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Is there a way to manipulate, influence or change the appearance and other characteristics of the female and male NPCs you encounter in the game? Or is it all just random?
Depends on NPC. JTF team, Corinthian casino guys, Oceana staff and Max from Dubai are pre-set characters. The guys you pick up in the clubs and the girls you compete with at the T-shirt contest are randomised each time.
Still stuck in Dubai I see, perhaps the flight is delayed till next year? At the rate of this nonsensical updates I wager we won't get a whiff of east asia bangkok or bali until a year at least.
Do note the change in version numbers - it's from 1.5.1.03 to v1.5.1.06, which means minor bugfixes and improvements, and personally I see no reason to keep them at bay when they are ready. I mean, 4 days has been wasted spent on fixing tans - please enjoy. I also don't really get why this found its way into the latest updates tab: while it is a first update in a month and it definitely helps to promote the game, some new rules about getting games into that tab appeared recently on f95, and I really wouldn't like FA to be considered as a game which abuses them due to a stream of fixes and small improvements with no major content updates.
And yes, a year, as in 12 months, looks like realistic expectations regarding Bangkok content, however little of it will appear. 9 months from now is optimistic in my book. Maybe Crush finally resigning from his job will help - he claims it will happen by the end of November in the latest post. Hopefully this will speed up the development, one way or another.
 

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Not that I'm complaining or anything, you're doing a great job with this game, really enjoyable, but when will the story progress? When will MC finally go overseas and work as a prostitute?

It's good and all that you're polishing the game, but feels like there hasn't been anything new storywise besides the childhood story addition, which kind of was useless as it didn't progress the main storyline.
 
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And yes, a year, as in 12 months, looks like realistic expectations regarding Bangkok content, however little of it will appear. 9 months from now is optimistic in my book. Maybe Crush finally resigning from his job will help - he claims it will happen by the end of November in the latest post. Hopefully this will speed up the development, one way or another.
Hilarious. Progress wise it's the same as it was 1.5 years ago (see page 8 for people talking about progression to Bangkok), they've just been adding to the character creation system and redoing art. There has been 0 progression content in the last year and a half, just adding in little stories and sexual history (which is beyond a waste of time unless they have those individually generated characters make appearances in... the seedy areas of Bangkok... Riiight.). This isn't a game, it's a character creator, and it shows no signs of being likely to ever progressing to be an actual game. Beyond frustrating, because what they claimed the game would be sounds like fun. Unfortunately they're making 6k a month (likely around 5-5.25k after patreon fees and fakes pledges), so don't expect them to change what's clearly been working for them.

The amusing thing is I nearly became a patreon for this, but didn't since constant meaningless patreon updates (daily in their case) annoy me. Kinda dodged a bullet there.
 

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Israel is not part of the five eyes.
Correct, but... Israel worked/is working with 5 Eyes:
"Israel, Singapore and Japan are collaborating with Five Eyes "
(see: [scroll down to chapter "Six Eyes"])
So option to include them (as the part of operation) in the game is opened.
 
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Crushstation

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Hey Raska, thanks for the feedback.

Hilarious. Progress wise it's the same as it was 1.5 years ago (see page 8 for people talking about progression to Bangkok), they've just been adding to the character creation system and redoing art.
Well...I think that the word "just" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. :p 18 months ago, the game had recently broken $1k/month in support. Since then, we creäted:
  • A complete RPG rules system (before this, we had no way to determine how good your individual agent was at fucking, shooting, talking, or anything else)
  • The Lifepath, which allows you to define the backstory of your character (before this, we had no way to determine whether your agent was a rookie, a veteran, a desk analyst, or a field agent, nor how sexually experienced she was)
  • A major avatar upgrade (before this, all agents had exactly the same face & body type)
All of these improvements were made in order to make my vision of Bangkok possible. I'm genuinely disappointed that they've taken so long. :(

There has been 0 progression content in the last year and a half, just adding in little stories and sexual history (which is beyond a waste of time unless they have those individually generated characters make appearances in... the seedy areas of Bangkok... Riiight.). This isn't a game, it's a character creator, and it shows no signs of being likely to ever progressing to be an actual game. Beyond frustrating, because what they claimed the game would be sounds like fun. Unfortunately they're making 6k a month (likely around 5-5.25k after patreon fees and fakes pledges), so don't expect them to change what's clearly been working for them.
Nobody can look into my cold dead heart, so everybody except me has to decide what they believe. Option 1 is that I deliberately develop the game much slower than I could, because I think that the Patrons will stop supporting the project if I work hard on it.

