Oct 1st patreon post:
Hi all!
tldr: Going slow, you will not be charged this month.
That's pretty much all i have to say. Had some family crisis and couldn't concentrate on work. It really wasn't my summer.
Doesn't mean I didn't do anything at all, just that progress was slow with numerous days off, so it's only fair to pause the payments for this month. I've tried to release something but I don't feel it's ready.
Not breaking the saves ever again was a pretty bold statement from me lol, so now i have to deal with it. This further delays stuff.
Also don't want to make every modded char obsolete.
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Anyway, what I've been working on...
So I've removed camgirl, photomodel and stripper traits. It was getting to convoluted.
Now every girl can be assigned everywhere.
Although, if you bring up a photomodel to some decent fame without doing porn, the demand for it will be through the roof. You can capitalize on this.
When recruiting new models not all will be willing to do porn straight away. You will have to "corrupt" them a bit. First have them do some photo modeling, then maybe camshows/stripping and after a while try to bring them to hardcore porn. Or pay obscene amount of money and skip some steps. Some will be tougher(impossible) to persuade then others.
Same mechanics with the interview process. Pretty much everyone will take some photos, it's up to you if you want to push them further. This is to avoid pointless reloading when failing interview process.
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Rivals have have reputation now and you also have means of lowering it.
This will make rival girls recruitment easier since they'll be unhappy with their employer.
But they wont come to you either if you don't keep up with yours.
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Some new properties you can buy and make passive money with help of your new financial advisor PA.
I'm probably merging lawyer and financial advisor into 1 role. She's only useful for 1 event others are more on the financial side.
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I've started testing this recently and I may or may not drop the whole Trends thing.
There are too many tags and categories at the moment and i doubt anyone is keeping track of them.
The alternative would be analytics PA as we know it but instead of showing 50 progress bars, she'd notify you what is trending this month.
Higher her level more trends will be revealed, but only like a few maximum. Earnings would be really amplified tho which might open new starting strategies like rushing to get analytics PA and only shoot whats popular or choosing a starting perk that let you see some of them.
Next thing was suggested in the comments and I just had to make it coz it's a great idea.
There's a whole fan demand subsystem now which PA can make use of now.
For example, fans are thirsty for Jane Doe gangbang scene. They want hardcore scene from some camgirl and so on.
Now if you drop the video at the right moment when the stuff is also trending, you have a hit.
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This should be put in long ago but was impossible without breaking everything.
You can make full feature movies.
Standard stuff, assign actors, you can pair them up, choose a theme and go shooting.
It takes longer but the money will be better obviously.
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Talent search is now limited and you can only find raw talent.
Reason for this is coz i want to make top level stars extremely rare and extremely valuable.
Earnings curve (in testing now) is pretty exponential. So lvl 10 girl will bring you WAY more money and fans then lvl 8.
You cant find lvl 10 models on the streets.
Either train them yourself, steal them from your rivals or throw lavish parties to attract them.
I really want to make so you have to focus on one path. How? I don't know yet lol. You can't be great at everything.
One idea is merging managers and their perks with PAs. Most of the perks can fit with the existing PAs. Less confusion but the mechanics stays the same.
So with the help of right PAs you can specialize in certain thing pretty quick into the game.
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Whole new map need some content too.
Military complex and Airport will come later coz they are going to have multiple locations.
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There's more but the post is already long. Need to save something for other posts.
Dev version will be out in October.
I'll be quiet regarding stable. Don't want to disappoint(again).
Thanks for the support.
