Fortunatly when creating I did took right stats, except sister I guess. I really dont feel like starting again.
Now I have Senses on 3 and Symlink on 2. Can have school and evening fun with everyone but mom and Larson.
Now to questions.
- Prioritize raising mental stats so that Book Smarts is 6 - How do I do that??
- If I decide that this lllloooooooooong grinding is killing me. How do I setup chea/mod whatever to avoid grinding?
Shall I focus on money or education?
In no particular order:
As far as I'm aware, Book Smarts is a set of bonuses you get from upgrades to two powers: Enhanced Senses and Mind Control, and it only gets to level two (one from each). Those two points are still useful though, since each extra point of Book Smarts means one fewer study point you need to keep up your Grades per week.
To have fun with the mom, you need the Mind Control power (it's expensive but really useful) and to use it to suppress her family ties. Requires at least level 2 Mind Control though, which is pretty expensive. Mind control can also help with Larson (suppress professionalism), but she actually just has higher requirements than normal. Get your trust, love, and lust higher (getting her phone number is a life saver, that way you can text/flirt/sext her at night) and you should eventually be good to go.
Money or education: Either is useful. Depends on whether you feel like your talents are lacking or if you have a power upgrade you really want. Actually, I would focus on influence through asking girls to gossip about your hero. It requires 60 favor with almost every character (I think Larson asks for more), but doesn't actually cost anything aside from 2 charm each time you do it. With Enhanced Senses at level 3, you can get 6 global influence from each character you interact with (if you ask them to gossip about you) once per day. That may not sound like much, but if you interact with four or five characters on an average weekday, that means you're making 120 or 150 global influence per week. Then you can use that influence to raise your resistance at the initiative, raise your pay at your job, or make power upgrades a little cheaper at Globex.
Restarting for the sister perk: this one is up to you. Personally, the sister is one of my favorite characters. Having her perk opens up a new shower interaction, a new TV interaction, and somebody else to leech influence and money and training off of at home (and to bang, once you've got the powers you need to get your character interested in a young-looking relative). Also I don't find the other starting perks (aside from Well Endowed) particularly interesting since all they do is start you off with extra training in a particular talent. But if you're not into a smart gothy girl who's accessible at times other schoolgirls aren't and gives you extremely easy concentration (very useful talent) training, you don't technically
need her in the game.
As far as the grind goes: I've tried cheating, and I find that it makes the game a lot less fun and the sex scenes less interesting because I don't feel like I earned them. But I've also found that if you're smart about how you play your early game, you can actually get pretty far pretty fast. The most important thing for me is getting my grades to 100 by the end of September so, aside from studying 3 times each weekend, I never have to worry about my grades again for the rest of the game and easily get 100 school influence every month. While I didn't write it myself, the newly edited
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page is almost exactly the method I use to get my grades up (I prefer to study at home a couple times on Wednesday and Thursday the first week, then get the rest of my points save-scumming classes for extra points the second week, but the method mentioned above is totally sound). Aside from getting your grades up, try to focus on getting girls to the point (about 60 favor for most) where they will give you their number if you ask for it, and from that point on ask them to gossip about you every day that you can. Once you do that, I think you'll find a lot more of the game opens up much more quickly.
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