Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.45.0] [Selebus]

[skwada]

I wrote a small mod that lets you skip the affection/lust point grind without having to go through the tedium of typing in cheat codes or having your save labelled with the cheater flag.



Features:

• Sets all girls' affection and lust points to a value X unless they were already higher than X
• Can set a specific girl's love/lust points
• Written to be future-proof (i.e. will automatically work for any new girls, you will never need to update the mod)
• Enables the developer console

Usage Instructions:

• Download the attached file
  • Note: if you get sent to a new tab with a bunch of text, just right click and hit "Save as" and name it as z_set_love_lust.rpy
• Move into the folder named "game" (found inside the folder that you launch Lessons in Love from)
• Load a save and open the developer console with Shift + O
• Press Enter a few times until you can see the ">" symbol in the top left of the screen
• To update all girls' love and lust: type setLoveAndLust(X) and press Enter(for an example, see the image below)
  • Note: X must be an integer (aka whole number)
• To update a specific girl's love or lust, for example Ami: type "ami_love += X" and/or "ami_lust += X" without the quotation marks and then press Enter.
  • Note: the girl's name must be fully lower-case.
  • This will increase their love/lust by X. If you want to make it equal to X then omit the plus sign
• Press Esc to close the console and now you can play!

Bonus stuff (not essential to read):

I recommend using this with the guide mod for max efficiency because other than grinding points, the main time-sink with this game is trying to trigger events.

If you want a version of the mod that lets you set affection and lust points separately (useful if you don't want to see any lust events), see here: https://f95zone.to/threads/lessons-in-love-v0-30-0-selebus.48158/post-10770605

Advice from alex2011 on how to use the mod so that you don't accidentally miss events (note: I used the mod myself with 50 affection from the start and didn't experience any issues. You can still miss events even if you follow the instructions below and you can still see all events while ignoring those instructions.):

Any player that uses this be warned, the grind acts as an unintentional failsafe against missing events. Going into the game from the start with affection at 50+ will not be of help, it will actually hurt any player's run for any player who does not know what to avoid to not miss events as 50+ affection is an automatic cascade of events at that point in the game, which may run them right into a missable event. I suggest setting it to 5 at the highest from the start and increasing it by 5 each as you play to avoid accidentally stumbling into that issue.

Uninstall: delete the files z_set_love_lust.rpy and z_set_love_lust.rpyc from your game subfolder

I also made a mod that lets you scroll your mouse-wheel to simulate clicks (i.e. scrolling forward a bit makes the dialogue move forward by one mouse click), makes the game more convenient to play https://f95zone.to/threads/use-scroll-wheel-to-simulate-mouse-clicks.120507/#post-8406783

 

[alex2011]

Except you can easily avoid those situations as they are not only affection based, they are location based in those situations.

So far, there is no situation where you can't grind up lust even if affection is high before triggering the cascade of events.

And the extra affection isn't the problem of Schadenfreude. It's a problem of triggering the event too early. Which you can avoid by simply not going to Chika's Room if you meet the requirements.

You don't even need to trigger the prior Chika event to Schadenfreude to trigger the beach events if you want to make sure you don't accidentally trigger Schadenfreude.

The only reason you should accidentally trigger it is if you're not aware of what triggering it will do.

Except when you meet the full requirement for multiple main events, if there was no situation where an event cascade could prevent lust grinding, there would be no situation where a lust event could be missed simply by triggering a succession of main events. I only used "Schadenfreude" as an example, not to mention I did specifically say that one has a failsafe preventing it from falling into an event cascade.

I've been giving the advice not to grind affection too high specifically because of event cascades since day one, usually whenever someone complains about missing events that 'shouldn't be missable' or whatever the complaint of the day is to shift away from the fact that they simply made a mistake in grinding affection and there were consequences for that mistake in missing the events they missed.

A lot of players go into this expecting more of the usual porn game with a straightforward, formulaic story and being able to choose who they want to see, not some web of event requirements involving other girls, not being able to miss events, which in most games here you cannot do even if you try. That is the single biggest mistake people make going into this game for the first time, expecting it to follow the pattern of other games here just because it is here.

