You may have got your tavern up and running in medieval RPG Wartales: The Tavern Opens but the work has only just begun. If you want to succeed, you'll have to beat the competition, so read on to find out how to infiltrate other taverns and get the best of them.
How to infiltrate rival taverns in Wartales The Tavern Opens
you have four options if you want to infiltrate a tavern. You can infiltrate as many different ones (low-ranked, and the one right above you in the rankings) as you like at once, but each can only be infiltrated by one infiltrator at a time.
- Bard: Possibility to gain Prestige. This helps you rise through the tavern rankings faster.
- Doorman: Possibility to remove Prestige from the tavern (see below). This is important to take from the rival above you to make it easier for you to move up the ranking.
- Brewer: Maybe steal their Secret Brewing Recipe (one per tavern). After that, later Brewers sent to infiltrate will gain Patrons. Successfully stealing a Brewing Recipe will allow a Brewer to brew that recipe at your camp, as well as allow your brewing team in the tavern to offer the new type of alcohol.
- to cook: Maybe steal their Secret Cooking Recipe (one per tavern). Once you've stolen their secret cooking recipe, later chefs sent to infiltrate will claim bonus Patrons instead. Successfully stealing a Cooking Recipe will allow a Chef to make that recipe at your camp, and will also allow your tavern cooking to offer the new type of alcohol.
- Thief: Potential to steal Copper Coins. A high-quality thief can make a nice profit with little risk by hitting low-level taverns. For example, a Master Thief infiltrating a no-star tavern for four shifts will cost you 20 Copper in wages but steal 40 Copper in return. Note that the Prestige Level as well as the Star Rating of a tavern affect your reward, but only the Star Level affects difficulty.
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you can send any of your staff (or hire new staff) who are not currently working in the tavern on infiltration missions. During the mission they will continue to earn half pay as if they were in your reserve, and will still appear in your reserve. However, they will be marked as an infiltrator and will not be available again until they return.
Note that, as with working in your tavern, any staff member can infiltrate as a Bouncer instead of as their chosen profession. Their porter level is always considered to be the same as that of their chosen profession (Bard, Cook, etc).
you can cancel any infiltration mission at any time on the Rival Taverns screen (just click the Cancel Mission button). Alternatively, you can fire them completely from the Staffing menu.
What affects your chance of a successful infiltration?
There are several options you can change to make it easier to succeed in your tavern infiltration attempts.
- Quality of staff: The better the staff member is at their job (professional level) when you send them to the infiltration test, the better their base chance of success is. For example, an ApprenticeBrewer would only have a 4 percent chance of infiltrating a two-star tavern if you sent them for two shifts (and 0 percent for one shift), while an Expert Brewer would have a 14 percent chance after two shifts (4 percent after one).
- Shifts spent infiltrating: Each extra shift you leave your infiltrator in the rival tavern for will add 10 percent to their success chance. However, you are only allowed to send them for a maximum of five shifts.
- Rival tavern Star level: The higher the star rank of the tavern at the moment, the harder it will be for you to infiltrate it.
- Tavern ranking: You can only attempt to infiltrate taverns that are one place higher than you on the Tavern Ranking board, regardless of the quality of the infiltrator or the number of shifts you send them for. You can also infiltrate all taverns below you in the rankings.
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Once a member of staff goes on an infiltration attempt, the only thing that will affect their chance of success is if the infiltrated tavern loses a star while they are on the mission. In this case, the new lower Star Rating will change their success chance (making it more likely to succeed). Any finished infiltration results (successes and failures) will appear at the bottom of your shift report.
Why is the Prestige and Star Ranking of the rival tavern important?
Rising on the Tavern Ranking table offers several benefits:
- Everyone new star rating you will reach (climbing the table) will give you a reward of the Guild of Taverns.
- You can infiltrate taverns only one position above you (or anywhere below) in the table. The higher you get, des more taverns you can infiltrate immediately
- Every tavern has two recipes to steal (one Brwing and one cooking). Infiltration is the only way to obtain these particular recipes.
The Star Level of the tavern you are trying to infiltrate will affect how difficult it will be to succeed with the infiltration and the reward you will receive if you infiltrate for anything other than recipes. The Prestige Level affects their position in the tavern rankings as well as the rewards you receive (not including recipes).
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