- Sep 12, 2020
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Raising strength while living in the slums requires eating out, plenty of sparring or plenty of sex. You're limited by your energy. If you get exhausted, that saps your strength. With the bull ring, you can do more actions per day, so prioritize that forum mission. Be careful with stimulant drugs, abuse can have tragic consequences.It's been quite a long time since I last played the game and I love how development is still ongoing as it was one of my favorite games back then!
However I'm having a lot of trouble to get started. (I always liked the vanilla Nerd start because the beginning of the game was always the most challenging)
Back then, I used to just stay in the slums and grind fighting skill and strength in arena until blue (or higher) then get an easy servant contract and go from there but this really doesnt work anymore (for me at least) - I even skipped Isabella back then for an extra bit of added difficulty.
With the new gameplay changes, I cant even get above purple stamina/fighting skill with the same start (tried getting food from the tavern and visiting the brothels mixed together with coliseum but I'm not even sure if that worked properly).
If I get a contract that is seemingly doable - I judge that by wether my aura is overpowering theirs with green text after using Magna Magnifica and an easy enough contract such as servant - I am having tons of trouble to get my slave to do literally anything.
Only masturbation and orgasm orders work in the beginning, any other order will start the day with 1 guilty - even if she refuses everything else she wont get more guilty points, making harder punishments very punishing (for the PC) while the 1 point punishments really dont add any noticeable results.
In the end I usually get thrown into a loop where after a few harder punishments she will just despair making mood recovery impossible thus mind breaking the slave or she rebels and ends up with low stamina for what feels like forever.
Any tips to get started again, like what works better compared to a while before in terms of punishment/how to handle a slave the first week or so?
I am playing the hardcore difficulty in settings too, but I am considering turning it to normal for now until I get the hang of it again.
Raising fighting skill requires winning battles against worthy opponents - any Fog opponent, or arena sparring above your skill level - or personally teaching gladiatrix lessons to slaves who are just below your skill level.
I trust you've read through the tutorial lectures? They explain how to develop obedience and a lot of other important info. Every line of text in the tutorial is there for a reason. Clicking on attributes and stats (and checkboxes) and reading the help text is also recommended.
There is an important difference between "refuses to do it" and "does it badly" - if she's refusing to do it, she needs to be more obedient first. If she's doing it badly, she needs to be more motivated. Motivation comes partly from the slave and partly from the teacher. An F- teacher will have a harder time motivating the slave. Of course, fear is a strong motivator too, but if a slave is depressed and terrified, they may just dissociate. Mood is very important if you want a slave to learn well. A proper uniform helps too.
If you don't have an assistant and you have no teaching skills, use different teachers. School, tutors. Meanwhile develop your own skills by personally doing housework, cooking (if you're not in the slums), magic, sparring, etc. And sex, of course, once the slave is obedient enough for it. Training concubines is a worthwhile pursuit for a slaver who is otherwise lacking in talent.
If she's guilty every morning because of broken rules, you're giving her rules she's not willing to obey and you're not enforcing them. Most rules need special items to be enforced. If you click on the "rules broken" underlined link at the bottom of her rules checkboxes, it will show you more information.
Mindbreak is a negative for selling a slave but it has positives too. She won't refuse anything. She won't be very motivated but you can still teach her skills, and you can use her to develop your own skills. You can also recover her by building up her nature attribute, although that may be more expensive than getting a new slave.
If you're still stuck, here's an offer:
1. Get a new slave and upload your saved game from the start of the decade here.
2. Play for a decade and write a description of what you did each day and post it here along with that saved game.
3. I'll take your saved game and do the same and we can compare.