Strategy SP - Question & Answer thread

[TweenDoriru]

OH MY GAWD

Seriously I can't believe this bull.  I didn't realize while taking pictures you could press the select button to advance to the next frame.  So even if you have 5 pictures, you can advance to one you don't want and write over it with a new picture.  It's not even listed in the instruction manual that you can do this

All this time, so many wasted pictures.

...my God, seriously??

ditto, so many wasted pictures!! OTZ

[digi162]

Yeah

I figured it out on accident too.  The one time I accidentally press select instead of start to end the TV performance, I saw the marker move on the images.  I've been looking in the manual to see if it was listed somewhere and I just didn't catch it, but there's no reference.  Even on the operations page, it doesn't even dictate that the select button does anything.

At least I was able to get the K1 trophy today 8D

[Lushe]

Huh... interesting discovery, digi. If only that was discovered much earlier. ;_;

[BT2]

Not trying to be rude or anything, but one'd assume everyone already knew about this already seeing as how the game's been out for like 10 months now; people never really posted about the select button thing because finding it was way too and it's usage too obvious.
Also, in this day and age, most people don't tend to read manuals but try things by pressing buttons randomly.

[digi162]

You know what they say when you assume
You end up making an ass out of you and me.  HARHARHARHAR.

Well it looks like TweenDoriru and Lushe didn't know either.  Plus I don't have a volley of people rolling their eyes at me on this thread for posting that, so I see no harm done even if this is 10 months too late.

[TweenDoriru]

Not trying to be rude or anything, but one'd assume everyone already knew about this already seeing as how the game's been out for like 10 months now; people never really posted about the select button thing because finding it was way too and it's usage too obvious.
Also, in this day and age, most people don't tend to read manuals but try things by pressing buttons randomly.

It would've been nice if that was in the manual, though, it's...handy. It's not a crucial function, no. But they could've easily traded the 'x' button in the manual with the select button. Everyone knows what the 'x' button does. It's on like every screen in the game. XD
I unno, the select button doesn't seem that -obvious- besides the fact that it's the only actual button that has no function in the manual.

[h4ataraxia]

I didn't know about this either :K
I shat bricks when digi told me about this, despite the fact that I don't bother to really take pictures lol

[animagic4u]

Hi! I'm new, so this is probably a dumb question.

What does the producer rank mean and how do you get it to level 5+ so I can get the 961 rivals?

[digi162]

I actually don't know the specifics, so this is gonna be a crappy answer till someone else gets you one xD
I don't remember if it works like the xbox version, I never kept track of the usefulness of it other than being able to do multiple appeals.  I really don't know of any other benefit in the PSP version other than the 765 pro office BG changes from that rundown building to the corporate office overtime.  Only suggestion I can offer is to keep playing in story produce till they unlock for Office Mode.  If I recall, it took me two story produce playthroughs just to get all 3 of them unlocked, but it could be different.

[TweenDoriru]

I could be wrong on this, but I thought it was 1st playthrough = unlocks the game's rival, 2nd playthrough = unlocks the other 2.

...or that might just be for the outfits. I'm not sure. By the time I even started messing around in office mode, they were all unlocked XD

nonetheless, if it's producer rank influenced, producing an idol through once or twice should do the trick.

[Kyo]

Producer Rank measures your score, basically. It adds up whatever you've achieved during the game against a total of 100.

Starting from 0:

Image Level
Lvl 1: +1
Lvl 2: +3
Lvl 3: +5
Lvl 4: +6
Lvl 5: +8
Lvl 6: +10
Lvl 7: +12
Lvl 8: +13
Lvl 9: +15
Lvl 10: +16
Lvl 11: +18
Lvl 12: +22
Lvl 13: +23
Lvl 14: +25
Lvl 15: +25
Lvl 16: +25

Idol Rank
F: +1
E: +2
D: +3
C: +5
B: +8
A: +9
S: +10

No. of fans
500,000: +1
750,000: +3
1,000,000: +5
1,250,000: +7
1,500,000: +12
1,750,000: +15

No. of auditions passed
1: +1
5: +2
10: +3
11: +4
12: +5
13: +6
14: +7
15: +8
16: +9
18: +10
20: +11
22: +12
23: +13
24: +14
25: +15

Special auditions
+1 for each one passed, +1 bonus if all passed

Ending
Dome (Good): +5
Dome (Normal): +4
Budokan: +3
Arena: +2
Live Hall: +1
Livehouse: +0
Failed at performance: -30
Cleared story mode: +5

Continues
-5 for each continue used

Idol Trust
Your trust starts out at 0. Add 4 for each Perfect Communication, 3 for each Good Communication, 2 for each Normal Communication, 0 for each Bad Communication
13~15: +1
16~18: +2
19~21: +3
22~24: +4
25~27: +5
28~30: +6
31~33: +7
34~36: +8
37~39: +9
40~42: +10
43~45: +11
46~48: +12
49~51: +13
52~54: +14
55~57: +15
58~60: +16
61~63: +17
64~66: +18
67~69: +19
70 and above: +20

Add them up together to get the total score.
1: E-
2~8: E
9~15: E+
16~22: D-
23~29: D
30~36: D+
37~43: C-
44~50: C
51~57: C+
58~64: B-
65~71: B
72~78: B+
79~85: A-
86~92: A
93~99: A+
100: S

This score will then get translated into your Producer Rank. You start out at Level 1, and in general you rank up when you get A or B grades, and get demoted with C or D grades. However, the maximum number of ranks you can be promoted or demoted each time seems to be limited to 2. So you do need to play through the game multiple times.

Producer Rank
Lvl. 1: IIRC, you only need to clear the game to get promoted to Lvl. 2.

Lvl. 2: D- to B -> Lvl. 3
B and above -> Lvl. 4

Lvl. 3: D to B -> Lvl. 4
B and above -> Lvl. 5

Lvl. 4: D+ to A- -> Lvl. 5
A and above -> Lvl. 6

Lvl. 5: C- to A- -> Lvl. 6
A and above -> Lvl. 7

Lvl. 6: C to A- ->Lvl. 7
A and above -> Lvl. 8
D and below -> Lvl. 5

Lvl. 7: B to A- -> Lvl. 8
A and above -> Lvl. 9
C and below -> Lvl. 6

Lvl. 8: A and above -> Lvl. 9
A and above + all 9 idols Story Mode clear -> Lvl. 10
C and below ->Lvl. 7

Lvl. 9: A and above + all 9 idols Story Mode clear -> Lvl. 10
C and below -> Lvl. 7

Lvl. 10: B and below -> Lvl. 8

[TweenDoriru]

...how do you use a "continue"? o_o I didn't know this game had continues. I...didn't even know there was an obstacle that would actually stop you from continuing the game.

[BT2]

Not reaching the required idol rank before a deadline forces one to choose to use a continue or give up on producing an idol.

[animagic4u]

Yeah, in storymode if you fail to rank up by the deadline you have to use a retry which sets you back in time.

[TweenDoriru]

Oh duh, story mode. Thanks XD I've been playing in Free Mode a lot more, recently, so that kinda skipped my mind.

Back to story mode when Perfect Sun and Missing Moon are obtained, though (bought the Best Version of both). Anyone else completing their set with this release?