Ren'Py Big Brother: Another Story Rebuild [v0.06.01] [Aleksey90]

[jan.spam]

His goal is to complete the game. Most will come after original ended. This version will not branch into so many dead-end paths, instead they will all be in one main path. Sure there will be more than one path, like with Eric, but it will come back together, after Eric is gone. We may branch again at some point, but it will tie back in to main path always.

my five cents: a new dev like him, with little-to-no experience in code, he should not branch too much, but keep it real simple at first. Don't try to please everyone, pick your audience and develop your game mid center around that particular crowd's kink, disregarding the howling from the others.. Point is, that otherwise you reduce the gameplay for everyone: no matter if you love/hate Eric, a big part of the game is then on the other side of your kink. If you hate Eric, all the time the Dev spent on his scenes are a total waste, and vice versa. and that makes your - perceived - update smaller, cos you only wish to play half to it.

 

[abczzz]

when will 006 be out?

 

[armion82]

His goal is to complete the game. Most will come after original ended. This version will not branch into so many dead-end paths, instead they will all be in one main path. Sure there will be more than one path, like with Eric, but it will come back together, after Eric is gone. We may branch again at some point, but it will tie back in to main path always.

You are completely right.
For example from the previews,we know that next update will bring progress with Alice in almost all scenes
1.Bathroom after nightclub-most previews so far
2.Blog-also a lot of previews,new lingerie
3.Spider in Alice's room-it seems she will be naked now
4.Smoking-time to "punish" Alice
5.Foot massage-are we getting cunnilingus now?
It seems only yard massage have no preview so far,but we still can get a progress ther-boob massage maybe.

 

[greenymph]

Yeah, i was just thinking in the long run, like after Ann is "converted" and is already having sex with Max and Alice, after the whole porn movies arc, after Olivia and her mother quest, after Alice and the doctor, Lisa and Vicky. After all that unfinished stuff from the original, i was wondering if Aleksey would want to add his own extra ideas, and develop the story even further. Like someone goes to jail? Someone gets pregnant? New characters? More porn movies? The father will appear?

But if he just intends to finish the game, i'm ok with it too.

 

[Shiva0067]

I guess it's time to do a HELPFUL post about making money, spending money, and the bank loan. To save space I'll do a Spoiler.

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So, there is the FAR to long description of how to get a LOT of money in the game early. I hope that the explanation is clear and helpful to others. If you think it is good, then I ask you to join me in BEGGING asking for Chocolate Chip Cookies to be added to the game.

Just a thought.

P.S. Later in the game you will need more cameras to advance some of the story paths, but for now (and hopefully always) the first several weeks do NOT need more than the FIRST (free-ish) camera.

 

[maxbishup]

Yeah, i was just thinking in the long run, like after Ann is "converted" and is already having sex with Max and Alice, after the whole porn movies arc, after Olivia and her mother quest, after Alice and the doctor, Lisa and Vicky. After all that unfinished stuff from the original, i was wondering if Aleksey would want to add his own extra ideas, and develop the story even further. Like someone goes to jail? Someone gets pregnant? New characters? More porn movies? The father will appear?

But if he just intends to finish the game, i'm ok with it too.

Yeah, I think that's what he has in mind, when we get to were original ended. Then Aleksey will start his game (another story) he had that plan from the start. But he decided to start over, so he could set up for it, instead of having all those go nowhere paths to work with. Eric will end in this version, but challenges will not. There will still be other men in this game. NTR will be up to the player, but all will be challenged, Olivia's boyfriend, the delivery guy, maybe someone at the massage parlor (0.07 update). There will always be challenges to Max. Keeping your influence high, will be key to the game. If you like NTR then there will be more chances after Eric, if not then work (influence) to prevent it. It's up to the player.

V0.06 focuses on interactions with Eric (friendship and enmity). There will be options and quickly get rid of Eric forever, and a longer confrontation. A long standoff will be developed over several updates. But I'll tell you more about it later.

 

[It Was I DIO]

Yeah, I think that's what he has in mind, when we get to were original ended. Then Aleksey will start his game (another story) he had that plan from the start. But he decided to start over, so he could set up for it, instead of having all those go nowhere paths to work with. Eric will end in this version, but challenges will not. There will still be other men in this game. NTR will be up to the player, but all will be challenged, Olivia's boyfriend, the delivery guy, maybe someone at the massage parlor (0.07 update). There will always be challenges to Max. Keeping your influence high, will be key to the game. If you like NTR then there will be more chances after Eric, if not then work (influence) to prevent it. It's up to the player.

Just want to re-iterate in case some people are mislead by your wording. Eric's content wont end this update, from what I have read on Patreon, the dev said that Eric's content will continue but players have the option to get rid of him in the story and in doing so they will miss out on alot of potential content in the future involving him, so best keep multiple saves at the least, never know what Aleksey has planned for the future.

Edit: Ah ok, you explained the update better in your edit, didnt see that until after I already posted.

