You do not need them at 0 willpower. It makes it easier sure, but you can also lose out on some benefits of having decent willpower. You can reach Undying affection and 100 corruption with an 80+ willpower girl pretty consistently and easily. It's not hard unless you are into the fear and dominance based approaches. Building a gazebo in your backyard (preferably in the small build plot on the right-middle position so your other build plots can focus on other things) and upgrading it to get a pool means you can do one pool party per day. It raises Affection per day by +1 (+2 if you picked the party animal trait) up to Loving and it also increases happiness.
Thank you, this really helps
. Party animal was a super good trait, huh. Regretting not picking it. Now just for corruption. So far I don't have a single slave that has more than 30 corruption. I'll probably try the shrine thing too.
Just as an aside, if your influence is high enough and you are gaining high amounts a day, removing criminal status brings despising npcs to uninterested and from there you can quickly raise to friendly. It costs 1000 influence, but gains 10 affection and 5 happiness.
Oh, that's nice to know. Not at the point where I can throw away influence yet, but I'll remember this for next time.
Another good option is to start off with high copulation skill since most girls will gain happiness and affection from sex even under less than ideal conditions if your copulation is high. At low copulation skill they probably won't like it and will end up liking you less than when you started until you gain some skill. Using Rebecca as an example again, at 20 copulation you could potentially convince Rebecca to fuck you the same day you get her but she'll probably beg you to stop after a few strokes so you won't have gained much. By contrast, at 90+ copulation she'll probably be at amiable after 1 good fuck session.
Ah, I see. I have both your mentioned skills, but put points into manipulate/charm instead. I think I should've pumped charm and copulation instead. I also just noticed that attractive was for seduction attempts, not in general, so that's my bad. I'll try to seduce them more often now. For teenage, I have like... 4 girls that can apply for it, I'll see the effects.
Now I just need to figure out how to make money, heh. Right now, I can probably only get 3k a day with 2 arena fights and a bounty, with minimal time to train slaves or craft.