First impressions after about 10 hours of play:
1. The OP - while having all needed information there - is a mess. The problem is actually information overkill... or rather, lack of simple structuring. Instead of following instructions from top to bottom, one kinda has to read out of order. Most importantly, since this "megamod" now seems to be the primary relevant version to players, a very obvious infobit is missing: The main download just is the game, without neccessary content. The default-images pack is in fact a common ressource (though, an easily customizable one) that should be downloaded together with the main DL. Then one has to DL girl-packs, to actually get girls into the game.
The OP is written with the assumption the player already knows all this, and just needs the links. Heck, it outrightly starts with a to-do for UPGRADING from older mods/vanilla! So, it's written for players already familiar with the game, not newcomers.
2. I got constant random crashes with ver 06.02.03 - every few minutes. What i did was DL the mod, default-images - put it into its proper places. Then i selectively DLed a few lurker girlpacks. Started a new game, and that's it basically. The only change i DID make, was to from the girlpacks delete images i didn't like, without changing the others. From what i red about the naming scheme, this should cause no issues - for supposedly the game doesn't expect proper ascending numbers ("sex (1)", "sex (2), etc". Yet, i can't see why the imagepacks would cause crashes, for it happened the moment i switch from one screen to another - all kinds of screens, even the dungeon which initially shows no girl pics initially (of course, the game might be preloading pics). Error log after crash was zero bytes, gamelog ended with all brothels suppedly being suddenly missing, but not when loading the actual brothels, but rather i think the house or farm, which was entirely empty since i didn't do anything for those yet (i don't even have a farm yet, i think). Will post a log when it happens the next time.
EDIT: Happened after loading a savegame and clicking "Girl Management". Not reproducable - reloading and clicking again causes no crash. End of gamelog:
***************** Loading brothels ****************
Loading brothel: Succubus
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
[sGirl::jobs_enjoy_code] Error: unknown Enjoy: 255
Loading clinic Data
***************** Loading clinic ****************
Loading studio Data
***************** Loading studio ****************
Loading arena Data
***************** Loading arena ****************
Loading centre Data
***************** Loading centre ****************
Loading house Data
***************** Loading house ****************
Loading house: House
Loading farm Data
***************** Loading farm ****************
Loading global triggers
Loading default images
No, i don't have a farm.
Another one - this time it was selecting a unique girl in the dungeon, and clicking "Girl Details" (or however its called):
************** Saving players inventory ***********
***************** Saving brothels *****************
Saving brothel: Succubus
***************** Saving clinics *****************
***************** Saving studios *****************
***************** Saving arenas *****************
***************** Saving centres *****************
***************** Saving houses *****************
Saving brothel: House
***************** Saving farms *****************
Brothel 1 not found in list!
Brothel 2 not found in list!
Brothel 3 not found in list!
Brothel 4 not found in list!
Brothel 5 not found in list!
Brothel 6 not found in list!
Brothel 0 not found in list!
Brothel 0 not found in list!
Brothel 0 not found in list!
Brothel 0 not found in list!
Brothel 0 not found in list!
This was shortly after new week begin. What happened was: Week-end, Save, Click Dungeon, Select Girl, Click "Details" -> CTD. I'm not even sure the above end of the log covers anything past saving, since it appears to be just about saving the game.
3. The start of a new game is still quite difficult, for reasons mentioned years ago: Lack of money to hire needed stuff. But i think the deeper problem isn't really lack of startmoney, but rather that for early slaves, obedience and competence at a given task are the same. What i mean with this is, that in any other polished game, there would be staff to hire who do their job reliably, but at low quality. So, there's no way to trade quality for reliability. Girls tend to either be good at a task AND are already obedient, OR they lack both. Hence, one either gets nothing or all. Maybe the problem is, that the game checks obedience without considering expectations - there's no way to "go easy" on a girl, hence sacrificing quality (and possibly learning potential) for obedience and less stress (tiredness).
4. As with most of such games, the behavior of the girl is often nonsensical and shizo. For the reports about how an event went, the game seems to evaluate the different criteria seperately: Stats, skills, traits, happiness, libido and so on all seem to be analyzed seperately, with one textbit for each. So you then can get a "cum addict", which's trait description says she totally wants it, happy and high libido, but she refuses to do it because of.... uh.... lack of oral skill, wat? Countless other examples in the same style: Criteria evaluated in insolation, instead of them being related to each other and considered as a whole. This does of course imply more complex coding, but i think that's totally worth it.
5. Multiple concerns about the system the game uses for picking images:
5.1. For the same girl and same scene, pictures shouldn't change when clicking back and forth. It's irritating and makes even the unique girls feel "random and generic". Keyword: Use a seed.
5.2. For non-unique girls, the portrait (from default-images) should be static, instead of changing all the time. Again: Use a seed.
5.3. The idea for "default-images" could be vastly improved, by adding haircolor (and *optionally* perhaps three breast sizes (small, normal, big)) to the criteria for picking an image. This would also (again, optionally) allow to drastically simplify girlpacks: If one is willing to compromise, a girlpack could include nothing more than portraits, and fetch scene pics from default-images, that take hair color (and possibly breast size) into account. Again, i'm not argueing that ALL packs should do that - just that it's possible. In any case, taking this into account also would make the non-unique girls more consistent, especially if portrait randomization is fixed.
5.4. Default-images do not seem to work properly. Scenario: Unique girl in beast scene. No beast pic in girl folder, but multiple in default-images. Expected: Game picks a random a default beast pic. What instead happens: Game takes a random sex pic from the girl folder. Some might argue that priority is right, but i don't think so... neither does it make much sense: Most girlpacks have sex pics, so what is even the point of default-images as a fallback, if it's never used, as long as a unique sex pic is available? That demotes default-images to nothing more than a pics for non-unique girls, and for those, the lack of a seed doesn't make it do that task well either.
6. The interface for assigning jobs is a bit annoying - the main problem is how the seperation between day and night jobs is handled... one always ends up having to click many times, for first having the change category, then changing assignment. Why are categories even listed, that aren't available? I.e., why can a noob pick a gambling assignment, for a brothel without that feature? Or does it have that feature but doesnt tell me? No idea - the game doesn't say.
7. Training doesn't seem to work. Got a girl with strength 0 - i'm not even sure what strength is, for that's not mentioned on the wiki or in the old manual. Anyways, sent her to the shipyard for strength training. It was still 0 afterwards. Same happened for sending a girl to a combat trainer.
8. Prices for consumables seem to be all over the place - looks as if the original game or another mod used a different standard, and then new items were added by someone with a different opinion about what the proper price should be. If prices globally should be different, wouldn't the right place to adjust that be config.xml?