whoa, I just tried the grab ass on carmen (before completing the 1st chapter, but after taking a pic of her once)...lost 10 whole rep...does that happen every time? (I worked hard for that 88 rep)
Hmm, how many pics of Carmen you currently have? To make the rep penalty go away, you need to have 3 pics of Carmen:
- From the detective
- From the classroom after rooftop event
- From taking picture when she fell
Seems like you don't have the 2nd pic. See below for the simplistic rundown, especially step 5. That's where you got the 2nd pic.
does the basement detention have to be active? or the bondage club? or just random
Nothing like that. The only requirements are visit during school days between 7:50 and 18:00, and there's at least 1 female/futa student in the room. If those are met, then there's 35% chance the event will fire. Having basement detention and/or bondage club active helps, but not required.
The actual pseudo-code for the event to fire, checked orderly from top to bottom, is the following:
- Is now school day (monday to friday)?
- Is now between 7:50 and 18:00?
- Given 35% chance, does it succeed?
- Are any female/futa student present?
If ALL of the above is YES, then the event will fire. If any of the steps are NO, then the subsequent test will be ignored and the event is rejected.
If i remember correctly i picked the "Take Picture" of Carmen Smith's ass during the very early stage of the game when i started playing. I know that the "Ass grabbing" event occur ever 7 day, so i kept using debug tools to "Add Day 7" to speed up the process and after like 2 ~ 3 month of ass grabbing still cant manage to get someone to buy her picture. I'm just stuck cliffhanger of the Part 2 of Carmen Smith event even i picked the Blackmail path. Probably taking the picture too early on might have cause my save to be like this? I'm also using version 1.9.4. Will try playing a new save with version 1.9.5 and see if that problem occur anymore.
The ass grabbing will progress the event chain ONLY after you catch Carmen with Oliver at the roof top. Well, actually it's more than that.
Here's the simplistic run down of the 1st half of Carmen's quest part 1:
- Have the Detective investigate her. Which path you take after getting the report doesn't matter
- Catch her with Oliver during class
- Catch her again with Oliver, this time setup rooftop meeting
- Catch her in the rooftop during the meet, follow her to the bathroom, then send in some other student
- Catch her again in the classroom with Oliver, this time bring spy cam, reprimand the student who make jokes, play nice, and ask more than her support with the PTA
Only after this her quest branch off, with the 2nd half of part 1 and part 2 run in parallel. Step 4 ensures you can finish part 1, while step 5 ensures the ass grabbing event have any meaning in her quest line. Without step 5, you won't be able to find any student after grabbing her ass.
The common misconception is the blackmail path is decided upon what you did after getting the detective report. Actually, it is decided on what you do in step 5.
AFAIK the difference between 1.9.4 and 1.9.5 in Carmen quest is a bug fix during searching for fans/students buying the photos. In 1.9.4, if there are more than 7 students bought the photo before the club open, the quest will be in limbo. Did you sell the photos, or did the ass grabbing event then approached by a student more than 7 times?