My game isn't letting me advance from Live Blog onto the next levels of elections.
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1. When you load up a game, the idols you had assigned as pushes aren't saved
2. Half bug, half suggestion; there doesn't seem to be much age logic for the members who end up dating each other, members over 20 dating members under 16 happens quite often, maybe put in an age filter
3. Demographic opinion still seems to reset to 50% if it ever hits 100%, happened a couple of times in my current save
4. During the politician chain, if you choose to just issue a flat denial of his claims, and then choose neutral reactions, on the third stage of the event change his name will disappear and be replaced by [politician_name]
5. Sometimes clicking the right mouse button to open and close side menus stops working
6. If you delete a room and replace it with something else, the game seems to consider it to be adding an extra floor to your building, leading to spiralling rent costs (I had four floors and deleted a few rooms to make the layout easier to look at and my rent quadrupled)
7. The issue with using scandal points to fire staff removing the points, but leaving the staff in place, is still there
Hi, it's maybe not a bug, but I thought I might find help here, I don't understand what is "fame point for a variety show" (when I look into contract I don't see such a thing), and so I don't know how to try to rise it. I am stuck for eons a this level of fan, and I really want to level up it, but it doesn't seem to raise even when I promote my 9 stars idols and only accept contract of this type.
Some help/advice would be welcome <3
I do not understand how the recent average idol earnings are considered. Or why is the recent average earnings equal to all-time earnings divided by 4?
Example: I have an advertising contract for 56 k per week, then the average and all-time earnings will change as in the table below
Weeks | Recent average earnings | Total earning |
1 week | 14 k | 56 k |
2 week | 28 k | 112 k |
3 week | 42 k | 168 k |
4 week | 56 k | 224 k |
5 week | 70 k | 280 k |
hello I've ran into the same problem a few times now when an idol try to talk to me (I believe about them deciding to graduate) the image of the idol will load and the background will get blurry but the idol's text never loads and I am still able to interact with the build and the menus on the side. It was never a big problem because of this because i could just click around a little till i got save and quit then i would reload and it would be back to normal, however i did miss out on whatever the idol was going to say. unfortunately the last time it happened i was no longer able to interact with the side menu thus i lost a good bit of progress.
If you need/want anymore info let me know. I look forward to build an idol empire in the future!
Hi,
I have some troubles with the game. Unfortunaly, the game crash very often. When the game crash my graphic pilot is shutdown. I nerver see this before.
I send you the player.log + error.log.
Not sure; if it's a bug or not but some girls can't up their cool or sexy styling as you can see on the screenshoot. Thanks for your hard working !
Cheers.
Yep, check this update for more info https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuiper/idol-manager/posts/2528978
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug or if this is done on purpose, but when I destroy a room and then later on decide to rebuild it, the rent increases. Like for example, the cafe rent was 256,000,000¥, but I deleted it because I didn't have enough money to keep it going, but when I wanted to rebuild it (without having added an extra floor or any other rooms), the rent became 326,000,000¥.
Also, still not sure if it's a bug or done on purpose, but when I set a minimum stamina for auto-practice, it works for dance and vocal practice, but doesn't work for the styling room.
Played the game for 8 hours for the first time tonight. Here are a list of bugs I ran into. I’ll post elsewhere my thoughts on the game itself.
1. Sometimes when negotiating a contract and lose the dollar amount goes up sometimes by a crazy amount.
2. Putting the stylist on auto train will train individuals even if all the idols stats are above the maximium the stylist training level.
3. When an individual is injured and then is on hiatus. It doesn’t show how many days left on hiatus.
4. Some neck chokers when selecting styling are on a layer higher than the hair
5. After styling members the idol list doesn’t update right away and requires switching to other panels and coming back a couple of times.
That’s what I can remember for now!
I'm not sure if this is a bug, but when member from a sister group graduated, their dialogue will talk about main group.
Example: Main group [Heaven] Sister group [Hell]
Sister group graduated member: I look forward to graduating from Heaven. That's 3 months from now, blah blah blah.
It's really weird for me when they graduate they will mention main group instead of their group.
Bought the game a couple of days ago and here are the most recurrent bugs I came across.
1. One of the reason for that is that the loading button rarely works on my side : either it doesn't do anything or if it reloads, the save is bugged, like erasing all of my idols.
2. Going back to the menu hardly works to reload, most of the time, it starts a new game when you want to load your save or when you click on "continue".
3. Twice, when I clicked on the audition button, the game froze, loading the white-grey background, but never loading the five cards. No other way around than quitting the game.
4. And today, I came across a new recurrent bug, the game sometimes shows on screen that a task is done, but on the "project"'s tab considers that it is still ongoing. Letting time flow doesn't really fix it and so far cancelling the "project" was the only way to go around it.
5. Not really a bug per se, but I shall add it here still, the game starts lagging on my side when you start having over 50 idols or so.
6. There's something I'm unsure whether it's a limitation of the "unfair" setting or a bug, but I can't add "talk breaks" during concerts. It's not something I encountered in the two other difficulty settings.
So, i've been playing the game for a couple of days and so far i've come across two bugs, the first one is when i load a save sometimes all the idols from my idols list disappear, reloading doesn't fix the bug but restarting the game fixes it so i'm not too bothered. the second one, im not really sure if this is a bug or not, but the time stops when i hit February 4, 2022. the animation still plays but the time,practice, business, and other bars stops moving. i tried waiting but the bars never start moving again. ill start another save in the meantime to try and see if its just a one time bug or not. anyways, Good luck on the game, its been great so far. Cheers!
it stops here btw.
