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There is a Aavatar mismatch between the menu list avatar and the Audition/Salary avatar
There seems to be a dupe glitch for idols. When setting them into formation, you can click rapidly on a face and it will replace the spot with another idol even though that idol has already been selected. It seems that the stats also apply to the song as well, per idol you have duped. I only have six idols hired at this moment.
There's a bug in loans:
- Go to Loans - Bank, type in the maximum amount
- Go to Fujimoto and you can lend the bank's maximum (10x more) from Fujimoto at 0% intrest rate.
The idols that you are "pushing" disappeared when you close the game and then continue the same game save
When you choose three new idols to push, the old three idols you have pushed before you close the game cannot be selected. (The following picture shown that only Momona and Anju's name card can be selected be cause they are either not being pushed now, or not being pushed before the game is saved and closed. The other idols name card is slightly darker and cannot be selected)
I can not advance beyond the concert level even though I have held multiple concerts. I reached multiple milestones beyond that but I can not move past the concert objective that is still greyed out. The bug might also apply to world tours, since I have had one of those as well.
If an idol is currently practicing vocals or dance, they sometimes can't be added to a concert lineup (neither songs nor talk breaks work). Not sure what triggers it, it doesn't seem to happen consistently.
Edit: This also happens when adding idols to lineups for media (internet, tv, radio shows). Exact same problem, idols currently practicing can't be selected.
Does time progress in your game? Like, do days change in the bottom left? It could be a bug
You should get research points when a staffer is assigned to a room and they don't have any tasks (like training or producing singles)
Maybe you can't hire anyone because you don't have enough money, you can take a loan by clicking on your office (or there's a cheat - press Y to get 1M)
Aha! It wasn't intuitive for me (perhaps it was me). I thought that "HIRE" was more of a title not a button.
Two things
1: I exceeded the 2.147b mark for revenue at a concert, causing it to turn into a negative and give me a 2.3b loss instead of profit. It still came up green on "revenue" as if it didn't realise.
2: I got this event (picture below) but none of the options worked when I clicked on them and I was forced to close the game.
First of all, there's a known bug in this version that breaks the game for users in some regions, setting your date format to English might help: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dvv-hiBXQAE_JU5.jpg
But generally, this is how you make singles:
1. Click the play button in the bottom left. If days don't change, then it's definitely a bug.
2. Build rooms, hire staff, drag and drop them into the rooms
3. Wait until they earn enough research points. Unlock a genre, etc in the Research tab
4. In the singles tab, click the green button at the top "New Single". Enter single's title. Select genre, choreography, lyrics and marketing options. If it's not a digital single, enter number of copies
5. Drag and drop idols into formation
6. Drag and drop the single into rooms with staffers (make sure they're not busy with training idols or something else)
7. After all 4 staffers are done, click Release. If you don't have enough money to release the single, you can take a loan by clicking on your Producer and selecting "Loan"
While i was in the process of firing employees two of the employees glitched on me. As you can see I only have two assistants but, four are occupying rooms.
I just downloaded the latest update, and the little flask icons showing research points accumulating weren't displaying for coaches when they're idle, but instead displayed when they started coaching or producing (research points are still only earned when they're idle).
Edit: OK, update: they weren't displaying at all when they were idle, then started displaying when they got busy, and now they're just displaying permanently - both when they're busy AND when they're idle.
Son of Edit: This is also happening with the Manager in my game now:
Grandson of Edit: Started happening to the producer as well:
Another one: looks like a white rectangle is sometimes acting as a placeholder image whenever there aren't at least 3 girls in a formation (this also happened when I launched an internet show with a rotating cast - 3 white rectangles). This was a single with just 2 idols in the formation. A single with just 1 idol didn't have this problem.
Please send me your save file at sadambober@gmail.com , it'll help me find out what happened and I can probably fix your save file too
This happens to me consistently as well every time I restart the game.
The last 4 staff hired will always appear in the staff list as if not assigned to a room, despite still being assigned in the room itself. You can fix it by clicking each room and removing them manually, then reassigning.
It's always the 4 most recently hired staff members.
And another one!
