Ok, had to take two long breaks and it took me almost an hour to get my bearings in my own code (I am using a lot more comments from now on) and figure out what to do in what order.
All and all, this is what I managed:
- Instead of a fixed number of 2000 costumers that come into brothel as we used for testing purposes until now, amount of clients is generated from base + brothel fame modifier + each individual girl in brothel fame modifier.
- There is a rudimentary brothel report screen on next day, it doesn't report much info at this point (Clients that visited brothel (amount), fame and reputation increase that came from advertising and if your hired a celeb to advertise, that is being reported to you separately (cause of it's massive effect and price)), but it works. That took a while because code wasn't prepared for anything else than girl reports.
- Advertising and it's effects are working, still needs testing, balancing and minor improvements.
- Upgrades work but still effect almost nothing.
- Stripper job does nothing yet but it does appear as a choice in assignment screen after you bought the lounge upgrade.
That is it, but I'll have time to work on code tomorrow and this time there will be no need to get bearings and I've got a good amount of work planned out for now.
Also, I got an idea that I wish to bounce off dev team. It's about Stripper job and how to handle that. In most games strippers serve one client for a fraction of a price that they would make as whores. Instead I suggest this:
Strippers preform in stripclub lounge of your brothel for a great amount of costumers (Max 80% of a total that comes into your brothel). The amount of clients that girl can preform for depends on her AP (How many acts she can do). Overlaps between costumers seeing a stripshow and getting it on with a prostitute are possible, there will also be a modifier to client's libido, if your strippers did well, costumer will be more aroused and will find prostitutes more pleasing. Strippers themselves will not make that much money, if they are slaves, you will get their tips. Main income will come from two places:
- We will add Waitress job that will serve drinks to costumers (requires a bar upgrade). That will be the main source of income cause if there are no strippers, almost no clients will come and get drinks.
- After player is confident about Bar/Strip Club, fee for an entrance can be charged. Huge penalty to Rep if player fails to deliver so it will be up to player to decide if risk on putting entrance fee is worth taking.
Another two features:
- Strippers will get fame a lot faster than prostitutes, meaning more clients, faster.
- It will be possible to enable an option to allow strippers to give clients 'very' private service if strippers agree to it themselves.
I am planning to work on this tomorrow so if you have any comments, addons or think this is a weak move, lets hear it.