to sell directly to the fish market! I don't know why it's so difficult for you to understand there's more than the restaurant as the only revenue stream. Literally in the end game, due to your fish farm, you're swimming in extra fish you NEED to sell off to the fish market and NOT serve in your restaurant.

Sorry to hear, but I hope you did find a cover and used showed tactics not just fighting in the open!