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v0.44 Progress Update
🕑 Added 2021-08-24 10:10:19 +0000 UTCThe last week or so of work has been a scattershot of new content for v0.44 with work spread out over a bunch of different areas. First up were the trance mechanic tweaks - the largest one being making training a once/turn action per girl, instead of advancing time itself.
While adding some new personality based sex responses I decided to finally implement a feature I had wanted to add for a while: kinetic text. This is text that has movement, bouncing, wiggling, vibrating, dripping, ect. If you've ever played Slay the Spire you've seen it used to great effect to emphasis certain words. Dialogue from girls is now parsed before it is displayed and certain words are emphasized using kinetic text tags depending on their arousal and opinions. This won't have much of an effect in normal dialogue, but while having sex you should notice girls emphasizing (via wavey or bouncing text) words like "fuck", "cum", or or phrases like "knock me up". These tags can also be hard coded into scripted dialogue, so it's also another tool I can use to make conversations more interesting.
Three new special training options have been added so far for v0.44. Breeder training encourages a girl to get pregnant as soon as possible, so she'll have sex with you any time you want to try and fix that problem. Orgasm Trigger Word training lets you implant a trigger word that will - big surprise - make a girl climax whenever you want. You can use this while talking to her to trigger all of the normal orgasm effects (mainly triggering Trances), but it can also be used while having sex to immediately trigger a positions climax scene. Finally, there is Online Attention Whore training, which has a girl set up accounts with all of the online sites - InstaPic, DikDok, and OnlyFanatics. Useful if you want a reliable way to see all of that content, or if you want to see it with a particular girl. All of these special training options have requirements that should need a moderate amount of preparation and effort to achieve - multiple specific Loves, high Suggestability and Arousal, ect.
The last big task I need to tackle are the body alteration serums, and then I'll just be writing as much new dialogue as possible until it's time for the release!
Comments
Nona
Re: 1), it's not just those three pinafores - "Frilly_Dress_1", , and "Frilly_Shirt_1" have the same issue. I don't think they're supposed to be complete outfits, though - the lack of underwear in their definitions suggests all 5 of these "overwear as underwear" were supposed to be overwear sets.
I'm excited for these new trainings and I'll be interested to see how the new dynamic text looks. Two things though: 1) In \game\wardrobes\Master_Default_Wardrobe.xml you've got pinafore_1, _2 and _3 in the underwear section which is producing unexpected results (people wearing multiple shits ect). I believe these were supposed to be in 'full outfits' with pinafore_4 and _5. 2) The new trance mechanic is awesome and I love it, but I wonder if the numbers don't need a little balancing, especially between the suggestability serums and the slut/suggest./love/obed. you can get from trances. For example I'd be surprised if anyone wasn't just skipping the tier 0 serum - consider that it will need an average of 100 female orgasms to get someone even halfway up the sluttiness pillar. The tier 1 serum is much better, but its still some serious grind to raise the sluttiness of even a small office. This is unfortunate because now there's also all this other cool stuff the serums can do! Now you could double the slut/suggest./love/obed. values from a trance but I think there's also an opportunity to mess with the basic 'suggestability' drug a little. I'm thinking something like: Tier 0 serum: 30% suggestability, only allows shallow trances. Tier 1 serum: 30% suggestability with deep trances Tier 2 serum 1: 30% suggestability with v. deep trances serum 2: 60% suggestability but only shallow trances. Tier 3 serum: 60% suggestability with v. deep trances. Nora reward serum: 100% suggestability with v. deep trances (basically what it is now) Backing off some of the sluttiness grind here gives room for people to take advantage of the other trance capabilities but also this 'serum tier controls level of trance' will pair well with moving some of the current trance increases behind higher level trances. So maybe at first all they can do is manipulate slut/suggest./love/obed. or learn opinions, but with higher levels they unlock the ability to increase skills, change opinions and of course the special trainings that you're planning with v0.44.
jimmy jimmy
I love these Ideas! quick suggestion, add more serums like the permanent bimbo serum a.k.a more personality changes. and be able to get other girls in other poses like mom and sister during the pay strip scenes! Love this content so far! keep it up
Nona
During her "breed me" event, Jen will still complain about you not pulling out and act appalled at the idea of pregnancy, with love losses, etc.
Nona
This is basically a continuity issue, but during night/morning sleeping with Lily or Jen, if you leave at any time and come back, the same event starts over (but they'll possibly be in a different outfit). It should probably be the case that either leaving or successfully completing the event should mean that if you return to the room they'll be normally awake in the same way they are if you fail at the event. This would both prevent them "changing their clothes in their sleep" and you potentially running through multiple versions of the event to conclusion in a single time period (which is rather off WRT the energy economy, among other things). Relatedly, no matter how the event concludes, Lily or Jen will continue wearing nothing but the UW outfit they had on during the event for the rest of the day, which can lead to some unintended and unremarked-upon casual public nudity... ><
Nona
It'd probably be better to handle this with a "hide/unhide research option" command, where you get a full list of all possible research options with unhidden ones displayed in the normal color and currently hidden ones are a different, subdued color, and you can click each to toggle hidden on or off.
Aaror
Could we have a "Discard research option" for serums we don't want to use this run (or ever)? Once I get to level 3 I have a lot of level 1/2 researches I haven't looked at and never will because the higher level stuff is better. Also, any chance of getting a beach location/swimwear?
Zankriger
Looks really good, keep up the good work. One thing, I think you could link the new kinetic text with the hidden preferences, to give us some clues to that preferences maybe.
SomebodyElse
I believe I've said it before but thank you for the detailed reports you give us for these things - it's very interesting and satisfying to me, knowing what's going on between updates behind the scenes :)