I'll fix this in the next update, but here's a quick fix for you:
1. Launch the game, load your save file
2. There's a doctor on the second floor, Yamauchi Saki. Cancel her task. (For anyone else having this issue, you can try canceling tasks of all staffers).
3. You can unpause the game now and it should work
Thanks for the report! And let me know if it didn't work
Ok, so I had spoken two weeks ago of lagging issues, but now the game has started to lag so much I basically can't play anymore. Whenever I try to do something, the game freezes. More specifically, it goes to the "grayish" page and doesn't do anything. And regularly, the game doesn't even load the credits when opening the game, so I can't even reach the menu. For the record, whatever quality I choose, there's no difference.
Please upload somewhere or send me at sadambober@gmail.com these files:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\global_data.json
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves\
Hello!
So, I've been changing the character portraits because I'd like to play with a real group in the game -- using the image of the actual members -- and after changing the body.png in the IdolPortraits folder for every girl and adding individual transparent files for face and hair, whenever I open the game and do an audition, only one of the girls appear and she has a face and hair from one of the original portraits on her face, even though I deleted them and added the transparent files... What should I do?
Hi!
I'm encountering a big issue with my game. I made some custom clothing, faces and hair and I had no problem having it work in the game until tonight. I hadn't played for a long time and wanted to change the look of some of my girls, so I modified my save file (which I have done countless time without any issue.)
The problem is that I can't open my save file anymore. I also can't start a new game, because when I start an audition, nothing happens. I tried clearing the cache, it doesn't help... The only fix is deleting all my custom content (which didn't cause any trouble before but for some reason apparently does now.) It's really strange and I'm kind of at a loss right now, as I have no idea how to fix the game without losing my save and all the content I created :/
I'm playing 17.5 and I believe it was the first time I modified the save file with this version of the game.
I'm reworking the way modding works, and because of that custom sprites don't work in this version. They should work again after the next update.
For now you can download the older version of the game using the itch.io app: https://itch.io/app
("Library" -> Click on the game -> Click on the options gear icon -> "Manage" (or "Install" first if you haven't already, then "Manage") -> "Switch to another version")
This actually seems to happen regardless of whether or not I have the idol - the amount displayed after you hit negotiate, whether you succeed or fail, is often incorrect and doesn't match what it should be.
Some more:
If I'm dragging an idol to socialize and that idol is automatically pulled into another room (practice, styling etc) the idol's portrait gets stuck on the mouse cursor. Nothing breaks and you can drag a different idol to make it go away. Edit: "Socialize" gets stuck on display on your room, though, and that doesn't go away.
Switching from Compact view to Full view for idols will add an extra copy of the idols list every time (so you get to the last idol and under it will be the whole menu including the "new group" button).
Compact view does not show idols in sister groups.
Canceling a practice/styling/doctor session by clicking on the idol portrait or using the idol menu will make the staffer idle. Doctors are especially buggy since their auto actions are still toggled on, and so you need to toggle a new action or deselect an old one to make them work again.
The "no critical failure" card for concerts doesn't seem to do anything at all.
Trying to release a non-election single with the election concert ready to go triggered the concert music and locked the game. Upon closing and reloading, it automatically started the concert with buggy (white square) idol portraits and didn't release the non-election single.
Edit:
More:
You can't set an automatic style in the "auto practice" menu for idols (it doesn't select the option and will de-select any other options you have).
If you click promotion/performance/spa treatment right as the day is about to end with an active queue, it replaces the next item on your queue.
If you remove items from the queue when it's full, you can't queue up additional things until the next day.
Visual bug:
When adding songs to a concert, all songs appear to be able to be added, even songs that were added already. (like when adding songs, the songs already added to the setlist should be lighter to indicate that they've been added already). Opening the concert, adding a song, and then going back to add another song seems to fix this
I made a separate thread about this, but I'm concerned it'll be missed if it's not also included in this thread, so I'm posting here as well. In the "auto practice" menu for an idol (see attached picture), you can select the first 4 options ("Don't practice" through "Dance") but not the last 5 options ("All visual params" through "Pretty").
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When I go to do tasks such as marketing for singles or pre-production for shows, there is no text by the assistants' office (displaying the action and her talent) when I drag over to her area for her to work on that task. Moving it over to there does start the process of pre-production or marketing, however.
When you go here, you don't have the download button? https://itch.io/my-collections
Or you can try using the app https://itch.io/app
Just started playing. Encountered 4 bugs.
1) Same as user "meimeia" - when I pass my mouse over an idol doing activities, it shows all their stats as "Cute: 76".
2) If you are in the middle of a game and load another game, all stats and unlocked/locked research "appear" to be the same as the game you were just playing until you unpause the game. E.g. If I save my game, unlock the lyrics "loneliness", and then load up the previously saved game, it will appear as if "loneliness" is now unlocked until I unpause and continue playing.
3) If you cancel a queued activity in the quick-access bar under "details", you can't queue another activity (also, is there a reason why you can't queue activities if you click them on the sidebar)?
4) There is an inconsistency between the Activities on the sidebar and the Activities on the quick access bar. My main issue is with the spa activity and how much stamina it restores. If I queue a spa activity now, is the displayed "stamina restore +2/+5/+10" a projection for the day it actually activates, or does it only reflect today (which would be misleading)? Right after using the spa to restore 10 stamina, the mouseover under quick-access will show that if I queued it again, it will restore another 10 stamina (which I know is untrue). Under Activities on the sidebar, it will show correctly +2, although sometimes I find this value off too. It's frustrating not knowing what I will get if I queue this activity.
