It’s almost that time of the year again… Influencing 1.0.0 is coming!

1. CITY MAPS AND EXPLORATION

• Added Seaside Streets, a new city layout with front-facing buildings, rectangular lots and new coastal scenery.
• Added Coastal Commons, an alternative layout with isometric lots and room for more locations.
• Kept the original map available as Classic.
• Added new front-facing artwork for city buildings, including homes, apartments, shops and public services.
• Added editable building placement: rearrange a city by moving buildings between lots, including swapping occupied lots.
• Added blank-world creation, editable lots and roads, custom map backgrounds and building icons.
• Added the ability to rename locations and rooms, create locations from templates and move buildings off the visible map.
• Kept off-map locations reachable, so removing a map icon does not erase the associated home, workplace or residents.
• Added custom apartment-building templates that can supply real homes for future families.
• Added optional known-character portraits on the map, with a larger list when several known people are at the same building.
• Added location badges beside household portraits to show where each controlled-household member actually is.
• Improved map portrait loading and reuse to reduce the work involved in repeatedly opening or hovering over the map.
• Improved travel previews with the destination, selected transport, actual costs and an explanation when a route is unavailable.
• Corrected apartment entrances and destination selection so travel leads to the intended building, floor or home.

2. ROOM ART AND LOCATION EXPANSIONS

• Refreshed backgrounds across Industry, the Gym, PUB, Cafe, Mary's House, Beach, University, Night Club, Park, Hospital, City Tower and the player's house.
• Added matching nighttime artwork for many outdoor locations and room expansions.
• Refreshed selected Police station areas and the private cubicles at City Hall and the television station.
• Improved room staging, character scale, walking areas and clickable doors to fit the new backgrounds.
• Added distinct apartment interiors for Blue Sea, Forest Side and High Class, including living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, entrances and bathrooms.
• Expanded apartment buildings with shared lobbies, floor landings, stairs and, where appropriate, elevators with usable floor controls.
• Added neighborhood spaces and services, including courtyards, squares, laundromats, a food truck, ice-cream kiosk and flower kiosk.
• Expanded High Class amenities with shared leisure spaces, a rooftop solarium, pool access and a private changing cabin.
• Added apartment-neighbor conversations and neighborhood service access.
• Added concierge parcel storage for owned gifts, with reclaiming and in-person gift handoff.
• Added Aurelia Casino with a gaming hall, lounge, staff spaces and its own artwork.
• Added City Hall, Seaside Television and Velvet House as functional destinations connected to their respective systems and careers.
• Expanded the Beach with a snack hut, quiet beach, volleyball court and a secluded area to discover.
• Added Saturday beach evenings with actual attendees, music, dancing and a Calendar entry.
• Expanded Shopping with a ground-floor leisure wing, food court and arcade, plus an upper shopping floor and rooftop area.
• Added or improved secluded outdoor routes around several existing venues, with ordinary discovery, entry and return paths.
• Added a dedicated prison yard, separate from the police gym, with day and night artwork.
• Gave the Park more everyday uses: jogging, benches, picnics, feeding ducks, sunbathing, photography and evening strolls.
• Added campus leisure access during supported evening and weekend periods, with staff duties and opportunities for shared study or relaxation.
• Corrected several room connections, washroom/cabin return routes and closing-time checks.

3. CHARACTER APPEARANCE AND CLOTHING

• Added a new collection of matched front and profile face artwork with separately selectable facial features.
• Expanded the character editor's face choices while retaining individual eyes, noses, eyebrows and mouth/jaw selections.
• Improved profile jaw shapes, feature seams, facial outlines, eye layering and gaze presentation.
• Added beard choices with front and profile fits and matching hair colors.
• Improved head and hair alignment across differently sized assets and poses.
• Added twelve women's hairstyles across the existing hair categories.
• Added paid salon services for hairstyle changes, hair dye and restoration of natural hair color.
• Kept cosmetic dye separate from natural hair genetics and inheritance.
• Added a wearable flower accessory, including ownership, wearing/removal and gift acceptance.
• Added layered wardrobe editing with garment ordering, outfit previews and individual worn/off controls.
• Improved partial-undressing and clothing-coverage checks to account for the layers actually being worn.
• Expanded clothing characteristics such as formality, comfort, necklines and movement openings.
• Added more contextual outfit observations, compliments, teasing and questions about clothing.
• Improved work-outfit handling when starting a shift or switching household control.
• Corrected clothing-store tint controls, held-item scaling and several portrait and scene-layer alignment issues.