 

[maxbishup]

Just want to re-iterate in case some people are mislead by your wording. Eric's content wont end this update, from what I have read on Patreon, the dev said that Eric's content will continue but players have the option to get rid of him in the story and in doing so they will miss out on alot of potential content in the future involving him, so best keep multiple saves at the least, never know what Aleksey has planned for the future.

Edit: Ah ok, you explained the update better in your edit, didnt see that until after I already posted.

Yeah, sorry about that, your right the best path is the extended path(friend or enemy) with Eric. My point was that end of Eric, will not be end of challenge, or potential NTR.

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Let's just say that the player can learn more about Eric only if they choose the long path of confrontation or the path of friendship. It will be possible to get rid of it quite quickly, but this way will limit max from the maximum level of opportunities and interactions with women. I intend to create 3 stages of getting rid of Eric (a long path of confrontation), as well as the path of Union, which as you should understand, will end badly for either max or Eric.

 

[maxbishup]

I want to fly into the future, download the final release and bring it here ...

As an alien, I would say, the future is best, left in the future. But I share your desire to have it all now. Thing about the future is, we never know how much we have left.

 

[BK186]

Spoiler: Eric was helping Alice... (v0.06)

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I guess this update will be the best ever. I'll be the Patron at the end of the month.

 

[Diglwssos]

I know it's already posted, thanks to CyberW01f. Here is the PNG anyway.

Spoiler: Did she notice or not? (v0.06)

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[Grandvisier]

As an alien, I would say, the future is best, left in the future. But I share your desire to have it all now. Thing about the future is, we never know how much we have left.

As a time traveler, I have to agree... Unless what you leave in the future is the back up battery for your time machine, and you use up the charge on the primary, and now you're stuck in this awful, backwards, primitive world.... Stupid, stupid, stupid... I could have sworn I put that fucking battery in the luggage... You people don't even have the materials to build a crude quantum battery that elementary school children learn to build in my time, let alone the matter/anti-matter battery necessary for the time....

 

[khumak]

I forget who I saw post about it, but I saw someone comment that the web cams seem kind of glitchy as far as the amount of money they produce and after testing a little today with it I would have to agree. With just a single cam in the lounge and no others, it's pretty easy to make $1000 or more every day. Each additional camera you buy costs you over $700 and you actually make LESS money than you did with only 1 cam. Really strange.

You can still make plenty of money even with all of them but other than the small number of events that require specific cameras (like the ones in Alice's room), there's really no reason to ever even buy any additional cameras. The terrace cam in particular is almost completely useless. You'd have to have that thing active for several in game years to even come close to recouping the cost of buying it even if buying additional cameras didn't reduce your income.

In any case, I'm done ranting. Looking forward to the next version.

 

[Shiva0067]

I forget who I saw post about it, but I saw someone comment that the web cams seem kind of glitchy as far as the amount of money they produce and after testing a little today with it I would have to agree. With just a single cam in the lounge and no others, it's pretty easy to make $1000 or more every day. Each additional camera you buy costs you over $700 and you actually make LESS money than you did with only 1 cam. Really strange.

You can still make plenty of money even with all of them but other than the small number of events that require specific cameras (like the ones in Alice's room), there's really no reason to ever even buy any additional cameras. The terrace cam in particular is almost completely useless. You'd have to have that thing active for several in game years to even come close to recouping the cost of buying it even if buying additional cameras didn't reduce your income.

In any case, I'm done ranting. Looking forward to the next version.

I mentioned the other day in my money guide that I had thought there was a drop in money for more cameras. I think that the MAIN thing for making money is that MAX is in a camera room when the HOUR changes. Yes, if there are more people than Max (Alice movie/Tv watching) the amount increases. The problem is that more cameras seems to make ALL amounts go DOWN. So as I said in my guide, do NOT buy cameras unless you NEED them (or you have INSANE money).

TY for the tests, I'm to LAZY to bother. I don't know if I want the camera and money to be fixed, because I worry that the early game BIG money will disappear.

Just a thought.

P.S. We MUST all unite beneath the PRO Chocolate Chip Cookie Banner and SAVE the world.

 

[Kidisbusch]

Have you added latest bugfix.
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Android?

 

[khumak]

I mentioned the other day in my money guide that I had thought there was a drop in money for more cameras. I think that the MAIN thing for making money is that MAX is in a camera room when the HOUR changes. Yes, if there are more people than Max (Alice movie/Tv watching) the amount increases. The problem is that more cameras seems to make ALL amounts go DOWN. So as I said in my guide, do NOT buy cameras unless you NEED them (or you have INSANE money).

TY for the tests, I'm to LAZY to bother. I don't know if I want the camera and money to be fixed, because I worry that the early game BIG money will disappear.

Just a thought.

P.S. We MUST all unite beneath the PRO Chocolate Chip Cookie Banner and SAVE the world.

