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Hollywood Animalsets you up to make blockbuster films in the roaring 20’s, but not everything can be done on your own. You’ll need to hire good employees and monitor them to ensure the success of every project. However, sometimes, you’ll have to pick between the lesser of two evils when it comes to hiring new staff members.
From experience to personal beliefs, there’s a wide variety of people to choose from, with even more available as you expand your studio. Here’s everything you need to know to pick the best employees for your film studio (and avoid the bad apples in the mix).
How To Hire New Employees
Whenever youcomplete a new structurethat offers services, you’ll beprompted to hire a new set of staff membersto manage it. The headquarters building hosts a variety of services,from PR to legal representation.
You’ll alsohire security teams, directors, composers, and more creativesto make your movies a reality. However, not all employees are the same. They have numerous stats, fromlevels to preferences in genre and specialty.
Employees can have negative traits as well,indicated on the purple bannersnext to their faces.
Employees staffed by default won’t give you much choice, asthey have contractsfor you to complete. While contracts can bebroken or renegotiated, it can be costly and often easier to just ride it out.
What Are Negative Traits?
Negative traits are characteristics that cancomplicate the creative processes. For example,addictions and perfectionismcan leave your employees in a bad spot when left unchecked.
Compulsive gamblers mayask for leave to deal with debts, halting progress on a project altogether.
Additionally, you may end up with a biased employee. These sorts of traits,like racism or misogyny, can create ahostile work environment. Negative biaseswill impact workand make the production processes more complicated. When you can,try to avoid these types of employeesin favor of a better studio in the long-run.
you may find new talent in creative departments byusing structures like the Casting Officeto attract new hires.
How To Manage Talent
Employees, once hired, have two stats:happiness and loyalty.With both of these stats high, your staff willlove working with youanddefend the companyagainst scandal. If either gets too low, you may beat risk for sabotage, violence, or even death.
Throughout the year in game, you’ll havedifferent opportunities to raise these stats, whether you give employees vacation time, encourage them to slack off, or find creative solutions to problems.
For example, if an actor wants to bring their small, constantly-barking dog on set, you’re able to either:
Each option has a different outcome, and as long as you’re willing to make a few sacrifices, there’soften a way to make everyone happy. Of course, you’renot obligated to keep the peace. Just be ready toface the consequencesof your actions when they arise.
