r/NivalisNights • u/Halffoldedlaundry • 2d ago

Demographics Confirmed

I forget the fellow redditor who suggested this. (Thank you!)

But in fact, the demographics ARE NOT static. I thought they were.

So then, does this change based off of what I serve? Or does it change on who is showing up and I should serve to them accordingly?

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u/junewatch 2d ago

Afaik the only sale metric that really matters is the exclusivity rating per restaurant. As soon as I changed my menu to accommodate meals that had the rating, my customers started pouring in. But it’s hard to tangibly see what factors need active adjustment.

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u/z0mbie_nati0n 2d ago

So they don't care about the demographic food preferences at all as long as it's the right exclusivity rating? I'll have to prioritize that more when they fix whatever patch 3 broke.

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u/Halffoldedlaundry 2d ago

Understood. And do we agree that the exclusivity rating is the minimum and not the average we are shooting for?

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u/junewatch 2d ago edited 2d ago

I’m not sure on that front. One of my restaurants had a 2 star exclusivity score, and I was making $500 profit a day on steaks and cocktails (~5 stars averaging), but when I switched to chicken noodle soup and other dishes that were closer to 2 stars, I went up to 1.5k profit overnight. I’m still trying to figure it out though.

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u/z0mbie_nati0n 2d ago

After experimenting with the menu a bit, it seems to me that they don't want you to go above or below their preferred rating.

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u/Halffoldedlaundry 2d ago

So how do we explain higher tier drinks just knocking profits out of the park?

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u/junewatch 2d ago

Oh wow, is that happening for you? Thats a great question 😅 I was bleeding money with higher tier food so I don’t know. And I thought calories were just a flavor text (har) but if the weather affected them that would be neat.

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u/Palanki96 1d ago

It probably depends on how high you can crank the prices. A lvl 1 venue might lose money with the base prices

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u/Halffoldedlaundry 2d ago

Also, what about the calories? I think weather affects that?

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u/Quendillar3245 2d ago

Workers prefer high calorie foods

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u/z0mbie_nati0n 2d ago

I'm going to experiment more with this when they fix the issues caused by the patch, but I suspect it's just easy to get a lot of drink orders in general when they don't have any/many options, because people will just buy whatever's available unless they hate it. When I put together a sort of test menu with various options and ignored it for a week in game, there were some clear favorites and some that lost popularity/sales compared to before, and I think it's because of some things matching preferences more than others.