Ren'Py Holiday Island [v0.5.0.1] [darkhound1]

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DuckSwim

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ChinPowa said:
All this waiting and no sex scenes with Lacey? So sad.
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Well, that's one way to see it.

Another would be that she,

- Dodged the axe (which as Patreons recall, was the alternative)
- Picked up a remake.
- Advanced from Side Character to Regular

Which ensures she stays in the game and actually has a future (and will be able to get a sex scene).
So, there is that too, big wins take time to implement themselves.
 
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Bantry said:
Holiday Island has a multitude of different options, random events and specialized encounters that are all part of building the relationships with each of the girls surrounding him. Just like in real life you will get hungry, horny, drunk and need to sleep. Just like real life, if the player doesn't interact with and pay attention to a girl(s), their affection, love and desire for the player will decline. This isn't a virtual novel where you skip dialogue until sex happens. This is a game where immersing yourself in the context, manage your daily activities and pay attention to the girls' tendencies, wants, desires, etc. will lead to various encounters and pay dividends down the line. The game isn't complete yet, but there's a lot of content to enjoy. As for whether there is 'grinding', the developer has already provided the best answer.

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Sounds like you expect this game to have a beginning, middle and end, along with having a format you prefer. Based on your post, Holiday Island will never measure up to what you want it to be. Take your comment on Aly as an example ... Yes, she was one of the first girls, but although popular with some players, her popularity pales in comparison to say Yvette and Amy. Just because she doesn't have a penetration sex scene, doesn't mean she's flawed. Sex with Aly will happen when it happens. Meaning when the developer decides to write and render said scene.

Read the above from the developer. There is no need to have your and the girl(s) stats maxed out. It will not help you if you're achievement hunting, which incidentally is the wrong way to play Holiday Island. The Companion Guide and other posts within this thread offer an easy solution to guarantee Yvette is in the sauna on co-ed days. The latest update even allows you to invite her to sauna.

Not saying your opinion or take on Holiday Island is wrong. Just suggesting you might consider looking at the game and the way you play it in a different light.
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I wrote The first companion guides to the game. And you're dead wrong about my expectations. But like what happened with some other developers, they learned its best to at somepoint clean up that old content they forgot to add over time. Darkhound has spent more time playing with features than he has his strongpoint and that's his art. And I already know he wont really listen to the feedback anyways. If he did he would have written the poker game way differently years ago when literally NO ONE liked it. Well we except the make noise add on for peeping on people. Because most of us maxed out sneak that we would never get that to happen before the scenes were made.

My statement about stats was to illustrate not that I have them maxed out to get the girls, but that its been so long they have pretty much an established relationship and instead its a constant unlockable for the same repeatable content. It misses any sort of progression with women and you are instead just achievement hunting. Like you said, it's the wrong way to go about it. But at one point thats the only way you can see any new content. You can't stumble on to it unless you specifically know how.

The issue with using companion guides is like my original poker work around: were having to cheat to make the game passibly enjoyable, where it's not even necessary to have co-ed days, much less most of the very specific and hard to obtain combination of stats, affections, clothing and day/daypart combos. And even harder when those requirements are something your save bypassed before it was even a thing.

It's never a good thing when someone else has to fix your game for others to enjoy. I stopped making my guide because everyone got so frustrated with the game they wanted me to hand hold them through every single step of each girl.

TL: DR: its really about progression of any kind beyond Achievements in my phone. Which is not something the game does very well.
 
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DuckSwim said:
Creep towards more complex triggers is a classic issue as game's mature and lean more into character or events, always a balance and individual preferences will differ a lot, some will enjoy it, others not.

So what can instead be argued is, that it is important that mixed content based on simple triggers should preferably keep a balance with the complex so as to produce a smooth pace (as possible).



No, that is not correct.
The majority are not escorts.

Even the old invite/resort guest girls (who draw a number of girls from the premade busty escorts source) are not all escorts.

And of those who actually do escort, most are not of the insert coin, get sex type (which the game have them explain from time to time too)

And of course, they are there on vacation, so they have no reason to have sex with the player beyond whatever their personal motivations give them (which is the basic concept of the game, so based on their character and not their "job", some would be sexual predators, some highly sexed, others would not).

