Davkin

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You missed my point entirely. It's not how you influence the stats, it's how the stats influences you that's missing.
Based on what I know, certain background story routes are greyed out or unlikely to happen (dice roll) based on your stats. And some dialogue options are unavailable based on your kinks. Other than those, stats and kinks don't do much. The story is still linear.
 
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wdf

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Nov 30, 2018
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These versions are really confusing. This is v1.5.1.03 and the main story is in Bangkok but it hasn't reached there yet. When games reach v1.0, does that not mean majority of the game is complete?
 

vince638

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wdf That's how it used to go in typical major.minor.micro versioning systems (you'd stay under 1.0.0 until out of beta, without any voluntary 'early release'). 1.0.0 meant you had the finished product with all its originally intended features. Game updates being pretty rare before the internet was a thing, that had to be it. Sometimes there was a director's cut with extra stuff, but it didn't actually use a version number to point that out.
Nowadays with early releases and constant updates post-release being very simple to distribute, it slowly lost that meaning and got closer to software libraries that go way beyond 1.0, with it being simply a point with enough features for initial consumption.
 
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Deniz31

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Don't how how it's gonna be with new sex engine but I think linear plot is way to go in this game rather than sandbox.Events like graduation ceremony or party quickie are more fun than clicking on suck it five times.:)
 

wdf

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wdf That's how it used to go in typical major.minor.micro versioning systems (you'd stay under 1.0.0 until out of beta, without any voluntary 'early release'). 1.0.0 meant you had the finished product with all its originally intended features. Game updates being pretty rare before the internet was a thing, that had to be it. Sometimes there was a director's cut with extra stuff, but it didn't actually use a version number to point that out.
Nowadays with early releases and constant updates post-release being very simple to distribute, it slowly lost that meaning and got closer to software libraries that go way beyond 1.0, with it being simply a point with enough features for initial consumption.
I see, thanks for the info. It's a fun game that I didn't think I would enjoy but I probably won't renew my patreon again. I'm not a patient person and there are other games I can play in the meantime. I hope ppl that have been supporting this for years get their complete game soon.
 
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Crushstation

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Possibly a very dumb idea, but since this is supposed to take place in Thailand, this begs to be asked, what about a trans woman protag?
Not a dumb idea, and has been requested before, but this is unlikely to ever get implemented (because so much would need to be rewritten). I should the heroine will encounter ladyboys in Bangkok, though.
 
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Crushstation

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I see, thanks for the info. It's a fun game that I didn't think I would enjoy but I probably won't renew my patreon again. I'm not a patient person and there are other games I can play in the meantime. I hope ppl that have been supporting this for years get their complete game soon.
Thanks for the support wdf, I appreciate all contributions :)
 

Crushstation

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Don't how how it's gonna be with new sex engine but I think linear plot is way to go in this game rather than sandbox.Events like graduation ceremony or party quickie are more fun than clicking on suck it five times.:)
Very interesting feedback, Deniz31, thanks. Can you tell me a bit more about what made the scenes you mention better than the Sex Engine scenes? I have my own opinions on this but would be interested to hear your thoughts.
 

Crushstation

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wdf That's how it used to go in typical major.minor.micro versioning systems (you'd stay under 1.0.0 until out of beta, without any voluntary 'early release'). 1.0.0 meant you had the finished product with all its originally intended features. Game updates being pretty rare before the internet was a thing, that had to be it. Sometimes there was a director's cut with extra stuff, but it didn't actually use a version number to point that out.
Nowadays with early releases and constant updates post-release being very simple to distribute, it slowly lost that meaning and got closer to software libraries that go way beyond 1.0, with it being simply a point with enough features for initial consumption.
Yeah, this, thanks vince638. Versions 0.x were internal ones, v1.0 was the first public release. In retrospect I wish I had used different version numbers, this has confused quite a few people.
 

vince638

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Crushstation FWIW, I'd encourage you sticking to your guns - updating the versioning from what you have may end up more confusing than not (I personally despise 'rapid versioning', which feels really obnoxious; or maybe because people using it don't even know what they want to code).
It's also kinda easy to fall into bikeshedding hell, which wastes way too much time for whatever gain it may bring.
Looking forward to the reworked NPC/boinking engine.
 

MagiLord

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Very interesting feedback, Deniz31, thanks. Can you tell me a bit more about what made the scenes you mention better than the Sex Engine scenes? I have my own opinions on this but would be interested to hear your thoughts.
I find that the pre-written sex scenes flow better with the story. That is not to say that the Sex Engine scenes are bad, but given that there's not any real variation between them; they end up feeling "samey". I would say, Sex Engine scenes do save a lot of time in terms of writing sex scene related dialogue, but I do not know whether that's worth it in a trade-off with Character Development/Sex Engine Coding Time. Some users might like the possibility of creating their personalized scenes. However, others might feel that a lack of a different outcome makes the 'game' pointless. I do feel that, once in Thailand, the Sex Engine could play an interesting role in how the character is perceived (as a worker) in Hard Cock Cafe.
 

SamsonX

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May 29, 2018
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This is one of, if not the, best text-based game i've ever played. Extremely immersive and it's obvious there was a lot of research put into the writing.

I just hope the bangkok chapters come soon since from other comments it seems it's been in developement for years now and my heart aches at the prospect of waiting more for the rest of the story of my badass/kinky CSIS analyst :giggle:
 

qazxsw80

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Is there any actual "corruption, prostitution and cheating" content in the game which is supposed to be here according to the tags? Or I should wait a couple of years more?
 
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Hopefully a year of waiting for corruption and prostitution should be enough, but eh, who knows. IDK what the "cheating" tag does here anyway.
 

Marlin Brandy

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Hopefully a year of waiting for corruption and prostitution should be enough, but eh, who knows. IDK what the "cheating" tag does here anyway.
you can choose to be unfaithful when going through the partners in the prologue/character creation ;)
 

qazxsw80

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Hopefully a year of waiting for corruption and prostitution should be enough, but eh, who knows. IDK what the "cheating" tag does here anyway.
I played it a little after all. And maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that everything before Thailand is some kind of prologue. And since this game has been developed for more than 2 years, it might take as much as 10 years to get to corruption and prostitution. I know that quality takes time and so on but the pace of the development is ridiculous.
 

N00bMaster69

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Aug 14, 2019
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Played this game think it would be boring but its not, its a really well written game, some guy said in this thread that you need a really good imagination to really enjoy this good thing i had those, but my little gripe that its kinda short if you think about it, but i hope the dev(which is occationally active in here) finish this game...


And a little advice, i picked the "likes older men" kink but i was expecting my MC to bang the BFs dad during the graduation, you kinda went there but not to much, would be super cool to let the BFs dad find out that the MC is not wearing anything and tries to grope her, and we have a choice to ditch the BF and go for the dad...for some reason i cant find even a porn about that type...and goodluck Crust may the divines be upon ye
 
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