You must NOT, in any case, exceed 75 slaves asigned to the Gold Mine, Steel Mine and Mill.
I find that the gold mine depletes relatively quickly but both the mill and the steel mine take a LONG time to deplete. The steel mine in particular takes forever because production is pretty low. It doesn't produce enough steel to keep even 1 workshop supplied without having to augment it with buying steel from Aimees. The mill provides massive quantities of wood by contrast, probably enough to supply 4 or more workshops for an extended period of time.
From a min/max standpoint yeah you definitely want to max out all of your stats to the training caps BEFORE you take any classes or read any books. Unfortunately Intelligence is probably the grindiest stat in the game so you won't be maxing that out for a LONG time unless you just start with it at or beyond the training caps (which is what I always do).
Yeah the only place in the game I have found that actually says it's doing a kissing skill check is right there and it only happens once per fuck. So far that's the only place MC has ever gained any skill for me and it seems like maybe a 5% chance? Not sure.
What's the best way to gain int? I'm looking at the wiki, but I can't decide what's the most efficient way that still allows me to do other things.
There really ISN'T a good way for MC to gain int that I know of. There's a less than 1% chance to gain Int up to a cap of 90 playing poker at Dockgraves. There's also probably somewhere around a 1% chance for MC to gain int by taking his wife to the cafe but only if she's equal to or smarter than MC and if she's smarter by more than a few points then the chance drops back down to zero again. So unless you're abusing the F out of F5, good luck with that... I believe the chance is also dramatically reduced unless MC has both Science and Academics skill at 90 or more. I tested that method a bit and decided even with max possible bonuses it's still grindy enough that it pretty much requires F5 or it's pointless. So I just start with 130 or more int.
How's Bondage and Flagellation expensive? Training it in your own bondage room will raise it at least to the same cap as Dockgrave (70), Flagellation can go even beyond that. Dockgrave odds are just better, IIRC.
Best way to gain Int is to start at 90 in character creation. Books + other various sources should push you well past 100.
The chance is so low for bondage at home that I just train it to 70 at Dockgraves. Flagellation is a bit of an odd one since I have never gained a point at home unless my skill was already at or near 70 or more, but it's not that bad once you get to that point to grind out 120 at home. So yeah getting to 70/70 at Dockgraves is a minimum of about $90k if you use F5 to guarantee 100% chance and a lot more than that if you don't. Still a good deal IMO since late game nothing beats the dungeon for affection gains for the girls, but unless you start as an expert slaver there's not really a good way to max out bondage/flagellation quickly.
IIRC it's a 3% chance to gain a point of Flagellation at home, if you roll a 1, a 55 or a 69. Should be regardless of skill. Bondage is even easier, around 5% whenever you use Anal Hook, Nipple Clamps (or a gag?).
Heh, that would explain my issue with bondage. I literally never use any of those. I have only ever gained bondage at home from rough petting during seduction. What do those other options cap at? 70? Do they go to 120 like Flagellation? Will have to try those other options. If it's a 5% chance that's not bad and could be worth using stuff I'm not really interested in for a few months.
You would think that the MC could simply fucking study in his library or something... Makes no sense from a realism AND gameplay perspective that you can't study to raise int similar to how you can work out to raise physical stats. Sure as hell would make more sense than raising int by talking to your wife or some shit lol.
You CAN "study books" in your library. There are seven stages available and IIRC they give things like INT and Occult points. Takes a while, just like reading skill books, and again IIRC lower rewards, but something to do in the early morning hours if you don't want to weave cloth.
