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I am kind of surprised to see this on here. I mean this is like the original text based game I remember being a thing. Way before Fenoxo happened there was this. I mean that was like a decade ago who is still working on this? I am just surprised. Might as well check it out haven't seen it in a decade.
 
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I am kind of surprised to see this on here. I mean this is like the original text based game I remember being a thing. Way before Fenoxo happened there was this. I mean that was like a decade ago who is still working on this? I am just surprised. Might as well check it out haven't seen it in a decade.
Yeah I remember back then Flexible Survival is a single player version MUD that you need to type in words as commands to play. I think there's also a multiplayer version, not sure does it still exist.
But it get updated every month since I knew it's a thing and never stopped development.
 
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Yeah I remember back then Flexible Survival is a single player version MUD that you need to type in words as commands to play. I think there's also a multiplayer version, not sure does it still exist.
But it get updated every month since I knew it's a thing and never stopped development.
Then it is probably the longest running H-game in development I know of. Probably could use an update in engine at this point, but that would probably be a fuckton of work.
 

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Then it is probably the longest running H-game in development I know of. Probably could use an update in engine at this point, but that would probably be a fuckton of work.
Yeah, a change in engine would be a pretty huge endeavor. FS is written in Inform, which is only used by Interactive Fiction systems, so switching would involve both a complete rewrite of the game code itself, as well as forcing them to reimplement all of the systems that Inform already handles.

On the bright side, the IF landscape is a fairly stable one, so it's unlikely that this format is ever going to truly fall out of support. It is still pretty niche, though.
 
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Yeah, a change in engine would be a pretty huge endeavor. FS is written in Inform, which is only used by Interactive Fiction systems, so switching would involve both a complete rewrite of the game code itself, as well as forcing them to reimplement all of the systems that Inform already handles.

On the bright side, the IF landscape is a fairly stable one, so it's unlikely that this format is ever going to truly fall out of support. It is still pretty niche, though.
Might be a nice project for someone interested in doing so. It would be one of those "holy fuck this is insane" level projects.
 
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glhf with that, instructions are wrong there is no git, and even if you download it, it does not seem to be able to run globnob or whatever the fuck this shitty file is
The FS blog has an installer that takes care of all that:

Not sure why that isn't being redistributed here anymore.

Might be a nice project for someone interested in doing so. It would be one of those "holy fuck this is insane" level projects.
I've been planning to start a project sort of similar to this (albeit less survival-y), so I've been putting a lot of thought into what it would take to design something that isn't shackled to such an odd interpreter. Not sure if anything's going to come of it, but it's been a fun thing to research and prototype, at least!
 

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Installation:
1. Extract and run "git.exe" which can be found in release folder.
2. Select "Flexible Survival.gblorb" or "Wave of Change v1-2, Based On F.gblorb" to play.
Erm, is it possible you forgot to actually put that folder in the archiv? I only got the strange gblorb file and cant do anything with it.
I dont want to play online.

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Nevermind...asked directly from page 1 because of the unknown file and that manual, didnt see the solution on the last page ^^
Maybe someone should edit this link in the OP
 
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Somehow this game needs more maps...its half confusing and half annoying to walk in circles and dont find an exit/entrance/anything for hours.
 
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Somehow this game needs more maps...its half confusing and half annoying to walk in circles and dont find an exit/entrance/anything for hours.
There are some maps available , if you haven't come across those yet. The wiki is woefully outdated in a bunch of ways, but it covers the most common/complex areas, at least.

It would be nice if the game had some sort of built-in map. Interactive fiction titles traditionally rely on the player to make their own maps and take notes (or to somehow keep everything straight in their heads), but that approach doesn't translate well to a porn game.
 
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Can someone help me with Chase quest? After I take his quest and gathered all food and water for him there is no further dialogue about it.
 