After hiring some idols in an audition (was nationwide and I hired 4 out of the 5, not sure if that's relevant) the dialogue for the idol wouldn't come up, and clicking around would just click the background elements as if the idol wasn't there:
Just in case it's relevant, this idol's trait is Forgiving and she had a gold background and a rating of 80.
I'm not sure what triggered it, I'll try to reproduce it again.
Edit: Happened again in another audition, I didn't do anything particularly different. 2 hires, first one was gold, the other was silver.
Hello, I've been experiencing this bug ( it might just be me) since the elections update. I've been wanting to have an election and I'll have both a concert and single finished and ready to release but when I try to start a special event for elections it'll say that I need to have a concert in production. I've tried creating an election while the concert is still in the production phase but that doesn't work either. Again this might not be a bug and I might be doing it wrong, if I am could someone please tell me the proper way to start an election? Thanks!
Hi again.
One of my idols is, um, very... very depressed.
How this happened was that she had 52 physical stamina, and I took a photoshoot job that cost 51 stamina (I specifically chose her because she had the stamina). Unsure what her mental stamina was before that, but I do know it wasn't low.
Edit: Oh! When I closed and reloaded the game due to the bug below, her mental stamina was changed to 0.
And another one:
This happened because I got a message about scalpers selling tickets for a concert while I already had a message about a scandal (the game wasn't paused and is still running in the background). After I dealt with the scalper one, the screen looks like this and the other one is gone.
I can't click anything or cancel out of this screen, so the only solution was to force close the game.
I have a similar issue after trying to view a nationwide idol search campaign. Just stuck blurred, with nothing to do but force quit.
Is it okay to keep posting individually or should I just condense all of these into one post by editing it? I'm just posting as I find them.
Dates on the special event log seem a little wonky.
Elections are all displaying the date of the most recent election.
Concert dates seem to show when the concert was conceived rather than when it happened (it happened with the election, I was waiting for the 6mo cooldown).
I found an error
When I opened my saved game, the coaches were not in their rooms.
I assigned them manually, but I could not assign a room to some coaches.
I closed the game and reopened it, but everything remained the same.
This one is actually intentional, it can happen if the girl has the "meme queen" trait
Hi it's me again this game is my life n ow.
A weird thing happened where all of my singles disappeared. They are still listed in my save file . If I create a new single, I am able to use formations from past singles. This happened after I closed and restarted because I was unable to drag and drop my election to production or logistics.
I had a single in progress and it shows that as well
Sorry, I probably should've clarified more info about this. The shows are fully cancelled, in that they aren't waiting to be cancelled at the end of the season. I know that radio and TV shows have to wait to be cancelled, but Internet shows cancel instantly. However the current bug I've found seems to happen no matter which kind of show you use, even after they're all fully cancelled.
To replicate, launch an Internet show and then cancel it after launching. You can now look at your media profits and see it still affects your total profit even though it shouldn't since it's cancelled. You can also check this by adding all the profits of your past/current shows up and comparing it to your media profits to see that even shows cancelled years ago still affect your profits.
I've also now noticed that the shows don't seem to take into account revenue vs budget calculation correctly, which could maybe be related. Basically, all radio and Internet shows will always earn money and TV shows will always lose money.
For instance, when I launch a no host TV show, it has a budget of 100k yen a week. That's all fine. But then it launched, it says it earns 128k revenue initially. The amount of profit I earn from the show should be my revenue minus my budget, so my profit should be 128k minus 100k, which is 28k. Yet, for some reason, the game will say I'm actually losing 128k yen a week from the show, which is a bug for a number of reasons lol. One, it should be 28k affecting me, not 128k. Two, I should be getting plus my profit, not minus my profit (at least in this case where I'm supposed to have profit).
With internet and radio shows though, the budget isn't subtracted from the revenue and the profit isn't turned negative like TV shows are. Meaning that, no matter what, internet and radio shows will always earn money, even when they shouldn't. For example, I have an early internet show that has a 10k budget but only earns 5.6k in revenue. Profit = Revenue - Budget = 5.6k - 10k = -4.4k. So I should be losing 4.4k a week from the show, and if it doesn't pick up enough to ever make a profit then I should cancel it. But what happens currently is the budget isn't subtracted from the revenue and the revenue is just given to me as profit.
