HTML Degrees of Lewdity [v0.5.4.6] [Vrelnir]

[ejmuerte]

I'm disappointed in the direction the development is taking. First the Hallowen update, mostly adding a one-time event that doesn't add anything to the game, and now an update that adds a once-in-a-blood-moon event and a job catering to a niche fetish that you can't get anyway without grinding a boring job for 3 months because you need the boss to love you, but there is almost no way to increase his love (and I say almost because I presume there are some, but it didn't happen once in several days of working there all day long).

We need more repeatable events and for the story to go forward instead. These one-of-a-kind events can interest some people but only once, and once we've played them there's no reason to continue the game anymore, we saw the rest a hundred times already.

Not sure what the amount of milk in the boobs or the ability to tan add to the game either if you've already seen all the events. Getting jumped by Rando #486 while walking the street doesn't feel very different if you're tanned or have milky boobs. It's fluff, the kind that should be added way later in the development cycle, once the story and most events are in place.

Anyway, just my 2 cents. I hope this game doesn't die on the root with the devs wanking about with the code and adding niche crap for years, I've seen that happen to other games and it isn't pretty.

he is a solo dev btw but he has other support artists on sprite art

 

[K9]

I know.

'The devs' plural is for these other games that I mentioned, but I won't be giving any name, to avoid starting a flamewar concerning other games in this thread.

 

[Ayumi T]

My thoughts on the cafe:
I am having trouble raising Sam's love as well. I have played around 1 in-game month and only encountered 1 event that actually indicates +Love.

Even though it is supposed to be a low wage job, it would be nice to be able to consistently earn tips depending on skill(s) level. Sort of like how the tips for dancing work based on dance/exhibition.

Currently it feels like I have to force myself to play inefficiently just for the roleplay. Since you can earn more in less time doing other activities (robbing homes, those random 10-15 mins homes events all give you more money over time invested).

What do you guys think?

 

[samanseems]

New Update is actually released 0.2.7.1

 

[Midge]

I'm disappointed in the direction the development is taking. First the Hallowen update, mostly adding a one-time event that doesn't add anything to the game, and now an update that adds a once-in-a-blood-moon event and a job catering to a niche fetish that you can't get anyway without grinding a boring job for 3 months because you need the boss to love you, but there is almost no way to increase his love (and I say almost because I presume there are some, but it didn't happen once in several days of working there all day long).

We need more repeatable events and for the story to go forward instead. These one-of-a-kind events can interest some people but only once, and once we've played them there's no reason to continue the game anymore, we saw the rest a hundred times already.

Not sure what the amount of milk in the boobs or the ability to tan add to the game either if you've already seen all the events. Getting jumped by Rando #486 while walking the street doesn't feel very different if you're tanned or have milky boobs. It's fluff, the kind that should be added way later in the development cycle, once the story and most events are in place.

Anyway, just my 2 cents. I hope this game doesn't die on the root with the devs wanking about with the code and adding niche crap for years, I've seen that happen to other games and it isn't pretty.

Ok so i don't want to come off as one of those "ungh it's a free game just be happy with what you get" kind of peeps but i feel i got to address some of what you wrote here.
First you seem unhappy that Vrel is adding "filler" events and things to the game in stead of more "Main line" stuff and i can understand that, not every update will be for everyone. But this game is a sandbox game and so really has no "Main Line" to continue. Its whole content idea is to have these one-of-a-kind events so players can kind of go off and find their own stuff to follow. It's a journey with no destination and adding All the content takes time. And the thing that the Halloween Update added WAS the Halloween event not "nothing". And have you heard of the term "Cosmetics"? Everything in a game doesn't HAVE to do something it can just make the game more immersive for the Player(Tans, skin colour etc).
And yes it's not without its problems i'm right there with you on how slow it takes for Sam to love you (would having fixed events rather then it being RNG to get be better like say every 8th or 9th event can earn you Sam points?)
But most unfortunate of all is that the game will probably be like Star Citizen and be worked on untill Vrel gives up on it. But as of right now the game is completly playabe as is. And i've played some like A New Dawn that feels like the devs gaveup mid build and just shat out what they had. But this does not feel like that at all to play it.
And also we get a new update at least once a month so maybe the update your looking for is just around the corner.

My thoughts on the cafe:
I am having trouble raising Sam's love as well. I have played around 1 in-game month and only encountered 1 event that actually indicates +Love.

Even though it is supposed to be a low wage job, it would be nice to be able to consistently earn tips depending on skill(s) level. Sort of like how the tips for dancing work based on dance/exhibition.

