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I did a thing (concerts)
🕑 Added 2020-11-27 19:47:23 +0000 UTCSoo, remember how I said I miiight add concerts if I got time left? Yeah, I kinda really wanted to add them, so I sort of did. It was actually quite easy as I copied most of the pron studio code and rewrote some of it, obviously.
Right now it works like this:
1. You get to 25 company status and start the music division.
2. You pick a name for the music division and pick one of three managers, all lower level popstars (Maggie Lindemann, Carly Rae Jepsen or Sabrina Carpenter)
3. You start off with a handful of stars, including the three managers, and can recruit more after completing various tasks for each
Organizing a new concert works like this:
1. You pick a star. They have an initial fee, take a percentage of sales and a popularity stat (based that on monthly amount of listeners on spotify only). Some stars will give you discounts based on friendship or if you hired them as managers for example.
2. You pick one of three hollywood venues with differing capacity
3. You pick a ticket price between $50 and $200
4. You pick low, medium or high promotion (cost is based on star popularity, mostly for balance reasons)
5. The game calculates tickets sold based on star popularity, ticket price and promotion. You get whatever's left after the star takes her percentage
I spent about two hours balancing the profits and got it to a point where it's pretty good. You can't charge $200 for a popularity 20 star or you'll only sell a few tickets, whereas an Ariana Grande show for $50 will always sell out.
The only issue right now is that, kind of like with shows where it's most profitable to do the same thing over and over, there's little reason to do concerts with the lower level girls apart from just liking them. I'm not sure I can and will fix this as it's realistic I suppose. A Taylor Swift show will always be more profitable than a Charli XCX one for example. The only thing I'm gonna do about this is locking the really big stars behind a few objectives so you'll start out with some lower popularity ones while working towards the bigger ones :)
So far there's no sexiness going on yet. I'll eventually do a little concert scene where you can go backstage but for now I just wanted to code the mechanics of it and get the formulas working. I like having a big feature to work on as well as smaller ones so whatever I'm in the mood for, I can always work on something.
PS: yes, the menu pictures are quite Ariana-heavy. She'll always be my favorite and I'm not afraid to show it! :)
Comments
Miss-Adventures in Hollywood
Adding multiple difficulty options would require a complete rewrite of all the game's mechanics and is not a viable option as much as I'd like it. I do agree that there should be more buildup and more reasons to start small, so I do plan on redoing the movie and show process with more realistic budgets indeed. So you'd have to pay tens of millions for the big ones but they'd also give your movie a big boost. It'll take new formulas that I've yet to work out but it's definitely on the to-do list for next update.
ArGaMer
Is there a possibility of choosing game difficulty? I feel the game is too fast and I’m able to pick the biggest stars and best promotion for a couple million instead of like 200 million for a big blockbuster with a lot of promotion. Making the biggest stars more expensive will force players to choose the lesser known stars more and actually feel rewarded when being able to get Selena or Taylor in movie or concert.
