Simbro ResErection News (2023-09-03) (Patreon)

Good Evening and welcome to SB News channel 69, I'm your host The Gentle Viking. It's been a while and we have a lot of news, so let's dive into it.

State of the Game
We've been working hard on the brothel update these past weeks. The system has been completely revamped and remade to make the game more enjoyable and scalable. On top of that, we've been adding more options for the female characters' appearance. Most of this was pretty easy, but some of it required some animation tweaking. We're hoping to have an update out in the next couple of days.

Character Art
SkullZombie has been hard at work getting more assets ready for the female characters. He's completed more face shapes, noses, ears, facial marks(moles and freckles), and much more. We know not everyone will like every option, but we hope you'll find combinations you'll like. Now, let's talk about cups... and their sizes... as you can see above, SkullZombie has also been working on breast size variation, This isn't something you'll see in the next update, but we hope to have it added soon.

Let's talk about the Android in the room. This is some new art for the base of androids. Currently, we only plan to use it for Hitomi, but we wanted to have options to add Androids in the future. Let us know what you think.

Clothing Art
RivRina completed the Maid/ Magical Girl outfit voted on by supporters. She did an amazing job! We haven't added the outfit to the game yet, but we have added the hair (which looks so good). RivRina will be working on getting outfits she has made updated to work with the new breast size variations.

Background Art
Mamacita completed the last background for the bank! We will have Mamacita move on to getting the brothel backgrounds finished. We hope to have all the rooms available on the first floor finished before we move on to any other floor.

Animations
Thelawfulsock has been slaving away at improving and making animations for the female characters. You won't be able to see them in the next update, but we hope to have them available soon. Once we've finished with all the boring animations for the female characters, we plan to jump back to the "naughty" animations before updating the male character animations. I honestly can't wait to show you what Thelawfulsock has been cooking up.

Programming
Okay, now on to what I've been up to. So, this update wasn't as straightforward as I thought it was going to be. As soon as I started I realized that I had to update a lot more than just the Brothel System. Mainly it was how characters replenished mood and hygiene and how time advancement works. I've had to completely revamp how time passes to ensure that the receptionist could assign workers properly. On top of that, I needed to add functionality to the showers, staffroom, and maid room.

Time to talk about the Brothel system. We've made some drastic changes to how prices are decided and how clients and workers are satisfied. Unlike the original, this Brothel System tries to take everything into account. Things like client job, mood, hygiene, wealth, and requests all affect the price and worker satisfaction. Things like the number of requests the worker fulfills and the worker's mood and hygiene have an effect on the client's satisfaction. All of these things will hopefully make the game more diverse and enjoyable. We will still need to tweak things as time passes but that's to be expected.

Next is the receptionist system. As mentioned before, this upcoming update will allow you to assign a receptionist to handle assigning workers. You'll be able to tell the receptionist to prioritize different things when assigning clients to workers. Right now you'll have 3 options, Lowest level, Money, and Satisfaction. Lowest Level will prioritize assigning clients to workers with the lowest levels first. This will allow you to get lower-level characters levels up faster, allowing you to earn more money in the long run. Money will prioritize how much is made over anything else. This will typically assign high-level characters first. Satisfaction prioritizes the client's needs/requests. We plan to add more options in the future but this should do for now.

Finally, I want to talk about things that we will still need to add to the brothel system in future updates. First is traits. We've added (and removed) some traits. Currently, these traits do nothing due to the time constraint I've set for myself. However, we do have plans to make traits a big part of the game (more about that in a later update). Second, is refining client stats and jobs. Right now, clients have different jobs which affect their base stats. We want to refine the job names to better suit the setting of the game and also add more variety. Third, is room quality and themes. At this point room quality isn't part of the satisfaction or price formula. Once we do the Stage Plan update we hope to remedy this. Last but not least is reputation gain and security. This update won't have clients running away and the reputation gain is simple. We do plan to fix this once we have more systems in place.

Outro

We can't wait to show you everything we've been working on! Everyone on the SBR Team has been putting their best effort into making this a game to be proud of. We see your enthusiasm and support and it motivates us. We have big plans and seeing them come to fruition is one of the best feelings ever. We can't wait to hear your feedback!

As always, thank you for your support, thank you for your patience, and thank you for all of your enthusiasm. All of the achievements and all of this success is all because of you. We are truly humbled to have such a great community.