Edit: 5) I found a 5th bug which is a little exploitative but a little difficult to replicate - sometimes midway through playing a game, I've loaded a previous save but the save window won't close. When I click cancel to exit the window, I found that I have indeed returned to the previous save, but I have also retained some elements of the existing game (e.g. I've retained the research points I gained in that time, and maybe money?).
1. I'm not sure if this is a bug or on purpose, but it seems like I can't complete objectives for leveling up Promotions, before unlocking that tier. For example, I launched a radio show before I was on the "Launch a Radio Show" tier, and once I was on that tier, it wasn't counted as being completed, so I had to launch a radio show again. (Hope that made sense.) In my opinion, my actions should count, even if I do them before unlocking that tier?
2. I had max influence with an idol, and found out she was bullying another idol. I tried to influence her to stop bullying, but it told me I didn't have enough influence, despite having max influence with her.
3. I tried moving the bullied idol into a new subgroup, but that didn't fix the bullying problem. I thought that moving idols into a different subgroup than their bully was supposed to end the bullying problem.
4. I was trying to launch a show to fulfill an idol's wish (something like Have Music TV Show with Host) but she went on hiatus, and it replaced her with another idol before I launched it. Once the idol was back from hiatus, I launched the show, but saw the new idol was hosting it. I re-launched the show with the original girl with the wish, but it didn't count as fulfilling her wish. I feel like it should count.
5. One of my idols went on hiatus due to depression from bullying. At one point, there was two minus signs by her name - does this mean she's being bullied by two people, or is it a glitch? Also, she continued being bullied while on hiatus, so her mental stamina never recovered. I could have sworn the bullying used to stop when idols went on hiatus, but I could be wrong? Maybe they are just cyberbullying her remotely... oof.
Hi, I just got that werid situation, when less than a month after the start of the game, all my Idols suddenly had five stars fame (it happened once before but it was to ten stars) and as you may guess it, in the beginning it's almost impossible to sustain the cost of such renowned idols ... (and I didn't release a single yet.)
I can't open the game. Every time I do it goes to the graphic settings and when I press play it says that Idol Manager is not responding. This happens every time I try to play. Any Ideas why? (Happens with both the 32 and 64 bit. I have tried every graphic setting too. And sometimes it starts but it takes a long time and even if I get to the title screen it will still freeze and say not responding. I waited a long time for it to respond but it never did
Do you still have this issue after the update? Have you ever played the game before or is it your first time?
If it worked before you can try deleting (or renaming) the save folder C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager, apparently this helped someone
fyi you can always contact itch.io support to get a refund: https://itch.io/support
I made a new save file for the new story mode. I closed the game during an event (specifically the start of the local gameshow event), but now when I reopen my save file i can't continue the story in the tasks. It's like it has changed my save file into freeplay mode. I also tried to revert it back to when I started the save file, but I still can't continue the story mode.
I had the same issue, but I had to fiddle around inside my save file to fix it.
In my case, I had to open up my save file, scroll down to "data_dialogues_Data," find the last story event listed there, and deleted that off of my file. I made a backup in case something went wrong, loaded up the new file, and used the cheat (~) to manually start up the event, and it worked.
I dunno if this'll work for you guys, but it worked for me. I did end up a few story events back from where I actually was, but everything seemed to play out as it was supposed to. I think I ended up sidestepping the issue by allowing an older story chapter to trigger instead, so this probably isn't an actual fix, so if anyone could find a better solution, that'd be much appreciated.
In the dating mechanism, after getting to about the 4th level it prompted an event where the idol confronted the player about going private or something along those lines. Instead of having the idol who was at the 4th dating level, it pulled some random idol who I hadn't talked to. The only similarity was that they had the same shirt. Sorry I can't give any other details, I was just so confused as to what in the world was happening.
Great work though, it's an awesome and unique game. Thanks for sticking with it!
had a dating issue too, after having 3 dates working well ( the initial -restaurant- one, the aquarium and the game area ) the 3rd one i tried ( i think it was the libary one ) it just didnt show up any action/dialog/window and did stay in management mode. After loading older savegames, even the dates which did work before, didnt work anymore. After clicking "invite on a date" it just hits me back on management screen without something happening.
but so far, i love it :D hope its getting fixed soon =)
On story mode in May I click on click here to continue the story and nothing happens even tho it's a green button. No story further. I went to load so I could go to the story again and click on that button (because after I loaded button was there again) and the same thing happened. No story at all. I had to make a new group after that I started a new story and this didn't happen again. Just with one of my saved files this happened, which is sad because I liked that group better I had better members in thag group.
Hello,
I am having trouble with the story progression. I just got to the part where my rival told me he recommended me for this show. When that part was done, I got a task letting me when the next part of the story was. I clicked on it and nothing happened? It was June when this happened and now it's September.
1. You will need to update the game to the newest version
2. After that you either need to load a previous save file where you still have a story task (if you didn't save manually, you still should have an auto save file at the start of the chapter. Click "Chapter 2" in the loading menu)
Or you can trigger the event manually: press F7 five times to unlock cheats. Then press F7 again and select "story_chapter_1_25", this should restart the story from the rival dialogue.
Hello,
I got to the part in the story where you had to choose whether to pull out of Nation of Idols, or stay in. I chose to pull out, and the story progressed as I assumed it would. I then got to the ramen shop scene with my rival talking to me, and they began saying dialogue as if I had stayed in the show, and talked about how I got an hour of broadcast time. I had just gotten out of a chat where an idol talked about how none of the groups had showed up, so I'm not sure what was supposed to happen. This is on build 20 and I didn't use cheats to activate it.
Edit: I can confirm that I had the "Thanks for pulling out [Your Name]" from one of my idols, except now the entire story has changed and the idol that was thankful for me pulling out is resigning because we "showed up to the event".
