I can just repeat myself... for the 3rd time.
All the NPCs you recruit are people with "normal" jobs. I mean that fact is literally in your face
everytime before you recruit a char. You have the option to recruit as a porn actor OR staff member. With ALL NPCs. That feature is already in-game. Its neither a big whoop nor a radical thing. Just the possibilty to switch them after recruitment is missing and should be implemented without a big fuss... Or implement it with shitloads of money, like Manifold suggested, im fine with that.
My point is, its a big waste of possibilities without the switching mechanic, it could be implemented pretty easily and i dont see any reason why its such a big fuss not to have it, since the chars "offer" the option before recruitment. (Or do they just forget their occupation after willing to do porn and vice versa?)
And whats the matter with comparing this game with real life? Seriously...
Yeah you have a point. I do find it funny while playing the game that so many chicks in the city are willing to shoot porn so easily (except those with the photomodel/"I'm only doing photos" trait). Its as if the game automatically filtered those chicks from a wider, invisible pool of women who wouldn't accept it anyway, which is cool by me!
I forgot about that fact you point out (no need to repeat it a fourth time
), that you can recruit all of these NPCs, not just the special ones, either as staff or porn actresses when you meet them. Its then admittedly strange that they would refuse doing one of the options they were originally open to. Ok. But again, without pushing the "realistic" card, which I also usually hate, this may just be a way to not make the game too easy, to create constraints and limitations to up the challenge a little.
Where I fully agree with you is that the player should eventually be able to circumvent all of these constraints and challenges, but with astronomical amounts of money, even if it might be considered strange to have that money condition, which didn't exist in the first place during their initial hiring as staff or porn actresses. But it has two decisive advantages, game-wise:
1) It pushes further the corruption element, very popular in porn game world, and giving the player a feeling he's achieving something, that he's gone up the ladder, that he now can do things impossible to do in real life.
2) Use all that money you start earning after a while, which becomes quite frustrating, as you don't really know what to do with it now that you've finally set up a successful company.
This is where switching, but also surgery, and fucking, should be open to every single female employee, staff or model, i.e. where you can finally enjoy full gratification mode as a corrupting, all-powerful porn emperor.
Girlfriends you doll up and fuck for free, the others, well, it just depends on the amount of zeros in the price you lay on the table.
In other words, make this game look like real world life, but only in order to transform it, with millions of dollars, into porn world life, at least what we fantasize about it. That's the only objection I'd make.
PS: And if you start getting too wild and fuck everything that moves on your company premises while forgetting it has a price, you might very well end up bankrupt!