Ultimately, your aim is to gather enough energy to make outrageous surcharges on very high quality items. Whenever possible, you should offer discounts for items with a low base price. This is the most reliable way to gain energy, but the action halves the price of the item being sold. When your energy is high, you should first surcharge 1-2 clients and then small talk with other adventurers once your reserves are low again. As such, it’s best to use this option and pair it with a discount when your energy is below 2/3. There is a chance of approximately 66% that this action will give you 10% of your current energy, but in the other 33% of cases, you will lose 7% of your total energy.
This will give you +1 Energy to begin with and additional Energy for each upgrade of the Counter. Depending on the price of an item, Surcharging costs more or less of your shopkeeper’s Energy. Surcharging is basically how you will make most of your money in Shop Titans, but it doesn’t come for free. At this point, you can simply sell the gear or you can Surcharge the client for double the price.
This sum is usually determined by the type and quality of the item, rather than by the type of customer (with the exception of the King, of course). In other words, the customer tells you what they want to buy and exactly how much they would like to pay for it. The transaction is never automatic, however. Every time a person walks through the door to your store, they will look around for some time and, if they find a suitable item, they will eventually make a purchase. Shop Titans might mix together elements of RPG and other genres, but it all boils down to the way you interact with your customers. Although you’ll still have to put in a lot of work to make the most of your store, the information you’ll find here will at least ensure that the time you spend on Shop Titans always works in your favor. In what follows, we’ve put together tips and tricks that the tutorial omits when you start a new game. Yet you have to be able to prioritize between these different tasks if you’re going to make more money… and fast. This can mean researching new patterns, expanding your shop, making smart sales, sending heroes on quests, and more.
As the owner of a small shop, your initial goal is to reach a point where each click generates as much value as possible for your store. Every single action in Shop Titans either generates or costs money.