Those are the animations you see most? Hm, I think this may be true for others as well. As a developer, I really don't know how people play the game, or what they do in general in the game, that's what the recent survey was for. But I think I will update the animations for the alarms. Although it will likely be completely different than what it is now.
Do you have any other information that could be useful to me? Such as how you play the game in general.
Let's see, This might take some time... let me think a min.
As for those, I set her to wake me up, and since it was basically a free BJ and slut point, and adorable, I left it go, as I said, until I had the option to work on Android. I will set her back once the threat of Ashley is over. (I wouldn't want Lin to get hurt because she was sleeping next to me when the crazy girl breaks in).
Let's see, once I loaded the new version, it took me a while to work out a habit, but now I go to the kitchen and work on Lin's obedience (head pat and spank if I need the points) because they do not pass time. Then I run around and look to see where everyone is (who is hanging out where), and decide who I will work on for that shift, and go do that, do the same thing at noon for Android, and repeat.
I normally like to work on one girl at time, but in here, it's designed to spread that out a bit more, since some people are only home at some times, or some days, so I do a bit here and a bit there. Spread that love around.
I do something with another girl in the evening, and then go back to spy on the girls at night. I never did see Ashley talking on cam, other than the occasional time when she is in the alternate outfits, saying something about how I like to see her wear it, but I assume I just haven't gotten that far with her. I think I missed out on part of her class, since I never got the 'E' riddle.
I try to get at least a 13 in every skill, though I am not into feet, so I ignore those, and there is no 'thigh-master' trait yet, so I didn't worry about the thigh jobs skill either. I love the Exhibition scenes, those are generally my favorites.
Sometimes I will grind the same event over and over, and other times I will try to break it up to be less dull. (No matter how sexy a scene is, doing it so many times in a row get's old if it's the same each time). I am not sure what else to say about it, but if you have any questions, I will do my best to answer them.
Yes, I know people don't really like her personality, and that's very much intentional. Rags to riches is the most popular form of storytelling. So to boil it down, I write characters in their most flawed state at the beginning of their story, but try to provide cracks and glimpses of what they will turn out to be. Autumn is stuck in her ways, but she is very caring and nice to everyone. She knows her beliefs aren't popular, so she tries to avoid the subject, but at the same time, it dictates how she acts.
I completely agree with you on the 'flawed' characters, it makes them far more interesting, more relatable. It compels you to want to 'fix' them, and gives you a goal.
I admit, the religious aspect was a bit off putting at first, as was her rudeness, but I figured that was what you have in mind, and I can see a lot of potential in her, not only her character, but also what her story can tell us abut the history of the world itself. I already learned a lot in the few conversions we had with her, and I am eager for more lore. The anal beads and lube were bloody hilarious! I cannot WAIT to see her use them! (I still think her mom was an elf).
This is slightly different for Ashley, as I wanted a crazy girl to fill the yandere niche. I like to think the stories I make are very heartwarming, and as you can clearly tell, Ashley isn't very heartwarming. She's definitely dedicated, but not heartwarming. And recently, you've likely seen the cracks I've been talking about. She mentions a 'mask' when she doesn't have any makeup with her brown hair. If you're clever enough, you could tell she's faking everything. The brown hair, lack of makeup, everything, was meant to signify her mask behind left behind in that event. In the recent two events as of v0.5, you can almost see that, yes, she put back her mask on, but it's as if she didn't put it on correctly. In the most recent two events, you can see Ashley act differently when nobody is there to see her, and even in her spy cam scenes, she talks about herself in a poor light. These things are very subtle, though.
I am only up to a 20 Friendship for her (19 for Maria), so I haven't seen it all yet, but I have gotten pretty far.
I like dedicated, and even some who push it pretty far, I have even forgiven some yandere characters for physical attacks (such as Anna from Shimoneta), just due to her sheer sexiness and she can be pretty scary too, like Ashley. However, Ashley is scary without being sexy to make up for it (at least by my standards), with her body type, the best she can hope for is to be cute, and she it's just not enough for me (especially with that hair color/style). There is a table sexy vs. crazy, and Ashley falls in the 'no go' part of the chart.
It was quite obvious that she was putting on a front, true, but for someone who is depressed almost all of the time, just being sad on camera for me, wasn't enough endearing for me, to win me over when almost every other thing about her is something I don't like. It's kind of a personal thing for me, hits too close to home, and reminds me of some psychos I knew IRL, in certain Anime, and represents everything I dislike in characters. She is the loli type, which I never liked, Lin got a pass for being an elf, and being the only one we saw at the time, I has just assumed that you were going with the 'smaller than human average' type elf, and by the time I learned otherwise, her adorableness had more than won me over, where as with Ashley, she lacks those good points for me (no offense, intended, really), it's just personal tastes. I don't like blondes, and she isn't one naturally, but bleached it which is worse. Don't get me wrong, I have literally been in her emotional place, and did a lot to stand out myself at one time but I like to think I handled it better.
If you do let her hair go back to normal, and her personality changes, then her and the MC can start over, and try again.
Start a real relationship, over that fake one she was pushing up to this point.
Could you explain this a bit more? I don't understand what you mean.
Oh, sorry. Heh. Just a joke based on the fact that many of these games that have the MC's family as part of the cast of love interests, when they do polls for what character to do next, the mother wins most of them, followed by the sisters. When they put those on the poll, it's almost a guarantee who will win. You won't have that option, so you ought to have more variety in your polls.
I don't think training is grindy, is it? Each option provides unique scenes I think everyone who enjoys those specific themes are going to like, and possibly revisit. I specifically mention that their story has been finished, and not everything to do with them, because there are a lot of things to do with them outside of story. There's a lot of 'roll of the dice' events that go down.
It has improved from the first time I played this game, I admit, there are just a few places where it still is. As I mentioned before, trying to keep the girls' affection score up as high as the sluttiness score, redoing the same 2-3 dates over and over got a bit old. And grinding out 13+ for each of the sex scenes was a bit much.... kind of, partly due to having to do a date (or 3) for each one to keep the affection up. The new outfits do help to change things up, and the 2nd time the dialogue changes, so that is nice. Maybe a change of dialogue to go along with the levels of the skill. Which reminds me of something else I was thinking the other day. As the submission stat goes up, what the non-maids call you should change. At least changing to 'master' by the time they hit 10-13 or so. I can't think of other names, unless maybe they start by calling you by name, and start with Sir after they get 3 points, then master when they hit 10. This is another place where a variation in the dialogue could go a long way in making the 13+ scenes be less repetitive. It is nice that for the submissive score goes up for any, but like for Maria it is her only way to get a hand job.
Catching the girls out of the room, I like having the alternate options, but it might be helpful to have another one that has her follow you to her room for a private talk, so if you want to do her normal stuff, you can. Or maybe you can call her to her room, or yours.
I am assuming you will be adding a cell phone for him soon, since you talked about an app for Android, so maybe that is a place you can 'summon' one of them to do things when they are not in their room.
I've explained this in detail before, but any amount of customization will never happen. Long story short, if I were to give each girl 1 alternate thing, just anything about them you could change, I could get that done in 6 months to a year, simply because the game isn't made in sprites. And that update would only be able those customizations, it's an insane amount of work. I do however want to make my next game in sprites so customization is an option.
That's about what I expected, didn't think it was a viable option in this style. Sorry it was asked before.
