Bantry

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Im playing on mac with the Holiday Island 0.4.5.0 version, however, once I am in amy's last gym session there is an "exception occured" after understanding the posing mechanics. Is there a way to fix this?
Have you tried updating to the latest version, 0.4.5.1?
 
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Cro

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Cro: it's a grind fest
Galvi: no it's not

Actually, it depends on your goal.
If you just stroll through the game, you are showered in boobs.
But if you hunt achievements, if you try to "100%" the game, then yes, it is a grind. But it is a grind of your own choosing.
Wait, is there another way to play than 100% and ALL achievements ? :))
 

Cro

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Good points.
I agree with you on what I would call the RANDOM success for getting an appointment/event/scene.
Those can be a grind. But removing it would make things too easy, would it not?
Reduce girl stats if no interaction, I would say is good, you can not expect a girl to feel the same if you have not given her attention for a while. That was added for some emersion to real relationships.
Not really, because there are a LOT of events/scenes. At least put the RNG to 50%, not to 1% as it is now :)
As for the girls, as you might be right if your words were on a chinese fortune cookie, without any context, in this MEGA REAL game, where I have my own harem on a private island, I just wanted to feel like I'm with my ex wife again in a real relationship :). No attention, no pussy.
 
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Galvi

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Wait, is there another way to play than 100% and ALL achievements ? :))
Maybe just enjoying the game going at its own pace without thinking about getting 100% until you're above 85-90%? You can get most things just by intuition and logic easily. I may be at 98% or so, and most of the time I don't even think about completing the few things I still have remaining xD

Or maybe it's just that I enjoy stuff that can provide me with entertainment for many hours, as on my Steam account I have thousands and thousands of hours played throughout the years (A game such as Skyrim has 700 hours on the classic edition and 300 more hours on the remaster, and it's far from the top of my played games xD)

Here in HI i'm on day 785 if I remember it correctly. Is that a lot of time spent on the island? :unsure:
 

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Wait, is there another way to play than 100% and ALL achievements ? :))
There is some hidden truth in your sarcasm. ;)

For years now, editors have tried to inflate the players game time. This is done through grindy mechanics, achievements, DLCs, to keep you engaged in the game.
We, as players, have become used to it, and -dare I say- desensitized.

But Holiday Island if not that type of game. By its very nature, it cannot be.
It's a porn game. There is no boss nor achievement that can motivate me to play longer: when my balls are empty, my balls are empty.

There is one major criticism that can be made against HI: The UI is full of information, quests, stats, boxes to checks, etc.
It looks like a grindy game, whereas the core gameplay loop is anything but.
This mismatch between the UI and the gameplay is possibly the game's biggest design mistake.
 

biff68

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Maybe just enjoying the game going at its own pace without thinking about getting 100% until you're above 85-90%? You can get most things just by intuition and logic easily. I may be at 98% or so, and most of the time I don't even think about completing the few things I still have remaining xD

Or maybe it's just that I enjoy stuff that can provide me with entertainment for many hours, as on my Steam account I have thousands and thousands of hours played throughout the years (A game such as Skyrim has 700 hours on the classic edition and 300 more hours on the remaster, and it's far from the top of my played games xD)

Here in HI i'm on day 785 if I remember it correctly. Is that a lot of time spent on the island? :unsure:
Intuition doesn't really come into play with this game. I've had sex with Ivy multiple times, but she isn't comfortable telling me about her high school years yet, and according to the companion guide, it's because I haven't spoken to Joy about Eva's tits or something.
 
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Galvi

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Intuition doesn't really come into play with this game. I've had sex with Ivy multiple times, but she isn't comfortable telling me about her high school years yet, and according to the companion guide, it's because I haven't spoken to Joy about Eva's tits or something.
A small selection of all the content is true that's not the most intuitive, but anyway, what's the problem of a try and error approach? Nothing in the game is something that can't be done again. I may have taken the companion guide less times than fingers in both hands, and I follow the game since the times of 0.2.0...
 

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Did any of you meet Samantha, to whom Jennifer shows the island?
I am already on day 140 but could not trigger this event.
 

Bantry

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On an Island, Somewhere in the Pacific ...

Wayback Machine Chapter 3


(***disclaimer***)
( This is FAN FICTION / FAN EDITED and no way represents any actual story from the game )
(Any similarity to any future story-line is coincidental)
 
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dorleans90

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Yeah, I knew that and my comment was a joke. But I appreciate your trying to be helpful.
It was more of a stimulus-response thing. after I'm not even sure how many days of insomnia. After one of those I always come to having left increasingly aspergerish comments all over the internet.

One time I woke up with Washington Post subscription, a full year, apparently for the sole purpose of doing so. Or that's as close as I can guess. Having literally never read a single headline from that paper at any point in my life before or since.
 
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