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Idol Manager

Idol Manager is a business sim about conquering the entertainment industry using any means you deem necessary. · By sadambober, Kuiper

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A topic by sadambober created Nov 20, 2018 Views: 56,214 Replies: 880
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Hi there - I've been having an issue with starting idol elections. Instead of the prompt that says I need a concert in production I'm seeing this screen:


And it doesn't let me select a single or make any changes? Is the concert displayed some kind of minimum requirement before you can do elections?

Developer

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 

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Firing staff using the scandal points seems to freeze the game. Saving and reloading fixes this.

An Idol graduating also froze my game, after reload the graduation dialogue came up again, but this time it went without problem.

When an Idol Auto-Starts an activity, while trying to drag and drop her somewhere, the cursor turns into her picture and only a restart of the game fixes this.

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.

Again with whompy girls in auditions -- These ones have ... weird hair? Not at all where it's supposed to be.


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With Beta 7, it seems that elections do not work. The game keeps telling me that i need to hire at least 5 idols. I have 8 idols at the moment.

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I've been experiencing a bug where girls from other save games are showing up as my options for business deals. Also one of my girls is in a relationship with a girl from a different save, not sure if this is a bug or intentional? Also, is there a way to delete old saves? I have a few from older betas where I was mostly just messing with new features and I'll probably never touch them again, I'd love to delete them.

Same here. I'd like to have the option to delete old saves as well.

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

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- Special Events still not showing up in Details panel

There is a bug that causes shows to cancel on their own. :/

- An idol with low mental stamina graduated

- I retained her as a staffer, then fired her (as she didn't appear as the kind of staffer I needed).

- I'm still getting the warning on the Details widget that I have an idol with low mental stamina.  (Lowest mental stamina of the remaining idols is 78.)

when i open the game it just freezes on a Gray screen  

Developer

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

my game keep telling me that there is still concert in produce even I don't have any concert in production. 

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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.

Game still freezes for me, when firing staff.

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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?)


Developer(+1)

Thanks, I see what causes the issue, the fix should be up tomorrow 

Awesome. Glad I could be of help. I edited my post with another issue.

The active media thing seems to happen when you attempt a relaunch. Relaunch never happens but the show disappears?

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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.

- Stylists are grabbing girls whose displayed stat is equal to the Max Auto Training stat.

- Special Events are still not being displayed in the Details widget.

To clarify - If Max Auto Training is set to 20, stylists are grabbing girls whose displayed stat is 20, going through the styling cycle, then releasing them without having raised their level.

Further clarification - I have a *bunch* of girls who won't train one stat or another past 20, even with Max Auto Training set to 50 or with manually training them.

OK, I think I've finally nailed the problem...  Stylists are loading idols that are at their stat cap and trying to raise a stat that cannot be raised.

I'm pretty sure they actually look at and raise an idol's 'potential' as described in the 8.0 changelog, which would explain why you don't see the stat being increased and why it's taking idols that may look like they are at your defined cap. Not sure if I'm right, though.

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).

It could be that it was a 16 year idol with a Cute stat of less than 20? Since the Cute "minimum" seems to be 20 for 16 year old idols, it would show 20 even if the stylist was raising said idol's potential from 13 to 14 and then from 14 to 15 or whatever.

Is it possible do get now a Platinum Idol in local auditions? If not then this could be a bug, because i got one directly in my first local audition with a new save.

Developer

Yeah, that shouldn't be possible. Are you sure it wasn't a silver? Plats look like this:


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Oh, there's a redundancy in that screenshot "30% percent".

Yes, was the blackish one :) 

Yeah. I got one, too. First time audition in local audition and one card is platinum card (black card and high stats idol)

I can't queueing either performance or spa more than 1. Is it new feature or a bug? Thanks

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Are you sure you've leveled up your producer a bit? They get one extra queue max per star I believe.

Ah, it's true. Thank you very much

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?)

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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.

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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.

That explains why the game keeps running in the concert setup screen...  even though I was certain that I had paused it.

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Got a girl in hiatus complaining.  What the hell are you doing at the studio while on break?

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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

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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'.

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I had another one of those.

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I noticed a lot of these, they were fine before the last Update. Maybe a typo somewhere in the code.

Ah, I didn't know they existed before the most recent update. I haven't played for a while after all. This really does sound like a bug introduced with beta 8.0 then.

Mind you, these are still completable. All the info you need is there. It's just that their sentence is a bit of a mess.

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

Right after the previously mentioned graduation event, the music stayed muffled, as if still in the event, right-click does not close the left-hand menu (manual closing still works) and the game seems to be working just fine.
Log: https://file.coffee/OquTZ9a1k.txt
(Are my massive amount of reports useful at all, or am I overdoing it?)

Developer(+1)

No, it's super helpful, thanks!

(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

In the birthday event, one of the portraits is not actually above one of the sprites in the case of 4 girls celebrating.

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.)

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Another 1 short. I wonder if this is an off-by-one error somewhere?

Log: https://file.coffee/bjaVA6Kqn.txt

Adding a host while creating a show with a sufficiently skilled group of idols actually causes the fame level to drop.
No host:

Newcomer host:

Seasoned and Trendy have the same as none in this example, Veteran and Legend have 1 more.
These are the individual idols for reference:

I'm not sure that's actually a bug...

Neither am I. But at the very least it's unclear whether it is or not. Something being unclear should be unintended. Hence.

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.

I found a good old fashioned game freeze.
Idol graduation event happened.
Chose to get a successor.
Successor's introduction event happened.
Game soft freezes.
Log: https://file.coffee/lciK55Q5m.txt

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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

It looks as if the basic game loop continues to run during a concert/election. "Not enough stamina" tends to pop up from time to time:

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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.


time is freezing for me after i either use a cheat ( specifically the y - 1M yen ), or if i try to hold an audition? also when i do initiate an audition and it's successful, when i hire a girl it's a different portrait from what i originally thought. i'm not sure what's causing that, but so far i've been lucky to miss out on majority of the bugs people have experienced. though in this latest update i feel like i've gotten all of them at once haha. 

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I had a lot of bugs and her is the principal one :

- When i pick a character in the character list, and i put / try to put in our main character for Socialize, sometimes the image of the head of the idol taht i try to put in my MC never deseapear and i need to load a save / restart the game ( happens a lot of time in my case )

- When i hired girl, the little text that come when you first meet her doesn't appeared and the only think that i could do for a moment was to play normally ( but with the portrait of the idol in the center of my screen,  he never deseapered ), and when i went for do a jobs, and i refused it, all of my screen who was not covered with the portrait of the idol, went all white and i can't literally do anything . So i decided to restart the game and when i tried to load that save, it load a previous save, . And even the auto save was not for my current save and it's was for the same that when i tried to load my game ( Happened 1 time ) It's the same bug that TeHWoof

- Idk if it's a bug but when i pick a gril who is training and i put her in the MC for socialize, it cancelled the Auto practice option of where she was ( i don't think that's a bug but it's perturbating xD ) 

- When i had like 2 Coregraphy / Singing Platform my idols doesn't wanted to go on the last that i bought, so i needed to pick her and put her in the last  Coregraphy / Singing Platform that i had bought . 

