The (economics in the) GAME sucks, a lot.

[Eldelgame]

This game is extremely hard even in the easiest levels.
The economy crash all time. The game is only letting you make a movie at time. Still it keeps just asking for loans, everytime. The ratings of the movies are very low.

Impossible to know a good set up for movies:

It is impossible to know the perfect or correct set up for each kind of movie, even if you make one good, you cannot keep it as a remember. It could be nice if there is a rememinder button or somekind of help that helps you decide.
I can get 4 stars scripts. But then when it comes to production it just get 3 stars or even less, due to the set up. As I said, a movie that should have a rating of 6 ends with a rating of 4. It should be nice to have some help, or a recomended button or some kind of hint.

Workers doesn't go where they need:

The workers doesn't go to the place they need. Some does like marketing workers or scientifics once you already have set one to an investigation. But for example post production you need to drag them there.

Not balanced:

Also, marketing and laboratories came at the very beginning of the game, which is a real waste and expense. They should come quite later in the middle game, or start the game a bit back in time, maybe in the 50's. So by the time of 70's you already have developed what you need. When you come from the small closed scenario to the medium one, the price is really high. How can it just come from 25 000 to 600000 for a building that is just only the double of the first one? It is more economic to put a lot of smallish ones!

Economics:

It is not normal that after 5 years the debt is 5 million... That is insane bad! Besides, a movie is only on release for 2 or 4 weeks then it go to the file storage, usually not getting enought income.

You cannot sell unused scripts for a bit of money or getting other ways of getting some passive money. I remember in the game of The Movies when the movies was good it was on release for months and years, getting a lot of income.

You neither can set the crew or actors salary. Which can be good you could at the begining.

Initial yard:

The initial yard of the game is pretty small, and the building are very big. Expanding it is quite expensive especially at the begining.

No chance to choose what kind of artist do you need:

The game forces to make casting, but i keep geeting very low rated actors and actresses thant only work as extra, when you need some director, actor or autor, the game doesn't let you set that you only need those. Could be nice to have a button to decide that only people with skill in autor or director came to casting. Or make individual casting offices for each type.

The same happens with other places that need more than one kind of workers, such the Postproduction offices or movie crew. When you need one kind of workert the game keep you sending the other kind.... It is quite annoying.

Also, for the artist in the casting office, impossible to know their skills in the themes until they are already hired. If you need an actor for comedy you can't know until you hire, it could be nice to have some button or something to decide the kind of workers and a little influence in their skills, or at least knowing them before hiring.

Training:

The training of actors, directors and autors is quite useless, you can only train one at once in each scenario, and they stay training for few time, so the increase in the skill is insignificant, really low. You need to expend months of training to keep them have a little skill. Also, imposible to train other kind of workers in theur skills. Crew members, postproduction, etc only get skill points when they are working. Also some scenarios doesn't allow training.

Objects:

The buildings keep so much place and the objects like benches or trees only can be place out of the building area, which are sometimes quite meters away. It would be nice to put some lights at the entrance of a building but the game doesn't allow you do it.

Movies in "the cinema".

Still your computer will get plenty of the data of every movie of every game that you make, as there is any button to deleted the data of the movies that have been done from the game.

Autosave.

There ain't options to configure an autosave or disabled it. It autosaves after each movie release or after each quarter of year.

Still even after few updates that I haven't notice any change in the game.
The game still sucks. I tried to watch in Youtube some one playing it.
Guess what... No one plays this more than one simple video, just to show it around...
Why they can't get to the end of the game? Because it is impossible.

[mike242]

You buy early access games before? Maybe wait until after early access. Or just leave suggestions and understand that's what early access is for.

[PixelCraze]

Hi, thanks for the feedback. We are aware that the game feels difficult to some players and we are always monitoring feedback and adjusting accordingly. So there are some changes coming up before the full release.

However the game is intentionally difficult and there is a good reason for that. In any tycoon game, once the player has the money solved, the challenge is gone and the game becomes boring. We love tycoons and have played them for decades and regardless of theme or gameplay mechanics, all tycoons have this issue. Once you solve the money, the game is no longer fun.
At the same time it is difficult to make the economy in such a way that it's balanced at the beginning counting single dollars, through mid game with movies making hundreds of mil to end game where movies make billions. Which is why the cost progression is not linear, because the income from movies also isn't. To address some of your points:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

The game is only letting you make a movie at time.

