Ugh... where do i even start with this? I think the best advice for anyone wanting to get into this action would be to follow this link:
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The game posted here, on F95, is OUTDATED. In order to avoid any issues, i would recommend following the guide up to the point, where the game launches without throwing any errors. Then, delete the torrent, and pack the working game back again, to have a safe rollback point, in case shit hits the fan due to mods, or whatever you decide to do with it from then on.
Another bit of advice would be to have everyone get themselves acquainted with QtEdit - its in the installation directory, along with the game launcher and the editor. The reason being, that i will be operating with a certain abbreviation thats critical to describe what drives the game, and the key location that is of interest to us lies within a tab of QtEdit - the "Play Data" tab > ACTION-BACKLOG sub tab. The abbreviation in question is, of course, LLDH, which is not, in fact, a name of some new drug, but stands for Love Like Dislike Hate. These four point counters dictate how a relation with a NPC will flow - love is related with sexual attachment, like with friendship, dislike with unwillingness to speak to you, and hate with open hostility towards the player. These points all amount to a total of 30, with new points replacing the old ones as we gain more LLDH points. We never lose points - we merely replace them.
Now, with that out of the way, lets get on with it!
1. The Basics.
The ultimate goal of the game, in my opinion, is to get into the pants of whichever NPC you choose. Instantly, the game throws a hurdle to keep you away from getting to that goal. That being, of course, the characters sexual orientation. The devs have left a hint for us to find in plain sight, without having to dig through the editor or QtEdit - the background color of a characters card:
Red is Pure Hetero
Orange is Lean Hetero
Dark/Purple is Bi
Green is Lean Homo
Blue is Pure Homo
How/why is this relevant? Well, if you manage to convince a homo type to fuck the opposite sex, let me know -- on a more serious, and more mechanical note - Pure Homo characters do not generate love points towards the opposite sex. This plainly means, that you will not be able to do anything, if youre not the same sex as the homo character. The same goes for Pure Hetero folks - they only generate like points towards the same sex.
The situation changes, when characters are not at the extremes of their sexual orientation - a male character can get into the pants of a lean homo chick (and vice versa, as in, a pure homo guy can woo a hetero leaning guy), but the process will be extremely difficult. In a situation like this, the lean homo character will cut the love count income of the opposite sex by 50% (and a leaning hetero guy/chick will do the same to the same sex). This makes it painful to actually get anywhere with love count gain, as a single conversation with the target NPC might ruin your days work.
Its a back-breaking process, but in my opinion - lean homo characters make for the best partners, as the AI is, plainly speaking, too stupid to approach them, so you most likely wont get cucked.
Speaking of, to all the vile NTR crowds, sharing their love interests with everyone - look no further! This game has some of what you want. In your case, though, you will have to check a characters virtue status - best done in QtEdit or the editor. Virtue governs the "resistance" of a character to romance. The higher the virtue of a character, the more effort it takes to actually be able to bed them. Looking for a long lasting monogamous relationship? Highest virtue NPCs are your best bet. Want to share your LI with everyone, their friends and their dog? Lowest virtue is there, waiting for you.
Finally, for this part of the "guide" (ha! what a joke!), is Sex Friending. Becoming sex friends with someone is dependent on their virtue, but sometimes too on whether you have had sex with them before, that required a relationship. Certain virtue types will not allow you to fool around, unless you date them first (normal, high and highest), while others will lie down and spread their legs at a mere notion of sex (low and lowest). After having sex with a NPC at least once, though? As long as youre able to recover the LLDH points to a level, where they dont hate you anymore - you can fuck them whenever you like.
2. The "Main Game", meaning Interactions and their function.
Your only ability to influence the game is contained withing a set of tabs/windows/bubbles/whatever you want to call them, on the right side of your screen. It is from here, that you make decisions on how to interact with a NPC in question, and its up to the dice rolls to know whether youre lucky (punk? well? are you?!) or do you fail spectacularly, ruining all your gains in a single roll of snake eyes. To make it easy on everyone (and myself), i will only mention the functions and what they do, rather than list effects for every single roll of dice out there. While the wiki does, more or less, the same thing - i wouldnt trust the wiki as far as i can throw it. One more bit of vital information - there are THREE types of responses to your attempts and you are allowed to only use each interaction THREE times, before you piss the NPC off (the last one has an exception - i will get to that).
The three responses are: success (grants you positive LLDH points), soft failure (grants you a small amount of negative LLDH points), and utter, complete disaster (grants you high amount of negative LLDH points).