Actually, if you don't want to wait, you can just replace this file
*game_folder*\IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Languages\en\JSON\Events\dialogues.json
with this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1st5zec8elt8Zgrbb1dDzK97i3qE0yWTy/view?usp=shari...
(You'll have to either load a save before the ramen dialogue, or use cheats to trigger "story_chapter_2_28")
This isn't a bug that affects gameplay too much, but it's absolutely baffling for story continuity: an idol had the wish to center a political single, but as I was producing the single, I got an event with her where she told me she didn't want to center political singles because she didn't want to get involved with controversy. I realise that some kind of system to make sure idol wishes and story events don't contradict is likely not high on the priority list and might be more trouble than it's worth, but getting that particular combo was super bewildering.
I ran into 2 bugs while playing the newest build (Windows x64, beta 20):
1. I can't seem to fire the trainer, either using scandals or cash. The conversation will trigger but after the conversation the game locks, not a single button will work until I restart the game. The blackmails or cash demand from the trainer will still apply but the scandal points or compensation cash won't be consumed, and trainer just won't leave. I encountered this issue during late game, story mode (300k fans, ¥1B cash).
2. During game play the mouse cursor flickers constantly. Does not flicker in other apps or desktop if I switch out of the game. But will still flicker in game if I switch back. This happens constantly.
Love the new dating system and stories though. Keep up the great work.
First off, this update is amazing. I am loving the story elements, they are fantastic. I have encountered what I believe is a bug however. In chapter 3, I have the rival task of "watch all the Phantasm Facade events," however I have completed all the events that have appeared and I still cannot complete the rival task. Additionally, once I completed "story_chapter_3_event_6," the background music and interface switched back to their state in chapter 2 and I don't seem to be able to progress any further in the rival's story. I've tried manually re-triggering story_chapter_3_event_6, and the event plays with the idols, but the rival's task still cannot be completed. I don't know if this is a bug or if I am missing some requirement to trigger the remaining masked group events and rival events.
Regardless, the game is still amazing. Thanks for all the exceptionally hard work.
I don't know if this is a bug, but I'm in chapter 5 (IV) and am not progressing in the main story after completing some events. The objective to watch all Phantom Façade events appeared 3-ish months ago in game and even though I completed all other side story's none of the Phantom cutscenes show up. I've already seen 2 cutscenes of the phantoms, but no others have appeared after it. Is this just part of the story, or did I miss an objective?
Yeah, this part can get bugged. You can try this https://itch.io/post/2372198 (press F7 5 times to unlock the debug menu), or wait for a patch (probably in a day or so)
Hi! Loving the update! The story is really fun so far, I got to about the end of Chapter 2. A few bugs I encountered:
1) During the 2nd Award ceremony where the Rival gives a speech at the beginning, it gave their speech and then cut out without showing the award show at all, so I had no way of knowing what I won. I know that I won something since I got the Fujimoto dialogue that happens when you give him credit, but outside of that nothing.
2) Sometimes it will show the same idol in 2 different rooms at the same time (when the room are of the same type, like 2 dance rooms). Cancelling in one room doesn't cancel in the other, but autopractice picked up the same idol again so the problem popped back up.
3) Sometimes when releasing singles or shows, white boxes will appear instead of the idols at the part where the fame gain is shown.
4) In one save, a random dialogue with an idol came up (the one about zucchini bread) and right after it was done I released a concert that was tied to an election. The concert went as usual but after instead of the election up popped up the prior idol (I'm assuming to give a follow up to the zucchini bread thing). The game was frozen at this point, so I force quit then booted it back up and the idol was gone but the election still didn't happen. I let it run for a few days and nothing.
That's it for now but I'll update it if I see any other bugs!
Sorry that I'm posting again so soon, but I may have encountered another one of the same type of bugs I posted about earlier. It's after the summer Olympics, and it introduced me to chapter 7(? I think, maybe 8) I have no tasks and it's September 13. Is there an event that's coming up, or did I glitch it out?
Bugs collected over the weekend:
= Mental stamina loss announced for idols not using mental stamina. At least, except for bullying, this feels like a bug to me.
= Idols who have lost mental stamina are picked up for auto heal by physicians that are set only for physical and being then treated for physical.
= Played the "No Critical Failure" card, still got hit with 30% loss of hype.
= Idol hired from "buyout copycat group" event not gaining fame.
= Bug: Idols nearing graduation have their physical stamina crash... This crash is not detected by physicians and not picked up for auto heal.
Bug in the free play mode:
- my old saves doesn't show up in the new version
- I can't save anything in this mode, after saving and restart the game, the save slot will disappear.
-No events or dialogue in this too, like the policies dialogues, fujimoto, rival intro and more...
-Auditions pop up keep freezing for me or when I'm trying to change the idol name, the screen will be blurry
Hello! Loving the new update so far, though I haven't gotten very far in the story yet ^^. A few minor issues I've noticed:
- The Photogenic trait still lists as applying a bonus to Random Photo marketing, even though this marketing strategy has been removed.
- Occasionally Idol Portraits in the results screens of launched shows(I personally haven't noticed it on singles yet, had this happen for a few shows on older builds) will be white flashing squares instead of remaining blank/showing images. When this happened to me on the current build only the three Idols showing up were actually hosting the show.
Love this game a ton! Looking forwards to the official release, and I'll update with any more bugs I find as I play more
I experience this a lot, too- from what I understand, it happens when you go from releasing something with that many idols to releasing something with only a few. It'll put white boxes where everyone else was in the last single/show. Happens all the time when I put out solo songs (I know that's probably bad strategy, but don't judge me, I've got a storyline going and I want to keep it up sdlfkjsdlfj). Doesn't seem to affect anything other than the visuals tho
Not sure if already reported by other users or not. Can't seem to find a search feature here so I will post some new things I've found.
