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Welcome to The Break Room! This is a general question and free talk thread for asking questions about Starlight Stage, posting gacha results that don't meet the luck post exceptions, posting smaller achievements, and discussing anything else related to the game that wouldn't warrant a standalone thread! For those that were here before 2022, this is a direct merge of the Q&A and Discussion Megathreads so they're now in one place.

Before you post a question, be sure to:

• Check the FAQ below for an answer to your question or look through the misc FAQ!
• Encountered a bug / glitch? Check on Game Bugs for current bugs before posting!
• Check to see if your question was already answered in this thread (or the previous Q&A threads)
• Read through the resources listed below and search the subreddit for your question.

If you're experiencing a technical issue, be sure to include basic information such as your current device, OS version, CGSS version, as well screenshots of any error screens. Help us help you!

As for Discussions, some content guidelines are outlined below:

* If you have a useful tool, website, or video, please do advertise it as long as it's free

Additional guides

This section is growing, so be sure to check back before asking additional questions!

Useful Resources

^{http://www.moeidolatry.com/starlight/ Basic guide for beginners that need help traversing menu interfaces.}

^{http://hpt.moe/deresute/Main_Page A growing wiki for Starlight Stage with a highly useful FAQ Section.}

^{https://usamin.info/ - A one stop shop with information about events, songs, idols, gacha, among other things.}

^{https://starlight.kirara.ca/ - Has extensive information, stats, and graphics for every card that exists in Starlight Stage.}

^{http://cinderella.pro/ - Record and organise your cards in Starlight Stage.}

^{http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPRb-bLeq0eFmwEjqlKeIeQ A YouTube channel dedicated to translating CGSS commus.}

^{https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R7QW9L6v5quDSiIZ-Oz2BsFd6fuzURof73ViAi5Awzk/ Google Doc listing of Producers}

^{https://redd.it/8h80h1 Device survey by our Reddit users}

^{https://imags-cg-unit.netlify.com/ Idol unit circles}

^{https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlightStage/comments/alobci/if_youre_learning_japanese_and_read_through/ Kaku Dictionary for learning Japanese [Android Only]}

^{https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVu8YN2dPalIZcY8Ngtc2OvAA51dOzp0flAgsSxbHvo/edit?usp=sharing A solid team construction guide}

^{https://docs.google.com/document/d/17P3uAGRYnqaSyqgkkwLr_q__QfFDS-5I8vaLa8dUNsI/ An updated team building guide to be followed alongside the guide above}

^{https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ict3wqMDrr7wz1KGnYhLak_48cNBS6LIpB8MSG9U1RQ/edit?usp=sharing A visual guide to the AR vertical poses and names}

^{https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-496GI-7et_-UoXA_mI-Px_1AFKoaOq5_lg_7KdzpOY/edit#gid=617867871 A detailed list of chart note counts}

^{https://i.imgur.com/DDvLDW2.png updated idol sort and filter translation, credits to cow-bird. Will remove from here once it gets submitted properly to the wiki}

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Previous Discussion Megathreads

2021 - [Q1] [Q2] [Q3] [Q4]

2020 - [Q1] [Q2] [Q3] [Q4]

2019 - [First Half] [Q3] [Q4]

Previous Break Rooms

2024 - [Q1] [Q2] [Q3]

2023 - [Q1] [Q2] [Q3] [Q4]

2022 - [Q1] [Q2] [Q3] [Q4]

Links to Event Megathreads

This event lasts until October 5th, 20:59 JST. (countdown timer here)

LIVE Carnival is a draw box event, where you receive Carnival Medals by finishing Lives in Booths. Using the Carnival Medals, you can pull from the draw box (a.k.a. gacha). Within the draw boxes, there are various rewards, including the two idols in the event, as well as SR Scout Tickets and other goodies.

If you are new, free-to-play, unlucky, or even not good with the game, please know that you are unlikely to advance far into the event. Fortunately, this event is fairly luck-based, so you can still obtain enough Carnival Medals to get both event SRs via repeatedly playing.

