pool parties are a better more reliable way to increase happiness and affection for your whole household vs dinner parties. Requires a gazebo with the pool upgrade.
Until the most recent affection changes pool parties plus Party Animal were pretty much an auto pick for me to manage household affection. It's not really very effective anymore since pool parties cap at loving affection and everyone below 116 or so affection is going to constantly degrade down to friendly or lower affection.Yeah but the pool is capped at loving (75 affection). Right now, you want to get as high as 116+ Affection because any affection below 116 has a chance to decay by -1 per midnight.
Ideally you use both.
So IMO the better option is to pick people up at a slower pace and use a combination of dinner parties and bondage fuck sessions to boost people to 116 or more affection before picking anyone else up. That means you'll make significantly faster progress with the girls than you will with the guys but once you get them that high in affection then you don't have to worry about them anymore. I don't even build a gazebo anymore, and I also don't take Party Animal anymore.
You can also use encourage and compliment but I don't know what the cap is for that since I usually forget to use them.
It's also worth prioritizing any feminists you pick up since they will be actively working against you until you corrupt them.
I would say the affection change also makes the sex implant significantly more useful than it used to be since with that you can really work the girls over every day. Without it you can't fuck as many girls every day.
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