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[Anna97]

As a snail player - see mountbaras game guide, I quite often produce movies up to the completion level needed to earn sp or others rewards. Similarly, if there is a DS-task for customized movie covers, I stop a movie at the 2-star level, since movies give quite a bit of xp that you want to avoid playing for ratio (i.e. more skill points per level gained).

 

Since movies can last up to three hours shooting, often times I loose track of what the rewards for each completion level were when I started them and wonder whether I should finish them and to what level. Also, fans can be gained at lower completion level, which I think is pretty much undocumented and under the radar for some players.

 

Therefore, itd help this playstyle to show the rewards for each star-level during the production of a movie. All playstyles would profit from knowing whats to be gained to get to 2-star or 3-star completion, since forgetting a movie begs the question: do you want to extend it or not - difficult decision, if you dont know what you gain from it!

 

Hovering over each star-level, the UI could help out by showing the fans and other rewards gained at that level.

 

Check this mock-up for reference:

 

https://ibb.co/NnhZnLV

[mountbara]

You can mitigate xp gains and still get credit for finishing films by doing only task missions and paying to extend or doing just enough skill missions to complete on time. 

 

As a snail player - see mountbaras game guide, I quite often produce movies up to the completion level needed to earn sp or others rewards. Similarly, if there is a DS-task for customized movie covers, I stop a movie at the 2-star level, since movies give quite a bit of xp that you want to avoid playing for ratio (i.e. more skill points per level gained).

 

Since movies can last up to three hours shooting, often times I loose track of what the rewards for each completion level were when I started them and wonder whether I should finish them and to what level. Also, fans can be gained at lower completion level, which I think is pretty much undocumented and under the radar for some players.

 

Therefore, itd help this playstyle to show the rewards for each star-level during the production of a movie. All playstyles would profit from knowing whats to be gained to get to 2-star or 3-star completion, since forgetting a movie begs the question: do you want to extend it or not - difficult decision, if you dont know what you gain from it!

 

Hovering over each star-level, the UI could help out by showing the fans and other rewards gained at that level.

 

Check this mock-up for reference:

 

https://ibb.co/NnhZnLV

[mountbara]

They offer the preview before you start the movies, but I understand why you would want this.

 

 

Therefore, itd help this playstyle to show the rewards for each star-level during the production of a movie. All playstyles would profit from knowing whats to be gained to get to 2-star or 3-star completion, since forgetting a movie begs the question: do you want to extend it or not - difficult decision, if you dont know what you gain from it!

 

Hovering over each star-level, the UI could help out by showing the fans and other rewards gained at that level.

 

Check this mock-up for reference:

 

https://ibb.co/NnhZnLV

[Anna97]

You can mitigate xp gains and still get credit for finishing films by doing only task missions and paying to extend or doing just enough skill missions to complete on time. 

 

Thats exactly how I usually do it, but the question becomes: do I even want to go to 3-star-level or not? sometimes I just dont know, since I forgot the info from the selection overview. especially in the longer movies!

 

going 3-star from 2-star means double xp, no matter how you play and 3h-tanks make that effect worse

Edited by Anna97, 03 January 2021 - 02:27 PM.

[wtkillabee]

Good idea, sadly never gonna be implemented. I forget what rewards were on movie all the time so have to extend using notes just to be safe. Its just one of those quality of life changes that would improve the game in small matter for everyone. 

 

Dparadise, how are likes actualy useful? Do you feel getting 10-50 likes feels like improvement along the goal of reaching 50k,100k, 500k likes? 10 likes after 6 hours, YAY! Until you reach the requirment for the room or pose and unlock it, having 1 like or 49k is same. Those are the worst thing to persue in this game, but lets spend few k diamonds to bypass them  

[Anna97]

absolutely, its almost easier playing for diamonds to unlock rooms hahaha but whats most important on movies is sp, if youre in a good studio, its easy to have 5-6 with average 3 sp, making it 15-18. likes only give a little extra cash, that becomes useless as you buy more skill points.

[Kitekat]

nice

but the right point to show the rewards is the point where you have to decide

or ?

[wuffy]

I have no concept of not doing a 3-star movie once I start one.   Having done 7,778 movies in my career with only 3 not being a 3-star movie I really can't understand.   Unless your studio has movie trophies, you need to complete all of your movies for the best chance in the BBA.  Also, while movies give you EXP along the way, they also give you notes, items and skills.

 

Compared to what we are now receiving for rewards from Dickstarters, Duel tiers and Energy used, the EXP from movies is minimal.

 

Thus my suggestion is to complete all of the movies that you can but try to choose ones that give you skill points.

[Anna97]

that is a very good point! it is more useful to have that info right at the point where you have to extend a movie. the other option is also useful, if there is still time on the timer.

 

i think one solution could be to simply show all rewards in the extension dialog. it occured to me a few times, this would also be useful with missions, i.e. at the end of a long mission that might reset, be the wrong type etc.!

 

nice

but the right point to show the rewards is the point where you have to decide

or ?

Edited by Anna97, 04 January 2021 - 05:18 PM.

[Terrorsin]

Another request: Can we get a number of movies left at the movie selection screen.  I sometimes forget how many movies I've made for the day and am unsure if I have enough time to do long films.  I'm too lazy to count them from my history.

[Anna97]

good point, i was also missing that often times.

 

adding to that, as you approach the end of the week, you want to make sure, you have 21 3-star movie to get 200% boost. therefore and for other situations id also like to ALWAYS have the weekly movies overview icon available. i dont understand why its removed in that selection anyway.

[Kitekat]

you can check in your movie history

[Anna97]

like terrorsin said, if you want to know how many are missing, you have to count and might make mistakes, because the display is not 100% clear for it doesnt show which movie was done before or after a reset. the weekly movie icon gives you a nice overview thats already available - for some unknown reason its simply gone for the movie selection. that was the point of the addendum, you know?