Gameplay

## BASICS:

At it's core, this is really just an **Idle / Clicker** game. You can spam-tap the screen to make things go faster, or you can leave your device open on the app and wait for money to roll in. (Beware of overdraining/overcharging when you do this, as always)

Fun fact: The cosmetic square decorations in your home lobby's color depend on which menu tab you had open last.

## QUESTS:

These are the in-game quests that appear at the bottom of the screen, that give you rewards for completing them. They can be helpful if you do not know what to do. Completing quests gives you:

* Cash/Money (typical of Level-Up quests)
* Fans (Typical of Getting More Fans quests)
* Diamonds (Typical of Advancing/Casting More Artists quests)

## CEO:

This section is represented by a person icon in a tie in the menu. It:

* Keeps track of your idle earning money rate & your earn money per touch rate.
* Allows you to have the option to change company name for 30 diamonds.
* Allows you to level up your level to increase idle & tap money rates.
* Keeps track of your level.
* Keeps track of your quests & your money per touch multiplier.
* Allows you to earn money through the Tap Zone provided.

The quests increase your "earn money per touch" rate compared to your idle money rate by percentages. The minimum percentage you can have is 0%, and the maximum you can have is 500%.

## COMPANY:

This section is represented by a building with an UP arrow. It allows you to unlock and upgrade different parts of your entertainment company building, and keeps track of what level they are at. It is key to unlocking more features of the game. There are 9 possible upgrade sections:

* **Company Upgrade** (Company [x level] grade): *"Increase the building level, you can upgrade various buildings."* {MAX LEVEL: 17}
* **Vocal Room** (Artist: [x level]): *"Able to recruit artists with the following skills: I'm a Singer, Top Artists, Brilliant Talent"* {MAX LEVEL: 17}
* **Dance Practice Room** (Artist: [x level]): *"Able to recruit artists with the following skills: Dance Machine, Group Friendly"* {MAX LEVEL: 17}
* **Acting Practice Room** (Artist: [x level]): *"Able to recruit artists with the following skills: Adlib, Outstanding Performance, To The Core"* {MAX LEVEL: 17}
* Recording Room (Group music production slot extension): *"Expands the slots of artists that can participate in the album production required for group activities."* {MAX LEVEL: 2}
* **Stylist Department** (Broadcasting of music and radio): *"Artists will be able to appear on music broadcasts and radio broadcasts of entertainment activities."* {MAX LEVEL: 3}
* **Dance Team** (Expansion of small and medium venues): *"A small and medium-sized performance hall slot for entertainment activities is opened."* {MAX LEVEL: 3}
* **Public Relations Department** (Entertainment, drama, movie extension): *"Artists will be able to appear in entertainments, dramas, and movies of entertainment activities."* {MAX LEVEL: 4}
* **Performance Support Department** (Concert, national tour, world tour extension): *"It will be able to perform concert of entertainment activity, national tour, world tour"* {MAX LEVEL: 4}

## ARTIST:

This section is represented by a star symbol that has the word "STAR" on it. Here you can:

* View all your signed and unsigned artists
* Sort by your artists' main talents (I'm a Singer, Dance Machine, etc) to view them
* View their main talents, levels, promotion grades, promotion items, Charm, Fan bar fullness, and Profits per second

Upon tapping into a selected artist, you can:

* Rename them for 10 gems
* View what order they were signed in (Your 1st artist, etc)
* Assign clothing items for their Promotion & do requests to get them from the Request Shortcut upon tapping the item
* Re-contract artists to increase their grade upon reaching level 100 **(NOTE: GRADE WON'T INCREASE AFTER RE-CONTRACTING IF YOU DON'T PROMOTE THEM THE NECCESSARY 5 TIMES FOR EACH GRADE-UP.)**
* View their idol level, all 4 talent levels, and *level those up*
* Check how much their Charm multiplier influences their profit
* View exactly how many fans they have and their exact fanbase limit
* Take a screenshot of the character profile and send it to social media with the link to the game on Google Play Store by tapping the camera icon
* View character profile & little details about them by tapping the "Profile" label with 3 star symbols & the word "STAR" on it

## ENTERTAINMENT:

This section is represented by a TV with a "Play" button on it. Here, you send your artists to gain fans by partaking in entertainment activities, and eventually unlock more and more activities and slots as you play and grow your company. Any activity is only possible with one or more artists participating. You will receive a bonus when you send artists with the skill "Top Artists" to participate here.

