Music Maven 3 - Page 17

Deattribution · 05-21-2005, 11:38 PM

It's per release, so if you sign for 300k per, you get 300k for every release.

Reason you spend every cent is because if you only spend 250k of 300k the other 50k is wasted, never see it again... you or the label, and you still have to pay it back.

Karim · 05-22-2005, 01:56 AM

Good news...

jaygr · 05-22-2005, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingice

You have a contract offer from Front Office Records (I hope it's better terms than your previous contracts)

I tend to offer 3/1 or 4/1 contracts depending on a band's history because having something like a 3/3 contract seems silly to me- you might as well release singles of all of your album song to maximize your band's profits.

SI

Thank you very much. It is a much better deal

Karim · 05-24-2005, 12:00 PM

Is the continuous 'updating' a bug or just legit processing?

Swaggs · 05-24-2005, 12:09 PM

Server is hung up. It happens a couple of times a month.

Franklinnoble · 05-24-2005, 12:32 PM

Eh. The game is becoming crap for me. I can't seem to break the $5 million barrier. I've been holding on to get that private jet, but it's not gonna happen.

JeeberD · 05-24-2005, 12:40 PM

Dude, I've never reached $2 million yet but I still have the private jet. $850k ain't that much...

Deattribution · 05-24-2005, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

Eh. The game is becoming crap for me. I can't seem to break the $5 million barrier. I've been holding on to get that private jet, but it's not gonna happen.

you know the jet is $850,000 not $8,500,000, right?

Franklinnoble · 05-24-2005, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deattribution

you know the jet is $850,000 not $8,500,000, right?

Damn.

Color me stupid.

Klinglerware · 05-24-2005, 03:29 PM

Looks like it is done updating--but record sales look double counted again...

stevew · 05-24-2005, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swaggs

Server is hung up. It happens a couple of times a month.

Heaven at it again, or did ViLs get a new band?

sterlingice · 05-24-2005, 04:26 PM

Paging Maximum Appeal, Pasty White Thighs:
You have new contract offers from Front Office Records. Does the length of the contract work for you or would you rather do more albums or singles or something? Also are the cash terms acceptable? I figured that's about as much as you can possibly spend on a single if it sells 1M copies.

SI

Klinglerware · 05-25-2005, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Paging Maximum Appeal, Pasty White Thighs:
You have new contract offers from Front Office Records. Does the length of the contract work for you or would you rather do more albums or singles or something? Also are the cash terms acceptable? I figured that's about as much as you can possibly spend on a single if it sells 1M copies.

SI

Works for me.

Calis · 05-25-2005, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Paging Maximum Appeal, Pasty White Thighs:
You have new contract offers from Front Office Records. Does the length of the contract work for you or would you rather do more albums or singles or something? Also are the cash terms acceptable? I figured that's about as much as you can possibly spend on a single if it sells 1M copies.

SI

The Thighs are cool with the deal, no complaints here. To tell you the truth I didn't much look at it, saw it was from Front Office Records and signed on the dotted line. That's loyalty!

I think it's time for me to mix things up a bit with the group. I think we're doing pretty decently right now, but we're stagnating. I'm going to have to try something else out. So I might be taking more time off and having my band members focus on raising their skills, something I've neglected. Have to do something to get over that hump.

I'm very much anti replacing my members, so that makes things a bit tougher.

sterlingice · 05-25-2005, 12:34 PM

Yeah- I know. It's a real bear to raise some of the skills. Frankly, since I'm kindof bored with most other aspects of the game, that's what I'm doing now- trying to raise all of my skills to 100 even if it's not actually doable because a couple of things aren't raise-able.

SI

Airhog · 05-25-2005, 04:42 PM

I have written flyers for the last 3 sims. about 15-17 days a month. Some guys have gone up maybe 20-30 points. I want to figure out how to raise my musical feel and lore though. I did hear that you can raise the other stats by auditioning other members.

TazFTW · 05-25-2005, 04:45 PM

Reorganzing your record collection, increases music lore.

Calis · 05-25-2005, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Airhog

I have written flyers for the last 3 sims. about 15-17 days a month. Some guys have gone up maybe 20-30 points. I want to figure out how to raise my musical feel and lore though. I did hear that you can raise the other stats by auditioning other members.

What stats does writing flyers raise? Creativity?

sterlingice · 05-25-2005, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Calis

What stats does writing flyers raise? Creativity?

