Show-creation redone + quick poll on movie making
Added 2020-12-17 13:58:14 +0000 UTCMaking some good progress again! I redid show making and made it a lot better, at least in my opinion. A quick recap:
- Recoded the way hiring works. You won't notice but for me it's a thousand times easier to add more girls now
- The story is a one-sentence thing for shows. You get a randomly generated one based on your genre, or you can write your own
- Rebalanced cost and success rate for each girl
- Added more girls
- You now pay per episode, making more episodes significantly pricier
- Making a 90+ percent success show now takes 40+ million instead of just a few
- Cost and profits are way more balanced to avoid exploitation and hopefully get people to use more variation instead of making the same thing over and over because it's the most profitable (hard to avoid fully, but at least it'll now take some playtime before you're able to make the most expensive hitshow)
- Success is calculated differently, less luck/chance based and more based on your success rating
- You can finally see the shows you created so far in the movie menu
I've also been doing lots of bugfixing, wrote some fun scenes for recruiting new girls for the concerts (Billie Eilish fans will enjoy the coming update) and made the gym semi-buyable. Adriana Lima stays manager to not mess with the storyline, but you can become a partner and co-own the gym with her now, making some money as well as upgrading it for more cash ánd more features, like a gloryhole in the showers or group lessons that can trigger events.
Now onto the poll. Next on the to-do list is redoing movies. I'm happy with the shows now, but movies are a bit more complicated. The story creation is pretty hard to do. I was thinking of a three-act structure where you pick act 1, act 2 and act 3, but making them fit together is a pain in the ass. So my question is: How important is it to create a story? Is it enough to have one sentence (custom or randomly generated) or do you prefer crafting a story with more options?
Comments
Those are good ideas that are unfortunately pretty hard to implement code-wise. The fact that all 'revenue'(/subscribers) gets added at once after seven days is mostly a practical thing as after that the next movie overwrites all the variables. Ceremonies/movie nominations have been on my list for quite a while now, still thinking of how to do those, but that could be a way to fix this issue!
Miss-Adventures in Hollywood
2020-12-18 07:53:06 +0000 UTCIt’s hard to force players to pick less known stars. How about introducing critical acclaim? If you pick a less known or a better actor you would get less money upfront ( after 7 days ) but gradually the movie revenue will increase because the movie is good but not a blockbuster so people don’t know about it. Maybe an oscars ceremony at the end of the year where the smaller movies have a higher chance of winning and getting a boost of revenue?
ArGaMer
2020-12-18 03:00:03 +0000 UTCAn overwhelming "meh" from you guys on the importance of movie stories! Quite a relief honestly :) I'll just make it a simple one-page thing instead of wasting a dozen hours on making it really good.
Miss-Adventures in Hollywood
2020-12-17 21:01:04 +0000 UTC