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My guess is that Sensei is not the only character subject to the puzzles and Maya just so happened to fail one this time, resulting in not making it to the roof in time, potentially meaning she got reset like any other character.

The affection/lust points are only one part of requirement for scenes.

You can avoid triggering certain scenes by either not going to certain locations or by not triggering prerequisite scenes.

You can have 100 affection for every girl, and still not trigger certain scenes until you want to.

You can't accidentally trigger a scene just by having too high of an affection or lust stat.

But yes you can miss lust scenes if you trigger the chain events without the girls prerequisite stats for them or in the case of Rin, having triggered Chika's event prior.

This is only true for some events, in others, having 100+ affection is extremely bad. This is specific to main events since character events like "Schadenfreude" are also location specific or require you to call them. Main events are the ones that get lust events tied to them that trigger automatically with the required lust. This is also fairly specific to early events fom before a certain point in the story, after which events often require character events from specific characters, or in the case of chapter ending main events, ALL characters.

If it wasn't possible, there wouldn't have been people complaining about it back before the game was a year old, which I responded to with 'don't grind affection too high, but lust is fine to grind as much as you want,' something along those lines, on multiple occasions.

I wrote a small mod that lets you skip the affection/lust grind without having to go through the tedium of typing in cheat codes (and lets you avoid having your save labelled with the cheater flag). Features:

• Sets all girls' love and lust to 50 unless they were already higher than 50
• Written to be future-proof (i.e. will automatically work for any new girls)
• Enables the ren'py developer console (turn it on with shift + O)

Installation:

• Download the attached file
• Move into the game subfolder (found in the folder that you launch Lessons in Love from)

Uninstall: delete z_inc_love_lust.rpy and z_inc_love_lust.rpyc from your game subfolder

If you want to set the love/lust to a different value than 50 then you can just open the mod file with a text editor and change the number on line 4

Any player that uses this be warned, the grind acts as an unintentional failsafe against missing events. Going into the game from the start with affection at 50+ will not be of help, it will actually hurt any player's run for any player who does not know what to avoid to not miss events as 50+ affection is an automatic cascade of events at that point in the game, which may run them right into a missable event. I suggest setting it to 5 at the highest from the start and increasing it by 5 each as you play to avoid accidentally stumbling into that issue.

 

[Vizer007]

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She's just late, dont worry. My theory is that capybara stole her watermelon and after a brief fight they decided to share it together, later she wanted to take capybara with her but since capybara is a chunky furball they are a bit delayed.

 

[magrao121]

hello, if i happened to play this game in this current version to after play the early game rework which part i should stop? since.. i mean, i want to play this future old version before the changes. thanks in advance.

 

[alex2011]

What is the missable event called?

Edit: actually I modified the mod so it's easier to use it in the way you advised so players don't get screwed over like that, added your warning in a quote

Good idea, as far as what events, there's a whole list I would have to go through the wiki to name since I took extreme care not to miss anything in my run and have none of the ones that can be missed marked as such. I know that there are some points in the main event chain, multiple points, that can lead to missed lust events because those lust events are tied to a main event and happen automatically with the correct amount of lust ONLY during that main event.

hello, if i happened to play this game in this current version to after play the early game rework which part i should stop? since.. i mean, i want to play this future old version before the changes. thanks in advance.

I'm not sure where in the story the actual rework stops, I wasn't paying much attention so as to not spoil myself on any potential details, but you could just take it up to the end of chapter 1 and stop there, that should put you well beyond the point at which the rework stops since it mainly focuses on the early game.

She's just late, dont worry. My theory is that capybara stole her watermelon and after a brief fight they decided to share it together, later she wanted to take capybara with her but since capybara is a chunky furball they are a bit delayed.

Not the watermelon, anything but the watermelon, endangering the watermelon is grounds for Noodles to step in.

 

[magrao121]

I'm not sure where in the story the actual rework stops, I wasn't paying much attention so as to not spoil myself on any potential details, but you could just take it up to the end of chapter 1 and stop there, that should put you well beyond the point at which the rework stops since it mainly focuses on the early game.

thanks, i'll play till the end of the chapter 1 and wait for the rework.

