Confusion of hotel occupancy

[Castille]

I am really confused right now, is this mechanic broken or something?

Some days i can have full occupancy, then without really changing anything, it goes down to 20%? What am i missing?

So i've been rolling steadily around 40% right now, with a maxiumum of 30 guests. The rate is at 80%, which i think is reasonable, no negative reviews for the past 20 days, i have cafés, shops, and anything they could possible mention in their reviews.

And now of a sudden, there was an event, saying a hotel is going to renovate which means that their hotel guests most likely will turn up at my place, great! So i lowered the rates to 70% instead, just in case, expecting myself getting too 100% occupancy, but...it went down to 37% instead.

What on earth am i missing? Either this mechanic is broken or simply illogical. This is not a fun gameplay mechanic or perhaps not balanced atleast. Or could someone more experienced explain how all ties together? Shops, Hotels, Restaurants etc

PS: I play on hard, also the economic growth was "hot, getting hotter"

[axios2006]

Hi,

be sure also that services are ok too.

Noise / smell overlay?

Anyway, there is a little randomness in rooms's occupancy. Have you tried to boost it with an ad campaign?

[Castille]

The noise and smell should not be a problem, i don't see any red factors on my hotel rooms atleast. I did try the ad, lowering the rates and boosting occupacy it said, did not have any effect.

But i'm thinking the changes we do to rates, or random events takes a couple of days to have an effect, as i said increase in occupacy a couple of days after changing things, but it could also be random. It would be great though, getting some knowledge too how big of an effect restaurants and shops have on hotel occupany.

[SomaSim]

This might be something to do with playing on Hard difficulty - we'll check into that and see. It could be that some multipliers and changes are stomping on one another.

[Castille]

Well i "solved" it by always booking some performers and selling tickets at 0$, seems to be able to keep the booking of the rooms at full occupacy when i had 50 rooms. But as soon as i have no one booked, no matter how good reviews and amount of amenities, the amount of booked goes down to maybe 10-12 rooms?

If this is intended, then it's working. But it's a shame other amenities have such a small impact compare to booking a performer.

[axios2006]

As Devs replied, they are verifying if there is something in the algorithm that create this behavior.