Improving the Studio The Movies Guide

Last update: 25 May 2016

Your studio's rating can reach any status between 0 and 5 stars. Getting the rating high enough is highly dependent on achieving satisfactory revenue, and is required to win some of the awards and certificates. It is worth to know all the factors that determine our score to satisfy the rating-making "big brother". Here are the details.

Capital - It's quite obvious: the more money you get, the better the score. Unfortunately, maintaining the high score will not allow us to make some serious investments early on. Remember about that when the ceremony is at hand or you are trying to push the rating up to get a certificate.

Movies - Difficult to maximize. It reflects the star rating of your latest movies *and* their number (the more the better). Luckily, through most of the game it will increase by itself, as will everything when you expand your company more and more.

Stars - Not surprisingly, out stars' ratings are the factor here. If you follow the advice from the appropriate part of the guide, everything should be OK here. Remember that it is some kind of average value, connected with all of your stars. It is better to have 5 actors with 3-4 stars than one 5-star high-flyer.

Lot Prestige - To get some additional info on the factors included here, right click on the "I" in Production Office (as on the above screenshot). They are as follows.

Attractiveness	Counts all the decorations you place all over your lot - trees, benches, lanterns, cars etc. Replacing the default sand with stylish, green grass is important as well. When you turn on the decoration-placing mode, the terrain becomes covered with red and green dots, indicating the particular places' attractiveness. Try to eliminate all the red, placing some additional goods nearby.
Connectedness	Connect all the new buildings you raise to the "net" of paths, otherwise you can have problems with that.
Maintenance	Maintenance state of the buildings lowers with time, and the only way to make it better is to hire some builders. Hiring a handful of them is advised.
Catering	Always get the best food serving facilities and increase their numbers if you get the message suggesting to do so.
Sanitation	Take care of the number and quality of restrooms. Build the newest types, destroy the old ones.
Ornamentation	This parameter is somewhat connected with Attractiveness, but concentrates on modernity of ornaments you buy. Always get the newest and most expensive decorations (you can also get rid of the outdated ones).
Cleanliness	Studio's cleanliness can be maintained by hiring a number of janitors and placing a big amount of trash bins.

Awards - The more awards you get the better. The categories in which awards are offered usually coincide with the usual ratings, so it's not really hard to get them. Just follow this guide and you'll do fine.