>>95997130
>I feel like players get lost unless you throw something at them every hour or so
if your table spends an hour without getting anything done, it's either time to just call the night done or time to deploy ninjas/gunmen/orcs/orcish ninjas with guns, because the only thing worse than the session ending is the session stalling out.
pro tip: make shopping and character math be homework, in my experience shopping and character progression math are the absolute worst for the game's momentum, assuming everyone at the table has the rules knowledge to work their character (if they don't, you should kill that player).