Real Lives 2007 1.5.0

The lifestyle-and-career update

v1.5.0 overhauls the economic layer with a lifestyle tiers system, a 239-item spending catalog, pixel-art property visualization, and a career ladder redesign with per-job pacing and seniority step systems.

Highlights

• Lifestyle tiers — 7 levels from Destitute to Luxurious, computed from spending patterns + wealth + a player-controlled daily budget. Each tier adjusts happiness and health yearly
• 239-item spending catalog — expanded from 61 items across 8 categories: Housing, Vehicles, Lifestyle, Tech, Health & Wellness, Subscriptions, Education, and Charity & Gifts. One-time vs recurring purchase indicators
• Pixel-art property scene — a canvas in the sidebar that evolves as you buy things: house upgrades through 4 tiers, cars appear in the driveway, pools, gardens, solar panels, fences, and a dot-matrix purchase density indicator
• Career ladder redesign — per-job promotion pacing via promotion_years, seniority step systems (Teacher II/III/IV, Senior Engineer, etc.) that don't count as promotions, ~30 new intermediate jobs. Careers now peak at varied ages: teachers ~58, engineers ~45, doctors ~44, trades ~37
• "Try for a child" — player-initiated parenthood with age-dependent fertility (70%/50%/30% by age bracket). Passive births reduced so kids are mostly intentional
• Profile management — styled create/rename/delete dialogs with SVG icon buttons
• SVG icon library — stroke-based icons for spending categories, lifestyle tiers, and profile actions

QoL fixes

• Spacebar hint integrated into the advance button (hover-only, no more ugly standalone kbd)
• Lifestyle badge contrast fixed for all 7 tiers
• Budget vs lifestyle relationship clarified in sidebar UI
• Delete profile no longer accidentally hides other profiles

Closes #111, #112, #113.

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

Real Lives 2007 1.4.0

The relationship-and-world update

v1.4.0 adds three major systems — romance with full spouse characters, emigration to a new country mid-life, and a cross-life statistics dashboard — plus 200+ new slice-of-life events, a self-employment career path, and a wave of career/education timing fixes.

Highlights

• Full romance system — spouse is a real character with attributes, diseases, and mortality. Swipe partner picker, multi-step dating (meet → date → propose), choice-event divorce, compatibility-influenced events, and multi-marriage history
• Emigration — move to a different country mid-life with cooldowns, skilled-worker job assistance, city-density ranking, and multi-leg history in the death retrospective
• Cross-life statistics dashboard — JSONL-backed archive with per-player scoping, achievements, charts, world map view, search/filter, and per-life notes
• ~200 new slice-of-life events with cooldowns and lifetime caps
• Self-employment as a first-class career path
• Player-initiated retirement with country-scaled cost of living
• Joblessness is now a valid state — no more auto-assigned jobs

Bug fixes

• Fixed race condition between education path event and secondary auto-completion
• Healthcare and spend panels now refresh after money-changing actions
• Statistics click error fix + 10-life minimum for meaningful aggregates

By the numbers

• 185 tests passing (was 99 in v1.3.0)
• 29 issues closed: #49, #50, #52, #70, #82–#106

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0

What's Changed

• Emigration follow-ups: cooldown, magnets, retrospective, skilled-worker job assist by @jippylong12 in #102
• Romance follow-ups (data + tweaks): divorce_rate, multi-marriage history, compat-biased events by @jippylong12 in #103
• Romance behavioral overhaul: dating flow, swipe picker, choice divorce, spouse diseases by @jippylong12 in #104
• Statistics: per-player scoping (#85) + per-life notes (#89) by @jippylong12 in #105
• Statistics: filter/search, achievements, charts, country map view by @jippylong12 in #106

New Contributors

• @jippylong12 made their first contribution in #102

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Real Lives 2007 1.3.0

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Real Lives 2007 1.2.0

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Real Lives 2007 1.1.0

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Real Lives 2007 1.0.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/jippylong12/real-lives-2007-python/commits/v1.0.0