Monday (Progress Report)

I added a new thing today: basically, once you get to a certain point in a pregnancy, you have the option to call your doctor's office to decide how you want to give birth. There's three main options: hospital, doctor's office, and at home, and each of those options has three variations.

The main concerns when it comes to giving birth are three factors: health effect, recovery time, and baby happiness. The choices you make will affect those three factors. Generally, the shorter your recovery time, the more detrimental the effect on your health and baby happiness. The more you spend, the better the effects in general. If you don't have enough money, then you can always choose the hospital option (with no variation), and it will take all of your money instead.

The other thing I had a thought about today was a laundry system, or rather a system for getting your clothes dirty. At first, I didn't really want to do that, because it seemed like busywork for the sake of busywork. But then I realized that there's a way to do it that opens up new opportunities.

Still working on the details, but the basic idea is that every day you wear a particular outfit, it gets a little dirtier and wrinkled, adding a non-natural charisma penalty. To get rid of it, you have to do laundry. It doesn't take long to do, but the problem is that your apartment doesn't have a laundry cleaning machine, so you have to go to a laundromat. Hey look, chance for new encounters! Whee!

Also, what if you don't WANT to go to the laundromat? Maybe there's an apartment that has a washer/dryer hook-up that you can move to? Hmm...