Lemonade Tycoon 2 New York Edition - Tips and Tricks

Well, recently, I've been fond of this little business strategy game. And believe me - it's really addictive!! Download it and play for half an hour.. and you're gonna love it..



What's it about?

You are given some dollars, a lemonade-stand and a single staff to sell lemonade. You have to decide the recipe of your lemonade and the price at which you are gonna sell it based on the area in New York where your stand is located, the climate of the whole day, the time of the day (morning, noon or evening. Nights are for planning for the next day.) The decisions can be dynamic.. you can change your recipe based on the customer feedback, which you can see from the comprehensive reports generated. You go on earning profits and buy more and better lemonade stands/trailers for you to reach your destination of being the Lemonade Tycoon!
All in all, its a great game.. just try it!

Tips and Tricks

I would suggest you figure out these points yourself by playing for a day or two. That would be much more fun..
Anyway, if you choose to do it otherwise, here are the tricks:

1.
Always keep your customers happy. Look for the snapshot report for the feedback. Don't worry much if they find your lemonade costly (because that's how you are going to earn profits). Just keep the taste of your lemonade good and your customers will come back.

2.
Recipe which I found worked best:
Temperature <50F : 8L 3S 2I (8Lemons 3Sugar 2Ice)
Temperature >50F and <65F : 8L 3S 3I
Temperature >65F : 9L 3S 4I
Go for less ice if its rainy.

3.
For each stand, you should have atlease one upgrade for Customer Patience, Service time, Popularity, Visibility, Basic Staff Training and Weather.

4.
Buy stock only as much as required (based on your recipe). Don't buy according to the capacity of your stand.

5.
The best way to play is to set the recipe and price (keep the price a little high.. can go upto $4 for a stand in the Times Square) of each stand at night based on the forecast for next day, and Fast Forward the day. Go on with the same meter of recipe if you earn profits. Try and increase the price to see the profits increase.

That's it!! Do post in any other tips/tricks which you have for Lemonade Tycoon 2 New York Edition.

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Summers at Riot-stricken Bangalore

Hi again.. what am I doing these days? I'm at Aditi Technologies, Bangalore, doing my summer internship.. Am here since the 3rd of April.. and will be here till the 3rd of June.. About the place i am located - sadashivnagar in bangalore, which ia a little off-beat place.. away from all the fun.. nothing around here.. nothing means literally nothing.. i cant get a proper bread here.. i ask for bread and i get a question "Sweet or Salty?" .. now what do i say? there are a few "Sagars" nearby, so i manage to get something nice on weekends when the office canteeen is closed.. and YA.. there is a pizza hut.. its like got sent it here for my rescue.. but alas- havent yet got a chance to visit it.. its no fun going there alone and having a pizza.. me and abhijit (my batchmate) hardly are together as he is placed in a different facility.. so we do meet at the guesthouse where we play TT and then watch some tv before we go to our beds in our individual rooms!! and ya.. there was one supermarket near to my place but it got all smashed up and empty (people stole everything) on the day when Dr. Rajkumar died..
and this brings me to another story.. he lived in the same lane as my guest house.. just a few houses away.. and that fateful day, we were suddenly told in the afternoon that this particular person has passed away.. so we rather move away from this place.. so me and abhijit happily decide to go to MG road as he had never been there before.. we reach the bus stop.. no busses.. no rickshaws are even waiting.. they are running as if the world is going to end.. and we still do not get the severity of the situation.. i mean .. this great artist has just completed his life.. and he has lived his life fully and wonderfully.. and why do the ricks need to run?? also, my spice phone connection had gone all crazy.. so finally, we decide to walk down.. its about 8 kms to mg.. and we do walk down.. we reach there and fine all shops closed!! so we head back walking again.. and finally we reach our place to find people rioting!! never in my life i had been in such a situation!! all of them suddenly came running towards us and we were confused, we also started running.. but they were too fast.. glass bottles showering from thin air.. people breaking the bus-stand, banners, throwing stones at buildings.. and we were in between them as we just had no place to go.. a person even caught hold of abhijit's collar and said something in kannada.. and abhijit out of sheer fear shouted "Rajkumar ki jay" and miraculously that man let him go!! we finally got into a lane out of the mainstream of rioters!! and waited there till everything was quiet.. and then we reached home... just to be locked in there for the next 2 days!!

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The Grand Mysore Trip

We all reached (in two parts - me and the rest) the KSRTC bus stand at 6:15 AM on sunday.. (i was there the earliest!!) .. saw a volvo standing there and a biiiig line.. all i could do was go and stand in the line.. and all i could see was a few people eating a sandwich and walking away from the counter taking the tickets...!!!
then after about half an hour, ratika, pragya and suruchi arrived.. that brought a smile to my face (good to see that now i am not alone.. and now someone can go and get some food!! .. jus kiddin!! ) .. finally we get tickets for a volvo at 7:30.. and we rush to the volvo standing there.. we see that the whole bus was full.. so we rush out as there were two more volvos standing behind it.. we nicely go and take some nice seats in the almost empty volvo.. now comes the ticket checker.. or conductor or whatever!! .. he asks for the ticket, and i proudly put my hand in my pocket and give him a printed ticket.. the conductor looks at me as says "Five!!!" .. i said.. "yes.. we are five" (There was Ms. Chulbul, ratika's colleague, with us also).. his expressions changed and he angrily threw the ticket on me.. i was really confused and looked at the ticket.. and it actually was a Rs. 5 ticket (instead of the Rs. 700 ticket i just got)... now i understand why Mr. conductor got so angry.. i had come to the ksrtc bus stand by bus in the morning.. there also, i had got a ticket for Rs. 5 for myself.. that explained it all...!!! i grinned.. and took out the other ticket lying nicely in my pocket.. and gave it to him smiling.. but instead of getting a smile back from him, all i got was an angry look.. and he pulled the ticket from me as if i had stolen it from him!! .. and the next thing i see is the rest 4 people staring at me in awe!! i had to explain everything to them to bring shouts of laughter out of them!!
thats not all for the beginning..
the conductor comes again.. this time, with a printed sheet.. he takes my ticket and tells us to get down!!! and explains me that the ticket with 5 seats which i had - it was for the previous bus.. and it has to be that way.. now the bus had gone.. and we cannot board this bus.. as this bus has its own quota of tickets already booked!!.. Now, Suruchi didi came into picture.. the conductor was not ready to listen to me.. he atleast calmly listened to what she said.. and we came to a solution.. he said that the ticket booth will write something on the backside of the ticket and we can board the next volvo..
finally, all said and done, we boarded the volvo, and didnt breathe till we were rolling!! phew..!! good start that was!!
the subsequent two days went by soo fast.. we did a lot of sight seeing.. nidhi and kishore joined us later that day.. and chulbul left us as soon as we reached mysore.. I must say she was pissed off with my pjs ;) ..
the best that i liked was the waterfall in which we walked down the croocked steps.. it was too good.. and the round boat ride (the boat which is there in the Roja song) .. food was not so special.. but ok.. vrindavan gardens were also cool..
overall, a good experience, and a good change from the routine!!

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