That's not the point he was trying to make. Yes, there are furries and mixed breeds in the game, but unless your character has morphing abilities (like demons and slimes to a degree) constantly changing your appearance IS an oddity in of itself and it's a complete buzzkill that no NPCs mentions or even acts surprised by it.You can literally buy transformation potions in a shop and the world is populated by amalgamation monstrosities of various animal parts, that's the least logical thing to mention.
I think you are mixing up terms. Player agency is the ability of the player to make decisions and for them to change things.In other words; what this game lacks is player agency and an alive(or real)world that recognizes, comments and interacts with the player depending on their choices and appearance. Without player agency, you're just an individual, the hero to save the world, the hero without personality, without faults or real character development. Like the whole world is centred around the protagonist and not the protagonist being inside a (believable) world.
Just an observation; most games here lack player agency or it is me? Maybe l set the bar too high but l feel that player agency in games where you (allowed to)make choices should be always present and not surface-level.
And that's only the story department, the gameplay 'player agency' department is a different topic but closely related.
You ignored the part where stores sell transformation potions.That's not the point he was trying to make. Yes, there are furries and mixed breeds in the game, but unless your character has morphing abilities (like demons and slimes to a degree) constantly changing your appearance IS an oddity in of itself and it's a complete buzzkill that no NPCs mentions or even acts surprised by it.
You ignored the part where the game struggles to keep its lore consistent with the gameplay provided and that, shockingly, other people have other opinions which in turn effect how they feel about things.You ignored the part where stores sell transformation potions.
1. Where in the lore does it say that stores do not sell transformative items casually to anyone with money? All I have seen is that most people are unable to directly harvest essence and instead must buy it in bottles. Which you yourself can fill up and sell for some pitifully small amount of cash (30 flames per bottle)You ignored the part where the game struggles to keep its lore consistent with the gameplay provided and that, shockingly, other people have other opinions which in turn effect how they feel about things.
Whether it is good or bad is irrelevant to the argument. The argument being on whether NPCs should make a big deal out of you walking to any of a half dozen different stores in town and buying a transformative. Whether it is a transformation cake at the cafe, or a transformation potion at the shop, or a transformation tattoo from the tattoo parlor, or a transformation piercing from the sex shop, or a transformation bondage from the slaversWhether that's a good or bad or eh thing in the case of Lilith's Throne is up to the beholder, because like this is an issue that shows up in other games for varying reasons.
If only there were moments in the game that would be absolutely, completely perfect for giving the illusion of player agency by addressing the players accomplishments in the game through NPCs who should already know the player's accomplishments and literally have a scene where you're trying to impressive them with those accomplishments even though they should already know them...A couple things that I think would vastly improve the feeling of player agency would be NPCs recognising changes the MC has gone through and options to meaningfully shape the story going forward.
Currently, most NPCs don't react at all to even very radical changes in the MC's appearance, which undercuts the impact of a primary game mechanic. I mean, if the first time you met me I was a human male, the next time you met me I was a Wolfgirl, then a Harpy, then a Foxgirl, then finally a fucking Succubus ... you'd probably mention it.
And as (if) the story progresses, there needs to be opportunities for the MC to choose the "conquer" or "liberate" paths set up when the MC meets Lyssieth. There can't just be one way to approach confronting Lilith's daughters. This is actually supposed to be the main course of the game. Something that's frequently obscured by Inno's fascination with - to stretch a metaphor - fiddling with the place settings.
Of course those things are dependent upon Inno still wanting to make the game she claims to want to make and the ability of the engine to support continued progress. Neither of which are givens.
1. randos overreacting to you changing your haircut (or other equally trivial alterations) is not what player agency means.If only there were moments in the game that would be absolutely, completely perfect for giving the illusion of player agency by addressing the players accomplishments in the game through NPCs who should already know the player's accomplishments and literally have a scene where you're trying to impressive them with those accomplishments even though they should already know them...
Wait... I think I wrote like a five page wall of text back in... holy fuck Nyan's quest was a year ago? How the fuck was that a year ago? Good god nothing has gotten done in a year. Again.
...uh...
BACK TO THE JOKE!
If only there were really simple ways to make the NPC's react to changes in player appearance. If only the game kept track of basic information like whether the player's sex were known to the NPC which could be reset the moment the player changes their sex so that the NPC would react to changes. It'd be crazy if the game kept track of information like that and could react accordingly. Just absolutely crazy...
