Found some time to play through the story mode: It was fun, actually! I played the: (spoiler)

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Olympics ending through Fujimoto's route and Aya's genre challenge. Not the most exciting route/end I'm sure, but I know I missed the obvious Phantom Facade route (Btw it was a great little moment when the UI and music changed upon their debut, made me perk up at 2AM.) There was some great artwork and genuinely interesting talks along the way. If I could suggest some changes for the story web, it'd be either A) A visible tree where we can see the number of endings, the branches, and where we are now/where we've been B) Choice flags you can always return to C) A new game plus that lets you continue after your end with the same resources you have, just reset to an earlier point in the story so you can see the different routes without having to start from scratch

General suggestions are the same as others have noted:

• Ability to create albums/EPs with multiple songs
• PVs as a separate system
• Bigger formation size
• More Election slots to go along with this
• WCenter capability
• Ability to designate workers to only work with assigned sister groups, sister group concerts, etc
• Ability to do more than one type of marketing with a single
• Plus I always like the idea of subgenres from earlier in the beta, would keep things fresh if you could put research into them, too

I also like the format of preparing for the Olympic bid: I'd love to see more "missions" like that.

Enhanced sorting capabilities
The current sorting is done based on one stats of the idols. However, this doesn't seem to be very useful in actual play. It would be useful to be able to sort by the overall value of a few selected stats, or by a number, such as the "overall rating" of an audition.

Staff Training
For example, coaches and producers hired early in the game often become useless as the group then expands rapidly. In the current version of the game, it is reasonable to fire such personnel and hire experts. However, staff events make it psychologically difficult to fire them. So why not allow players to invest research points to build facilities and programs that improve the skills of their staff?

Automated Decision Making
Business proposals are important to the specifics of the game, but as the game progresses and the number of idols increases, so does the volume and complexity. Is it possible to set up an automated policy to handle this in a secure way?

Here is some ideas I have!

- A leader system, where you can pick a member to be the leader. That member will be extremely careful around scandals, and if any of the other members get into a scandal it will hurt the leader’s mental stamina. The leader will be most likely to report any bullying and concerns (like dating, etc) to the player. Also the leader will have a big role within the media. If the group gets into a lot of scandals, the leader’s reputation will be bad. If the group has a lot of good singles, the leader’s reputation will be good. 

- A center system. Where you pick the main center of the group. The center will be seen as the face of the  group. If the center is doing well in a single, the song will be extremely popular. If the center isn’t in the single or isn’t (at least) in the top three rows, the single will flop. 

- A subunit system. I understand we already have sister groups, but subunits are mini groups that we can have for a temporary amount of time. The units can promote outside of the country and receive attention.

- Concerts. In concerts whenever we have a “talk break” we should have the option of what the talk break will be about. Like if it’s a comedy based break, a short talent break, or anything really! 

- Foreign members. These members will bring in a lot of attention internationally, but will cause slight tension within the home-country about the foreigners. If there is too much foreign members, you will have a possibility of losing hardcore fans.

- Graduation concerts. Every time one of my members leave, I always want to host a concert surrounding them! 

- A “parody” genre / lyrics. These type of songs will gain a lot of hardcore fans. However, depending on your center’s feeling about the song can either make or break the song.

- Music videos! Someone here had an amazing idea for music videos.

- A generation system. (however you can decide whether or not you wish to have said system) Similar towards Morning Musume. Whereas every year or two, members will graduate and you eventually have to search for new members. Each time a member graduates you will lose hardcore fans. You can release a goodbye single, have a graduation concert, and release merchandise surrounding the member. 

- Mini albums, full albums.

- Trainee competition  show, where you can search for new members of the group.  You can also have the option of having viewers vote on their favorite trainee or you can swap trainees and pick your favorite one. The trainee competition show can bring attention to your group and also internationally.

- Updates on the shows! When you have a show, you can have comments on the episodes per week. Also you can decide how many episodes the show receives and can renew it for more seasons. 

