Update notes:
- BIG changes to prices. Specially in early decades. There was something wrong structurally. Prices of formats were not being represented as they should on sales. This could affect greatly the balance.
Release prices / manufacturer / merch prices adjusted for 50s / 60s, they were not scaled correctly. 50s and 60s were a late feature before release so I'm still working them out.
- Default prices of releases and tours are the mid range now, instead of the default $10
- Improved GREATLY the performance on big saves
- Added more explanations in tutorial for distribution and added scouting filters to it too
- Fixed a bug with tutorial where you got stuck
- Remove terminated artists from TV opportunities
- Removed seasonal events from EPs as they were not being used, seasonal events are only for albums
- Refactored marketing executives, now they have certain capacity limits with indicators on assigned employees and efficiency
- Own Festivals now say that sales are when the festival ends, as people were getting confused that they didn't generate sales
- Removed 1 year limit (from album) for merch, now it works like tours
- Reduced sample chance by A LOT from 1950 to 1970, it will grow from 0% chance to 100% from 1950 to 1970. This of course is over the value set on that style. Samples were not used at those times and it seemed pretty weird to have them early on genres/styles.
- Chill mode now makes a "pause". If a TV participation or a festival comes after, they don't get canceled, you can go back to normal before the festival and the artist will do it. This was only applied to festivals and TV.
- Party contacts now say what they do before you try to talk with them (idk why I didn't do this after all this time...)
- Select top X next to Select all button. Basically you can select a quantity of songs instead of all of them
- Contract status in artist card. Albums, singles, promo singles
- PR events tab that shows past events. IMPORTANT, now the PR events are hidden by default, they were too spammy. You can press the checkbox to see them again at turn end
- Request deals from rival labels now comes after you pass a turn, it appeared instantly which was wrong
- Cancel the whole tour instead of separate dates. Also, now, if you cancel close to date, you will get fined the totality of the venue cost. So it's better to cancel early
- Certifications are now displayed in awards screen. You can also toggle to disable them appearing (can be a spammy too)
- Bug: If you terminated an artist, and you had a scheduled tour. The tour was canceled too. So now they can still play the planned tour.
- Enormous PR events now take a bit more of work for marketing team
- Starting cash for nobody / previous musician increased in early years
Year Was Now Change
1950 $25,000 $62,500 +150%
1960 $50,000 $100,000 +100%
1970 $75,000 $112,500 +50%
1980 $162,500 $162,500 —
1990+ $250,000 $250,000 —