I just discovered this game yesterday and I'm already really enjoying it. And, like always, I have a few ideas/suggestions...
1: The current system is heavily biased in favor of having a female MC, as they're the only ones who can work from home without a partner and rake in big money doing solo work. While you can say that's realistic, it's not completely realistic. While there is a lot more demand for girl-solo, we can't say that boy-solo doesn't exist. There's plenty of gay guys and a few straight girls out there to fill the demand for that, and even a straight guy can do solo stuff for his gay audience (heck, I used to know a guy who paid his way through medical school doing that). Likewise, only female MCs can fuck their staff to boost their happiness. Excuse me? Are we implying that only men like sex? More on this in a minute...
2: Staff of all types constantly lose happiness even if just sitting around and getting paid for doing nothing. While I'm sure there's a millenial joke in there somewhere, there needs to be a way to proactively boost their happiness rather than just waiting for events. For example, with contract models you can pay for what basically amounts to weekly spa treatments for them. I'm thinking more of the same along those lines for everyone, for example...
2a: Company Meals/Petty Money Drawer - small credit card pool randomly costs $5-20 per granted employee per day, boosts happiness.
2b: Company paid minivacation - send them to Disneyland or whatever, costs a few hundred bucks, they're gone for 1-3 days, come back with max happiness.
2c: Woman like sex, too! Gay men like sex! Bisexuals like sex! Anyone should be able to at least attempt to seduce a staff member. Happiness is boosted by the MC's sex skill.
2d: Even pornstars like sex. Combine the chemistry, like and sex skill of those involved into an average. Happiness loss should only happen if that average is below 50%. If it's over 50%, they should gain happiness.
3: Cocaine is pills? No, ecstasy is pills. Also throw in weed, acid, and whatever else. "Addict" can be specialized, and a producer who is willing to feed that addiction should have staff & models eating out of their hand.
4: More "work from home" options. Right now you're either doing solo (female) or hookers (male) with a cell phone camera and no lighting or you've shelled out $50K for a start-up business, with no middle ground. We need that middle ground. Here's how to do it:
4a: Your private bedroom needs to function as a studio, with all the same options. The catch is that the quality starts at zero and it only gets 15% of the quality bonus from staff & equipment per level of bedroom. So eventually you will want to get a studio, otherwise you'll never get more than 45% max quality on anything (at bedroom level three).
4b: All staff members should be purely optional. If people want to cheap out and suffer quality loss, well, let them.
4e: Better post-production. Right now you buy a laptop and cut editing time in half. Yawn. First, more upgrade options are needed there, all the way up to a professional desktop designed for video (figure $5000+) that not only cuts time but increases quality based on the editor's level & Intellect rating. You can edit yourself or hire someone to do it for you, too.
5: Now this ties back into happiness, because no one is going to want to hang out at your house to do work, so work from home would still erode happiness (while working) for your staff & models. A proper office with a studio should have the opposite effect, with each office level mitigating happiness loss and allowing faster recovery for idle employees. Heck, you could even throw in extra building add-ons...
5a: Company spa - doesn't need to be explained, right?
5b: Company cafeteria - like the credit card thing, but now it's just the one big investment for the building instead of daily payments.
5c: Company motor pool - boosts happiness based on (number of cars / number of staff).
5d: Company training facility - expensive, but cuts the time & costs of employees sent to training by half.
5e: Company medical facility - ditto for rehab & plastic surgery.
6: I see no reason why someone should have to buy a separate building just to have their own website. This should be granted from the start. The restriction is that the hosting company itself is the Webmaster (free, hidden character build into the cost of maintaining the site) and for that reason it can't ever be upgraded past, let's say, level 3 or 4 until you actually go big-time and start hiring your own webmasters. Also costs twice as much in upkeep until you actually go mainstream with the studio lot, etc.
7: More grunt employment options, because not everyone is cut out for bartending. Each place should have an option to work there, with the pay being based on the appropriate skill. Bartending = charisma, fitness instructor = fitness, librarian = intellect, etc.
7a: Doing the job in question should also award 1/2 the skill points of training in it; of course this is per shift, which is also twice as long as training, so you're really only gaining 25% per day vs training.
7b: Paycheck vs Gig Job. Gig Job is like now, work whenever you want. Paycheck job is more committed and MC is forcibly moved to the location for duration of their shift (until they quit) each workday; however the pay should be about 25% more to make up for this.
8: Ability to launch website with a specific theme, rather than "social engineering" it over a long period of time. So when you launch your site you get a pop-up of the "Likes" menu from the MC maker, showing what your website is promising to deliver. This will affect your initial fan-type right from the get-go.
9: Sexual orientations. OK, "like" system is nice, but once we open up fucking everyone to everyone, we're going to need to throttle it back somehow. If your MC is female and your staff member is a gay male, then no, you do not get to fuck them to raise their happiness. Sorry.
