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

[greeneyed]

I personally have on two separate playthroughs completely maxed out the sex shop (at least, so far as I can tell) and proceeded with Cara's story until there's just repeating event left with your aunt. Gabrielle is also being blackmailed at this point. Never have I seen the strip club go under, at least not that I'm aware of.

Either there's another trigger, or there's some kind of time constraint.



Don't employ any of the non mandatory characters like your mother or sister until you've gone through all their taboo breaking events or they can bug and be impossible to complete the quests. This doesn't let you out of sex scenes, but can interfere with meeting other characters or storylines. For example, I've never had Erica Davenport's love scenes start and on one playthrough I never met Iris Vandenburg, who is completely useless, but still.

You also shouldn't rush ahead too quickly with raising sluttiness and love or it can break progression.

Sluttiness raises for sex acts when the girl orgasms, but there's a cap to how high it can raise by doing so. Once you hit that cap, you need to go up a tier in sex acts. Fingering will get you started, then cunnilingus, and then when you have permaboner you can more easily raise sluttiness via sex itself. But by that point you don't really need to.

Your mom becomes your secretary. I believe it interferes with event progression if you do it too early and she doesn't really do anything at work except give a few optional sex scenes. It gives an alternative way to break her taboos, though, because you can just say "You work for me, imma fuck you now."

Ashley unlocks once you've progressed far enough with your business and once you're close enough with Steph. She's important to max out because she boosts your energy recovery and lets you have a permaboner.

Also, it was already mentioned, but when making your first serum you don't really want to load it up with effects or anything unless you're cheating your money. Lots of traits add lots of attention to the design, which can call someone in who will waste a few of your time slots and possibly add even higher attention to the drug by making it illegal or confiscate money, the drugs themselves or the design of the drug. You can seduce her and get her to knock it off and other useful things, but doing so takes some effort because her love starts in the negatives.



It's just on a cooldown and not really necessary for her progression afaik. You can blackmail her into sex and stuff, which is a way of getting around the fact that she's meant to be a low love/high lust character, but lust is difficult to progress without love. Once lust or obedience get high enough it basically stops mattering, but it's useful until then.

Basically, don't worry about it. Just focus on getting her lust and obedience up, which is pretty easy after awhile, especially when you unlock auras.

Thank you

Also you wouldn't happen to know how to reset the mother's lust storyline?

 

[Urruah]

The lust storyline as in her becoming the office slut? Uhhh I think it's got a time limit on it. You could probably get around that with console commands, but I don't know any of them for this game.

 

[verizon_vader]

I personally have on two separate playthroughs completely maxed out the sex shop (at least, so far as I can tell) and proceeded with Cara's story until there's just repeating event left with your aunt. Gabrielle is also being blackmailed at this point. Never have I seen the strip club go under, at least not that I'm aware of.

Either there's another trigger, or there's some kind of time constraint.

This is where I am at right now. I use the URM mod, and what it is checking is whether a particular trigger has been added to the map of available events. Unfortunately I could not find a way from URM to reverse engineer and identify the trigger, maybe would need to check the game code which I would not be able to pull off anyway lol.

 

[greeneyed]

I figured out one of the commands, mom.progress.lust_step = 0. But it's now resetting all the separate triggers around the clothing and choices.. We got mom_work_promotion_one_requirement(the_person) and mom_work_promotion_one(the_person), as well the other triggers.. my brain hurts with this coding.
May just restart the game, if I can't figure it out probably easier than digging through code. I ain't touched programming in years ha.
Before I go for a reset, anyone got any warnings for me about storylines that are just obscure or annoying to watch out for?

 

[DA22]

I figured out one of the commands, mom.progress.lust_step = 0. But it's now resetting all the separate triggers around the clothing and choices.. We got mom_work_promotion_one_requirement(the_person) and mom_work_promotion_one(the_person), as well the other triggers.. my brain hurts with this coding.
May just restart the game, if I can't figure it out probably easier than digging through code. I ain't touched programming in years ha.
Before I go for a reset, anyone got any warnings for me about storylines that are just obscure or annoying to watch out for?

One thing to be aware off is that if the Sarah gets bigger boobs quest has started the sex club can not foreclose if remember right before you had that date where she takes you there. Erica, try to talk about her financial situation and have photo's with her and sis and yoga lines at company started before you race her.

 

[bridgebuilder]

Is there a command to get the Strip Club quest to start? I have well beyond $60K and Cara's stats maxed out. Unrelated, but Ellie isn't showing up either.

 

[greeneyed]

One thing to be aware off is that if the Sarah gets bigger boobs quest has started the sex club can not foreclose if remember right before you had that date where she takes you there. Erica, try to talk about her financial situation and have photo's with her and sis and yoga lines at company started before you race her.

Really? I actually did the Sarah bigger boobs quest and got the strip club foreclosed successfully and bought it. No idea why it worked for me. I did it ages ago with Sarah's quest so maybe that's the key.

Edit: I figured out what you mean, the code has some shitty requirement that she must not be on her quest for bigger boobs. E.g. way before the strip club starts, make sure to get her "epic breasts".

 

[Edwarf]

...and that's why somebody from the dev team (or with enough knowledge of the game code) should release some sort of guide where the main quests/ events triggers and conditions were detailed; for us always-thankful-players sake.

Dunno if they keep visiting this forum, though.