Honestly, this is why I decided to start working on my own game instead of trying to mod/fix this one (or, you know, continue contributing to other games). There's so much potential to play with the sim side of LT. You could easily give NPCs preferences about what species they like, and have them react if the player changes into or out of that species (totally didn't just make a note about that right now). Like, easily a third of the character variables are completely stupid and could be dropped completely to make room for more interesting stuff. LT is a good example of how little writing a lot of this takes, you can easily reuse content if you just had a handful of variations on the same thing.
But of course, there's no reason to work on the sim side of the game while the game's performance is still absolute dog shit.
And it's still absolute dog shit. Despite a couple people imagining that there were major changes in the performance that were left of the that patch notes, for some god damn reason, the game still lags like a motherfucker with as little as 15 slaves if they're assigned the wrong jobs or in the wrong locations.
And well, it's been a year since Nyan's rework released. And this is where we are. So none of this will ever happen.
I'm sorry, did you even read my post? Like, you must have skipped half of it if that's all the take away you got from this.1. randos overreacting to you changing your haircut (or other equally trivial alterations) is not what player agency means.
Seriously, did you even read my post?2. the fact that the coding infrastructure exists to facilitate this highly specific feature request of yours does not mean it is an effortless change to make. Nor the fact that this change the fact that is a highly specific request for new features. You are falsely making it out to be a failing of the game, that the game is wrong in not catering to this extreme niche fetish of yours. That this is not just your fetish addition request but a very serious defect in the game.
Hey look, it's that falacy where you assume because one thing isn't true, another thing must also not be true.This is not a game defect, this is not a lack of agency. This is you having a very specific niche fetish and pretending that the game has no player agency because this very specific fetish is not catered to.
So? What's your point?And before you say "but some of those changes are pretty extreme! far more so than change of haircut". It takes way more effort to change your haircut IRL (like, an hour!) than it does to become a winged furry futa with 3 foot long penis and 2 foot long tongue (~5 minutes. most of which is walking to the store).
No it's not. And I can also link to github.3. The game is literally open source
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go download the source code. write up some NPC reactions. and submit a PR / release it as a mod. Show us how it is done. after all you keep on going on about how trivially easy it would be to code this feature request of yours. I want to see how many lines of code it takes you to do it.
And again, did you even read my post? Like, seriously, how shit is your reading comprehension where this is what you came away with. I literally addressed this exact demand of yours in the post you're replying to. You just ignore it.Inno said:Although this Project is publicly available, it is not open source software. All Content is under sole ownership and Copyright 2016 Innoxia ([email protected]) all rights reserved.
Only a really terrible programmer judges difficulty by number of lines. Or someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.I want to see how many lines of code it takes you to do it.
holy shit dude you didn't need to fucking murder him.I'm sorry, did you even read my post? Like, you must have skipped half of it if that's all the take away you got from this.
Seriously, did you even read my post?
The "programming is actually hard!11" argument always seems to come from people who don't understand what they're talking about. And you apparently missed me saying I'm literally making my own game right now. *Obviously* it's not an effortless change. No where did I say it would be. In fact, I literally said its not worth the time investment in the last section of my post.
Seriously, did you even read my post?
Hey look, it's that falacy where you assume because one thing isn't true, another thing must also not be true.
But seriously, did you read my post? Because you're really cherry picking your arguments here.
And what fetishes are you even talking about? I literally didn't mention a single fetish. Like, not one. WTF are you even on about?
So? What's your point?
No it's not. And I can also link to github.
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And again, did you even read my post? Like, seriously, how shit is your reading comprehension where this is what you came away with. I literally addressed this exact demand of yours in the post you're replying to. You just ignore it.
Also...
Only a really terrible programmer judges difficulty by number of lines. Or someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.
Oh wait...
Did you read your own post? you are repeatedly going on about thisI'm sorry, did you even read my post? Like, you must have skipped half of it if that's all the take away you got from this.
Seriously, did you even read my post?
Oh look. a thing you definitely NEVER SAID. nope, never said that.If only there were really simple ways to make the NPC's react to changes in player appearance. If only the game kept track of basic information like whether the player's sex were known to the NPC which could be reset the moment the player changes their sex so that the NPC would react to changes. It'd be crazy if the game kept track of information like that and could react accordingly. Just absolutely crazy...
You are not the only programmer in the world you. I know exactly what I am talking about.The "programming is actually hard!11" argument always seems to come from people who don't understand what they're talking about. And you apparently missed me saying I'm literally making my own game right now. *Obviously* it's not an effortless change. No where did I say it would be. In fact, I literally said its not worth the time investment in the last section of my post.
