Ren'Py Lab Rats 2 - Reformulate [v2024.08] [Tristim/LZ_Starbuck/Trollden]

[hibakuxa]

Yeah, but It's impossible to have one with the myriad of main/sub chars.
The first week guide and mom sis off guide are relevant to every major/ minor char, applying the method will work with every char.
Having a guide to progressing all the storylines created by the supreme mod in this thread would be arduous, and the devs in the mod have better things to do. If someone wanted to do a step by step, they would have to update it almost on a weekly basis as the mod changes and adds more content dynamically.
Comprehensive and easy are oxymoron's

That's why I suggested a list and not exactly a guide.

Cara Thrace (Starbuck): 6 events available
(This character has the special function to develop your sex abilities)
Storyline events:
- Event 1: "Ask about investing in her store" / "Invest ($1000) > no sex scene, develop storyline and open new interaction options;
- Event 2: "Invest in more basic inventory" > not required, but you may invest more (5*$1000) in the sex shop which will give you a bigger share of the profits by the end of each turn;
- Event 3: "Ask how business is going" > test 3 outfits for advertisement and get a blowjob in the end.
- Event 4: "Ask if advertising is working" > requires X love/Y sluttiness/Z obedience > ...
...

Repeating events:
Available after Event 1: "Ask about temporarily improving foreplay" / "Purchase ($100)"> option to buy a small dildo that gives you a new foreplay position / it may randomly trigger a sex scene to test your new purchase > it's a repeating event, since Dildo lasts 1 week.
...

This is more or less what I was looking for ^^^

 

[Burt]

That's why I suggested a list and not exactly a guide.

Cara Thrace (Starbuck): 6 events available
(This character has the special function to develop your sex abilities)
Storyline events:
- Event 1: "Ask about investing in her store" / "Invest ($1000) > no sex scene, develop storyline and open new interaction options;
- Event 2: "Invest in more basic inventory" > not required, but you may invest more (5*$1000) in the sex shop which will give you a bigger share of the profits by the end of each turn;
- Event 3: "Ask how business is going" > test 3 outfits for advertisement and get a blowjob in the end.
- Event 4: "Ask if advertising is working" > requires X love/Y sluttiness/Z obedience > ...
...

Repeating events:
Available after Event 1: "Ask about temporarily improving foreplay" / "Purchase ($100)"> option to buy a small dildo that gives you a new foreplay position / it may randomly trigger a sex scene to test your new purchase > it's a repeating event, since Dildo lasts 1 week.
...

This is more or less what I was looking for ^^^

I realize I am completely out of touch with the younger worlds' population when I realize that flash cards are the new education. Soon eyes will be unnecessary as reading is a chore. Probably why I have rarely employed anyone under 40

 

[hibakuxa]

I realize I am completely out of touch with the younger worlds' population when I realize that flash cards are the new education. Soon eyes will be unnecessary as reading is a chore. Probably why I have rarely employed anyone under 40

You are misunderstanding me. I prefer a fully properly written guide. I just understand, as you said it, it's an immense task to keep it updated. This is a compromise solution, the bare minimum.

 

[Shocker]

Sort of. I recently reorganized the folder structure, and now most of the mod's storyline stuff is broken out into three folders: People, Teamups, and Plotlines. Each folder/file is pretty much it's own plotline.

People:

• Ashley
• Camilla
• Candace
• Ellie
• Erica
• Kaya
• Myrabelle
• Ophelia
• Sakari (placeholder)
• Starbuck (aka Cara)

Teamups:

• Alex/Camilla (inactive)
• Alex/Myra
• Candace/Starbuck (incomplete)
• Erica/Kaya
• Erica/Lily
• Erica/Sarah
• Ophelia/Sakari (placeholder)

Plotlines:

• Strip Club
• SideQuests
  • Arousal Serum
  • Cuckold Employee
  • Cure Discovery
  • Essential Oils
  • Porn Actress (inactive)
  • Production Line
  • Wet T-Shirt (inactive)

Now that I think about it, there's also Unisex Restrooms and (optional) mom/sister NTR plotlines, which should eventually be moved out of the Crisis folder. However, that would cause more breakage than it's worth.

