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Hello, first of all I love what you have done so far with this game!

If you are looking for any future ideas I would love if the athletic aspect of the game was expanded. Some ideas I had where exercising too many days in a row causing injuries, permanently lowering base fitness and preventing one from exercising for some time. Additionally perhaps having a occupation of Athlete where that women loses weight daily (needing either high levels of feeding or an injury to make her lose her job). Also in general fleshing out the dialogue in the game would be amazing!

Overall though the new update is great!

Taylor Applebrook46 days ago

Thank you for your praise & I'm always open to suggestions!

I really like your ideas. Whilst I'm not a huge fan of weight loss, I do like the idea of using it to make the more active girls harder to fatten. It would help vary the experience and make it more realistic. That injury mechanic could work great with it. Watch this space!

feli500046 days ago (2 edits)

like the idea of changing the base fitness.
However i also think things like, sickness, bad health, and injuries should be optional.
Good theat the two "conditions" macromastasia and lipedema are optional already.

Also if there is a way to lower base fitness there should also be a way to raise it.
Bears the question: if you can change the Base-Fitness why do you need the two levels at all, it could also be just one fitness parameter that you can lower or raise, slower or faster, with different actions.
Curious how this and other features will turn out :)

Taylor Applebrook44 days ago(+2)

Not to worry, if I do add injuries from exercise, I can certainly make them optional.

My intention behind base fitness is that's the level of fitness a girl will maintain without your influence. So when you stop exercising with her, she will slowly revert back to that base level. Any changes to the base fitness would need to be from significant events, for example a change in mindset, such that the girl continues to maintain a different level of fitness even when you're not involved anymore.

I'd like to add some additional methods for the player to lower a girl's fitness too & will need to think that over.

feli500044 days ago (1 edit)

Ok, i get the "base fitness" parameter and agree that it is good for gameplay.
What do you think about a "base weight" when you leave a girl alone ?

Taylor Applebrook44 days ago

I might include some sort of base weight system in the future, but it would probably work differently to base fitness. After all, your body doesn't like losing and will try to regain lost weight (yo-yo dieting etc). So the base weight might actually be the highest weight the girl reached in the past.

feli500044 days ago

If base weight will be highest weight reached there is no chance for naturally skinny characters that have to be encouraged to gain weight. That would be a pity because encouragement is such a nice fantasy!

imho base weight would have to be more sophisticated, more like "metabolism" that is very hard to change, if at all.

PS.: even if your body does not like it, you will lose weight if you do not eat, but also lose muscle ie.: fitness. No yo-yo without calorie input.
Yo-yo could be implemented as a "next meal buff" after starving ...

BTW.: What you call "minor improvements" feels like a major milestone!

regards,

itch.io

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