The Main Menu Bar

Once you've created an account and logged into Popmundo, you'll notice this Menu Bar on the top of every page (without the crappy numbering, of course):


This Menu Bar will be your primary mode of navigation in the game. What each menu item is... that's pretty much self-explanatory, but I've listed them anyway, just so I can link to each item later if/when I write up more detailed entries for each.

That's if/when I get around to it.

1. Local City Time. Not to be confused with your local time of your location in real life. Your character may start out in a single city and spend most of your time there doing things and meeting people, but eventually you're going to wander into the great big world.
   
   This is when timezones will become the bane of your existence.
   
   The timezone of each city corresponds to the timezone of its real life counterpart (for most of the year anyway. There seems to be a hiccup twice a year when the world switches on to and off of Daylight Savings Time).
   
   So 8am in Paris in the game would be 8am in the real Paris.
   
   Keep that in mind when scheduling jams, gigs, bus departures and such. 'Tis not fun to schedule your tour bus only to find out you didn't take timezones into account and left too late for you to make your big concert in time.



2. City takes you to the City Screen, where you can find more detailed information on the city your character is currently in.
   
   More on this on a future entry.



3. Character goes to the screen where you can access pretty much everything related to the character you play in Popmundo. Probably the screen you'll spend the most time on in the game.
   
   I'll definitely type up an entry on this one.



4. Career leads to the screen containing information on your (musical) Career. Also sometimes called the Artist Page or the Band Page. Not to be confused with any non-musical career your character may also have. The screen you'll probably spend the second most time on in the game.
   
   Another one that'll need an entry.
   
   Probably several entries actually.



5. Company. (Only available to Company License holders.) Gives you access to the Company Screen. More on this later.



6. Location brings up details about the specific place (often called a 'locale') your character is currently in.



7. Community takes you to the Community Screen, where you can access information on the latest Game Development and Community News; the Charts; the in-game, in-character Magazine 'It's Pop'; and some other information that's escaped my mind at the moment. Hopefully, I'll remember most of it when I get to typing up that entry.



8. VIP leads to information on VIP Subscriptions. (Hey, somebody's gotta pay for those servers.)



9. Menu Icons. A few extra links behind the icons that lead to additional tools, features and functions. From left to right: the Phone (a VIP-only feature), the in-game Search Engine, the Discussion Forums (Will I be lynched if I say "Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here"?), the Help Pages and the 'Log Out' button.

Also, missing from the Menu Bar is the link to the 'CEO' screen. (Mainly because I wasn't a CEO at the time I took the screen shot, and totally forgot about it. Normally, it's inbetween 'Company' and 'Location'.) More on CEOs in a later entry.

As I mentioned earlier, I'll update this post with links to entries that relate to different items in the Menu Bar. I just haven't written them yet, and it's going to take a lot of time to cover all these different things.