TheDevian

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TheDevian I'm not particularly interested in the pregnancy request, but I know Ashley is as well as some of the other players lol. I hear what you are saying on the realistic side of it, but you could add to Kali's new arc that she invents an artificial womb for androids and the Harem Hotel Girls are supporting her by trying it out.... Also add a cost to it aka for android nanny... heck you could leave em knocked up forever even to save on needless renders and infinite kids lol maybe a bonus scene for Ashley at 12 ;). Just a thought!
There could be a lot of things, but Runey has said that pregnancy will not be added for each girl, until her story is over, or almost over. Because they need to be able to interact with each other, as the stories are intertwined.
Goddammit, developers.

When someone can compress your game (without significant quality loss) from 16+ GB to ~3 GB, it means that YOU GOTTA TAKE A FUCKING COURSE IN PROPER GAME DEVELOPMENT as well as media compression!!!!!!
This game started at over 90gig, and he compressed it down to 11gig. The smaller one is not made by the dev, and not something he has any control over.

You clearly do no understand how this kind of game is made, and need to chill the fuck out. ...maybe also buy a drive larger than your pp while you are at it too.
 

DigDug69

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Goddammit, developers.

When someone can compress your game (without significant quality loss) from 16+ GB to ~3 GB, it means that YOU GOTTA TAKE A FUCKING COURSE IN PROPER GAME DEVELOPMENT as well as media compression!!!!!!
Runey has compressed this game from 90 gb's down to just under 11 gb's, while preserving image integrity.
I would say that is pretty damned good.
The vast majority of people here do not mind the file size that much, because the game is more than worth it.

Harem Hotels starting size is about 5.5 times larger than that 16gb game, but it's compressed size (11gb) is only just under 4 times larger than that other game (3gb) after compression.
Harem Hotel has better compression than the game that you are bragging about.

If you are referring to the more heavily compressed version of this game, the image quality is seriously damaged, and no where near as good on a high res system.
If that is the case, I have no idea where the number 16 comes from, because after extracting the regular compressed version, it is only 10.8gb's on my drive.
 
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polycentric

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Goddammit, developers.

When someone can compress your game (without significant quality loss) from 16+ GB to ~3 GB, it means that YOU GOTTA TAKE A FUCKING COURSE IN PROPER GAME DEVELOPMENT as well as media compression!!!!!!
Have you actually downloaded the 3GB 'compressed' build? It doesn't look that great on hi-res systems because...it's a second-generation compression and it's too compressed for most people's taste, including mine.

In a world of 30GB-120GB 'AAA' game downloads, for fun quotients that are lower 90% of the time, 11GB is trivial.

By the way...consider decaf; it's just as good as regular these days.
 
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KonfinedKnat

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Goddammit, developers.

When someone can compress your game (without significant quality loss) from 16+ GB to ~3 GB, it means that YOU GOTTA TAKE A FUCKING COURSE IN PROPER GAME DEVELOPMENT as well as media compression!!!!!!
Obviously, the images from a game compressed down to ~3 GB may look okay if you're looking at them on your 7" phone screen; however, they're horrendously crappy when seen on a nice 4k monitor many times larger.
 

DigDug69

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Obviously, the images from a game compressed down to ~3 GB may look okay if you're looking at them on your 7" phone screen; however, they're horrendously crappy when seen on a nice 4k monitor many times larger.
And there would be people who downloaded the smaller download and tried to use it on a PC.
And there would be non stop whining and complaining about the image quality from people who did that.
Those complaints would reflect badly on the game, because of the poor image quality caused by super compressing the game, to an even smaller size than the games developer thought was safe..
 

DigDug69

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Why did the walkthrough mod get remove from the front page?
Because the person who was making it was diagnosed with cancer, and is unable to work on it.
Using old mods on the game breaks the game, causing an endless number of people to come here and complain about it.
No one else has stepped forward to pick it up, and since they made mods for a number of games that are also out of luck, it may be a while before anyone sees a mod for the game being released.
 

vexx_

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Because the person who was making it was diagnosed with cancer, and is unable to work on it.
Using old mods on the game breaks the game, causing an endless number of people to come here and complain about it.
No one else has stepped forward to pick it up, and since they made mods for a number of games that are also out of luck, it may be a while before anyone sees a mod for the game being released.
I'm sorry to hear that.
 

shadowtempered

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Goddammit, developers.