4. SHOPPING, GIFTS, HOMES AND EVERYDAY NEEDS

• Expanded the shopping catalog with useful electronics, books, hobby supplies, keepsakes, grooming products and consumables.
• Added uses for items such as an e-reader, camera, headphones, keyboard, radio, puzzle, exercise mat and training materials.
• Added more takeaway meals, drinks, sweets, ice cream and food-court choices.
• Expanded served drinks, personal tastes, shared refreshments and party toasts.
• Improved the inventory interface with clearer descriptions, categories, effects and unavailable-action explanations.
• Expanded gift conversations with different intentions, acceptance/refusal and follow-up questions about the last gift.
• Made gift use distinct from gift receipt: receiving an item does not mean the recipient has used or worn it.
• Added purchasable home furnishings for beds, kitchens, showers and sound systems, with different quality tiers.
• Added installation and furnishing gifts for another household, with an explicit destination and the resident's answer.
• Expanded home improvements with extra bedrooms and supported outdoor upgrades.
• Added gradual body progress from exercise, meals and rest, with a readable progress/history panel.
• Added practical skills and practice routes separate from conversation interests.
• Added alcohol state, caffeine dependency and street-substance effects, with dedicated status information and recovery conversations.
• Added treatment and recovery routes for injuries and low Health, including access when no doctor is available for a consultation.
• Expanded homeless life with real money, carried food and supplies, sleeping places, hygiene routes, begging, scavenging and practical support.
• Added temporary hospitality and shelter conversations, including food, a place to rest and access to a shower when agreed.
• Improved homeless NPC need handling so ordinary eating, socializing and leisure can fit around survival routines.

5. FAMILY, PREGNANCY AND THE CALENDAR

• Replaced the simplified calendar with real month lengths, weekdays and leap years.
• Added Calendar views for known birthdays, anniversaries, meetings, gatherings and city events.
• Extended pregnancy through birth instead of ending the game at the former pregnancy limit.
• Added birth records, multiple-birth handling and parental recovery.
• Added Family Manager views for known pregnancies, due dates and family records.
• Added pregnancy conversations about feelings, names, future plans, practical support and accommodation.
• Added recognized parenthood and separate biological, acknowledged and former acknowledged parent roles.
• Added paternity discussions, agreed tests, delayed results, disclosure and choices about continuing or leaving a parental role.
• Added daily child-support responsibility tied to the acknowledged parent's household, with support history and informational shortfalls.
• Expanded genealogy and recognized parenthood records.
• Improved family-information privacy: a rumor, an assumption and confirmed parentage are different kinds of knowledge.
• Expanded kinship checks across distant relatives and acknowledged parent links, including checks at the point a romantic action starts.
• Kept unknown kinship from being exposed by romantic menus; unavailable choices use a discreet explanation.
• Added household lunches, birthdays and relationship anniversaries using actual invitations and attendance.
• Improved family invitations so a known household or family connection does not always require an exchanged phone number.

6. CONVERSATIONS, FRIENDSHIPS AND NPC LIFE

• Expanded introductions and greetings with warmer, playful and direct choices.
• Improved basic questions about feelings, work, interests and family, including contextual refusals and repeated-topic replies.
• Organized Chat into clearer categories while retaining the existing conversation choices.
• Added clearer visual distinctions between an action and a submenu, with more consistent paging and Back controls.
• Added direct shared-meal, drink, dance and activity invitations from room and conversation controls.
• Added explicit individual answers when inviting player-created household members.
• Added conversations about preferred shared activities and suggestions based on things actually discussed or done together.
• Added mutual-friend introductions involving people who are really present.
• Added shared routines and follow-up conversations after spending time together across different days.
• Added reactions to a new housemate and later conversations about settling in, comfort, privacy and household life.
• Added contextual NPC approaches for friendly check-ins, coworkers, family news, public incidents, activities and other real events.
• Added personality-driven company and initiative, including asking for more contact or for space.
• Improved leisure decisions so NPCs can pursue interests even when their immediate needs are already satisfied.
• Improved NPC activity variety and the balance between local social opportunities and hobbies.
• Improved group following and shared movement while retaining real doors, household access and custody restrictions.
• Improved wake-up conversations and tired-partner handling, including choices to help, buy or offer an energy item, say a quick word or let someone rest.
• Improved conversation continuity, mutual recent-contact records and the distinction between an actual exchange and merely opening a menu.