- When i load a game sometimes it happen that when i want to see my pushes, i can saw that there is no one, but when i go for put someone, i dont see the face of the idols who is in a case of pushes ( even if their is someone ), but i can see that my character is in it, because the description on the right is grey, and white for all the others idols, so it clearly said that one is in the case ( and it's the same for all the 3 emplacements of the pushes )

- In the election the girl who was the first was the badest one, and it was the game choose, like it was not me who put her in #1 ( low stats and low popularity ) . Idk if it's based on stats or it's random ( but i think that this is random because my idols with like 4-5-6 stars and who also was platinium, was beat by a gold idols with less popularity and stats ) 

Sorry for my bad english at some moment xD . And keep up all the good job that you have done until now !

So I had a loss of power while playing and it corrupted the autosave. I assume it was simply bad luck and the power went out just as it was saving, but what's odd is that my manual saves are gone. They're still there in the actual folder, but in the game, the 'load game' menu is just blank. I'm gonna start a new game to reset the autosave and see if this is a result from the autosave being corrupt, and if that fixes it I guess it's less an actual bug and just something to be aware of. If it doesn't, I have no idea what happened or how you'd fix that, but yeah, off to test around.

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Ok so yeah, once you write over the autosave with a new game, all your manual saves pop up again.

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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!



I've gotten this a few times, someone posted something similar above, but yeah.

Another bug, one of my girls is being styled but is also in the break room fighting? And it says one of them is practicing but she's nowhere on the screen and I also can't cancel her practicing. I've tried restarting, loading from the main menu, save, auto-save, etc. 

I had an issue of after hiring a girl, it froze at the introduction scene. The girl showed up, but the text never arrived. For a short while, I could make out the inlay and try and save the game to keep the progress from the last bit from when I saved last, but it completely stopped me from doing anything before I could finish saving. It was during a regional audition.

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

Oh good, it's not just me...

Oh good, it's not just me, either!

Developer

Just pushed an update that should fix this

Don't know if is a bug but the concert/election never star in my game play :/

How long has it been since you released the single because it takes 2 weeks for the concert to start

Thanks for the replay, i had a week or so since the single lunch, but i closed and re-start thinking it was a bug and the concert pop now after a few months i can't produce a new concert, i still have the "In Production" message. 

Developer

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 

Cool thanks, i'll give it a try!

I have level 5 friendship and level 5 influence with my girls, but none of them will gossip with me or tell me about their relationships :(

Developer

Good catch, thanks! I just pushed an update that should fix this

After a certain point, the space bar stops pausing...  Can be cleared by restarting the game.

Seems to happen consistently after a concert.

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First in-game day after the latest update and time froze. 26 Nov 2020.

EDIT: Relaunched the game, and the game was on 27 Nov 2020, but then time froze again at the end of that day.

Developer

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 

Here's my output_log.txt and my most recent manual save file.

Developer

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:

"pushes__Data": {
    "girls": [11, 2, -1],
    "days": [0,0,0]
},

Thank you!

I had the same issue and tried the fix, worked fine for the in-game day but it eventually froze again at the end. Along with that, my idol has been stuck in practice and I can't seem to cancel or take her out of it.


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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.

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You got that Chernobyl mod installed on your game, I see...

Yeah, no wonder poor Yuki has such low ratings for Smart and Pretty. The radiation must have hit her really hard.

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>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.)

Ah, then it could probably be that one particular look has messed up data.
I did start a new game and have not seen it again so far, but I have yet to encounter  any idols with that particular outfit so most of them seem to work perfectly fine.

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I'm not able to play the game after the update, it either won't start time or freezes within minutes

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Same here, can't go a single in-game day without having time freeze.

I'm experiencing the time freezes as well

Developer

I'll update the game soon, but for now you can try this fix https://itch.io/post/904758

Developer

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 

Developer

I'll update the game soon, but for now you can try this fix https://itch.io/post/904758

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Yeah, that particular look seems to be bugged. I had the same thing happen a couple of posts up.

Started a new game on the new Version and got the good old "Nazi-Uniform"-Event.  Only clicking the buttons didn't do anything for some reason.

Could move the cursor and saw the buttons "flashing", but nothing happened afterwards, it stayed on the Event.

Developer

I see the issue, thanks! Will be fixed tomorrow

Had my first concert in the same game, afterwards wanted to make a new single, but after choosing Genre&etc the Formation menu wouldn't load.

I also couldn't go back, since the game did leave the previous menu, so I had to shut down the game.

): I can't even start the game, it just crashes. The new update looks fun 😭

Developer

Have you tried downloading the 32bit version?

I've tried downloading the the 32 and the 64, so it might be my laptop?? I'm not really sure, when I try to open the application it just shows the unity logo thing then just black... I don't even get the title screen ):

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In noticed that all hiatus were 90 days...  nothing in the patch notes.  Bug or feature?

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Speaking of hiatus, when you hover over an idol on hiatus, the tooltip does not show the return date.

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I can confirm. It only says that the idol will return at... and then blank where the date should be.

I unfortunatly did not think to do a log file but in the event of the idol cosplaying and it resembling a german national uniform the game does not continue regardless of button options, and you have to force crash the game. i have noticed this on more than one occasion over 3 playthroughs. i hope this is useful despite the lack of log files.

Developer

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

yep got the event and it functions now after closing the game and reloading it and waiting for it to eventually trigger many months down the line. 

I have managed to have a election and after the 1 month period for the concert ended i checked to do another and it said in production, it still says this even after the 6 month cooldown of the election. currently there is no special event in the list of things in production despite it saying otherwise. prior to a election i was having many concerts and world tours now only world tours function.

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 

https://file.coffee/c3urK98oY.json

https://file.coffee/2uHyO5Bnf.txt

Hello, since the new atch i cant launch the game anymore, i also tried in fullscreen but it didn't work out.

Developer

Hey, try checking this option, I think that should help. Let me know if it worked

Hi ! It didn't worked out :/

Developer

I just added a new build, please check if it works for you


It worked ! Thanks a lot

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 ; 


Developer

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

cries a little, i'm sorry for causing all the trouble ;; but i think i uploaded it correctly. ( i've never done it before so please excuse me <3 ) thank you so much though!!! 

https://file.coffee/HwvDWg6D3.txt

Developer

The game used to work for you, right?

What's your email? I'll try sending you a bunch of different versions to test what works and what doesn't.

Developer

I just added a new build, please check if it works for you

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. 

Ever since she became graduating, she doesn't recover any physical stamina from the break room or spa treatment.  Doesn't go to the physical doctor.  Has not been injured either.  

I can see why you'd want to exclude them from benefits though.  ... So partially working as intended?

When I tried to ask an idol to dig up dirt on someone else, it froze after subtracting the influence. the chat box was empty. I restarted the game and figured it didn't work, but now a few days later, that idol pops up on the screen with another empty box that i couldn't get out of without restarting the game. i assume it was related to digging up dirt

Got stuck on this screen after telling her to break up with her bf

After a concert 1,2,3 number keys don't work for changing game speed. After that happens, a few minutes later the game will freeze randomly and I'll have to task manager it. Happened 3 times so far, restarting fixes it.

I'm currently experiencing a bug (?) where I'm trying to influence one of my idols to stop bullying and it won't let me. I've maxed out my influence AND friendship with her, but when I go to try to influence her it's still grayed out and says I need to have level 2 influence.

The game stops awarding fame stars...  the bar grows and restarts after reaching the top (as usual) but no stars are awarded.

I keep getting this error and now i cant play the game.

Switching to resolution 1280x720 failed, trying lower one
All resolution switches have failed
Screen: DX11 could not switch resolution (1280x720 fs=0 hz=0)

Can anyone help?

