[Popomundo] Designing Shows (Updated Feb 07)

[archibalduk]

You have to have your shows designed or your show will fail. You do the first one and it copies in your last successful show when you book new gigs.

Shows have to have at least three songs or they will fail, while eight songs seems to be the magic number you have to add to a show for the system not to knock down your rating because of it.

You can add 'extras' to the show but if you do too many you'll get the "Too much happened during the show" message in your review/show wrap-up.

You can add general and genre specific items (they're working on revamping this with a newer system soon), but watch you don't add things that are tied to a skill like playing a solo, or doing a dance or setting off some kind of stage/set design if you don't have a member of your band who is 5 stars at that skill. The current system will only grade you down for doing a dance and only having oen person with basic dancing at no stars so it's best to just leave those out for now.

EDIT: With the new show system now in place things have changed substantially as you get credit now for trying those events that you might not have the skills for yet or have just the basics for... see the New System post for full details, but there is also word from the developers that the previous 8 songs is a good basic set isn't quite enough for the new system so I'd shoot for 10-12 songs in the new system.

In the new system which has been effect for some time now the key is to build up your audience's mood as the show goes along, so do this by playing better songs and using the events your band members get more star ratings on at the end of the show!

If you build your crowd's mood level up over what they were expecting you'll be able to successfully do one or even multiple encores! Keep in mind each encore song would need to be better than the one before it or your crowd will decide they've seen enough and go home which will hurt your overall show rating so that's the risk you take.