About the art... Yeah. It will be even more improved... Add shadows and lights, redo some things, etc. But the style has been showed.
1) Yep. I didn't even touched it yet. But i will!
2) You can only do some small jobs like cleaning and gardnering at specific time. Careers will be added with time.
3) This is not a bug. Its about how the system works. I'll try to explain: Part of friend/love influence is based on how much you worth (in money) for the NPC. If you give lots of the same gift to the NPC your worth will tend to this value... Your worth value is compared with others chars that this NPC knows. So, if you wanna have the 'money' value maximized with this NPC, give expensive gifts to this char until it have no more effect, because you already reached the maximum value for 'money worth'. Not simple huh?
4) On the way for sure!! Literally everything you said
5) Yep! I'll change the entire clothing system as soon as I finish some more drawings.
6) There will be consistent positions with random generated chars for sure. Maybe i'll add some fixed characters. It already have consistent positions (like CEO of City Tower), but its not so relevant for now because of the limitations of interactions. But we will get there. Imaigine you fucking CEO's wife while she talks on phone with him? hehe. Anyways. You got it...
7) The car system is already coded. You just can't buy the car yet XD. Same for bike, etc.
About the discount for being friend/lover of the dealer:
You will be able to interfer in all economic system, making things cheaper or more expensive. This might force people from city do "things" for money... This is just a small spoiler but this is where the game is going... I really wanna make it an open world of possibilities. I just need more time. As you can see, its a lot of work. But i'm doing it. I wasn't sure about start to share the game online, but think alone isn't aways so good. I like new ideas and everybody commenting here is really helping me.
Thanks for this!
On map menu, hover your mouse on the left side of your char (left bottom). There will be a tiny buttom (it will shine when you hover it). Just click it. Cheat windows can be dragged around (just like the pleasure meter during sex).