- Dorms, we can have a dormitory system. If there’s concern for a idol’s privacy, we can have a dorm for the idols. This can help increase friendships and decrease bullying. 

That’s it, thank you!

It's been suggested once before in this thread, but I'd like to comment in support of keyboard shortcuts.

Recovering from carpal tunnel syndrome myself, the amount of precision clicking is quite straining during long periods of play.

Even if it's just limited to a few hotkeys for the different main menus, it would be a huge quality of life improvement.

I'm sure people have mentioned this before, but I think it'd be cool to be able to romance the other main characters (Fujimoto, Aya, and the rival)

can you make it so that the game pauses time when the hit records and scandals pop up.

Quick suggestion: how about a click-and-hold, instead of a simple click, for buying research points (kinda like clicking and holding for spending research points)? Especially because the button for purchasing research points is located right next to the staffers' icons, it can be easy to misclick and accidentally end up buying research points (I totally didn't just do that, by the way), and once you do that, the prices are permanently increased, which can be somewhat dangerous.

On the topic of tasks: it would be nifty to have an 'X' button to dismiss any secondary tasks we don't intend on fulfilling, instead of just leaving them there taking space for no good reason.

Hi there. loving the game so far.

Checkbox option for the detail screen to repeat the currently queued activities in that exact order. When clicking on one of the 3 activities at the top it will be slotted in as next in line, but should not be added to the saved repeat queue. Slot increase to 8, so we could do a clean Promo x3 , Spa x1, Perf x3, Spa x1 rotation.

Increase (mouse wheel) scroll speed for the tasks if there are that many open.

"Stat tracking" for Idols, to see how much they improved, or got worse over the last year in each stat. Maybe a popup event at the end of the year for review as well.

If it's not a thing already: If coaching is maxed out, increase in training speed for idols.

Possibility to send staff on courses/trainings to get better in one of their two stats. Staff will not be available during that time.

Additional auto policy: If physical stamina is below x%, don't partake in any "unnecessary" work -> Theater, Cafe, Media, Training, maybe not get selected for jobs/proposals as well.

Queueing for producers office: If Idols finish their current task, they will immediately head over for a date, or wait until the producers current task is done. 

If I cancel an Idols current task, auto tasks shouldn't be disabled.

Detailed log in Idols profile to see, when and where they spent/gained stamina. Plus a weekly tally.

There's no Media Genre that boosts young adults.

Additional option for Idol salaries to keep them at 100% satisfaction. If on manual -> get a message from your office to tell you someone isn't >= 100% satisfied.

Better visual queues for completed tasks on singles/media/events. Maybe instead of the green dot, highlight the complete button in green and keep it that way, until the task has been handed to the next staffer to work on, or has been released.

Option to release singles/media/events at a specific date.

Option to manually set the media show times. Daily/Weekly/Monthly, on which Day(s), maybe timeslot -> Morning, Midday, Afternoon, Evening, Night 

Paradox Interactive style options for tasks/events. E.g.: If a task for a single is finished it can automatically stop time, switch to the menu, etc.

Loading from within a game sometimes doesn't work.

Keep up the good work and cheers.

I've thought about it a lot and I've come to only one conclusion

add virtual idols... or atleast virtual programs Xd

I would like to make a few suggestions!

First of all, i think its a must to put albums in the game

second, i think you should be able to choose what to call your fans

i think it would also be cool to be able to schedule events for the idols, like a meet and greet or autograph signing, performing in festivals and small stuff like that

It would also be nice to have some more outfit choices lol

and the last suggestion i have is the ability to assign the idols roles like leader, main vocalist, main rapper, etc

Loving the game so far but there is some difficulty that I am having with the game. 

One of my more basic problems is pausing and playing. I would like it if the game remembers the speed I have when I pause. So when I unpause it would put me back to 2x speed again. 

