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Okay, this is minor but before Mia moves in, she delivers the parcels to us and afterwards, we just wake up in the morning to find some magical santa has left a parcel at out doorstep before Mia even went to work.

As someone who works in delivery myself, this kind of irks me for multiple reasons. Like who is that poor sod who has to do express deliveries before Mia even went off to work? Why did the delivery window change after Mia moved in? Where she lives should have no influence on her job. And lastly, why do they bother?
I work in delivery myself and I know for a fact that, especially in a pandemic setting, the most likely scenario is that Mia would sign off on the parcels at work and then take them home with her after work is done just to shorten her work day by 5 minutes. We could have some cute scene where Mia walks in, chucks the parcel to you, gives a hug to Olivia (30% chance for her to be there) and then goes change her clothes.

This mostly comes from someone who only plays this game on android:

On my current profile, I have invested so many points into repeatables (in my estiation, the biggest culprit is the xp multiplier) that the game is pretty much trivial at this point. My characters level so fast that the 7 day restock window for the queen and scroll shop seem almost glacial in comparison. (By the way, can we get a way to refresh the queen rewards for a price?)

Every time there is new low level content I wish that I could swap over to a fresh install to enjoy the new content on an appropriate setting. But since I play on android, swapping out save files is not a trivial matter at all. And even if it was trivial, wouldn't it be way cooler to have a launcher where you can add mods and select a save file?

So I'm just coming off the back of a 1000 floor tower conquest with some degree of scaling slightly above standard (total 3.5x modifier I believe) and there are some concerns I have about scaling.

Firstly, the game desperately needs some logarithmic scaling. It's far too easy to cap out certain parts of the game and trivialize most of it while other parts of the game are rather punishing due to a lack of logarithmic scaling.

Let's start with the simplest topic at hand: Curses. Why are there curses that basically say "If you have 10 levels of this, you will never get any AP again" while other curses are totally fine even if you have some 40+ stacks of them if your stats are high enough to just tank the raw damage? Curses that lower your ability to do things should all have logarithmic scaling by default. The chance to gain AP might approach zero but it should never reach it, just constantly getting another 10% less likely relative to the previous value.

I would do away entirely with the concept of a max stamina curse (btw can we have an accessory that increases your max stamina?) and instead introduce a curse that reduces the amount of stamina gained from any source by a percentage, that, again, scales logarithmically.

Conversely, curses that increase enemy damage should probably scale exponentially, but that's a whole other conversation to have.

As it stands right now, there are curses that are basically free to take, some others you should never take and some (the armor one) where the initial investment is basically free, especially if you have a good source of armor break (In my run I just used windy knuckles without any armor breaking techniques because I never rolled any high level ones)

Speaking of, Windy Knuckles (I know, the item has been fixed, reworked, fixed again, and nerfed for an eternity) scale really badly. Firstly, they can hit a cap of 100%. So if you ever hit 150 agility, you can just keep hitting the enemy until you run out of stamina.  Logarithmic scaling would again fix this, but even if you do not want to introduce logarithmic scaling for this item in particular (or at all, honestly) I still believe, the item needs some sort of rework. Namely giving it a base value, say, instead of 0.7xagi, make it scale like 25+0.5xagi. It still maxes out at 150 agi, but at the very least the item becomes somewhat useable at the lower agi range, as opposed to the current situation where it's basically useless unless you want to cheese the game with absurdly high agility.

Lastly, I feel like the CON attribute scales a bit too well. Now, there seems to be some degree of diminishing returns going on but the ability to just cap it out at 99% reduction made me tank hits at over 100 levels of addiction and multiple levels of corruption at lust curse level 35 with barely any measurable result. Maybe logarithmic scaling would, again, be a better solution here. As it stands, even with the diminishing returns in place, those final points of resistance are extremely valuable because the final points towards 99 resistance represent a massive leap in efficacy.

