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E5150_ca wrote:Mood is easy to rise... just grab a bottle of booze. Unlike meals, the mood boost doesn't wear off, but you will take a hit in health.

Yeah but most of us like our livers.............. :razz:
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E5150_ca wrote:Mood is easy to rise... just grab a bottle of booze. Unlike meals, the mood boost doesn't wear off, but you will take a hit in health.
I think it doesn't wear off for you since Jeb is a professional drinker*. For us mortals I believe it still does and we'd lose health... and health is much harder to get back than mood.

* That's not just a joke btw, Jeb actually does have the "Proper Drinking Habits" skill, I bought it for him for his b-day :-D
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Calv wrote:I'm now an expert in Punk Rock, still ill tho...(IRL) :-(
Does that make all of us now or do we still have somebody not maxed?
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bruins72 wrote:
Calv wrote:I'm now an expert in Punk Rock, still ill tho...(IRL) :-(
Does that make all of us now or do we still have somebody not maxed?
I do believe that's all of us now yeah.

April got her five stars for basic singing with the teaching so I'm working on getting her Lead Vocals skill up now if anyone wants to learn while on tour. She's around 1 and a half right now I think. After that I'm going to work on her dancing then her erotic dancing so she can not repulse people 8-)
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I'm now getting my basic composing up from 4* to 5
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I'm currently trying to get my basic singing up to 3 stars. Here's what my skills look like...

Basic String Instruments ***
Electric Guitar ***
Basic Showmanship ***
Stagediving ****
Basic Comedy
Basic Singing **

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Punk Rock *****
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Question, is there a way to ask the popomundo personal something? I would like that the put Montreal in the game as there's some French Canadian and we're a fantastic city for bands to come over...
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Mine:
Public Skills
Basic String Instruments ***
Electric Guitar ***
Basic Showmanship

Personal Skills
Basic Composing ****
Basic Lyrics *****
Punk Rock *****
Basic Yoga
Basic Manners *****
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Alex the Tall wrote:Question, is there a way to ask the popomundo personal something? I would like that the put Montreal in the game as there's some French Canadian and we're a fantastic city for bands to come over...
You should go in the devs forum. There's always threads about which city fans want next. ;)
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Ah ha... I was right about my Singing, I got my second star with this last update! :joy:

Public Skills
Basic Showmanship ***
Basic Singing *****
Basic Economics
Basic Dancing ***
Basic Make Up
Lead Vocals **
Erotic Dance
Basic Sex Appeal

Personal Skills
Basic Manners *****
Punk Rock *****
Basic Lyrics
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My skills aren't very exciting... and are very... basic. ;)

Personal Skills:
Basic String Instruments ***
Basic Special Effects **
Basic Singing
Basic Comedy

Personal Skills:
Basic Composing ***
Basic Yoga
Basic Lyrics **
Basic Manners *****
Rock
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My mood has been taking huge hits this past week. I get it up to 60 or 70% then the next day back down to 13 to 18%. I'm set on the gym and picking flowers. What should i change the flowers to?
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I spend most of my time in hospital and prison so mine aren't that great:

Public Skills:
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Basic Law
Saxophone

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Oh, what does the Power Boost bar mean (it's on my Artist Profile)? It's the white lightning bar.
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archibalduk wrote:Oh, what does the Power Boost bar mean (it's on my Artist Profile)? It's the white lightning bar.
Boost bar fills as you do shows etc. and when it's full it changes to 'RELEASE BOOST' where you have three options:

Boost your repertoire to 100% for every song you have selected with a check mark at the time your release your boost (make sure you have all your songs checked first!!) and then they will begin to go down again just like normal. Advantage being it's your whole rep and to 100% which you'd need everyone in the band to have 5* in your genre skill to get otherwise.

Boost your SQ: A fixed number of Star Quality points to be divided up amongst the band, this is however temporary. Advantage: for a soloist or duo you could get your SQ over 50 to use a stage name much earlier.

Boost your potential ratings for a few shows: Allows you to perform at a higher level than usual, allowing you to get a better rating for a big show. Advantage: Mainly for use if you have a Competition you have a shot at winning and that one or two levels of improvement might seal it for you.

So, early on I suggest that people use the repertoire boost as it saves you a lot of jam time and money from those jams and also lets you reach practice levels that might be impossible for you to reach otherwise. Solo artists might want to use their SQ boost if they get to like 25% Star Quality if they are dying to have a stage name. I'm not sure how useful the ratings for shows boost will be for most bands really.

