@Ellaraia While I can only "sort of" agree with you, I think one reason people think it's too "grindy" is that they don't understand which stat is affected by your actions. ie you want to drive her confidence down, but then you study with her and that adds points. I think that there are a lot of people just want "click porn" not a game where you have to figure things out. They're the people who want a walkthrough so they don't have to think, just click and watch the scenes... I mean imho the game isn't hard, you have a limited amount of actions with her, each action changes a stat
+/- x points. Easy enough, however figuring out what stats need to be "where" is a bit grey to some. I've played this since your OP and had that much figured out long ago and Loved your concept and the way you had things laid out and your projections of how the game would work(I think your changes have been really good for the game!). I personally just figured that there was a Dominate route and a Love route, simple, Dominate = drive stats down, Love = drive stats up... Pretty intuitive if you ask me. I guess I'm saying this: If people knew what the target stat needed to achieve
X they wouldn't see it as "grindy" since they would know exactly what they have to do and how long they need to do it. I think I even finished the "slave" route in 40 some days, which really isn't grindy at all(I spent more time, passing time than anything else), I did "cheat" though, I read your scripts and just drove to them. Over all I think you've done a Great job so far, I would try to change as little as possible, maybe add stat/action explanations and goals to the Diary and maybe to the choices on menus like: Watch a
Romantic Movie (+10 lust). I think small changes like that would have a large impact on perceptions and less of a development hit. I also think increasing the number of activities available when she is in school would help as well. Also depending on the path you choose(currently) can increase interactions with her and decrease them on other paths, so yea, need some balance there. ie, when she is lounging(laying down on the couch) you can only talk to her unless she's a "pet" or a "fuck buddy" then you can kiss her, but getting to that level takes a few weeks. Just my opinions based on 30yrs as a QA Manager/Software Design Engineer, enjoying my retirement. Anyhow, Thanks for all your hard work, I like your game!