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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 don't know if it's a bug or i need to do something. after i'm doing election i can't held concert anymore. it keep saying "in production" but i don't see any in production section

Developer

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 

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Hey there, sadambober!

I'm getting an empty dialogue screen upon loading old saves that was just never there, meaning that I cannot play that saved game anymore. The game was created at least 5 months ago, and the last time it was saved was roughly a month ago. All the saves from this same game are broken, though the game I created in August loads just fine. Here's a screenshot of the blank dialogue screen I get.

Also, I am getting these weird visual glitches when I load my most recent save game (the one that works). Never seen those before. 

EDIT: The visual glitch seems to be easily fixable by cancelling any ongoing activities (in my case, cancelling my managers' search for proposals).

I decided to write another post because I've found another bug that is as game-breaking as the one I reported in my previous post. I tried playing with my one save game that still works, and when I tried to create a single, my game froze during the transition between the single setup screen and the formation selection screen. I could only see the out-of-focus background, and there was nothing I could do but to Alt+F4 out of the game.

Game locks up on New Single -> Formation.  Cannot proceed even after killing the game and reloading.  (Same bug as Bicky is reporting above.)

And that's a general problem I've encountered this morning.  The game also locked up on the full screen SMS after an event (CD misprint), and also locked up on an unknown event (but about the right time for the dance costume sub story, though that did pop up a few days later).

Locking up on full screen events is an ongoing game enjoyment killing bug.  It needs to be stomped HARD.

This morning I encountered the formation screen lockup bug, but was able to exit, restart, and get past it.

Then I encountered a hard lockup (cannot clear by exiting and reloading) at about the right time for the dance costume sub story.

Forgot to add - during the hard lockup, I could see that main game loop was continuing to run in the background.  I don't know if this is a symptom, a separate bug, or WAI.

^ Going off of the others, I've been getting the "full-screen event results in lockdown" bug since 9.1 update too

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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.

also getting this

How odd, this specific event was supposed to be fixed in 9.1. Maybe try going back to 9.1, select a decision, then continuing with 10?

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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 

https://imgur.com/itPdPkX

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.

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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.

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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.

This one is driving me crazy. Quitting and reloading seems to work for a little while, but it eventually pops up again and forces me to restart again.

Developer

This bug has been fixed, did you update to 10.1? Or are you getting it anyway?

Oh, that must be it! I got the game a few hours before the new update came out and never noticed. Thank you so much!

Potentially minor bug

Currently one of the ladies is being bullied by someones clique i have discovered who is resposable. it takes 2 infuance to stop them, prior to having 2 influance i could and i just went into the negative (i saved prior to it and it worked), after gettign blackmail on them and raising it to level 3 i had a conversation and tried to use the influance it said i lacked influance and was unable to requiring 2 levels i was at 3.

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Here's a follow-up of my previous posts with other minor bugs I noticed on Beta #10:

  • First one consists of the clickable area on the game's lower dashboard (the bar on the bottom of the screen) is vertically smaller than the dashboard itself, meaning that hovering the mouse over the topmost pixels of the dashboard will highlight the room in the background instead of the button in the foreground. Now, when I try to take screenshots of Idol Manager, for some reason my pointer isn't captured on the screenshot, so I had to manually insert an arrow to indicate where my pointer was, more or less. Here is the screenshot. Notice how the tip is hovering over the blue bar, but the room is the background is still highlighted, and can be interacted with if I click. Additionally, I must say that this bug isn't recent, and has been around since 2018, so you don't need to think that it was introduced with this latest patch.
  • In the 'Styling' screen, one of my idols had different clothing, face and hairstyle compared to what's shown on her profile card. That bug seems to be happening at random to one of my idols, since it doesn't every time I load my save. Here's what Souda Momoka looks like on her card, and what she looks like on the styling screen (the idol card image is what keeps changing when I reload the save. The Styling appearance always remains the same).
  • Game always loads the Main Menu in English at first, regardless of your selected language. In order to fix that, I either have to load a save, or just head to the Settings screen, and click on the checkbox pertaining to my desired language.
  • The sound effect that plays when we click with the mouse is sometimes played on a lower or higher volume, seemingly at random. This bug has also been around for a long time.

Also, here is the link to the save file that refers to my most recent game, the one that freezes on the single creation sequence, and my output_log.txt.  It might help you figure out what's going on under the hood.

Last, but not least, a rather important update. Yesterday, I reported a game breaking bug that prevented me from playing on my older game, since it would trigger an empty dialogue upon load. I tried playing it again today, and I was able to load the game without facing that bug, though I still couldn't create a single, so that error doesn't seem to be permanent.

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.

I think I found a bug.

I was at 5 days away from bankruptcy, but I closed the game and opened it at once and the countdown was restarted.

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New bug: the chart includes ALL your singles released in a month, regardless of year. As in, if you released a single in October 2018, when you see the chart for October 2019, the October 2018 single will appear again on it.

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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

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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.

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  • If you load that pre audition save for the first time while the game is started everything will be normal, you get the random idol results with random rarity and stats. Hiring an idol will result in you getting said idol.
  • If you load that save a second time (to try to save scum) the avatar results are the same as the first audition but the stats do change. The disconnect issue does happen though, you don't get the same avatar as the one you actually selected, you do get the stats as they were in the audition screen.
  • If you load the save for the third+ time in a row, you now actually get different avatar results at the audition as well with different stats, the same disconnect issue happens as before.

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.

I didn't read the latest ones so I don't know if someone mentioned it, but since the latest update, whenever I want to hire staff it's lagging on the staff page. Not game breaking, but definitely kinda annoying. Didn't happen before.

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going off the earlier bug I talked about, I switched from releasing singles monthly to bi-monthly and the problem of your songs from a year ago being counted persists: Not only that, but it seems like your rival group has their sales calculated off of that single from a year ago, as well (My rival went from selling 135k the month I released a single, to 48k the month I skipped, and then 146k the month I released again)

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New bug: election/concert did not start automatically after two weeks of the single being released. I believe this may be because I released on the 18th of May, then got two events on the 1st of June(The chart and a random fight). Game froze upon loading both events at the same time, I had to close and reopen. Then the concert didn't start on the 2nd like it should have. 

Besides this, I think you should allow the player to activate the election+concert themselves, rather than the game doing it automatically so this problem can't arise. Like how you can't release a single if you don't have enough money, the game should just check if 14 days have passed since the single, and THEN unlock the concert start button. I have noticed that the game starts to chug when switching into the concert/election sequences, but this is the first time it broke.


According to the Tool-Tip (and pretty sure it worked that way before), Energetic Dance-Style should push Hardcore appeal and lower Casual Appeal, notthe other way around as it appears here.  

Or the Tool-Tip is wrong.  ;)

Developer

Casual and Hardcore appeal are now also affected by the current popularity of that genre / lyrics theme / dance style (check the sales chart), so it's probably because of that.

Popular dance style = bonus to casual and penalty to hardcore, unpopular = bonus to hardcore and penalty to casual.

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Not sure I am a fan of that change tbh, especially if the swings are so big to create a total opposite of the expected.  

Makes it kinda hard to establish an identity to your group. 

Also the old bug, of the game getting stuck after hiring new Idols still exists.

My screen is all blurry and I can't do anything  to leave there game or save. nothing works. 

I have had something similar happen to me yesterday after an audition. The game still worked, though, and I could click the buttons in the background, but it was virtually unplayable since I couldn't see anything.

