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You could use nested $replace, when calling dynamic at the end, like this:
dynamic $replace($replace($replace($replace($test_dynamic, 'dyn1', 'show'), 'dyn2', 'description'), 'dyn3', 'test'), 'dyn4', 'name')
Then you can rewrite the code as:
Code:
$test_dynamic = {
msg "dyn3_dyn4 = <<$dyn3_dyn4>> <br> dyn1_dyn2[dyn3_dyn4] = <<$dyn1_dyn2[$dyn3_dyn4]>>"
}
$test_name = 'sally'
$show_description['sally'] = 'test succeeded'
dynamic $replace($replace($replace($replace($test_dynamic, 'dyn1', 'show'), 'dyn2', 'description'), 'dyn3', 'test'), 'dyn4', 'name')There's no original art. But it's much broader than "other eroges", there's art from many sources. Every release includes updates in the media packs. Images are organized in randomization sets based on certain criteria: hair color, hair length, age, and composites thereof for scenes with multiple participants. There are also fallback images cropped to show only bodies in case a more precise match is not available.
Enforcing rules increases despair. Stop the rules she isn't willing to follow withour force, until she's no longer depressed.
You don't need rules if she is fearful, but you can enable rules she is willing to follow. Like maid. You can ask her what she thinks of you - if she's willing to be a maid, she'll tell you. (In 2.2.1.)
Guild slaves are already branded.
Should be 100% uncensored. That's a requirement now for the media packs. If you find any censored images, let us know.
After some play testing, I've updated the -ia dev branches with the following additional changes:
21. re-order moodlets (order they appear in master diary or when asking slave about how she feels) and improve some of the wording
22. reverse order of "how do you feel" responses to display the positive ones first like the master diary
23. disable spoil moodlet if rape, defloration or angst moodlet is active, and relocate the code that enables the spoil moodlet
24. to reduce mood swings, apply a temporary and smaller mood bonus on the same day when positive moodlets end
25. to reduce mood swings, adjusted next day mood carry over formula to apply a bonus representing half of the previous day's mood (counting anything above depressed as positive)
26. positive moodlets fade faster when a slave feels despair, scaling with the level of despair, but now this occurs only if the slave's despair exceeds an empathy threshold (5 despair at F- empathy, 1 despair at A+ or S+ empathy) - this is the same condition that determines whether the "hopeless" moodlet appears when you ask how she feels
27. the "you didn't punish me" moodlet now applies a larger mood bonus as long as it is active, instead of only on the first day, but diminishes over time, and the moodlet will end immediately if a punishment is applied; some negative side effects of doing this are also reduced slightly
28. discovered and fixed a small bug in the diligence formula that resulted in less variance than intended
29. Dexterous trait now gives chance for better diligence in concerts or when washing or massaging the master (putting those artistic fingers to good use... maybe some sex skills too?)
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u were quoting the wrong one.. thats no my game u commenting on. And having no rules will increase spoiling
I was commenting on your comment. Having no rules does not increase spoiling when the slave is fearful. Are you still playing an old version?
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I don't have music on, but haven't noticed anything wrong with the sound effects. I'll keep an eye out.
Since I've been playing this a bit with the new patch, some random rambling thoughts again. Take of them what you will:
Some bug reports:
Oh and since I haven't said this in a bit: It's really nice seeing this game being worked on even after all these years. Thanks for the great effort.
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I fixed a lot of the audio issues relating to thread stuff, but it really was primitively developed and has no blocking/sync, so don't do too much audio at once. No threading, you could literally call the routine for the menu sound toggle quickly enough and break everything (just restart client). Someone also had delays added in all of the audio stuff, but not for fading, just for aesthetics...Needs a rewrite, but no one has the time or the will.
Thanks for the feedback.
The laboratory at 200$ might need to be reduced a bit, but it was set so high to encourage renting for one decade, focusing on training and brewing during that time, and then cancelling it until you need it again. This also keeps the school in play as an option for alchemy training when you don't have the lab rented.
The dungeon and boudoir are still cheap (20$/30$ in Camira and Serpis, "included" in higher tiers [Taurus charges 50$ for boudoir because it's an expensive district, so effectively the step-up cost to Korvus is 50$ less]).
The barn is "included" in Camira and costs 100$ everywhere else. The barn can produce income from egglayer, cow milk and pig. The barn also enables you to keep more slaves unfrozen for training, which can significantly augment your income. The barn should be able to pay for itself purely on the basis of its "products" alone, so the rest is bonus.