1. Theatre income always shows 0/w when hovering the cursor over current balance.
2. Under individual idols' auto practice menus, all styling options (Cute, Cool, etc.) are unclickable. They are not dark blue but clicking will not activate them.
3. After loading a saved game, subscriber counts in theatres go down dramatically for a while.
4. This is more of a suggestion but it's related to #2. Can we have an option to force or prioritize auto practicing for a specific idol? Would be really helpful for maxing out an idol's stats in order to upgrade to promotion level 10.
5. When I learned that an idol is bullying another, I tried to influence her not to. It won't let me because it says required influence level 2, while in fact I already had max level influence on her. Not sure what's going on.
6. Story disappearing as other posters here also pointed out.
7. If I click and drag an idol for a task and said idol got selected by auto-practice before I can drop it off, the icon of the idol will be permanently stuck to the cursor, and the stats on the employees will also persist indefinitely.
8. Auto salaries won't update the salaries correctly when changed. And sometimes changing this setting will not update the display of this option (in fact all policy options are affected by this issue).
9. Sometimes, during late game every single one of my idols get random mental health increase/decrease, every week. That's not 5% chance, that's 100%. Restarting the game might fix it temporarily.
Something interesting as I was playing through, but I'm just now updating to the new version so not sure how much is still valid - it seems like when I make major decisions (whether to stay with the show or not, the route to go with, etc) it somehow changes which one I went with partway through. For example, I chose to pull out of the show - at first everything was normal, but then a few days after the immediate effects of that choice, I met with my rival and she started talking about how I'd "changed the narrative" and I was confused but kind of went along with it. Then a day or two later, the girl who had encouraged me to pull out left the group, while the girl who'd wanted us to stay stuck around. I eventually chose Fujimoto's route (had also qualified for Aya's), but barely heard from Fujimoto after that, and the end credits scene included a cute drawing of me and Aya, so I'm assuming something similar happened there. The task to lock into Aya's route never disappeared after I chose Fujimoto's, either.
EDIT: NVM, seeing that at least the first time that happened was a known issue that's been fixed. Not sure if the same for the second, but figured I'd leave this up just in case.
Now playing through the newest update - during the Nation of Idols arc, when I was supposed to have one girl supporting us staying in the show, it showed a blank white box on the screen and no name in the dialogue box. Later, Fujimoto came to my office and referenced the girl who quit, but he used the wrong name and referred to a girl who's still in the group.
The rival's route is really bugged, too - I've had to use the f7 debugger thing a few times because the next part of the story wouldn't trigger after I completed the task.
These bugs might have been fixed because I recorded them a few weeks ago, but here are some bugs I noticed.
1) 76 stats
2) Hiatus until (Hiatus end date not showing)
3) Idols don't seem to be using break rooms very often. I've only seen them use them a few times despite having over 50 idols and multiple break rooms.
4) Loan glitch: suddenly began paying 100x week payment and was paying well over debt amount
5) Genre/lyrics/choreo not changing; the most popular never or rarely changes. Releasing most popular also doesn't work for award show.
6) Stamina cost not working (don't quite remember what this means)
Hello,
I am currently experiencing 2 glitches/bugs.
1. ) The story of the rival crashes when loading the event. (The event where she asks for a favour).
The sprite of her is still transparent and the game freezes even before the text appears.
2.) When I pressed the button for a Phantasm event, the button disappeared but the scene was not triggered.
Keep up the great work =)
- I don't know if this is a 'bug' per se, but it's a little funny and probably unintended. Yy idol group is really boring- nothing is going on, no one's bullying each other, and only a few of the girls are in relationships, so I always get the same few responses when I ask for 'gossip'. Okay, sure, cool, that's arguably good for my run. Occasionally, the girls will tell me about their own relationships,,, as if they're gossiping about other people. Several times I've done a double take like "oh, Yamato Rina's in a relationship with Yoshida Akane... wait hold on, you're Yamato Rina."
- Idols will talk about friendships with graduated idols that stayed on as staff members, but they don't show up in the bonds part of their profile. I feel like one of these is a bug, but I'm not sure which.
-I have no idea whether or not I'm stuck on the Phantasm events, or if I just haven't encountered them all yet. (Most recent one I saw was the rival dialogue about the bird statue at the awards show.) If I have... how do I get myself out of it? If I haven't, maybe a counter on the task to show how many I have left to see? I'm kind of just stuck, I want to unlock all three routes before I pick one (so I can make branching saves at the last possible moment).
I've found several bugs:
1. In Chapter 4, the "release 3 metal singles in one month" task for the rival will register as completed even if you haven't actually done it (I may have released 3 singles that month, but none of them were metal).
2. Theater income always appears as 0 when hovering over my current balance, even though my two theaters are generating plenty of revenue when you examine them individually.
3. After one of my idols was treated for depression, her Cute score reset to 0. Other idols treated for depression didn't have this problem.
4. Variable names sometimes show up in dialogue rather than variable values. I've had a couple of idols tell me when announcing their graduation that they'd be saying goodbye on "[date]" when earlier in the dialogue they'd given the actual day, and once I saw "[actor]" rather than an idol's name show up in a social media post.
5. Number suffixes on the birthday screen are incorrect for some birthdays; my idols had "21th," "22th," and "23th" birthdays rather than "21st," "22nd," and "23rd."
Recently I've encountered a pretty major bug in which when dialogue events come up, sometimes no idol will be there.
