I don't understand. the expansion would be the many new HOTs?
in the end only Mona and Camilla were of interest to Quinn, and if their work doesn't even cover the cost of having them what's the point of expanding?
an extra girl at the restaurant should increase earnings not decrease them.
I don't know what to tell you here. More HOTs requiring more money for maintenance has been an explicit problem throughout the game. Riona keeps on bringing it up, and Quinn acknowledges it but keeps on making excuses for why it'll work out. I really don't know why you seem to be brushing that aside. It is what it is.
And the expansion is bringing in more girls to whore out. And I assume more drugs to sell. Obviously.
instead no, Quinn has to sell more and more expensive drugs, she gives up her normal business with DIKs/Tommy (after losing her business with the Jocks) and hopes to find the golden goose with the Preps, hope based simply on the fact that the Preps have money. and of course it is a failure too. she ends up begging for some customers to Sally...
You seem to have misunderstood Quinn's thought process a bit. She wasn't giving up the DIKs business. Like she herself said, she expected Tommy's blow up, but as always, she thought it would die down and things would go back to normal. She didn't expect Tommy to cut her off.
And the Preps wasn't supposed to be a golden goose. If you remember, she just tried peddling some weed to them, to replace the jocks. It was Rich who upped the ante, asking for coke.
The point was to replace the loss of the jocks with the preps, and keep on keeping on with DIKs. Maintain the same balance as before with some potential of growth via the preps.
it seems to me that Quinn's business is shrinking and not expanding.
And its shrinking because of the risks she's taking by expanding, as well as outside circumstances(that being the loss of the jocks business and getting mugged).
Quinn's problems all start with her bringing in more girls to expand the operation, and being short for her monthly payment as a result. Which starts her gamble and fail cycle. Plus MC causing her to lose the jocks' business.