While the idea is to make the rentals expensive enough that just leaving them running isn't necessarily optimal, they are still dwarfed by other costs of living in the late game. An S+ intellect assistant with the secretary trait can reduce the variable portion of the billing by 35% to 75%, which translates to a savings of at least 280 to 420 sparks or as much as 600 to 900 savings per decade with the highest cost of living (in White Town). [Without the secretary trait, savings are 10% less.] In exchange for one negative moodlet and dropping S+ personality to A+, you can reduce the variable cost by 400$ to 600$ by maintaining the penultimate living standard instead of the maximum, which also reduces the possible accounting savings (140 to 210 sparks on the low end, 300 to 450 sparks on the high end).
The way I've implemented it, costs in the slums go up after 20 decades (200 days played). The costs increase one more time after another 10 decades (300 days played). Still cheaper than living in Camira, but it becomes even harder to justify not moving out... and staying out. By day 300, most players will have completed training at least five slaves and have access to supplemental income from the arena. If it's a zero-start with no faction reputation, they might still be living in the slums, but otherwise it's unlikely. So this is mostly an added challenge for zero starts and a disincentive to moving back to the slums when you have other options.
Can you expand on these ideas a bit? What kind of favor, or what problems, or...?
No, no. I want to make guild rep progression easier, not harder. I also want to make it more valuable, by using it to gate the bonus income of using multiple arena contestants. Brand rep becomes exclusively about being able to sell slaves easier (contributes to charm threshold, meaning you don't need to spend as much prepping them for sale) or for more sparks (in variable-price sales like when you negotiate with business owners or sell at auction).
Agreed. I want brand reputation to rise slower up to A+. It's already slow from A+ from S+ because nothing moves the needle except selling A+/S+ slaves or socializing at the club (at most once per day, not always successful).
We currently do not show the master's detailed progression and I'd prefer to keep it that way because it adds an element of uncertainty (will today be the day?), but I do understand the frustration of not knowing if what you're doing is moving the needle at all. Guild contracts at least do tell you explicitly if you're making progress.
Selling slaves to district clients advances your level with the district if you're fulfilling a contract rank above your current rep with that district. That's it. Unlike other reputations, faction rep has no hidden progression. When you gain rep, you go up a level immediately. There is no bonus for exceeding the requested rank. Any ideas how best to communicate that in-game?
For example, if your rep with Camira is already D- (visible in objectives tab), then fulfilling a request for a D+ slave doesn't move the needle, but fulfilling a request for a C+ or higher slave does. Even if you skip a level (say you were D- and you fulfill a B+ request), you only gain one rank of faction rep (D- advances to C-), so you'd have to fulfill another request at the same or higher level (another B+) to advance again.
I agree. Completing without winning should be a more positive outcome if you were second or third. Being last should still be a negative moodlet, I think. You can complete many races safely by slowing down to minimal speed and inching through.
I agree. Being able to save equipment sets and swap them would be very convenient.
Pony gear doesn't bother the slave if they have the Brony trait. Also, if they have the trait "Loves Helplessness", they enjoy wearing the harness (or petsuit / leather shackles). The tail is also acceptable to slaves with the pet trait.
Being able to take multiple slaves with you on outings is definitely something that should be possible. In concept, you should be able to select who accompanies you, and they should spend energy for the travel just like you do. They could also refuse, or try to run away, etc. There's even a partially implemented feature from the original game where travel cost could be offset by having a "chariot" slave, with the idea that you'd attach a trained pony to your chariot or cart or whatever, and ride in style while only spending the slave's energy. We could then allow you to change their outfits without going back home, as long as the slave is with you. We could even allow slaves to assist you in battles at the border of the fogs. Lots of possibilities here.
There's a toggle on the assistant's rules screen to decide whether or not she is the assigned alchemist. If not her, then it's the slave. We could move this to the brewing screen.
To not make the current interface irrelevant and retain the need to remember recipes (or revisit Mystra for a reminder), how about a "repeat last recipe" button? You'd have to brew step by step each time you change what you're making, but the repetition would save a few clicks. We could even skip the cut-scene and bring you right back to the brewing menu so you could just click-click-click as many as you want.
Maybe the home cryo pod should be exactly what it sounds like, a separate pod. So you'd have the six in the cryo store plus the option of one more at home for 20$/decade (a lot more expensive than the six other pods, but being able to keep a seventh frozen slave can be valuable - I always fill up all the pods in the late game as I collect trophies faster than I can train them). We could give access to the quick swap buttons even if you don't have a home cryo pod, but you'd have to pay the travel energy cost if you don't live in Serpentine. I'm not in love with this idea -- reinterpreting the home pod as a portal might be better, effectively meaning you're paying 20$/week for the convenience of the quick swap feature and no travel energy cost.
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Hard to comment on the numbers without testing. Might get to it at some point, but unlikely I'll start another game any time soon. On the lab, one reason to keep it rented is to be able to train alchemy yourself, to boost your sorcery ability as I assume it does. So it's convenient to just have it around to use it when you have the energy for it.
