I totally get the not wanting to report no progress thing but not seeing any recent comments from you starts to instill the fear that the game might be abandoned. Maybe consider putting the on-hold tag for your game? That will relieve a lot of people of the worry about the game being abandoned while also allowing you to not have to check back in every month.
BeholdTheWizzard
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FFS, is this some kind of dev curse?
Why is seemingly every second porn game dev (especialyl when the game is promissing) suffering from severe depression/ilness?
There's a theoretical answer to that: now, not to speak for NRFB here, but in many cases; people who develop h-games already have depress/are psychological unwell. The signs just simply aren't that strong. With that in mind, many developers and others, also typically go to this kind of media as an outlet. Unfortunately, too much consumption of pornography has been proven to not only be unhealthy, but has similar affects to that of alcohol/drug abuse. To which, when the high of such media is no longer provided at the same level: the return to such previous states come back stronger than they were.
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Let's not jump to too many conclusions. I was always depressed, but my relationship to porn was... I guess fine?
And I say "was" because my sex drive is actually just completely gone so the relationship now is just "man I wish I could enjoy this but eehhhhhh..."
Hey, hope things are going okay if not better. Hoping you've been able to exercise your creative energy, found/rediscovered some purpose, and know that you're pretty cool.
BeholdTheWizzard
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Yeah, everything is s*** and getting worse.
Still most people soldier on without mental breaks and severe depression. Tough I guess some have it harder than others.
They're not.
I haven't.
I haven't.
Meh.
I think unfortunately all suffering is both unique and subjective, and that comparing levels of suffering and the appropriateness of a person's reaction to it is a doomed venture. This also means that there's no well defined path to recovery, and that I'm still stuck in a position where I feel like I very much need more help in effecting positive change, but that I have no idea what form that help would have to take or who I would need to talk to in order to make it happen.
I just know if another person suggests exercise as if it somehow hadn't occurred to me before, I'll be very tempted to exercise my fist into their face.
Good to hear from you.
That sucks.
If all suffering is unique, and if everyone suffers, then there's 8 billion other people currently coping with suffering alongside you including myself.
If suffering is incomparable, then you're not worse off than anyone else.
If you're not worse off, then you're just as likely as everyone else to find your positive change and that likelihood is greater than zero.
Even if none of that means anything to you, the main thing I'm trying to say is: I wish you the best. Keep hope alive.
PS: let me know if these messages are the opposite of helpful. I don't want this to be another source of expectations that make things worse.
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BeholdTheWizzard
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Venting frustration trough viollence has been a long used methodof dealing with stress and depression.
Get yourself a nice punching bad and start fistin'
Can't make things worse
General tips/guide, I'm still not very good at this game but this will help some people get a starting point since the mechanics are so unique:
- Spam out researches on monsters/traps as much as possible. You can't see a monster's stats without research, which makes planning a lot harder. You can carry these over on New Game+
- Rest every time you lose the Well Rested buff. That means 3 completed encounters, then rest. If the girl's 3rd encounter is in a dark room, scry it so you can tell them to book it back when they finish.
- Keep everyone close but not in the same room. Some encounters or effects can lock you down for good unless another character comes in for a rescue. However, most monsters will fight back against all attacks, and stacking slows down your progress, so barreling through in one pack isn't an instant win. Not only that, but it becomes harder to manage the rest cycles when everyone is competing to complete 3 encounters - only the final blow counts. The first girl goes back to rest with barely any exhaustion, the last one can't even fully recover by the time they get a chance.
- Look for skills that mitigate/restore Injury, then Exhaustion, then Corruption, then Lust. Patience skill is amazing. Letting these stats get out of control is what gets you in incredibly dangerous situations and leads to permanent corruption. Injury heals very slowly - bad enough injuries can persist through dungeons as the camp events don't restore it well. Exhaustion racks up very quickly in combat - Lucette's skill to reduce combat cost by 1 is incredibly helpful here. Lust is manageable - rest heals it fairly quickly, and the most dangerous effect is masturbation, which is predictable enough. It's also kinda hot, so...
- Take the permanent corruption + stat point if it's 3 or less, otherwise take the curse. Some curses are extremely debilitating. You want to have some manageable curses to shield against corruption waves, or else you'll end up picking one up on the next floor anyway. You can remove a curse, but you need to find a shrine and spend camp time + a skill point. The curse gives you a skill point, so you basically break even, and blanking out scrolls gives you a free skill point. That's why stat points are so important early on - you can't get them from scrolls.
- Raise Dexterity and Vitality first until they cost 2 per level. Willpower tests are less common and less scary, but you want to try to get your Reflex high enough to dodge traps and Physique high enough to beat up monsters quickly. Dexterity boosts both of those. Vitality directly counters both effects of corruption.
- Slay monsters, avoid traps. Unslain monsters will increase permanent corruption at the stairs, but traps left behind are harmless unless they're blocking your path ahead. Scry ahead of traps to see if it's worth disarming or if there's just a dead end.
- First Blow is another good skill for free damage
- Blank out scrolls you don't need and take the skill point to level up the good skills
- Keep 4 mana unspent in camp and use it to buy out spells at the witch's shop. You'll get the mana back next round and get to keep the spells for New Game+. More importantly, you clear out the pool that she can sell to you and hopefully next time she'll sell something really good like Stockpile. It's stupidly expensive to try to buy things with corruption, so don't do it unless you have maxed out Purity skill or plan on tanking a curse anyway.
- If you find the stairs, you can sit there and scry every room without the corruption waves triggering
- Leave easy traps/monsters and swarmers behind so you can farm them later if you have high negative stats and can't rest yet
- Quit the game and reload to try a new dungeon (savescumming of sorts). Sometimes you just get a really small and easy one. You can also do the same in camp to try to get a certain event to trigger.
- Make sure to pop out the top-left arrow to see scenes as they occur
- Let the girls run wild and don't call them back to rest. They'll rack up negative stats and hit thresholds to start getting really molested. Then just reload.
- Scry in camp while they're sleeping for a cut pjs shot. Call them to your tent, strip, and deep sleep for another naked pic.
- Corrupt them a couple times in camp to see a little more Coraline.
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I should point out that this isn't strictly true. Every monster/trap has a difficulty stat calculated from its stats (and also further changed by the spawning modifiers that don't directly impact stats). The added permanent corruption total at the end of a floor is the ratio of difficulty remaining on the floor vs the total difficulty of all the threats that were spawned on the floor. The ratio is multiplied by 10 and then converted to an integer, which truncates/floors it to a whole number from 0 to 10. This means that if the threats remaining add up to less than 10% of the floor's total difficulty, no permanent corruption will be added regardless of what type of threats they are.
The number of rooms will always be the same, but yes it's possible that a given floor generation will be easier/harder to navigate just by random chance of where it puts rooms/walls relative to the safe room.
wtfalpha
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Good lord, I was not ready for that last part.
I hope you feel better bub.
Love your game. Take your time. Communication is always appreicated in every sense of the word. Thank you.
(Also IDK if this'll help. but someone once told me to appreciate the little things, because many little things become the big things you enjoy.) <3