Shady Deals v0.10 Progress Report

The main thing I’ve been working on for the last couple of days is the statistics. Most important variable changes in the game are already handled through macros, so it wasn’t very hard to implement - just monotonous to check everything. Not the most exciting thing, I know, but the earlier I deal with it, the better.

The second big feature in this update will be the camshows business. I want to implement a minigame around it as an early-game job and also make it a somewhat easy and reliable profit-maker once you take over this biz. I’m still working on it, so I’m not going to share too many details yet since it’s all subject to change. But it won’t just be a straight "girl’s charm equals money" trade. There’ll be an option to choose between different sponsorships, and each one will give you different rewards when your camgirls reach certain milestones. Everything earned during the camshows themselves will go to the performers, including the player, yeah. However, that’s not the case for debtors, whom you can offer to work for you in this fine enterprise.

Other than that, there are a few QoL and misc changes inbound, namely:

• Ability to set mechanics to keep X amount of vehicles in stock.

• Ability to set loaders to create shipments while keeping X amount of resources in stock.

• Rebalance of debtors: there won’t be much reason to use them for camshows in the way they are right now. I want to make it so that low-wealth debtors won’t be very profitable for you, but you’ll gain an alternative for them in camshows. And this way i can also straight-up increase potential debt sizes.

• Ability for scouts to dig up dirt on NPCs for blackmail material.

Also, i still want to finish implementing additional ways of getting rid of NPCs from your contact list through "bad" interactions with them. Not on my priority list though.

Overall, I hope to finish it by 19/07.