Sounds fine with me, in the sense that I could never see myself again wanting to stay in the slums for more than 200 days.
She's introduced as a stab first, threaten after type of a thief and a pirate, so you could easily see someone from her past coming to haunt her after you've had her a bunch of decades. Maybe a former partner she betrayed actually gained access to Rome from the slums and now desires revenge.
First idea I had was that they'd kidnap your slave and you'd have to either trade Isabella for the slave or report to the fashy Rome authorities who'd take it very seriously and butcher both the slave and the criminal, resulting in the loss of the slave with a minor compensation payment. But that doesn't really work, it would be easier to grab Isabella than the slave who can't even go outside.
Second idea would be that the former partner was someone now somewhat respected in Rome and started spreading bad rumours about you and Isabella. You'd lose brand/guild/faction rep now and then. Could deal with it by giving Isabella over, selling her or maybe by training her up to 4 of 5 in obedience, when she'd be willing to be given to the former partner, then work against them somehow to cause them to fall from grace and you could recover Isabella. Maybe even gaining the former partner as a slave.
But I'm not a writer or a coder by nature, I like coming up with stuff and not making them happen, so I'm not very useful in actually making any of that a reality.
On another note on Isabella, you could maybe also just make her a bit weaker. My first instinct would be to cut down some of her favourable triaits. Maybe leave her with either Masochist or Disciplined, or both, as those fit her backstory. She just feels like too much free stuff too early.
These all sound like sensible changes.
The point about rising brand rep over A+ is a decent example of a rule that's really hard to decipher from just the resources in game. That's why I'd want the stuff to be clearer. I could see myself, back when I started with the game, training up a bunch of medium quality slaves in hopes of just upgrading rep through quantity of sales.
I feel like the game either needs it all to be typed into the objectives info somehow to a very specific degree, or make to the whole process more opaque so you know when you're doing something right.
A stopgap method might be just writing all the reputation rules into a page on the wiki, as it already does a lot of heavy lifting on having details the game doesn't convey.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I learned this the hard way by selling a bunch of B+ slaves, skipping D and C, before figuring it out (not that it's that bad, you still make a profit). Maybe the easiest way to convey this would be to change the info on the reputation objective.
Currently the first level says "I have no relationship with the Taurus House. I ought to do direct sales in their territory." It could be changed to something in line of "I have no relationship with the Taurus House. I need to catch the eye of at least one member by selling a slave to them." Then on the next rank it could be "I have some acquaintances in the Corvus House, but not enough to access to the Raven Tower. I need to sell another slave to a better established member to spread my name wider there." (using the current Corvus text as base here for the start. It has bad spelling though, should either be "enough for access" or "to have access".)
That way the message would be more clear that's it's about the number of slaves, thought the rank thing might still be unclear.
Agreed with the caveat that often third place is also the last place, in which case I'm more inclined to reward than to punish.
This brings to mind that the traits are really neat, but I often end up not dealing with them because they're pretty vague too. Like can I train a slave to have Brony or Loves Helplessness? It not, then I'm inclined to still think pony training should help with the gear mood malus. If they are trainable, having the malus is perfectly fine.
I'd love it if there was a list of trainable traits and how to go about it somewhere. Also, if they're not trainable, I'd prefer for the Expert in the Guild, who looks for specific kinds of slaves, to be able to find you a Brony or whatever you desire.
Ah of course. When you're played so much you don't even see the screen anymore because you think you know where everything is.
Would be more natural for it to be in the alchemy menu, somehow, but as long as it exists that's fine.Sounds perfect.
I'm personally a fan of just having one pod at home for easy access for the 20 and then having to go to Serpentine for the rest over it being a portal, but here I'd go with whichever is easier to implement, tbh.
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The instructions are not clear on what kind of help you need.
Which patch? The L patch or patching an older game to the current version. Tell me what's stumping you and I'll help. What are you doing? What's failing?
The L patch.The instructions are not clear on what kind of help you need.
Which patch? The L patch or patching an older game to the current version. Tell me what's stumping you and I'll help. What are you doing? What's failing?
You download the base game. First post, any of the four options under DOWNLOAD. You extract the archive, it creates a folder named "Jack-o-nine-tails v2.2.1".
You download the L-patch by going to the site linked with the name on the first post. Download the patch from the anonfile link. You open the archive. It contains files. You select all those files. Drag them into the Jack-o-nine-tails v2.2.1 folder. You get asked if you want to replace files. Answer yes. Wait for it to be done and you can play from Jack-o-nine-tails.exe in the folder. There's no message saying you've successfully patched the game. You can check if you've succeeded by starting the tutorial and picking Wilhelmina. If in the anatomy tab it says loli, you've succeeded.
Sadly I can't remember what files the L-patch archive contains. I think it's the game folder and a few other things. If you need more detail, let me know at what point the problem happens.