Hi, I picked up the game after some time. I'm still in the early game playing as the female PC, here's a couple of thoughts that might make the female PC early game more enjoyable:
1) Shooting amateur solo scenes starring other female models
There's no reason why it shouldn't be possible for a female PC to shoot solo amateur scenes starring other girls. It's a solo scene after all, the player character isn't participating. If we play with popularity penalty on, it's next to impossible to kickstart the career and gain reputation.
2) Popularity penalty
While popularity penalty is a great concept, as it makes the game more interesting by forcing the player to use models other than the female PC, it's very hard to gain reputation early on, if the only scenes you can shoot is with the female PC. The way it is now, it seems that you need to ignore the penalty and saturate the market with female PC scenes. This can be improved by reducing the popularity penalty time to e.g. 7 days and/or allowing shooting solo scenes with other models, as in 1).
3) Prostitution reputation penalty early on too high
I get it that this is not a prostitution-themed game, but it should be plausible for a female PC to prostitute herself early on without a reputation hit. Nobody cares if an amateur pornstar /onlyfans girl fucks for cash not just in front of a camera. Agreed that it might be different after the company is established and the PC owns a couple of properties. After say like gaining two or three stars, the prostitution reputation hit can kick in, but not earlier. Also, I really liked the mechanic of recruiting male actors by fucking them.
4) Can't meet Salvatore sisters
I have never met Salvatore sisters playing as the female PC, earlier versions included. My PC is literally living in the beauty salon, to no avail. Since unlocking the beauty studio is now tied with meeting them, not being able to meet them seems to be a bug.
Thanks mbmb for a great game!