The effectiveness of what?
It currently isn't possible to have multiples of the same personality trait on the same team, because the game uses the personality contrasts to determine when the relationship development scenes happen, and you might end up with duplicate scenes or two Chosen not having any scenes together. This will eventually have to change, because the "boss" Chosen in the campaign mode won't use the usual personality generation rules, and they'll be partnered with underlings who have the same general personality type. So, in the process of making that possible, there will also be more flexibility added for custom teams (which should also make it more possible to replicate characters from other settings).
In order to reach higher corruption levels, you want to use multiple training actions of the same type at once. Because not all of the training actions have been implemented yet, it's rare to be able to get above 50% or so. Forsaken with high deviancy are too kinky to be bothered by much of anything, so it might be hard to get them even that high.
There isn't exactly an "endless mode," but there is a cheat to change what day it is. You can repeatedly set it back to the same day in order to avoid any time pressure, or you can set it after the final battle so that no other events will happen to interrupt what you're doing.
I hadn't realized that this was an issue on some computers. I'll look into adding a toggle for the button sizes too.
Ah, gotcha. I'm curious though how the game assigns the personalities exactly: If I tell it that Meguca Ducky Silver is the most Confident one of the bunch, how does it decide between Meguca Chicken Gold or Meguca Sparrow Bronze to make the ones with no self-esteem?
1. Start with INJU (Pummel), then HATE (Grind), unless the target is very INJU-resistant (0-1 minuses). If they're resistant to both, you're gonna have a hard time.
Yeah, PLEA is something I rarely want to increase unless I'm going for an Innocence break, and even then INJU and HATE go first. As for specialized commanders, Suppressors on their own are very rarely worth using and the ones I've used the most by far are Spite and Hunger + Anger. Anything with PLEA on it has turned out miserably in my experience, except on those monsters I put together for the final fight.
I gave it a try last update and really agree with this. I gave up after getting to stage 2 stats without much happening. It was also very RNG on the first few girls you get and if you had a bad role on 1st girl it meant progress just didnt happen.. then you get behind on upgrades for when more girls show up. The problem I see is theres tons of effort to learn the systems but payoff doesnt happen.. not even scenes the upgrades are practically nullified when the girls start teaming up and you rarely gain extra turns. You have to do a dozen battles to build (well.. breakdown) their stats and grind points right from the start but thats just to get to stage 2 stats or a stage 3 stat.
There's no such thing as "being behind on upgrades" based on how many Chosen are active. It's a common mistake to think you're supposed to "win" the first few days, or break anything. The meta is pretty much to fast-forward the first 11 days or so (by spamming the Chosen with the correct basic actions to build some Angst on each of them) and then, once you have a 2-use commander, ideally with a 4-turn duration, that's when you can start breaking stuff.
Oh, you can use Pleasure-based abilities, just not as an opener. You want to build circumstance multipliers first (HATE, INJU) before using Caress or Force Orgasm. That said, I consider Pleasure-based stuff to be more... volatile, because the potentially massive incoming Trauma can end up breaking tier 3 vulnerabilities (100M trauma, then 1G etc.) before you want to. Pleasure is basically the fastest way to turn the Chosens' resistances to jelly (from Angst and breaking T3 vulnerabilities), but also ends up giving them OP abilities to fight back with.
I guess Im trying to say the new player experience isnt great. Getting to the point where I can have multiple stats at stage 2 and 1 at stage 3 doesnt make much happen on its own but thats still hours of investment getting to that point. Sure following a guide I guess I can make things happen from there but as it is on its own Id have had to sink hours on top of that to get anywhere. For 1 thing, I wouldnt have thought investing into the commander would have been the way to go myself because the deployment costs were pretty high already. And then Id have no way to know that pleasure leads to high trauma that leads to them getting abilities, I assume that would be reason to restart if someone just stumbles into that?
The way I see it if you have a girl thats weak to INJ to start you can get way more upgrade points and have more turns by the time the 2nd girl showed up. Bear with me its been a week or so since I played it. Other weaknesses arent that much worse than INJ so not a huge loss. But you could get a bad roll with 1st girl that has high resistances across the board and I believe EXPO as main weakness didnt give much points. Maybe it doesnt actually matter but it does feel worse from a player perspective to have the starting girl give less points because once more girls are around they clean up faster and then you have less turns.
Yeah, I spent several hours myself, over multiple sessions, before I understood enough to be effective. Few games have this kind of design that's about exponential gains, so I made the mistake of "turtling" with upgrades too, thinking the commander would be worthwhile once I could comfortably afford it. Nah. It's your sledgehammer and you should use it as soon as you can start breaking stuff with it, though a basic unspecialized 2x4 commander is enough for much of the game, leaving the rest of your EE for passive upgrades.
Well, getting 1 of them is normal and probably needed to capture that Chosen in the final battle. But for example, if you like your specialized commanders, you may want to avoid the Chosen getting Detonate (Tier 3 Confidence break) since that specifically counters them. You may want them to get Slaughter instead (Tier 3 Morality break), which counters thralls. Tier 3 breaks are unique in that they're based on Trauma, so whichever one reaches a milestone (100M, 1G etc) is broken first and the next one becomes more expensive.
FYI, no one has high resistances in every vulnerability, the 3 Chosen have mutually-exclusive vulnerabilities (though some may start out pre-broken to t1). So my first 11 days are just using Attack, Slime, Shame or Threaten on the appropriate Chosen, I don't even bother with Surrounds yet. Just getting them to generate 1 EE after each battle is perfectly fine, that's enough to get you a basic commander plus some basic upgrades by day 12 or so.
The algorithm assigns each of the Chosen a score for each vulnerability, but it also assigns a "certainty" to each one based on how many questions related to that vulnerability you answered for that Chosen. If two Chosen seem to have the same score for the same vulnerability (or if there's some other invalid combination, like one Chosen having three vulnerabilities of the same level), then the least certain vulnerabilities are the ones that the algorithm is most willing to shuffle around. So, if you haven't answered any confidence-related questions for Gold or Bronze (or if you've answered their questions similarly), then it picks based on who already has a well-defined minor vulnerability and who still needs one.
Now that the game is playable form start to finish, I can say with certainty that PLEA isn't working as I had hoped. Originally, it was meant to fit a few purposes over the course of the game.
Seconding the Pleasure reduced Trauma penalties. Given that this is a game all about hard math and compounding multipliers, I've espoused before about how the fact that Injury is the only Circumstances that actually builds on itself positively is the reason why it's so utterly essential.
Disgust is definitely unintuitive and finnicky, absolutely. The halving mechanic is perhaps a little too extreme in some middle cases, and helps contribute to Disgust / Pleasure being very poor; it has less returns on actual capture chance / time than even Injury does, despite Pleasure ostensibly being meant to set that up.