This issue mixed with the fact that cancelled shows will still affect your profits means that currently you can make a bunch of internet shows and immediately cancel them after their release (which you can do with internet shows). Since it only needed you and a sales manager to produce, it's really cheap and easy to make. Since your revenue is treated as profit without subtracting budget, even if it's not successful it'll earn you money. And since you'll still earn the profit after it's cancelled, you can keep earning the money without your idols losing stamina to run the show.
Alright, after testing it out a bit more it looks like the values you see when launching the show actually don't affect your profit in any way. For example, I just made a novice host internet show of the entire cast and when the launch screen showed the revenue and budget amounts it said the show made 31k in revenue and the weekly budget was 20k, which should mean the profit it gets every week (at least at the beginning) is 11k. But once the launch screen goes away and I check the media page for its profit values, it says its making 175k...and I have no idea where that value came from. I'm thinking maybe your fame at the time can heavily affect it (I'm at 10 star fame) so the revenue it would actually get is a lot higher than it looks initially, but if that's the case this should be reflected in the launch screen too.
Also I've now found that even internet shows can launch in the negatives too, but the only real way I've found to trigger it is to higher an expensive host like a 10 star host. And I also had a no host TV show that actually made money...but maybe that has to do with whatever weird thing happens to your profit after the launch screen. So I don't know what's happening but something random happens to the profit values after launch and if it's not that expensive of a show you will more than likely earn a profit that doesn't seem at all based on the launch revenue but heavily affected by weekly budget and some random value. I think just the revenue isn't actually factored into the calculation of profit maybe and this causes more expensive shows to be massive failures? It's all kinda weird from what I've tested so far. I'll let you know if I figure anything else out.
Edit: ALSO the TV show I launched that actually made me money let me immediately cancel it without waiting for the season to end. Did it maybe launch an internet show maybe but labelled it as a TV show? Or are TV shows just able to cancel immediately for the first few episodes?
Looks like I can't level up my performance to past level 8 too. Level 9 requires you to do an election and have the votes for the #1 idol exceed 50k votes. I just had an election that far exceeded that requirement but it still says it's at 0/50k.
I experienced this before but it seemed to only happen after I have so many hired staff and I try to hire a bunch more staff. Sometimes I can see one new staff member but none of the others I just hired. Usually fixed it by saving and restarting and they'd be there waiting to be put in a room.
Every now and then, I'm producing a single and say I want to get the choreo made, if I drag it to the choreographer it won't let me? I can drag it to her, the icon'll disappear but nothing happens. Similarly, dragging idols would ocassionally not drop onto the room but sometimes the icon of the girl remains. It stays like that until I somehow manage to drag her or another idol successfully or reload the save. Sometimes, usually for the marketing of a single, it won't let me click on the single to drag to the staff. I end up having to cancel it and redo it since restarting doesn't fix it (as far as I'm aware).
Edit: I actually managed to fix this issue (editing the save file wherein if girls wasn't -1, change that to -1 and status to 0). Without fixing it, apparently the staff members weren't assigned to a room but time still stopped.
I'm having the same issue. I can't progress the development of any of my singles, the staff just refuses to work on them. Reloading the save seems to fix it, but having to reload every 10 minutes or so is very annoying.
Just updating.
The issue seems to occur most often when I have three layers / floors and I use the highest floor. For example, offices on 1st floor, studio and dance on 2nd, doctor on 3rd. As long as I do not use the doctor on the third floor, I can send my singles through the offices, dance, and studio. The second I send one of my Idols to the doctor, I can no longer work on my singles at all.
"Release" button for releasing a single is disabled when it has to be active.
One of the idols was on hiatus and I canceled her hiatus to release a single. But "Release" button was disabled until I pressed "Formation" and without changing anything in the formation pressed "Continue". In the screenshot you can see that all the songs use the same formation but some can't be released until I press "Formation" and "Continue".
In the previous version the moment the staff asked the policies questions could happen after a while has passed(a few weeks usually which is quite long already). In this new version it just doesn't happen anymore ; i already have many idols and a few months already have passed but i can't change my policies because until the event the button stay grayed.
