Hello.
Frist of all I want to thank you for your work, I have been playing for some hours this game today and I enjoyed it, especially the early game. I have read most of this thread and I read that some things are going to be addressed -or reworked- at some point (like allow the player to see the gallery of the concubines), and I would like to comment what I understand as the late game (the moment when you have over 12-15 girls, and are few things left to acquire with money). Because at that point the game becomes a vicious ouroboros.
The concubines are to let you get new girls (so new galleries), so far so good, but what they take is bigger than what they give. It isn’t something to see with the first couple, but the moment you reach 4-5 it is noticeable. The way to earn money is doing photos and contracts. Contracts is just 1 per week (and some gives an excessive low amount of money by that time, good at the start, but not later) and do photos leads to big amounts of stress because most of the pool is done, or I am waiting to the few not completed to do contracts (1 new per week) so I can do the proper new photos, so due to how the stress works (you already explained it, nothing to complain here) it becomes a bit… Concubines reduces stress but the amount they reduce isn’t enough to deny what you get to earn the money they take once there are more than 2-3, if you can earn that much money (by that point is quite easy to fail most of the photos and get tones of stress and even lose money if you fail all). So… looks like the numbers should be tweaked a little. Money, stress, both… I am not sure, but from the player perspective looks like the money is the easy option.
You already said that maybe you will introduce a passive way to earn money, if it ends being a thing, I would suggest to add an option to “skip the day”, or any other options that you consider appropriate to not being forced to do photos so that way, despite getting less money, stress can be avoided. Yeah, it is connected -somehow- with my previous paragraph.
I will also like to see few more events. Not specifically to a model, generic ones. There is no need for dozens, but a few more would be nice. In the end all of them pop regularly up early, when you have few models, so they repeat easily. Later it isn’t really a matter because by that point everything is going to be repetitive, it doesn’t matter the game.
I love management games, so I always want more things and more depth, I will take most of it a part (for obvious reasons) and comment only one thing: What about the possibility to buy more equipment, and the better it is, let it “help” reducing the stress of failing a photo? I’m not sure about it, but as I saw it, looks like there are several grades of fail so the lightest gives the smaller amount of stress, but: What if, once you have better\the best equipment, it reduces 1/X grade/s when you fail? I said it like that because it looks like the simplest way to implement it, but here, once again, I don’t really know and probably you can give a better way to do such thing. So maybe there won’t be any need to tweak other things, as I said earlier.
Lots of thanks to take the time to read that, and willing to keep playing the future builds.
PS: My first message in that forum
