losing money faster than I'm making it.

[Max's Guy]

If anyone else is in this situation but has perhaps figured it out, can you share any tips and tricks? to successfully not going bankrupt [not talking about the loans you can take out for 100,000 a piece cause that's just barely keeping yourself floating at this point]

[Nariel]

Same. I didn't have this issue in the demo, but now it seems no matter how quickly I make movies I'm losing money so fast that I can barely keep up. I don't even have that many staff, just the basic numbers required to get the movies done.

[Max's Guy]

I may've figured something out, but would like some more clarity on this... so first time I played [moments after release] I'd go for the best I could find in each field. so 30's or high 20's in rating score for each thing they were coming for. which would give them a salary at around $20-26,000 each. which ofc ate away at my money quickly. This time around for testing purposes I went for a lot lower, so each person would have a lower wage.

I'm hoping that's the way to do it? and then build them up slowly instead of going with something you simply can't afford. Ofc your movies are going to suffer that's the only reason I'm hesitant to actually say this was the intended way from the Devs... even when they were all 30's or high 20's my first two movies were only making $10-$15,000 max.

[Max's Guy]

another idea I had was to not allow any breaks in filming production, leaning heavier on the tycoon aspect of the game, so churn out movies, instead of allowing yourself a breather.. which may not work the way I'm hoping it will.

[PixelCraze]

Hi, thanks for the feedback. We are monitoring how are players doing and adjusting the numbers. What difficulty are you playing on?

[Max's Guy]

Originally posted by PixelCraze:

Hi, thanks for the feedback. We are monitoring how are players doing and adjusting the numbers. What difficulty are you playing on?

I always play games on the easiest to get a handle on them so in this case I'm playing on newbee. Whilst I understand you wouldn't be making tens of thousands for your first movie, with the amount of money that's being drained constantly, I would've expected more than 10,000 to cover until the next movie.

I watched Kanzalone play this when the game first released over on youtube to see if I was doing anything wrong and whilst he was able to have a positive playthrough that was at the expense of having around 4-5 automatic loans, and one loan by choice, not sure what difficulty he was playing on but that was 400,000-500,000 in loans before he was able to put down food trucks.

[Pain]

I played on medium and I have the same problem really. My movies are at max 3 stars total and the best one made 35k. The time it took to make such a movie easily cost me 50k already. Then I also had worse performing films, only grossing 15k.
I am stuck and unable to reach the next producer level, which would give quite a lot of money, but my movies are not even close to the requirement. Also being stuck on two genres is possibly also not helping, but I'm not sure.

[Nariel]

Originally posted by PixelCraze:

Hi, thanks for the feedback. We are monitoring how are players doing and adjusting the numbers. What difficulty are you playing on?

I am playing on Newbie. It seems that the movies make so little money and are quickly pulled from the box office, can't even make new ones fast enough before I am once again taking out another loan to avoid bankruptcy in a spiraling downwards cycle. Movies seemed to make more money and were in the box office for longer in the Demo

[PixelCraze]

We've rebalanced a few things in an update coming up today where we make the newbie and easy difficulty modes easier and less punishing.

[Nariel]

Originally posted by PixelCraze:

We've rebalanced a few things in an update coming up today where we make the newbie and easy difficulty modes easier and less punishing.

Awesome. Thank you for the quick reply and update :D

[Lv1 Magikarp]

I reckon time passing so quickly whilst AI walk so slowly doesn't help matters either when it comes to losing money before you can make it (and the movie getting pulled so fast), paths do help with regards to the AI speed but not so much when they are all just walking aimlessly around the entire map.

[hawksley57]

I am playing on newbie and have 2 crews. This allows me film constantly and i am still going in debt.

[Fr8monkey]

I found once you get to Indie filmmaking, the money troubles go away. Made 1.5 million on first one and it was only 3 star.

[Bugbear]

First of all, I set the salaries to manual. Otherwise they increase by 30% every year (I don't know what the point of that is or whether it will be fixed). Then make the same type of film over and over again so that the writers get good at it and can quickly write 4-4.5 star scripts. And always be up to date with research