Does anyone have a breakdown of how to meet all these characters?

I'm missing Kaya, Myrabelle, Sakari and Starbuck. Also not sure who Alex is from the teamups.

 

[Larans]

Does anyone have a breakdown of how to meet all these characters?

I'm missing Kaya, Myrabelle, Sakari and Starbuck. Also not sure who Alex is from the teamups.

Kaya is from the coffee place. Should be easy to visit right from the start. Myrabelle as well there's an early event to visit the gaming center. Alex is Alexia. Sakari is from Kaya's storyline. Starbuck is the sex store person. (hence her name of Cara Thrace, lookup Battlestar Galactica if you don't get the reference)

 

[zenupstart]

Kaya is from the coffee place. Should be easy to visit right from the start. Myrabelle as well there's an early event to visit the gaming center. Alex is Alexia. Sakari is from Kaya's storyline. Starbuck is the sex store person. (hence her name of Cara Thrace, lookup Battlestar Galactica if you don't get the reference)

Kaya appears aways in, a think more than a month, but yeah in the coffee shop. I think the only prereq is time.

Alex(ia) is similar, but sooner. Flagged by the quest system, but meet in the downtown, then hookup in the coffee shop.

 

[Deane9850]

Kaya appears aways in, a think more than a month, but yeah in the coffee shop. I think the only prereq is time.

Alex(ia) is similar, but sooner. Flagged by the quest system, but meet in the downtown, then hookup in the coffee shop.

While not a prereq, we need to hire Alex in order to empty the coffee shop bartender slot, then Kaya would show up.

Any, anyone willing to guinea pig themselves? Just unzip into mod folder.

 

[MrHatIsHere]

For some reason, I'm sometimes not allowed to save my game, and I get this:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "renpy/common/00action_file.rpy", line 382, in __call__
    renpy.save(fn, extra_info=save_name)
PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'function'>: attribute lookup __builtin__.function failed

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_load_save.rpym", line 35, in script
    $ ui.interact()
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 928, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "renpy/python.py", line 2245, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_load_save.rpym", line 35, in <module>
    $ ui.interact()
  File "renpy/ui.py", line 298, in interact
    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
  File "renpy/display/core.py", line 3325, in interact
    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, pause=pause, pause_start=pause_start, **kwargs)
  File "renpy/display/core.py", line 4160, in interact_core
    rv = root_widget.event(ev, x, y, 0)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1102, in event
    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)
  File "renpy/display/transition.py", line 48, in event
    return self.new_widget.event(ev, x, y, st) # E1101
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1102, in event
    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1102, in event
    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)
  File "renpy/display/screen.py", line 727, in event
    rv = self.child.event(ev, x, y, st)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1102, in event
    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1323, in event
    rv = super(Window, self).event(ev, x, y, st)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 273, in event
    rv = d.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, st)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1102, in event
    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1323, in event
    rv = super(Window, self).event(ev, x, y, st)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 273, in event
    rv = d.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, st)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1102, in event
    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 273, in event
    rv = d.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, st)
  File "renpy/display/behavior.py", line 983, in event
    return handle_click(self.clicked)
  File "renpy/display/behavior.py", line 918, in handle_click
    rv = run(action)
  File "renpy/display/behavior.py", line 330, in run
    return action(*args, **kwargs)
  File "renpy/common/00action_file.rpy", line 382, in __call__
    renpy.save(fn, extra_info=save_name)
  File "renpy/loadsave.py", line 415, in save
    reraise(t, e, tb)
  File "renpy/loadsave.py", line 401, in save
    dump((roots, renpy.game.log), logf)
  File "renpy/loadsave.py", line 49, in dump
    cPickle.dump(o, f, cPickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'function'>: attribute lookup __builtin__.function failed

Windows-10-10.0.19041
Ren'Py 7.4.11.2266
Lab Rats 2 - Down to Business v0.51.1.1
Tue Feb  7 07:09:21 2023

Does anyone know how to trace back to what actually caused the error?

