movie studios and TV networks

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movie studios and TV networks

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Media firms could use the R&DON building to produce shows. Media companies can buy the shows much like technology and it will help ratings good/bad by 25% based on the content quality. TV/Movie shOwsley will automatically have disruption. Modern can add cover art and add movies to be developed in game at anytime.
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+1

Love this idea. I wanted to add movie studios as a new media building in my mod but found out that you couldn't add new media buildings.
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If you can come up with more concrete ideas about how exactly this can be implemented and examples of the types of the shows, I will request the dev team to review this idea and see how practical it is.
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I'm going to try not to be overly prescriptive as the Devs tend to do a great job of implementing our suggestions

Movie Studios
-Movie Studios would be glorified R&D facilities that take up on the look of Media Firms maybe more expansive and expensive buildings.
-You would put Movies into Production (R&D) for various duration say 1-5 years
-You would set a budget for each film (slider maybe?)
-Based on the length and budget of the film the film quality will be determined.
-The TV Station/Theaters quality avg of films will determine their "Content Quality" which will affect their ratings as well as how much they spend on organic content (current system)


TV Studios
-TV networks would be less expensive and expensive buildings then movie studios
-You would put a TV show into production 6-12 months
-Set budget
-Once the TV show has completed based a quality score is determined
-The TV show can be purchased by other TV outlets and/or automatically syndicated on the parent companies TV stations
-The TV stations quality avg will be affected by the avg quality of the shows they have licensed or produced as well as how much they spend on organic content (current system)

The Shows/Movies can be put back into production which each season getting better based on various factors just like R&D now.

I personally envision the only requirement for a company to began developing film and shows is that they must build a TV Studio/Movie Studio and then they can setup R&D and like we have the Radical R&D unit types the Movie Production/TV Production would become a unit type. The HQ could have a Content Manager executive position and the TV Stations/Movie Theater buildings would have an interface that allows you to select which Movies/TV Shows the parent company have rights to run on the network.

The TV Show seasons would have to have an expiration period say 2 years max and then the company would have to acquire rights for either the new season or a different show. Movies would be good for 12 months max but should generate higher income in months 1-2 then 4-12 of course.

I kinda would like to see TV Stations being able to acquire after theater run rights but not sure how that could be done.
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1) But how should we name the movies/TV shows? Using made-up names?

2) "Once the TV show has completed based a quality score is determined"
How exactly the quality score should be determined? Entirely based on the production budget? If it is the case, it won't be much different gameplay-wise than just having a single content development budget in the current game.
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Well instead of going so deep into it say have options

Tv focus
News channel
General Viewing
Drama
Comedy and so on
with a option to network your tv stations from same and other cities and that would build a bigger brand, higher rating if they are linked in same city and better quality because all your content sliders together with current content development slider and the stations can cost less to run if you network them you could do the same with radio and news paper and maybe you could add floors to media firms and tv would be a second channel or in newspaper a floor could be a magazines just some ideas
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my idea for TV Shows is a database the base game would come with some made up name and then Moders could add names and cover art just for fun.
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A few questions:

1) How many TV show can you assign to a TV station at the same time?

2) Or put it this way, how many TV shows each TV station will require in order to have a decent TV program?

3) Does a "TV show" imply a TV series or just a single episode?

4) How long a TV show will remain useful in a TV station before it becomes useless or less useful? In other words, can a TV station rebroadcast a TV show that has already been broadcast?
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David wrote:A few questions:

1) How many TV show can you assign to a TV station at the same time?

3-5 as you would still have the content budget slider for organic programming. TV shows would just be able to enhance the content quality. That way a smaller media player can still be competitive until they can began to acquire shows themselves.

2) Or put it this way, how many TV shows each TV station will require in order to have a decent TV program?


3-5

3) Does a "TV show" imply a TV series or just a single episode?

Series

4) How long a TV show will remain useful in a TV station before it becomes useless or less useful? In other words, can a TV station rebroadcast a TV show that has already been broadcast?

This is an interesting question, IL there's stations that broadcast extremely old shows but not sure how feasible it would be in game. Currently with the median landscape there's so much competition for viewers/subscribers that everyone is producing new shows, acquiring new shows and for hits release new seasons with ever expanding budgets. I think at this stage it would be better to simulate the current media landscape. A show is developed, licensed to the TV station once the next season has been developed rather that's 1 year or 3 years down the road the current season disappears and the TV station has to acquire the rights for the latest season. This way the TV studios are having to constantly invest in development in order to keep their sales and TV stations have to continue bring on new shows to keep subscribers. This approach would make a Media only company have a lot more depth then it currently has and give capitalism lab and industry that's vastly disconnected from Retail.
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