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Here's what's new in Idol Manager Beta #3:
Features
Injuries and depression
When idol's physical stamina is low, there's a chance they get injured. When an idol's mental stamina is low, there's a chance they get depression.
If an idol gets injured, all of her contracts get broken and you have to pay damages equal to whatever their liability was for that contract.
Injured idols can't practice or get business proposals, and they can't appear in singles, shows, or concerts.
Depressed idols can't practice, but can do all other activities. However, depressed idols have a x0.5 stat modifier penalty.
Hiatuses
You can put an idol on hiatus to restore her stamina.
Putting an idol on hiatus will break her contracts.
Hiatus heals injured and depressed idols. Base recovery is 90 days for injury and 180 days for depression.
To send an idol on hiatus, click on her card in the idols tab and select "hiatus" from the context menu
Doctors and doctor's room
Doctors can be physicians (specializing in treating injury) or psychiatrists (specializing in treating depression)
When doctors treat an injured or depressed idol, they reduce the amount of hiatus time needed for the idol to recovery. There's also a chance (based on the doctor's stats) that the idol will recovery immediately.
Improvements
All animation sprites have been updated (faces added, smoother animations, more detailed).
Changes to business proposals:
There's now a parameter that is important for the proposal (cute, cool, funny, etc)
You can pick one of 3 suggested idols for the job. Higher stat = more money, fame points etc, but you may want to assign someone who's less busy.
Business contracts popup: click on the producer and click "Contracts" in the context menu. There you can see all your active contracts, including their weekly income/buzz/fame, how much stamina they're consuming, and how many weeks are left in the contract. You can also cancel business contracts from this screen (canceling contracts requires paying damages)
Changes to new single creation:
You can load formation from released singles - click the gear icon to choose a "preset" from among the singles you've already released.
You can put idols into formation by clicking on their cards instead of drag-and-dropping
Click on an idol in the formation to remove her
You can now return to the new single screen starting screen (with the title, genre, etc) after going to the formation screen
Idols now have context menus (click on an idol in the idols tab) where you can change their nickname, set auto practice options, or send them on hiatus.
Auto practice changes:
Idols now have individual auto practice options: don't practice, default, only dance, only vocal
There's a new auto practice policy that determines how many physical stamina points an idol needs to have to be picked up for an auto practice: 50, 20, 5, no limit. Idols will stop practicing after reaching the limit
New game options:
Click the gear icon when starting a new game to disable intro, substories, or random events
Other misc. changes:
You won't get idols with identical models in one audition
You will lose fans' opinion points if you cancel a popular show
When you cancel a TV show, it will only be canceled after finishing the current season (12 episodes)
Bug fixes
Fixed an issue where game wouldn't start properly on Windows if system language was set to Thai, Russian, or Swedish
Fixed an issue where setting the salary policy to "auto" could cause the game to crash
Fixed an issue where the game would become stuck on the event popup after selecting an option in a dating scandal that would idol's contracts
Fixed an issue where concert value becoming too high would cause it to become negative