I'll skip the rest, as that is what you'd like the game to be and everybody will have their own opinion there.
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There is chance his game got borked like mine, the MC who's Ankle would NOT heal after 3 weeks gameplay.
Because MOST of the ladies(not counting those whom never visited the island on That Particular playthrough).
Where INDEED escorts at some point in time.

Even 'if' part time, regardless if THAT was intended dialog or not(perhaps an oversight copying and pasting text).
Will be time consuming sorting out and possibly seem not worth it in this point of game development
Can't remember to list them all off the top of my head:

Amy, Alice, Delizia, Heather, Eva, Renee oh and to think...Aly would be a supersize...
Jessica, whom's saposed to have only had sex with 5 men and yet goes on to brag about several encounters.
Make NO MISTAKE, not ALL escorts have sex(Fucking/Penetration).

Countless Escorts are what many refer to as "Arm Candy".
Many models, actresses, famous people from several different professions have done this.
It's nothing new, ancient in fact.

Paitryn is not mistaken in several respects.
Ladies in COUNTLESS situations Are practically throwing themselves at him COUNTLESS times.
Yet he chooses NOT to have sex with them...................... even ones like..
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Would You Really send her to her room, rejecting having sex with her?
If so, perhaps this game is not for ANYONE whom would choose Sex With Her.
Who would reject her, seriously?

[NOTE: This is ONE of MANY Examples]
 
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ToshinRaizen said:
does this game have sex scene... so far all i see was tease
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We are on page 1490 and yours is the 29.791th post, so it is pretty safe to say it has sex scenes.
  • Natasha is considered easy
  • Yvette and Eva have easy sex on contest wins.
  • It is decidedly difficult to avoid sex with Amy (once her long quest is done)
  • Faye (blue pill needed for pool sex), Alice, Heather and Jessica are not exactly prudes either.
  • Sex with Joy is unavoidable or very close to it (occurs over time, as it is story events).
Think the record is sex 14 times in one day (I forget the number of girls, some multiple times) so yes, there is sex in the game.
 
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Paitryn said:
And what's up with the sauna? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get one character to show up on one day in an afternoon just to see that scene? No matter how many times i've went on mixed day there is never a girl that shows up. As long as Yvette has been on my island with maxed out lust love and affection, that girl should be shoving me into any broom closet or bed she can find to fuck me.
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Well, have you made sure that Yvette is not on duty somewhere?
 
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sam47 said:
Seriuosly, Aly was one of the first girls the mc meets when the game was launched. all these years later, not a single sex scene or any good update. really frustating.
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The whole game is about teasing. Teasing the character in the game and teasing the player.
 
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ToshinRaizen said:
whos Yvette? ... i got about 3 4 women here.... do i need to grind more?.... how to increase stat? i keep reading but nothing happen
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Sounds like you are in the beginning of the game.
You can try this if you want a high content starting Island,

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Selecting Yvette + one more
You'll want to select the the girl with the red frame (that's Yvette).
And then one of the girls in the black frames or the girl in the green (that's Amy)

Stacking the odds
In the prior screens select those choices that show an image (increase the chance) of any of the girls framed here.
This will give you better odds for a starting Island with high content girls.

Who the +one more should be
Natasha is easy, Eva has sex on competition wins (and elevator once you have high endurance), Alice is a good classic, Faye has blue pill (larger dick) sex and also competitition win sex (eventually).

Amy has a long quest but an ocean of sex events during and after (she will start slow though until the quest unlocks her higher lust, love and affection levels).

What to do
You've seen the first week, so just breeze through that.
Come the second week more girls will arrive and the competitions will start.

By that time Yvette and the +one more (and any random arrivals) should have fairly high affection/lust/love etc.

Let Yvette win competitions (and Eva if you also picked here), from there it sorta rolls on its own as the girls in question has a lot of content and you will eventually gain the ability to invite more girls.

Skills
Pick Charm and max it over the first weeks for best results
Each weekend there will be a check whether your stat increased from reading or training.
 
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ChinPowa said:
All this waiting and no sex scenes with Lacey? So sad.
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Didn't they had to remake her model and do again all her scene because the engine is terrible and force the developer to do a lot of extra work every time the engine gets an update? Maybe next update if renpy isn't in the mood of slavery and allow developers to do their job instead to fix engine faults.
 
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