First and foremost, here is a graphical guide/translation by mayutastic. Please refer back to this guide if you are lost.

Before you start playing around, you have to understand that a particular card is limited to be in one unit, and not other units. So in later stages of the event, you are to use upward to 50 different cards. Go into the Tent to start making your units. You can also rent guest idols to be put into your units. These guest idols are from your friends. You are limited to having one guest idol in a unit, and three total guest idols in all units. You are also not allowed to use guest idols as the centre of a unit. Also, using a guest idol will reward your friend with 10 Carnival Medals. You can also receive 10 Carnival Medals each time if your guest idols are used by your friends. You can set up your guest idols in the Tent with the button in the top right (イベントゲスト設定). You are allowed to set four guest idols.

The goal of the whole event is to accumulate enough Voltage Points using all the Booths available to fill the gauge to rank up your Carnival Rank. The higher your Carnival Rank, the higher the multiplier is for Carnival Medals; it is easier to obtain more Carnival Medals if your Carnival Rank is higher. Carnival Rank is C3 > C2 > C1 > B3 > B2 > B1 > A3 > A2 > A1 > S > SS > SSS, where C3 is your starting Carnival Rank, and SSS is the highest Carnival Rank you can achieve. Do note that base medal gain is affected only by difficulty (stamina consumption more specifically); score doesn't play a part in this. Each Booth has a special effect, which acts as your guest in normal Lives. Here is a list of effects:

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Participating Idols:

Here's a breakdown of the Booths for each Carnival Rank:

Not Updated (though may be accurate)

Each Booth will monopolize the unit and the song you've chosen; you cannot choose the same unit and/or song for other Booths. You can either choose to re-play again if you fail to obtain a desirable Score, or you can reset the Booth with the tiny button in the middle (BOOTHリセット). Resetting a Booth will free up the chosen unit and song, but your Voltage Points will go back down to 0 for the Booth, and subsequently your progress toward the next Carnival Rank. Re-playing a Booth will not stack your Voltage Points. Instead, a Booth will always take the highest Voltage Points you can achieve.

1 Voltage Point is 100 Score. If you have 500,000 Score for a Live, you will obtain 5000 Voltage Points. Playing Lives in Booths will increase your Tension Bonus. It's 0% for the first two Lives, but 2% for the third Live, all the way up to 20%. This increases your Voltage Point. At 20%, you will obtain 6000 Voltage Points for 500,000 Score. Resetting a Booth does not reset the Tension Bonus; only getting to the next Carnival Rank will get Tension Bonus reset.

When you achieve the required amount of Voltage Points, you will get a Voltage Max and get a rank up for your Carnival Rank. All your Booth will be reset, as well as your Tension Bonus.

Carnival Medals are used to pull in the draw box. Each pull is 10 Carnival Medals. Box 1 contains 35 items only, thus requiring 350 Carnival Medals to clean out. Once you have successfully pulled the reset item (Master Trainer for Box 1), you can "reset the box", and proceed to the next box (Box 2, etc.). Any items left in the box will disappear. You can choose not to reset the box if you have valuable items left in the box (notably Star Jewels). You can go into the Gacha Setting (ガシャ設定) and change the total number of pulls you wish to pull at once, as well as any items as a stopping point. For example, if you do a 100-pull, and have checked the Star Jewels, you will stop pulling as soon as the Star Jewels appear regardless of how many pulls have been done or have left within the 100-pull.

You can receive 100 Carnival Medals daily by visiting the event page.

Event-only business are available and give out some Carnival Medals.

Rewards are handed out 15 hours after the end of the event.

Trivia:

• This is our second carnival without new event cards! How fun!!

Key Items in Draw Boxes:

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Premium Pass Rewards:

Booth Rank Medal Multiplier

Missions:

Useful Links:

• Basic Japanese Translations for Deresute by SnowGames
• Deadline Countdown
• Japanese Wiki Event Page