FMG Life Sim Polishing Update Alpha 3 Sent Out!

Hello everyone,

FMG Life Sim Polishing Update Alpha 3 has been sent out! If you processed a $10+ pledge in the month of December, you should have received a DM with the latest build. If you processed a pledge and did not receive a message, please DM me here.

Was a bit busy this month and didn't manage to content complete the update, but added some stuff that will hopefully be enjoyed!

Here's the update notes:

- Added 3 new Non-scaling Perks:

   - Adaptive Growth - Muscle

   - Adaptive Growth - Endurance

   - Adaptive Growth - Flexibility

These perks will each increase the Height stat of whoever owns them when the corresponding attribute is leveled up from experience + rest. For example, if a character has Adaptive Growth - Muscle, and levels up their Muscle stat from normal leveling up, then their height will also increase by 1. Longtime players may recognize this as similar to the old "height gain on muscle growth" option from long ago.

Currently these perks are only available through Chance's. Planning on adding them to the Chaos/Evolution potions, Custom Character Creator, Test Room, and possibly Edith's Exchange (possibly along with corresponding Adaptive Shrinking curses?) for the Polishing Update Beta 1.

Additionally planning on making Adaptive Growth - Muscle a default perk for the girlfriend on non-custom playthroughs. This combined with further tweaking should finally make height growth progression smooth and more in-line with the art.

- Added a new muscular atrophy system. It is disabled by default, to enable go to the Options section of the left-side bar.

 Each character has a 'threshold' for how many days of no exercise before muscle shrinking; this is currently set to 5 as a default.

All activities with the 'exercise' type tag should reset this counter, which includes some very light things like walking and stretching. Reset occurs during the experience gain.

 Atrophy accumulates if a character hasn't performed an exercise activity before their next full sleep. This is also when a character with current atrophy greater than their threshold loses a muscle level.

- Performing an activity multiple times together no longer displays the whole activity passage multiple times.

    - Changed the box for this from textbox to numberbox.

 - Experience analyzer currently only shows most recent iteration of the repeated activity, but the combined experience is still gained.

- Added Skills to custom character creation.

- Added item descriptions to all of the potions in the inventory screen (before using them).

- Hovering over the different physical stats on the character creation screen and stats screen now displays a tooltip explaining what that stat does.

- Moved the descriptions of what each difficulty level does to a hover tooltip on custom character selection (hover over the difficulty level to see more details).

- Fixed unintended ability to buy Lunar/Solar synthesis non-scaling perks multiple times for no benefit

- Changed the "for men / women" in titles of surgeries available at Chance's to "for (player name) / (girlfriend name)" respectively.

Planning on the next update in January to be the Beta 1, which will mark the update being generally content complete. Here are some of the major things planned:

• Implement stuff for new perks as mentioned above

• Revamp and clean up Test Room

• Clean up and reconsider Inventory screen

• Clean up and reconsider Change Equipment screen

• Restore basic work automation

• Allow a singular character to do the treasure hunting activity

Thanks for your continued support! Hope you enjoy everything to come, and have a great New Year!

• Magnus