On top of that, I think the game should pause every time I enter the sidebar menu. 

I would also like a button on the detail page that just queue up a do-nothing day. It for when I don't want to spend money on a spa day but also don't want to work my idol. So I think a rest day queue would be great. It really awkward to have to stop your queue and remember to queue again just to take a 1-day break. 

I also think that having color icons would be more beneficial or just a larger icon, in general, would be better. Not only is the icon small but they all share the same color that blends in too much. 

Singles, shows, and events that are still in production that still needs to be work on should up in the empty space of detail for easy dragging. I think that the empty should be utilized for making the gameplay experience less tedious. While it is very simple to click on singles and drag it in, having all the information available on the detail screen makes for faster gameplay. 

It'd be pretty awesome if we got to have male idols along with the female idols since we have the option to choose between a male and female manager (unless someone already made or is currently making a mod for this already?).

I'm not sure if anyone has talked about this before, so apologies if I'm repeating any ideas.

But I think the awards show is a little hard to follow which groups got which awards. I think a TV screen or something that displays each category and slowly reveals the winners would be really exciting and also easier to understand the winners for each category! 

EDIT: I think it would be nice if the rarity of the girls (silver,gold,etc) was listed somewhere in their profiles for future reference.

Please let us flirt with our rival I know they're supposed to be annoying or rude but I just want to cherish them  (´͈  ᵕ `͈ ）

(also this game is easily the best 25 bucks I've ever spent you're amazing ily ahahaha)

I think it would be cool to have more options for social media and more ways to manage it. It would be a way to engage the fans and maybe for them to get to know the idols better. Kind of like a youtube channel.

I really agree with merch! As a long time wota, I owe my being broke to idol merch. and on that note, and I just started the game so if this is already a thing, I'm sorry, but member colors!! or the option of having member colors! with bonuses where girls desire a certain color as a wish, or get a small bonus from having their favorite colors... colors giving small stat buffs (pink being cute, yellow energetic, blue being cool etc) 
and if there is a generation system implemented, new members looking up to their senpai or wanting to inherit their color!

loving the game so far!!

It'd be great if you could start planning a date with an idol without interrupting their current activity. Balance-wise this changes nothing since you can just pause the game, cancel the activity, start planning, and reassign the idol, but it'd be a big QoL improvement.

SPOILERS:

After nation of idols my idol that I had max relationship with was not happy and just insta left it feels kind of of out of context, being that she did not say anything about our relationship. There should be a way to at least make her stay with influence since you can do that with regular graduating idols.

Other then that so far I enjoy the game.

i think it would be pretty cool if we had an option to add makeup to our idols, just like how we can choose their outfits.

I think child fans can be added to the demographics in the game since there are some idols that are 12 (or under if you make your own) and here’s how you can get them!

1. Performing at kid’s concerts( casual or hardcore)

2. Promoting products for kids such as toys( can either be male or female and casual)

3. Modeling for children’s clothes(casual but mostly female)

4. Children’s music can be a new song genre(not talking about nursery rhymes!) But you can make song covers from anime for kids such as Yume wo kanaete  Doraemon, theme songs from the Pretty Cure franchise and more

5. Have them be featured in anime or manga for the kiddos

6. In the cafe, you can serve food for kids or a kids menu

And that is all have!

Fun fact: IRL some idols have kids for fans, for example, During Prizmmy’s final concert one of their pictures feature them with there fans (with most being children and teens)

Can you guys add a method to get alot of fans. Something like marketing campaigns where you can pay high amounts of cash to get some fans. Really would make the late game more enjoyable. Btw nerf concerts and the mental health is kinda buggy, you can give the idols 1 yen per week and they still work like they normal do.

Hi, from playing the game for 22 hours this week there are some things I think should be added or changed or added.

• The dialogue with the idols can get kinda stale like the gossip and rumours stay the same for a really long time it would be nice if there was a little more to it?

