2. Travel as frequently as possible to available ports provided you’ve got enough cash on hand to pay for the trip, and all your factories are working, so you’ll have something to sell in the future.

3. When you’re at the market and trying to buy some ingredients, HAGGLE if you find the suggested price too high(the pricing rate is displayed when you mouse over each ingredient for sale). Some vendors are more affable than others. The best place where I most frequently buy ingredients is San Jose Theatre Market. This guy cuts his prices more often than other vendors do. And this is the closest place to San-Francisco.

4. When selling your products, you can haggle as well. The best place to sell your ingredients for the first time is the shop in San Jose as well. Sell frequently to Mrs Baumeister - and soon she’ll gladly sell you her own shop.

5. Don’t haggle if:

a). the prices are at the lowest rate;

b). you haggled at the same place several times before;

c). you see the vendor(customer) is in a bad mood(Pay attention to their facial expression).

d). don’t haggle with San Francisco confectionery shop(this is my personal impression). You cannot talk turkey with the local shop owner. I decidedly didn’t like this lady.

6. Buy new factories, and laboratory once your budget allows you to.

7. Always try to base your production on the newly-uncovered recipes.

8. You can buy a laboratory for inventing your own recipes. You’ll be paid more for the products that contain secret ingedients. If you cannot match the ingredients you have qwith the secret ingredients, go to the market and get yourself a couple of sacks of a different ingredient.

9. When you’re visiting a port on no matter what purpose, once you’ve complete your mission, check all the locations at this port.

10. When you go gambling with somebody, don’t be greedy and leave the game while you uncover 60% of the boxes.