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Yes, you can think that the author has driven himself into a trap, while other players (and myself among them) can assume with no less confidence that Fashion Business is just a good game that has its own gaming conventions that are inherent in any game / movie / comic book, etc.
Yes! I think the game is a time-loop-trap similar to "Source Code" (a Great SCI-Fi movie with about 2 hours duration basically made by repeating the same scene for 6/7 time that cannot be annoying)... in this game the plots where you have repeat the same scene for 9/10 times are boring and just made to take it long.
And if an ordinary player does not think too much about the concepts that you described (time loops, etc.), but simply enjoys this game, maybe this will be the true meaning of what is happening?
as I have explained... I enjoy the story but NOT the grind of the game in the repetitive scenes... bc this is only good for that i call masochists players (for players that play all day long). This can be done only on blueballs games. (fap all day long is impossible or requires a lot of lub cream ;)
Any game is created primarily for the player's entertainment. And if the task is to find inconsistencies, then I can easily reasonably criticize, for example, the movie universe of Star Wars and the movie universe of Aliens or any AAA PC game. And what is most interesting, I will find these inconsistencies and I will even be right, having received approval from the same people who love to "dig deeper".
Yes, but this is an "adult" game that is supposed to be more focused on the story and not in the mechanism of the game itself as can be in a normal game.
The only question is, is it worth doing? After all, we are not in a class of higher mathematics, where "liberties" and conventions are unacceptable, but on a gaming forum.
we are not in gaming forum, we are in an adult gaming forum... this forum is based on porno ADULT games so we can compare this game with others... in the adult world the story is usually much more important than the mechanics of a game.
So isn't it easier to just enjoy playing the Fashion Business?
Yes, it is easy to enjoy with the Monica story but diluting it into hundreds and short parts of the same plot annoying and require people that have time to play for all the day long...
A total Mod that reduces the useless grind would be better for the players like me that love the story but not the time required to play the game...this can cause disaffection in the story.

The revenge path is very important to my opinion and he postponed this path because it cannot fit in a pure sandbox very same as Marcus plot... that is still at the beginning...
This Part2 will became big as Part1 before end... I aspect at least more than 8/10 updates to close the EP2

PS: I had to remove your spoiler to replay... sorry.
 

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Ba lapp ba ba ba baaaa... Alright, checked it and it seems your save file got corrupted. My first guess, because of switching locations and using it as shared with your friend. Did you share only the save file or including with the persistent file? If you shared only the save file and used it in two games on two computers, the persistent file got messed up and this corrupted your save file.
It did not help. Even if you just start over, you will still save in version 2.18. won't work. Precisely new conservation, from scratch. Maybe the problem lies elsewhere. For example, in this file 00images.rpy. Maybe something needs to be fixed in it?


I apologize for my English, because I am writing through a google translator.
 
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you need to save in the hall between laundry and bedroom
and then you need the version 2.16
not 2.18
Are you screwing with me? That doesn't make any sence...
I may have to appologise since I look up the size and it seems to be ..10 GB!!!! I do not quet undersad the logic in numbering these but hey I am newby.
THat being said..I wanted to play some extras in epizode 2.2 because I have grey buttons indicating I have to play the extra version to see Monica take off her mask and such. Would that be in the provided link of 2.2.16 or that excluded the 2.2.18 content?
 
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Go to Ranch = end of game so probably not. Also as has been said before a lot of the things that would happen at the ranch would be against Patreon TOS so DM wouldn't be able to use them anyway. At the end of the day don't hold your breath, it may happen but not for a long time.
You are right, but, as they say in my country - "If I knew where I would fall, I would have spread straws in advance".
( Approximate translation) DM seems to have spread it by setting up a subscribestar account.

This is the very place that can become a quiet, cozy haven in case the DM suddenly decides to make a version (closer to the very end of the game), in which Monica still ends up at Ranch 218. And I would really like this version of the game to be released. For the sake of this, I would even become a patron of the game.

Everyone remembers the story of DMD (Dating My Daughter) and its complete ban on distribution via Patreon? What did the developer do? That's right, he moved the distribution of the game to the subscribestar.adult. I sincerely wish DM every success and want FB to never have problems with Patreon's moralfags, but it's always better to have an "alternate airfield". And the DM has such an airfield.

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I think I understood what the trouble is.

In all previous versions of FB there is such a path to such a folder.

lib \ windows-i686 \ Lib

And at 2.18. for some reason this is not. The folder windows-i686 has much fewer files and there is no folder Lib, which contains the same renpai file.

But what am I to do with this?
 

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For those one having problems with saves or bugs.
the Part2 18 was made to work with the new renpy 7.4.0 SDK Launcher (the version 17 was made with SDK version 3.3.5) so if you load a saves from version 17 the game crash. If you use this launcher 7.4.0 all bugs related to saves should be disappear... I have seen a lot of PC users complain in other forum... about this behaviour.
I'm on Mac and the V18 for PC does not work with the 3.3.5 Launcher...
Hope this helps
 

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I like rpg's, and in role-playing games usually you have to repeat a movement to reach a goal. It may take a long time, but if it is so easy, it is not much fun. I also like to have autoplay where I don't have to do anything other than click, but I also like the game as it is. You talk as if you hate the game, but I think you like the game. If I hate a game, I will pass it. If you really hate it, you can pass. I can't understand the insistence of haters
I love the story so I will not pass
I hate the grind of the game so I will continue to complain about this specific point!

I'm not talking about a kinetic novel with auto play
I'm talking about a VN with choices ... so you can follow various paths by you choices... and you will get differnt endings (depend on the choices.
Like is on Being A DIK and/or in the best Ren'Py games

the repetitive scene inside the boxed-plot are very boring... because you have to back at the same point for days and maybe weeks... you have t go to Sleep/Eat and if you do not change clothes you will be punished (masochist players) if you go out the home with Maid clothes you loos the progress with Betty:eek: ...this is totally useless and do not have any effect in the story line
the only effect is: WASTE TIME for nothing

Hope this can help you to understand why I will continue to request for a deep mod of this game!

and I think there are a lot of players that don't want to play this game just because the mechanics
that 's why my criticism is constructive... because I understood that I love Monica story also with the mess of the useless game mechanics....
and there would be much more supporters in the DecentMonkey patreon page if he will start to make an official MOD by itself or in collaboration with a modder

Thanks
 
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I hope one day this game will get a hero modder that transforms it into a visual novel without all of the sandbox elements.
this will be great... and size of the game will also be reduced a lot (there are at least 3.5/4.5 GB only for the sandbox structure)
 
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