Creativity and commitment. How about this- here's what I've got when I stopped keeping track

additional practice: inst skill/overall musical skill
catch up on sleep: health
fliers: creativity/commitment
general rest: happiness/health
local bar: ???
groupies: ???
killer party: ???
drug dealer: ???
meditate: intel/health?
music maven: intensity
yoga: ???
book: music lore/intel
reorganize records: ???
see friends band: ???
stage clothes: looks
dance groove: ???
PBS song writing: ???
weights: looks/health?

SI

hoopsguy · 05-25-2005, 07:03 PM

Additional Practice = Instrument Skill + Overall Musical Skill

TazFTW · 05-25-2005, 08:48 PM

drug dealer raises creativity

killer party increases popularity

sabotai · 05-25-2005, 09:03 PM

Heads up to the FOFC label owner, I just deleted my band so you have a free spot open now.

Karim · 05-25-2005, 10:31 PM

In my limited experience... REST	IMPROVES
Additional Practice at home	musical skill, musical feel
Catch up on sleep	health, happiness
Design flyers for upcoming band tour	commitment, creativity
General rest	health, happiness
Go drinking at local bar	nothing
Hang out with groupies	nothing
Host a killer party	nothing
Invite drug-dealer friend over	creativity
Meditate on infiniteness of universe	health, happiness, intelligence
Play Music Maven	intensity
Practice yoga	nothing
Read a book	muscial lore, intelligence
Reorganize extensive record collection	musical lore
See friends band play at local nightclub	popularity
Shop for stage clothes	looks
Watch Darrins Dance Grooves on VHS to brush up on dance moves	nothing
Watch PBS show entitled: Song Writing 101	musical skill
Work out with weights	looks

fantastic flying froggies · 05-26-2005, 02:22 AM

killer party definitely increases popularity.

kingfc22 · 05-26-2005, 01:59 PM

Fantasy's new single "Mandalay" debuted at #5 on the charts.

Karim · 05-31-2005, 06:55 PM

dance and yoga never seem to do anything...

Does anyone know how to increase charm, intimidation or prolificacy? I think you're stuck with whatever you get for those attributes.

cthomer5000 · 05-31-2005, 07:07 PM

Watery Hands are 1-2 months from dropping their final album and calling it quits.

Bad-example · 07-29-2005, 03:52 AM

Anyone still playing this?

JeeberD · 07-29-2005, 08:06 AM

I gave up on it recently...like a week ago. The processing hang-ups were getting so bad that I couldn't keep track of what days I could actually play.

Calis · 07-29-2005, 09:21 AM

Yeah I gave up also.

In between having my PC break down for about three weeks, and the game only actually being up one every three I just decided it was best to move on.

The Pasty White Thighs are finished.

Karim · 07-29-2005, 10:05 AM

I check every once in a while but the down-time in the server really makes it difficult.

Raiders Army · 07-29-2005, 10:25 AM

/agree with hang-ups, etc.

I'd play it if it were reliable, but even for free, it's not worth the 5 minutes per day.

Ben E Lou · 07-29-2005, 10:30 AM

Bingo. Also gave up because of the hang-ups.

lighthousekeeper · 07-29-2005, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Bingo. Also gave up because of the hang-ups.

sorry everyone. the game could never seem to run well unattended.

Klinglerware · 07-29-2005, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lighthousekeeper

sorry everyone. the game could never seem to run well unattended.

I still play, but hang-ups aside, I've discovered that it's still difficult to keep up daily--especially now that it is summer and I'm usually away on weekends.

Perhaps in a future version, maybe an every-other day update would be more workable?

Swaggs · 07-29-2005, 12:34 PM

I still play every day, mostly to run the label.

Although, I'm not sure if there are any FOFCers even on it anymore.

kingfc22 · 07-29-2005, 01:57 PM

I stopped because of the hang-ups and the repetition of the whole thing.

stevew · 07-29-2005, 02:06 PM

I stopped cause of the cheating scandal. Im glad, cause it was getting repetitive.

sterlingice · 11-30-2005, 03:36 PM

I've been kindof keeping up with my band but I think it's about 5 months past time to stop that as well (then again, when it takes all of 2 minutes per day, it's no big deal) . The lack of bug fixing is just inexcusable at this point and the inherent imbalance of the game is obnoxious as well. Doug just kindof disappears for long periods of time never to return, again just inexcusable.

It's a good game at its core- but it badly needs some balance and needs to be kept up to be worth playing, tho. I know I've written up a couple of large groups of suggestions on the game that would immensely fix it and make it deeper and more fun and wouldn't be all that hairy to program but whatever.

Fascist Eagle ends their run sitting on over $100M in cash (after raiding the long dead Front Office Records). That makes us the 6th richest band in the game. We're also the 11th highest selling at 53M and Front Office Records ends at 18th with 162M sold despite having only one active band in it for probably the last 3 months.

