Bumping my last question since there seems to be lots of veterans in the thread, so I'm hoping at least one person has an opinion on the different career paths in the game. Also wanted to add a followup question: the author noted that the dairy job was pretty incomplete when I tried that, but also mentioned it was intended as just a gateway to the hucow stuff. Does anyone know if the hucow stuff is also incomplete, or did he only mean the dairy job itself was?
I'm pretty sure they were always banking on mods/submissions to compensate, which didn't pan out. The dev talks about it a bit here (
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) and there have been blog posts since then about hiring more writers and stuff. Frustratingly enough there's even hidden content I know exists, but have just never managed to experience for one reason or another which really doesn't help with the feeling of a drought. IIRC, the last delay talked about expansions covering the extra content after the 1.0 release, but I'll just wait and see. Honestly, even if it's 4+ years of dev time I have to admit it at least seems like more stuff is happening here than a lot of other games I follow on this site.Last I played the AI was still a dead fish in generic sex scenes, never progressing things on their own too. If the underlying systems/mechanics of the sandbox were less buggy and worked well it would alleviate the pressure of missing content a lot, but I feel like the dev is strangely distracted with overelaborate solutions for things that are barely even visible to the player. I remember reading the thing about the AI training for dating and stuff (
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) and just rolling my eyes at it like with every business proposal I see with the word "blockchain" in it.Assuming you don't get slammed by bugs, there's eventish content in the jobs. The last time I went through it the stripper and masseuse jobs events were super shallow, the maid job kind of seemed interesting, but I never got anything substantial to trigger. Where I kind of found the most mileage were institute related jobs which had like one weird test subject event that was kind of neat and one thing were you get involved with a female manager that actually had a ton of writing and worldbuilding relatively speaking.
I really can't speak to the farm/hucow content since it's not my jam and there were supposedly a lot of updates after I stopped playing (around the disaster of a release numbered 0.36). Since then I've pretty much only touched the game to see the main story content which I found better overall than trying to grind my way through bugs and praying rng (or whatever mystery conditions) were in my favor.
This really is the kind of game where I feel like people are better off just waiting if they can be patient. Stuff is being done... slowly...
I've seen this sort of thing in programmers and game devs before. Some are excited by *big stuff*, but are bored by the small stuff like bugtesting, bug fixes, and fleshing out existing content. I'm not sure if this is what is happening here, but I just have to wonder why there are still major bugs in important scenes. It's Sugarcube after all, not writing a game from scratch using C.
- Mar 17, 2021
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That's a shame. That makes me appreciate the game much more in a way. The challenge for porn games (in my limited knowledge and experience) seems to be the various kinks and interests people have. Personally, I am hilariously vanilla, so few of the kinks do much for me - unless the story itself is engaging enough to pull me along. The games that are developed with the thoughtfulness to allow for mods and customization for a tailored experience are exciting.
In fact, writing a mod for this game is what started me on my foolish obsession to develop my own game or game mod. I never did submit it because I was never happy with it. That this developer is building an interesting framework where various stories can be written is plenty of reason to watch and support - even if development appears uneven on the surface. Heck - now I'm thinking my lazy Sunday might be spent pulling that mod back up and playing around with it.
I'll admit that for me, the job system is a time suck. I take the "Employee-Of-The-Month" cheat every time because as a work-from-home, self-employed person, schedules are the devil. My office hours read "GOOD LUCK." I typically choose the "stripper" option. I've played a couple of the others in various releases and some are more involved to the point of driving the game and often steering the experience into a more niche-based grind. The stripper option seems to be the best fit for a more "sandbox" type exploration. Funny thing - I always forget the dairy farm. It seems though that the passion for lactation fetish is nearly as high as that for pregnancy. I've only poked around at the dairy, but it seemed to be a good bit of stuff if one were following a game path.
As far as playing the game to an ending, a job with the institute is the way to go.
Well I mean the game is in Twine Sugarcube. I've written in this before, sort of an easy platform with some limitations. I don't believe that Sugarcube is a problem, but instead it should make it relatively easy to troubleshoot problems.
I've just started playing this game on Android for the first time. I've reached a point where I'm stuck in the prolog where its asking me to press spacebar or escape to continue. I cant do that since I'm on android and theres nothing to click to bring up my keyboard. Is anyone aware of a bypass?
This is from dev's website: AW does not work on mobile devices!
If you're still determined to play it on Android, you can force bring up virtual keyboard from device settings depending on the device (if it supports) or with third party keyboard apps from playstore or you can connect a bluetooth keyboard to your device.
Thanks for the reply, pc really isnt an option for me so I was trying to make it work, I figured I'll hit a brick wall eventually since the game isnt made for Android. I didnt think of using a third party keyboard app though. I'll give it a try.
Has anyone been able to get the NPC templates to work? Mine seem to only generate 24 year olds with female names. The physical attributes are all correct, but the age and genes seem to be hardcoded in.
Something seems to be wrong with the Phoenix book club events. Paragraphs get repeated in the first event, and the second event is completely broken. I get two seperate text messages for it, and then when I go to the club and go upstairs this is all I get.