When someone can compress your game (without significant quality loss) from 16+ GB to ~3 GB, it means that YOU GOTTA TAKE A FUCKING COURSE IN PROPER GAME DEVELOPMENT as well as media compression!!!!!!
Perhaps post your game / educational credentials so that everyone here can learn from your experience. I'm sure if you're willing to comment and critique you've got knowledge to spare to help improve the development, right?
 

theickobicko

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This would be easier to answer if you told us where you are in the game and what you want to get out of the game.
Sorry, I was very busy yesterday and was not able to respond.
I guess i'm not sure what exactly i'm expecting from it. Someone mentioned not to expect Eternum level of story and I know that there won't be such a conspiracy inside. I get that.
i'm at about day 30. in my last play the game said i reached the end of the story for the receptionist.
I guess in those games i search for interesting characters and fairly good writing. if we get back to eternum, yeah, it's probably my fav, big part of that is the convoluted mystery, but i also love Single Again (probably top3 or 4 for me) and it's basically a slice of life drama with no special story in it. i like it just because the characters are very likeable and the writing is good.

i guess for this one it kind of confuses me. it just looks like it's a "come tomorrow to get another point, and then the day after to get a new h scene. repeat". the scenes/events are very short... i guess i just can't get attached to the characters.

but seeing how many good reviews there are, and how many people are just communicating about the game (2000 pages, damn) i'm wondering if i'm still very early in the game and later events are getting bigger/better/both.
 

shadowtempered

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Sorry, I was very busy yesterday and was not able to respond.
I guess i'm not sure what exactly i'm expecting from it. Someone mentioned not to expect Eternum level of story and I know that there won't be such a conspiracy inside. I get that.
i'm at about day 30. in my last play the game said i reached the end of the story for the receptionist.
I guess in those games i search for interesting characters and fairly good writing. if we get back to eternum, yeah, it's probably my fav, big part of that is the convoluted mystery, but i also love Single Again (probably top3 or 4 for me) and it's basically a slice of life drama with no special story in it. i like it just because the characters are very likeable and the writing is good.

i guess for this one it kind of confuses me. it just looks like it's a "come tomorrow to get another point, and then the day after to get a new h scene. repeat". the scenes/events are very short... i guess i just can't get attached to the characters.

but seeing how many good reviews there are, and how many people are just communicating about the game (2000 pages, damn) i'm wondering if i'm still very early in the game and later events are getting bigger/better/both.
Eternum has less sandbox elements and is more story focused. HH has less VN elements and has a larger(compared to Eternum) focus on sandbox. Early game is more sandbox and slower event build up, late game is more story focused with less new sandbox elements.

Day 30 isn't very far. Have you built the second floor? Dungeon? There are... 8(?) main girls. The receptionist would be more of a side character - her content is pretty small compared to say Lin or Ashley.
 

ChildofIshtar

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Sorry, I was very busy yesterday and was not able to respond.
I guess i'm not sure what exactly i'm expecting from it. Someone mentioned not to expect Eternum level of story and I know that there won't be such a conspiracy inside. I get that.
i'm at about day 30. in my last play the game said i reached the end of the story for the receptionist.
I guess in those games i search for interesting characters and fairly good writing. if we get back to eternum, yeah, it's probably my fav, big part of that is the convoluted mystery, but i also love Single Again (probably top3 or 4 for me) and it's basically a slice of life drama with no special story in it. i like it just because the characters are very likeable and the writing is good.

i guess for this one it kind of confuses me. it just looks like it's a "come tomorrow to get another point, and then the day after to get a new h scene. repeat". the scenes/events are very short... i guess i just can't get attached to the characters.

but seeing how many good reviews there are, and how many people are just communicating about the game (2000 pages, damn) i'm wondering if i'm still very early in the game and later events are getting bigger/better/both.
Yeah... so the first 3 girls in HH are sorta your training wheels for the game's mechanics. You learn about the use of the pc, the mailbox, how to get new events, and slowly advance to sexual stuff with each one, which gives you the trainer-lite elements of HH which are a good way to pass the time until you get Maria and start to actually fill all the time slots more regularly, with girls events.

Even if you were 4 days late to getting to Ashley's vaginal event, Maria should have shown up in the hotel by day 30, so you should just be getting at the point where Lin, Ashley, and Kali's events get more personal, and the game starts to open up.

