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I don't think the game is discounting the free floor on rent.  

Beta 14, Version 33, Windows 64-Bit

EDIT: Loading saved games apparently is not working either?

EDIT2: I may have forgotten to delete the old folders, game loaded up fine after reinstalling.

EDIT3: 

Go hard on the daily gather fans/money tasks until you get cashflow going.  But watch your idol's stamina.

You really need to borrow money from the no-interest guy. (I savescum for a doable 'favor'.)   

Optional:  Spam digital release singles till your business gets to 2 star.  Then only do them once a month.   Business stars lets you borrow more money at a time.  (Digital release singles are the best when you have no or little fans.)

What you really want to get asap is a breakroom and hire a business proposal lady for photoshoots and the likes.  It is where most of your money will come from.

More idols = more business proposals you can handle.  (But, once your idols get more famous, they ask for more salary when you have more idols.)

1 Break room = 5 idols

Ever since she became graduating, she doesn't recover any physical stamina from the break room or spa treatment.  Doesn't go to the physical doctor.  Has not been injured either.  

I can see why you'd want to exclude them from benefits though.  ... So partially working as intended?

3 Green is enough to converse about the group.

Yea... my 1 star fame girls are asking for a bit too much of a cut on their earnings...  The 0 star girl is still cool though.

It helps to have Staff who specialize in 1 job.  For example, Sales Manager who does both production and business deals get paid astronomically more then a Sales Manager that specializes in only production.  

I believe with near max skill, the Sales Manager who does both jobs gets paid at least 300k while the specialized Sales Manager gets paid 120k.  So it is cheaper to hire 2 and specialize them.

Also, spamming singles early on helps keep some cash flow, but it'll raise production skills quickly, in turn wages.

My current Ace just hit 10 fame.  17m per week.  She has 3 media shows, but that only brings in 400k per week, in total.

My last single earned me 32m.  I release 1 per month.

Then 4 others also jumped to 10...  this is impossible.

QoL Suggestions

1. Doctors, Auto Stamina Recovery, split that between physical health and mental health.  I don't want my physical health doctor working with mental patients and vice versa.  

2. Doctors, Auto Injury/Depression Treatment, split that between injury and depression.  I don't want my physical health doctor working with depression patients and vice versa.

3. Auto Production.  This would be great to have so I don't have to pay attention to getting individual productions completed and focus on other things.

4. Wish Fulfillment.  Seeing the this info during business proposal is great.  It'd be awesome if this was extended to media, concerts, singles and elections.

5. Media, being able to check who the cast are.

Got a girl in hiatus complaining.  What the hell are you doing at the studio while on break?

So far I've played to 5star fame.  I had to cheat to stay afloat during the early stages, but I only figured out the power of no-cost digital sales at 4star fame.  I also have a better understanding of making money then before. (Will have to do a 2nd run without cheating, also letting my idols have free reign in social media/streams to destroy themselves generate scandals.  Free reign dating has so far been tame.)

1. Break room girl interactions need more variety...  More importantly, the fact that the current two interactions, arguing and hand-holding are pretty much marketing bait.   (When there is no discernible changes from such... emotionally charged interactions showing up.)

2. Setting up concerts, higher star singles at the top, rather then the bottom.  Takes a lot of scrolling once you get further in.  And/Or more sorting abilities that could be defaulted into.

3. More ability to sort the girls everywhere you choose between them.

4. Girls shouldn't be locked out of being picked when doing concert set-up.  (For example, if they are training 'now', they can't be added to concert parts, even though the concert is not happening 'now', nor anything else related to it for that matter.)

5. Raising other stats, instead of simply having them  stay static/declining from age.   (Improve/decline cute/cool/sexy/pretty to better match the companies style, in order to get a better position and/or simply the fact that they are growing up, which shouldn't be purely declining everywhere.) 
Really, late bloomers.  It shouldn't be binary.

6. Improved automation and ability to set toggle/auto with limitations for doing performance/promotion/spa treatment activities.  Player can't be expected to camp over the activities screen, when they have other things to be managing. 
6a. Alternatively, set-up a schedule for performance/promotion/spa treatment activities.
6b. Performance activity mostly becomes pointless later on when you can make 2 Billion profit from a 55 million concert.  Or pump out no cost digital release singles for over a million each.  (Granted, it takes awhile to get there and I had to cheat to stay afloat early on.)
6c. Promotion activity seems pointless.  Early on, you need to make money to pay the bills and fans already trickle in if you spam release singles to generate income and buzz.

7. Lyrics, need another employee or even having an idol do it.

8. Continuous training.  Drop a girl there and only train her.  An additional option to the current full random auto-train.