I’m now firmly at the ‘play the game until you detect an imbalance, then make a note and fix it’ stage. This can be a tad dull, because you are playing to test, not to have fun. The truly great news is that despite playing the game for hours at a time<\/p>\n
1) It never has any performance problems of any sort ever, even in debug and<\/p>\n
2) It never crashes.<\/p>\n
I currently have a little list of niggles to fix for tonight and tomorrow like this:<\/p>\n
todo : check that people get bored with an event even if you didn’t show up. I also have just one biggish design issue. Acting jobs last forevere, and as they have no promotions, you can get into condition for the job then ‘let yourself go’. I can’t decide right now whether to make the jobs a finite length (as in kudos 2). or have you sacked if your performance (job suitability in effect) falls below a certain level. Both ideas require horrid custom coding, but I thuink they are important to making the acting career more playable.<\/p>\n Today I also got some more NPC artwork, and switched payment providers abck to BMT. It’s all in a good cause (getting the best deal, and the best customer service for people buying the games).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m now firmly at the ‘play the game until you detect an imbalance, then make a note and fix it’ stage. This can be a tad dull, because you are playing to test, not to have fun. The truly great news is that despite playing the game for hours at a time 1) It never<\/p>\n
\nif you ignore a phone ring and go to the next day, its visually still flashing.
\nbirthday screen friend description can be blank!
\ndog status text runs out of room.
\nI need new button graphics for graph screen
\nmuscles should degrade slower
\nmotorbike should give you some kudos or charisma or confidence
\nI maybe need some alert sound if dog fights off a burglar
\nmight be funny to slightly stretch and squash avatars with weight.
\npaint ball gun needs a use button, for all year round.
\ndogs never eat any food.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n