Having Songs, then having the original centre leave?

[Netty]

What does happen to the original songs when the centre for that song leaves? Can you still use the song in concerts, or should i be preparing myself to record a bunch of new songs for when that one Idol leaves the group on her graduation?

[stm8022]

You can set any girl as the centre for any given song when preparing the concert, so i'd imagine it makes no difference whether the original idol is still around.

[Lonesomepoet]

Yep you can continue to use any song but honestly I'd never stop cranking out singles

[Fringehunter7719]

There's a penalty to the performance quality, but you can select a different idol to centre a song the same way you choose who performs in a talk break.

Releasing new singles has benefits for fame and new fans that you can't really replace though.

[Crimson Idol]

Originally posted by Fringehunter7719:

There's a penalty to the performance quality, but you can select a different idol to centre a song the same way you choose who performs in a talk break.

There's not necessarily a penalty. You just have to find an idol that's better than the previous center of the song.
Don't know if it's the standard but the skill points for the normal center of the single is 80 points for me and when someone with much higher vocal- or dance-skills performs as the center it can be way above that. Maybe other stats influence that, too?

Currently I have a few idols that are really skilled and when performing other songs it still shows them with something like 91 or 97 points for those song.

[Fringehunter7719]

Originally posted by Crimson Idol:

There's not necessarily a penalty. You just have to find an idol that's better than the previous center of the song.
Don't know if it's the standard but the skill points for the normal center of the single is 80 points for me and when someone with much higher vocal- or dance-skills performs as the center it can be way above that. Maybe other stats influence that, too?

Currently I have a few idols that are really skilled and when performing other songs it still shows them with something like 91 or 97 points for those song.

Hmm yeah. Well spotted, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out.

It's not a penalty, it's just that you get a boost to 80 for the original idol if they were below an 80 overall performance score that you don't get if someone else performs the song. So you're absolutely right that it doesn't seem to matter for idols who have 80 or more score anyway.

[Crimson Idol]

Originally posted by Fringehunter7719:

It's not a penalty, it's just that you get a boost to 80 for the original idol if they were below an 80 overall performance score that you don't get if someone else performs the song.

Yep, that's sounds reasonable that the original center of the single gets a boost to an overall performance score of 80.
It just seems like the formula for other idols' skill value is (dance+vocal) / 2. Having one idol with a vocal of 97 and dance of 99 gives me a 98. 32 + 24 gives me a 28 and so forth.