Yeah I think there's probably two issues with the way it works right now. One is that I think you're right that it puts too much weight on whether Max is in the room or not. Most people who might pay for these cams would be guys. They want to see the girls, not Max. The second issue is that I think you're right about them reducing the amount that all cameras can make every time you buy an additional one. That makes no sense at all.

IMO whether Max is in the room or not should have almost no impact on the money. What should matter is whether there are girls in the room and whether they're doing anything hot. So the bathroom should earn more than it does now since the girls are naked in there. The bedrooms should earn more than they do now for similar reasons. The lounge should earn a lot less than it does now except when there's something good happening like Anne doing something with Eric or Max doing something with Alice or Kira, etc.

IMO income should go up, not down when you buy more cams but that means that initial lounge cam should make a lot less than it does currently. I think the new loan option takes care of the issue of not having enough money early in the game. It's pretty easy to grab at least $1000 worth of loans as soon as it becomes available if you have a little bit saved up to pay off the first one and just get a new one immediately. In fact the play testing I was doing yesterday I was able to get the $5000 loan that first day.

 

[Shiva0067]

Yeah I think there's probably two issues with the way it works right now. One is that I think you're right that it puts too much weight on whether Max is in the room or not. Most people who might pay for these cams would be guys. They want to see the girls, not Max. The second issue is that I think you're right about them reducing the amount that all cameras can make every time you buy an additional one. That makes no sense at all.

IMO whether Max is in the room or not should have almost no impact on the money. What should matter is whether there are girls in the room and whether they're doing anything hot. So the bathroom should earn more than it does now since the girls are naked in there. The bedrooms should earn more than they do now for similar reasons. The lounge should earn a lot less than it does now except when there's something good happening like Anne doing something with Eric or Max doing something with Alice or Kira, etc.

IMO income should go up, not down when you buy more cams but that means that initial lounge cam should make a lot less than it does currently. I think the new loan option takes care of the issue of not having enough money early in the game. It's pretty easy to grab at least $1000 worth of loans as soon as it becomes available if you have a little bit saved up to pay off the first one and just get a new one immediately. In fact the play testing I was doing yesterday I was able to get the $5000 loan that first day.

As I said before.. I'm to LAZY to do tests, but I think that the drop in money is more about the viewers you have. Because of this, when MAX is not in a room the viewer count (and money) drops. With extra cameras the viewers are spread out and DROP in areas that Max is NOT more quickly than you gain them in the room that Max IS. Because of this you end up with fewer TOTAL viewers at the end of the day, plus I think that NO viewers get added during SLEEP.

I don't know how this might be fixed. Also, I fear that any fix could mess up the early single camera benefit. Thus I say that if someone WANTS a second camera they should put it in the POOL area. This gives the best viewer count because you can spend time with one of the ladies for a boost (Alice during the day, Lisa in the afternoon, and Kira (when she arrives) in the early morning). After the second camera choosing where to place the third (and later others) gets more tricky. I recommend the LAST cameras be placed in the BATHROOM then the PATIO(eating area). Those to seem to be the worst paying cameras (at this time). The Bedrooms don't get a lot of use right now, but hopefully will be better later in the game.

So, I recommend NOT buying cameras until you NEED them, then get the pool camera followed by ONLY the cameras for rooms that you need for events/paths/opportunities.

Hope this helps.

P.S. I ALSO recommend supporting Chocolate Chip Cookies and FIGHTING against EVIL Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.

 

[armion82]

As I said before.. I'm to LAZY to do tests, but I think that the drop in money is more about the viewers you have. Because of this, when MAX is not in a room the viewer count (and money) drops. With extra cameras the viewers are spread out and DROP in areas that Max is NOT more quickly than you gain them in the room that Max IS. Because of this you end up with fewer TOTAL viewers at the end of the day, plus I think that NO viewers get added during SLEEP.

I don't know how this might be fixed. Also, I fear that any fix could mess up the early single camera benefit. Thus I say that if someone WANTS a second camera they should put it in the POOL area. This gives the best viewer count because you can spend time with one of the ladies for a boost (Alice during the day, Lisa in the afternoon, and Kira (when she arrives) in the early morning). After the second camera choosing where to place the third (and later others) gets more tricky. I recommend the LAST cameras be placed in the BATHROOM then the PATIO(eating area). Those to seem to be the worst paying cameras (at this time). The Bedrooms don't get a lot of use right now, but hopefully will be better later in the game.

So, I recommend NOT buying cameras until you NEED them, then get the pool camera followed by ONLY the cameras for rooms that you need for events/paths/opportunities.

Hope this helps.

P.S. I ALSO recommend supporting Chocolate Chip Cookies and FIGHTING against EVIL Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.

For me the best 3 cameras are
1.The camera we start with
2.Pool and Bathroom
3.Second camera at pool and second camera at bathroom.

 

[keer]

We also need a camera built right into the bath! Finally, the end of the wait is visible, I'm already impatient)

 

[littlebeyou]

still no updates ? hmm