Option 2 is that I develop the game as fast and as well as I can, because I think that's what Patrons are paying me to do, and the delays are caused by me failing to achieve what I want to achieve.

Seriously – Option 1 makes no fucking sense if you think about it. This is the line of criticism that actually pisses me off: not for my own sake, but for the sake of the game's awesome patrons, past and present. This line of criticism implies that these patrons are idiots who I've tricked, when in fact they're heroes who inspire me, and they are literally the only reason Female Agent ever made it to version 1.2.

The truth is that I'm humbled by the fact that real people send me their actual money to keep me working on this. I develop the game as fast as I can. I think about it all the time, I'm leaving my job (which pays way better than Female Agent) and maybe my girlfriend to work on it more, and I am constantly "stressed" (which is the high performer's word for "frightened" :p) about how long it takes me to get updates out. This is the line of criticism I agree with: the process takes too long, Crush is not doing this efficiently, Crush could do a better job, Crush is not very good at this. My main desire is to figure out ways to speed up the dev process, and I do try new things, so if you have any thoughts on this I am a receptive audience.

The amusing thing is I nearly became a patreon for this, but didn't since constant meaningless patreon updates (daily in their case) annoy me. Kinda dodged a bullet there.
My feeling is that if somebody is paying me between $1-50 of their hard-earned income for one or more months, they're my boss and they're entitled to know what I'm working on. I do get how a daily update could be annoying, though. (In general, the positive feedback for the daily updates is much greater than the complaints I've had about it.)
 
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Crushstation

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Not that I'm complaining or anything, you're doing a great job with this game, really enjoyable, but when will the story progress? When will MC finally go overseas and works as a prostitute?
Thank you! And...

soon-my-friend-soon_o_175785.jpg

Seriously:
  • The next big piece of playable content will be a test of the new Sex Engine
  • Version 1.6 will replace all the existing interactive sex scenes in the game with scenes creäted in the new Sex Engine
  • Version 1.7 will be arrival in Bangkok and the agent infiltrating the brothel
  • Version 1.8 will (probably) be the "working as a prostitute" update

It's good and all that you're polishing the game, but feels like there hasn't been anything new storywise besides the childhood story addition, which kind of was useless as it didn't progress the main storyline.
The Lifepath/playable childhood story was a result of a series of frank and robust disagreements between me and Dissonant Soundtrack about how exactly to progress the main storyline. I wanted to keep the writing super generic, he convinced me that there is no way to make Bangkok interesting unless there is some kind of character development for the agent once she gets there.

I resisted the idea of prescribing the main character's back story, so we invented the concept of the Lifepath. The point was to allow the player to tell the game exactly who their character is, via a series of interactive and (hopefully) interesting decision points.

Those decisions don't mean much yet, but my ambition is to make the story in Bangkok respond to the decisions you made in the Lifepath.
 

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"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a sensuous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - but it doesn't say Bangkok - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!"
 
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It's also the little things that keep surprising you in this game. For example, if one notices that the name suggestion, which was sometimes allowed to submit its Patreon status, sometimes stands out in the generated NPCs.
This does not have to happen with the last update, but also shows how complex the game is in the background. How many variables there are already.
 
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Vrijgeest

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Crashing out all to easy when playing on line. No continue button the psychological sheet on the online version. Weird selection method of bust size. Why is there not a face close up and profile?
 

vimmers

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have the game gotten another background
i had to stop playing version 1.5.1.05 cos of a screaming white background page
but saw that there now was a config to it but it was only default
i would prefer black background and white letters
 

Vrijgeest

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I have donate to get multiple traits? Sorry. Nocando. An extremely bad decision to force people to pay. One trait is never enough.
That is it finished for me. All pleasure gone. (n)
 
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The layout of the game and the interactions is a great way to do a text based style. Wish there were more games like this with different themes.
I think Crush said he will licence the framework for free once he is finished? If so, other people can take a shot in making similar games but with different themes.
 
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