 

[DA22]

...and that's why somebody from the dev team (or with enough knowledge of the game code) should release some sort of guide where the main quests/ events triggers and conditions were detailed; for us always-thankful-players sake.

Dunno if they keep visiting this forum, though.

Some people from the discord like Elkrose do and they do share it with the devs if they think a bug or important suggestion.

Unfortunately the last guy who started up the wiki was a bit shady (I have no details myself as not really involved), but the team has a wiki where people are free to contribute if want. Also questions on the discord tend to be answered. Just needs someone willing to bring that all together. Unfortunately the devs and modders are already busy enough as is so have no time for that.

 

[TS2016]

Do girls novelty go back up on their own?

 

[rb813]

Do girls novelty go back up on their own?

Yeah, one point per day.

 

[TS2016]

Yeah, one point per day.

That slow?! No wonder I use cheat to bump them back up.

 

[TS2016]

I have Naomi working for me as maid. Is there a way to modify/change her maid uniform like you can for business outfit/uniform?

 

[rb813]

That slow?! No wonder I use cheat to bump them back up.

Keep in mind, the design philosophy of it is pretty harem-based. If your character is fucking like 10 or 20 different gals, then not fucking one of them for five days isn't really that slow. If you're trying to do monogamy in this game, you will be essentially paddling upstream against the tide of what kind of play style it was built for.

One other thing to be aware of though, is that breaking a taboo restores 5 novelty. So if you're doing stuff with the mom or sister, you might find it preferable to not take the options that permanently break the taboo right away, instead letting their taboos be restored again each time, so you can break them and get the +5 novelty persistently.

 

[Urruah]

One thing to be aware off is that if the Sarah gets bigger boobs quest has started the sex club can not foreclose if remember right before you had that date where she takes you there. Erica, try to talk about her financial situation and have photo's with her and sis and yoga lines at company started before you race her.

Really? I actually did the Sarah bigger boobs quest and got the strip club foreclosed successfully and bought it. No idea why it worked for me. I did it ages ago with Sarah's quest so maybe that's the key.

Edit: I figured out what you mean, the code has some shitty requirement that she must not be on her quest for bigger boobs. E.g. way before the strip club starts, make sure to get her "epic breasts".

So basically if you want the strip club to close down, you have to have either not started Sarah's boob expanding quest or completed it?

I'm not sure I've ever actually raced Erica at all since I've never really interacted with her much, though I did at least get her photoshoots with sis and yoga at work. I wonder if that option just straight up disappeared on me on my older files or something.

 

[verizon_vader]

Really? I actually did the Sarah bigger boobs quest and got the strip club foreclosed successfully and bought it. No idea why it worked for me. I did it ages ago with Sarah's quest so maybe that's the key.

Edit: I figured out what you mean, the code has some shitty requirement that she must not be on her quest for bigger boobs. E.g. way before the strip club starts, make sure to get her "epic breasts".

I think I gave Sarah a serum for bigger boobs. The date also happened at the strip club, but I think I discovered it by wandering. So now does this mean I need a new playthrough? Or can I manually insert a new value to the event triggers or something?

 

[Orieni01]

I don't think that was it. In my playthrough with the last stable release I completed the Sarah boob quest well before finishing the sex shop investments, and a month plus of game time later the strip club was still stubbornly not closing.

 

[DA22]

I don't think that was it. In my playthrough with the last stable release I completed the Sarah boob quest well before finishing the sex shop investments, and a month plus of game time later the strip club was still stubbornly not closing.

It is not about the boob quest per se, it is about having had the date with Sarah on Saturday where she take you to the strip club. That date option is triggered though by start of Sarah getting bigger boob quest and hard stops strip club from foreclosing before date completed if it is active. This also leads to the option of having Sarah come over to company on a Saturday and offer option with threesome Sarah next Saturday, that threesome with whoever you choose will unlock Naomi as an interactable NPC a few weeks later. (When Naomi comes to apologize take the more corrupt options.)

Unfortunately there are more requirements for strip club to foreclose like money, I think knowing and having seen Gaby stripping in the club, likely now also some level for Starbuck (not sure about this) and then there is also of course good old RNG that can eff you over or other events with priority firing over the event of the strip club closing. As far as I know (which is definitely not that much coding wise) the strip club closing is not hard coded to happen but has a random chance to happen and competes with other events that can happen, so if have set in settings random events can happen over 50% that might stop the strip club closing from firing since those other events take precedence. If last is the case setting events firing in morning and afternoon to 0 for a day and then to max 30% should resolve the issue hopefully, but RNG being RNG you can always be an unlucky outlier and it can take forever just as with any other event partially depending on RNG like getting the bright idea to renovate your room. ( If I am wrong bout this last hope someone like Elkrose who knows way more about the code will correct my answer )

 

[istivest]

How does city corruption work? how can i increase it and what does it do?

Is it based on the serums you sell? does their price or stats (men, phy, sex, med) matter?
Or is it some average of the sluttiness/love/obedience of all the girls in the city?

Thanks

 

[SDN111]

How does city corruption work? how can i increase it and what does it do?

Is it based on the serums you sell? does their price or stats (men, phy, sex, med) matter?
Or is it some average of the sluttiness/love/obedience of all the girls in the city?

Thanks

Corrupt citizens. Either do it directly or use some of the dispersal methods (known being the energy drink sell). It is a grind that takes time and effort.