Yep. Every area was a hotspot. If Calm Lands wasn't a hotspot, then you either didn't do the PR mission or you didn't have enough PR points to complete the mission.
You need 500 points for one company in order to complete it. You can still get it, but you can only pull around 200 points per chapter from talking to people. You can still gain points by losing at the games of chance in the Calm Lands, though. That just takes forever.
I didn't like the PR game, so I was lazy about doing it for most of the game. When I got to chapter 5, I went "oh shit, I forgot!" and started talking to people. I didn't realize you could only get about 200pts from people in a chapter though. Oh well. I need to do a second playthrough to get the percentage I missed by doing Gunner's Gauntlet late and the commsphere that was missing anyway. Darnit, I wanted the Mascot dresssphere!
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