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The problem is less the genre, its more the fact you need mouse and keyboard to play...there is simply no space to draw a map too and i only have 2 hands, no nanites got out of my PC and gave me a third hand ^^

Time for my first impressions. To prevent some confusion, i wrote this post over a few days while playing, so some things have changed over time:

Katya (the female orc in the desert) has a gender bug...i play a unchanged lesbian female, disabled everything with a dick in the settings including gender change, but after i beat her i get the option to fuck her mouth and instead of some lesbian faceriding the game just assumes i have a dick and forced a blowjob out of her -,-

Some dickblocker in random encounters dont work, like the christmad reindeer one of the latex animals and the yamato dragon.
Overall the gender settings are pretty useless if they block quests. These blockers were more useful if the if the encounters/quests would have gender alternatives to replace blocked genders with allowed ones. For a lesbian female protagonist there is not very much and even with every dick blocked you still got males in your home...there should be an option to change their genders if they want to stay (i really dont like the thought of letting a dick free roaming in my house with my horny girls while i am away to search quests and people). At least some of them are gay. Btw, onyx is said to be able to change into female if i take him to the palomino, but i never had such an option...another outdated thing in the wiki's character guide or did i miss something?

A really sour point is the inventory, especially if you try to stash stuff from a full inventory into the storage or need multiple items from the storage. Every click triggers the "more" button and thats very often all it does. Less column = worse handling, more column = still bad to handle and pretty unclear. Instead of a automatic scrolling list with an always triggering "more" button it would be better to make separate pages and even better if they were sorted (armor, clothes, weapons, fluids, trophys, consumable, questitems, ...)
Btw, is there a shop that buys your crap or do i need to store/drop everything i dont need? Somehow everyone just gives me stuff and noone takes it back o_O

And a stupid question at last ^^
After becoming a little careless i got infected by a stupid infected sword event and was quite a mess after it. Then i decided to try collected items and other stuff and it got even worse...but then i met my first succubus and decided to hunt them until i got a less messed up body with at least some human form, but no matter what i do, my tail switches back to a jackal tail...is there any way to break the curse of the totem and the ankh? Its not that bad and the 4 dex points are nice, but it doesnt fit the rest of my no complete succubus appearance.

Okay...this question will be useful for my next run because i just "finished" the game...
Is there a cheat to enhance the evac time limit? I'm a perfectionist and even based on the outdated wiki i didnt had the chance to do more than 20%, not even counting the quests and people you can only do/meet if you have/enable dicks.
The game has a lot of potential, especially with more ingame maps that prevents wasting time by running in circles.
The ending itself was dissatisfactory. Some of the girls i had in the bunker were not even mentioned while some i only met once got a half page of text, there is no mention of the other allies and other things...including my rank...The Lord Humungus...a pure lesbian never genderchanging female...
 
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Okay...this question will be useful for my next run because i just "finished" the game...
Is there a cheat to enhance the evac time limit? I'm a perfectionist and even based on the outdated wiki i didnt had the chance to do more than 20%, not even counting the quests and people you can only do/meet if you have/enable dicks.
The game has a lot of potential, especially with more ingame maps that prevents wasting time by running in circles.
The ending itself was dissatisfactory. Some of the girls i had in the bunker were not even mentioned while some i only met once got a half page of text, there is no mention of the other allies and other things...including my rank...The Lord Humungus...a pure lesbian never genderchanging female...
Yeah, there actually is. Type in "Iwannacheat" and click on the Play On option, then have fun with everything there is to do. I also recommend turning on "Automatic Hunter" as well if you don't want to deal with hunger and thirst. If you want to see the ending, just turn Play On off again and you'll be granted an extra 24 hours to do any last minute stuff.
 
