Guide

Working the objectives into your day

How to fit the objectives Supermarket Simulator sets — missions, the tasks under them and the tutorials — around a normal shop day, using only the parts the game itself defines.

Applies to

1.6.0 (223), read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

A shop that is already open for business
Some idea of what the shop can do
The shop computer within reach

Steps

Read what the game is asking for before you buy anything for it.
the game keeps missions in a container of their own with a system behind them, and each mission has data of its own
Treat a mission as a set of tasks rather than one job.
a mission is built on named tasks, and the game also has a mission shape that is a single task plus a mission that runs in steps
Take the order work one task at a time.
filling an order, closing it and delivering it are three named tasks, so an order can be part of the way through rather than all or nothing
Do the objectives that need money before the day's spending.
there is a mission activated by an online order, and the money side of the shop is a system of its own
Use the tutorial prompts as a checklist rather than as instructions.
tutorial objectives have their own data and their own display, and the scale has a display of its own
Do the weighing steps while you are already at the scale.
the scale has an interaction task and a tutorial manager of its own, so the steps line up with work you are doing anyway
Check progress where the game keeps it instead of counting by hand.
the mission data describes the shape of a mission and the task is the unit that is tracked
Leave the objectives that need stock until after the shelves are filled.
stock arrives through orders of its own, so filling shelves and doing objectives can be planned as separate passes over the shop

Common mistakes

Buying stock for an objective before reading what the objective actually asks for.
Treating a mission as one job when it is several separate tasks.
Queueing for a weighing step while a customer is already at the scale.
Following a tutorial prompt as an instruction long after the tutorial is done.

Related entries

Diagram: the game holds a mission made of tasks, shows the objective it sets, and checks it after a delay.

Running the shopMissions and the objectives the game setsThe game carries a mission system with a container for missions and mission data.

Diagram: a mission is built on tasks, including filling, closing and delivering an order, an interaction task at the scale, ice-cream requests and a container for progression.

Running the shopThe task layer under the missionsA mission is built on tasks of its own rather than being a single instruction.

In-game picture of the storefront of the shop on the first day from Supermarket Simulator, used to illustrate The tutorials that point you at things.

Running the shopThe tutorials that point you at thingsThe scale has a tutorial manager of its own, with an indicator display and a part that holds the indicator's position.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.