The dialogue will play but there will be no idol sprite and no idol name present. This has happened once with a random dialogue event and then once in the main story line, wherein the idol who wanted to stay on Nation of Idols was blank (no idea who she was) and stayed blank for subsequent events. The idol who was against Nation of Idols showed up without issue. This is a very bad bug, and I was wondering if there were any work arounds or anything to be done?
During the quiz show, when the host asks us which of the idols isn't a member of the player's group, the correct option features one name, but then the host says another name. So, for example, if I pick "Rika Morikawa" as the answer, the host will say "Anna Yamada" is not a member of the group. The names don't match.
Ran into a bug that sounds similar to some other reported bugs, but I'm not certain how to determine what went wrong or if there is a workaround.
Situation: Early in Chapter 5, I click on the task to continue the story. The task disappears, but no story event plays.
Is there a way to check what event was meant to play, and force it to play with a debug tool? Or does this kill that playthrough's story triggers?
i have the same bug as jackkel dragon (i click on the task, it just disappears and doesn't trigger anything), only i'm on chapter two right after you perform on the show for the first time. i tried to trigger the next event with the debug tool but it seems like there might be some events missing? it goes from 1_50 to 2_05 and when i try 2_05, it starts chapter 3 immediately after the event plays. i'm not sure if this is intentional or not cause it feels like i missed a lot of story in between 1_50 and 2_05. re-triggering 1_50 doesn't do anything either, it just disappears without triggering the next event no matter what. any way to fix this?
Ran into an issue with the tutorial on the "Hire Dance Staffer" Step. I purchased a dance studio first then clicked through the menu to hire a staffer pretty quickly, and the tutorial got stuck on the "Hire Dance staffer" step. I tried hiring another, but the tutorial screen hasn't changed. I can't assign either to a room.
There is this dialogue between two idols where they talk about this comedy routine they perform, one playing the more serious character, and the other being silly. However, I'd like to know if this dialogue is supposed to trigger even if you don't have a theater. Because I definitely don't have one, and it popped up for me. I don't even have any ongoing shows, so it barely makes any sense for that dialogue to exist in the context of my group.
Hi I'm here to repport a bug on one of the scandals
It's the one when one of your idol gets in the car of a politician. Whenever I try to take the option to take the pictures down, the game bug, leaving the window blurry like when any event pop or when you make auditions. And I cannot continue my game because that scandal always happens even if i go back a little furter. it always pop right after I close a window (either an audition window, another event or anything of the like)
Edit : closing the game and reopening it using the autosave worked and it continued right after the event happened
I think it happens when you enable the custom idle portrait mod. I have tried some mods.
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I see the bug, thanks for reporting!
Here's fixed save file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDxRRKWhX-4TWjnDbKsEUoXKD1LlNHov/view?usp=shari...
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If anyone else is having this issue and doesn't want to wait for the next update:
This can happen if the center of your single that ranks #1 in the charts graduates before you continue the main story.
You need to open your save file with a text editor and:
- Find an idol with "Variables": ["center"]
- Remove "center" from her and add it to any other idol who hasn't graduated yet
This bug is an odd one, that only seems to happen once. I loaded the game to two computers (Win7 and Win10) and the same thing happened on both. On initial play through, the game freezes on the first autosave. You can close the game and load the save okay. I assume it's a bug when creating the first save on a computer. (This is the version downloaded off the site not using the app launcher, so it was manually installed on the desktop of the computers from the same files.)
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I reached the ending where you quit to marry an idol. After returning to the main menu most buttons don't function until I restart, and the game doesn't seem to remember me completing the ending - the ending and associated CGs aren't unlocked in the gallery and if I replay the ending I can't skip over lines I've already seen, nor are my previously selected choices marked.
Hello, This game is so much fun!
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I am playing beta with steam demo save data.
I have some issues.
1. The same member performs multiple stylings.
2. Dating with the graduated members.Is this the correct specification?
3. It's 2028 now. Various response operations slow down after playing for a few hours.I feel that it is getting worse over the years.
4. This is a suggestion. Place the newest song at the top of the concert song selection screen. As more songs are released, scrolling to the best to pick the latest song can be annoying.
5. This is a suggestion. Please allow members to socialize(Planning a date) during practicing and styling.I'm taking the following boring action to achieve this:
The devs have had to change the game's age rating to 'Adults Only', which is causing problems to players in a few countries that don't openly and freely allow the sale of such products. It could be the case with China. This is not a final decision, however, so there's still a chance it may end up being reverted.
I had a game breaking glitch where one of my idols tried to leave at the same time of a scandal. Every time I opened the game I didn't have enough time to fire her so immediately after she left the scandal would happen. And after clicking one of the solutions (no matter which option I chose) the game would freeze up
Im using the Steam version btw
https://www.mediafire.com/file/haziovfwyso14gn/Player.log/file (playerlog)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/llmqbdb7p3yqvb7/save.json/file (my save file)
Here's your fixed save file:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/asauwyk87h6814v/save.json/file
Have you installed any mods? Something went wrong because of this girl: 夕凪英姬
Hello, I cant raise Cool and Sexy for some idols. Sometimes it work sometimes it doesn't. From the screenshots it is visible that this idol can raise her Cool and Sexy up to 55 and 76. I have an expert stylist with Cool and Sexy but It doesn't allow me raise the attributes. When I am trying to drag and drop the Idol as it is visible on the screenshot, areas with Cool and Sexy are red.
Can someone help please? I am using the steam version and I have tried with mods and without with the same result.
I also think that there is some problem with the story progression. I am still at chapter 1 and my current quest is to top the single charts. Is it supposed to be this way? I haven't seen much events either.
