Manage

In Entertainment Monthly, Idol isn’t the only job types to choose from. The artist ranks have also become more diverse, going from F-rank up to PP5-rank. One contract period goes 5 years and can be renewed.

There are now 50 company levels. One can level up by gaining EPs mainly through concerts and a few through schedules.

Compared to Monthly Idols, where time passed by differently for each grou, groups and artists in Entertainment Monthly will share one timeline and can be managed at the same time, be it producing, training or even schedules.

## Artist

Artist can be recruited as trainees through multiple forms of castings in the shop section. They will have their birth name, nationality, age and gender preset, but now the character have also their own personality which the player can choose from a wide variety of traits. in the beginning each artists will have only one trait, but through Gemstones you can give them three traits each. They will be casted with ability points in vocal, dance, rap, ENT, Acting, Lyricism and Composing and with their main ability set between vocal, dance and rap. They will also have already a certain amount of fans, which will result in their fan rank, and XXX, which can be gained through visiting schedules of different types. Artist also have and collect concept points. Their age can be upward or downward influenced by pills available in the shop.

Artists and trainees can be trained in different abilities to gain ability points. this will help an album to be judged more highly and thus raise completeness and sucess of a comeback. The abilities are ranked the same way as the artists themselves: from F- to PP5, but there is no connection between ability ranking and artist ranking.

Artist have a passion and an HP bar. The HP bar decreases with schedule activities and can be filled up. The passion bar can increase and decrease with certain events. There are also paid activities to increase passion.

* Restaurant (100K$)
* Consulting Room (140K$)
* Gym (160K$)

### Support Items

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### Info

Once you clicked on your artist (group) through the manage window you get an overview of your artist stats Inclouding Name, Total Fan count and Awareness which is important for the sucess of an album. At the bottom is a short overview of the sociology of the fandom: Age stats devided into five agegroups (10's,20's, 30's, 40's and 50's) and gender stats devided into Female and Male.

### Member

The member window shows an overview of the group members including the number and label at the right top. A group can be made up of up to 13 Members and can be either a Girl Group, a Boy Group or a Mixed Group. Once you click onto a member you're directed to their own stats including an overwiev of their fans, their CF/Muse/broadcast history, their profile, Skill overview and relationship overview.

### Manage

In the Manage window theres an overview of the contract including the remaining contract period and the profit sharing numbers. As known a contract lasts 5 years and then has to be renegociated.

Then there's an overview of the fanclub including it's name, lightstick (which can be changed for 100 Gemstones), the official colors (based on the lightstick) and an button to either allow support or not allow support.

## Trainees

main article: Trainees

The developers have said that in Monthly Entertainment there is the concept of public trainee as special management trainee. One can designate up to 10 people, even if they are a trainees. They can join certain broadcasts. If they are popular, even trainees can receive support or advertisements from fans, and if they are underage, they go to school before going to work. Month-end evaluation appear as an event at the end of each month. This is an event that the president can directly participate in. This feature however is not yet public and will release later in the future

Trainee ranks are different from artist ranks. Trainees have less fans than artists of the same rank.

There is no “feed to Idol” option in Entertainment Monthly! This feature originally helped to gain fans fast in the beginning stages of gameplay in Monthly Idol.

Trainees can be trained as well. For a training guide refer to the Training page.

### Artist Type

There are now idols, vocalists, dance singers, rappers, singer-songwriters, bands and trot singers as job functions.

### Groups

If there is a group made of singers only, the group type will be chosen based on the artist’s ability points. The developers had tease that the maximum number if groups will be 8. If one kicks out an Idol from a group, one will have to pay a fine. To add additional members, one will have to pay 100 diamonds for each new member.

#### Position System

For groups with multiple artists one can select their positions. Options for positions vary based on the group type. If an artist holds already the main version of a position, they cannot hold the sub version of that position at the same time and vice versa. Not all positions have to be represented in one group.

##### Idol group

Available positions are center, main vocal, sub vocal, main rap, sub rap, main dancer and sub dancer.

‘One group cannot have multiple centers, there can only be one. They are said to have a maximum of 13 members.

##### Singer grouAvailable positions are main vocal, sub vocal, main rap, sub rap, main dancer, sub dancer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboard and drums.

If an artist holds an instrumental position, they will be playing said instrument on stage even when they hold e.g. a dance position. While vocal singers and singer-songwriters do stand during a performance, dance singers will dance and rappers will work around. They are said to have a maximum of 5 members.

##### Band

Available positions are main vocal, sub vocal, bass, electric guitar, keyboard and drums.

They are said to have a maximum of 5 members.

##### Trott group

Available positions are main vocal, sub vocal, main dancer and sub dancer.

Vocal trott singers will stand while dance trott singers will dance on stage. They are said to have a maximum of 13 members.

### Units

One can create units by combining artists from your entertainment agency. One can think of it as creating a new group with debuted artists.

Based on the release of the album, the unit enters a break after 2 months of activity. If one wants them to continue promoting, please keep releasing albums, otherwise they will become inactive.

### Military Service

Male artists will go to the military once they have reach a certain age. Even if only one member goes to the army, the group will be on hiatus. Thus it will be better to let all male artists of a group go together if possible. Foreign male artists ( as in not Korean) will not serve in the military.

If one wants to activate the rest of the members, one has to create a unit and activate them separately.

### Dating & Interactions

Dating was a highly requested feature for Entertainment Monthly.

When characters on the same floor of a building collide, they interact and talk about their interests. If the interests of the two match well, intimacy rises. Depending on their intimacy, various events will appear. There is also a way to increase intimacy by exchanging gifts.

Relationship changes between artists are visible on the main screen. There are different levels and types of relationships, e.g. unfamiliar person.

## Company

In the company window there's a short overview of your company data inlcuding your appearance (chose at the beginning), CEO name, Company Name and Company Lv. Then it gows on with artist reputation and fan reputation.

### Artist and Fan Reputation

The reputation can increase and decrease.

## Merchendise

One can create and develop merchandise in Entertainment monthly. Developers have said once, that even tho the options are limited now, they want to add more in the future. To obtain merchandise you need to use the shop and wait two weeks for the production to finish. Right now you can only stock 50.000 of each merchandise type in each color. Merchandise can be sold at the MD shop located on the 1st floor of the company or at concerts. The shop will display the merchandise of multiple groups. Fans who purchased the merchandise will wear it during the concert.

Current merchandise options are phone cases, tumblers, dolls, hats, bags and hoodies. They will be available in different colors and one will be able to set the price oneself.

After creating a fan club, the official colors will be set according to the colors of the light stick one has designed. There is no option to choose the colors oneself.

## SNS Function & Fan System

One as the president of the entertainment agency cannot post on the official account directly. It simply functions as a vessel to get fans’ reactions and diamonds. Mentions are posted on the artists accounts when events occur or certain conditions have been met.

### Fan System

Each artist gets 1 SNS fan when they rank up. (You can have up to 3 fans.) They each have their own allegiances. Depending on the artist's event, the fan’s loyalty may go up or down. If their loyalty is low, you will be devastated with a bad event. When the loyalty exceeds a certain point, general fans change jobs to Homema or Named.

Ordinary fans prefer talking to themselves, Hommas posts comments mainly with pictures and Named uploads a lot of support/fundraising/certification/fansite pictures. Many good events can occur depending on how well you treat your fans. For examples fans can place advertisements at bus stops and buses in front of the company.