Old artists

[mcaso]

It would be great to have some dynamics to deal with artist getting old, apart from just retiring. Maybe you could add some "outdated" or "decrepit" factor as musicians get old where they can keep a huge reputation and still sell out any venue (if they had enough reputation anyways) but their skills progressively decay and their new music has less and less commercial appeal (so they sell less copies). That could also be a criterion for retirement: if an old artist considers that their last few albums are not selling as much as they think they should they may choose to retire or simply release far fewer albums but stay available for concerts and collaborations (I'm thinking on examples like Lady Gaga feat. Tony Bennett or Gorillaz feat. Elton John).

[Scotland2013]

Just now, mcaso said:

It would be great to have some dynamics to deal with artist getting old, apart from just retiring. Maybe you could add some "outdated" or "decrepit" factor as musicians get old where they can keep a huge reputation and still sell out any venue (if they had enough reputation anyways) but their skills progressively decay and their new music has less and less commercial appeal (so they sell less copies). That could also be a criterion for retirement: if an old artist considers that their last few albums are not selling as much as they think they should they may choose to retire or simply release far fewer albums but stay available for concerts and collaborations (I'm thinking on examples like Lady Gaga feat. Tony Bennett or Gorillaz feat. Elton John).

Sounds good. Especially as older artists tend to still sell well in albums but their singles become less popular as they get older

[Mark]

The older and artist gets their stats should decrease as you would expect with age.