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The problem is less the genre, its more the fact you need mouse and keyboard to play...there is simply no space to draw a map too and i only have 2 hands, no nanites got out of my PC and gave me a third hand ^^

Time for my first impressions. To prevent some confusion, i wrote this post over a few days while playing, so some things have changed over time:

Katya (the female orc in the desert) has a gender bug...i play a unchanged lesbian female, disabled everything with a dick in the settings including gender change, but after i beat her i get the option to fuck her mouth and instead of some lesbian faceriding the game just assumes i have a dick and forced a blowjob out of her -,-

Some dickblocker in random encounters dont work, like the christmad reindeer one of the latex animals and the yamato dragon.
Overall the gender settings are pretty useless if they block quests. These blockers were more useful if the if the encounters/quests would have gender alternatives to replace blocked genders with allowed ones. For a lesbian female protagonist there is not very much and even with every dick blocked you still got males in your home...there should be an option to change their genders if they want to stay (i really dont like the thought of letting a dick free roaming in my house with my horny girls while i am away to search quests and people). At least some of them are gay. Btw, onyx is said to be able to change into female if i take him to the palomino, but i never had such an option...another outdated thing in the wiki's character guide or did i miss something?

A really sour point is the inventory, especially if you try to stash stuff from a full inventory into the storage or need multiple items from the storage. Every click triggers the "more" button and thats very often all it does. Less column = worse handling, more column = still bad to handle and pretty unclear. Instead of a automatic scrolling list with an always triggering "more" button it would be better to make separate pages and even better if they were sorted (armor, clothes, weapons, fluids, trophys, consumable, questitems, ...)
Btw, is there a shop that buys your crap or do i need to store/drop everything i dont need? Somehow everyone just gives me stuff and noone takes it back o_O

And a stupid question at last ^^
After becoming a little careless i got infected by a stupid infected sword event and was quite a mess after it. Then i decided to try collected items and other stuff and it got even worse...but then i met my first succubus and decided to hunt them until i got a less messed up body with at least some human form, but no matter what i do, my tail switches back to a jackal tail...is there any way to break the curse of the totem and the ankh? Its not that bad and the 4 dex points are nice, but it doesnt fit the rest of my no complete succubus appearance.

Okay...this question will be useful for my next run because i just "finished" the game...
Is there a cheat to enhance the evac time limit? I'm a perfectionist and even based on the outdated wiki i didnt had the chance to do more than 20%, not even counting the quests and people you can only do/meet if you have/enable dicks.
The game has a lot of potential, especially with more ingame maps that prevents wasting time by running in circles.
The ending itself was dissatisfactory. Some of the girls i had in the bunker were not even mentioned while some i only met once got a half page of text, there is no mention of the other allies and other things...including my rank...The Lord Humungus...a pure lesbian never genderchanging female...
I have shared the bugs that you reported with the other writers, so hopefully they will be able to fix them.

In regards to the (very) limited lesbian content, the majority of the writers are volunteers and only do M/M content, with only a few of us happy to do other pairings. Unfortunately, we do not have anyone that specialises in F/F writing. I can understand not wanting to leave some of the characters unattended with women. Some of them get intimate without giving you a chance to refuse them. It is unlikely that everyone will get an alternate-gender version, but I'll bear it in mind for in future.

Onyx should be able to go to the Palomino if you talk to Harold (the bartender) about it.

The inventory and stashing may be difficult to change the code for, especially without causing more bugs further down the line, sorry. Currently I don't believe that there is anyone who will buy your items other than some people who will trade for food and water.

I'm assuming that the jackal tail is from Nermine's quests, so you will need to talk to her to remove it.

As for endings that involve the people that you rescue, a lot of it depends on how much their original writers put for them/if they even included a special ending at all.
 

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That damn game is slightly addicting...started a new game, this time without full blocks, only wardend and ran in a female wyvern...this race was blocked in my last dickblocking game. Same with cheetah woman and a few others. There may be more. I think some of your filters are not working...or if the races are hand flagged there may be some wrong entrys.

Well, it doesnt have to be a female version of every race (but it would be slightly more realistic, even mutants need 2 genders for pregnancy), it could also be an other race if the quest has not a specific race focus.