Did you not read the License? it explicitly allows you to submit code and also to release your own fork so long as you adhere to certain reasonable requests.No it's not. And I can also link to github.
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This is innoxia being wholly ignorant of what the term open source means. She seems to think open source means public domain. It does not.And again, did you even read my post? Like, seriously, how shit is your reading comprehension where this is what you came away with. I literally addressed this exact demand of yours in the post you're replying to. You just ignore it.
You are explicitly allowed to publish mods for this game so long as you adhere to those simple requirements.Redistribution, use, and modification of the Project and its Content, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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Points 3b and 3c are to protect the player base from having to pay for modded copies of the game. I don't want modders to try and take advantage of players (by adding a paywall to their mods).
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just to twist the dagger a bit, you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what agency actually means, and what kind of agency we're after in this game - a game of which already has one type of agency, and we're asking for it to evolve into another.1. randos overreacting to you changing your haircut (or other equally trivial alterations) is not what player agency means.
2. the fact that the coding infrastructure exists to facilitate this highly specific feature request of yours does not mean it is an effortless change to make. Nor the fact that this change the fact that is a highly specific request for new features. You are falsely making it out to be a failing of the game, that the game is wrong in not catering to this extreme niche fetish of yours. That this is not just your fetish addition request but a very serious defect in the game.
This is not a game defect, this is not a lack of agency. This is you having a very specific niche fetish and pretending that the game has no player agency because this very specific fetish is not catered to.
And before you say "but some of those changes are pretty extreme! far more so than change of haircut". It takes way more effort to change your haircut IRL (like, an hour!) than it does to become a winged furry futa with 3 foot long penis and 2 foot long tongue (~5 minutes. most of which is walking to the store).
3. The game is literally open source
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go download the source code. write up some NPC reactions. and submit a PR / release it as a mod. Show us how it is done. after all you keep on going on about how trivially easy it would be to code this feature request of yours. I want to see how many lines of code it takes you to do it.
in the beginning, actually. if you paid a damn iota of attention to literally anything Lilaya says about extracting essences and transforming yourself you would know that essences themselves are pretty useless to the wider population because so few can actually use them. so even if they're rare, they're useless, get it? transformative items, the things like cakes and drinks and such, are a - here comes the big shocker - gameplay decision by the creator! gosh, it's almost as if the game does not specifically need to adhere to the lore verbatim! wow!1. Where in the lore does it say that stores do not sell transformative items casually to anyone with money? All I have seen is that most people are unable to directly harvest essence and instead must buy it in bottles. Which you yourself can fill up and sell for some pitifully small amount of cash (30 flames per bottle)
lessee here...i've pretty much addressed all of this except for...wait! here it is! some more stupidity!Whether it is good or bad is irrelevant to the argument. The argument being on whether NPCs should make a big deal out of you walking to any of a half dozen different stores in town and buying a transformative. Whether it is a transformation cake at the cafe, or a transformation potion at the shop, or a transformation tattoo from the tattoo parlor, or a transformation piercing from the sex shop, or a transformation bondage from the slavers
A minor point of order, the Flame is said to be about 10 pence mostly for the sake of pricing real world inspired items. The numbers are big because it kind of behaves like the Yen in its lack of an actively used further subdivision.it is well explained that flames roughly equate to the british pound sterling - considering this game is, or was, based in the british isles that makes sense, no? - and that most transformative potions are...you guessed it...expensive! also, in case you missed that little dig at your investigative skills, allow me to point it out for you - flames are a rough equivalent of the pound sterling, and i dunno about you, but 375 flames for a t-shirt? highway robbery...or a sign of a collapsed economy! wow! look at all the brian cells i had to expend figuring that out!
This honestly made me laugh at how over the top you go with how you are "destroying" me. How I didn't play the game. How my arguments are petty. How I should pick my fights. etc... you are going quite in depth to disparage me personally about my sheer and utterly gall to speak before a mighty expert such as yourself with my utter ignorance of how the game works... How I am utterly wrong about transformation tattoos you can buy at the store being a thing that exists...lessee here...i've pretty much addressed all of this except for...wait! here it is! some more stupidity!
"...or a transformation tattoo from the tattoo parlor, or a transformation piercing from the sex shop, or a transformation bondage from the slavers."
there are transformative tattoos in this game? transformative piercings that the player doesn't make themselves? fucking where! boy, how can i have played this game for a solid three years and never noticed this? sweet golly jesus i must be blind!