SI

vex · 11-30-2005, 05:11 PM

Wow, I had forgotten all about this.

Klinglerware · 06-22-2006, 11:53 AM

Game over?

stevew · 06-22-2006, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Klinglerware

Game over?

It was still running? Wow.

Swaggs · 06-22-2006, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

It was still running? Wow.

I checked a month or two ago and Elitists Records was still in the top 5 or 10 w/o having been active in several months.

Klinglerware · 06-22-2006, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

It was still running? Wow.

Yeah, I was still playing regularly until I went on vacation a few weeks ago. Doesn't look like updates have been running for a few days. This could be it...

sterlingice · 06-22-2006, 10:47 PM

That's a shame. I really liked the game. Sure, it could use some pretty heavy tweaking, but the base is quite solid.

SI

MrBug708 · 06-22-2006, 10:48 PM

It would be a great game to have though....I bet a partnership with SI would kick ass!

Swaggs · 06-22-2006, 11:05 PM

I think the most interesting direction MM could take would be in becoming a solo player, record company management sim.

Start out as a low budget, indy label (like the label in Love Monkey) and sign the right bands and grow. Scout and sign start up bands and decide how to develop their careers with singles/albums/videos/concerts. If they "make it," you have to fight to resign them. Add studio, marketing, real estate, etc. upgrades as you progress. Have a few different charting systems to track sales/radio play/etc. Give yourself an office to show off your awards, finances, and other almanac-like stuff. Make bands break up, members die or retire, "free agents" musicians re-form bands.

vex · 06-23-2006, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vex

Wow, I had forgotten all about this.

ahem

lighthousekeeper · 06-23-2006, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrBug708

It would be a great game to have though....I bet a partnership with SI would kick ass!

I'm waiting for your call, Marc...

Regarding the game being down for the last week...I'll take a look at the game this weekend to see what's the problem.

Deattribution · 06-28-2006, 01:48 AM

Any update on the updating problem?

05-24-2005, 12:09 PM	#805
Swaggs Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	Server is hung up. It happens a couple of times a month. __________________ DOWN WITH HATTRICK!!! The RWBL Are you reading In The Bleachers?

05-24-2005, 12:40 PM	#807
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	Dude, I've never reached $2 million yet but I still have the private jet. $850k ain't that much... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

05-24-2005, 04:26 PM	#812
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	Paging Maximum Appeal, Pasty White Thighs: You have new contract offers from Front Office Records. Does the length of the contract work for you or would you rather do more albums or singles or something? Also are the cash terms acceptable? I figured that's about as much as you can possibly spend on a single if it sells 1M copies. SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!" Last edited by sterlingice : 05-24-2005 at 04:27 PM.

05-25-2005, 12:34 PM	#815
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	Yeah- I know. It's a real bear to raise some of the skills. Frankly, since I'm kindof bored with most other aspects of the game, that's what I'm doing now- trying to raise all of my skills to 100 even if it's not actually doable because a couple of things aren't raise-able. SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

05-25-2005, 04:42 PM	#816
Airhog Captain Obvious Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Norman, Oklahoma	I have written flyers for the last 3 sims. about 15-17 days a month. Some guys have gone up maybe 20-30 points. I want to figure out how to raise my musical feel and lore though. I did hear that you can raise the other stats by auditioning other members. __________________ Thread Killer extraordinaire Yay! its football season once again!

05-21-2005, 11:38 PM	#801
Deattribution College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2003	It's per release, so if you sign for 300k per, you get 300k for every release. Reason you spend every cent is because if you only spend 250k of 300k the other 50k is wasted, never see it again... you or the label, and you still have to pay it back.

05-22-2005, 01:56 AM	#802
Karim College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Calgary	Good news...

05-24-2005, 12:00 PM	#804
Karim College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Calgary	Is the continuous 'updating' a bug or just legit processing?

05-24-2005, 12:32 PM	#806
Franklinnoble Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Placerville, CA	Eh. The game is becoming crap for me. I can't seem to break the $5 million barrier. I've been holding on to get that private jet, but it's not gonna happen.

05-24-2005, 03:29 PM	#810
Klinglerware College Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The DMV	Looks like it is done updating--but record sales look double counted again...

05-25-2005, 04:45 PM	#817
TazFTW Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Honolulu, HI	Reorganzing your record collection, increases music lore.

05-25-2005, 07:03 PM	#820
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	Additional Practice = Instrument Skill + Overall Musical Skill

05-25-2005, 08:48 PM	#821
TazFTW Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Honolulu, HI	drug dealer raises creativity killer party increases popularity

05-25-2005, 09:03 PM	#822
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Heads up to the FOFC label owner, I just deleted my band so you have a free spot open now.