I am experiencing what I assume is a bug. I have an idol that has ben on hiatus for a bout a year. lol. It just says "On hiatus until" with no date. How do I get her out of hiatus?

Developer(+1)

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

Thank you for the quick reply!

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.

For some reason, my game keeps crashing after the unity player logo fades in, even though I updated to 10.1?

Developer

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

Just noticed this, but the chart bug goes beyond your singles never being flushed from the chart after you release them: any single released will appear in that month's chart for EVERY year past and future. (So if you released a single in March 2020, not only will it appear again in March 2021, but it also appears in March 2019, 2018, etc. if you check the chart.)

So this is a weird one. I started up my game, added some idols to the 'push', and then noticed that time was frozen in place--neither the day or the task bars (like business proposals, projects, etc) were moving at all. Saved and quit, reloaded the game, and found that it was running fine, so I added the idols back into the push...and...nope, paused again. Took them out, still paused. Saved and quit the game, went back into the game, time was moving as normal, one of my tasks completed fine, etc, so I'm pretty sure it's somehow tied into putting the idols into push? I've used pushes without issue before now, though.

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Rarely at the point when I chose the formation for a single (right before) I'm locked into the attached screen. It might have happened at other points too but not sure. There's also a delay in this screen before auditions but that one isn't permanent. The only thing I can do here is alt + F4

Are you running Beta #10.1? This issue was reported by some people when Beta #10 came out and the devs released 10.1 that was supposed to fix it. At least it worked for me. If you're not running 10.1, update your game and see if you can progress past the formation screen.

It's the Beta #10.1. Doesn't really happen that often, maybe it's a problem with long sessions?

Just recently updated today, and I started playing the new game. Unfortunately, the game suddenly pauses out of nowhere and the game doesn't continue. I press 1, 2, 3 gazillion times, but there is no response. The game is paused for whatever reason. Also, I noticed all my shows were wiped and there's isn't even a trace of them. Was this suppose to be a bug update because I've never encountered bugs until now XD

Additional Info: I have tried redownloading the game, quitting and coming back, and etc. There is no trigger, it just randomly happens out of nowhere.

Developer

Please upload your save file somewhere or just send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves 

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. 

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Hi, I wanted to mention a performance issue I have been seeing. I have been playing on the same save file for the past 6 months and over time I realized that the game was really slowing down. I had tremendous lag issues just scrolling through my list of 20 or so idols, and my company only occupies 5 floors of the building. I also play with the settings on Fastest. My auto_save.json file was 95k lines long. After some trial and error on my part I realized that if I deleted all the graduated idols from my file, the performance was much improved. Anything below 75k lines in the save file seemed to run well. Just wanted to flag it because more people may run into this issue at some point. 

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Hi, I'm seeing an issue with my younger idols where they are capped out on Sexy and Cool style values for their age, but they are being auto selected into training for these values anyway, which is just wasting time and taking up Stylist slots that my older idols could be taking advantage of. I know I can manually remove them from the training pool, but I think it would be better if idols who have hit their cap for a value are not selected by default - it would be much easier than having to keep track of their birthdays and remembering to put them back in the training pool when they age up. Thanks!

If the game is paused - game hangs when loading an audition.

After quitting an audition w/o selecting any idols and reloading the save *or* restarting the game, the game hangs on the audition screen.

Now, no matter what I do, the game hangs on the audition screen.

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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

No mods installed, deleted the cache file and that seemed to work (didn't hang with the game paused).

I also am having this issue but in my case I tried deleting the cache folder and that didn't work for me. 

I'm having this issue, too. :( Brand new save as well

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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

Developer

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

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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.

Developer (1 edit)

Please upload your save file here: https://file.coffee/

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json

Sure, it's uploaded here: https://file.coffee/Db4qkWafm.json

Developer

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.

Developer

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

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Thanks very much for your help, after adding the version to the save file and restarting twice I was able to access my save :) 

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Hey, just starting to play an the previous update’s bug of freezing upon formation pages/sms updates seems to have returned. Additionally, while not a bug, I feel like the game’s auto save has gotten worse? Before the constant freezes were bearable because auto save was plentiful and you could easily load back in, yet now the game seems to not auto save even after important events such as finishing a concert or releasing a single.

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Commenting to add that the game is hanging badly on auditions now, can’t even load the five idols after clicking the A and need to restart and then simply not use auditioning at all if I want to keep playing.

I hit the same problem with auditions hanging, and sadambober posted a procedure to clear the cache which cleared the problem for me.   Scroll up a bit and you'll see it.

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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!

Having a lot of "blurry" screen freezes after almost any random event that occurs... Auditions, Concerts, Scandals, anything really seems to be setting it off. I uninstalled and wiped all data for IM from my computer and went with a completely fresh install of 11.0 but still happening regularly

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My game just started pushing me broken events, seemingly out of nowhere. Now, every 2 in-game days or so, an event pops up, but the event does not go away when I pick an option (clicking options can yield results, such as increasing influence over an idol, and clicking on the same option multiple times will keep increasing that influence). The background does not go out of focus, and while the game time is paused while the event is active, I can still interact with the background, and sprite animations still run. Also, it's worth mentioning that this always happens at the end of the in-game days, kinda like how it was with those time freezing bugs. It basically forces me to quit to the main menu and reload my save every time it happens.

Oh, and as you can see in this screenshot, one of the broken events that popped up was in English, even though I was running  my game in Portuguese.

Developer

Upload your save pls

Here it is: https://file.coffee/xpFaOk6f7.json

Developer

I tried like 5 times, there's always a dating scandal happening. There's probably an issue with translation? Upload Player.log too, there might be a hint

(But I did get a different bug once, a scandal popup and the sales chart opened at the same time, breaking the game, I'll need to fix that.)

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.

Developer

Yeah, there's nothing in the file unfortunately

Maybe try replacing translated event_templates.json with original one and see if that fixes the issue. Or other files like vars.json

Or you can just email me the translation, I can test it in the editor

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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.

Developer(+2)

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


Sweet, thanks for the help!

found some bugs relating to the awards mechanic:

Best Debut Idol is broken: my first year (2019 Awards) I had no nominees despite obviously having idols on my roster with 3 stars, lol. Second year (2020 Awards Show)  it nominated one of the first hires I had from 2018. The next year (2021 Awards) it nominated that same idol again, as she still had the most stars, despite there being idols hired after the 2020 show with 3 stars. So basically the game didn’t look at the idols I hired for the first award show, and now it ONLY looks at the idols hired before the 2019 Awards for the best debut each year.

Also, the awards about individual idols seem bugged: none of my gravure/variety/fashion award trackers tick up in numbers throughout the period. Performance/Promotions do. Additionally, my Most Prolific tracker doesn’t reset to 0 after the awards like Perf/Promo do and remains at 12.

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?

Developer(+1)

Yeah, that's on purpose, I thought it would get annoying to sit through the same thing every year

Is the trendiness/obscurity system weird for anyone else? I just released a single that used the same genre/choreo/lyrics as the top two songs for the previous month, and that month's curent chart. I got a obscurity bonus in return. I also can recall getting a trendiness bonus for single types I know weren't within the Top 10 for example

Hello, sadabmbober.