### General Information:

* You can level up all activities to their max level of 100. More upgrades = more money required.
* The level-up bar shows how much it will add onto the Charm x Leveled Money counter when you level it up.
* You receive income every time an activity is completed by the timer.
* Income from activity completion. is calculated by the **Charm** multiplied by **the money that comes from how much you leveled up the activity**, as well as the added percentage of the Profit, which is calculated by the *collective Skill bonuses each character may have*.
* Do not remove all artists from an activity when you are in the middle of it.
* **Due to the harsh Charm scaling, I do not recommend buying the 3rd slots for the last 3 activities since likely you will not get to use them.**

### Specific Activity Information:

Specific information for each individual activity, going off in-game order of unlocking.

*Music Broadcasting Activities:*

* Time: 00:00:30
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 2 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 5~15
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 1
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 0
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 5 Diamonds

*Radio Guest Appearance:*

* Time: 00:00:45
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 2 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 10~30
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 60
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 0
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 10 Diamonds

*Street Stage Performance:*

* Time: 00:02:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 4 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 20~60
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 120
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 0
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 15 Diamonds

*Participation in Performance Event:*

* Time: 00:04:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 4 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 50~160
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 300
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 0
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 20 Diamonds

*Performing Arts Program:*

* Time: 00:08:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 6 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 100~240
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 600
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 0
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 25 Diamonds

*Drama Appearance:*

* Time: 00:16:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 6 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 220~480
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 1200
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 1000
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 30 Diamonds

*Movie Appearance:*

* Time: 00:20:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 8 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 460~920
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 2400
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 5000
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 35 Diamonds

*Concert Progress:*

* Time: 00:40:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 8 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 920~1800
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 3600
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 10,000
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 40 Diamonds

*National Tour Progress:*

* Time: 01:30:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 10 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 1800~3600
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 4800
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 20,000
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 45 Diamonds

*World Tour Progress:*

* Time: 02:00:00
* Auto-replay 20 times cost: 10 Diamonds
* Fans acquired: 2400~5400
* Charm Minimum Requirement: 6000
* Fans Minimum Requirement: 40,000
* 3rd Slot Unlock Price: 50 Diamonds

## REQUEST:

This section is represented by an exclamation mark. Here, you can send your idols to do events at the "request" of people within the PocketIdol world. These requests will give you Clothing Items. Note that I may have missed some specific details.

[CLICK FOR LIST OF ALL CLOTHING ITEMS]

The requests are divided into three sections: Beginner Request, Intermediate Request, and Advanced Request.

### About Request Tiers:

* You need to be *CEO level* 100 and up to unlock Intermediate and 200 and up to unlock Advanced requests.
* Beginner Requests have a 0 minimum fan requirement for D Rank Requests.
* Beginner Requests have a 200~500 minimum fan requirement for C Rank Requests.
* Intermediate Requests have a 1200~5000 minimum fan requirement for B Rank Requests.
* Intermediate Requests have a 12,000 minimum fan requirement for A Rank Requests.
* Advanced Requests have a 22,000~30,000 minimum fan requirement for S Rank Requests. (Only option)

### Upon Request Success:

* You can get clothing items, money, and fans.
* Beginner requests give under 1,000,000 cash, from 5 to 30 fans, and D Rank to C Rank items.
* Intermediate Requests give 1,440,000~5,160,000 cash, from 100 to 450 fans, and B rank to A rank items.
* Advanced Requests give 10,500,000~16,200,000 cash, from 680 to 4200 fans, and A to S rank items.

### Upon Request Failure:

* CEO shows his sad/failure sprite and says *"Due to the failure of this request, some fans have left... You need to grow artists further. You might want to check the skills and charm of the artists."*
* All participating idols lose a certain amount of fans depending on how difficult the request was. It can be -13 fans for a beginner request, or
* You will not acquire the clothing items.
* You will not acquire money.
* However, the request *does not disappear.*

### Building Used?:

* *"You can get a bonus on your compensation during building management."*
* If you own the building that the request uses, you can get a revenue bonus upon the successful completion of a request. This bonus percent varies.
* This function links to **Building.**

### Refreshing Requests?:

* The countdown for all requests to refresh is 5 minutes.
* You can also manually refresh it immediately with 10 gems. (I don't recommend this, it's a waste of gems.)

