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When you complete a wish you have to click on it in the tasks section to complete it, same with loan requirements
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 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.
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 =)
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.
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")
Thanks, I see what might've caused this
For now to fix this you can just F7 -> "Complete all tasks"
If you have other tasks that you don't want to complete, you can delete this variable from your save file and trigger story_chapter_3_event_6 again
Thank you for the incredibly fast response! I really appreciate it. I'm downloading the latest update tonight, if I run back into this issue, I'll give this a try!
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)
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
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.
Try deleting/renaming this folder, apparently it helped someone before: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager
Your save files are also in this folder, so you should make a backup, and if the issue is fixed - copy your save files back to this folder.
I had a story event and then the counter of my fans was completly wrong. I didnt notice and released a single that got a really big amount of money because of the wrong number of fans.
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
When preparing for the Summer Games, I encountered a localization error. While talking about how to pander to the audition judges, this happened:
Hello, This game is so much fun!
** This message is google transfer **
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