I'm also having this issue with the stylist. Here's an attached save file and log: https://www.mediafire.com/file/g3gay7zl989xgp9/stylist.zip/file
In this screenshot here, I'm trying to drag Sasaki Karen to the stylist with 6 stars in Cool/Sexy. Cool and Sexy are both marked ineligible in red, even though her Cool and Sexy stats are only 20, so the stylist should definitely be able to train her. Hiring new stylists doesn't change it -- it applies to all the stylists that I have.
Hello,
the main idol group in my game isn't generating more than 1-2k new fans per single release, with the current fan base of ~150k people. If anything, the number of new fans goes down, not up as the time goes and fan base grows larger. For a while i believed this could be some sort of weird balancing choice, but after hearing people are getting 30-50k fans per single with this sort of fan base, and seeing how my sister group with just few points generates 5-10k fans per single with its different mechanics, am starting to believe it's more likely to be some sort of a bug?
Here's a save file, with a new single for both main and sister group lined up for a release:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ky82rcv9b79kl0b/auto_save.json/file
At the beginning of the game i have accidently closed the tutorial window before my first single was released. No idea if it has anything to do with this behavior.
If it's not a bug, but some sort of weird result of "working as intended" game mechanics, i'd appreciate some explanation what is causing it. Just how the game is determining fan gains etc. isn't really explained anywhere that i'd see.
I took liberty to peek in the game code, and i'd guess this issue is caused by the huge impact of your current fame level on the number of new fans you acquire:
private float GetFameNewFansBaseCoeff()
{
return resources.GetFameLevel() switch
{
0 => 2f,
1 => 1.5f,
2 => 0.5f,
3 => 0.3f,
4 => 0.25f,
5 => 0.25f,
6 => 0.15f,
7 => 0.1f,
8 => 0.05f,
9 => 0.03f,
10 => 0.01f,
_ => 0.1f,
};
}
The catch is, fame levels are very easy/fast to acquire. In my game i have fame level 10 after a year or so, mainly from doing contract work. This means my new fan gains are reduced to 1% of what they'd be otherwise, even though i have just a bit above 100k fans total and obviously plenty of room to grow in this department.
As a fix i'd suggest increasing numbers needed to acquire fame (a bump as large as 10x wouldn't be out of place, considering you can hit the max in just a year) and/or improve the fame coefficient calculation to take into account the size of your existing fan base, and don't reduce it so drastically if the players fan base is still somewhat small.
Hope this helps?
I've been having a problem viewing charts past February 2031. My saved game is currently on June of 2031, and my six groups all release singles about monthly, but at the end of each month, it's only February's charts that show up, and when I click the arrow to view the next month... nothing happens. It's all February. I can go backwards, but never forward. The singles would be ones that charted, too, higher than the ones released in February.
Hey, been a while since I've posted stuff here. Thought I'd put some observations I found. (Warning, massive post ahead)
She's in two rooms at the same time. One is styling her for sexy, the other for cool.
Choosing any of the styling options (Including 'All visual params') under 'Auto Practice' doesn't work. The tick doesn't appear and vanishes from the list until any of the top 4 options are chosen.
While being on the topic of stylists, I would humbly request an option (in the policies section, probably) to disallow stylists to work on stats that are over an idol's potential.
Singles still grant buzz, but it looks to me like that function has been removed from the game. The main UI does not show any mention of buzz anymore.
The photogenic trait claims to make negotiations in photoshoot contracts always successful, but they aren't. And the 'random photo marketing promo' is no longer a thing from what I can tell.
Again, is buzz even still a thing?
Still on the topic of traits, can we get an option for idols like this to train their lowest stat in their auto-practice option? Perhaps also an option to not train any of their stats that are already at or over their potential.
Swapping tabs (with tab or MMB) while carrying an event/show/single will stick it to your cursor, until you click on the originating event/show/single again.
Adding activities to your queue and then removing them greys out the activities and will not allow you to re-add them by clicking (in the 'Details' menu or the 'Activities' menu) Shortcuts (Z, X, C) will still work.
For that matter, level-up requirements for activities do not update for the 'details' menu when the requirements are reached during an activity cooldown, while they do update in the 'Activities' menu itself.
After building your first expansion on a floor, the subsequent floors' rents go up, this is normal, but for some reason the floors going down gain a higher increase of rent than the floors going up.
If you lower an idol's salary to ¥1.000 /w, you can no longer increase it by pressing the plus button (You can still change it with the edit icon)
ᶜᵃⁿ ʷᵉ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵃⁿ ᵒᵖᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵗᵒ ᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉ ⁿᵘᵐᵇᵉʳ ˢᵉᵖᵃʳᵃᵗᵒʳˢ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵃˢ ᵗᵒ ᵖᵉʳᶦᵒᵈˢˀ
Raising one idol's salary reduces the satisfaction of other idols, this is intended(?), but can mess up the auto 50% salary policy, making some idols get under the asked for 50%. Also, why is there no 100% option?I find the inconsistency of the stamina limits between policies and the cafe a bit strange. (And the theater doesn't have any?)
Speaking of the theater, I can't select Young Adult or Adult as the target audience for Sunday, as the dropdown box goes off the screen.
I know this is a massive list, and some of these are just pet peeves, but I thought I'd mention them anyways.
Thanks for all the hard work, loving the game still,
Brian
Have you been able to find a fix for the duplicating Idols in Stylist rooms ? I've been searching everywhere to no avail and this problem is driving me crazy. I've 11 Stylists working full time but they keep bugging due to this problem and the Idol stops getting any kind of progress in most cases (or only one Stylists progress will actually matter in the best case scenario).