That does it for logarithmic scaling but now we need to address the elephant in the room:

Heart pendant is by far the most busted accessory in the game for climbing the tower, not even close. No other item allows you to just infinitely farm enemies that rely on an endless loop of physical attacks like Theresa for AP. The ability to regenerate hp on its own already makes it really busted in the tower where there are no natural sources of healing but the fact that it can do so mid combat and repeatedly just makes it utterly broken.

There are two solutions that come to mind, one is a nerf, the other a complete rework.

The nerf would be to simply introduce a special debuff that is applied for a number of turns scaling with the percentage of your max hp that was restored (something like a turn for every 25% of hp restored would be a good idea) that turns off AP gain for those turns. While this doesn't solve the issue of infinite AP farming entirely, it puts a bit of a lid on it on higher levels of the hp damage curse at least, which previously was another one of those "basically free picks". In my run it was at like level 40 and I still regularly farmed opponents for AP though I had to stop doing it with Autumn because her playful slaps became a bit too intense for my liking and there was a very real risk that the random nature of the pendant might screw me over.

The total rework would be to change it from a random heal on using the wait action to a guaranteed heal whenever you enter a combat.

Another concern I have with tower runs is that the enemies are very skewed. Some are basically free wins while others are extremely challenging. Of course some enemies just aren't built for a monster with massively inflated stats. Nothing you can feasibly do to Cassandra is ever gonna make her able to deal with a monster that can foresee her every move. Maybe she should just be removed from the pool of tower fights entirely. But a lot of opponents are just built with being a massive hp sponge being their primary factor and they have excessively long taunting phases where they do nothing at all. Many bosses as well as a lot of the Shemale enemies, Dakota in particular, fall into this territory.  She monologues for multiple turns of combat, then comes an addiction check, if you fail that one, there is ANOTHER turn transition where there happens nothing and only then will you be hit with the dominated status, assuming she is still alive, which she definitely isn't. Maybe what's needed is just a new mechanic in general where enemies skip the gloating and go straight to their combat moves when their hp drops below a certain threshold.

Because I don't only want to take away everyone's toys, could we have a rest room in the tower? Basically, whenever the tower goes "all enemies defeated", can we get a free rest? The ability to get at least some amount of in-built healing would lessen the reliance on heart pendant and possibly open up some other accessories to be viable.

EDIT: Forgot to say, what ultimately killed the run was running into an enemy that did a corruption check before the battle even began and instantly broke me. That's a rather disappointing end to any run. Maybe that could be tweaked, too.

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: It's kind of tricky because the tavern is kind of a way for the rich to get richer.

Firstly, your progress scales by your vit. If your vit is too low, you are probably spending your cash on the wrong things. Buying red potions early on increases your cash flow by increasing the rewards you can get from the tavern (or reducing the cost of doing so) while also making some opponents that rely on pure physical damage rather trivial.

Secondly, spamming endure is not the way to go. It barely gives any money, you are just piling up lust which will slow down your exploration on that day (and eat into your profits that way) and the customer will leave unsatisfied.

So if you are supposed to hit that seduce button, what's the actual strategy? Obviously, the first answer is to always enter first thing in the morning before you accrued any lust damage. Secondly, choosing the correct category. Often times, you will have that peculiar issue of having high addiction stats in some categories while having basically zero in others. Choose that missing category, hammer the seduce button a couple of times, then down a blue potion. Look, you basically turned an unused part of that potion into free money.

Version 1.65 Android

Was on a 100+ floor run, fought Cindy. She punched me to negative health but nothing happened, I defeated her.

Next fight was Cassandra. Entered with negative health, her image flashes in, fade to black, wake up at camp. At least I can enter the tower with heart pendant instead of an xp ring (oops) this time around...

Also, there is another bug where beating the Arena on the day the Queen's rewards roll over (1 day remaining) refreshes the Queen's rewards (and tasks, if you have completed them). Probably a spaghetti code issue with a function that rolls over to the next day being used to boot the player back to the camp and then the day counter being reduced by 1 afterwards to make it seem as if no time has passed but things that fire when the day rolls over will still happen.