Total number of fans in BWT

[echelonx]

Has anyone heard any estimates about how many fans you'll have if you complete BWT on expert? That's every setlist in every venue in every city once through. I'm curious if it's around 50 million, or closer to 100 million, or 200...

Total number of stars, or songs, or venues are all easy to calculate, but I'm curious about fans. Obviously you get less starting off, then it really picks up speed after the first million. Does it keep the same pace from then on and if so how far til "the end?"

[gs shyner]

My friend and I are getting close to completing the BWT.
Here's our take on scoring and fans. (let me digress a bit)

We started with me on Bass (Med then Hard) and now we've been playing our world tour with me on guitar Expert since March. I have only GGHT expert guitar to complete but just can't do it. (I'm 46 yrs old, fingers just aren't fast enough and never REALLY played guitar.)
He started on Guitar Med and had some difficulty at the late Hard career and mid Expert career but was accomplished enough to go on the Bass at Expert.

So...
we've noticed that with TWO PLAYERS...
Fans are based on Venue and # of STARS.
(don't know if difficulty level plays a factor)
In the Arena venues at EXPERT:
3 stars yields about 700-900K fans
4 stars yields about 900-1000K fans
5 stars yields about 1200K fans.
expect 1/2 the fans at the Middle venue and 1/4 the fans at the initial venues

e.g: single song in an Arena venue - Foreplay/Long time (we had previously done on EXPERT and 3 stars. Don't remember the fans.)
We did it again on Expert. Got the "CHANCE" that if we average 4 or more stars we'll get double the fans (we love that one cause we can usually do it!). Played, got @4.5ish Stars and got 1.5+Mill fans.
so figure we got the difference in fans from the first stars to these stars X 2.

A large setlist DOES NOT yield more fans (you do get more money but hey, this is about the fans !)
How well you score stars is how you get fans in setlists.
If you do a 3 setlist and score 3.5S, 4S, 4.5S then you get an average of 4 stars so be aware of the this when choosing to accept "reward chances".
(don't know if a GOLD Star = 6 stars for using in average).
We started on expert averaging about 3 to 4 stars but now average about
4-4.5 and we are on a pace to finish every venue we can at expert with about 70-80 million fans. We are resigned to the fact that any venue with GGHT will have to be accomplished on Hard difficulty as we've only gotten about 70-80% through Expert GGHT on an awesome night.


Scoring seems based on ability to keep 4x/6x streaks going and overdrive usage.
(If you can play at EXPERT and get near perfect then obviously Expert has more notes therefore more scoring. But notice that some high scores on the leaderboard are done on Hard/Med.
We also surmise that the # of people in the band and their Level account for those super high scores. Our best expert Gold star score is paltry compared to some other bands.


My take, please add or correct as necessary.