Just did a complete play though till the end for version 0.7.0.9, did all the events, got all the girls to 5.
The game is excellent, and interesting, but the reputation levels 4 and 5 were a major grind to get in both skill level as in hotel reputation. The girls become really expensive near the end as their skill levels rise, and any female guest that has more than 3 stars has ridiculous standards.
I get the concept, you pick the perfect cards, the perfect girl with traits + use the office satisfaction bonus to get them into VIP status and use them to grind XP once they're back, but I've had over 1 hour stretches where I basically did nothing but play the management game, hotel progression definitely needs a tuning up, if the study feature wasn't there (and I kind of wish you could pick which skill to study so that you can prioritize the pool/sauna/exercise skills), I don't think tier 3,5-4 is at all fun to play.
And let's be honest, it's a fun mini-game, but it's not great at being grinded, the summery screen, the inability to keep the skip option selected, the constantly having to hold the control key to speed up the menu animations that grow old halfway level 2.
If I had to suggest changes:
- Add a preferences option to speed up the menu animations, preferably without turning every sound effect into a mouse squeak. Or at least allow us to skip through the summery screen using space bar.
- Decrease XP requirements or increase xp gain (maybe though items?) around level 3 and 4
- Slightly tune down the scaling on the salary for girls as their skills level, or at least grant us the hire screen more frequently. Repairs, medical, security are mandatory, which level up the fastest, which boosts their costs up. Having to hope for a salary cost reduction trait really sucks if you're unlucky.