Bug ? My games are getting worse and worse with more Information and further progress

[SerMountain]

Basically I make a hit liek these Ratings: 10 10 10 9

Max. 2 times per game. After that all my games are like 4-6 ratings. But I dont know why. I mean I get as many Informations about my genres as possible and my reports are all telling me that my choices were great. I dont understand why I get all these bad ratings. Another issue is that I cant get over 4 stars rating when working with a publisher. Even tho all my Information is right and my choices are great I just get bad ratings. Is it only me getting these weird results ? I thought that maybe the game bugs after the first level or the Information is buggy idk. Please answer if you know what it could be.

Greetings

[~Mystical]

Same with me!!!

[Allanígena]

Things that can have a negative influence on ratings:

• same genre/topic in sequence;
  
• not updating the custom engine with new technologies;
  
• using the same technologies to make games of a certain genre or topic (probably because of the previous option);
  
• not training the staff;
  
• bad management of employees in medium, large or AAA games;
  
• genres that don't do well on the chosen platform.

A good strategy to get high scores is to make sequels of your old games. Whenever you make a sequel using a more advanced engine, and use a good combination at development time, the scores will be excellent.

[SerMountain]

Originally posted by Allanígena:

Things that can have a negative influence on ratings:

• same genre/topic in sequence;
  
• not updating the custom engine with new technologies;
  
• using the same technologies to make games of a certain genre or topic (probably because of the previous option);
  
• not training the staff;
  
• bad management of employees in medium, large or AAA games;
  
• genres that don't do well on the chosen platform.

A good strategy to get high scores is to make sequels of your old games. Whenever you make a sequel using a more advanced engine, and use a good combination at development time, the scores will be excellent.

Thanks for your answer mate.

I actually never create and publish the same genre in a short-term or even produce a sequel with the same engine. I also carefully choose my genres and platforms. I always train my staff and updgrade everything when I have the possibility to do so. The only thing that could be a bit bad in my gameplay is the management of the employees on a medium game. But this shouldn't affect small games. The most things I take into consideration but still, I cant get any good results.

[hunni]

I have the same problem. As longer the playtime as more worst are the ratings i get....

and i m starting to lose possible game reports. tried to make 7 reports in a row. made the first and after that, there were just 2 possible reports left.

the report bug is another gamebreaker!

[KQLYVACBAN]

It seems that this game wants you to get as much employees as you can. I had a game where I only hired 2 employees and they never managed to crank out enough design/tech points. Now I have 60mio dollars and 6 employees and my studio is doing great! Also research Story/Quest/Engine Tech and integrate them in to your new engine as much as you can.

[SerMountain]

I can't really confirm that. I've come to the point where I have the max employees, 1.100 Millions of Cash and my game ratings are still weird. I only have a hit in every 5-7 games. The preferences change even if they are displayed as a positive, like Gameplay or A.I Focus. It shows that they are a positive factor but then suddenly dont give me any points for the rating stars. Sometimes it seems random or not well calculated tbh. I would like to see their code and their rating system...

[KQLYVACBAN]

Originally posted by SerMountain:

I can't really confirm that. I've come to the point where I have the max employees, 1.100 Millions of Cash and my game ratings are still weird. I only have a hit in every 5-7 games. The preferences change even if they are displayed as a positive, like Gameplay or A.I Focus. It shows that they are a positive factor but then suddenly dont give me any points for the rating stars. Sometimes it seems random or not well calculated tbh. I would like to see their code and their rating system...

I have used a guide where it shows how to create games with certain genres and it works pretty well for me. I can safely say that doing it without that guide will most likely result in these bad scores. Some genres like Action and RPG work perfectly together, however if you put them in PC instead of PS2 then it will likely result in a bad score, even the audience change significantly when having another console.