• MORE OUTFITS. It would be cool if the girls got more outfit choices the higher their cool, cute, smart, sexy, and pretty scores were. Like some girls only have one accessory and the lack of customization just makes them all look too similar. So it would be nice to diversify. 

• It would be cool to have male idols as well but I understand that is a lot harder to implement since the game has already been released. Maybe a DLC idea for the future?

• Something I find really annoying is in the cafe it splits up the group menus. I feel like the menus overall should be shared so it is easier to navigate because I can't list menu items from one group on some days and then the other group on other days if that makes sense. Also, it says that the second group can be part of the main group in activities and songs and stuff so why not in the cafe/ menu. 

• Maybe displaying the picture of idols that have graduated just cause its nice to see what they used to look like and stuff. 

• Other ways to gain stamina back? I usually have to put girls on hiatus because their stamina drains a lot and the spa isn't good enough. I also have a break room and doctor but it still takes ages. I think in the later game another building or something could be added maybe?

1. The profits from the concert are so good. 

In difficult difficulty level, it would be good to debuff the profits.

I think it would be good to set a narrow ticket price range.

2. Underground idols rely on performance revenue. I hope to maintain management with minimum performance revenue.

AD or Photograph is a big event for underground idols. Maybe it's an opportunity to escape an underground idol.

So I think it would be good to reduce the business offer a little

3. Overall, the difficulty level is also too easy. I hope there is a much more difficult level than now.

Otherwise, the current mode manager cannot modify the concert or performance effect.

 I think it would be good to upload a new version of the enhanced mode manager. Then the users will create a very hardcore mode.

Hi,

First of, I bought this game after watching a French streamer (JDG) play, I didn't know if I would like it, and can't stop playing since. So good job!

Now I do have a (well 2) problem with the theater.

1. There is no stamina management for the theater, so I had to destroy it because it was killing my idols. Maybe doing like for the café would be a good idea.

2. It seems like the streaming revenue in the theater aren't shown in the income/outcome panel at the bottom of the screen.

Oh and I might have another suggestion about the theater. EVERTYTHING in the game is based on weekly revenue, except the theater. Why? Making it all weekly would make it easier to read and manage.

- Add the ability to automatically assign all girls in a unit the same uniform (or a predefined set for each individual girl that is similar in shape and color), so you can easily differentiate between units.

- When a girl's skill reaches its potential, it would be really convenient to see that value displayed in the girl's tab in the main screen with a different color, so as to possibly manually prevent her from continuing to train that skill with a great deal of time and resources.

Something about idol contract. The managing idol of the game is good and all but I think this is what is lacking. The idol I manage seem to like doing scandalous thing and I am the one who has to clear it with no penalty to the idol. Also, some of the more orthodox IRL companies have a contract that's quite complex with hefty penalties for breaking it and some about the term of contract like maybe four years.

I don't know if someone suggested this already but it would be really nice if you could have a "pre-sorting" group where the idols are listed as "trainees," and you can choose to dispose of them before you finalize them for debut. I like to think of my idols realistically where big idol entertainment companies enlist newbies to train before debuting. And then once debuting it makes sense that you can't switch them around after a year. My issue is that once I create new groups, I can't move idols already under a sister group even though their demographics make much more sense in the new group. I have to wait a whole year before that. If they were listed as trainees and not confirmed for debut then moving them around with be so much easier T_T Idk if that made sense, I just want to be able to switch them around more fluidly. In the meantime I'm just using their outfits to distinguish which group they are a part of.

And it would be kind of cool to be able to do plastic surgery >u< cuz of how realistic that is... but I get that it wouldn't make much sense in the game cuz of the current structure as well as the art.

Also I would love to see male idols :3

overall I LOVE this game. I am thoroughly addicted and my work/school is suffering ;_; (jk not really) but keep in mind I'm not the type of person to play ALOT of games so this says a lot! Great work. 

Below are some of my ideas.