7. MEMORIES, REPUTATION AND PERSONAL STORIES

• Added a Memory Book with a timeline, person filters, event details and the source of known information.
• Expanded gossip with concrete selectable stories, source tracking and NPC-initiated news.
• Added requests for new gossip and questions about particular known people.
• Improved historical wording so old events do not display impossible negative dates or imply they happened in the current relationship.
• Added core memories and conversations about what significant shared experiences mean to each person.
• Added delayed follow-ups to important events, allowing consequences and reactions to return later in ordinary play.
• Added reputation across household, workplace, groups, neighbors and town circles.
• Added socially learned nicknames and conversations asking someone to stop using one.
• Added wants, personal goals, promises to help and conversations about another person's disclosed aims.
• Added clearer goal cards, milestone history and known events that helped or set back progress.
• Added rivalries connected to competing aims, with discussions, boundaries and opportunities to make peace.
• Added private-story exchanges, confidentiality promises, leaks and nonsexual requests made using known secrets.
• Added weekly life recaps and public news drawn from recorded events.
• Added new-city life-history generation, giving residents a recorded past connected to their relationships, knowledge and practical skills.
• Added a life-history preview before accepting a generated city, plus an explicit cheat option to enrich an existing city's past once.
• Added longer-lived reactions to decisive confrontations, including shaken behavior or a desire for revenge according to the character and outcome.
• Improved knowledge boundaries across journals, gossip, contacts and conversations so reading a panel does not reveal unrelated secrets.

8. DATES, PARTNERSHIPS AND RELATIONSHIP CHOICES

• Added in-person scheduling of friendly meetings and dates without requiring a phone number.
• Added exact future day/time selection alongside quick scheduling choices.
• Expanded incoming phone invitations with a chosen meeting place, real NPC travel and a clear arrival deadline.
• Added playable date sessions with a visible partner, remaining time, shared activities and outcome feedback.
• Connected dates to ordinary meals, drinks, travel and other supported actions rather than a separate activity checklist.
• Added clearer follow-up conversations about attended plans, missed meetings and requests for space.
• Added relationship-advice conversations with later reflection and follow-up outcomes.
• Added gradual discussions about relationship preferences, openness and partner boundaries.
• Added relationship circles, named partner approvals and agreed three-person meetings.
• Added the Sharing & openness hub, including outsider proposals, explicit disclosures and follow-up conversations.
• Added books and articles about relationship openness, with effects tied to actual reading and reflection.
• Added a partner-sharing route with named proposals, limits, dates, later reports and choices about being present.
• Added wingman-style approaches to help a partner meet somebody, or ask for their help.
• Added an affair route with private meetings, messages, suspicion, disclosure and contextual consequences.
• Added a harem route with member invitations, a dedicated overview, shared moments, individual attention and member reactions.
• Added visible follow-ups to agreed social restrictions and conversations about changing or ending them.
• Added engagement and wedding planning, venue/style choices, vows, optional bands and actual witness memories.
• Expanded household bans, apologies and repair routes; a ban belongs to the household's home rather than every apartment in the building.
• Improved relationship dialogue with variations matching different personality voices.
• Improved continuity between story interactions and the existing adult scene system, including returning to the originating story afterward.