Currently it feels like I have to force myself to play inefficiently just for the roleplay. Since you can earn more in less time doing other activities (robbing homes, those random 10-15 mins homes events all give you more money over time invested).

What do you guys think?

I also feel like the Job wages should scale like the Dockyard one does, right now dancing and whoring at the stipjoint is realy all you need to do, there is just no incentive beyond i'm just doing it to do it.

 

[Ryan Waxx]

Any update on blood moon mechanics? I've tried skipping days, normal play, even playing around a bit with the sugarcube parameters... but can't trigger one. What does one look like anyway?

 

[Kinky_One]

I do agree we need more repetable events. I think the game is going way too much in the RNG direction. It's nice to have random events, but it starts to get tiring when most of the content is random events :/ Also, as i alreadly pointed, with a cicle of a year (that is, 365 in game days), events that only happen once a year feel very easy to miss and very short.

I do wish every update had at least one new repetable event, as small as it may be. But i don't know how realistic this is. It would take not only a lot of work, but also a lot of creativity. Still, once you have seen all it gets tyring to do the same 3-4 scenes again and again

 

[Midge]

I do agree we need more repetable events. I think the game is going way too much in the RNG direction. It's nice to have random events, but it starts to get tiring when most of the content is random events :/ Also, as i alreadly pointed, with a cicle of a year (that is, 365 in game days), events that only happen once a year feel very easy to miss and very short.

I do wish every update had at least one new repetable event, as small as it may be. But i don't know how realistic this is. It would take not only a lot of work, but also a lot of creativity. Still, once you have seen all it gets tyring to do the same 3-4 scenes again and again

Yeah we do need more non-RNG Big events/quests but i don't feel they have to be repeatable. Sure you could argue for them to happen once a cycle/year to be repeated next cycle, but who plays that far? I can see more being put in both short term ones(Halloween hoilday types) and longer ones(Science and Math type of projects) But also i like the location based ones(this new Cafe one and potentually The soup kitchen ones) and even more personal Named NPC ones(Kylar, Whitney, Leighton and Robin ones). But i feel making those ones repeatable would cheapen them.
Either way i guess we need more non-RNG baised events/Quests yeah? Maybe just the class and holiday ones could repeat but not the location or NNPC ones? Is this more along the lines of what you are thinking K9 and Kinky_One,?
Vrel has been adding them anyway just got to be patient.

 

[Kharnos Strayder]

So how do you find the stocks and how do you get to view npc's getting defiled? I take it you gotta send a npc there like whitney or are there random npc's in the stocks for your viewing pleasure?

 

[shineryuverus]

so uh i am trying to find the new parasite but i can't find it and yes i went to the ruins during the red moon

 

[AislingoftheMist]

Oh, there was a scene or two for the watching the stockade that bugged out

 

[Kharnos Strayder]

Yeah, I've seen a few have their trousers pulled down and even one their underwear pulled but nothing beyond that. Is it just horrid rng or something else?

 

[AislingoftheMist]

I could swear you used to be able to interact with them, at the very least by throwing fruit.

 

[Kharnos Strayder]

Yeah, stress levels need to be right. But I figured once their pants were down, violation would follow but thus far, nadda, zilch, zippo.

 

[iamnuff]

You can throw fruit and spank, if your stress is at like 50/60%.
Nothing overtly sexual, and the npcs don't seem to do anything beyond stripping and throwing things.
If you get put in the stockade, you get fucked pretty much immidiately, but you can wait for 12 hours at an npc in the stocks and nothing really happens.

 

[Ayumi T]

So far these are the issues I came across while playing 0.2.7.1.

Night encounter with 0, the Shaggy Black Dog:

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Error during combat (i can't remember the exact encounter, it's either grabbed off the street or the bus one):

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Life-modeling while not wearing any underwear. The Emperor's Orphan's New Clothes?

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[AislingoftheMist]

I've seen an anal spit roast, but there's no like detail, it's pretty much just, you see two men doing an anal spit roast on the x

 

[shineryuverus]

So far these are the issues I came across while playing 0.2.7.1.

Night encounter with 0, the Shaggy Black Dog:

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Error during combat (i can't remember the exact encounter, it's either grabbed off the street or the bus one):

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Life-modeling while not wearing any underwear. The Emperor's Orphan's New Clothes?

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that error usually happens when avery licks your pussy so

 

[AislingoftheMist]

The pillory sex events for npcs are like this

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Vrelnir pillory error

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[Highland_Hunter]

Lactation, finally in game, = Yea ! Now having Nick-name of " Cow-Tits", actually has meaning !