Thx, this time it worked well with onyx...but now i am stuck with eric(a). I convinced him to embrace the female life, did the museum/junkyard quest and have that strange seed in my inventory, but i can only give him food and drinks. If i try to use the seed i get a message like "after all this i should give it to eric instead of eating it". I honestly dont know what to do now...btw, he found a black most likely magic book and the guide has no info about it, should i let him keep it or take it?

Well, i understand the technical issue there, but as enduser who spends hours just for storing stuff i really hope someone will look into it. The easy way may be a clear screen, inventory full screen and preventing the "more" button from triggering if you do anything with the items.

This time i dont have the tail, but in my last game i could only ask her for transformation - what she refuses if you have dicks blocked. Same with her quest. Dunno how i got the items, they were either in the museum or in her bargain bin, but either way, she had nothing to say about it.
 
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That damn game is slightly addicting...started a new game, this time without full blocks, only wardend and ran in a female wyvern...this race was blocked in my last dickblocking game. Same with cheetah woman and a few others. There may be more. I think some of your filters are not working...or if the races are hand flagged there may be some wrong entrys.

Well, it doesnt have to be a female version of every race (but it would be slightly more realistic, even mutants need 2 genders for pregnancy), it could also be an other race if the quest has not a specific race focus.

Thx, this time it worked well with onyx...but now i am stuck with eric(a). I convinced him to embrace the female life, did the museum/junkyard quest and have that strange seed in my inventory, but i can only give him food and drinks. If i try to use the seed i get a message like "after all this i should give it to eric instead of eating it". I honestly dont know what to do now...btw, he found a black most likely magic book and the guide has no info about it, should i let him keep it or take it?

Well, i understand the technical issue there, but as enduser who spends hours just for storing stuff i really hope someone will look into it. The easy way may be a clear screen, inventory full screen and preventing the "more" button from triggering if you do anything with the items.

This time i dont have the tail, but in my last game i could only ask her for transformation - what she refuses if you have dicks blocked. Same with her quest. Dunno how i got the items, they were either in the museum or in her bargain bin, but either way, she had nothing to say about it.
It is possible that there has been an error in flagging, especially if there are people like me who got their tags mixed up while coding. It is also possible that tags weren't assigned in the first place for some creatures, so I can have a look through when I get some time.

There has been some progress in making opposite genders for some infections/creatures, usually the more popular ones, so this may be remedied in time.

As for Eric/Erica, I think the command 'give pomegranate seed to Eric' needs to be typed. There are still some instances where hyperlinks weren't added. (I don't know why they weren't put there in the first place. The game has had hyperlinks for as long as I can remember.) The tome will give a scene with some tentacles, but I think that the majority of the content is for 'trans' Eric rather than 'Male' Eric or Erica. Some of the Tome scenes are male exclusive due to the writer's personal tastes.

I'll see if one of the more code-savvy people has any ideas to make stashing more convenient.
 

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Can someone help me with Chase quest? After I take his quest and gathered all food and water for him there is no further dialogue about it.
He is currently undergoing a overhaul and is super broken as a result, to find out for other characters look them up in the git and if they got a ton of todo's then stuff will be brroken
 

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Hmm, somehow the wasp hive has a strange effect besides always being filled with larvas...it keeps trying to infect me with mouse genes. Shouldnt it be wasp genes? Btw, is this a endless state? I never get a birth message or offspring, but every few days another wasp comes to breed me. I already tried to fuck orthas, thought the bigger dragon egg would make some difference, but either my womb is to big the game lacks that logic ^^
It has been funny for a few days, but the constant try to turn me into a mouse is tiresome, especially since my equipment dont fits a mouse ^^
 

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He is currently undergoing a overhaul and is super broken as a result, to find out for other characters look them up in the git and if they got a ton of todo's then stuff will be brroken
Damn, that sucks. Ok, thank you for the answer
 
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