First of all, thank you very much for the game
InsemGame .
I last played version .12 and decided to start anew with all the changes you made. I played the game to Month 176 so I didn't see everything yet, but I consider it worth giving some feedback anyway already. Maybe some stuff will be irrelevant at the late game but currently the following points are valid to me:
First some QoL upgrades that might increase gameflow:
- When you end the day and hibernate for one month you get the summary and can switch to the next screen with the [1] shortcut, but in the next screen to go 'Home' you have to press [Esc]. I would put both next screens on the same shortcut.
Some setting stuff:
- It would be nice to have a setting you can switch on/off to buy coffe if you have less than 10 in your inventory and another option to automatically consume them if you have less then 10 AP.
- Same goes for viagra: One option to automatically stock up to 10 (or whatever you think is a good number).
- I'd like to exchange essence for a restock on sperm. Getting just 20 units at the start of the day with the upgrades from the hospital for the endgame where you go for girls nonstop isn't really feasable and the whole viagra thing all the time to generate enough spirit and keep on going during the sex scenes is annoying. I'd also like to get additional options to increase sperm production (you DO have a succubus after all that is supposedly quite capable). Maybe a setting here where she can automatically convert essence to sperm each day?
- I'd also very much appreciate a shortcut to restock on spirit (and sperm) in the menu on the left instead of instead of awkwardly navigating though the menu to find the corresponding options at home. Something that gets your spritit and sperm count high at the beginning of the day automatically by enabeling some options would be much better than anything where you have to manually generate/exchange resources for it.
- A general 'Go Home and Hibernate' Button that is accessible everywhere would be nice. You should also be able to change your 'sleeping spot' to the mansion at some point. Perhaps you need to build a Master bedroom for that?^^
- When you have sex with a girl and take her from behind and decide to cum on her face/mouth the menu then guides you to the 'get the girl on her knees' position and you get the blowjob options afterwards. That logically makes sense but I would very much appreaciate it if you could go back to the 'take her from behind' option where you can continue fucking her directly instead of navigating though the menu again. I'm looking for an easy sequence to get sperm to all locations to max spirit output..
- Also nice to have: An indicator where you have already planted your seed during a sex encounter to maximise your spirit gain. Maybe color the option differently when you already came in her mouth/pussy etc.?
Now some stuff for the game:
- It was relatively easy to get the photo booth and the book stall early on - after that getting the Laundromat was quite a drag. It also falls together with acquiring the estate and sinking money there. Considering I spent an unholy amount of time to farm money instead of chasing girls that was quite annoying. Maybe you can adjust the price here a bit or maybe the achievements could provide a bit more than just having a square light up and provide some additional bonuses (money for starters)?
- Considering achievements it would be nice to see the prerequisites before you acquire it so that you know what to do.
- Scamming tourists pushes you to negative alignment but selling weed doesn't...?
- A small questlog would be nice to know what to do next. Help tells you you can acquire the estate at some point but at no point of the story you get the hint it's acqually available from this specific point of the story on. Even a greyed out option at the mayor that gives you a hint would do the trick, if you don't want to put in too much work.
- The money the synergy 'Party Friends' takes from you isn't shown in the summary when you switch to the next month. -> At that time my estate had 5 spots. I don't know if playful is a dominant trait you get at the alley and the old canals but 4 of my 5 girls had the playful trait at that time and I had 2 more girls that didn't move to the estate yet. As it seems that every girl can interact with every other girl I easily had 'Party Firends' 5 times costing me 100 $ each turn. And you can't negotiate the trait as it's seen solely positive. The time for a synergy effect to last seems to also stack so now they are active for more than 70 months and seem to prolong themselves indefinitely..... With other expenses I was quite lucky to have the photo booth and book stall fully upgrade as that situation had the potential to push my money into the negative at this state of the game. I have to check out how positive and negative synergies work with a full estate but I assume that this can either be super powerful or blast you into oblivion. Maybe the Bisexual trait/lesbian stat could further reduce the chance for negative synergy effects?
- Either I'm quite unlucky or the 70% to solve a negative synergy doesn't really fit. At least currently at how many times I tried it didn't feel like a 70 % chance at all.