1st tab: Influence
-encourage: does what it says on the tin - if you see a sad NPC, try to encourage them with it. Success will grant you some like points, as well as improve their mood; failure leaves the mood unchanged
-calm: does what is says on the tin - if you see a pissed off NPC, tries to calm them down. Success grants you some like points, while making them get out of their sad, pathetic state; failure leaves the mood unchanged
-praise: supposedly grants you a short time boost to LLDH gain if successful - i have not noticed that in my tests. Besides - its creepy. One of the VAs for the girls has put it in the right words, when ive tried to praise her: "W-what are y-you after?!"
-grumble: now this is a fun one! Grumbling/complaining makes the NPC youre speaking to lose their hate points - as we have established - you do NOT lose LLDH points! You only gain them! In other words - the hate points they lose do not disappear - they turn into dislike points. Careful with the usage of this function - you may turn an NPC that hates you, insults you and tries to fight you into one that will not want to speak to you
-apologize: this one is a about the most useless interaction you can think of, although not completely useless - its use is very limited, however, since you will only be able to use it successfully after being caught cheating, or have wronged someone somehow, that their status says "unforgivable"
-Never mind: does nothing. Its more of a "oops" click, if you interacted with the wrong NPC when in a crowd.
2nd tab: Lecture
I... im not getting into this one. Sure, it does things, but not the things we want to do, anyway - you encourage NPCs to do stuff, but keep in mind that your secondary goal is to be at the top of the rankings in academics and athletics, so by using this, youre making your life harder - skip this tab, and never look back into it again.
3rd tab: Gossip
The, unarguably, most useful tab in the game, other than Contact.
-i have a good rumor: makes the NPC you say it to increase their like points of you and the NPC you have targetted if you succeed, but gains you dislike points if you fail (this one isnt that usefull, honestly)
-try to get along: more of a flavor ability, than something useful - you ask the NPC to try and improve relations with the target NPC. If they say "bugger off", you get dislikes.
-i want to get along with: the more useful ability in this tree - if you succeed, the NPC you spoke to will try to improve the targets like points between you and the target - if they fail - you get dislike points. It is the only way to actually get out of the hole, that is a NPC hating you.
-i have a bad rumor: now, this one is my favorite, and it works like a charm - you tell an NPC, that the NPC you targetted sucks. After a few attempts, the NPC you spoke to initially will get so much dislike points, that will make them completely break contacts with the targetted NPC. Ive used it to great effect to steal some scrubs highly virtuous girlfriend - spoke to the girl about sex, gave her headpats (high virtue does not allow anything more) and softly, gently whispered into her ear: "
hey, your boyfriend is a baby raping, sodomizing sack of shit... and you should leave him for me, instead". After a day or two of doing that, their mutual status of "lets get married!" changed into the guys "lets get married!" to her "Who?" - they broke up shortly afterwards, and during the same break period, she approached me and asked me to be lovers. Cha-ching!
-do you love this person?: this one should be more like "do you like this person?" instead. Grants no LLDH points, and merely informs you whether you have a shot with a character or not... vaguely.
4th tab: Chat
-the first three options in this one all give you like points upon success, but also give you dislike points if you fail - a small amount, but an amount nonetheless.
-talk about love: this one is a noob trap, unless you play a pure hetero or pure homo character - using this ability constantly will completely equalize your love and like points. In LLDH terms - you dont want that - love is the only way to get into someones pants - use it early into the game, to quickly rack up LLDH points, but then switch to the next ability in the list, which is...
-talk about sex (lewd): using this one, once you break out of equalizer hell of before, is an absolute chore, but is necessary, if you want to get into someones pants. Success grants love points; failure grants a minor amount of dislike points.
5th tab: Invite
I am not going to describe all of these, but will merely mention that using the karaoke, restaurant and arcade options only has a 50/50 chance of gaining either love or like points. Its not a sure bet, unfortunately. "Walk home together", according to the lying wiki, is supposed to give love points, but does not (according to my tests).
6th tab: Bully
Oh boy... most of the abilities in this one dont work, the others are useless. Lets get over them real quick --
-insult: one of the few abilities in the game that doesnt have a limit of uses - you can hurl insults at someone, making both you and them gain hate points, while making them more likely to fight you. Why would you do that?
-fight: similarily to the ability above - fight also has no limit on uses, but a character might refuse to fight you, unless you insult them first. Fighting in a crowded room will make all NPCs in the room generate hate points towards you. Not worth it, unless the "victim" is lured away to a secluded place.
-ignore: this one sounds useful, but isnt - it generates no LLDH points, while forcing the NPC to ignore another, targetted, NPC - the NPC spoken to will refuse to talk with the targetted NPC, but again, it generates no LLDH points = no point.
