Rising Star 2 News

2.26.206 - June 18, 2021
BUG FIXES:
• Fixed bug where the new "Auto-Discover Locations" option wouldn't work unless you unchecked and re-checked it after launching the game each time.
• Fixed bug that prevented entering small venues when you have a custom band t-shirt design that has 0 distributed.
• Fixed pathfinding bug from Duluth, MN area to nearby areas west of that, which were resulting in travel times that were longer than intended.
• Fixed bug that was preventing contract reputation value from saving if greater than 0, making it reset to 0 when reloading the game. This negatively affected your chances for getting recording contracts.
• Fixed bug that was miscalculating your band's average popularity per city in a given region so that it was lower than it should be. This negatively affected your chances for getting recording contracts.
• Fixed bug in photo studio that wasn't properly updating musician controls when moving them to different spots.
• Fixed issue where you could click wall items in homes, hotels/motels, and art galleries if they were behind the foreground UI elements, making the UI elements unresponsive.
MISCELLANEOUS:
• Changed popularity display during gigs to show the regional total instead of world total. For example it is now (city popularity / region popularity) instead of (city popularity / world popularity) since world popularity total isn't really used for anything.
• Changed patron names to be two columns instead of one on the "About" dialog.

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2.22.201 (on pre-live since May 21, 2021)
BUG FIXES:
• Song popularity from gigs wasn't raising fractionally as intended, and was only raising if it went up by at least 1. Now you will see when song popularity raises at gigs whenever the fractional amount finally exceeds the next whole number, as intended.
• Fixed bug that was preventing players from deleting their uploaded user-generated content from the server, resulting in a lot of bad or duplicate content that couldn't get deleted.
MISCELLANEOUS:
• Adjustments to song hit potential calculations, so that there is more variety. Song quality now slightly affects the chance of having high hit potential.
• It's important to note that song quality is (and always has been) a factor in how MUCH hit potential a song has if it is deemed to have hit potential.
• Maximum song popularity is now limited by the song's hit potential, so you will no longer have an album full of 100 popularity songs that aren't considered hits. This will create more variety and make actual hit songs stand out more.
• Contract offers now include small labels even if the band is overqualified, just in case the player only wants small contracts.

2.22.202 (on pre-live since May 20, 2021)
BUG FIXES:
• The new song popularity limit was causing negative happiness at gigs if you played songs that had popularity already exceeding the new limits. I've changed it so that happiness isn't affected negatively this way.
• Fixed sorting on the CD creation screen, for Title, Quality, and Recording.
MISCELLANEOUS:
• Song popularity is now tracked pre-region instead of globally. Songs from before this change will have the current popularity value applied to both regions.
• Old songs previous to the popularity limit are grandfathered so their excessive popularity isn't affected, mainly because I know that some people will be very disappointed to take away what was already earned in existing games.

2.22.200 - May 20, 2021
BUG FIXES:
• Fixed Shady Award nomination bug that resulted in several false nominations with little chance of actually winning.
• When a female is wearing a coat when trying on the "Casual Coat" at a clothing store, automatically put on a bra if the character wasn't wearing a shirt or bra underneath the coat.
• Automatically hide bras if wearing a shirt or dress, so you don't have to manually take off the bra to avoid seeing the straps.