...or to have actually played the game.
because you clearly haven't. you've probably gotten past the tutorial, glanced over some of the available locations and items on offer, and then suddenly think you understand everything this game has to offer.
You don't
wow! it's almost like i destroyed your petty argument with some well thought-out reasoning! gee golly, it's almost like i have actually played the game! it's almost like i know what i'm talking about! wowee!
pick your fights my dude, because i can guarantee you acting all high and mighty pretending to know what you're on about is winning you no favours. quit while you're ahead.
true, true, but counterpoint!Wow, I am so utterly destroyed. Clearly I am an idiot who never played the game and you are a grand expert with 3 years experience and thus I am completely wrong about transformation tattoos being a thing that exists...
Here is how you hire someone to tattoo your slave with a transformation tattoo at no essence cost to yourself:
Step 1: get a slave
Step 2: walk to the slave's bedroom and click on them.
step 3: click on manage
step 4: click send to kate
step 5: click on tattoos
step 6: add a tattoo. pay money for it.
step 7: click enchant. kate will enchant the tattoo for you with anything you want, including transformations. The cost of the enchantment will be paid in flames and requires no essence
Here is how to get it for yourself:
step 1: walk to mall
step 2: walk to succubi's secrets
step 3: get a tattoo. pay money for it.
step 4: click enchant on the tattoo. kate will enchant the tattoo for you with transformations of your choice. it requires 0 essence from you and is all done by kate using her bottled essence. She charges you money for the service.
You literally proved yourself wrong! Your citations literally exactly agree with me on what agency means
Changing your avatar's appearance is not "cause significant change in the game world". Getting randos to comment about your looks is not agency.
You are making a lot of assumptions there. Nowhere have I simped for inno's lack of progress. Please provide a citation where I do.
I disagreed with claims about how you must have NPCs comment on your looks for the game to have agency. Getting NPCs to comment on your avatar's looks is not agency, it is just narcissism.
This is so wrong on so many levels:
1. People can use a product they do not know how to make. Do you know how to make hair dye at home? can you buy hair dye at the store and use it? Do you know how to make an aspirin at home? can you buy one at the store and use it?
Essence is not used for transformation, it is used for CRAFTING transformatives. You do not need to know how to craft something in order to buy it in a store and use it.
Brax explicitly hired a guy to craft a custom transformation potion for him because he does not have the ability to craft his own potions. Because Brax can not use essence... but using essence is not needed to DRINK a potion or wear a piece of magical equipment.
2. Liliya actually says that most people are unable to collect essence. That she and most common demons have to buy it in a bottle instead of getting it through sex the way the MC can. She does not say that nobody can use essence. In fact literally every enchanter uses essence... from bottles.
yeah that's a good point. but i think if the GBP is being treated like the yen the economy's pretty fucked either way. that was the main point of my argument, but thanks for pointing that out to me!A minor point of order, the Flame is said to be about 10 pence mostly for the sake of pricing real world inspired items. The numbers are big because it kind of behaves like the Yen in its lack of an actively used further subdivision.
So that shirt would cost about 37.5 GBP - probably some kind of brand but not outrageous in itself.
1. you do realize you are arguing on the internet right nowand yes, you're simping. you dont need to say you're a simp to be a simp, you simp. because, truthfully? only a simp - or a fourteen year old child that's just gotten a hold of the internet and thinks it's the key to immortality or some nonsense - would start an argument about a sex game to prove a point - when said game is four years behind on its own development and stretched thin lore-wise anyway, so using lore to back arguments up when lore could change any second now is...well, pointless, i guess. the height of folly, one could say.
perhaps you should have started with 'i agree with you on x, y, and z, but...' because that would have made you seem less of a pretentious not-simp. and, uh, this entire thing would have not happened were that the case? yaknow, just thinking ahead.1. you do realize you are arguing on the internet right now
2. you are making assumptions on my goals here.
3. seriously. saying I simp for the author is ridiculous... its like... imagine this:
doug: The nazies used time machines to kill people
jack: The nazies did not have time machines
doug: Did you just defend nazies? This makes you a nazi! everyone jack is a nazi!
I said a person is wrong on a specific thing. This does not mean I disagree with him on everything ever and are a member of the" opposition party". It just means I disagree with him on that thing. nothing more, nothing less.
I actually agree with him on other things. For example, I agree with him that inno needs to cut out a bunch of useless variables, that her code is a disaster, and that she barely made any substantive progress in years because she is spreading herself too thing.