Ren'Py Lab Rats 2 - Reformulate [v2025 4.0.37]

[slobber]

@pythia23
Kaya is a no condom girl due to her culture

 

[Flippi]

is there a one time limit or cooldown on the employee asking you to hire their mother/daughter? I had it fire once and it hasnt happened since.

The MTTH (Mean Time To Happen) for that event is pretty high no matter event frequency settings, otherwise you'd get flooded with too many new recruits for free
I'm on day 156 in my current save and i've had the event fire like 3 - 4x as I recall.

 

[Coughiebean]

Predictable, 100% birth control doesn't seem to be quite 100% after all :>

 

[Greymantle]

Predictable, 100% birth control doesn't seem to be quite 100% after all :>

It is, but like in real life, accidents happen (I've got a first-hand experience on that one).
Honestly, the percentage of birth control failure with this setting is really, really low (Seen it happen about 2-3 times in multiple playthtrough totalling more than 1000 days of play
If you want no pregnancy, select no pregnancy content.

 

[TS2016]

I got some red, blue, and purple serums from Mom. Is there way to make more of those?

 

[kurosx]

No, they are from the first game.

 

[Greymantle]

I got some red, blue, and purple serums from Mom. Is there way to make more of those?

Those are leftovers from the fist game. Honestly, they're pretty bad, you can design some way better ones early in the game so don't bother.

 

[pythia23]

So I'm breaking down the last taboo with lily (vaginal) and she's asked me to make her some drugs for her friends. Is the phone quest that unlocks Iris V after this one? I'm worried that by breaking taboos in other ways (mostly by upping her love of incest while in a trance) I won't get the phone quest.

 

[slick97]

Predictable, 100% birth control doesn't seem to be quite 100% after all :>

It is, but like in real life, accidents happen (I've got a first-hand experience on that one).
Honestly, the percentage of birth control failure with this setting is really, really low (Seen it happen about 2-3 times in multiple playthtrough totalling more than 1000 days of play
If you want no pregnancy, select no pregnancy content.

The code for checking pregnancy is pretty ingenious honestly and not as intuitive as I initially thought. I'll attach a code snippet below:

@property
    def effective_fertility(self) -> float:
        if persistent.pregnancy_pref == 0 or self.fertility_percent < 0:
            return 0

        fertility = self.fertility_percent
        if persistent.pregnancy_pref > 1:
            day_difference = self.days_from_ideal_fertility # Gets the distance between the current day and the ideal fertile day.
            multiplier = 2 - (float(day_difference)/10.0) # The multiplier is 2 when the day difference is 0, 0.5 when the day difference is 15.
            fertility = self.fertility_percent * multiplier

        if persistent.pregnancy_pref == 3:
            if self.baby_desire < -400:
                fertility = fertility / 4
            elif self.baby_desire < 400:
                fertility = fertility / 2
        return fertility

    @property
    def pregnancy_chance(self) -> float:
        if self.effective_fertility <= 0:
            return 0
        return (self.effective_fertility / 100) * (100-self.birthcontrol_efficiency)

    def did_she_become_pregnant(self, mc_father = True) -> bool:
        if persistent.pregnancy_pref == 0 or self.has_role(pregnant_role):
            return False

        # Pregnancy Check #
        if renpy.random.randint(0,100) < self.effective_fertility: #There's a chance she's pregnant
            if renpy.random.randint(0,100) >= self.birthcontrol_efficiency: # Birth control failed to prevent the pregnancy
                become_pregnant(self, mc_father = mc_father) #Function in role_pregnant establishes all of the pregnancy related variables and events.
                return True

        return False

It seems that even with 100% and higher fertility values you can still technically fail (or succeed, depending on how you look at it)to impregnate a girl if their birth control is some value between 0 and 100. It also works

 

[TS2016]

Those are leftovers from the fist game. Honestly, they're pretty bad, you can design some way better ones early in the game so don't bother.

I know they are leftover from first game. Was just wondering about them and if they were worth trying to make again. I wont bother with them. Thanks for info.

 

[DankMemesAndCreams]

Got a decent gaming laptop that can run AAA games at high settings, but the UI lag in this game is pretty bad. I'm guessing it's just an engine limitation, but I don't actually see that much about it in the comments on here so I'm wondering if it's an issue unique to my system.

Main issue is that hovering the cursor over things like the map icons or a character's name tends to lag for about a second. Options within the "dialogue" menu for a character are a bit snappier but still not great.

