Quote Originally Posted by JustMe View Post
I'd suggest an easy test. Pick one of your girls, and remove all their gear. Write down the stat you want to train. Train it for 10 minutes. Write down the new stat. Gear up that stat as much as you like and train for another 10 minutes. Remove all the gear and write down the stat again. If the change in the base stat is the same between the first and second as it is between the second and third, (allowing for a point in round-off), then the gear didn't change the amount you gain. If the second difference is larger, even after removing the gear, then it did make a difference.
This is what I did ... . Displayed stat changed by 31.5 - which is 30+5%.

Quote Originally Posted by AllyNotre1 View Post
Are there any games with virtually the same play style/layout that would be appropriate to play out in public?
Depends on your definition of appropriate. And what part of the game you refer to. FL is hybrid. First part is incremental idle play. Try Crush Crush. Not the moist and uncensored. It is on nutaku.com and steam. Second part is ladder pvp. For both genres there are wagon loads of games. If I google idle pvp google spits out ragnarok idle poring.