Just letting you know this is what my settings menu looks like after today's update. The 'English' language checkbox can't be unticked, and the 'Brazilian Portuguese' checkbox is now invisible (although it's still there, since my pointer changes when I hove over where the checkbox was supposed to be). Clicking on the 'English' checkbox doesn't do anything, even if I apply the changes. 'Run in background' checkbox also cannot be unticked. Last, but not least, the 'Background Music' slider is broken (slider moves, but number doesn't change), aside from not having its translated text (though I honestly don't remember if it was already that way before today's update).

I know this is all most likely temporary, and caused by the addition of a new checkbox to the settings menu (might also mess with some translated stuff), and though it's not something critical, at least to me, I'm just giving you a heads-up.

Cheers!

Developer(+1)

Check constants.json, I added a new one there, it's probably because of that

All good now, thanks!

When I try to hold local auditions after a new game, the screen blurrs but the idols don't appear on it. My mouse changes as if there were icons , but there's nothing more than a blurred screen...

Scroll up to my post about having problems with auditions, sam gives directions for clearing the cache which cured the problem for me.

None of it works… The last comment below your post perfectly illustrates my problem.

Player.log : https://file.coffee/JualBUXGY.log

Player-prev.log : https://file.coffee/k9_iWR-4H.log

Developer

Okay, I see the issue, thanks.  I'll try to fix this asap, but for now updating your video card driver could help (I have the same video card but more recent driver and it works (26.21.14.3630 vs your 24.21.13.9901))

Developer

Actually, what's your email? I want to send you a new build to check if the issue is fixed

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My e-mail is [not here anymore] . Thanks you, I'll tell you if it works !

- After a concert, the spacebar no longer pauses the game.

- When an idol has announced her graduation date, her physical stamina crashes (her recovery rate seems to crash and then recover).

- When an idol has announced her graduation date, her salary stops being updated and I start getting "not happy" messages.

Sometimes when you hit "negotiate" it changes the idol's stamina ever so slightly, like they lose 2 stamina. 

Not a super important bug but worth looking into :)

Btw thank you guys for patching the game so quickly after the last update. It is so much more playable now. 

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Negotiation meetings sometimes do drain you. Call it a feature!

I'm getting a blurred screen bug after a birthday event thats locked in so I can't progress. I do have some ridiculous amount of idols/staff/buildings though. Up over.... 7,000,000,000 moneys and like 25 offices running full speed hahaha think i'll just start over. 

Is there any more of the story though? I think i've made it through at least year 3 and other than Fujimoto coming in if I mentioned him in a Award, I havent seen anymore what would be considered "story content"

Also need to put it out there, absoluting loving this game! I picked it up quite late but enjoying the whole idea and concept <3 great work.

Developer

Have you updated the game to 11.2? This bug happened when two idols had a birthday on the same day.

I have been starting new games with each patch. So yes, it was at 11.2. 

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Can you please upload your save file to https://file.coffee if you still have it?

Windows:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json or
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves\*\save.json

Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/auto_save.json
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves 

when checking an idol’s fans on their profile, the stats and numbers all remain the same as the first idol you checked unless you fill in the fans checkbox and then change to fan details/appeal

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Had an single/concert/election cycle conclude at the start of July before the awards: game froze upon loading awards sequence. Loaded the autosave which was 15 minutes ago (despite setting mine to 60 seconds.). Landed after the single release but before the concert: concert never triggered after that, and therefore no election either.

I wanted to test center recognition, and it seems like if you don't have a girl at the very front of the formation but two in the 2nd row, the game selects one of the two to be sole center as marked in the singles/jobs tooltips, but it doesn't count for the "center a single" wish. Maybe the game could add WCenter mechanic? (ie if there's not a girl at the tip of the formation, the girls in the second row are centers. Or even better, a second formation option that allows 1/2/4 centers, ala a 5-6-5 formation:

x     x     x     x     x

x     x     x     x     x     x

x     x     x     x     x

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Whenever a clique is bullying a girl I get a bunch of influence to get them to stop but it always says I don't have enough. I have four influence over a clique member, and its telling me it costs one influence to make them stop bullying but still says I don't have enough.  Has this happened for anyone else?

I tried to find something about this bug but found no answers, even though it seems incredibly common. After about a year and a half of in-game time, every event or audition I get has the blurry screen, and I can click on the background to change things/swap idols and such (with no effect since the clock is stopped and doesn't restart). I got 2 saves locked because of this bug now, and I don't want to start a new game just to see everything end like this.

Developer

Please upload your save files somewhere or just send them to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves

Save file sent to your email!

Developer

Thanks, I found the issue. This will be fixed in the next update (should be up today or tomorrow)

Didn't get fixed, instead actually got worse I think. Never had this bug before. But now I had it on the second audition I did. Nothing works anymore.

Actually found a way to click out of the screen. When I restart auditions now it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Really weird.

Developer

Do you have an itch or steam version?

itch

Developer (1 edit)

Please try deleting everything in this folder, this might fix auditions for you:

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/cache/portraits

Also, I don't think it's your case, but this could help too: https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzI3MzUyMDEucG5n/original/SAD%2F2A.png

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That actually fixed my issue, thank you! However I also don't gain any Scandal Points I saw.

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Okay so after playing this update for an hour I have to say...it's unplayable. I love the content you added, but it's by far the most buggy update. First the thing with the audititions, that I mentioned above. I actually was kind of forced to trigger auditions by cheating and cheat the money back that I lost, if it didn't work. Because it didn't work more often, than it worked. Then I had some lag and stutter issues which mostly resulted in my game crashing. (It crashed 3 times in the hour I was playing.) Then when I finally got to release a single I got also stuck in the blurry screen. This time I couldn't click out of it tho, so I basically had to restart my game and hope it works the next time. But so far I haven't managed to release a single. Always got stuck in the blurry screen.

So yeah this version desperately needs a fix!


Oh and another weird thing I realized: Since I started cheating anyways, I just went all the way and cheated my idols stats. But I realized it said age: 0 for all idols in the save file. It usually says the correct age tho. Also ingame they have the correct age. (Because it's probably taken from their birthday) But still...thought that's kinda weird.

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Still trying to figure out how to properly get an idol company off the ground when I run into a bug.

The way I've been doing it is hire like 20 idols and just 3 staffers to look for promotional jobs. It works to start getting the ship floating as I do sideshows like online and stuff.

The problem is that the staffers' salary gets updated, so all of a sudden I find myself fighting against the staffers' release clause which was around 2M yen.

I ditched her, and the game just froze in time. I could still move and do stuff but the clock just stopped and it never progressed. Not even reloading it helped.

Is there a way I can actually send you the savefile?


EDIT: New save file, tried firing the girl before severance pay and it once again froze the clock.

Developer

Yeah, I couldn't replicate any of your bugs, please upload your save file somewhere or just send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves

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election is bugged: single will always say that it can't be released because concert isn't ready. I tried all different configurations (simultaneous concert and single, finishing the single and then starting a concert, finishing a concert and then starting the single, cancelling and redoing the election, single and concert, just the concert, etc.)

My buzz point doesn't appear on screen anymore.

Since this latest update, I cannot get my officer to do proposals. When you click on proposals, nothing happens.

Developer

If you're still having this issue, please upload your save file somewhere or send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves

Sent!

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I also have the bug where the election can't be launched.  The concert needs the single to be ready, and the single needs the concert to be ready.  Neither can be launched.

I'm having this bug as well

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Yep, add me to the list...