05-26-2005, 02:22 AM	#824
fantastic flying froggies Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sunny South of France	killer party definitely increases popularity. __________________ Detroit Vampires (CFL) : Ve 're coming for your blood! Camargue Flamingos (WOOF): pretty in Pink

05-26-2005, 01:59 PM	#825
kingfc22 Head Coach Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Morgan Hill, CA	Fantasy's new single "Mandalay" debuted at #5 on the charts. __________________ Fan of SF Giants, 49ers, Sharks, Arsenal

05-31-2005, 06:55 PM	#826
Karim College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Calgary	dance and yoga never seem to do anything... Does anyone know how to increase charm, intimidation or prolificacy? I think you're stuck with whatever you get for those attributes.

07-29-2005, 03:52 AM	#828
Bad-example College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: san jose CA	Anyone still playing this?

07-29-2005, 08:06 AM	#829
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	I gave up on it recently...like a week ago. The processing hang-ups were getting so bad that I couldn't keep track of what days I could actually play. __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

07-29-2005, 09:21 AM	#830
Calis College Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Kansas	Yeah I gave up also. In between having my PC break down for about three weeks, and the game only actually being up one every three I just decided it was best to move on. The Pasty White Thighs are finished.

07-29-2005, 10:05 AM	#831
Karim College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Calgary	I check every once in a while but the down-time in the server really makes it difficult.

07-29-2005, 10:25 AM	#832
Raiders Army Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Black Hole	/agree with hang-ups, etc. I'd play it if it were reliable, but even for free, it's not worth the 5 minutes per day.

07-29-2005, 10:30 AM	#833
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	Bingo. Also gave up because of the hang-ups. __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

07-29-2005, 12:34 PM	#836
Swaggs Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	I still play every day, mostly to run the label. Although, I'm not sure if there are any FOFCers even on it anymore. __________________ DOWN WITH HATTRICK!!! The RWBL Are you reading In The Bleachers?

07-29-2005, 01:57 PM	#837
kingfc22 Head Coach Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Morgan Hill, CA	I stopped because of the hang-ups and the repetition of the whole thing. __________________ Fan of SF Giants, 49ers, Sharks, Arsenal

07-29-2005, 02:06 PM	#838
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I stopped cause of the cheating scandal. Im glad, cause it was getting repetitive.

11-30-2005, 03:36 PM	#839
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	I've been kindof keeping up with my band but I think it's about 5 months past time to stop that as well (then again, when it takes all of 2 minutes per day, it's no big deal) . The lack of bug fixing is just inexcusable at this point and the inherent imbalance of the game is obnoxious as well. Doug just kindof disappears for long periods of time never to return, again just inexcusable. It's a good game at its core- but it badly needs some balance and needs to be kept up to be worth playing, tho. I know I've written up a couple of large groups of suggestions on the game that would immensely fix it and make it deeper and more fun and wouldn't be all that hairy to program but whatever. Fascist Eagle ends their run sitting on over $100M in cash (after raiding the long dead Front Office Records). That makes us the 6th richest band in the game. We're also the 11th highest selling at 53M and Front Office Records ends at 18th with 162M sold despite having only one active band in it for probably the last 3 months. SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

11-30-2005, 05:11 PM	#840
vex Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tulsa	Wow, I had forgotten all about this.

06-22-2006, 11:53 AM	#841
Klinglerware College Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The DMV	Game over?

06-22-2006, 10:47 PM	#845
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	That's a shame. I really liked the game. Sure, it could use some pretty heavy tweaking, but the base is quite solid. SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

06-22-2006, 10:48 PM	#846
MrBug708 Head Coach Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Whittier	It would be a great game to have though....I bet a partnership with SI would kick ass!

06-22-2006, 11:05 PM	#847
Swaggs Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	I think the most interesting direction MM could take would be in becoming a solo player, record company management sim. Start out as a low budget, indy label (like the label in Love Monkey) and sign the right bands and grow. Scout and sign start up bands and decide how to develop their careers with singles/albums/videos/concerts. If they "make it," you have to fight to resign them. Add studio, marketing, real estate, etc. upgrades as you progress. Have a few different charting systems to track sales/radio play/etc. Give yourself an office to show off your awards, finances, and other almanac-like stuff. Make bands break up, members die or retire, "free agents" musicians re-form bands. __________________ DOWN WITH HATTRICK!!! The RWBL Are you reading In The Bleachers?

06-28-2006, 01:48 AM	#850
Deattribution College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2003	Any update on the updating problem?

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