Maybe game could use a bank that can loan 10.000 syls with 10% interest?
On first playthrough player does not know what investments are worthwhile. The clothes may seem a good investment but increased income from photo shoots is negligible.
Precisely.
When I had F all money, only making scattered income from the few early game opportunities in the city.... then basically running out save for Deliveries for the bowling alley, and hoping I won the Saturday comp.... then I had no idea I should be just saving every cent for upgrades that seemed out of reach.... how did I know Kali's old man would dump 10k on me?
At 25 bucks a day, multi thousand dollar upgrades were looking like a NIGHTMARE GRIND. But Ellen tells me about pin-ups! I can schmooze these girls enough to get those happening, methinks. I do. I think maybe it is worth the investment in wardrobe so I can make more money off them.
So I never bothered with any unreachable upgrades.
Sorry no one wants to grind for months in game for that.
Ofc, we DID NOT HAVE TO... but I DID NOT KNOW THAT.
The artificial handbrake on progress, namely only making money every few days from the garden, and once a week from the Hotel's income, Can be a sad thing, if you get in trouble by spending on bad returns you do not know are, and I think even if it IS a grind, a way to make a few hundred a day, every day, would really help. Sure, it would allow faster gameplay than the Dev might want, but that is better than a great game being viewed a lot worse than it is by players who hit a wall and have zero patience.
TBH, the only reason I did not walk away when I hit the wall I mentioned, was that Ashley is my spirit animal (sorry world, sometimes you SHOULD put your D in crazy). If she had been slightly less off her effing tree, I would not have thought her worth the effort and just quit this game and not looked back. Given it a VERY different rating and review as well.