Losing popularity and not sure why.

[lavelleuk]

Hi all, I checked the tips thread and small questions thread and didn;t see anything that helped, so was wondering if someone could give me some help.

 

I just started my own promotion so for the first time I'm playing as a regional promotion. Everythings going really well, my lowest cards have been C+, and my popularity was rising. I had got to E- pop in some places other than my home region (Tri State) and Tri state had gone up to C-. However, I just noticed my popularity had gone back down to F+ in those other regions, and the ones that were F+ down to F etc. despite me putting on 4 "B" shows and one "B+" all that said should increase my popularity.

 

I checked the editor before my last show to see what was happening. I ran the show, got a "B" went back onto editor and all my popularities (I think including where I ran the show, although I forgot to check that one first) all my popularity had gone down by 0.5%.

 

At the moment I'm running weekly shows, always in Tri-State, with my shows being shown on the internet. Am I running too many shows? Should I be running some outside my home area? I assumed with a regional fed I'd be ok running just in my region, so should I be running monthly events instead of weekly?

 

Thanks for any help I get

[Greg McNeish]

<p>If you haven't held a show in an area in a while (or ever), then your Popularity will drop in that area. Even if you're on TV there, if they can't go to your shows, they'll lose interest.</p><p> </p><p>

Try holding a show in one of those regions, per month. Rotate through the regions, so that you're hitting each one a few times a year. That's all it takes to maintain your Popularity, and let the Internet do the work of increasing you.</p><p> </p><p>

If you're worried about getting lower show ratings in these other regions, then hold a non-televised show there, so that you won't hurt your Popularity in your home region.</p>

[lavelleuk]

I'm such a tool, forgot about the not visiting regions penalty! Thanks!

[James Casey]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Greg McNeish" data-cite="Greg McNeish" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="24224" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If you haven't held a show in an area in a while (or ever), then your Popularity will drop in that area. <strong>Even if you're on TV there, if they can't go to your shows, they'll lose interest.</strong><p> </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Actually, if you're on TV anywhere, there's no need to run a show there as far as I know.</p><p> </p><p> Anywhere that <em>isn't</em> covered by TV will lose interest in you after three months (twelve weeks) without a show - that has changed from '07, as you used to be able to go up to 30% and hold without visiting at all so long as you had your shows online - a great loss... <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Greg McNeish]

Really? I had no idea. Screw touring, then....

[Comradebot]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Greg McNeish" data-cite="Greg McNeish" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="24224" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Really? I had no idea. Screw touring, then....</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Well, holding shows in one place over and over can negatively effect attendance, sooo.... there's some reasons to continue to hold shows across the nation.</p>

[foolinc]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Comradebot" data-cite="Comradebot" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="24224" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Well, holding shows in one place over and over can negatively effect attendance, sooo.... there's some reasons to continue to hold shows across the nation.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> A little bit of a spoiler but with pop around the mid 50s, I was able to roll 5 events (4 TV) in the Tri-States. The attendance for each event? 2,000 each time. </p><p> </p><p> So while this is true, the time you are about to swing a "National" TV deal like National Pride TV you should be popular enough for that not to make a difference.</p>

[Comradebot]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="foolinc" data-cite="foolinc" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="24224" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>A little bit of a spoiler but with pop around the mid 50s, I was able to roll 5 events (4 TV) in the Tri-States. The attendance for each event? 2,000 each time. <p> </p><p> So while this is true, the time you are about to swing a "National" TV deal like National Pride TV you should be popular enough for that not to make a difference.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Well yes, it that event it won't matter.</p><p> </p><p> I should know, as I do the exact same thing in Central Europe. It WILL, however, cause me to not be able to sell out my PPVs, and at certain stages I'm sure it'd be a bigger problem. I have a company in 1997 CVerse that, if I hold too many shows, won't be able to sell out tickets to its TV shows.</p>

[Remianen]

Also keep in mind that your spillover can enter you into Regional Battles you had no intention of entering. Lose one bad enough (i.e. come in last) and your pop in that region can tank really harshly.