What do you do with your money once all staff is at max rank?

Get more technicians? For example, I currently have 3 colorguard techs fully maxed out.

I have purchased all available directors, coordinators, choreographers, designers, caption heads, and technicians. All staff is maxed.

I know. I'm a monster waiting to strike.

Perhaps this should be in the "Bug Reports" forum. lol.

Use it for shows? ( Not a full solution I know, since you can only do it once a season.)

It means you don't have to worry about money anymore and can use all of your campaigns to get influence.

I currently earn in the neighborhood of $20,000+ per season on shows after expenses. It would be nice to be able to have the option to use it to purchase director credits or increase the max on staff beyond 20.

I could care less about influence, it does not impact my bottom line financially or competitively.

I think Alex said before that there is a possibility of raising the max eventually.

The influence may not impact your score directly, but it does help a lot at the beginning of each season setting up your groups. If you have all your staff maxed out, it would be wise to build up your influence.

But to answer your question... now that you have maxed it out, you focus on your rehearsals and winning :P

Wait, you mean you can't buy anymore technicians...?! How many do you have?!

Once you reach max level of staff upgrades you will be allowed to upgrade all staff to official "YES" men so that you can play political games and declare :

Drum Corps = Marching Band

My color guard is maxed at 20, corps and band are at rank 15, percussion is rank 14.

Maxed Color Guard Staff is as follows:

Assistant Director
Rank 20 Current Effect +2100 Equip +2100 Mvmt +2100 Ens +2100 GE Next Rank +2200 Equip +2200 Mvmt +2200 Ens +2200 GE MAX RANK

Program Coordinator
Rank 20 Current Effect +1820 GE Next Rank +1900 GE MAX RANK

Visual Designer
Rank 20 Current Effect +3150 Ens +3150 GE Next Rank +3300 Ens +3300 GE MAX RANK

Choreographer
Rank 20 Current Effect +3050 Equip +3050 Mvmt +2950 GE Next Rank +3200 Equip +3200 Mvmt +3100 GE MAX RANK

Equipment Caption Head
Rank 20 Current Effect +2580 Equip +2480 Ens Next Rank +2700 Equip +2600 Ens MAX RANK

Movement Caption Head
Rank 20 Current Effect +2580 Mvmt +2480 Ens Next Rank +2700 Mvmt +2600 Ens MAX RANK

Equipment Technician
Rank 20 Current Effect +810 Equip Next Rank +850 Equip MAX RANK

Equipment Technician
Rank 20 Current Effect +810 Equip Next Rank +850 Equip MAX RANK

Equipment Technician
Rank 20 Current Effect +810 Equip Next Rank +850 Equip MAX RANK

Movement and Dance Technician
Rank 20 Current Effect +810 Mvmt Next Rank +850 Mvmt MAX RANK

Movement and Dance Technician
Rank 20 Current Effect +810 Mvmt Next Rank +850 Mvmt MAX RANK

Movement and Dance Technician
Rank 20 Current Effect +810 Mvmt Next Rank +850 Mvmt MAX RANK

My guard starts its season at over 10,000 in each caption without a single rehearsal.

Just in case the most recent post didn't clarify, for the technicians you can have 3 of each tech for every group (DC,MB,CG,DL).

I stand corrected: for DC and MB, you can have 4 Wind Techs, 3 Perc Techs, 4 Visual Techs, and 3 Color Guard Techs.

CG and DL are 3 for each though

Sorry for the misleading info last post!

Now you can raise them... for a ridiculously high price. $4000 for each of my maxed out techs to level up? Ouch.

Also suddenly the guidance ability looks a lot more attractive to me.

Wait until you see the price on an assistant director! I just dropped 16 grand to level up to 21!

I was almost maxed out on all of the staff too until the upgrade and saw the $16,000 for the assistant director... If I would have played season 3 & 4, maybe I wouldn't be getting 2nd and 3rd so much in finals!

Lucky for me I'm not even maxed out and I've already been working on guidance. ;)

I maxed out my specializations and got to 5 for prominence and was working on Motivation, but suddenly that 1% can mean saving $160. Ugh 10% means another 50 levels. Took me long enough to get to this 50. But worth it if it saves $1600. Is there a max out point for staff levels now?

Yeah, the way I looked at it was maximizing. I knew that I would level up faster in the beginning so I spent the first 10 points on prominence to gain more influence. After that I got the Administration skill and then I finally started to work on other things, but mainly guidance. The way I see it is the specializations and motivation won't ever affect something that will "max out" so I decided to go for guidance since I knew the staff would max out eventually and I will want to save as much as I can.

I forgot to mention I got admin as soon as I could. But I saw it as specializations will always have effect while the guidance's max of 10% savings wouldn't be too high since it didn't seem any staff would ever cost more than $5000. Those savings just didn't seem worth my points. But now with the max increased and a major jump in price my investments seem less wise. Plus I can't get on as much as I'd like to (or remember to) and I thought specialization and motivation made the most out of each move that I actually did make. Always have my campaign set to 15 energy money. Competitions earning me a decent amount. Every season I go through about 1-2 level ups for all staff.