 

[PoEbalu]

>Advance your bushiness serum trait to tier 1
what the fuck this even supposta mean ?? im on tier 2... i like when game doesnt give any fucking clue what those sentences mean. to allow event for flag stephanie.progress.obedience_step 1 i need mc.business.research_tier != 0 which i dont have,because it's 2

 

[Greymantle]

Got a decent gaming laptop that can run AAA games at high settings, but the UI lag in this game is pretty bad. I'm guessing it's just an engine limitation, but I don't actually see that much about it in the comments on here so I'm wondering if it's an issue unique to my system.

Main issue is that hovering the cursor over things like the map icons or a character's name tends to lag for about a second. Options within the "dialogue" menu for a character are a bit snappier but still not great.

I'm playing on a literal toaster (Laptop, Intel Celeron B980, 4Go of RAM. GPU switches randomly from built-in Intel HD Graphics to the overpowered Nvidia GTX610M) and I've never experienced those lags, even with multiple applications on the background (usually at least Discord + Opera with 10+ tabs)

 

[Greymantle]

>Advance your bushiness serum trait to tier 1
what the fuck this even supposta mean ?? im not tier 2... i like when game doesnt give any fucking clue what those sentences mean. to allow event for flag stephanie.progress.obedience_step 1 i need mc.business.research_tier != 0 which i dont have,because it's 2

You start at tier 0, to unlock tier 1 and later tier 2, you have different options but the easiest one is usually to talk to your Head of Research (Steph, if you haven't changed). Tier 2 may also open the Nora questline if you wish and access to the Uni campus.
Buying Tier 2 Serum production policy is not the same thing as unlocking tier 2 Research. If that's not the problem here, I must say that's a bug I never encountered. How did you reach research tier 2 ?

 

[PoEbalu]

You start at tier 0, to unlock tier 1 and later tier 2, you have different options but the easiest one is usually to talk to your Head of Research (Steph, if you haven't changed). Tier 2 may also open the Nora questline if you wish and access to the Uni campus.
Buying Tier 2 Serum production policy is not the same thing as unlocking tier 2 Research. If that's not the problem here, I must say that's a bug I never encountered. How did you reach research tier 2 ?

problem i have is not in getting tiers,it's in triggering stephanie.progress.obedience_step flag
the problem was that it have a delay for 2 weeks. it tracks mc.business.days_since_event("tier_1_serum_unlock_day") vs TIER_2_TIME_DELAY so tldr i need to wait 3 more days. why there isnt any indication whatsoever or a hint to wait idk. for most stories it says "WAIT MOFO" this one says "get T1" which i got so this confused the fuck out of me.

 

[ararrant]

So I'm breaking down the last taboo with lily (vaginal) and she's asked me to make her some drugs for her friends. Is the phone quest that unlocks Iris V after this one? I'm worried that by breaking taboos in other ways (mostly by upping her love of incest while in a trance) I won't get the phone quest.

Pretty sure the phone is for oral. And yes, increasing incest is by far the easier/cheaper method of breaking the taboos unless you are going for something like meeting Iris.

 

[DankMemesAndCreams]

I'm playing on a literal toaster (Laptop, Intel Celeron B980, 4Go of RAM. GPU switches randomly from built-in Intel HD Graphics to the overpowered Nvidia GTX610M) and I've never experienced those lags, even with multiple applications on the background (usually at least Discord + Opera with 10+ tabs)

Yeah it's bizarre. I tried switching renderer, enabling "cache images on startup," and moving the game to my SSD but noticed no change.

 

[sincity3000]

Yeah it's bizarre. I tried switching renderer, enabling "cache images on startup," and moving the game to my SSD but noticed no change.

Have you tried pressing F3? Game might default to "powersave" mode which could be your problem. click the word to cycle between the two

 

[pythia23]

Pretty sure the phone is for oral. And yes, increasing incest is by far the easier/cheaper method of breaking the taboos unless you are going for something like meeting Iris.

well, fuck. should I try to re-establish the taboo? I figure I could go through trances and get her to hate blowjobs, or is there a faster cheat/mod way to do it?

Or, should I just input the prompt for going to buy a phone via the command console? what command would that even be?

 

[InfinityzeN]

Going to second making sure you turn off "Powersave" mode. It can cause all sorts of weird and random issues. I know for me it will cause a random system hard reboot for no reason and my rig is powerful enough that loading a Renpy game barely makes a noticeable change on the CPU and RAM monitor.