Idolmaster Cinderella Girls

[Steve]

I see, thanks for the answers.
One little observation, I think calling the production's leaders for help only cost you 100 points at most, not actually 100%, since I always had a spare ~20 points left.
And my deck costs 74 points atm, so I think I need at least as much.

Ah that would make sense yeah, for me its 100% since I never had above but then it only takes less than an hour to recharge, which currently is exactly to get 3LPs for a big event performance so the timing is nice there for me xD I still burned almost all of my My_energy drinks and 1/2 ones on this event xD

And yeah I did put just a bit of points into def just so when people challenge me once in a blue moon, they see my full active roaster of awesome idols and not just 3 or 4 xD Didn't bother with attack since I don't really challenge people as I put all my attack into event anyways and the only thing you can get from challenging are clothes that you donate to production anyways, I'm actually not sure that there is anything more we can buy with money now since we got all 3 of the +5 buffs already. I guess more member slots come with more money but then we need the members anyways xD.

Speaking of members, I saw someone with the Nono S rare as a leader join our production, I take it that would be you? (that and English name probably gave it away xD) I am 真紅 there with chibikko akuma Miria as a leader

[novap]

Oh, yes, that's me. =)
Yeah, I think I kinda blew up earlier putting a bit too many stats into def/atk, but it's not anything too grave just yet.
The bigger problem i that I used up around 30 stamina drinks already while having low stamina.
On the upside, I still have 60 energy drink from the old times.

[Steve]

make sure to NEVER use stamina/energy drinks, only use the MYstamina and MYenergy drinks.
The ones without the My (マイ) are a very expensive currency used to trade for idols (each is worth about $0.9).
I did actually make the mistake and used about 5 of the stamina ones before I had my account verified only to kick myself later xD

For the MYstam and 1/2, those are easy to get, I get like 15 half for every day of event and only usually use like 10 thanks to my larger stamina pool.

[novap]

Um, when I told I used up 30 stamina drinks, the largest part was the usual, not MY stamina drink actually.
I kinda felt that it was a mistake, but whatever now. Not like I could trade them without verification either ways (that also was the reason why I stopped playing back then)

[ChocoCats]

Announcement: The final results of the election will be announced on April 21st around 7PM Japan Time which is on Tuesday so keep that in mind.

[Steve]

Anyone knows where I can exchange event leftovers for My energy drinks? I think I saw somewhere that all those 1/5 BP and 1/3 LP and other things you can exchange for energy once the event concludes but I can't find it. Or am I imagining it?
I could really use energies for this event

[zaitcev]

Im playing Cinderella Girls and there is curently the Anzu Special where you can get her as S Rare+ Card and the last thing im missing to complete is the bottom left panel. When I press on it I will be directed to the Local Audition screen. I don't know what to do but im guessing that I have to get a S Rare card from it to fullfill the condition.

Seriously, could someone explain what to do about that, please. I've beet at it since before Wafu-Y. post and no success thus far.

The sign says "自動レッスンするアイドルは未設定です。". Idols doing automated lessons I can understand, but what is "未設定"? "Ima-settei" perhaps? Let's assume it's configuring or establishing said lessons from this point on. Fine. Now what?

Attached is my setting (do lessons for Cute types of any cost). The game seems to remember the setting ("settei"), but absolutely nothing is happening and the puzzle is not considered resolved.

[Cael K.]

未設定　（みせってい） means unset.

自動レッスンするアイドルは未設定です　means you haven't set an idol to auto-lesson. You'll have to select an idol to auto-lesson.

[zaitcev]

Thanks a lot, I got it now.

[novap]

Anyone knows how long does the current event last?
And that whether a place exists where foreign people actively talk about the game, or is this forum the place to go for that?

[Steve]

This event lasts till 21st and then the Talk Show starts (you can already form a mini team for that and you should since you get good rewards usable in the event).