So I think the elections are no longer working. When I try to do an election, even if I have a single and concert in production, it shows me the stats of a past concert. I am not able to select the broadcast method for elections. Idk if you can see but behind the concert stat block, it tells me i need to have a concert in production. When I click continue, it creates the election, but I am not able to drag it to production or logistics
Update: Yeah, this should be called the draggable-but-not-droppable bug. I can grab something, and the cursor icon changes, but when I hover over a drop location and drop nothing happens.
This happens on all items on the main (building/staff) screen. It does not happen on the (single) formation screen.
Bug still present in Beta 5.1. It took about an hour or so of game play to appear, and then steadily becomes more frequent as play time increases.
Saving and reloading clears the problem.
Interesting... I was about to post that I started a new save and encountered the same pattern - no problem at first, then it popped up after I'd played for a while. But I had added a doctor on the floor above the "rent free" floor before encountering it - just as BrassCrassus posted just a few minutes ago.
A fun one with the doctors... They aren't choosing the lowest physical stamina patients.
I'm back again (lol). It seems as though I'm not the only one experiencing what DerekL now calls the 'draggable-but-not-droppable' situation. Fortunately, it isn't as frequent as it previously was. Strangely, for most of the people facing the same issue its after they drag someone to the doctor from another floor— afterwards it stops working. For me, so far, I've only ran into this issue again when dragging to the doctors at my lowest floor (it isn't the lowest floor, as seen in the image).
I was going to mention that the issue only seemed to be present with those two doctors, however I discover later on that this seems to trigger the rest of the staff members to be undropped to. The rest of my doctors, which are much higher up don't seem to trigger this issue (as I mentioned earlier, I dragged an idol to one of the lower doctors; did not work, however I managed to drop her to the higher up doctors. But the issue returned).
Certain idols portraits won't match. It will switch between the correct one from the audition (bottom image) and a totally different one (top image in middle). I've had this happen several times during previous versions as well.
Hey, I just pushed an update that should fix the freezing bug.
For single sales, there's a big penalty to sales if you release singles too often (-50% if there's been less than a month from the previous single), maybe you're hitting that?
Hello I found a bug where when you go and drag an Idol to a room and she get's automatically placed in a different room while still dragging her that her icon doesn't dissapear from your mouse even in cutscenes. All the rooms where she can't be placed will keep being dark because of this. I can still press the pause button, options and menu's. I tried removing her from the room she automatically got picked in and she stopped being in that room but her picture stayed. I can make the picture dissapear by dragging a different Idol.
Have any of your idols graduated? Could be a bug that can happen when a leader of a clique graduates, it will be fixed in the next update soon.
If not, please send me your log file and/or save file at sadambober@gmail.com
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
That's definitely a bug, looks like there's something wrong with one of your singles or concerts. Please send me your save file at sadambober@gmail.com
Windows:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/auto_save.json
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
This is for the mod editor, but the color tags do not work. [color:red] adds a visible color tag to the event in game. (The first two instances are wrong, because I was testing a different method., but in the bottom half, I did use the documentation provided.)
The color tags also appear in the results panel when it tells you how the stats have been updated as the effects.
Though it's not a complete fix, I have found a way to get rid of old saves.
I hope you have a similar file setup as me is all haha
Go to c:\users\(accountname)\appdata\Glitch Pitch\
and the idol manager folder will be there, it's not the install folder, but it's the folder where all the data is kept, so deleting it SHOULD basically make your game a clean slate... for me at least. I recommend backing up the folder to a different location before deleting it though, in case there's something different to your setup than mine dkglfd
You don't even get to the main menu? Please send me your log file at sadambober@gmail.com, I'll see if it's something I can fix
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log
Or you can email itch.io support to ask for a refund: support@itch.io
It looks like [Insert Campaigner Name] and [Insert Group Name] are the same name in this event! My group's name should be Fallen Angels, but it's showing up as Okita Shinji.
I'm getting extremely frequent time freezes while seemingly doing nothing. Restarting the game fixes it until it freezes again within barely a few minutes. Here's the log:
https://file.coffee/7ml30sqrQ.txt
My active media also vanishes without a trace from time to time (on a restart?)
