This update adds a multiple stage career to the River Rat, beginning as a trainee server with the potential to work your way up to manager. Earn tips as you cultivate either a flirty or more professional atmosphere.
You may earn good tips by complying with customers’ demands, but often a firm word or confident persuasiveness will do just as well. The River Rat is a good career choice for building Submission or Dominance skill, as well as Disinhibition and Exhibitionism.
At the top end of the career, you can choose a direction for the River Rat, taking it from its sports bar origin to a place that caters to geeks, a topless bar, or a lounge for the town’s wealthy elite.
As always, a huge thanks to the contributors who added to this update. Thanks also to the early access crew, whose support and diligent bughunting made this update possible.
If you’re not aware, we’re maintaining two parallel development cycles:

• The monthly update might contain new event sets, new locations, or new mechanics, but usually focuses on extending existing content or polishing existing systems. It comes out once a month with whatever we got done in that time period… hence the name!
• The roadmap update checks off one or more items on the roadmap, adding extensive new mechanics and a bunch of related new events in one go, often fundamentally changing how the game can be played. It usually takes multiple months.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy!
Release notes:

• The River Rat has been expanded with a new complete career path
• Start as a River Rat server, serving tables and earning tips based on how quickly you respond to customers and whether you undertake any of their special requests
• With good performance comes more tables to oversee, more pay, and more opportunities for tips
• After proving yourself as a server, be promoted to bartender to sling drinks for tips and help supervise the servers
• Work your way up to the manager position and be able to set the direction of the bar by choosing from a range of upgrades
• Upgrading the River Rat will alter the demographics of its clientele and may even unlock unique events
• As a server, choose to be either flirty or professional. Cultivating a certain kind of atmosphere will not go unnoticed, however, and will gradually alter the expectations of the customers and lead to uniform changes
• Choose to comply meekly with customer requests to build Submission skill, or build Dominance skill by teasing them or convincing other servers to fulfill their requests
• Around a hundred new events added
• Employee discounts for meals now apply to the River Rat and QuickieBurger locations
• Favoriting people now has an effect on their odds of being featured in events or becoming crushes
• When being prompted for a reaction to an NPC that you haven’t established a relationship with, you’ll often see an indication when they match your character’s turnons or turnoffs
• NPCs that your character finds attractive will be indicated in the People display with a new icon
• Your character’s turnons and turnoffs can now be reconsidered, with a one week cooldown
• Fixed hotkeys still working while dialog boxes are open and some rare save database bugs (contributed by majou)
• Added new options for autosave intervals, plus the option to autosave at all
• Gloryholes have been slightly refactored to allow the player to choose whether they want to be in the giving or receiving role
• Partly implemented birthdays. They don’t do much yet, but a few events around them will be added soon
• Added a bunch of new books (contributed by Meat Glacier)
• Added some icons indicating when somebody is on a sports team
• Some general fixes and tweaks