This. With the grind in the default game still pretty overwhelming, is there any current way to cheat values to speed things up? The old fix mod with built-in cheats is out of date, and I'm oddly having no luck with cheat engine, so it seems like the dev changed something behind the scenes there, too.
It's been a while since I played, so I'd prefer to actually play through the events to refresh my memory, rather than download someone elses save.
The problem is cheats don't really help to reduce the grind. The quests, on purpose, are designed to progress as slowly as possible, probably to hide the lack of actual content. Sure, you have dozens of variables that you can change with cheats, but the thing is, none of these stats are the limiting factor. Aside from money (and even that is only used once to buy a laptop) none of the variables do anything, but even so the game is one massive grind because the quests are stretched out to increase the playtime.
I just played the game again after a very long time and thought I might start over in hopes that all the new content would somehow "spread" the painful grind, but most quests are dependent on each other so you are forced to play the game in a specific order.
I gave up and should I ever feel the need to play the game again I will look for a savegame.
summerjo I edited my post while you quoted me. No, none of these skills matter yet (and probably never will). They are completely useless atm even though they have been there since the beginning. Finishing the Kate route in a satisfying manner would have been difficult enough with all those loose ends, but making two games at once makes it basically impossible.
Edit: Now that I think about it. This game would be a lot better as a VN. All those open world mechanics only exist to annoy the player anyway since none of these mechanics are even remotely finished (and like I said probably never will be). After all these years you still can't even buy a single new outfit or something like that. The bad story would be a lot more difficult to hide in a VN though.