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I only know of one other game where there is even any sort of AI and that's NewLife and that one actually works really well as the AI's behaviour is extremely different from NPC to NPC based on quite complex rulesets based on the NPC attributes (their traits). A few examples, you have conscientious trait on NPC's and these will even put on condoms without the player asking them to. While on flipside you will have impregnator who will try to sabotage contraception methods or remove the condom when player character cannot see it. There are many more traits but if you basically take no action in NewLife the NPC will take different actions depending on their personality traits which is shockingly well programmed and works very well from my extensive playing of that game.
In terms of content though NewLife is also quite short on content and it can be hard to find all the content. I think in these type of games
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offers the best content just shame it was discontinued it was getting really interesting towards the end with many branching pathways and substantial content.Then of course you have games like Good Girl Gone Bad which I think is the benchmark to compare any story/VN female protagonist games against. Many branching pathways, a lot of content, a lot of variety and a lot of player choice. Content is not hidden nor repetitive.
Regardless, I do hope ThaumX can fill out the content further in Accidental Woman. I was so hyped when this game was first released many years ago and I keep my fingers crossed that content will be added towards the end but in current shape it doesn't seem very promising.
Newlife is pretty great in its execution. I really respect that they took the time to have events reflect traits so thoroughly in both events and the sex system. While its generic scenes only, the AI in Lilith's Throne is robust in how they have goals and take actions based on their fetishes and context of starting the scene. If I really wanted to, I could submit and do nothing on every "turn" and the AI would actually take off clothes, change positions, climax one or more times, and eventually end the scenario (That said, LT characters almost never demonstrate personality traits). Because of that I think Newlife/LT both have a certain degree of freshness and replayability in their dynamic content that more heavily directed games struggle with.
While I didn't play much of it, I also appreciated how Degrees of Lewdity used ever increasing external pressures to encourage the player to make different decisions and more thoroughly engage with the game's sandbox. It could be really frustrating dealing with a world that outright hostile, but it was interesting.
In contrast, AW just kind of fails at all of that. Despite the complexity of the sandbox the current state of the world is that nothing really happens outside of random events, or without the scripted events started by the player. Like Girl Life, the sim elements are more of a grindy time killer than facilitating emergent gameplay as found in the above games. At that point a VN or branching twine story is way more appropriate. Even if I treat it all as just set dressing for getting to the player's ideal scenario... it'll be a while before the payoff is worth it. I still like the game, but given its current direction and how its underlying systems are both disjointed and buggy I just can't see it reaching its potential.
(I haven't tried either of those other games yet, but I'll check them out. Thanks!)
I agree that Newlife succeeds in places where Accidental Woman fails, maybe by design even.
In Accidental Woman, you can only be one type of character: an assertive person in a woman's body. The alternative is death.
In Newlife, you can be assertive, passive, anything in a range of female personalities (except lesbian, and that will possibly be fixed by next year). Newlife provides a vastly richer gameplay experience. The only difference in popularity is because it does not have graphics.
In Accidental Woman, you can only be one type of character: an assertive person in a woman's body. The alternative is death.
In Newlife, you can be assertive, passive, anything in a range of female personalities (except lesbian, and that will possibly be fixed by next year). Newlife provides a vastly richer gameplay experience. The only difference in popularity is because it does not have graphics.
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This game right now is as if GTA didn't have a story. Now that the open world is let's say... halfway done, with most of the map and places having some sort of mechanic, I feel like it's the perfect place to start making a big story line. One with clear locations and objectives, a clear progression that unlocks places and things to do in the city as it goes and has a handful of different endings. It doesn't even need to have an absurd 20-way branching story. Just a few crossroads along the way to walk up to like 5 endings. I feel like having that gigantic free-for-all at the get go is anti-climactic. You mean to tell me I can just whore out for free at the first day of the game? That's not cool. This game is perfect for a slow burn corruption with lots of milestones and a progressive system that gets a lot of the mechanics to unlock as it goes, making the experience (the city, the people, MC's own mind) increasingly fucked up.
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Let the people whore out on the first day, if the PC's backstory matches up. Those characters can suicide after a week* of no sex if that's what the developer wants, but characters with less libido probably shouldn't turn to suicide just because of their lacking sex life.
* Last I played, a max libido PC needed sex every day or every two days if you created/found yourself perfectly matching NPCs for maximum satisfaction. Without cheats, one needs to follow a strict timetable of actions/appointments to go through with maybe a few hours of "freetime" over the weekend to spend on something other than maintaining stats. I am the kind of person to do that stuff, but I only did it once or twice and since then only check the game out if there's a new cheat version available as I'm not willing to spend days of my freetime to find maybe an hour or less of content that's relevant to my interests.
* Last I played, a max libido PC needed sex every day or every two days if you created/found yourself perfectly matching NPCs for maximum satisfaction. Without cheats, one needs to follow a strict timetable of actions/appointments to go through with maybe a few hours of "freetime" over the weekend to spend on something other than maintaining stats. I am the kind of person to do that stuff, but I only did it once or twice and since then only check the game out if there's a new cheat version available as I'm not willing to spend days of my freetime to find maybe an hour or less of content that's relevant to my interests.
I have been enjoying the game so far, except for one thing, I still don't know how to eat. I know that there have been several people to say this in the past, but I have not seen a fix yet. Does anyone know how to keep your character from starving to death?
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Go to the comercial district and eat at one of the resteraunts every second day, McDonalds is one of the best IMO.
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