BodhiWolff
11-20-2007, 06:25 PM
Okay, so while doing Band World Tour, my friends and I are starting to run into a bit of a wall. Not much of a wall, but we are starting to get to that point where we want to maximize our potential, instead of simply succeeding at every challenge.
So, when our friends left for the night, my wife and I kept playing. We were getting tired, but we'd *just* unlocked our jet, took a look at the overseas venues, and decided to do one final song -- we tried "Don't Fear the Reaper" 'cause it is a cool song, promising ourselves it'd be the last song of the night. Sure enough, sight-reading it on the same levels we'd been playing all night turned out to be the death of us, (plus we were tired, our vision was blurry by this point, but we definitely messed up). We failed out, lost 8000 fans, and took the hit. We closed up shop for the night.
***Player Difficulty Level***
When some newbie friends are logged on at "easy" difficulty, you're limited in the number of fans you can gain. The same goes for "medium", and I assume for "hard" as well. So long as *somebody* is playing at a low setting, that sets the low-level for the bar with regards to how many fans your band can gain.
However, how does the difficulty rating per person relate to ...
a) how many stars your band gains for a performance?
b) how many fans your band gains?
Also, how does your stars/fans increase calculation work? Is it based on your score, or just on the "star rating" of the performance (3-star, 4-star, or 5-star)? If this is the case, is there any real benefit (other than fun and bragging rights) to playing at "hard" when there is somebody else in the group playing at "medium"?
Do you gain access to the challenges (example 4xMoney if you get a good rating, but no money if you blow it) only if somebody is playing at a higher difficulty rating?
Just what is the benefit, then?
'Cause frankly, it might just be worth it to constantly be 5-starring those songs at a lower difficulty, if that is all that the calculation is based on?
Is there a benefit to going back and re-doing those challenges that we completed with our friends playing on "easy", so that we can get a "copper" or "silver" check mark? Will that gain us more stars, or more fans?
***Song Difficulty Rating***
What about song difficulty? Some songs are newbie songs, and some are more difficult. When it comes to the "make your own setlist" challenges, is there any benefit from choosing a more difficult song (higher up on the sets)? Will it give you more fans/stars for your band?
Or again, is it more efficient (if perhaps more boring) to simply play multiple sets of Nirvana and Weezer in order to just make sure that you do well?
Or, does the calculation take into account that these are newbie songs, and you eventually start getting penalized for that?
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Does anybody have any resources, references, hints, guesses, or just general information to pass on?
So, when our friends left for the night, my wife and I kept playing. We were getting tired, but we'd *just* unlocked our jet, took a look at the overseas venues, and decided to do one final song -- we tried "Don't Fear the Reaper" 'cause it is a cool song, promising ourselves it'd be the last song of the night. Sure enough, sight-reading it on the same levels we'd been playing all night turned out to be the death of us, (plus we were tired, our vision was blurry by this point, but we definitely messed up). We failed out, lost 8000 fans, and took the hit. We closed up shop for the night.
***Player Difficulty Level***
When some newbie friends are logged on at "easy" difficulty, you're limited in the number of fans you can gain. The same goes for "medium", and I assume for "hard" as well. So long as *somebody* is playing at a low setting, that sets the low-level for the bar with regards to how many fans your band can gain.
However, how does the difficulty rating per person relate to ...
a) how many stars your band gains for a performance?
b) how many fans your band gains?
Also, how does your stars/fans increase calculation work? Is it based on your score, or just on the "star rating" of the performance (3-star, 4-star, or 5-star)? If this is the case, is there any real benefit (other than fun and bragging rights) to playing at "hard" when there is somebody else in the group playing at "medium"?
Do you gain access to the challenges (example 4xMoney if you get a good rating, but no money if you blow it) only if somebody is playing at a higher difficulty rating?
Just what is the benefit, then?
'Cause frankly, it might just be worth it to constantly be 5-starring those songs at a lower difficulty, if that is all that the calculation is based on?
Is there a benefit to going back and re-doing those challenges that we completed with our friends playing on "easy", so that we can get a "copper" or "silver" check mark? Will that gain us more stars, or more fans?
***Song Difficulty Rating***
What about song difficulty? Some songs are newbie songs, and some are more difficult. When it comes to the "make your own setlist" challenges, is there any benefit from choosing a more difficult song (higher up on the sets)? Will it give you more fans/stars for your band?
Or again, is it more efficient (if perhaps more boring) to simply play multiple sets of Nirvana and Weezer in order to just make sure that you do well?
Or, does the calculation take into account that these are newbie songs, and you eventually start getting penalized for that?
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Does anybody have any resources, references, hints, guesses, or just general information to pass on?
