throbzombie

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My largest file is 17mb. It is so fucking bloated its hilarious. The amount of redundant data that gets kept in memory and in the save files is hilariously bad.

I actually know a good number of ways to fix the problems there. Seeing this has made my own projects way better because now I know what to avoid lol
Yeah, IIRC it retains character data on every single NPC, even the ones that have been removed from the game one way or another. And geez, out of 278 children, both born and unborn, I've met exactly 100. I bet if I could look at my file, I'd see a complete set of character data for every last one.

But I will give Inno credit; she has done a good job making this info accessible.
 

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My file is 15MB at 270+ kids, bearing in mind that I haven't met half of them. I don't know if that should make a difference, but I feel like it should. In don't know how big my old save was, but every possible tile in Dominion was occupied with one of my kids, some with more than one.
My largest file is 17mb. It is so fucking bloated its hilarious. The amount of redundant data that gets kept in memory and in the save files is hilariously bad.
I see, thanks. It seems like the savefile doesn't increase in size that much, given the difference in numbers of tracked NPCs in my gamestate and both of your states.

I'm surprised it's causing issues for Notepad++/XML editors at that size.

Yeah, IIRC it retains character data on every single NPC, even the ones that have been removed from the game one way or another. And geez, out of 278 children, both born and unborn, I've met exactly 100. I bet if I could look at my file, I'd see a complete set of character data for every last one.
Huh. If that's true, I really dodged a bullet with the weird way I choose to play.
I dislike all the options to get rid of an NPC, so I avoid letting them spawn unless I'm certain I want to keep them around.

Aside from keeping my number of children low via sterility perks, I savescum all my steps in danger zones: quicksave, take 3-4 steps, quicksave again if no encounter occurs, otherwise quickload, repeat until destination is reached.
Should mean I have almost no redundant data in my save file, as I've never removed an NPC from the game while still keeping my overall NPC count very low.
 
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I just want floofy kitsunes in a popular text porn game that don't require mt everest levels of climbing up a writer's own smug ass to engage with, please Inno. This is all I ask. You can vanish to Iberia and snort cocaine off a fursuit's ass for the rest of your life or go on a crusade to liberate your country from evil or whatever the fuck you think is a good way to spend horny patreon bucks but just give me the kitsune.
Ok...as a player of both this and CoC2 you win all the internets with this comment, can relate 100%
Also it'll be arguably better in LT since you can do Incest if ya want UNLIKE CERTAIN OTHER GAME
 
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Ok...as a player of both this and CoC2 you win all the internets with this comment, can relate 100%
Also it'll be arguably better in LT since you can do Incest if ya want UNLIKE CERTAIN OTHER GAME
You know that the end of your sentence would work better if you did not name "UNLIKE CERTAIN OTHER GAME" at beginning of your comment. And really, it is not like incest int Lillith is anything special. Since they are just number generated PCs, it feels about as a same as fucking non blood related NPC.
 

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Also it'll be arguably better in LT since you can do Incest if ya want UNLIKE CERTAIN OTHER GAME
One thing I really appreciate is how Inno just straight up ditched her Patreon instead of removing the incest fetish and changing the Lilaya/Lyssieth/Meraxis interactions and/or relationships (not to mention giving up on the potential for other incestuous pairings in future updates).

It seems she's doing fine with just SubscribeStar; I wish other devs would pick that route instead of rewriting their settings because of Patreon's stupid rule.
Admittedly, I haven't really looked into other differences between the two platforms. I've no idea if there's a good reason to stick with Patreon over SubscribeStar even if it means getting rid of incest content.
 