And from what I found this was the only topic that was actively talking about it from the message boards, there are probably some 4chan threads but I never used that website so no idea how to even post there (not to mention I prefer people at least using avatars and stuff so you know who is saying what unlike 4chan where it all seems anonymous for every post).

Some very rare threads i found at http://www.reddit.com/r/idolmaster but there its mostly about the anime.

Overall doesn't seem like there is many people playing the game in the west, haven't seen many English looking names in there. It might be due to the fact that you need a JP phone to verify the account to even unlock the basic functions (leveling through local auditions with FPs, trading, etc), which is harder to get if you don't have JP friends, unlike proxy/VPN (for stuff like kancolle and such what westerners usually play) which you can get everywhere.

[novap]

Yeah, I still can't think of a way to get verified, for I have no japanese friends, so it's hard to keep up with you guys =).
Really such a shame nips go this hard out of their way to stay away from international players.

[Steve]

I actually believe its not the case this time around. If they wanted to block gaijins they would do it with IP blocks. Also they broadcast the Cinderella anime for free to everyone in the west, including like 4 languages of subtitles (might not be the best quality subs but still its an effort).
The reason for the phone verification is most likely the fact that the trading is quite a big thing (idols worth hundreds of dollars) so there must be a way to limit people from starting multiple accounts and breaking the system by getting daily rewards and promo rewards on all of them.
In something like pso2 JP which I played, there you had to actually pay money to be able to sell stuff (or get very rare 3 day shop ticket). I did put some money into there, later when I was quite good at the trading I was just stockpiling items for sale (buying was free and once I had capital to buy I didn't need to sell stuff immediately) and then I sold everything like every 2 months in those 3 days of ticket, but still it was very limiting when I didn't feel like paying monthly.

So phone verification is quite a logical step, from my friend who did the verification for me I've heard that the time where you can just get random disposable numbers is pretty much gone and if you want a SIM card you have to sign up for some sort of plan and pay monthly, so everyone only has 1 number (and hence usually only 1 chance for cinderella account).

As to why they don't allow you to use overseas number for the verification - well this is not the case everywhere, in my country I can just go and pick up 10 SIMs for like 50 cents each and I can receive sms on all of them. That and it might cost more money to have the sms gate connected to non JP numbers.

So I think the cinderella guys are not really trying to block gaijins, more like they want to make sure the trading is clean and fair.
What they are really bad at though is the copyright crap, every single thing on youtube or niconico that has like 5 seconds of a song from cinderella gets instantly deleted, you can't even find most of the songs anywhere online to listen to and have to download the full album torrent for it :/
And what is even more idiotic is that they even block their own advertisement xD The Onegai Cinderella PV (PV = promotional video) has been deleted from youtube several times as well, I mean what brilliant mind came up with that idea, deleting promo vids and not even putting it up themselves xD

[ChocoCats]

What they are really bad at though is the copyright crap, every single thing on youtube or niconico that has like 5 seconds of a song from cinderella gets instantly deleted, you can't even find most of the songs anywhere online to listen to and have to download the full album torrent for it :/
And what is even more idiotic is that they even block their own advertisement xD The Onegai Cinderella PV (PV = promotional video) has been deleted from youtube several times as well, I mean what brilliant mind came up with that idea, deleting promo vids and not even putting it up themselves xD

Welcome to Japan where copyright laws are so absurdly strict that you can't even record a store brand with your camera. That's probably an exaggeration, but it's still pretty silly *cough cough Nintendo trying to monetize people's Youtube accounts uploading their content*. However, there are still some CG songs scattered around Youtube without edited audio where as later Pokemon songs (because screw Sony and Shokotan co.) are impossible to find without finding edited audio and you're pretty much forced to either buy the CDs or download them. Though there's a Tumblr account that post all sorts of IM@S music. It doesn't have everything but it has all the latest songs.

[novap]

Well then I'm trying to be accepted into a mini team, I hope there will be someone responsive enough that accepts my application :3