### Tips & Tricks:

* You don't have to aim for the lowest skill penalty percentage, you should be aiming for **probability success percentage to be over 100%.** This is because:
* If your probability of success is over 100%, no matter how much the skill penalty percentage is, you are **guaranteed to be successful.**
* You can even clear a request without using the required skill if your idols are built up enough.
* The higher you fill up or pass the Required Charm in the heart counter, the better.
* Some easier stages can be solo-ed with your most powerful idol, although for advanced stages I recommend using all 4 slots.
* I don't recommend to bet on any chance lower than approximately 65% success.

## GROUP:

This section, represented by the Group Friendly icon, is where you can form groups and sell albums for revenue. You can form up to 4 individual groups. You will receive bonus revenue if you place artists with the skill "Group Friendly" into groups.

**General Information:**

* You need 2 or more artists to form a group.
* You level up, start making records, or disband your group by tapping on it.
* You can rename your group for 30 diamonds.
* Groups have maximum fanbase limits.
* *[I do not know what R Chart Rank is or how Top Rank is determined, or how the math calculations here work.]*
* Album Sales Volume records how many albums your group sold in total.
* Cumulative Sales Revenue is how much money you received after making and selling is done.
* Album making takes **1 minute,** and selling & calculating revenue takes **5 minutes.**
* With every sales volume compiled, a member of the group gains more fans.

**Technicals:**

* All members must have the label "*READY*" underneath them to start making records.
* If you remove a member from a group because you can't start record making without every member being free, you will lose fans for both the group and the artist (although moreso for the group), it will halt album making immediately, and it will also affect the group popularity. However, if you've already committed to putting a member into entertainment or a building, you have no choice but to accept this penalty.
* You can hire artists within your group (no extra cost), artists that you have already casted in your company *that are not in your group and are not occupied with other activities* (+50% cost to hire), or artists outside of your company (requires diamonds) to help with the album.
* The album has 4 sections that you can hire help with: Production, Choreography, Lyrics, Composition
* *Artists that are already active someplace else (entertainment, building) cannot help your group make an album.*
* If an artist in another group is already helping a certain group, that counts as being busy and you cannot make an album with that group. For example, if I use Dr. Bob from Group 3 to help Group 2, I cannot do anything with Group 3 as it is counted as not all members being active despite having the "READY" label. **However, this has proved to be inconsistent and I am unsure of the specific criteria or if it is a bug.**
* The more people help out in the album making process, the more sales and revenue it will make.

## BUILDING:

This section, represented by a cluster of tall buildings, is where you buy, manage, and upgrade buildings. You will receive bonus revenue if you have artists that have the special skill "To The Core" residing in these buildings. You can earn revenue by having artists registered with buildings.

* Buildings you do not own will be grayed out, on the lowest line labeled "NONE".
* Buildings you own that are inactive due to no one residing in either of the two slots, will be white, on the middle line labeled "INACTIVE".
* Buildings you own that are active and have at least one person residing there, will be a light red on the highest line labeled "ACTIVE".
* Revenue is influenced by how powerful your artists residing in the buildings are, their To The Core bonus, and how expensive the buildings were to get.

Each building further on in the line will gain you more revenue. Pricier buildings = More money. The order ingame is:

* Small Venue *(Small Stage)*
* Large Venue *(Big Stage)*
* Luxury Accommodation *(High Class)*
* Concert Hall *(Concert Hall)*
* Dedicated Aircraft *(Private Airplane)*
* Asia Branch *(Asia)*
* European Branch *(Europe)*
* US Branch *(America)*

This function links to **Requests.**

* *"You can get a bonus on your compensation during building management."*
* If you own the building that the request uses, you can get a revenue bonus upon the successful completion of a request. This bonus percent varies.

## PRODUCTION:

This section, represented by a loudspeaker with a P on it, has been grayed out for as long as I can remember. When tapped, it says "Coming soon!! Update is being prepared." However, it will not be getting any updates, because the game has been abandoned. Therefore, no one knows what it does.