 

[akselx]

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[Vizer007]

hello, if i happened to play this game in this current version to after play the early game rework which part i should stop? since.. i mean, i want to play this future old version before the changes. thanks in advance.

I recommend you to wait until the rework is done, actually. Its more of a difference between good and awesome than old and new. I doubt you will have much desire to replay the "old" content second time in a row just because its now with better writing and art. At least not in such a short time.
Look at the previews here to have clearer understanding of whats to expect.
DON'T LOOK AT CHIKA PREVIEW, there is a slight spoiler there, better stay out of it.

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[alex2011]

I recommend you to wait until the rework is done, actually. Its more of a difference between good and awesome than old and new. I doubt you will have much desire to replay the "old" content second time in a row just because its now with better writing and art. At least not in such a short time.
Look at the previews here to have clearer understanding of whats to expect.
DON'T LOOK AT CHIKA PREVIEW, there is a slight spoiler there, better stay out of it.

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That depends on how little constitutes a spoiler, there's not much context to go off of with those previews.

 

[magrao121]

I recommend you to wait until the rework is done, actually. Its more of a difference between good and awesome than old and new. I doubt you will have much desire to replay the "old" content second time in a row just because its now with better writing and art. At least not in such a short time.
Look at the previews here to have clearer understanding of whats to expect.
DON'T LOOK AT CHIKA PREVIEW, there is a slight spoiler there, better stay out of it.

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god... there's so much difference in these previews... the rework looks soo good.
From the previews i think sana will be the best girl. so cute.... i cant wait to play it.
and thanks for the warning i really hate spoilers like when someone told me that jon snow...
at the time that really made me mad.

 

[Riolol]

I recommend you to wait until the rework is done, actually. Its more of a difference between good and awesome than old and new. I doubt you will have much desire to replay the "old" content second time in a row just because its now with better writing and art. At least not in such a short time.
Look at the previews here to have clearer understanding of whats to expect.
DON'T LOOK AT CHIKA PREVIEW, there is a slight spoiler there, better stay out of it.

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No previews for Ami, she's so cute early in the game I hope she still is.

 

[Waifston]

So, did you become happy?

 

[Skeltom]

I have been debating giving this another shot. Seeing the UI/QOL improvements may tip the scales for me. It was one of my biggest gripes about it before. Also has there been any progress at all with Sana or Miku?. I was checking back with every update but he seems to have been ignoring, well everyone really, except for the same handful of LIs. Has that changed at all or should I wait another year. Not saying that to be bitchy, it's literally been longer than that since I last played.

 

[Route66]

can some1 give me the answer for "a life of prizes" ? just sitting here for leike 40 min and dont know how to do this so pls help me

 

[alex2011]

I have been debating giving this another shot. Seeing the UI/QOL improvements may tip the scales for me. It was one of my biggest gripes about it before. Also has there been any progress at all with Sana or Miku?. I was checking back with every update but he seems to have been ignoring, well everyone really, except for the same handful of LIs. Has that changed at all or should I wait another year. Not saying that to be bitchy, it's literally been longer than that since I last played.

Progress with girls in the 18+ sense? That's dependent on progress in the story sense. Miku has had some minor progress in terms of content and Sana less so. They are moving in the direction of 18+ content, but Sana wasn't quite there in her previous update while Miku kind of got pushed into some minor stuff by Sensei and has not yet, as of the latest actual release, made a step on her own (blurred for spoilers in story, don't click it if you don't want spoilers).

 

[Skeltom]

Progress with girls in the 18+ sense? That's dependent on progress in the story sense. Miku has had some minor progress in terms of content and Sana less so. They are moving in the direction of 18+ content, but Sana wasn't quite there in her previous update while Miku kind of got pushed into some minor stuff by Sensei and has not yet, as of the latest actual release, made a step on her own (blurred for spoilers in story, don't click it if you don't want spoilers).

