Only an unrelated note: The Rear Deal quest needs to be reevaluated. It's currently WAY too difficult for what it is. Why is it difficult? The trainings that the slave CAN'T have. Unless you get exceedingly lucky 'pre-training' (EXCEEDINGLY!) you are going to have to start with a 'fresh' slave, meaning pretty much the only thing they can have trained is Obedience 2. And must build the slave 'from scratch' in 17 weeks (I'm fairly certain it started at 17 weeks, but it could have been 18). Here's my latest example trying to complete the quest.
Domestic 3 (4 weeks)
*Anal 2 (2 weeks)
*Pony 2, which also needs Endurance 2, btw. (4 weeks total)
*Oral 2 (2 weeks)
*Obedient 2 (2 weeks)
*Masochist 2 (2 weeks)
*Toilet 2 (2 weeks)
***NO Edging (so hope you didn't train that)
***NO Pet (so hope you didn't train that)
***NO Dominance (so hope you didn't train that)
***NO Horny (so hope you didn't train that)
Total Training Time: 18 weeks if you start from untrained, 16 weeks if you have Obedience already trained.
So you get 1 week leeway if you happen to fail one of the trainings AND you started with some training already done.
You literally can't complete it if you start with a completely fresh slave that needs Obedience trained too.
All that just to tighten a hole or two. The effort needed vs payout is disproportional.
How to make it easier? There's a number of ways to possibly address it.
- Drop the NO trainings entirely, it's not like the training makes the slave LESS useful/valuable in most instance.
- Make the slave requirements the same every time, so if you miss the mark the 1st time around, by the time the quest rolls around again, the slave should be plenty ready. The Rear Deal owner likes what he likes.
- Make only 1 or 2 "must have" skills and the rest just increase the gold payout to encourage folks to train up a good slave, after all, it's encountered early in game the extra money should be incentive enough before you're raking in tens of thousands a week.
Any of those would work fine, unless the entire goal is to make hole tightening something you won't be able to reliably do till level 40+, because those level 20-ish slavers ARE going to fail some trainings. Just to tighten a hole shouldn't need a "perfect passthru" to be able to complete, imo.
Sure, you could 'save scum'/rollback till you get perfect trainings, or for that matter, till you get lucky and the target slave skills are compatible with something you already have partially trained up, but is that behavior you really want to encourage/reward?