Buddawg Responding to your recent review:
Maintaining sanity just requires keeping the sum of Nature, Pride and Temperament above 2. F- is zero, D- is one, C- is two. Despair does not lower pride, only the other two, so if you are dealing with high despair, maybe wait on trying to reduce their pride... Alternatively, you can build up her stats if they fell too low and recover her sanity that way - it’s not permanent.
Repeating the exact same actions every day is by design a suboptimal strategy. 60-100 clicks per day is a total exaggeration; assuming the slave has 5 energy, you can spend it all with 10 clicks - less, if you use some of the fast action buttons on the main screen. Not to mention automation through the slave’s assigned rules.
Less than what? Which game are you comparing to? What specifically about that game do you think is superior to this one?
A UI design overhaul to reduce clicks is in the works. You might not be aware (it’s mentioned on the Controls info page linked from the main menu) that you can use the space bar to advance most of the result screens. That can save some clicking.
Not sure what you mean by this. The slave’s avatar never changes but the icons around the portrait summarize a lot of info, and you get even more info on the slave’s stats screen.
This depends greatly on the relevant stats for whatever interaction or rule is in play. An unskilled master isn’t very good at teaching, for example. Stats are, by design, slower to raise than skills. Especially “personality” stats like Nature and Temperament. But it’s still quite possible to raise a slave from F- to S+ in any stat if you are patient and avoid shouting yourself in the foot by doing things that drain the stat at the same time you are trying to raise it. The help text when you click on each of the stats gives some pointers on what to do or not do.
Which mechanics are grueling?
Maintaining sanity just requires keeping the sum of Nature, Pride and Temperament above 2. F- is zero, D- is one, C- is two. Despair does not lower pride, only the other two, so if you are dealing with high despair, maybe wait on trying to reduce their pride... Alternatively, you can build up her stats if they fell too low and recover her sanity that way - it’s not permanent.
Repeating the exact same actions every day is by design a suboptimal strategy. 60-100 clicks per day is a total exaggeration; assuming the slave has 5 energy, you can spend it all with 10 clicks - less, if you use some of the fast action buttons on the main screen. Not to mention automation through the slave’s assigned rules.
Of course it’s doable and worth it. The higher the rank of the slave and the more specializations they have mastered, the more the value. Moreover, to complete the game’s primary quest you are required to train better and better slaves.
I’m not going to bother refuting this point by point. It’s obvious that you are not commenting on the 2.2 version, since a lot of what you complain about has changed in that version.
