Hello there!

This week we have a new event that introduces new mechanics very broadly and invites 4th maid to the cafe. 

Summary screen is reworked for the new update, shows more information.

We have now tiredness meter and cafe's cleanliness meter. The tiredness's point is to motivate the player to change the maids around to let one rest while using other one. Do note that I'm not sure if the current tiredness strength is enough, I've reduced it after testing a bit myself, but please do let me know if you are able to manage the maids in that point so you always have 3 maids available for service if you manage carefully. For now I've disabled the code behind making the maids unavailable if they reach 100% of exhaustion, so players can test the feature without worrying that their game will bug out. In the near future I'll also add items that will let you recover the maid from exhaustion or sickness.

Cleanliness meter is something that could trigger a bad ending or extra nsfw scenes for the maids and also will influence your cafe in a way, described by Cynthia in the event. Please do listen to her. But same as tiredness, for now I didn't activate negative effects of cleanliness. I want to receive feedback how hard was it for players to keep the cafe clean or was it always dirty. I'll introduce items, few opportunities and few events that will help you boost the cleanliness of cafe. 

4th maid basic functions should be working now. Skills have only one cg for now but should be fully functional. I've also updated the chat menu to include extra stats and also updated the backrooms a little after receiving feedback regarding it's background, so I've made something different and easy. Let me know what you think!

Not all animations are ready for the backrooms, still I'm working on them, also nsfw room work as normal rooms for now, giving daily bonuses but they are gonna work based on number of clients that will enter them, to do soon.

Also one good idea I want to implement to backrooms is possibility to zoom on the rooms. That will be interesting addition for the nsfw rooms when they will be ready. Also I've made the backrooms to stop time, as there is no need for it to be active. Soon you'll be able to add Sergil if you'll buy his perk to the room to help maid with her responsibilities. But that's a plan for the near future too. Now player also get Care Points, which will be used for the perks that will influence backrooms.  A lot of work went into that update and there are still few things to work on. Let me know what you think, and this week I'll work on some nsfw stuff at last.

I'll be testing during the week a slight change to tiredness mechanic. Instead of steady increase by service (which would be modified by perks), possibly I'll change it to be dependent on the amount of time maid spent on servicing the client's. As much as I'm happy with cleanliness mechanic, please do let me know what you think about tiredness of maids. Isn't it too invasive into the chill game play loop? 

Secret Care Cafe release notes ver 0.7.0.2:

- added stations to the game (still requires a lot of work)

- some adjustments to popularity gain from check out'

- few button changes in Preparation Menu

- slowly adding outline to the names in the events

- added 2 new events (sfw that introduces new maid and new mechanics to the game)

- added new maid (still requires a lot of work):

  * added 4th maid to the upgrade menu and her 4 basic abilities

  * clients now don't ignore the 4th maid while ordering

  * added working 'Talk to' button for 4th maid in chat menu

  * 4th maid inviting now works correctly

- going to backrooms now stops the time in main room

- added new information for new stats increase in summary screen if they are unlocked, same with maid's tiredness and cleanliness

- added new info about Cafe's and Maid's stats to Backroom screen.

- added outlines to the text in summary screen

- new button for talk to Rai

- added animations for cleaning room for other maids and Cynthia's for Breakroom

- added new statistics for the maids in the chat menu if Station update is unlocked.

- added one basic gameplay cg for the 4th maid (placeholder)

- Special care skill now gives Care Points to maids if backrooms are unlocked.

- now the gallery won't spoil characters before unlocking them (Emilia and 4th maid)

- added to gallery 4th maid and made it so it now scrolls between characters

- goth client now has new favorite maid, but still retains his feelings to original maid until you hire the new one

- fixed bug that made clicking on inviting 4th maid pick up Cynthia's icon

- fixed bug that crashed the new game

- fixed bug where Cynthia's skill buttons changed positions and were out of bounds

- fixed bug that spammed player with information about 4th maid's care points

- fixed bug that clicking clients made a sounds like they've checked out

- fixed bug that skipped 4th maid's take out ability at the end of the day

- fixed bug that spammed experience, levels, tiredness and cleanliness at the end of the day

- fixed a bug with perk that increased Cookie's popularity everyday for way too much.

As always, if you will find any bugs or have suggestions, please do report it to me, either by comment, private message or on Discord.
Check out Patreon page for Secret Care Cafe version 0.7.1, 17 new cgs for new maid (sfw and nsfw), new items in shop, 1 new event, a lot of bugfixes, 2 new animations for breakroom, new perk, some more changes, Patreon only Valentines event with 3 main girls and Winter events for each girl!

Have a great week!

Rare Alex