Rising Star 2 News

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The full change list:

• Added map editor to user-generated content options. Allows adding cities to existing maps.
• Added Canada to the U.S. map.
• Added ability to import, export, and delete photos in the photo album.
• Changed "Concert Guide" to "City Guide" and added jobs to it.
• Renamed "Home Sweet Home" art to "Wood Home Sweet Home" and added new "Home Sweet Home" art which is made of metal. The original "Home Sweet Home" art was mis-named in the new data format from the UGC update, so people that had previously bought it were getting the warning about missing content.
• When pressing return from one of the UGC filter text boxes, the list now properly reverts to viewing page 1 instead of defaulting to whatever page it was on before the search.
• Fixed black wall art in motel rooms.
• Fixed vertical spacing issue on song info screen when 4 songwriters, which was pushing the song link button down too far.
• Don't show song popularity gain in gig results if the popularity is already at 100.

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This update introduces the "User-Generated Content" feature for gallery/home art, and some bug fixes.

The full change list:
• Added user-generated content system, to upload & download player-generated content.
• Added ability for players to add gallery art images using the user-generated content system.
• Changed the amount of happiness & inspiration gained from buying art so that it's variable between 10-20, depending on price.
• Fixed bug where the manager's "minimum venue capacity" for booking local gigs wasn't being saved.
• Attempted fix for van appearing sunk into the ground when exiting a location. (Will need player verification since it never happens for me.)
• Fixed position of keyboard player when there is no drummer in the smallest venue size (was in the back wall).
• Fixed bug where typing X in a banner or CD design text element would kick you back out to the street.
• Fixed spelling of Tucson, AZ.
• Start counting the number of times each song has been played or practiced. This value is shown on the song details screen. An estimated value calculation is made for songs written before this update.
• When lowering play skill on songs that haven't been played in a while, make the minimum based on how many times the song has been played.
• Fixed stat value text wrapping issue on very large numbers.

Thank you to the players that sent me their save game files to investigate issues they've experienced. I was able to fix a couple of issues in this update.

1. Setting Greensboro, North Carolina as the tour start city would result in eventual crashes.
2. Rarely, somehow the manager associated with a recording contract would get disassociated, so the game would crash when trying to pay the (missing) manager for CD sales royalties.

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This update includes several nice quality-of-life enhancements, a couple of new minor features, and some bug fixes.

The full change list:
• Added MP3 support for external soundtrack songs.
• Added ability to link game songs to external sound files. When including songs with external sound links in a gig set list, one of them is chosen at random to play during the gig.
• Added gig set list recent history saving, and ability to choose from recent set lists.
• Allow forcing a guitar, bass, or drums to be used for performing, regardless of the Stage Presence bonus.
• Pressing X in most locations will now immediately exit you back to the van from any screen. Not available in gigs, while recording, and at photo studios (due to confirmation).
• Fixed bug in banner/CD designer that wouldn't let you re-save an existing design after recalling and making changes.
• Fixed issue where the radio announcer's voice was still heard while busking.
• Fixed glitch where clicking the same song sorting header multiple times could result in different secondary sorting.
• Fixed glitch that would make banners appear as plain black during some gigs.
• Adjusted calculations that reduce audience attendance by recent audience attendance counts, so that more people show up for gigs, despite playing in front of a lot of people in the same city recently. Avoid 0 attendance gigs.
• Added logging to troubleshoot false van rollover detection when starting city travel from within home.
• Make sure gig attendance from band with relationships counts toward the total audience.
• Various other small bug fixes.