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One aspect to the female stuck in reading bug is that if you walk while stuck in reading, the uniform changes colour to blue when you move around to the right.

You can buy more than one package of hacking tools, and if you get caught, the others remain in your inventory (They don't all self-destruct)

Also, I got caught twice for being a naughty boy. I've since spent a month working 'well' for 5 hours a day and won the medal on the away mission. But my promotion prospects are still 'comical' (Incidentally, I wasn't demoted even though I wasn't demoted from Ensign) I've also spoken to the captain loads and taken him to the pictures (He has a full popularity bar). He still seems 'unfriendly'. Ditto Justin.

And, could you move the button on the relationships button to the left corner, so that the average popularity bar is lined up better with all of the others?

And - here's a mad idea - if you do rat on Doreen, perhaps she could threaten revenge via e-mail.

Problems:
1) With this new version, the first away day cannot be completed. After it is finished, the game crashes with the error 'Newroom: requested two room changes within same script - Room18 Script Line 23'
2) As duty physician, it is possible to hack your own jobclocker from the floor above where you work. I'm not sure if this is true for the rest of medsci...
3) Having spent the best part of the week being my very own one-man crime-wave, I neglected to disable the security system before having my free lunch and found my character's steroid infused body sentenced to 336 days in the brig (On the 28th of August if I recall correctly). SEVEN UTTERLY TEDIOUS MINUTES of dissmissing the 'One day passes' messages, having lost all of my friends (Bar Doreen, whom I was already in league with) and promotion prospects, I was released on the 338th of August. This is despite the fact that there are only 300 days in in the Galactic Standard Year. Surely, I should have skipped right to the end, seeing the ending with my character's sorry arse still in the brig. Although my promotion aspects were at the lowest ever, I had not been demoted at all.
4) Possibly already mentioned: If you are reading into the early hours of the morning, and you receive your e-mail telling you whatever, your character ceases his reading animations, though he is still 'reading' in that his stats are changing.

Suggestions:
1) A greater choice of film / book titles (Though still in the high-brow / low-brow or dramatic / sci-fi categories. Maybe some ones with titles that blatantly identify themselves as porn)
2) More use of the hacking tools! Why not let us get free cinema tickets as well?
3) Less use of the hacking tools (!) There doesn't seem to be any limit to the number of times that you can hack your jobclocker. I mean if my payslip said I'd worked a total of 200 hours in one week (That's over 28 hours a day) shouldn't someone somewhere be going 'Eh? That's not right...'. Some (random?) upper limit on the times you can hack you jobclock per day (Even with the system disabled) would be a good move. Perhaps also, the penalty for being caught doing this should linked to wages earned that day...?
4) You know Dimitri is working on the security desk in the Blue / Yellow Residential ring... Well how about if you ring is doorbell while he is working there... perhaps an appropriate comment would be in order there.
5) The fact that my character bought and used more than 30 doses or steroids on himself with no il-effect (Funded, before-you-ask by hacking the job clocker) random drug-testing should surely be introduced at some point...

Oh... well that may explain it then...

I've played through until the end of the first away mission, and I'm afraid I have a slew of points for you to look at:

1) Already been said: Hacking into the library computer doesn't extend the due date. Instead, it makes the book overdue.
2) Despite knowing that, I'm finding it next to impossible to hack into the main security computer. My character's no dunce, but he keeps getting caught and sentenced to 56 days in the brig. Gah.
3) Having retrieved Doreen's documents from the computer, if you actually use them on her, she goes "Are you trying to buy my affection?" Shoudn't she say something like 'Why are you showing me those? You know what to do with them' or 'Don't fricking wave them around! You wanna get caught?!'
4) Having tried to scan the documents into my terminal, I get caught every bloody time. Wasn't Doreen trying to get the system off my back?
5) As you move between levels (Or between rooms if you use the map) some minutes on the clock are used up - presumably to reflect the time taken to travel between the levels. If you are expecting an e-mail to announce your promotion (Be it successful or not) then you won't receive it if the exact moment is 'lost' while moving around. This happened while I was waiting for promotion.
6) Suppose you work early in the morning. If you, say, clock on at 4am for four hours, and half way through get your email saying that you've been promoted, you will stil be doing the OLD job, but you get paid the NEW pay rate.
7) Oh yes, if you are working early in the morning, and the away mission actually starts mid work, the work report dialog stays visible through the whole mission. When I did it, the game crashed (Froze) during the first scene of the mission.
8) There's more. I decided to see in the away mission working out in the gym. I got the call and the away mission started as normal. Unlike with the above bug, the Fitness/Body Build gauge disappeared the mission went as normal. When I returned, I couln't interact with anything or move at all. My fitness was still maxed out, and my energy and nutrition were decreasing quite quickly... I think I was still 'working out' without actually being there...
9) The medikit from the shop replicator is not consumed by its own use. This means I can go to the gym with the medikit and one energy drink, use the excercise bike until I'm almost dead from exhaustion, drink the drink and then heal myself fully using the medikit.
10) Typo: The manual states that the first 3 months are 'January', 'Craven', 'March'. The ship database on my terminal gives the first three months as 'January', 'March', 'Craven'.
11) The away mission starts on 10th of August at 5am. If you are successful, it ends on the 10th of August at 5am. Surely it should take at least a day.
12) Typo: If you are successful in the away mission, your medal comes with the note: "...we are proud to bestow upon you this awar", the 'd' is missing off the end there.
13) If you die while in bed, gym or reading a book, the appropriate gauge is still visible over the title screen.
14) Typo: If you are caught hacking, the message reads 'You are order to pay the fine...' instead of 'You are ordered to pay the fine...'

Nevertheless, I'm finding this quite enjoyable . Couple of suggestions though: On the away mission I was imprisoned with Gloria. Perhaps, instead of saying 'What are we going to do?', she could maybe say '<NAME> What are we going to do?'
And this may sound silly, but when you put music to the final version, might I suggest that the Captain be associated with the theme tune to Captain Scarlet?