Current Events > So why am I trash at business in Yakuza 7?

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I dropped a bunch of ranks my first two cycles and only now can get a couple back. My employees were just tossed aside during the first shareholder meeting, but it wasn't clear how to prevent that.

Is this just how it works to start?

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someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my confectionary is dying

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Help

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The very first two you're supposed to lose money (tutorial reasons), then you're allowed to move employees around and the game won't let you progress until your in the green, from that point on you should never lose money or rank.

Each location has 3 employees, the leader uses all 3 stats, and the other 2 employees only use one of their stats, depending on the slot. If you have an employee who is strong in the presents icon but they are set in a slot that only has the heart icon lit, they're basically useless. All the stats add up to your 3 bars in the bottom right corner. Each of those bars has a vertical line, try and hit that line, although it's not mandatory to making money (you'll make more if you do though). Also make sure your employees are happy. In the employees menu there's a button on the bottom that says auto recovery. Do that every other run and you'll make more money.

The bulk of your money comes from upgrading your locations, especially the upgrade on the top of the list that I can't remember the name. Always upgrade your locations to max and make sure your stats can keep up. Leveling up your employees also raise their stats a bit.

ALWAYS take the commercial slot when available, it's random, but it's free money.

Shareholder meetings are a lot easier than they make it seem. All you really need is 3 employees, one of each color (have a 4th though, you'll get more total action points). Get your employee of each color with the highest charisma stat, as that's the attack stat. You can memorize the color wheel, but I'm too slow at that so I use visual clues for my choices. Select one of the people and when they say their words, scroll through your members until you see the words "weak" under their text, or memorize that colors weakness and go right there. It'll take 1 hit to knock them down, then under the timer it says to use a certain color for a combo or something (or again, memorize the color wheel and go right to it). Go to that color and use it a bunch of times until they're knocked out. Repeat for everyone. Your action points regenerate over time, so don't go too fast or else you'll run out of points. Wait until your timers are almost full before selecting stuff. If you run out of points, you can do the apology power, which at level 2 and 3 (aim for 3, just takes time to build), will give you a bunch of points. By the end I had a max of 100 action points and ended shareholder meetings with 50 points while going as fast as I can, it would also take less than a minute, it's easy.

That's the main stuff I can remember. Is there something in particular you're having problems with?

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No, that all seems very helpful, it was just a lot to wrap my mind around at first.

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They made 7 of these games? How are they?

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SquirtleSkwad posted...

They made 7 of these games? How are they?

It's more than 7 with spinoffs, a prequel, and remakes.

I've only played 0 and now Like A Dragon and have really enjoyed both despite having totally different combat systems and progression.

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Can I play LAD without playing the previous games


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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

Can I play LAD without playing the previous games

yes, i did and it's been great

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Yeah the color wheel confused me for several meetings as well.

Also, make sure every employee is being used. Don't have excess labor.

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There's a lot thrown at you but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy.

For employees, keep in mind that when you raise their level cap, you have to start paying them more money. Also, they have a mood that you need to fix every so often or they'll become disgruntled and work less

As for properties, make sure you have an employee that is an all arounder in the first slot and employees that excel in 1 stat in the other slots to make the most out of the bars.

And whenever the game asks if you want to advertise for the week, ALWAYS SAY YES! You bring in like x2-x3 profit from this and definitely pays for itself

As for board meetings, employees have 2 traits: Persuasion and charisma. Persuasion is their attack stat and charisma is their HP
When shareholders ask a question, their speech bubble will be a certain color. You can break it in one shot if you use an employee that is strong against the color of the speech bubble. If you fail to break that speech bubble, the employee they targetted will take "damage"
Once you break the speech bubble, you can attack with your employees. If you use an employee that is strong against the shareholder's type, they'll take additional damage and increase your combo meter for the bout.

The color weakness is easy >_> Just think pokemon. Red beats green, green beats blue, and blue beats red.

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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

Can I play LAD without playing the previous games

There are a lot of returning characters, but knowing their backstories is not important for LAD. It's pretty self contained so you won't be lost. It was also my first yakuza game, but I have a passing knowledge of the returning characters.

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markconigliaro posted...

There are a lot of returning characters, but knowing their backstories is not important for LAD. It's pretty self contained so you won't be lost. It was also my first yakuza game, but I have a passing knowledge of the returning characters.

I only played up until the second game and that was the original PS2 version way back then

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I've been meaning to try out the advice NeonOctopus gave but I've just been so wrapped up in the story. Just finished chapter 8 and it's been like 2 solid hours of twists in a row. Great stuff.

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