News 3/12/2023

Hello everyone! I've still got some work to do on the update, but just wanted to keep you all up to date since it's been a little quiet.

One of the things that you will notice about the way that the Pawn Shop jobs will work with this update is that you will have two co-workers with actual character images who you will be able to occasionally interact with and be able to continually do more things with as you progress through the various promotions. The jobs themselves will hopefully be a little more engaging in general with multiple scenes each shift including optional tasks (similar to the way that the final promotions currently work) and I'm trying to make the final promotions more like actual management stuff. On top of changing the ways that the jobs work, I'm also changing the energy cost and payout so that, hopefully, it feels like you need to focus on it less with a little less influence from attractiveness but a higher base payout so that it doesn't feel like such a drag at the start when you don't have a lot of attractiveness buffs.

I also want to quickly touch on the poll that happened; thank you all so much for voting! The consensus seems pretty clear, I think trying to do something technically new with these characters when there is already a larger and consistently expanding set of content for them already was kind of a silly decision, to be honest. For the stuff that already exists, I'll try to incorporate things into their main storylines as best I can and, for anything that feels redundant or something, it will be temporarily removed, but I am planning on adding a gallery feature some time that will let you view any scenes that have been cut from the game.

Anyway, thank you all for your patience as always! Sorry to keep you waiting, but I am getting through it and I think I will probably do a smaller update after this one to focus on some other things and, hopefully, have them both out this month, so I hope you look forward to it!