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[Amberson]

Can anyone explain to me how is the winning show at a convention determined? Is it completely random and everyone (including the winner) will find out only after the convention has ended or is there something that you can do in order to have a winning show? I read conflicting things about this in the past and even after playing the game for weeks, I'm still not sure how it works.

[Eileendover]

I am wondering if it has anything to do with how you are dressed.

Edit. I'm doing one right now and just swapped out to a skimpy bikini. I'll let you know if I happen to get best show.

Edited by Eileendover, 18 June 2017 - 13:32 PM.

[Amberson]

One thing that I heard is that it's the very last show of the convention...

I can't imagine how would the dress factor work... Does that mean that the best dressed player wins? How would it be determined? Surely not from an aesthetic standpoint if there's no actual people to vote... So maybe based on wardrobe stats? That would mean that the high-ranking players would always win, which I don't think is actually true. And it would be also somewhat unfair if the No. 1 player with highest stats always had the guarantee of winning.

BTW, it seems that we are currently taking part in the same convention.

Edited by Amberson, 18 June 2017 - 13:45 PM.

[Eileendover]

Good luck!

[Amberson]

Thanks and good luck to you as well.

[Eileendover]

Thanks and good luck to you as well.

 TY I sent you mail in game. It seems both our ideas were off. Since I was way far from getting the most shows, I started my last one at 4:03 remaining so it ended right at the buzzer. No luck. I'd say it's entirely random,or something we aren't thinking of.

[TaraBing]

From what I understand, the "WINNING SHOW" title / prize is given out the to player who's contribution takes the 'Fans Meter' over the predetermined threshold set ahead of time for a 'successful convention'.

 

Conversely, if the convention does not receive enough fans and fails to hit the threshold, the event is not considered a success, and the 'winning show' title is not awarded.

 

Best of luck winning show in your future conventions... 

 

 

-TB

 

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[Amberson]

Thanks for answering my question, Tara. Coincidentally, I just found the same explanation on the US version of the BBE forum :

There is one fairly random prize, given for winning show. The show that gets the fans which push the convention over the top is called the winning show. That person generally gets a piece similar to the top 10.

http://forum.us.bigb...page-2#entry870

Edited by Amberson, 18 June 2017 - 18:38 PM.

[Eileendover]

Ah, so it is a matter of timing. Just not at the very end (probably close to it in most cases where the con is a success)

 

Nice to know. Also nice to know I have reached my daily quota of likes. I didn't know there was a limit.

[Amberson]

Each show you do in a convention contributes a number of visitors to the convention. If you have more fans, you add more visitors. However, the number of visitors decreases with each subsequent show, so the advantage of having millions of more fans than someone else tends to equalize pretty quickly.
 
This means you get the largest number of visitors in your first show. Note that there is a random prize for the show that completes the convention. If you are late to a convention, you can try to snipe that prize. Don't engage in the convention at all, until it is almost full. Then complete your first show, adding your large number of visitors right at the end. In theory, sounds like a plan, but in practice, still very random, and generally not worth the effort of tracking a convention's progress.
 
(Sorry to sidetrack the discussion, now back to movie-making strategies)

What kind of advantage are we talking about here? Your result in the convention depends solely on the number of shows you made, not their overall attendance. That later figure is not even known or is it?

If it really works the way you say it does (thanx for the new info, btw) then the only aspect of the convention where a larger number of fans might become advantageous to an almost negligible degree is the one you described (getting a winning show). But that is indeed so random that it can be won by anyone, regardless of how many fans they have. All they need is luck.

I thought that every show generates the same number of fans and that number is based on the overall goal that has to be reached in order for the convention to be successful. There are short conventions where the threshold is only about 300k fans and than there are the long ones where're it can be 1,8 million or more. A certain percentage (for illustration, lets say 0,1%) of those numbers should than serve as the amount of fans generated by each show.

[CaptC]

The confirmation screen for each convention show tells you the number of visitors that show brought in. That number will decrease for each show.