Nope, they're just drinking one helluva lot of tea. (I had a character who overdosed on caffeine pills and died. Don't trust that stuff yo.)

Long time player, just joined forum so I could vote on this.

Please dont make it realtime!
There are plenty of store games and down-loadable games that are real time music industry games and no doubt far superior to this in that field.
Dont compete, stay unique.

It does need some extra upgrades though, which have been suggested.
Double album, set lists, greatest hits and buying points...

They would all be awesome additions.
I'd rather stick to the music stuff than the party drug rockstar stuff though, been done to death.

If Carl adds buying points with ingame money, I'm orf. It would ruin TRSG (yes, that's right, The Rockstar Game, not The Time Lord Game) - it makes it even easier for the people who have got all the regions and can always afford good production, as if it wasn't easy enough at that stage. Give me one good reason why you should be able to get points for ingame cash. ("I need more points" isn't a reason, it's whining.) If you need points that badly, either wait, or buy some and support the game.

I think more information is needed first. Will having things real time make the game biased towards those who log on every day? I try and get on most days but there are times when i'm busy or away with work. Will I be punished for that by missing out on things in the game? The points system is good because if I can't log on for a couple of days I can still get up to where I would have been had I been able to log in more often.

I think it'd be a bit like this ....
"My Arse Died" logs in on Sunday, and sets up a schedule for the week (or for the day or the month, or however long you want) ....
Monday : Practise ability. Rest for a bit.
Tuesday : Gig at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK (supporting Moronic Changeling).
Wednesday : Practise songwriting. Rest some more. (Your band's kinda lazy, but as you know, they have to be to do well.)
Thursday : Gig at The Roxy, New York, USA (supported by Firecracker 47).
Friday : Write three songs - "Comatose (M.A.D cover)", "Comatose (Reckoner cover)", "Comatose (Bikki cover)".
Saturday : Give writings to producer (Tony Visconti - who else!?), to make new single "Comatose (M.A.D cover)".
Sunday : Rest. Watch weekly charts. My Arse Died - "Comatose (M.A.D cover)" gets World #1. "Rest" again because you passed out due to party drugs.
.... and you can log in again and change any of that. That's my idea of a calendar system - no need to log in daily, unless you want to.
(Carl's idea may be something completely different ovkorpse and why am I using Thorgrimtalk!?)

Yeah, we've all heard you say the same thing three or four times now, let everyone else have their say.

One good reason is it would give you something to aim for with money than just doing the same thing over.

Then when you donate you could get money instead of points and do what you want with it.

Can I just say you will NEVER be able to buy points with in-game money.

I was up for scrapping points - it makes it a lot easier to add the new features like carrying out promotional duties and better touring features. In a points based system these features don't work.. they'll be just another way to use all your points.

I don't know now.. will have to have a rethink.

If anything in the game you should be able to schedule...tours, recording albums, writing songs etc etc. I'd like to see that.

i still think real time is a good idea...

you just have a calander system where each day has a set number of events that are possible, and only certain events are available at certain times.... allow people to plan for say a week and its fine if people only want to log in once a week..... if other people want to micro manage their bands it again lets them..

it also gets rid of this stupid buying points argument... which for me makes it worth it either way!

If that is the case, where you schedule it, then I'd be fully in support, sounds really cool :)