How do fan opinions work?

[Sudo]

Like how do I increase it, what are the positive or negative effects etc?

[LordSith]

I'm asking myself the same question exactly. And I played the game for 50 hours without knowing ^^'.

[Sudo]

From looking through my idols page I think overall fan opinion is based on the average of fan opinions for each idol. However I'm not entirely sure how much of an effect things like singles, concert ticket prices, have an effect on fan opinion, and how important it is in the game. Also have you observed if fan opinion is affected by releasing a single with high fan satisfaction vs one with low?

[LordSith]

No the game is not enough user friendly for me to check that kind of thing.

I did notice my casual males having 39% in general, while the female hardcore are at 75% opinion, but i do not even understand why it went so in the first place, since i try to go with many styles cd, 4 per month, 1 from each group and sub-group.

[mareo2]

When I manage to keep most of my fan base happy single sales and new fans noticeable increase. How much depends heavily on how good are the stats of the Idols. I tried with average silver and got +14k new fans with digital release only. But in another playthrough with a hard to get platinum on the first year I experienced getting +50k new fans despite using Digital release only. Then +150k new fans with AD campaign and half that when it flop. This is why I think that if you know what you are doing a Platinum make the game ridiculously ease.

It also allow make more money from the Theater if we select the segment of the fan base that is the biggest and happiest.

Negative effect? You can't price concert tickets above 10k because fan opinion go down.

I think that is worth it because it give us noticeable results. But is so hard to figure out, that I can fully understand why most players give up trying.

[mareo2]

There seems to be a bug. The idol fan opinion give me a 100% with female teen and young adult fans, both casual and hardcore with all my idols. This is consistent with my strategy of policy and singles. But hovering the cursor on the fan information on the main screen give numbers that make no sense. Take the idol screen information as the right one.