Regarding the community taking over the development, do we have a Gitgud or similar repository set up yet? I am not on here very often, but as a software dev I would be happy to help out from time to time. (provided people are cool with me mostly adding the stuff I am into, like support for more positions both vanilla like footjobs and obscure like Tailpussy taildrain). Being able to add custom bots with a robo tailpussy and adding support to play specifically tailjob scenes would be neat.
Some functionality I'd like to see added to the game:
A purchasable upgrade to the number of max active bots.
More jobs and roles, at minimum making one job per skill.
More skills, and custom skill support.
A fetish and tag system to add descriptors to bots, so that we can also add in customers with fetishes who will pay more for bots that appeal to their passive fetishes (Breast/Ass/etc size, Emulated species like Succubus, Manticore) active fetishes (Footjobs etc) personality fetishes (Sub, Dom, Yandere etc). Example: a custom bot made to look like a busty Succubus could have the following tags: "Monster Girl", "Succubus", "Large Breasts" thus selling for more money to customers depending on how many tags apply to their fetishes. Similarly, each bot could be trained to have a specific personality type gaining a new tag e.g. "Yandere".
Degrees of skill with each fetish could get messy to display if many are trained, so it might be better to fold that functionality into either the tag system (e.g. gaining a "Footjob Master" tag at S rank) or adding a new page that pops up when you click on the "Sex" skill that displays a skill breakdown of each fetish they have been trained in.
Might as well add fetishes to the player character if they are being added to bots and customers, which would both provide a degree of customization and immersion as well as functioning as a content filter. Similar to Lilith's Throne, being able to freely set which fetishes you like and to what degree.
Add events and more mechanics in general to Unstable Psycho-cores. A bot becoming addicted to sex due to low stability that you need to make sure you keep satisfied until you can repair her core, that might jump you at night if you don't and suffer more damage to their psycho-core would be neat. Some customers could have an addiction fetish, willing to pay more for a sex addicted or cum addicted bot.
A size field for certain bodyparts like Breasts, Ass, etc so we can choose the size of each part if we want, and to integrate with the body type fetishes of customers.
When adding features like this we should make sure to make it as compatible as possible with modding. For example, when designing the function that check how many fetishes of a customer a bot satisfies, rather than going through a list of hardcoded specific fetishes that are a part of the base game, we should instead iterate through the fetish tag list of the customer, checking each fetish tag of the bot (despite being N^2 time complexity), making sure the game does not crash if it encounters a modded fetish/skill. Which also saves modders the effort of patching every function to include their new fetish/skill. Modularity now saves headaches for everyone later.
I'll check back in about a week to see if a repository has been set up.