Nope. Never relaunched it. Never cancelled it. Sometimes launching it does launch it, but still allows me to launch it, resulting in multiple copies of the same show running at the same time, I think? Really odd.
I don't think that's true. My training max was set to 20, the idols stat cap was 20, and the displayed stat was 20. So, if they were reading and reacting to the potential stat... wouldn't they have trained once (raising the hidden stat to 21) and quit? (Instead of constantly reloading the idol and training the same stat in an endless loop).
Are you sure you've leveled up your producer a bit? They get one extra queue max per star I believe.
The game froze on this screen. I have the feeling an event was supposed to pop up. It happened right after creating a single, as I was dragging it towards the producer to start the lyrics. Don't have a log cause I was a dumb dumb and immediately restarted the game. (Maybe save multiple logs automatically?)
Sometimes I can not market a release. Dragging the single does not produce a CD icon, and dropping on a staffer does nothing.
Here is the log:
https://file.coffee/r0QdHtsCH.txt
Restarting the game does not fix the issue. The single can still be released.
Typing the numbers 1-3 in the ticket price window for a concert affects the game speed. These controls should be blocked while in a text field.
Got a girl in hiatus complaining. What the hell are you doing at the studio while on break?
Maybe you're being ignored in business dealings because you're on hiatus?? How are they gonna book you for gigs when you're not even available? Lol
Not entirely sure what she wants here. What's the "with a" at the end supposed to mean? There's also a space needed between 'edm' and 'single' and the 'a' in front of it should be 'an'.
I noticed a lot of these, they were fine before the last Update. Maybe a typo somewhere in the code.
Game froze on this screen again. Happened after a birthday event. Pretty sure it was supposed to be a graduation event.
This time I do have the log: https://file.coffee/gCWZ89D8H.txt
(Lots of screenshots in this one)
I noticed that negotiating business proposals doesn't actually adhere to the percentage that it displays. I'm not sure if this variation is intended. If it is, I think it's not explained clearly enough.
Assume the staffer is max level in deals and a sales manager:
Example 1:
A max level staffer's negotiation result of 0% yields a decrease of about 15% instead. I have seen cases of both increases and decreases.
Before:
After:
Example 2:
A max level staffer's negotiation result of +100% yields an increase of about 70% instead. I have seen cases of both higher and lower than +100%.
Before:
After:
And here's the log: https://file.coffee/Bl-E9GNu5.txt
As buzz seems to be hard-capped at 1000%, should a source of buzz be able to give more than 1000% buzz? (To clarify: My buzz did not go above 1000%)
I'm also not sure if fan satisfaction should really be 0% if it's my best-selling single so far. Either that or I just don't know what fan satisfaction stands for.
(Also, yes, I was 1 sale short. Curse you, game.)
Another 1 short. I wonder if this is an off-by-one error somewhere?
Log: https://file.coffee/bjaVA6Kqn.txt
And now for some rapid-fire smaller bugs and annoyances.
She's already graduated:
Is there supposed to be a hard cap of 7 on queue length, even though the producer is a higher level?
Right-clicking while hovering over an option in the left-hand menu (as to close it) will register it as a normal click, thus completing the action while the menu is closing:
Sometimes auto options (such as auto practice or auto stamina recovery) turn off seemingly at random:
Speaking of auto stamina recovery; since there are Psychiatrists and Physicians, their auto stamina recovery options should be split into auto physical- and auto mental stamina recovery.
Since the recent update introduced automatically disabling and re-enabling of auto practice when dragging a job to their respective rooms, such as a single, why is this not a thing for office workers?
Even though I have selected my vibe to be changed to 'cute', it is still stuck on 'cool':
I don't know if it's any use in these cases, but here's the log anyway:
https://file.coffee/qPujT_t1Y.txt
Yes, this has been a long session (which wasn't possible before, so kudos!), so the log is quite extensive.
The wrong idol portrait is sometimes being shown in a conversation:
She (the wrongfully displayed one) is the same as the successor I got that I was talking about in the previous report.