Game has become unplayable for me since the update last month, freezes every time I run an audition

Developer

Check this post, one of these should fix your issue https://itch.io/post/1064221

Regarding elections, - After the latest patch, I now have have a whole other problem. Every time I finish the production for the elections, the single production box disappears.  

Developer

Please update again, it should be fixed now. I uploaded the wrong build first

I think something disappeared...I have no buzz and I don't gain fan from the buzz when releasing a new single.

buzz has been removed on purpose afaik

aaah~ thank you~

Playing a game on normal difficulty, did something that caused me to go into the red and start the bankruptcy countdown.  Reloaded from a save, and the countdown paused but remained on the screen.  Exiting and re-starting cleared the timer.

Game seems to have wiped my most recent save game. I had installed the latest build (and just that one, not the initial 12.1), last night I tried loading the game, only for my computer to shut off (Not sure if this was the game or my computer). I didn’t try playing again until today, but I’ve found that my previous autosave and manual save from my most recent game are gone.

Developer

I think deleting the corrupted autosave file should help (or starting a new game to overwrite it):

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json

It probably breaks the save/load popup so your manual saves don't show up

I followed your address and the autosave file I got was empty, checked manual saves and there was nothing after Nov 30 (started a new game for update 12.1 in December.). Tried a quick autosave but those files are still gone.

Started a new group and game bugs out every time I run an audition (stops at a gray screen and won't show idols). The first time I got it to rectify the issue by exiting, loading an autosave, and running the audition again. However, tried to do another audition and the same result with the blank gray screen w/no idols being shown.

Developer

Check this post, one of these should fix your issue https://itch.io/post/1064221

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A little reticent to go with the first fix listed because if you asked to find something called Glitch Pitch on my computer, I would be searching for days since it does not exist. It is the same for anything to do with LocalLow or even something called Data in regards to the Idol Manager folder. Overly cautious, I guess.

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When you build a 2nd break room, it does not get the animations.
Edit:  A few loads & saves later, they showed up.

I got a weird bug where all of sudden my graduated idols started reappearing in my active idols' relationships (only their name tho, no picture which somehow makes it even weirder lol.) One of my active idols was even dating a graduated idol, after the latter left the group.

Not game breaking by any means, just a bit strange!

Just had that same bug.

I bought Idol Manager almost a week ago and was only able to play it for a couple of days. I'm not sure if this is a bug or just my computer, but when I launch it doesn't load past the "unity" screen and then the program stops responding and crashes. I've tried redownloading it a few times and I keep getting the same outcome :( I'm not sure what else to do as I'm not very technical... I really really love what I've played so far and I want to keep playing!! 

Developer

Please try this (or let me know if you're on a Mac):

  • Go to this folder C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow (you may have to do this if you don't see AppData https://www.technipages.com/show-hidden-files-windows)
  • Find the folder "Glitch Pitch" and rename it to something else (this is where your save files and other data is, we may need it to investigate what went wrong, so don't delete it)
  • Try playing the game now

Let me know if that helped!

More bugs...

- Full screen display bug.  An idol was announcing her graduation date, idol appeared but the text overlay did not.  Could click through to the background.

- Single lineup screen bug. Putting idols into the lineup, when I moused over the idols in the lineup the tooltip was all the same idol.  Oddly enough, it wasn't an idol on my roster, or that had ever even been on my roster.  Exiting and reloading cured it.

- Concert playlist bug.  The idols who had centered the songs were all scrambled.  Exiting and reloading restored thing to normal.

- Spa Day bug.  The message displayed ("+ x stamina") when you click on the heart in the details panel does not always match the stamina displayed in the tooltip.  I think the details panel/tooltip are not getting properly updated.  This happens pretty consistently.

- Had a concert and election due that day

- Saved and exited because I wanted to take a break

- Reloaded game and it went directly to the concert screen

(Yes, I'm at the current version.)

my game bugs every time i load it on december 28th 2019, i have elections started so idk if that has anything to do with it

Developer

Please upload your save file somewhere or send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves

Developer

I sent you a fixed save file

I think the bug is caused by media shows with 10 stars fame, so I had to cancel two of your shows. I'll fix this in the next update, but for now you have to make sure you don't have any shows like these (e.g. by assigning a host with < 10 fame).
Thanks for helping catch the bug!

I have a bug where one of my Idol is stuck in an endless loop visiting a stylist, the strange part is that she is doing other stuff too, she also has for some reason and 5.XX multiplayer in jobs, where the rest have 0.90-1.50 multiplier. 


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Rooms you build on the floor you start with are supposed to be rent-free, right? Or did that change in an update? Because as far as I know, that's not actually the case. It's not a problem to me either way, it's just that you're told that the floor is rent-free when building rooms in it, like I did with this office here, when again, that isn't actually the case.

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I'm compiling a few bugs I noticed in this latest build:

- I  had to deal with an event regarding my latest single and a religious cult... even though I haven't released my first single yet.

- Failed business proposals negotiations, although they display a negative percentage, sometimes actually result in a higher contract value, instead of a lower one. (Ex: I just got a contract offer for 200k yen. Tried to negotiate, got -5%, but the value went up to 247k yen.)

- Some SFX (like crowd sfx and influence/friendship/romance increase or decrease) aren't muted when the shortcut 'M' is used, and can only be muted by manually setting the 'Sound' slider to 0.

I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but I seem to have built a fanbase made of millionaires. All my concerts have 100% attendance regardless of ticket price. 100,000 yen for a 6-song concert at a nightclub? Sure, why not.

As I hire more idols, the dialogues doesn't show up, only the dialogue images would appear, e.g. when the girl wants to graduate only the picture shows up but no lines of words. I experienced this bug very often. I guess this is due to inefficient optimisation, and the game just couldn't handle so much information.

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before the first group awards, the pop up box to decide who will speak froze/whited-out when I tried to change which idol would give a speech

1) Seems like your pushes are cleared whenever you close the game

2) Not sure if it's purposeful but mental stamina is draining like crazy in this update, I've never had so many idols hovering around 0/becoming depressed one after another so quickly. One idol I sent to the therapist's mental stamina didn't go up at all after their visit, leaving me to believe there's some kind of bug here

I started a new group to mess around with the new update. Hired five idols, and then a month later, I hired four more. Going into the idol tab showed repeats of the idols on display (a total of three times), but only the final grouping showed all nine idols. The first group had the first five I had hired, while the second had maybe seven of the nine.

That happened to me once as well, but cleared itself once i minimized both group tabs and opened again

after a while auto save and manual save doesn't work, i also noticed that when right clicking toggling detals> and tasks>  in this state

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No matter how much money I earn it seems to always be stuck saying "bankruptcy in 29 days." It never updates to a different amount of days and never goes away even with over ¥3 million saved up.


Also not sure what happened here but it was kind of confusing when all of this popped up at the same time. Akari simultaneously lost 30 points, immediately gained them back, and then lost them again all at once, while Yuna did the opposite and gained 30 points, lost 30 points, and then gained 30 points back all at the same time. This chain of events seems kind of unreaistic to all occur at the exact same time.

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Im getting really frequent time freezes that don't seem to have any specific trigger?  It happens on my old saves and also when i started a new game

Developer

Please upload your save file where this happens or send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves

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Also when I loaded up a save, it was time for an idol (idol A) to graduate (said "graduates soon"). when I pressed play, another idol (idol B) immediately announced her graduation. After getting that message, idol A was gone from the group and had been transferred to the graduated tab. I didn't get the option to hire her as a staffer or the other choices.

