Running a successful mascot agency is the main aim of the game Promise Mascot Agency, as the title might suggest. You need to earn plenty of money, not only to hire mascots and reinvest into your business and Kaso-Machi, but not far into the game you'll also need to start sending some earnings back to your yakuza family to keep them afloat.

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In short, you need a lot of capital, and you need it often. That's why you'll want to maximize your possible mascot job earnings at any time, but you'll find the way you run your agency changes depending on how much cash you've got. Here's what you need to know.

Mascot Jobs

Every job you send a mascot on will reward you with a certain amount of base pay cash, Fame, and increased Popularity for the mascot sent, and each one will take a different number of hours to complete.

Each job will also reduce your mascot's Stamina a bit, but this will replenish over time.

The longer a job takes, the more Stamina it requires. You can send a Mascot on a job with insufficient Stamina, but this does increase the chance of them having an incident while on the job.

Pick The Right Mascot Type

  • Safety

    Love

    Funny

    Unusual

    Food

    Historical

    Cute

    Scary

  • Mascot Types

    There are eight different types of mascots, each identified by the mascot face icons attributed to each mascot. Each job prefers certain types of mascots, with each one having its preferred mascot type listed on the job information, and sending the correct type will improve job performance.

    You don't have to send the correct mascot type on a job, though jobs don't expire so you can simply wait until you have the right mascot available.

    Sending the correct mascot type will maximize the potential to get the most out of the job, as it lowers the chance of the mascot needing help while on the job. However, when you're first starting out and you're more desperate for cash, you might not want to wait and so it might be best to send whoever you have available for a quick turnaround.

How To Help Mascots Who Need Help

Occasionally while on a job, mascots will need your help, and you have a set time limit to act on this.

Failing to help, or trying to help and failing to complete the incident successfully means you will still complete the job, but you won't earn as much money.

Additionally, the mascot who fails will lose some Happiness and receive fewer stat boosts from completing the job.

  • Each incident involves a mascot coming across a certain obstacle, and you'll also be notified which rewards you are at risk of losing should you fail at the bottom of the screen.

    To successfully complete the incident, you have to defeat the obstacle by reducing its health bar to zero. Your mascot's stats will be the first hit against the obstacle, factoring in Happiness, Popularity, and Motivation. Then it's up you and your Hero Cards to reduce the remainder of the health bar.

The Mascot Incident Card Game

You start with two Actions per card minigame (the red hand icon with the number on the left) and once you've run out of Actions, it's game over. Each card has different stats, on the left hand side you can see:

    • The number of Actions the card requires to be played. (Red Hand)
    • The number of Actions playing the card will add. (Green Hand)
    • The number of cards playing the card will add to your hand. (Green Card)

  • There are five different stats on each card, with the following icons:

    • Cog
    • Thought bubble
    • Footsteps
    • People
    • Pawprint

Each obstacle's health bar will relate to one of these stats, and you want to use cards with a high value in the obstacle's stat in order to decrease its health bar as quickly as possible. For example, if the obstacle has the Footsteps icon, you want to use cards with a high Footsteps stat.

If the hand you are dealt isn't good, you can Mulligan it at the start before you play any cards to draw a new hand. You can only do this twice.

You have to be careful about which cards you play to ensure you have enough actions for the cards you wish to play, and ensure the cards you're playing have enough stats to decrease the health bar fully.

  • If you want to try and avoid incidents, sending the correct mascot type helps, and you can also send your mascots with Help Items to reduce the chance of an incident happening. Sending a mascot with a Help Item and them not using it will also give a bonus.

    These can be bought from vending machines, found when fishing, or given as quest and Life Satisfaction Event rewards.

Complete Life Satisfaction Events

Every now and then you'll be notified that a mascot is ready for a Life Satisfaction Event, and you can do these by speaking with Shiori near the stage outside the Promise Mascot Agency. These events are generally a short cutscene conversation with the mascot in question, but each one will eventually ask you to take them somewhere as part of their progress.

Each mascot will have three Life Satisfaction Events and completing these will improve your Mascot stats, as well as give you item rewards and new buffs. You should keep on top of completing Life Satisfaction Events with your mascots to reap the rewards so that they are the best they can be when sent on jobs.

Surviving Vs Thriving

While we've given you all the information you need to maximise your job earnings in Promise Mascot Agency, it's worth noting that you can't always play this way. You'll find yourself short on cash at times, and this means you'll have to make do with whatever mascots you have.

Depending on how healthy your bank balance is, you'll want to adjust your strategy based on whether you're surviving or thriving.

Thriving Earnings

To maximise your earnings from jobs, you ideally want to:

  • Send the correct mascot type, wait if they're not available.
  • Send a mascot with enough stamina.
  • Send a happy mascot, and ensure you're giving them their bonuses and raises to keep them happy.
  • Complete incidents successfully.

This means you'll want to wait for the correct mascot, or for them to have enough stamina, and you'll need to keep on top of Life Satisfaction Events and deliver on any promised bonuses and Job Share Reviews without reducing pay.

Completing incidents successfully requires having good Hero Cards, and it's worth knowing that as you take on advanced jobs, you have to reduce bigger health bars.

If you don't have good Hero Cards, you'll want to invest in purchasing better cards from NPCs or hunt down good cards by completing quests. You can also rely more on Help Items.

Surviving Earnings

When you're low on cash and you need to make a quick buck, high turnover of jobs is more important than keeping your mascots happy. This is what we recommend:

  • Send the correct mascot type if you can, but if not, send any type.
  • Send mascots even if they don't have enough stamina.
  • Complete incidents successfully.
  • If you need to, lower your mascot's Job Share so you get more money from each completed job.

Don't be afraid to lower a mascot's Job Share percentage, it will lower their happiness when you do, but you can easily build this back up later when you're more flush.

You'll also want to avoid incidents and if you don't have the money to invest in better Hero Cards, or the time to hunt down better cards with the knives coming for Shimazu, you should buy a lot of Help Items, which are far cheaper.

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