I was referring to the unmodified vanilla item list. I speak from experience as well. Sorry, I didn't mean to turn this exclusively into a gameplay balance discussion, but this is interesting because it affects what I'm working on as well. I think you should leave most things as-is for the vanilla stuff, honestly, other than dropping all the obviously overpowered stuff. If a custom unique girl has 100 in all stats, I guess there might be balance issues! Other than that it becomes debatable.
It should be a discussion about gameplay balance since this is what we're trying to improve upon
I did some testing over a period of 20 weeks:
For this girl ( She is the first girl in the AGL). Stats are in the following order: Beauty/Charisma/Constitution (Given as ingame stats (traits increase is added) (WH = Worked as whore, C = Cleaned, R = Rested)
<Girl
Name="Ema Skye"
Desc="She is a forensics obsessed detective in the Los Angeles Criminal Affairs Department."
Charisma="xx"
Happiness="100"
Libido="30"
Constitution="xx"
Intelligence="90"
Confidence="70"
Mana="88"
Agility="10"
Fame="0"
Level="0"
AskPrice="0"
House="60"
Exp="0"
Age="17"
Obedience="35"
Spirit="40"
Beauty="xx"
Tiredness="0"
Health="100"
PCFear="0"
PCLove="0"
PCHate="0"
Anal="5"
Magic="20"
BDSM="0"
NormalSex="10"
Beastiality="0"
Group="0"
Lesbian="10"
Service="10"
Strip="15"
Combat="5"
Gold="100"
Status="Slave">
<Trait
Name="Nerd" />
<Trait
Name="Cute" />
<Trait
Name="Perky Nipples" />
For 30/30/20, WH = 1, R = 0, C = 0
For 40/40/20, WH = 2, R = 0 , C = 0
For 50/50/20, WH = 29, R = 9, C = 1
For 80/80/20, WH = 34, R = 9, C = 1
For 80/80/80, WH = 50, R = 2, C = 1
This gives an idea on how game progresses. Service skyrocketed in all but the first two scenarios, rest of the stats didn't show abnormally high increases.
You can imagine what will happen if you try to limit ALL stats to 20 with vanilla items list where all items that significantly increase Const and Looks cost about the same or even more expensive than a slave.
Right now I am trying to think of a table of "range" for each of the stats. Since "Beauty" cannot be increased from training and I think there is only one "Vanilla" Item that increases it, we can assume that increasing "Beauty" and lowering "Constitution" for most girls is a good idea.
Actually I think we need to add a number of item files and Random Girl packs to the AGL... It will go a long way to improving the game. Also, maybe offering two girlsx files is a good idea, for example edited version will be Ace Attorney.girlsx and original will be Ace Attorney.original and people can use the original if they so desire...