It's good to hear that my feedback helps you!
So, the chance to raise relationship level is 100%, but your have to fill up the relationship points, which you do by doing missions.
In this case, you should consider implementing additional pay raises on top of the ones gotten by doing missions. e.g. 1 pay raise per RL and any more per RNG Nice officers could have a chance to give one for free while pervs would require the MC to wear skimpier clothes or do other lewd things. This would speed up the pay raise, currently the problem is that the debt rate raises faster than the pay increases.
But then, why level Bob above level 2, then?
More than that, why should the pilot keep wearing clothes she agreed for that captain if she doesn't need him any longer?
Did you know you can also fly to other stations (without doing a mission), as well?
Yes, but this option seems vastly inferior to just resting: I don't get morale but lose it and the differences between stations are not that big that changing it would pay. I admit that I've never unlocked any of the Colonels or the General so I don't know if they would pay much more than the Majors.
I can easily make the days between repayments longer. I can also easily make the missions pay more. Lastly, I can change the loan structure so that you pay for a longer period, but the increase between each week is smaller.
A fourth option would be making the Loan Shark make lewd offers (like the officers) in exchange for reduced rate. That would match the game's theme.
In regards to the officer ranks and distribution, sure I'm always happy for more feedback, thanks.
Thanks, here are a few annoying things:
1. the distribution of officers seems random, a Captain might work for a Major on the same colony or on a different one.
2. Some colonies have 2 Majors and 2 Captains, making it confusing who's the overall superior officer, others have a Colonel with Captains but no Majors.
3. any officer could offer any task.
This looks more like competing businesses and not like a regular, organized military.
Here's my suggestion to fix that:
There are 3 types of colonies: Red (Industiral), Yellow (Security) and Blue (Research). These immediately reminded me of Star Trek uniforms. I would therefore recommend assigning all officers (except the General) to 3 Branches matching these colours, e.g. Engineering, Security and Science. Each hierarchic tree (1 colonel, 3 Majors and 9 Captains) would belong to 1 branch.
- Officers would give tasks fitting their branch. e.g. only engineering officers would ask to transport construction materials and only security officers would ask to transport ammunition. Some goods (like furniture) could be send by any branch.
- Each of the 3 Colonels would be located on a colony of the matching colour and have 1 Major of the same branch on the same colony responding to them, while each of the 2 captains on that colony would belong to a different branch: e.g. Settler Security Array (Yellow) has a Security (Yellow) branch Colonel with a security Major reporting to her, a science Captain (reporting to a science Major on a blue station) and an engineering Captain (also reporting to an engineering Major elsewhere).
- 6 other colonies would have 1 Major (same branch and colour as the colony) and 3 Captains (1 for each branch). The Captain of the same branch as the colony's Major would be reporting to that Major: e.g. Pioneer Research Base (blue) would have a Science Branch Major, a Science captain reporting to him, a security Captain (reporting to a security Major on a yellow station) and an engineering Captain (reporting to an engineering Major on a red station).
- The headquarter would have the General (either from a random branch, or no branch at all, as she or he is the Commander in Chief for that sector) and 1 Captain from each branch.
- During the introduction each officer would state their job (e.g. I'm Captain Alice Smith, Security officer on the Horizon Industrial Array)
This would be similar to real and standard sci-fi military structures, with each colony having one senior officer and the different branch officers have their clearly defined duties. It would explain why officers are not on the same place as their subordinates and superiors: every station needs officers from all three branches to be run, so they assign their subordinates to nearby stations.
I hope you like that idea, it shouldn't be too hard to code.