9. PHONE, MESSAGES AND OPTIONAL AI

• Redesigned the phone into a landscape interface with clearer navigation and more room for contacts, details and records.
• Expanded contact profiles with relationship context, known goals, reputation, memories and journal links.
• Added richer scripted text conversations, delayed replies, support, jokes, reconnection and requests for space.
• Added unread counts, stronger new-message indicators, unread filtering, muting and mark-read controls.
• Added phone-call conversations with multiple topics and meeting arrangements.
• Added Circle introductions and public posts, reactions, follow-up exchanges and access from library computers.
• Added optional free-form AI texting, with separately configurable relationship analysis.
• Added in-person group AI chat with the player and up to two nearby NPCs, participant controls and shared conversation history.
• Added quick actions to supported conversations for real invitations, refreshments, gifts, clothing adjustments and travel.
• Improved AI context so calls, texts, Circle posts and in-person speech are treated as different communication channels.
• Reworked AI connection settings with clearer provider profiles, model selection and separate conversation/analysis setup.
• Expanded compatible connection choices for local servers and online APIs, including LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM, OpenRouter and other compatible endpoints.
• Improved AI Horde model selection and Influencing server/catalog presentation.
• Fixed an Influencing-provider token-budget override that could truncate replies and analysis.
• Improved request timeout/error reporting, queued-result handling, cancellation and repeated-result protection.
• Added a recent provider-reply inspector for troubleshooting dialogue and analysis responses.
• Improved AI replies during adult scenes to distinguish an observer from an active participant.

10. CAREERS, STUDY AND BUSINESSES

• Added manual duties and career panels for many jobs that previously relied on automatic work.
• Expanded playable work across Industry, City Tower, PUB, Night Club, Hospital and University, including worker and management roles.
• Added multi-shift workplace projects, preparation, evidence, reviews and disputes over credit.
• Added coworker favors, trust, workplace conversations, boss/employee stories and consequences tied to actual work.
• Added career ladders with intermediate ranks, promotion requirements, progress displays and promotion discussions.
• Improved hiring and job access through actual staff, vacancies and workplace conversations.
• Added Campus Life with seminars, research, study partners, debates, weekly projects, assessments and academic-integrity choices.
• Added campus caretaker and porter duties, evening access and staff handovers.
• Expanded police work with a chief, manual shifts, a case board, colleague relationships and command decisions.
• Added hospital leadership/nursing support and hands-on bedside care for actual patients, alongside a clearly identified simulator.
• Added apartment-service careers such as concierge, laundromat attendant, ice-cream vendor, food-truck cook and florist.
• Added casino careers for management, croupier work, lounge service and security, with duties and a shared workplace project.
• Added television careers and programming responsibilities.
• Added Velvet House management and worker play, real client appointments, social dates, earnings and an ownership route.
• Improved work information, score explanations, current duties and visible need/time costs.
• Corrected work arrival locations, early/manual shift controls, work clothing and household control switching during a shift.
• Corrected overnight attendance handling so midnight does not incorrectly count an ongoing shift as a missed workday.

11. CIVIC LIFE, MEDIA AND CITY STANDING

• Added mayoral campaigning, elections, elected-office responsibilities, public approval and city finances.
• Added public law ballots with separate policy choices and explicit player voting.
• Added conversations to seek or pressure someone for a mayoral or law vote, with recorded commitments and responses.
• Added television programming, sponsored runs, station management and programming effects on actual viewers.
• Added Local news broadcasts based on appropriate recorded public events.
• Added a City Hall information panel with a census, place directory, services, leaders, job vacancies and public records.
• Added city-behavior charts to the author/cheat tools.
• Added City standing and an Alpha title with rankings, public challenges, declared support and title history.
• Connected agreed minigame contests and witnessed results to standing where applicable.
• Added support/backing conversations and practical social reactions without making a title automatic agreement to other requests.

12. CRIME AND STREET LIFE

• Added a crime system with incidents, witnesses, evidence, fines, charges and custody outcomes.
• Added theft and other street-crime attempts with real risks, actual money/items and contextual outcomes.
• Added a Street phone hub showing the route, known opportunities, requirements, potential pay, risks and personal records.
• Added street suppliers, recognition learned through actual contact, buying/selling and information about their operating spots.
• Added burglary lessons, lockpicks, burglary attempts and clearer odds/risk/result feedback.
• Added criminal crew activity, lookout arrangements, package jobs and fencing stolen goods.
• Added player dealing with owned stock, wholesale restocking, real customers and funds.
• Expanded the street economy with substance demand/effects, payouts and gang income.
• Added persistent gangs, membership, leadership, turf, corner disputes and conflicts.
• Added protection arrangements, betrayal/snitch consequences and police interaction with gang activity.
• Added wanted searches, shelter decisions and consequences for helping a wanted person.
• Improved private-home stashes and physical hidden items so their location and ownership matter.
• Made resisting arrest add to the actual charge rather than replacing the original offence.
• Improved discovery and guidance so the player can find the criminal route through visible controls instead of unexplained triggers.