You can make more movies at a time, either from unlocking the production office level 2 or from just building more of the level 1 buildings.

The priorities setup have hints in production offices starting from level 2. We have some ideas how to improve this game mechanic, but we'd also like to hear some interesting suggestions from the players to weigh all options first.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

The workers doesn't go to the place they need. Some does like marketing workers or scientifics once you already have set one to an investigation. But for example post production you need to drag them there.

Workers can't decide the production for you, that's up to you to decide which people go where. Especially once your studio gets bigger and you make more movies at the same time.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

Also, marketing and laboratories came at the very beginning of the game, which is a real waste and expense.

Don't spend too much on it early on then. There is a mechanic in the game to make it optional. Marketing is at your discretion and technology doesn't need to be researched, it can be bought. If you want to be the best, than the research costs a lot. But if you don't research, you can still buy the technology a bit later on from a comptetitor for significantly less.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

It is not normal that after 5 years the debt is 5 million... That is insane bad! Besides, a movie is only on release for 2 or 4 weeks then it go to the file storage, usually not getting enought income.

You start the game with a loan and if your studio is doing well, by the 5 year mark you can be debt free.
The initial movie sizes are indeed not going to be screened for long. You need to move into bigger productions to make more money.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

You cannot sell unused scripts for a bit of money or getting other ways of getting some passive money. I remember in the game of The Movies when the movies was good it was on release for months and years, getting a lot of income.

Selling scripts and stuff is something we have planned for a future content expansion. Indeed a bigger, better movie generates income much longer.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

You neither can set the crew or actors salary. Which can be good you could at the begining.

You can. In the financial overview of your studio.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

The initial yard of the game is pretty small, and the building are very big. Expanding it is quite expensive especially at the begining.

It is big enough to fit everything you need early on and you can expand at your own pace with varios lot sizes.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

No chance to choose what kind of artist do you need:

The game forces to make casting, but i keep geeting very low rated actors and actresses thant only work as extra, when you need some director, actor or autor, the game doesn't let you set that you only need those. Could be nice to have a button to decide that only people with skill in autor or director came to casting. Or make individual casting offices for each type.

The same happens with other places that need more than one kind of workers, such the Postproduction offices or movie crew. When you need one kind of workert the game keep you sending the other kind.... It is quite annoying.

We hear this a lot recently and we agree. We'll definetly add a new mechanic to be able to search for specific roles.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

Objects:

The buildings keep so much place and the objects like benches or trees only can be place out of the building area, which are sometimes quite meters away. It would be nice to put some lights at the entrance of a building but the game doesn't allow you do it.

That is also something we are aware of and an improvement to this is in development. The first big update after the upcoming 2.0 release will make construction less restrictive.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

Still your computer will get plenty of the data of every movie of every game that you make, as there is any button to deleted the data of the movies that have been done from the game.

We'll add the button just for you but there is really no benefit to it. The game currently contains about 730 movies. They take up about 45mb. That's about 0.2% of the games current install size. If you'd make over 7000 movies, that would be still less than 2% of the game install size.
You can check in the game installation folder, it's the MovieDatabase folder. The Cinema corresponds to the "FinishedMovies" folder.


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[Lonesomepoet]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Eldelgame:

Objects:

The buildings keep so much place and the objects like benches or trees only can be place out of the building area, which are sometimes quite meters away. It would be nice to put some lights at the entrance of a building but the game doesn't allow you do it.

Something I've been doing to ease this issue for now is place 2wide pavement well ahead of placing buildings and place a bench,square garden,and recycle bin every so many squares along the pavement with the occasional training mat . Its not a perfect fix but it does help

[Eldelgame]

It would be nice at least taht you can set where to autosave or disable it... it is okay, but having 4 saves of same game? Or a save after every movie... I think it can be good that the players can set it...

[TK-421]

I think the economy needs some work, the costs spiral out of control even if personnel don't increase and automatic salary is disabled, this compounded with a mandatory 100k loan means the interest out paces you. If you can just keep borrowing then it makes the economy meaningless.