Also, as of this update, exploring Caliber should give you some things to do, though admittedly that content ends quickly, especially if you rush through it. However, I do suggest doing all of it, and then once you've unlocked it, spending time each day to do a delivery for the bowling alley. This doesn't take a time slot if you do nothing else in Caliber that day, and can help you get the money necessary to buy hotel upgrades much quicker than people had it in the past. If you want more girls, rush the second floor. If you want more passive income, rush the bar, spend time doing the trainer stuff with the girls you have now, and rush the bars upgrades. Fully upgraded the bar pays for the second floor in a week, and then the garden a week later, and so on and so forth.

The trainer elements aren't required to play through the game, but some of the stats, especially vaginal, exhibition, submission, and affection/obedience, can effect the way the story for each girl plays out, and unlock new recurring content, like the lust events/system.

Give it some time. The main girls you've met all have some opening up to do really soon, and I promise you, you will be surprised how deep these character focused stories will get, and how much the overearching plot will expand as you keep playing.
 

polycentric

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Sorry, I was very busy yesterday and was not able to respond.
I guess i'm not sure what exactly i'm expecting from it. Someone mentioned not to expect Eternum level of story and I know that there won't be such a conspiracy inside. I get that.
i'm at about day 30. in my last play the game said i reached the end of the story for the receptionist.
I guess in those games i search for interesting characters and fairly good writing. if we get back to eternum, yeah, it's probably my fav, big part of that is the convoluted mystery, but i also love Single Again (probably top3 or 4 for me) and it's basically a slice of life drama with no special story in it. i like it just because the characters are very likeable and the writing is good.

i guess for this one it kind of confuses me. it just looks like it's a "come tomorrow to get another point, and then the day after to get a new h scene. repeat". the scenes/events are very short... i guess i just can't get attached to the characters.

but seeing how many good reviews there are, and how many people are just communicating about the game (2000 pages, damn) i'm wondering if i'm still very early in the game and later events are getting bigger/better/both.
First, thanks for the legit answer. Most of the long-time players really want to help because we know the potential of the game.

You've already received a couple of great responses, but the thing that I would add is: take a slow approach. The game is vast and mature today, but some of the leveling mechanics were written in the early days with the idea that people could play repeatable events and increase the girls stats between version releases. So work on the girl's stats and, as the girls stories progress, you'll get the best interactions with them and have the most fun.
 

polycentric

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Perhaps post your game / educational credentials so that everyone here can learn from your experience. I'm sure if you're willing to comment and critique you've got knowledge to spare to help improve the development, right?
That would have been the reasonable thing to do, but that wouldn't have let him show all of us his exclamation point-sizing skills. I'm pretty sure he ruptured a cerebral aneurysm screaming so we probably don't have to worry about him coming back and responding to your post.
 

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The trainer elements aren't required to play through the game, but some of the stats, especially vaginal, exhibition, submission, and affection/obedience, can effect the way the story for each girl plays out, and unlock new recurring content, like the lust events/system.
I believe there's also a lewd event for Ashley during the tower scene that depends on the anal stat, that is if you're into that stuff and want the lewd scene. Unless that was changed since the last time I've played that event ? I just remember getting it the first time, then being confused during my second playthrough because I didn't get it and had to reload a save in order to play this scene properly because there was no way in hell I'd miss that.

That would be interesting to have a list of which stat is required for each optionnal lewd scene with each girl. Did the old mod have something like that ? Never used one for this game so IDK, but I think that's the only info needed for a "walkthrough" of this game since everything else happens naturally anyway.
 
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TheDevian

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I believe there's also a lewd event for Ashley during the tower scene that depends on the anal stat, that is if you're into that stuff and want the lewd scene. Unless that was changed since the last time I've played that event ? I just remember getting it the first time, then being confused during my second playthrough because I didn't get it and had to reload a save in order to play this scene properly because there was no way in hell I'd miss that.

That would be interesting to have a list of which stat is required for each optionnal lewd scene with each girl. Did the old mod have something like that ? Never used one for this game so IDK, but I think that's the only info needed for a "walkthrough" of this game since everything else happens naturally anyway.
The idea being that if you are into that, you will be doing those events to pass the time. ;)
Same with Lin's exhibitionism stat, for the shopping event.

There are not too many of those, but yeah, that would be a good list to have.
 
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Majin890

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Is there a new bug getting level 4 Bar event? Been trying to get it in the evening on weekends, but it never triggers. When I go in the morning it says to wait for closing time. Got this event before but I decided to do a newgame a few months back lol.
 
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