I'm going to add this to the KB as well
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I would also recommend the repertoire boost. I used it once so far, and haven't had to jam since then. It frees up a lot of time and money, which can both be better spent elsewhere(skills). Not to mention, your character will know all his songs at a level that could take forever to jam to. :thup:
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Okay, especially for newer PopoPeeps if you haven't checked out our Popo section of the Knowledge Base you're missing out on a lot of great info that we've posted as we learned about the game.

I just updated the mood/health posts and put in a little something new about building shows as well as adding my above post as an artcle so that people that weren't here to see it at the time will have it for a reference.

Check out all our articles here:

http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/kb ... cat&cat=16
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Basic Showmanship **
Basic Comedy
Basic String Instruments ***
Bass Guitar ***
Music Improvisation ***
Basic Make Up
Basic Fashion

Personal Skills
Punk Rock *** (working on it)
Basic Martial Arts
Basic Yoga
Proper Drinking Habits ***
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anyone willing to give me string or punk rock lesson?

:thup: rock on!
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Stillblind wrote:My mood has been taking huge hits this past week. I get it up to 60 or 70% then the next day back down to 13 to 18%. I'm set on the gym and picking flowers. What should i change the flowers to?
If you're so down in mood, set yourself to go shopping! (be sure you have cash on you ;)) Composing music instead of picking flowers will have nearly the same effect, but will also give you an other song to your repertory. When your mood will be out of the red zone, you should consider working on your skills, and still go shopping :thup:
Minstrel wrote:Boost your SQ: A fixed number of Star Quality points to be divided up amongst the band, this is however temporary. Advantage: for a soloist or duo you could get your SQ over 50 to use a stage name much earlier.
In the forums, i've seen mentionned that this fixed number is 40%. And as you said, it's then divided equally amongst all the band members.
holydogg wrote:anyone willing to give me string or punk rock lesson?
Not the best time to learn a skill from master/mistress are we're on the road. If you're not in the same bus as your master/mistress when comes the update, it will be lost time for you AND for your master/mistress :cry:

By the way, right after the tour i should teach you punk rock :thup:
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Kyle is now a five star drummer.............

Basic Percussions *****
Drums *****
Basic Showmanship ***
Basic Economics
Basic Comedy
Basic Illusionism

Personal Skills
Punk Rock *****
Basic Yoga
Basic Manners *****
Basic Composing
Basic Photography *
Crowd Control


Now going to improve on crowd control.
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Shadd666 wrote:
holydogg wrote:anyone willing to give me string or punk rock lesson?
Not the best time to learn a skill from master/mistress are we're on the road. If you're not in the same bus as your master/mistress when comes the update, it will be lost time for you AND for your master/mistress :cry:

By the way, right after the tour i should teach you punk rock :thup:
I disagree with you on this one actually, on the road is a great tiem to teach skills as it helps you gain and helps them learn at the same time and what else do you have to do? So if you are going to be on a long trip set yourself to improve your skills instead and then carry on. If it's a skill (like punk rock) that will be useful to the band then it's silly to wait I think just because you might miss an update every few days... if you follow each other there odds are good you'll both hop on the same bus anyhow. :dunno:

I taught the boys Basic Showmanship late in our last tour and didn't miss any updates...
oxenhoper wrote:Kyle is now a five star drummer
Ah... so that explains why you've been getting two stars on the shows lists. Very nice =D>
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Minstrel wrote:I disagree with you on this one actually, on the road is a great tiem to teach skills as it helps you gain and helps them learn at the same time and what else do you have to do? So if you are going to be on a long trip set yourself to improve your skills instead and then carry on. If it's a skill (like punk rock) that will be useful to the band then it's silly to wait I think just because you might miss an update every few days... if you follow each other there odds are good you'll both hop on the same bus anyhow.
Yes, but actually we don't have a tour bus, and even if the other members are set to follow me, we're not always (in fact, rarely) in the same bus to travel, resulting in people loosing track, and we're also not always in the same city in the same time. We should have enough money to buy a tour bus in 1 or 2 shows i think, maybe 3. So then we'll always be together and it would be easily possible to teach. And i'd be glad to teach punk rock to John Keating, as it's a really important skill ;) So it's just a few days to wait before things become easier to teach/learn skills :thup:
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Announcing the opening of ❤ ☆ ᙢiss ᗩpril Ink ☆ ❤ !!! :joy:

Yup, Miss April Enterprises, Inc. has opened it's first locale, a tattoo shop in Madrid! :-D
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My star quality pass from 14% to 6% after my show... That sucks badly!
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