Sarkath
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I'm not sure. The source code mods that I do are all engine fixes, not game balance changes. Sorry!
Java Lilith's Throne [v0.4.11.3 Hotfix] [Innoxia]
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As one of those people let me just say that spamming F5, while not at all the best solution, is damn well effective. Unless you ever intend to quote a post or make a comment. In that case, you're just fucked until things settle down.
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I don't think that's ever going to happen. I'm just as frustrated with LT's lack of development as anyone else, but I've yet to see another game come close to anything LT has to offer other that CoC/TiTS. And with CoC2 being more of a scripted VN than a choice driven transformation game, that really just leaves TiTS as a game of comparable quality. And every game that does tries to be like LT or even CoC just ends up being abandoned in a pretty short time. It's just easier to make another Ren'py title.
LT's main issue is it's really too big and too complex now for just one developer to be able to handle it, or at least a developer like Innoxia. I would bet anything that Innoxia isn't your usual project scammer for funds like the majority of Patreon/etc. games out there, she really does seem to care about her project and delivering on promises. However, she's also neurotic, and some level of perfectionist and/or narcissistic. Throw some OCD in there, too. Woman breaks down and has some sort of episode every other week, and I'd bet it's mostly stress related. She could resolve most of her problems by growing her team and delegating development to others, but as we've all seen, that's not going to happen.
I can kind of see where she's likely coming from. If you look at CoC2/TiTs, it suffers in a lot of ways from being developed/written by fifty different people, but in exchange both games are packed with tons of content. But an above average game that retains some of its quality and has lots of content is better than an excellent game with a very low amount of content. Hopefully LT strikes some sort of balance in the future, but I'm not holding my breath for it.
Really what LT needs is better modding access for writing scenes and variety for scenes there right now. Make it so it's dumbed down enough that you don't need to be a coder and a writer at the same time. Might take some stress off and let people flesh the world out and encounters. The game has a lot of fans, I'm sure there would be people trying to make something for it if it was easier. Something other than clothes mods, anyway. The meat of the game is text really and that's what it needs.
Then Innoxia could focus more on what she wants to do, the engine, bugs and bigger ideas.
Then Innoxia could focus more on what she wants to do, the engine, bugs and bigger ideas.
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She's been working to do that, actually. Originally, most (if not all) of LT's content was hardcoded in the Java files, but she's been creating XML loaders for that stuff. Map data, encounter data, status effects, dialogue trees, and even special sex scenes are defined with external files. The major problem is that this sort of thing should really be done in the original drafting and design phase, not deep into the game's development.
Additionally, that also doesn't take into account the fact that the engine, as if currently stands, doesn't scale well. Some of that is being alleviated in the next version by AceXP's unfound children patch, and I'm prototyping a fix for another performance issue, but there are still a laundry list of other problems that need addressed, otherwise the game will continue to get slower and slower as the story is expanded.
Really, it's all too much for one person. Inno really needs to find a trusted partner who understands Java at a low level in order to fix the engine or, as I suggested before, introduce a bug bounty system. The game's source may be available for perusal and modification, but that only gets you so far.
Why would she hire someone to do work like that when her customers will continue supporting the game (her) either way? It's not like she'd lose any revenue if she never released another update again.
A team instead of a solo effort would make a world of difference. People are already noting various technical issues like the slowdown as it goes on. Probably should have done what you said - better planning ahead of time to avoid these issues rather than try to fix or rebuild something that is now implemented. I'd love to see it go down the path of easier modding though. Good there's some effort in that direction. I remember some time ago trying to look into modding and writing some scenes and variation for it and I was just confused and had to give up as it would take way too much time to get started. Content mods (more text) to suit every taste would be great and people could pick and choose.
I think that only works so far, otherwise various patreons out there wouldn't ever dwindle. They can and do die off eventually, even if it lingers on a pitiful amount for years.
Someday... Someday Inno will manage to keep a deadline. Even an incredibly vague deadline that could give you like, three days. And nothing needed to even be released or done with this deadline, she literally just needed to say "still testing this shit" and she'd have managed to meet the first deadline in like six months.Inno said:
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I honestly think if she said the next update would be out before the heat death of the universe, she'd still manage to miss it.
Welp, it's official. Next update ain't coming out this week.
The question isn't when 4.2.5 will come out or the state it will be in when it finally happens. No, the real question is how long will it be until Inno posts the exact same excuse/reason for missing a deadline. There's only so many excuses out there, after all. She came dangerously close to repeating one of the September/October posts of this year word for word this time, not that it was just different enough to tell it wasn't copy-pasted without a direct comparison.
The question isn't when 4.2.5 will come out or the state it will be in when it finally happens. No, the real question is how long will it be until Inno posts the exact same excuse/reason for missing a deadline. There's only so many excuses out there, after all. She came dangerously close to repeating one of the September/October posts of this year word for word this time, not that it was just different enough to tell it wasn't copy-pasted without a direct comparison.
Another sob story, since discord eats that shit up. This shits been going on for 3+ years now, and saying that recent issues are the cause is just an outright lie.
Which part are you stuck on? There's quite a few parts of that quest that are poorly explained.
So long as you are not searching for the boat, as that is the only other part I assume you would be stuck on, my advice is to wander around the bat caves and keep on beating up slimes until your quest updates and you are given a new objective.
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From what I can remember there's only one with the Rat Warrans in the Submission. Inno doesn't like the idea of Bad Ends in their game.
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Full walkthrough for this quest:
Fight a slime, and interrogate them regarding the Slime Queen. Report to Claire in Submission about it.
From Submission, go into the Bat Caverns (towards the left).
Heading through the Caverns by continuing west, you find the Slime Lake. You can either swim using the nearby boat, or fly if you have wings, to get to the castle.
Rip and tear your way through the castle until you confront the Slime Queen. You have a few options, which involve actually stopping her through a couple different small forks, or letting her carry on, the latter of which will greatly increase the encounter rate of slimes.
Fun fact, I tried replaying the quest on a save that hadn't done it yet, and I spent five real-life minutes spamming encounters in Dominion canals only to never get a slime fight, and the slimes in the Bat Caverns apparently don't have an option to ask about the Slime Queen, so I wasn't able to progress. This may be the case for you if you're apparently stuck.
Did that happen at a time when you were saving your game after making progress on the quest, and then reloading to before progress was completed? Because I had a bunch of trouble with that quest a long while back where reloading saves wouldn't reset quest progress and the game would get... fucky. And I never saw any word on the blog about that particular bug being fixed in either of the places it happens.
But it only ever happened if you made progress and then reloaded backwards during a single play session.