Version 0.39
This update allows you to upgrade season themes, improving their bonuses further! It also adds the production screen, which includes placeholder elements for future functionality but also allows you to increase production time of episodes.
- Season Themes now have three levels (Minor, Major and Central). When activated initially a theme will be minor, from episode 4 onwards players can upgrade minor themes to major and from episode 7 onwards players can upgrade major to central. The bonus available from a season theme will improve as it is upgraded to higher levels, but so will the cost of doing so.
- The Production Screen has been added. Many elements are placeholder for now as other functionality needs to be added (episode types, different sets) but the screen allows you to do one very important thing - increase the production time of an episode! This lets you play more powerful scene cards together in the same script, resulting in better scripts and better episodes. Maximum production time starts at 10 as before but every 5 studio levels the maximum increases by one.
- Changed the logic for when the hire staff sidebar appears so it isn't still there after the main staff screen is closed.
- Added Production Cost to the Episode Complete screen.
- Hopefully a fix for the long running lead writer crash, which I think was caused when scripts got above 30 points in a stat and there was no percentage chance of success to reference beyond that point.
- Fixed Heroic theme doubling character popularity increases (leftover mistake from the last build, Heroic now does something different and this effect should have been removed).
Functionality
- Season Themes now have three levels (Minor, Major and Central). When activated initially a theme will be minor, from episode 4 onwards players can upgrade minor themes to major and from episode 7 onwards players can upgrade major to central. The bonus available from a season theme will improve as it is upgraded to higher levels, but so will the cost of doing so.
- The Production Screen has been added. Many elements are placeholder for now as other functionality needs to be added (episode types, different sets) but the screen allows you to do one very important thing - increase the production time of an episode! This lets you play more powerful scene cards together in the same script, resulting in better scripts and better episodes. Maximum production time starts at 10 as before but every 5 studio levels the maximum increases by one.
UI
- Changed the logic for when the hire staff sidebar appears so it isn't still there after the main staff screen is closed.
- Added Production Cost to the Episode Complete screen.
Bug Fixes
- Hopefully a fix for the long running lead writer crash, which I think was caused when scripts got above 30 points in a stat and there was no percentage chance of success to reference beyond that point.
- Fixed Heroic theme doubling character popularity increases (leftover mistake from the last build, Heroic now does something different and this effect should have been removed).