You should join a faction as quickly as you can, but it took me 33 days to join Shadow Crow Clan. Why did I choose them, were they particularly suiting? well they were acepting noobs and were actively recruiting. The faction is lead by a player called Xzander, We don't have co-leader so he's chief and commander. We're fairly new, we dont hold territory or war, and we're trying to get our respect upto 5500 or more. Final point, we're trying to do much more organised crime, but unfortunately I cant think of any more words that... sound similar.
I would introduce the ability to cheat on spouses. Cheating would gain you some sort of buff (like a percent gain at the gym for as long as you're cheating). Spouses would be able to hire detective agencies to check if partners were cheating. If they were found out the spouse that was cheated on would be entitled to a payout from one that cheated while divorcing. Unless they had a prenup made by a lawyer firm
Unlocking the SSL takes a lot of dedication. The inability to happy jump, the inability to stack Xan, inability to chain without spending money on cans or FHCs. Yes, its already the best gym with the best stats but unlocking it was supposed to be a reward for being (relatively) drug free. A reward for choosing the harder route. But the returns are nothing compared to happy jumping and stacking Xan.
The stat gains should be increased to close the gap between the gym and training with Xan so that taking the harder route has more payoff.
Torn fact : when Ched first made the game in 1956 it was known as Torn Village, the only crimes available were 'go scrumping for apples' and 'kick a cow in the bum'