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Seems like removing scandal points freezes time. Also closing and reopening the game will add 2 or so group scandal points.

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This happened to me as well. It added 2 group scandal points when I reopened the game and after I tried to remove them by firing a staffer the time froze.

Edit: I went back and tested it and when I fired one of my staffers that I've had for a long time it worked fine, but when I hired a new staffer and immediately fired them the tooltip listed that it took 2 scandal points but when the window popped up I could only take off one and then after I closed the window the time froze again.

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I found a bug that can cause this - it happens if you fire a staffer when your staff tab is in compact view. You'll have to switch to the full view every time you need to fire someone until the next update.

Another related bug - hovering over a staffer in the building view to show their tooltip and then firing them. Can be avoided by hovering over another staffer, before firing that first one.

started my second sister group and their “research” screen seems to mirror that of the first ones despite them having different targets (My second is targeted at Hardcore Adult Males, the first at Casual Female Teens, yet the second group’s max fans/fan growth per single seems to mirror that of it they were also targeting Casual Female Teens)

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Tried playing on my Apple laptop (ie with a trackpad, not a mouse) for the first time today. I couldn't right/left click within the game like I can in the rest of the OS (to select Auto Proposals, for example). Is this a bug or a Mac OS thing?

Developer

“Right click” is only used to quickly show/hide the tab on the left, everything else (including context menus) is a simple click. Maybe that’s your issue? Try simply clicking on a room.

If not, then that’s definitely a bug - I test the game on a macbook and never had this issue

In this instance, I'm trying to select a Preferred Proposal with a standard click. Menu items with check boxes are not selectable for me this way. (or I'm doing something wrong)

Developer(+2)

Ah, you have to “research” them first, check the research tab

I forgot to add a tooltip for this

I see. Thanks for the help!

Hello

In the auditions of nationwide, it says: "1 guaranteed gold idol"

First time, I got 4 normal idols and 1 silver idol.

Second time, I got 4 silver idols and 1 normal idol.

Is it a bug?

Developer(+2)

How many scandal points do you have? There's a penalty to auditions if you have too many

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Ooh, this needs to be included in a tooltip somewhere near the auditions part.

Ok, then it makes sense lol. Thanks.

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If it is my misunderstanding, I am sorry. I report 2 behaviors who looks like bugs about beta 13.1 for Windows 64 bit.

1) In my environment, "Avg. Recent Earnings" of Salaries maybe be not average but accumulation.

About a idol, "Avg. Recent Earnings" increased from 267,595 yen (in Nov 2018) to 400,677 yen (in Feb 2019), though she did some works of photographs. And it never decrease.

Even in other new game, it is same.

2) When I borrow the first office, though the massage "This floor is rent free" is displayed, it actually costs a rent expense every week.

I am sorry, I can write English little.  But I enjoy this game very mach.  It is cute and exciting!

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I don't know how it happened, and I did nothing special in the game.

I think I never need to worry about the money in this round lol.

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Everytime I play, no matter what I try , The game freeze during April 2029. I dont know what to do. I restarted my pc, I tried to load from a different save file. I dont know if I'm doing things wrong. Am I the only one having this bug? or it's part of the game?

Developer

Please upload your save file where this happens or send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves

O dont find the AppData file

Developer(+1)

Try this:


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When i put a girl on hiatus, the date of her rehabilitation doesn't appear. I'ts a bug? 

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I don't think the game is discounting the free floor on rent.  

Beta 14, Version 33, Windows 64-Bit


EDIT: Loading saved games apparently is not working either?

EDIT2: I may have forgotten to delete the old folders, game loaded up fine after reinstalling.

EDIT3: 

The "visual params" options aren't selectable.
PS: this game is Amazing! <3


Does anyone else get the bug where you try to accept an audition and the game just freezes on a blurred screen? The idol cards never come up - I've waited about 15 minutes before giving up. Idk if this is just extreme lag or a bug, but has anyone else had this problem?

Developer(+1)

Check the first post, you probably just need to delete cache files

Oops, I didn’t see the frequent bugs! Thank you so much and as always, thank you for your hard work on a lovely game! 

I've noticed a small bug where if you fire a staff member using scandal points, it won't actually fire the staff member. But it'll use up the scandal points.

Ever since th newest update, I can't play an entire in game day without time stopping in the middle of it, and not continuing. This continues to happen even if I restart the game, make a new game, reload, or continue my save file.

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Hi, have you tried deleting some of your cache files? It's supposed to fix another bug, but who knows, maybe it'll help you.

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/cache/portraits

Oh, I haven't! I'll try that, and reply again with if it worked or not!

Ah, it didn't work. Thank you for trying tho ^^

Developer(+1)

Please upload somewhere or send me to 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
And any of your save files that don't work
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves

Sending now!

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Do I need to explain?? xD (this id my favourite bug since I started playing)

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btw is it normal that I dont make one penny from the theater(I always sold out)? I've 2 theater and I'm losing to much money on rent...

Every time I load the game I lose the stats on my theater.

I also influenced an idol to break up with her bf.  When I checked her profile a day later it said she still had a bf.

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I don't know if the star symbol broke it or something but it was fine at first, then as he kept talking, it sort of fell apart.


Edit: I found another bug! One of my idols graduated and found a successor, but it seems that another idol of mine has confused the successor with the graduated one. Even when I hover over the profile, it shows me the stats of the graduated idol.

Theater stats only display stats from when you last loaded the game

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Any cutscene doesn't load, just leaves me in the blurred screen state the entire time

Images for the idols on the audition screen, new single fame addition screen, and any cutscene also won't load. They're fine on the portraits in the idol screen but that's it. This has been the case for me from version 13 onwards.

Developer

Try deleting everything in this folder, I think that should help:

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits

Tried that first, the problem persists

Developer

Have you ever installed any mods?

If not, please upload somewhere or send me to 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

And any of your save files that don't work
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves

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Idk if i misunderstood it or not but the "rentfree floor" actually deducts rent weekly, with my office, two manager offices and a break room i have to pay 50k every week in rent

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1. The first floor's supposed to be rent free, it's not

2. Training stamina drain can be a bit odd, because it looks like it's deducted by day spent training and each training request, rather than by time spent training. So, if you start two idols training at the beginning of the day, but one takes the entire day to train a point, but one only takes half a day, they both lose 7 points of stamina. This can have some strange effects, like the fast training trait being far less useful than you'd imagine, because stamina is a bigger constraint on idol activity than time, and training low stats effectively using a lot more stamina than training high stats over time (eg. if you take 5 days to train 8 points in a low stat you'll lose 56 stamina, compared to 35 stamina if you take 5 days to train 5 points in a higher stat). I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, though. (Sorry if this is hard to understand, I explained it as clearly as I could)

3. I got one incident of a text bug where I asked idol A about gossip and she said that idol B was dating idol B

4. Sometimes blaming a staffer for a scandal removes the scandal points, but doesn't fire the staffer. I think this might happen if you take this action while the game is paused.