- When you assign a role to a girl at your estate it would be great to see if they are exceptionally good or bad at a job. First checking what trait gives a bonus, then checking all the girls and then assigning them to the best role is cumbersome.
- It would be nice if the Extrospecta spell would also reaveal Sex Exp and Stamina of a Girl.
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Somniva would be helpful early on when you grow your empire and look to make enough money to support your needs later on. Later in the game, when you interact with girls all the time you don't really need it anymore. I'd also switch it to the Bedroom and not hide it in the menu when you choose to hibernate for longer than a month. That's a personal preference now, but I'd prefer to make it a permanent buff instead of a spell you have to recast every 12 turns.
- When you put down anchors and grow your influence, getting the networking option at 80 % isn't really helpful. At that point you already have a strong infrastructure in that area and +5 Influnce won't do much. I'd make that option available directly at the beginning where +5 Influnce/day (might) still be meaningful. Maybe switch it to 5x +1 Influence instead of directly establishing the network fully?
- When a Scout brings a new girl to you it would be nice to be able to cast Extrospecta on her.
- When a concerned mother visits you the age difference between mother and daughter is in most cases....questionable
-> Would also be a great opportunity for the girl to have a high chance to have the Motherly Trait.
- When you have sex with a girl from the menu in your estate it would be nice to return to that screen instead of ending up at your home.
- (Dark) Pristess Job. You want at least some girls with (preferably) 0 submission so that you can use them as Matrons. A general option to increase submissiveness is at least a bit counterproductive. Maybe you can add an option at the mansion to actively sent girls to the shrine (or to exempt them) to be a bit more flexible.
- Girls also very seldomly start with a low enough submission to be able to work as Matrons. Considering you can only increase submission with spells that's also a source of frustration.
- Also resolving the same conflict (negative synergy effect at the mansion) over and over again gets tedious. Considering you have 5 discticts that require a dominant Matron for max. efficiency you will have to solve 10 conflicts all the time between the 5 girls and that specific synergy reduces production by 10% as well
. Currently I removed all dominant girls from my estate to circumvent that...
- As far as I understand 1 impregnation should provide 0.1 virility. In most cases it does, but I have 10 impregnations and 0.9 virility. I took the liberty to look at a safe file, seems to be some rounding error.
- When you recruit new girls from the districts they normally have very few traits. 1 for sure, 2-3 if you're lucky, 4 is already very very rare. Traits also seem to be very limited. All the traits you can 'teach' your daughters during events seem to not be possible for 'normal' girls. At least I haven't found a single clingy, althletic, exhibitionistic, etc. girl at the alley, the old canal or the city center yet. I did some check ups at the other spots but could find any of these traits there as well. You get one behavioural trait, except for precious no relationship trait, haven't seen any nympho or exhibitionist sexual traits yet, no lifestyle traits except for sugar baby and no special traits... So you first have to get some girl, impregnate her, then do all the events with the daughter, hope that you get some traits there, impregnate her to then have a chance to get the corresponding mother/daughter traits for the legendary stuff? That's quite a lot of work with no sure way as all the stuff is only backed up statistically with some percent chances for traits (yet, haven't seen all events yet, my oldest daughter just turned 10).
- Considering unique girls are very rare it would be nice if they came with a good amount of traits as well. Otherwise just their beauty is special.
- Just a thought: If you make acquiring traits too difficult and put in to many steps people will either ignore it or probably cheat (I'm already very tempted). You have a succubus and an angel - maybe they could help out in some way to provide additional chances? Didn't really have the time to check out the
Praegressus spell but if you're only able to transfer a single spell from a pool of 46 that's very little.
-Don't know if this is intended but it seems that the percentages from events where you choose which traits your offspring has a chance to gain (First Sports Event, Bullying at School, etc.) isn't additive. At least 28% Loyalty plus 25% from the School Bullying Event gets you to 46% Loyalty and not to 53%. If that is the way you want it to be calculated ok, if not, you should take a look.
One last advice: It's great to get suggestions and feedback from players but nothing beats playing the game yourself. I highly recommend you take yourself some time and start a game session yourself without any cheats and check for yourself if everything works the way you intended. I assume almost all the stuff I wrote above would sooner or later come to your attention that way.
With all that being said: Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward on how the game develops and merry Christmas
