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Shining Song Starnova: Idol Empire Beta 29-3

Added 2019-08-04 08:19:56 +0000 UTC

New

Five new story stages.
Having full stock ownership will now gradually restore the PURE of all idols.
Game tips are now available on the main menu.
Training facilities can now be upgraded to increase the rate of experience gain.
Event Room [Room] - To unlock this room you need to first select 'research tier II facilities' in the 'build room' menu followed by then doing the same for 'research tier III facilities' upon completion of the second tier.
Research Lab [Room] - To unlock this room you need to first select 'research tier II facilities' in the 'build room' menu.
The behaviour of holding ctrl while placing furniture has been updated to make it better at utilising free space.
The level up notification for idol stats has been re-positioned.
New jobs are now available from businessmen.
The sound effect for a stalker warning is now updated.
There are now 10 auto save slots available.
Kaori and Mako have been added as recruitable idols.

Balances

The chance for triggering a scandal has been increased.
The chance for triggering a stalker has been reduced.
HYPE will gradually degrade if you play nothing but low rank songs in the bigger venues.
Ticket sales for bigger venues now generate less KN.
Random events have the potential to now trigger much earlier.
The modifiers in difficulty modes have been tweaked (although these are far from complete).
The length of ultimate techniques has been decreased.
Nemu's yandere mode now has a shorter duration when triggered.
The rate of passive HYPE loss during a live has been reduced.
The cost of a legal department resolving a scandal now scales with the idol's popularity.
The top potential revenue generation of the sales department has been reduced.
The cap of the number of FX items obtained from research labs can be increased by building additional research labs.
The magical girl event will no longer let you continue to assign jobs from the producer's office for the duration if you choose to cease operations in the room.
Increased the KN awards for jobs (even if unsuccessful).
An additional Increase for additional KN awarded for successfully completing a job.
Multiple session jobs have been changed to one session, all jobs are now one session.
Increased the base rate for the leveling of idol stats.
Idols expectation of wages has been increased to scale properly with popularity.
Revenue generated from UO sales has been reduced.

Fixes

Fixed Mako and Kaori from not appearing as recruit options in custom mode.
Mariya will no longer become unresponsive upon returning to the office if her alcoholic state triggers while out on a job.
Fixed the game crashing if during a live one of your idols is a no show.
Fixed a occurrence where stalker events gave too much of a stored value used in the calculation for triggering a fanquake (+2 instead of +1).
Fixed a bug that would cause the song results to display the wrong value in the live results following a live.
Opening the job's menu will no longer cause the in game clock to be hidden.
Fixed a bug that would cause security guards to get stuck at 99% preparation when there were multiple stalker events active.
Fixed a bug where security guards would get stuck in a state of trying to leave the office.
Having an unfinished song as part of your total towards being able to perform a live will no longer cause you to get stuck in the song set list menu when the ticket selling period is over.
Fixed scandals resolved through the legal department counting towards the calculation for triggering a fanquake.
Fixed various typos involving the use of Mariko's name (in story segments and UI).
Fixed a number of instances where the wrong awards were given for jobs.
Fixed facility upgrades not being possible in custom mode.
The leaflet distribution job will no longer award KN to a decimal value.
Random events can no longer cause your idols to go into a negative fame value.
Fixed the sales department losing the action it was performing upon loading a save file.
In game splash screens will now correctly layer in front of the UI rather than behind it.
Fixed the security office losing preparation progress upon loading a save file.
Fixed yandere mode forcibly cancelling an action that involves an idol in the sick bay recovering.
Fixed the sales department not selling items at the right price caused by an occasional calculation performed by the game engine. (You can now hold F2 while the sales department is selected to see unit pricing).
Fixed the stat graphic preview in stage on not correctly hiding after that segment of story narrative.
Fixed forced stock sales not showing correctly in the finance screen.
Fixed a memory leak associated with long play sessions.
Fixed changing the position of some doors in stage 5 crashing the game.
Fixed slowdown caused when expanding / reducing the size of an office.
Fixed scandals triggering for Mariko causing the game to crash.
Fixed a crash caused by the scheduler not reflecting the change when you delete a training facility room.
Tweaked the pathing done by idols who are have an action cancelled but then a new action is given in close proximity (to make them more responsive).
Fixed a scenario where if an idol was to using a training facility room that has rubble in it from a fanquake it would cause the game to crash.
Fixed a crash that would occur when the wrong value is called from recruiting an idol.
Fixed a scenario where using the time manipulation tools while relocating a door would cause the game to crash.