13. POLICE, INVESTIGATIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS

• Added case boards with filed evidence, actual witnesses, known leads and visible next steps.
• Added playable scene investigations with inspection points, evidence connections, a saved notebook and a final report.
• Added station-record and witness inquiries alongside scene work.
• Added field searches with real travel and last-known leads rather than guaranteed suspect locations.
• Added proper doorstep arrival and admission for private-home searches.
• Added department-car checkout, field travel, parking, return and recovery.
• Added playable road pursuits as an officer or a fleeing driver, using the actual vehicles involved.
• Added detainee escorts, station intake and hospital handover where medical priority requires it.
• Added usable return/resume routes for interrupted searches and escorts, including department-car handling after a shift.
• Added police carrying inspections, public-offence responses, eyewitness questions and contextual reception approaches.
• Added arrest-time appeals and choices when the player is the suspect.
• Added turn-based confrontations with attack/defense choices, stamina, equipment, injuries and readable results.
• Made practical fighting skill, strength and actual character height matter in appropriate combat calculations.
• Added hospital recovery, treatment access and injury restrictions for strenuous activities.
• Added witness and partner follow-ups after fights, with reactions shaped by actual relationships and events.
• Improved multiple-charge handling, pending cases and search continuity to avoid repeated hearing loops or lost charges.

14. PRISON LIFE

• Added a playable custody routine with direct room controls and a prison overview that does not require a phone.
• Added clear sentence, case, service and timetable information.
• Added meals, rest, washing, laundry, duties, supervised yard access and conversations with actual prisoners/staff.
• Added prison clothing and improved the separation between inmate areas and staff facilities.
• Added Twenty-one with an actual cellmate or available partner, visible hands, results, replay and shared score history.
• Added reading, personal-history conversations and more ordinary ways to spend time in custody.
• Added plans involving outside help, agreed preparation, visits and physical supplies.
• Added hiding places and searches that discover real stored items.
• Added prison-related group accounts and knowledge of what was actually said or witnessed.
• Improved release, post-release conversations, employment consequences and the transition back into ordinary life.
• Rebalanced new sentences and repeat-offence handling while keeping the distinctions between warnings, fines and custodial outcomes.

15. VEHICLES AND TRAVEL

• Added transport choices for walking, cycling, taking the bus and driving.
• Added car and bicycle shopping with owned vehicles, model/color, condition, fuel where applicable and actual parking locations.
• Added opt-in household vehicle sharing, preferred vehicles and travel preferences.
• Added transport quotes that account for the people traveling, available seats, resources and the selected vehicle.
• Added warnings before leaving an owned/shared vehicle behind and a route back to its parked location.
• Added fuel, maintenance, recovery and repaint services.
• Added custom vehicle colors with free preview/cancel before purchase.
• Added an optional arcade driving segment with traffic, overtaking, collisions and consequences for the actual vehicle/driver.
• Added driving preferences so supported trips can be played, prompted or handled automatically.
• Added hands-on vehicle repair, saved component progress, final fitting and the option to hand remaining work to normal service.
• Made Mechanics affect manual repair efficiency, with quoted rework costs for mistakes.
• Improved partial-trip and partial-repair recovery and save handling.
• Kept vehicle damage and driver injuries separate, with clearer warnings about each.