TLDR

1. Rebalancing the mental stamina of the idol (not much impact on the current game right now) (related to 3. Idol’s preferences too)

2. True End after the story mode (Idol’s ending) (Again, related to 3. Idol’s preference)

3. Idol’s preference on genre (music / lyrics / choreography)

Elaboration:

1.Rebalancing mental stamina

Currently the mental stamina is not impactful on the game. I suggest every activity (like releasing singles) should decrease the mental stamina on the idol. Moreover, If the idol personal preference is not match with the singles / concert, for example, A idol with preference on metal music, but the new singles are of different genre, the idol will suffer more damage on mental stamina.

In addition, 100% of mental stamina should mean 100% of the idol’s ability status, while low mental stamina will yield a percentage of the idol’s ability. (e.g., 50% stamina may cause the idol’s originally 100 dancing skills to 50 dancing skills)

This should cause the player to slow down the money-making process and force them to choose the right member regardless of the flat ability of the idol. Thus, the player could not spam singles and concert on making huge amount of money.

2. True End

After the current story mode, there game has no goal and I suggest having a true ending. 

The ending should be focus on the idol / the idols’ group. For example, I imagine a scenario when after the story, the main character is challenged by the top rival idol manager (from a particular genre of music) from the world. The player then have to, for example, choose to challenge a world class metal band. 

Numerous events could be added during this scenario, for example, the rival manager may recruit your idols, and you have to choose your faithful idol/ idols to conquer the specific genre of music. As mentioned previously, each idol should have its preference on genre, the idols with different preference may leave the group as well.

If the player beat the rival manager, which will yield a true genre-specific ending for the group / idol.

This will encourage the player too play on specific genre to see all endings, and different genre should have different event along the route too.

In addition, Aya / rival (main character) / Fujimoto should also have True ending after the story.

3. Idol Preference

As mentioned previously, each idol should have preference on particular type of music / lyrics / dance, this also add difficult to the game as the player now could not choose the idol with the highest ability, but also have to consider whether the idol match the group’s image too.

Thank you very much for your reading

It would be nice if there was an option at Romance Relationship 5 to keep her in the Group and keep going on Dating / "other" events with her at the cost of triggering a scandal.

or maybe just the ability to still interact with her after marriage ...

I just finished a Romance Rout and the Idol was very well written, so I am a bit sad that all options at 5 would stop me from having further Romantic Interactions with her, I kind of wish I could keep interacting with her after she became my wife :v

I think more Formation for Idol groups would also be nice,
Trio Formations, Duo Formations,  Quartets, and 5-Star Groups ...
The Pyramid is nice and all, but I think it could be fun to have more and smaller options!
Maybe as DLC?

1 I would like to be able to sell album CDs as well as single CDs.

2 Staff members don't level up fast enough and can't be promoted before clearing the game. In the latter half of the game, I'd like to see the levels rise a little faster.

3 I want to be able to modify the interior of the game easily with mods, like in RIMWORLD.

4 I'd like to see a tool that makes it easy to make custom mods for characters. It's too much work to position the face, hairstyle and accessories.

5 I'm waiting for the DLC!

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I would like to be able to use the bangs and back hair folders in hairstyle. The back hair should be hidden behind the body.

It is difficult to add long hair and body.

Having played a frankly embarrassing amount of this game, I definitely have a few ideas for improvements or changes to be added in the future, they're really just ideas that I thought might be fun though. 

