HentHighSchool Development Forum

Another suggestion.

The game is a grind fest of visits... (Actually it has always been)
I think the "Period" system with morning, afternoon and evening is not the best way to play the game. You need months (most probably 1 year or more) just for the initial part. And there are not so many events to justify all those visits that after some times become just extremely repetitive.

So my suggestion is: take out the 3 period system. Instead each day the player has a number of "actions". They can visit any location at the cost of 1 action. With this modification other actions, different from visits, could be easily added. An example could be talking with a member of the staff (only Susan and Marina at the moment) or maybe you can use your time ("actions") working more (and improving the schools stats).

Now, how many actions per day? In my opinion it should work like this: the player gains an action each day and can have a maximum of five actions (they are not forced to spend the action each day).
Different variant of this could easily be implemented: actions gained could be function of school stats, or other things so it is not a guaranteed action each day. Maybe depending on other factor you only gain 0.3 action point each day. Etc.. But in my opinion simple is better, so fixed number each day should be the way to go.

The improvements would be:

• Less actions each day. This is actually an improvement since having to do all those repetitive visits is just a boring grind fest.
• More flexibility: you can still visits, but this system can be used to implement new kind of actions. Examples are talking with staff or students, working after hours, etc...
• Easy to balance: just change the number of actions gained per day

NOTE: I am talking just about the periods, not the DSE code that is extremely useful to handle the events.

It might also make sense for students to occasionally transfer in. If the school has a low reputation, maybe you're accepting students who were expelled from other schools. If the school has a high reputation, maybe rich parents are transferring their children in because they aren't happy with their current school.

I doubt it would have a very significant effect on the total, but at least it wouldn't be entirely static throughout a year.

I kinda wish your rules did more.  For most of the game, you're chasing events to get the changes you require.

As compared to Students and Surveillance, the Cafeteria's income is awful, especially given its cost.  Anecdotes aren't exactly data, but: 312 students.  70 rep.  Student money: 108.69 (Rate per student; 0.3483)  Surveillence Money at Level 2: 39.81(Rate per student; 0.2251).  Cafeteria money at Level 3: 9.98(Rate per student: 0.032).

Mods are free to add whatever they want - that is kind of the point of the way the way this game is build, and why I spend so much time on having good instructions for mod writing.

I myself will only add stuff I personally enjoy though. So there won't be any zoo or futa content in the base game.

I kinda wish your rules did more.  For most of the game, you're chasing events to get the changes you require.

As compared to Students and Surveillance, the Cafeteria's income is awful, especially given its cost.  Anecdotes aren't exactly data, but: 312 students.  70 rep.  Student money: 108.69 (Rate per student; 0.3483)  Surveillence Money at Level 2: 39.81(Rate per student; 0.2251).  Cafeteria money at Level 3: 9.98(Rate per student: 0.032).

You aren't really building the cafeteria for the income, I view that more as flavor.
Yeah, getting the money is slow, which is intentional. I don't want to solve that by speeding it up too much, but rather by adding in more content. I have an idea for how to make the game time pass quicker by too. That will be a whole new part of the game though, and will probably only arrive in 0.5 (I am currently working on 0.4).