16. PLAYABLE ACTIVITIES AND MINIGAMES

• Air hockey: live paddle/puck play, bank shots, actual opponents, anti-stalling turnovers and immediate replay.
• Beach volleyball: movement, contact timing, aimed returns and opponents whose height, strength and skill affect play.
• Basketball: solo shooting or head-to-head play, attack/defense, timed shots and blocks.
• Weightlifting: controlled lift/balance challenges, sets, repetitions and agreed strength contests.
• Darts: nine-dart practice or friendly 301, with separate horizontal and vertical timing bars.
• Pub pool: aimed shots, saved shot animation, real opponents, score tracking and optional wagers.
• Prison Twenty-one: playable hands, actual partners, score history and repeat games.
• Fishing: casting, striking and line tension, purchased rods/bait/lures, spare-rod lending, species/weight records and Keep/Release choices.
• Gardening: purchased planters and tools, planting, watering, weeding, persistent growth and useful harvests.
• Cooking: held ingredient preparation, multiple pans, heat control, flipping/stirring, assembly and serving actual diners or food-truck customers.
• Bartending: actual customer orders, recipe selection, pouring, mixing, appropriate finishing steps and real sales/tips.
• Dancing: a rhythm board with music, timed notes, keyboard/touch input and supported shared dance invitations.
• Karaoke: solo songs, duets and friendly challenges, original music, difficulty choices and nearby listeners. Uses pitch/timing controls rather than a microphone.
• Hospital bedside care: monitoring, choosing a care priority, supplies, stabilization and final handover for a real patient, plus simulator practice.
• Vehicle repair: interactive component work, saved partial progress and a clear Finish repair step.
• Crime-scene investigation: inspections, deductions and notebook completion using the actual case's facts.
• Driving and police pursuits: optional active driving with saved progress and real-world-in-the-game consequences.
• Casino games: roulette, slots and blackjack, with rules, stakes, payouts and saved hands where appropriate.
• Added agreed wagers and standing challenges to supported competitive games.
• Added personal records and a dedicated Games achievement view with descriptions and progress.
• Added pause/help, continuation, replay and save/load support across the new activity interfaces.
• Added ordinary/automatic alternatives where supported, with the activity's real costs and without pretending unplayed practice earned manual-game records.
• Connected supported shared activities to actual invitations, friendship/history and real time, needs, inventory or payment.

17. ANNUAL CITY GAMES

• Added an annual competition event covering basketball, beach volleyball, weightlifting, pool and air hockey.
• Added announcements, registration, brackets, scheduled matches and actual entrants.
• Added event access from the Phone, Calendar and participating venues.
• Added next-match guidance, travel previews, explicit waiting and clearer arrival controls.
• Added real supporters, favorite competitors, cheering and temporary team-color presentation.
• Added opening and awards celebrations with social activities and attendance.
• Added medals, prize money, achievements and annual history.
• Added competition-day work leave for entrants and reduced optional social interruptions on their competition dates.
• Improved NPC preparation, venue travel, check-in and recovery when a scheduled preparation step was missing.
• Separated match results from prize presentation, with protection against repeated payouts.

18. INTERFACE, GUIDANCE AND CONFIGURATION

• Reworked the Journal to distinguish stories, arranged plans, optional ideas and ongoing agreements.
• Added a Now view, clearer status/topic filters, contextual next steps and contact links.
• Added Follow/Hide for optional ideas without treating them as promises or completed tasks.
• Unified event tracking across meetings, dates, relationships, work, civic events and authored stories.
• Improved counts so they match the current filter instead of implying every known agreement is unfinished.
• Added contextual What can I do? suggestions and manual access to the same guidance.
• Expanded the in-game feature guide with instructions for new systems.
• Moved gameplay configuration into Preferences and kept Help focused on guides.
• Added optional horizontal status bars while retaining the original status presentation.
• Improved wide choice menus, portrait selectors, scrolling, list-position retention and fixed continuation/close controls.
• Corrected inverted scrollbars and several overlapping or stale panels.
• Improved room-action placement and hover information for time, money and needs.
• Improved the separation between game boards, dialogue, results and the restored room controls.
• Added clearer reasons for unavailable actions and more usable Back, Stop, resume and recovery paths.
• Improved the distinction between actual barriers and NPC preferences, including shared movement, workplace activities and room crowding.
• Improved household gathering capacity and explicit joining, so an invitation does not silently make the player attend.
• Standardized player-facing activity costs to say minutes, keeping seconds only where the controls use real-time timing.
• Added a collapsible known-people panel in the adult scene selector.