Log: https://file.coffee/0_RVtY7bw.txt
Found a new freeze. This one happened after an audition, during the first new idol's event. As shown in the image, I can still interact with the background. (I even managed to save, so I didn't lose any progress)
log: https://file.coffee/yxF6P_uWm.txt
hello! i got double the manager in the cut scene when i started a new save file (i've tested making 4 other new files and getting a manager, it's happened 1/4 times so not that common or that big of a deal). also, my cursor became the idol's portrait when i tried to drag her to a room. screenshots attached, lemme know if i should include a log.
Ok so yeah, once you write over the autosave with a new game, all your manual saves pop up again.
Entering the Options menu from inside a playsession causes it to display the wrong labels and values for the various settings. I'm guessing it's just a case of not properly loading the various values, since changing the sliders seems to work.
This is what I set it to when opening the Options menu from the main menu.
This is how it looks when I open the Options menu while in a play session.
It should happen every time and this is on a fresh Windows install with no previous Glitch Pitch folder in AppData.
hi! sorry if this has been mentioned already but i've been getting this bug pretty frequently when i hire a girl, where the portrait that's shown in the audition screen is a different portrait from the one that shows up when she's actually hired. it's not a huge deal but it does bother me a little when the portrait isn't the one i expected it to be lol.
i couldn't seem to recreate it on a fresh save but it worked on my most recent save, which is a new game that i started like 20 minutes ago. i was reloading the save a lot (trying to get the perfect idol without spending a bunch of money on multiple auditions lmao) so maybe that caused it? it's also happening on my other save which i've played for about 20 hours or so. anyway here's the screenshots!
Got a pretty gnarly visual glitch happening all over the screen whenever I do one of the daily tasks. (Performance in this example)
Here's a small snippet of it:
Log: https://file.coffee/6ifoemlTG.txt
If you're stuck "In Production", you can try opening your save file with a text editor, find "SpecialEvents_Manager__EventData" and replace all "Status": 1 with "Status": 0
Save files are here:
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Please send me your save file and/or log to sadambober@gmail.com or just upload it here https://file.coffee/
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Okay, thanks, I see the issue. I fixed your save file if you don't want to wait for the update: https://file.coffee/PUCzm3-o_.json
For everyone with the same issue, you can fix your save file by finding "pushes__Data" and adding "days": [0,0,0], so it looks something like this:
Both my producer and managers research points are in the negative.
Don't know if is a bug but the concert/election never star in my game play :/
"pushes__Data": {
"girls": [11, 2, -1],
"days": [0,0,0]
},First audition on the new Beta 9 version and one of my poor candidates have her eyes (and probably her hair accessory) incorrectly offset on the audition screen. After I hired her and she popped up on screen to give the trait related recruitment message, her eyes looked normal, though she was missing the accessory.
Once I got back to the game, however, the other idol I had already hired before the above screenshot got the same messed up image from this audition on her entry in the idol list instead of her own image (which was fine in the audition).
This is what the other idol (Yoshida Rin) should look like according to her profile page:
I did save, close the game and make backups of output_log.txt, as well as the save, in case you want me to send them in. The issue with the messed up portraits in the idols list persists even after restarting the game and loading the save again.
>First audition on the new Beta 9 version and one of my poor candidates have her eyes (and probably her hair accessory) incorrectly offset on the audition screen.
Interesting... I had that exact same bug. (And I do mean exact, same outfit/accessory.)
Please send me your save file and/or log to sadambober@gmail.com or just upload it here https://file.coffee/
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Speaking of hiatus, when you hover over an idol on hiatus, the tooltip does not show the return date.
I can confirm. It only says that the idol will return at... and then blank where the date should be.