-show that, and, put this on: both of these force the targetted NPC to either expose themselves to you or to put on a sex toy; the chances are low, and rewards are even lower - skip it
-force: according to my tests, this ability has a very narrow window of opportunity - you can force your lover to have sex with you anywhere using this, but at the same time, your lover would fuck you in the middle of a crowded corridor, had you only asked; the other option to use it only works for specific traits (evil character vs obedient/masochistic/exploitable)... so forget about forcing homo characters to have sex with you, using this.
7th tab: Love
-ask to join club: does what it says on the tin - you ask the NPC to join the club youre in (for ease of access, usually, since otherwise they will refuse) - requires a fair bit of love points to succeed.
-ask on a date: a really good ability, assuming you have gathered enough love points for the NPC to accept - succeeding grants up to 5 love points; failing spectacularly grants somewhere around 1. If they accept - meet them on saturday morning. *in Indian accent* Dont Be Late!
-confess: your primary way to check how strong your bond in a relationship is + improves mood of both parties if successful. Upon failure, scramble to salvage the relationship, because its falling apart - also causes sadness upon failure.
-lets be lovers: ... ... ... do i really have to say what it does? success grants a one time boost to love points; failure grants a minor increase in hate points.
-lets break up: causes a 3 point hate gain per use; theres two ways how to end a relationship - the hard way, to spam this ability until the lover becomes ex (not recommended) or the soft way, by using it once, then ignoring them until they gain enough dislike points, that they will break up on their own).
8th tab: Contact
-caress: headpats, essentially. Changes mood, but nothing beyond that.
-hug: what it says on the tin - changes mood
-kiss: similar to above: changes mood, but grants a minor love point increase
-grope: similar to above: changes mood, but grants a minor love point increase
-sex: initiates sex (will fail if virtue too high, but will not cause LLDH gain if that happens); one of the few ways in the game to gain love points, as it grants up to 3 points per session
9th tab: Travel
-follow me: makes the targetted NPC follow you for a while; uses include taking an NPC out of a room with toxic mood in it, making interaction easier, or to drag them to a tool shed to have sex, if love points high enough/in a relationship.
-go away: causes a mood swing and is not really worth it - it makes the NPC fuck off out of the room, but if the NPC likes you, theres a chance they will just boomerang back to you, after crossing two rooms.
-come here: heres a pro tip - just like the NPCs request to "meet me here", you should reject any and all requests of this type, unless when its your lover asking - its a time waster, and the only time its worth it to respond to these positively, is when the NPC asking you is blushing - that means theyre horny and (apparently! how!) want to fuck you.
3. NPC routines and cheating.
To put it bluntly - the NPCs have no master plan. They do not plan ahead, they do not calculate, and what they say or do is completely random - this changes, however, once some LLDH points have been gained. The NPCs are more likely to attempt to interact with other NPCs (or the player) who they have more positive (Love + Like) points, than negative. Inversely, they will avoid interacting with NPCs (or the player) who have more negative (Dislike + Hate) points, than positive. NPCs who have positive points with the player (or other NPCs) can be observed either hanging around the players location, or sometimes peeking through the doors, so to speak (they will enter the room, stand at the door for a second or two, and disappear back in). This is a clear indication of whether the player should make their move or not - if the NPCs are just passing by, leave them be. If they hang around - now you might try pulling some stunts on them - they will (most likely) be more receptive towards your attempts.
CHEATER! Yes, this game is full of it. But how would you know, what actually *is* cheating, mechanically speaking? Welp, the games mechanics are clear: You can interact with another NPC in every way, except hugs, kisses, groping and sex. Everything else is free real estate. The NPCs reaction to cheating differs, based on their accumulated love points - if its more than 21 - you are mostly safe (although you should work on trying to patch things up, and apologize, if the other side asks for it). If its below 21, you will find that your lover will want to break up with you - dont resist it. Accept on their first request - its easier to rebuild some 6 hate points, than 15 + you just might get out of it better than when you entered. If you do manage to fix your LLDH with them, they will become you sex friend. See above for more info (how did you even get down here?!). Finally - you have to pay close attention to what your lover says - if they, at any points, ask you whether you like a person that isnt them, you say "no", or they will brand you a cheater and exchange your love points for hate points.
I was going to finish up by writing down something about moods, but moods are fairly easy to swing at a dime, and dont matter as much, in the grand scheme of things... im done here. Stick a fork in me. Im out!
Time to drown my liver with booze! Oh wait... its almost monday. Goddammit..