19. IN-GAME CREATOR TOOLS

• World Workshop: choose or create a map, rearrange buildings, edit terrain, set names/lore and preview before applying.
• Location creation: add homes, apartments, public or commercial locations from functional templates.
• Room Workshop: replace backgrounds, configure day/night pairs, edit walking floors, character scale, door hotspots, room rules and available actions.
• Batch room tools: copy compatible floor/scale settings and export multiple staged room changes together.
• World/Location/Room packs: import and export portable bundles containing validated data and artwork.
• Job Workshop: create careers, configure roles, wages, hours, workplaces, capacities and duties, and preview staff assignments.
• Job sharing: export/import career definitions and connect them to installed workplaces and real managers.
• Population Workshop: design household models, family links, ages, naming pools, origins, economic distributions, homes and staffing requirements.
• Population previews: inspect a proposed city before applying future-generation settings.
• Boss and family rerolls: in new-city setup, reroll one generated person, a boss household or all listed boss households, with individual and bulk Male/Female/Random choices. Keep custom families, jobs, homes, ages, family links and funds; refreshed life-history previews retain the new identities when accepting the city.
• Colors & Ethnicities tools: manage save-local palettes and presets, with portable import/export and protection for colors already in use.
• Clothing Workshop: inspect and edit clothing characteristics across the installed catalog, independently of the controlled character.
• Native garment editing: create/import models, edit metadata, categories, prices, coverage, masks and layers, and validate the artwork.
• Release-data export: write selected clothing and room defaults for distribution, with previews, confirmation and backups.
• Main-menu workshop access: prepare supported world, population and clothing content without first loading a character.
• Expanded Cheat Workbench: searchable resident selection, visual need/personality/relationship/body controls, money and practical-skill tools.
• Family Lab: inspect pregnancy and parentage records for development and testing.
• Populate tool: preview and add batches of adults to an existing city using its population recipe, households, housing and staffing rules.
• Memory inspector: browse a selected adult's actual records, with explicit testing support for custom memories.
• Intimacy-network inspector: explore recorded adult connections with selection, pan, zoom and evidence details; co-parent evidence is distinguished from encounter records.
• Added city charts, location/script debugging, activity inspection and guarded stop/move controls for development and testing.

20. INFLUENCING STUDIO AND COMMUNITY CONTENT

These tools belong to the separate Influencing Studio/editor distribution.

• Added a visual story editor with dialogue cards, choices, conditions, effects and branching flow.
• Added an exchange-writing tool for inserting several connected lines, including speech, thoughts and narration.
• Added branch rehearsal, test values, transcript review and Back one step for trying different answers.
• Added JSON import/export, project backups and advanced Ren'Py export.
• Added community interaction packs that bundle several stories into one file.
• Added an in-game pack manager with review, refresh and save-local enable/disable controls.
• Added supported manual Chat entries and automatic event triggers for community interactions.
• Added story milestones that appear in the game's Journal.
• Added a Jobs editor for career definitions and attached stories.
• Added a Population editor using the game's modular population format.
• Added a Memories editor for event wording, personality voices, privacy and witness behavior.
• Added World and Room data panels with portable pack/art round trips.
• Added a standalone offline HTML edition alongside the web editor, with remembered light/dark presentation.
• Added schemas, guides, examples and catalogs describing what the game supports.
• Added machine-readable editor access and command-line validation/export so coding assistants and scripts can work with the same formats.
• Added validation and preview checks to catch invalid imports and missing dependencies before applying content.

21. FIXES, PERFORMANCE AND CONTINUITY

• Fixed repeated family-creation confirmations and job-selection loops after Apply/Save.
• Improved loading saves made during character creation before the city has finished initializing.
• Character-creation edits now apply immediately and are kept by the normal Save button, without the extra “Apply Changes before Saving” step.
• Fixed startup and shared-variable conflicts between newly added systems and older game code.
• Reduced repeated clothing-file scans during character rendering and excluded development-editor folders from the game's asset indexing.
• Improved bounded caching and snapshot-based presentation for map portraits, phone pages, selectors and other expanded interfaces.
• Fixed NPC interaction expiry handling that could skip entries while removing completed interactions.
• Improved partial-action accounting so stopping an activity retains work already performed without duplicating its rewards.
• Improved save/load handling for pending invitations, ongoing activities, paid casts, game results, wagers, repairs and follow-up events.
• Fixed several paths where results, payments, inventory changes or completion effects could be applied again after returning or loading.
• Improved scene return handling and repaired an existing Leave-path error in the adult scene flow.
• Fixed stale group-chat sessions that could prevent later NPC approaches.
• Corrected public/private clothing complaints and clothing refitting after movement.
• Corrected gift recipient selection and gift access while traveling with a group.
• Improved actual-location restoration after travel, doorstep conversations, phone shortcuts and nested activity panels.
• Corrected unwanted building-wide exclusions caused by household bans.
• Improved recovery from interrupted meetings, searches, escorts, work actions and minigame sessions.
• Added feature-specific old-save updates designed to preserve existing residents, appearance choices, purchased items, custom rooms and recorded history.