I'm at a point where it'll be extremely tedious to micromanage each idol for a stat increase, if you do not have a fix i sure hope they will fix this soon because i'm not sure if i want to keep playing like this for long.
Well that's a bummer, let's hope they will fix it at some point, still thanks for replying tho.
In the end i kept playing anyway, i like this game too much. It's just going much slower since i have to manually do everything now, but i guess at least i keep a closer track of who does or needs what, eh.
I agree with TehWooF about the stamina limit in the theater. Well I agree about basically everything they said actually but this lack of stamina management in the theater makes it more or less unusable. I've had to destroy it because it was randomly taking my most tired idols and I was having a lot of injuries and depressed idols.
Besides, another theater bug (probably) : The streaming revenues don't seem to appear in the income/outcome panel at the bottom of the screen.
Finally a question : Where do I put mods when playing on Linux(native)??
Seems to have been reported here: Unique Idol Drop Rates - Idol Manager community - itch.io
That's about their drop rates in general? While I agree with that post, that's not exactly what Loacoon is talking about, right? If a modded unique idol's params.json doesn't mention a specific rarity, it shouldn't have a higher chance to spawn as a higher rarity, no? And if it has a minimum rarity, it should only have a chance to appear if the game normally would give you such a rarity to begin with. These are of course just my opinions, and I think you guys seem to share them? Would love to see more attention to how mods should/can behave from a player's perspective.
When you click on one of the three drawings depicting the three daily activities, the convenient green dot next to the calendar icon that indicates the absence of scheduled activities disappears. It is necessary to save and load the game, to make it reappear, taking care if possible not to click again on one of the three drawings.
https://ibb.co/fD5kSX5
Activities in general are a bit weird and in need of some TLC. They feel more like a hassle than a boon most of the time. As some (including myself) have reported several bugs regarding them, they are also not very helpful compared to other things you can do in the game. If you solely want to gain stamina through them, you have to wait for the soft cooldown of the spa treatment to wear off, or it's not as effective. The performance money gain doesn't scale with the amount of idols you have, while still increasing in stamina cost for every idol you have, and promotion is borderline mandatory early game to gain any sort of foothold.
Again, it's just my opinion, but I think the activities are in need of a bit of a rework. Sadambober, perhaps you can have a look at it at some point?
On this note, the spa effectivity drop makes very little sense when you have more than 5 girls, and the subsequent session would involve ones who didn't just visit it. As does the limit of five girls itself. It'd make more sense if it worked similar to "socialize" option, i.e. with individual cooldown for a given girl, and being able to send any number of them there.
Hey there,
Found a bug in the idol formation when preparing a single. By setting girls in every slot except one, then very quickly mashing the mouse button on the leftover girl, you can double her in the song. The stats shown reflect the "extra" girl, but I didn't hit continue in case it could somehow compromise my save. It's a little hard to repro, you gotta really mash that mouse button and it definitely takes a few tries, but I got it to happen 3 different times.
Link to log and autosave here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/afk7i2hjjtr82rz/idol_manager_doublegirl_bug.zip/f...
Thanks for the awesome game!
While I can't seem to reproduce FlowerThief's issue, I did manage to get a ghost idol stuck to my cursor that I can't do anything with:
I achieved this only with an autoclicker.
And I mean, she got real stuck. Only after selecting another idol through the single creation menu did I get rid of her.
Mebius_Tos' issue is very easy to reproduce though. To help clarify their images, as I assume they are Japanese and not confident enough to post in English, it's achieved by starting to drag an idol by leftclicking, then rightclicking them while still dragging them, hence adding them to the formation, leaving you with the idol still on your cursor, after which you can drag that one over to formation as well.
Very easy to reproduce.
ありがと Mebius_Tos
Grats on Calli and Milky Queen streaming the game btw, Sadambober. I'd imagine that got the game quite some traction.
a couple days ago playing vanilla was fine, and then add some mods yesterday still playable but only vanilla idol portrait were become blank.
today when i try to play the game, this happened.
i reinstall and delete everything it's still the same. (didn't put any mods)
i dunno where is the source for the problem, though i think it was linked to mods, but after reinstalling without the mods, it's still persist..
So maybe it is not an issue from the game but from me using the Mods
But I was downloading some Mods from Steam recently (only to have additional clothes and hair colors), everything was working fine, I played several time with these mods. And I don't think I changed anything in the meantime
But then, I started my game once and I lost almost all of the girls, instead I get the same idol multiple times and for the others they have their face slightly shifted from their head
Is there a way to recover my game or do I have to start another one ?
Having the same problem as @Hankeei did; audition screen seems to be stuck at the grey screen. Think it might have something to do with Sakomoto Megumi, since she's the only one in the game without a portrait for some reason. I got her as the successor to the daughter of some friend of Fujimoto (the one who gives you 10 million in exchange of letting his daughter in).
Having the same problem as @Hankeei did; audition screen seems to be stuck at the grey screen.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/roc4eu1ammni3i9/auto_save.json/file
Hello, I would like to report a bug, the bug is pretty easy to notice but also game breaking as it goes on after saving. The bug is about "time stopping suddenly". I have a save file with a total of a day and a few hours of gameplay, the time in game just suddenly froze (fast forward and play button on the time doesn't do anything, it stays frozen) and restarting or reloading the save file will not fix it (done it a lot of times). I still have the save file in case there are going to be solutions or workaround as on how to fix it. Thank you for your time.
Hey, I've been loving the game so far. However, after some time playing I've encontered a bug in which I load up my game and time simply won't move forward. All the animations work and all, but time simply doesn't advance. I have tried updating my drivers, starting the game with the parameters you mentioned. I'd really love some help, thx xoxo