Yeah, this one should actually be fixed in the update I did a few hours ago: https://sadambober.itch.io/idol-manager/devlog/95875/update-beta-91
It has happened a lot of time, and the only solution that i have found is to go to the main menu and relaunch my save
Update: I still can't play cries a little. See, in pic one it starts up fine??? Then literally all I get is black and the program isn't responding. I've tried compatibility, I've tried redownloading plenty of times and I'm getting frustrated cause I don't know if it's my computer ( then I really need to figure out why!! Cause it plays another game I have on here just fine??? ) oooor it's the game or even a mix of both. Is anyone else experiencing problems like this, or is it just me ; w ;
Please upload this file to https://file.coffee/ , maybe it'll help me figure out what's going on
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\output_log.txt
And you can always request a refund if nothing helps: https://itch.io/docs/legal/terms#9-refunds
that's the weird thing!! it used to work fine, then when i tried downloading the latest patch 9 / 9.1 it stopped completely loading and i don't know why!! ): I will email you, because I don't.. really want a refund haha? Cause I want to support this game!! Plus I don't think I can wait till the official release.
Also note, the build you put up didn't work for me either ;; I'm really sorry.
This is actually an issue with your computer! It's (probably) happening because Windows 7 only supports DX11.0 features, but the game needs to access DX11.1 features. You can fix this by installing either this platform update, or if that doesn't work, just updating your computer to the latest version of Windows 7.
I'll probably fix it in the next update in a few days, but for now you should be able to fix it like this:
Open your save file with a text editor, find "SpecialEvents_Manager__EventData" and change "Status": 1 to "Status": 0
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
For one reason or another, I keep getting this event popping up and I'm unable to make any decision. I also don't have any idols going by that name. So I don't know what's going on, but it keeps disrupting my ongoing save every time I load in.
both it and the politician event every so often are acting glitchy not responding to clicks or poping up 3 or 4 times when you click a option.
sometimes it just doesnt let you do any actions sometimes it works fine
Edit: here is a example
After i force crashed the game and reloaded hitting continue it moved on like the event never happend
This, surprisingly, actually worked for me.
While I did had to change hairstyles of some idols to hairstyles that were in the 9.1 version the save did load in the 9.1 version and spawned a different, closeable, event. Then that 9.1 save loaded fine in the 10.0 game and I could continue.
But it really isn't a viable, permanent, solution.
Hit the same bug last night.
As it stands, the full screen and event lockup bugs are for all intents and purposes, game killing. The game is currently virtually unplayable.
Yep also got this bugged event. After closing the game and reopening the auto save file the game continuous like the event didn't happen but after a week it pops up again in all its game ending glory, it really is a game ender.
Kinda disappointing that this bug is still here, considering it isn't exactly a rare bug apparently.
I just had to force the game to quit because I got an empty dialogue, myself. I think this is my log? For context I have 10 idols, the only rooms/staff I currently have are my office, two managers, and the break room, and I just launched an internet show a few days before the dialogue started up.
Found a smallish bug while trying to save scum for a audition. When you save just before an audition, say just before you would click that A symbol, and then reload that save, the idols that are presented in the audition screen and the ones you actually get are disconnected. The stats and ability do stayed synced correctly.
To make it more clear, here I reloaded the save because I didn't like the results and tried again. These are my choices this time:
I hire the one selected and finish as usual. But at the introduction screen I get greeted by a completely different avatar
The stats are exactly the same though, only the appearance has changed.
And that is as clear as I can make it. From here on out the game uses the new appearance correctly and no further weirdness is experienced. This only happens if I reload and use the same 'prepared' audition, if I cancel and plan a new audition the disconnect doesn't happen at all.
I'll upload the 2 save games, just in case.
Save just before the audition.
Save after the screenshotted audition
If you load the save again and click the A again, do you still get different people? And when you accept one (say the left-most one), does it generate the same avatar?
And if you try it again, do you get yet another different set of people with different set of stats, and when you select the one at the same position as the last one, does the avatar still be the same as the previous test?
These tests are used determine which things (idol names, stats, avatars) are generated, and which were already decided when the audition was completed. They can also help sadambober zero-in to the fix.
Or I suppose you could peek inside the save game. It's in JSON, so it's quite easy to change into a human-readable format.
Closing and starting the game before loading the save does clear the 'corruption', and you get the results as described in the first point .
So my guess is that the game doesn't clear/reset some variables correctly when loading a save while not closing the game.