Thanks for the blur. That's kind of shitty to read though. It seems it's still a case of all aren't equal even after all this time. It looks like I'll be waiting even longer. Thanks for the reply. So is it still just Futaba, Miko, Ami, Chika, Makoto and Ayane? Like it has been for ages with everyone else being ignored. Oh, and the three milfy types, I don't remember their names off the top of my head.

 

[alex2011]

Thanks for the blur. That's kind of shitty to read though. It seems it's still a case of all aren't equal even after all this time. It looks like I'll be waiting even longer. Thanks for the reply. So is it still just Futaba, Miko, Ami, Chika, Makoto and Ayane? Like it has been for ages with everyone else being ignored. Oh, and the three milfy types, I don't remember their names off the top of my head.

It's not that they aren't equal, it's that they simply haven't reached the point in the story where it makes sense to give them anything like that yet. Nobody is being ignored, but the story has to build to a certain point where they would accept such a thing being done to them. This is not like most games on here, where that kind of content is thrown around freely, the story is the top priority here.

The three MILFs are Haruka, Sara, and Maki, though there's also Tsubasa (Touka and Tsukasa's mother), Osako (karate instructor found in Ayane events), and Wakana (another teacher found in some events at the bar and school) as well. Not sure who Miko is, there is no character by that name, closest I can think of there is Miku and Makoto, but you specifically asked about Miku and mentioned Makoto, so they can't be this Miko.

 

[Skeltom]

It's not that they aren't equal, it's that they simply haven't reached the point in the story where it makes sense to give them anything like that yet. Nobody is being ignored, but the story has to build to a certain point where they would accept such a thing being done to them. This is not like most games on here, where that kind of content is thrown around freely, the story is the top priority here.

The three MILFs are Haruka, Sara, and Maki, though there's also Tsubasa (Touka and Tsukasa's mother), Osako (karate instructor found in Ayane events), and Wakana (another teacher found in some events at the bar and school) as well. Not sure who Miko is, there is no character by that name, closest I can think of there is Miku and Makoto, but you specifically asked about Miku and mentioned Makoto, so they can't be this Miko.

Yeah, Miko was an error on my part. I get the story is important in this one it just seems like the balance between the lewd content and story is very uneven. The characters I mentioned are just the starting cast that I could remember and he has added how many more? It just seems like that content is moving at a snails pace and I am generally very patent with that sort of thing. One last question then I'll stop bugging you. Is it the same situation with the rest of the characters that have been added. I don't even know how many there are now but reading the changelogs since I last played seems to have added quite a lot of them, for whatever reason.

 

[alex2011]

Yeah, Miko was an error on my part. I get the story is important in this one it just seems like the balance between the lewd content and story is very uneven. The characters I mentioned are just the starting cast that I could remember and he has added how many more? It just seems like that content is moving at a snails pace and I am generally very patent with that sort of thing. One last question then I'll stop bugging you. Is it the same situation with the rest of the characters that have been added. I don't even know how many there are now but reading the changelogs since I last played seems to have added quite a lot of them, for whatever reason.

It's supposed to be, lewd content in this game is treated like what it is, side content. Basically every character is getting the same treatment, wherever they are meant to have lewds, they will, but any character that hasn't reached that point won't. So, for example, Yumi would make very little sense right now given her...position on Sensei, but Ayane, Noriko, or Kirin make sense to have lewds right now because of how they are in the story when it comes to him (that doesn't necessarily translate to they SHOULD have lewds now, just that it would make sense if Selebus added lewds at this point for those three given their attitude toward Sensei is extremely positive). Then we go to Miku and Sana, who just aren't quite prepared to take that step themselves as of the latest build, so they also make little sense to have lewds at this point, at least that they themselves consented to.

Also, for the record, it's no bother, I am happy to help answer anything I can. Just keep in mind some exact details might be a little fuzzy in my memory since I have been holding off until the rework is done.

 

[Skeltom]

Well, thanks for your responses. I guess I'll have to have a think about if it's something I want to try again. I personally didn't have any real problems with the story but at the same time it never really grabbed me either. But that being said I was never a huge fan of the MC so we'll see.