-Different sprites and appearances for different age groups. It definitely feels a little weird having a girl who's 28 and has a sprite who looks like she's 11, and it would mean I wouldn't have to check ages for each and every single one of the idols as often as I do now.  It would also be nice to have the clothing available change depending on the policy you choose for their clothes (pants if you choose pants, longer skirts, ect) 

-In the same vein, some form of awareness for the age of the girls would be nice, as you can have 12 year old girls being suggested for gravure photoshoots, and, in at least one dialog event, you can flirt with them. Having the flirtatious options changed or unavailable would be really nice, since as the game stands I just kind of pick the blandest options to avoid accidentally flirting with any kids. T-T

-Reputation and management styles! A sort of mechanic of reputation where depending on your choices, either you or the company gain certain types of reputations (salacious, rude, exploitative, laid back, supportive, ect) which would give you different buffs and effects! For example, if the company gains a salacious reputation, the idols you get in recruitment will be older and have more points towards the sexy stat, and you may even get less idols in the recruitment process. And then for you personally it could effect how the girls react to you, like if you have a good reputation with them you will gain more influence and friendship faster, and if you have a reputation for hitting on idols you may gain it slower. As for management styles, I thought an added policy option might be nice where you can choose to be stuff like 'hands on' or 'hands off' where you get different buffs and debuffs. (like maybe if you choose to be hands on you get higher quality production but it takes longer regardless of who does it, and it would be the opposite if you were hands off) 

-Other than that, I really think flavortext events with different groups having scandals and how we might react or benefit from it, or even the option to poach girls from groups that aren't doing very well (or an option for girls to ask to join your agency outside of recruitment because they decided to leave their group, and what kind of risk you would be taking if you accept them in) This isn't really a huge thing but I feel like it'd make the game feel a lot more alive and less lonely since right now we hardly see anything of any other groups, and it's even less if you don't play story mode. 

These are all things that probably won't actually be added until after release if at all, but I still figured I'd suggest it just to put it out there. Other than that I just wanted to say I absolutely adore this game so much and it brings me so much joy, so thank you. 

Bit late to the party, but loving the game at the moment - must have restarted at least 100 times by now!!

So just a few suggestions if a sequel (or update) is in the works:

1) For the Idol auditions, attendees' ranks (or at least stats) should be based on how good your company is (or doing). Why would platinum idols want to join a non-reputable upstart company when they could potentially join a more successful competitor? I say this, because sometimes you could get 3 superstars right from the start, and this greatly affects how the early game is played - I think this makes them miss out on how the developers intended players would approach the game.

2) Having the producer/manager (me) be the only person to perform certain jobs really bottle-neck the production process. Having a nobody (or even a regular manager) be in charge of writing lyrics which could potentially make or break the entire company would be in most cases absurd in real-life! Perhaps they could outsource or have permaneant staff to do the job. If an idol has enough experience singing (centering or 2nd row) with a group or they reach a certain level with their vocalist skill, maybe they could be able to submit potential lyrics to the producer - an option regardless of whether they are accepted or not.

3) Also, for mods - instead of parameters like "unique" and the "can_be_hired_again" - make it an option in the settings so players have the choice as a mixture of modders and their decisions can lead to some implementing them and others not...

Been 3 years since the intial post was made and quite a few days since the last post - hope this gets heard (visually, of course!).

Thanks for a fun game!

Is there any way to make stats for a song not extremely low if you don't include all the members from a group? Like if my group has 20 members and I'd like to have a song with 10 members, the stats for the song drop a lot due to the empty 5 spaces. 

Also will things like sub-units, albums, larger amounts of members per song, etc ever be added? Or is the game considered finished atp?

Add male idols please i would love it at the beginning of the game we could have males or we could have both and then their could be boy and girl idol groups and dating or even secret dating depending on the  policy's and have drama there but I know u are missing an entire fan base cuz I got the game told my friend's about it but they lost interest after hearing their were no Male Idols

I found an error in your coding I believe its because you used [ ] instead of { } but it was on a level 2 date a  and your in the city and it says "Though, maybe it's true that I'm more [highest_looks_attribute] than anyone you've ever gone on a date with."

Can I set birthday for new custom idols?

{

"unique": true,

"unique_id": "xxx",

"birth_day": "dd-mm-yyyy", <---------------------- like this ***

"intro_message": "yyy",

"value": "platinum"