5. I got one incident where a concert didn't start production when I put it in the producer's room (time was definitely running)

6. It seems like if you hit 100% opinion with a demographic, the opinion will reset to 50% when you release a single, or load that save

7. Sometimes idols being styled will be counted as idle, so you can assign them to two rooms simultaneously

8. The stamina drain for going to France in the World Tour is only 10%, compared to 20% for every other country (again possibly, but not probably, intentional)

9. Scandal points at the bottom of the screen sometimes display incorrectly, for example I once got 4 points, but two idols graduated and this dropped to 1, but it still said 4 (the tooltip when I moused over said 1 though, and it correctly displayed 1 when I reloaded the game)

10. Theatre shows don't seem to use stamina, given how much money it makes I'm sure this can't be intentional

11. There doesn't seem to be any age logic for scandals involving adults and idols under 18* (this could happen in real life, but at least give an extra option for the player to call the police)

12. When you combine a 2-shot (-75%) with the stamina drain for all single releases (-30%), it's basically impossible to do one without a severe risk of injury, which seems very over the top even if it's intentional

13. If your floor rent multiplier is high enough, additional cafes (or even the first one) can cost more in rent than they make (this applies to theatres too, but they potentially make for more money so it's much less likely to happen). Not sure how this could be dealt with, maybe make assigned idols increase income directly instead of sales? Again, could be intentional but doesn't seem logical

14. When you improve the lyrical/dance/music styles some of the ones that have negative modifiers improve and some get worse (so some with a -10% modifier will be -8% at level 2 and some will be -12%). I'm sorry, I made a note of some of the styles this happened with, but I deleted it by mistake.

15. Lastly, this is something I'm not sure about, but I'm worried that the sales bonuses for having a handshake event for singles don't work. In games where I have enough of a money cushion to start producing physical CDs with handshake tickets I look at the units sold per fan and expect to see a noticeable rise (with a fanbase at around 65% hardcore), but I never do. It's hard to test this with any accuracy because there are lots of variables, but I'm not sure it's working properly.

My game isn't letting me advance from Live Blog onto the next levels of elections. 

i can't even start the game

Developer

Check the first post, have you tried the -force-glcore thing? Let me know if it doesn't work for you

it's not working, so i'm just gonna send you the file

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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

Don't know if you still need help, but you have to level up the variety show stats by using your manager's points. By doing this, the contracts will have higher fame points

Thank you, I understand better now!

Hi! I'm having an issue where the staff list can't go over 11 staff members. I hired two new stylists but only one appeared on the list and i attempted to hire a few more people but they didn't show up either 

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
WeeksRecent average earningsTotal earning
1 week14 k56 k
2 week28 k112 k
3 week42 k168 k
4 week56 k224 k
5 week70 k280 k



There appears to be a bug in which idol bonuses from award win/noms stop randomly applying. I'm not sure what causes this. 

I just bought the game and I also cannot start the game, when I press launch on itch then click play at  the configuration screen it just closes.

Developer

Try downloading the 32 bit version, that could help

If you're using the app:


Hi there, I've also tried that and also have the same problem it just crashes.

Developer

Have you tried the -force-glcore thing from the first post?

Also, please send me this file (sadambober@gmail.com):
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log

Btw, if nothing helps you can always email itch.io support to get a refund: support@itch.io

Yup I've also tried the -force-glcore, I sent you the file. Okay will do thank you very much.

Hi!

Not sure if this is a bug, but I'm unable to unlock the broadcast methods for the elections. The only one available is live blog and it's already my 3rd election.

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Nothing?

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same problem here :( the elections just stuck at the live blog even after 3 elections

Well... Hopefully it's fixed in the next update.

I unlocked the second broadcasting method after my fourth election, so maybe you just have to keep having elections?

Nope, I held more elections than that but still couldn’t unlock the other broadcast methods. But it’s apparently been fixed in the new update, so I’ll check it out :)

Thanks!

Hey, I've been coming across a bug where my group splits into subgroups after I do an audition. 

I think if you click on the expand/collapse column header thing (where it says dokidokiyoki B for you) and then click it again they should all be back to one group.

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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!

This also happened to me

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I think this would count as a bug but it isn't game breaking or anything. Figured I should post it here so if there is an issue it can get fixed

Hi! I’ve encountered a bug in which my music producer, upon confronting me about my sister band having been made a month ago and not having its debut single, has his dialogue glitched a bit. I sent a picture too!

After having my second election, my game freezes with the winner and the runner up. There's no dialogue,  no action, no way of going back. It's the second time this has happened to me in two different save files.


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.

Enki, I am unsure but i did notice that my young idols could not increase sexy even though they were not at their potential, so some of this may be tied to age.

Developer

Yep, check this update for more info https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuiper/idol-manager/posts/2528978

The menu where you assign idols to auto train specific stats (on the idol side, not the room side) doesn't allow me to pick any visual stats, and I have stylists hired and in the respective rooms.

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If you destroy the cafe while people work there, they are stuck and you can't remove them from that task.

Sometimes when dragging idols, they get stuck and become your mouse and you can't do anything anymore.

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Oh, also, I can't seem to ask an idol to stop bullying another, even at max influence.

Hi, when i try holding a concert there will be a point where a finish button appears,when i click this button the game will crash.

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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.

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Styling doesn't actually cost any stamina, so that's okay. But the rent is a bug, thanks, I'll check it.

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Sometimes when you want to negociate a contract, if we lose the negociation, the salary goes up.

Apart from this, I love your game!

Possible bug, not sure if intentional:  upgrading certain genres via research etc, sometimes causes higher levels of fan dissatisfaction instead of less, for example enka at level 10 gives casuals a way bigger penalty than it does at level 1

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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.

Ever since my idol got injured, she's been on permanent hiatus and it's been switching between '90 days' and saying nothing.

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Hello.  When I try to fire staff, they won't go away.  Even though the scandal points are gone, the staff still works for me. 

Have same staff firing problem.  I actually *wanted* to trade out my choreographer for someone with better production skill, but I'm stuck with her.

If you click and drag an idol, but they start a task as you are doing so, your cursor becomes the idols profile picture permanently,

Max coaching level of the "cool/sexy" novice stylist is 40.
Max coaching level of the  "cute/pretty" novice stylist is 21.

Is this correct?

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Some idols are missing from concergts it says that members have graduated even though they are partg of the group, they can still be used for singles and promotions, just not concerts.

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.

 

Developer

Please upload your save file somewhere or email it to me at sadambober@gmail.com

Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves 

Developer

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

I tried it and thankfully the time starts moving again, Thanks for the help.

Soooo, I found an exploit, but don't know if it belongs here.

You can increase the subscription fee for the theater to the maximum at the end of the month and it's being paid.


I would suggest, subscribers simply leave on payday if the fee is to high. Just an idea to balance this :)

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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.

Developer (1 edit)

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\

I sent it a couple of days ago by mail. Didn't get any reply, so just in case : did you receive the mail ?

Developer

Yep, thanks! I'm checking them

Slot idols it's non-update physical stamina in View : full   but It's work normally in View : Compact

When I release just a single (I don't choose anything else that needs stamina like 2 shot event, handshake and so on) all my idols lose like +22 stamina.

I somehow randomly got the requisite amounts of each room stuck on the bottom of the room (including the amount of time before able to socialize wih an idol again). Saving and restarting game fixed issue.

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I've gotten a weird bug twice now with random events where the initial screen asking for a response will show a picture of one idol and name that idol as being involved in the controversy, but after choosing a response, it changes to a different member of the group.

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My cursor still occasionally becomes the idol even without it being on automatic. I think it has to do with a task finishing when I am dragging an idol.

Actually, it is on automatic, sort of. I'm dragging an idol, and she suddenly is being assigned to the cafe while I'm trying to assign her somewhere. That's what I think it is.

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