Ren'Py Completed Dreaming of Dana [v0.099] [PTOLEMY]

[Joker Jack]

One of the first things I remember about the gameplay on this one was that grinding any of the stats over 50 is pointless, the game is mostly choice and event based VN than a sandbox. You have to choose x to get to y and get y to progress to z. That's the basic idea.

Trying to cheat yourself to progress by raising your stats artificially without actually going through the events that raise your stats "naturally" and trigger new events will make you stuck sooner or later.
Stats are there to create triggers to some of the events, but essentially it's the events that will give you progress. It's not a sandbox where you can cheat yourself through by raising stats and jump from event 1 to event 25, skipping everything in between. Cheating will get you nowhere.

The girls and at least some of the events are mandatory to progress, trying to avoid any of them will just make you run around in circles.
The "walktrough alt" is likely the one to follow if the third one looks too complicated.

Damn, i read on here that i needed 250 points w all girls to progress at some point, considering i play on Android too i can't find a way to cheat except editing the file but some renpy security prevents me from loading the edited save so i have no choice but to grind

 

[Penfold Mole]

Damn, i read on here that i needed 250 points w all girls to progress at some point, considering i play on Android too i can't find a way to cheat except editing the file but some renpy security prevents me from loading the edited save so i have no choice but to grind

Who told you that BS?
Since the game development started and reached the point where grinding ended (which happens quite early in the game), everyone who bothered to read the script and/or play the game, have been repeating to those trying to cheat themselves through the game with ridiculous affection and sexuality scores, that anything above 50 is pointless.

Spoiler: conditions of 'affection' and 'sexuality' variables in all the game scripts grep'd

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See anything above 50?

 

[Ero - Sennin]

Cavpal did you just react on a post that was 7 years ago?

 

[Cavpal]

Cavpal did you just react on a post that was 7 years ago?

Are you a private investigator? Because if you are, I could use your services.

 

[Penfold Mole]

Cavpal did you just react on a post that was 7 years ago?

Why the hell not if he read it for the first time now and reacted, it's not like he necro-posted in an old thread
I'm getting reactions on my old posts all the time. I haven't paid attention how old some of them exactly are, but I'm sure a few were from 2018 or even 2017.

 

[Ero - Sennin]

Why the hell not if he read it for the first time now and reacted, it's not like he necro-posted in an old thread
I'm getting reactions on my old posts all the time. I haven't paid attention how old some of them exactly are, but I'm sure a few were from 2018 or even 2017.

If he asked me if I am a private investigator, now I want to ask you if you are a lawyer?

 

[Ero - Sennin]

Are you a private investigator? Because if you are, I could use your services.

Well, that was the good old days man, I'm feeling nostalgic now, I was still in college that time, thanks for bringing me back

 

[Cavpal]

Well, that was the good old days man, I'm feeling nostalgic now, I was still in college that time, thanks for bringing me back

I doubt that you're older than me, I'm almost fifty.

 

[AnchovyFuta]

It's been a while since I heard of this game, good reason to play it again. I wonder if someone knows what assets where used here? I would love to do some fanart with Jessica and Marie...

 

[balboa2151]

okay, I really hate being a pain in the ass, buuuuuuut, but I'm stuck and I don't know what the hell to do? I have plenty of points for affection and sexuality, I feel like all I'm doing is sleeping and going to the office with no progress, Andrea won't go to the pool, Maria, every time that I ask to go to her house she says she's busy, I haven't met Jessica yet, Mila asked me to help her, I've been to the strip club several times, went out to dinner and met Dana with her very large clients, when I leave the office the only people that I see are Dana who comes home and watches a movie and Andrea stuck in the rain and I evite her back to my place to spend the night, I went out dancing with Dana and Andrea and they had sex, now I'm freakin stuck? any guidance would be very appreciated

 

[Penfold Mole]

okay, I really hate being a pain in the ass, buuuuuuut, but I'm stuck and I don't know what the hell to do? I have plenty of points for affection and sexuality, I feel like all I'm doing is sleeping and going to the office with no progress, Andrea won't go to the pool, Maria, every time that I ask to go to her house she says she's busy, I haven't met Jessica yet, Mila asked me to help her, I've been to the strip club several times, went out to dinner and met Dana with her very large clients, when I leave the office the only people that I see are Dana who comes home and watches a movie and Andrea stuck in the rain and I evite her back to my place to spend the night, I went out dancing with Dana and Andrea and they had sex, now I'm freakin stuck? any guidance would be very appreciated

Once you hit 50 points you can forget about grinding more points. This is where the point grinding "sandbox" ends. All following events will unlock in sequence only by previous events, not by point scores. Try to make sure you haven't skipped some events, because the one you skipped might unlock your progress to new ones.

This is not a sandbox where you can visit the events you want and skip the others. This is an "obfuscated" VN where you have to find the path yourself. Even when you have 50 points already, but you have skipped an important event, you won't be able to progress. It's the events that unlock progress here, not the points.
You can cheat right at the beginning and give yourself 50 points to go at the start, but you won't be able to progress unless you visit required events. And too many points too early with a specific character may actually lock you out of some events you need to progress in specific sequence.
For example, there might be an event unlocked when you hit 30 points with a specific character, an event that you need to get to the next event that will unlock at 40 points. But you won't be able to get to the first event if you already have 40 or more points, the first event disappears from the menu when you have too many points. Get it?

Which is why cheating actually works against you here. Without cheating the events will open in correct sequence and progress normally.

Pay special attention to new options in choice menus you haven't open before. One of them may lead you to following new events.
I don't remember much else.

The latest walkthrough might help a little. https://attachments.f95zone.to/2021/01/1008620_DDanaWalk.txt