Gifting advice (part 2)

Gifting your neighbours is a significant part of Restaurant Story. The only piece of advice that I believe all players should take on board is that they should whenever possible try to gift a neighbour the same item that they've received a request for from said neighbour if they've made one. Otherwise, what is the best thing to do regarding gifts?

There are two main categories of gift items - food and parts. I covered food gifts in part 1. Here I concentrate on part gifts.

The ten main parts in Restaurant Story

Parts are necessary for building most appliances, and by stocking up on them through gifting, you can reduce the reliance on requests being accepted when building special appliances.

The ten main parts pictured above are the ones most commonly required for appliance construction. Most of the other parts are only useful for building one special appliance.

 Gifting advice

 30/08/13 Food gifts

Personally, I prefer to receive part gifts. The main reason for this is that I have no real use for food gifts (as covered in part 1). But I do also prefer to collect parts as they can be stored up and utilised when necessary for new appliances.

This is particularly relevant at the moment because of TeamLava's recent policy on new appliances. Since the start of the summer, the game's developers have been pleasing players by releasing new appliances which require existing parts to build. This makes it much easier to construct lots of the new machines quickly.

For example the Cruise Ship Stove (which was unlocked in the Cruise goals) requires 10 Metal Sheets and 10 Screws to build. Now starting from nothing you would have to wait a while to build up an army of this appliance to help get the goals done. This is because you can only accept 20 gifts a day in addition to having 20 part requests accepted. But with lots of Metal Sheets and Screws saved up over time, I was able to build four or five of these beauties immediately.

So which of the parts is the best to gift? Well, as I've already said, the ten main parts in the image above are the most common requirements for constructible appliances.

But getting into more detail, here's a table showing how many of each of these main parts are required across all of the current active appliances (including those unlocked through goals):

Part	Number of occurences*
Screw	133
Paint	65
Knob	52
Gear	51
Metal Sheet	46
Nozzle	45
Motor	34
Fuse	20
Spring	16
Wiring	15

(*) This count includes appliances available this year (whether by default or by goals) up to and including the Old West update this week, and does not include any appliances costing gems such as Forever and Sonic appliances.

So the Screw is quite clearly the most commonly required part with Paint a strong second followed by Knobs and Gears. I was actually quite surprised that Springs and Wiring are so underused. But remember that this could change when new appliances are released in the future, as was the case with the addition of the Saloon Stove this week - Wiring is a component for it.

So if you want to give your neighbours a headstart when they come to build appliances, then Screws are the way to go!