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Décor and ambience
Dress the room; guests notice.
Behind the counter is a room, and it can be dressed: paint, wallpaper, tiles, a floor, things in the window, lights, pictures, things on the counter. Every piece adds to the shop's one ambience, and ambience makes guests more patient and more generous.
How ambience works
- Every piece adds 1 (a small thing), 2 (a piece of the room) or 3 (a whole wall, floor or string of lights), by its size in the room, never by what it was paid with. A piece bought with pearls is a fancier look, never a stronger one.
- The market's charm cards that hang in the room add their ambience too (String of Paper Lanterns +3, Window Geraniums +3, Painted Swallow Sign +2, Copper Tip Jar +1, Hand-Lettered Menu Board +2 and Little Terrace Table +2).
- Owning a whole décor set adds +2 more.
- Every single point counts: between two named levels the bonuses rise a little with each point. The very first piece already reaches a level.
| Ambience | Level | Guests wait longer | Tips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Bare boards | ||
| 1 | A touch of home | +3% | |
| 3 | Tidy and bright | +7% | +4% |
| 6 | Welcoming | +13% | +9% |
| 9 | Cosy | +19% | +13% |
| 13 | Charming | +27% | +19% |
| 16 | The talk of the street | +32% | +23% |
| 21 | A little jewel box | +35% | +26% |
| 26 | Lantern-lit | +38% | +29% |
| 32 | The heart of the quarter | +40% | +32% |
| every 4 more | …, 1 star, 2 stars… | +1% each | +1% each |
Everything in today's catalogue together comes to 45 ambience. There is no ceiling: past the last named level every few points add a star.
The pieces
Pieces for euros come first in the market's décor tab, then the pieces for pearls.
