I just did the custom start and changed the strength and endurance to 40. Spent 5 days doing nothing but eating and pushups and as you said nothing changed. I did the same custom start without changing any of the stats and after 5 15 min sets the strength skill increased. It seems like there is a problem with the stat change.I'm fine on my ugly duckling start - about 38 stength/endurance mainly from my morning routines after 2 1/2 weeks. Generally hit 31 during the second days workout. But with the custom start after 3x15 minute pushups + 2x15 minute crunches pretty much every day for a month there was no increase. Also intelligence did not move either even with semi-regularly working several jobs. By comparison the ugly duckling start with the same gameplay - pretty much - intelligence was 34 or 35 in not much more than half the time.
I don't think it's just slow but rather actually not moving at all for strength, endurance, intelligence with a custom start - at least specifically with the start I posted above since I haven't tested custom starts more generally. It was working okay in 7.6.1. Also never seen stats degenerate on day 2 before and that doesn't happen with a normal start.
Edit: perhaps you could try exactly the start I posted in previous message and see what happens?
Edit I did another test outcast with no stat changes and the strength (30) did not change after 2 days. Did an athlete start strength (30) and it changed after 5 sets.
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