After playing for quite a while, on three re-starts, I have noticed something. I am seeing weak girls, (magic 30, combat 45), simply mopping the floor in the catacombs, with anything that dares get in their way. After about 5 hours of play, I have not seen a single lost battle.
That is just far too easy. I've even sent girls into the catacombs butt naked, and they still win every fight. (Could be the number of monsters. I've noticed that 3 now seems to be the maximum, whereas before I would occasionally see groups of 7.)
I haven't changed the number of monsters. I'm not sure why you've had it so easy, unless the random number generator loves you, I still find that starting girls lose loads unless well equipped.
Let's see how Princess Jasmine does in a new game (60 combat, 10 magic, 60 constitution). Set to 'Catacombs / Free Time', buying healing items when available, no equipment, other girls 'found in town' and set to work in brothel + matron.
One week per line:
* Lost
* Refused
* Lost
* Resting
* Resting
* Resting
* Won
* Lost
* Resting
* Won
* Lost
* Won
By the end of that period, with the assistance of 4 girls found for free in town or captured in the dungeon, I just make it back to the 4,000 gold I started with. 4 lost, 3 won.
60 combat is pretty good for an unequipped character - it was the best in the slave market on week 1. It is easier (in the starting dungeon level) than it was in the 'vanilla' game, but there's also less money coming back from the catacomb.
How catacomb combat works. Each 'monster' is actually a random girl generated from a random girl template (picked at random). They don't have equipment, but they do start at full health and your girl is forced to fight against 1 to 3 of them. It's very random. At present in the easiest areas of the dungeon the 'monsters' start with a 15 penalty to skill and 6 penalty to stats. So they might have Combat 85 Magic 85 (if you are very unlucky) or Combat 0 Magic 0 (if you are very lucky). I can (and probably will) adjust that penalty but when there was no penalty it was pretty damn harsh.