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The Happiest Days of your Life
🕑 Added 2025-01-28 23:37:48 +0000 UTC
Hi everyone. Today's post is a day late, sorry about that. However, as I'm trying to get back into 2-3 posts per week now, I figured better late than never. A saying which is almost never true of today's topic: The Saint Alancia's school day.
The school day forms the game's primary loop and is what you'll spend most of your time doing while playing Missy. When I first began development, I had this notion in my head of a proc-gen'd school day that would always be fresh. In its current form, however, there are too few events to hold interest and it remains one of the most consistently complained-about things. While I've tried to mitigate this by having events able to play out in multiple ways so players can try different choices the next time they come up, the fact is that I'm not where I'd like to be at this point. So I'm opening up the floor to suggestions as to how best to proceed until I am.
First, the plan as it currently stands. Once the fifth Prefects scene is complete, it will unlock the prefect lounge, which will work as follows: You can use it to skip any lesson event, but each time you do so, the game will roll to see if Miss Paris's patience with you doing this runs out. So the more often you do it, the quicker you'll piss her off. She will gradually cool down as days go by.
If she snaps, you will be punished. Maybe in the usual way, maybe in one of a few new ones that are coming down the pipe. So for the average player, it is, of course, win-win.
The other part of the plan is to create a much greater variety in the school day. I plan to have many more events for each period and break by the time the game is in a completed state. Furthermore, there will be different kinds of events, most of which you have already seen:
Standard school day events come up with a normal probability in the generator. Examples of these are Uniform Inspection, Group Project, Volleyball and Biology Lessons. Most of these have multiple choices and some, such as the sports events, are even influenced by things that happen earlier in the day, (such as whether or not Jessica was kept in at lunch.)
Minor events also have a normal distribution and are intended to be quick and easy to make thus allowing them to be rapidly added. Examples include Stupid Question and Panty Flash. The idea is to use these to rapidly increase the number of available events, and while it fell by the wayside a bit as we concentrated on outside school content, more will be coming soon.
Unique events are usually part of a story, such as the "Moment of Madness" event in Avenging Angel, (in which you expose the teacher) and the Hockey game in Queen of the Ring.
Later, we'll be seeing the emergence of Rare events, which are events intended to come up less often in the generator. The health inspection event will later be becoming one of these (currently it's unique) once I figure out whether I want to modify subsequent versions of it to decouple it from the progression arc that it's started. If this doesn't make sense, don't worry. The idea is only half-formed in my head anyway. I will also be moving some other events, such as the play to rare slots, or perhaps even making them unique.
One thing that I'm hoping to implement for 0.10 is making already-seen events skippable. For the time being, I'll probably do this with them all, though it may end up being more limited in the future, because if you're able to just skip all school events, as well as now being able to skip break and the walk to school... there's not actually that much of a game left outside of the unique events and quests!
I'm therefore canvassing opinion on how you'd like to see this handled in the short term while I work out exactly what I want to do to streamline the school day and cut down on repetition. I can't guarantee it'll be perfect, and I am of course completely open to comments and suggestions.
Trinian
Comments
Maxh
I have another Idea... If the/a main quest is going on at school, like "down with bad girls", "bad girls bitch", and "Avenging angel ". Then the school day plays out normal with the "main quest" being give priority over random events. But after the first act we could be given a choice of "play the school day normal" or pick from the library of random events, like we skip the school day, but can still fight Jess in the orchard, or hang out with miss paris, or wrestling. As long as we naturally unlocked the quest line on a normal played school day we can advance that quest by still skipping the rest of the repeat content. If you make us play full school days for the first act and main quests, there should be enough full school days played to unlock all the side quests.
Andre
for me. I've basically played through the game and unlocked pretty much everything in several saves. I would really like to see more of the school events added that are not unique but happen randomly in the different parts of the school events to have more variety. The perfect lounge sounds good. Missy could also have some fun with prefects. Maybe there will be more than just 2 prefects :)
Iztari
Another idea similar to the prefect lounge would be to have Missy try to skip school and there's a probability she is caught and punished or not. If she fails she could get a full day punishment at school (maybe isolation) and that still skips the day. If she succeeds it just skip to the end of the school day but you still run a chance of getting punish on the next school day if Miss Paris doesn't believe Missy's excuse for missing the day(s).
Ariel Herrera M
I like the events in the school and enjoy it but sometimes I would like to focus in one thing for example the last update with Madeline, I really enjoy this quest but go to school two or three times, is sometimes tedious because I wanna see what with happends with Missy and Madeline.
Iztari
I think the prefect lounge might fix the problem. We can already skip breaks and lunch by sitting in the area below the punishment plinth. All we are missing is the classes themselves and I think it's a good trade off to risk punishment to do so. The only thing missing is better communication to the player about the area below the plinth to skip breaks, I see many not knowing about it.