Yeah, that's a bug. If you want you can edit your save file
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Find "data_girls__Girls", find your idol in there and change "status": 6 to "status": 0
Just a note, I was having the same problem and this worked great for me, but I also had to edit the auto_save file to save my hiatus'd idol--I think because I used "save and quit" when I quit out of the game before editing the save files. So, yeah, if anyone tries this and it doesn't work, I'm guessing editing both the manual AND auto save will do the trick.
Please upload this file somewhere, or just send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
And also this folder:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Crashes
There's one other person having this issue, I wasn't able to figure out why yet
Hi, I'm seeing a glitch where after an event happens and I click out of the screen, it blurs out the rest of the game and I'm not able to do anything else so have to force close the game and restart. Sample screenshot attached - this happened immediately after one of my idols graduated. I'm playing on the latest version, 10.1. 
Do you have any mods enabled? If not, please upload Player.log and Player-prev.log to https://file.coffee/
from here C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager
And maybe try deleting everything in this folder
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
This actually happens if you played before the update but started a new game after updating.
You can try to load an old save once (this will "reset" the game) and then continue playing your new save, or delete everything from this folder
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Another option is to open your new save file with a text editor and replace "version":"Beta #11" with "version":"Beta #10"
Unfortunately, none of these things worked :(
Something I noticed was that although only the blurry screen came up, I could still hover my mouse over where the portraits would be and click there - but doing so would crash the game immediately.
After I changed Beta #11 to Beta #10, it no longer crashed when I clicked the ghost portraits, but I couldn't get out of the screen either
Okay, that's weird. Are you playing on a laptop?
Please upload Player.log and Player-prev.log to https://file.coffee/ after it happens again
from here C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager
Hi, in the new version released today, I'm not able to load into my previously saved up file when I click Continue from the main menu. I can hear the game music and I see lines appear on the loading screen. It almost looks like the game has loaded behind the loading screen, but I'm not able to access anything.
If I try to load the same save from version 10, it's working normally.
Please upload your save file here: https://file.coffee/
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json
Okay, instead of deleting the entire cache folder try deleting everything inside this folder instead
C:\Users\sadambober\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
(or create this folder if you don't have it)
Then try to load this save again. Maybe try waiting a bit longer (initial loading now can take longer, but the game should work faster). If it doesn't work, please let me know what folders you have in data\cache\portraits. It looks like this for me after I load your save:
Okay, I removed everything from the portraits folder and reloaded the save. I waited about 5 minutes this time since I do have a large save file. These are the folders that I have in portraits now so it looks the same as what you have. But unfortunately I'm still seeing the issue and not able to load this particular file.
Yeah, this looks good. There are 3 images inside each folder, right?
Now don't clear this folder, but try adding "version":"Beta #11", in the beginning of your save file https://file.coffee/ZNr11l3dF.json
If it fails once, try again. If that doesn't help, please upload your log files
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player-prev.log
Thanks very much for your help, after adding the version to the save file and restarting twice I was able to access my save :)
I agree about auto save having gotten worse. Before, auto save would bring me right to the moment before the game crashed. Now I'm losing entire concert performances, upgrading song genres, song releases, etc. I was fine with the game crashing before because auto save was so good but now I lose so much!
Here you go: https://file.coffee/O3zenjrOZ.log
I got one broken shoplifting event, then two broken cosplay scandals in a row. Do let me know if you see anything wrong with the file.
I'll try replacing those files with their original versions, see if that fixes it. Just for some extra context, I managed to play Beta #11 for over 2h with the updated, translated files before this issue started happening. Maybe it was something I changed in one of the files between last night and today, but either way, I'll send you the translated files.
Okay, you just missed commas in vars.json, adding them should fix it. Btw you can use something like Sublime Text to edit files, it can highlight errors
Just realized as well that the game definitely isn’t awarding those same awards that aren’t upticking (gravure, variety, fashion). They were awarded the first year but not the two after that. Also iirc the hosts/game doesn’t give out awards for anything your own group isn’t nominated for? (Ie the first year every award was assigned to a group but now only things you are eligible for are mentioned.) Is that a bug or purposeful?
Yeah, that's on purpose, I thought it would get annoying to sit through the same thing every year
Player.log : https://file.coffee/JualBUXGY.log
Player-prev.log : https://file.coffee/k9_iWR-4H.log