 

[JoZEr]

Current mod version is giving me this:

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[JoZEr]

While not a prereq, we need to hire Alex in order to empty the coffee shop bartender slot, then Kaya would show up.

Any, anyone willing to guinea pig themselves? Just unzip into mod folder.

I'll give it a shot.

 

[Shocker]

Alright im back with another probably obvious question. How do you unlock ownership of the strip club?

 

[Phoexist]

Does anyone know how to trace back to what actually caused the error?

It has something to do with the way ren'py does saves. There must be some function inside a label in the code that can't be saved, but the game is trying to save it. The easy fix is just don't save the game in the middle of whatever action you are doing at that moment.

Current mod version is giving me this:

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Yours is basically because it was likely installed incorrectly. You have duplicate code in two different files. The latest mod I believe requires you to delete the mods folder before installing the newer stuff. I haven't played the newer stuff yet, so can't tell you exactly, but there should be install instructions somewhere for the newest versions.

 

[Shocker]

Alright im back with another probably obvious question. How do you unlock ownership of the strip club?

It literally triggered a few minutes after I asked... I needed to finish the sexshop questline I think

 

[MrHatIsHere]

It has something to do with the way ren'py does saves. There must be some function inside a label in the code that can't be saved, but the game is trying to save it. The easy fix is just don't save the game in the middle of whatever action you are doing at that moment.

That doesn't really work. For example, one event that seems to trigger this is talking to my HR director about hiring interns (which triggers automatically, I can't prevent it once the condition is met). After this event, I can't save. I tried waiting until the next day, and the autosave caused a similar error. Basically, from that event, I can't save, and the event code for that event is the same as the original.

It seems to be based on this code:

    $ mc.business.add_mandatory_crisis(kaya_first_day_of_internship)
    call unlock_college_interns () from _unlock_intern_with_nora_and_business_01

If I comment it out, I can save afterwards, but it breaks the storyline. Since this isn't the only thing that seems to trigger the issue, I'm hoping for a more direct solution to the general problem.

 

[eldoen]

Does anyone have a breakdown of how to meet all these characters?

I'm missing Kaya, Myrabelle, Sakari and Starbuck. Also not sure who Alex is from the teamups.

you should meet starbuck as one of the original events display on the map, day one or 2.

 

[Keizer19]

Anyone here have an idea on how to trigger Erica's yoga job at the office? I've talked to Sarah(childhood friend) and she mentioned about getting a survey. I have like 10 employees that Love yoga and sports and still no survey.

 

[Larans]

Anyone here have an idea on how to trigger Erica's yoga job at the office? I've talked to Sarah(childhood friend) and she mentioned about getting a survey. I have like 10 employees that Love yoga and sports and still no survey.

IIRC there's an option when talking to either Sarah or Erica about triggering it.

 

[pinktoiletpaper]

Yes, with the latest stable version of the mod I'm having some problems with the yoga job. There used to be a random scene of Sarah trying to persuade her colleagues - I don't see it anymore. In my first save Sarah eventually came to me and said they agreed with the yoga lessons. In my current save, it has been months, meanwhile every worker has the "likes yoga" opinion, and still the event doesn't trigger. I don't know what I'm missing.

 

[zenupstart]

Yes, with the latest stable version of the mod I'm having some problems with the yoga job. There used to be a random scene of Sarah trying to persuade her colleagues - I don't see it anymore. In my first save Sarah eventually came to me and said they agreed with the yoga lessons. In my current save, it has been months, meanwhile every worker has the "likes yoga" opinion, and still the event doesn't trigger. I don't know what I'm missing.

Once you get to that point, the main ingredient is patience.

The next rev, currently in beta, I believe has some changes to make this story line progress a bit faster and reliably.

But for now it kinda completes when it decides to based on the whims of the pseudo random number generator.

I don't think you are doing anything wrong or missing anything.

 

[Mr_SmithXoXo]

Does the police officer with the pink have any story development yet? I haven't play in a long time.