Anyone use the Stripper Heels and/or Fashion Magazine items?

[Emi-chan]

Hey, so I was playing the game, and I realized that I have never used either the Stripper Heels or Fashion Magazine items. The Stripper Heels halves the time a girl takes to pole dance and the Fashion Magazine halves the time a girl spends at the boutique. This sounds great on the surface, but I feel like the reason I never use these items is because I found them to be the least helpful of all the items when I keep a few things in mind.

Leveling up girls at the strip club and boutique to increase talent and style points respectively helps them earn more money from cam shows and earn more fans in a photoshoot. However, doing so makes them more expensive. So you may not even wish to put a girl in the strip club or boutique that much if you feel like it's not worth it to make her that expensive. I'm assuming that the stripper heels and fashion magazine have unlimited uses, so correct me if I'm wrong about that.

Another thing is that Talent and Style Levels have a maximum of 5. And all girls start off with at least a Level 1 in both areas. That means you can only put girls in the strip club or boutique four times at maximum. I can see why giving the Stripper Heels would be more helpful for say Tiffany, who starts off with Level 1 in Talent and can go into the strip club four times than for Lailani, who starts off with a Level 3 in Talent and can only go into the strip club twice, and completely useless for Marlena who has the maximum Level 5 in Talent. Another thing is that the higher her current talent level is, the longer she'll spend at the strip club so each subsequent trip to the strip club takes more time. So that's when the Stripper Heels might come in handy. But then, actually wanting to level up Tiffany that much may be risky because this ties back into the Higher Skill Level=Higher Cost issue. And also, you can't give items equipped on girls to other girls, so after Tiffany reaches max level, you'll probably have to throw away the Stipper Heels instead of giving them to another girl that you want to level up if you want to make room for another item to equip on her. For these reasons, I find the coke is more helpful. Sure, you can only use coke for 24 hours, but coke at the very least allows time to be halved in more than just one activity. And those activities don't always have limited amount of times that a girl can perform it. The coke just has more versality, which makes it more efficient to just give girls that. On top of that, you have to send a girl to the adult shop for 8 hours to find an item, so the time used to find the Strippers Heels or Fashion Magazine in order to decrease time spent in the limited amount of trips a girl is allowed to the strip club or boutique may not even be worth it.

Because of these problems preventing me from thinking of ways to use the Stripper Heels and Fashion Magazines efficiently, I was wondering if any of you have strategies that make good use of these items. Or if you guys were also having some of the same thoughts on these items as I had?

[L.C.L.]

It really depends on your play style. Since I tend to start my games with specialized girls that already come with high stats (Lilian 4 style, Nora 5 style, Jesse 5 talent etc)I used them a lot in combination with coke (because quite frankly while they are training there is no point in them having fetish items) to minimize the time needed once it was time to switch to a more flexible playstyle where girls could multi-task (and then threw them away).

[Zorak]

If you're looking to optimize your play and get high scores, then the heels and magazine are very important. In my experience, you want as many specialized girls as you can get. 5 talent/1 style is ideal for camgirls and 1 talent/5 style is ideal for photo girls. 1/1 is always ideal for errand girls. Magazines and heels help get your girls eraning money and fans much faster. They are definitly worth it, even if a girl is already at level 3 of the desired skill.