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You know that the end of your sentence would work better if you did not name "UNLIKE CERTAIN OTHER GAME" at beginning of your comment. And really, it is not like incest int Lillith is anything special. Since they are just number generated PCs, it feels about as a same as fucking non blood related NPC.
Noted, still learning English and the correct phrasing, and at least you can control the flow of the sex scenes in LT (lord knows i've skipped entire paragraphs on CoC2 cuz they force stuff in the foreplay that isn't my kink before FINALLY getting to the good stuff, and that's NOT talking about the dialogue mountains before/during some sex scenes. Also like...there IS an option at least, sure not everybody care bout Incest, i'm meh towards it but there IS an option...LT is letting you DO it if you want, CoC2 doesn't has that)
 
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You know that the end of your sentence would work better if you did not name "UNLIKE CERTAIN OTHER GAME" at beginning of your comment. And really, it is not like incest int Lillith is anything special. Since they are just number generated PCs, it feels about as a same as fucking non blood related NPC.
It could afford to be a bit spicier, like with unique text or something, but just knowing that they're blood relatives is enough to get the fetish juices flowing. Not that I would know anything about that personally, of course.
 

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And really, it is not like incest int Lillith is anything special. Since they are just number generated PCs, it feels about as a same as fucking non blood related NPC.
You're right about random generated offspring incest scenes being almost the same as generic sex scenes, and you can even make acquaintances and slaves call you mommy/daddy/etc. if you really want.

But during the main quest you find out Lilaya's true relation to the MC (why she looks uncannily like your aunt Lily).
You can also optionally be turned into a demon by Lyssieth, making her your demonic sire, which also makes Lilaya and Meraxis your half-siblings. According to the Gates Motel thread, even step-parent/sibling incest or adopted-parent incest is forbidden, based on Patreon's clarifications to the dev.
The demon transformation leads to a followup orgy between Lyssieth/Lilaya/Meraxis/MC, which gives you a chance to take Meraxis's virginity and impregnate her if you want.
Admittedly, the actual sex scenes still use the default LT sex system, but the unique dialogues and circumstances leading in to the sex makes it way hotter.

It's those scenes, and the potential for similar non-machine-generated interactions in the future, that are worth preserving.
 
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tehlemon

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I see, thanks. It seems like the savefile doesn't increase in size that much, given the difference in numbers of tracked NPCs in my gamestate and both of your states.
The save file doesn't increase that much, but my god the memory usage does. I honestly don't understand how the game's memory usage balloons out of control with more NPCs while the actual save state doesn't. And I don't care enough to go figure it out anymore.

So I'm mostly just blaming Java.

Yeah, IIRC it retains character data on every single NPC, even the ones that have been removed from the game one way or another. And geez, out of 278 children, both born and unborn, I've met exactly 100. I bet if I could look at my file, I'd see a complete set of character data for every last one.

But I will give Inno credit; she has done a good job making this info accessible.
So it most likely doesn't have *all* of them saved. Only children and NPCs that haven't been explicitly removed from the game. The options are basically 1) attack them in world and choose the "remove from game" option. 2) Enslave and sell them.

All other NPCs and children are saved.

That said, I don't think the dev *intentionally* made this all really simple to find. I think she just used the most basic, pre-packaged XML handler she could find so she wouldn't have to write her own file handling lol

I can't entirely blame her though, that's what I'm currently working on for my own project. I want it to be 100% modable through basic, easy to read/write text files, and I want everything to be loaded at runtime rather than compiled into the game. Which means writing my own file management and parsing that'll handle loading all the game data from the disk. Bit of a pain in the ass, because I'm basically designing a language again, but super fun. Haven't done this since uni lol
 

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Noted, still learning English and the correct phrasing, and at least you can control the flow of the sex scenes in LT (lord knows i've skipped entire paragraphs on CoC2 cuz they force stuff in the foreplay that isn't my kink before FINALLY getting to the good stuff, and that's NOT talking about the dialogue mountains before/during some sex scenes. Also like...there IS an option at least,sure not everybody care bout Incest, i'm meh towards it but there IS an option at least, CoC2 doesn't has that)
It has incest content, just not with NPCs related to your PC (we basically only really have one option). And yeah, it sucks. But lets stop this here. This is a thread where we complain about lack of updates related to a game called Lilliths Postponed.
 
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throbzombie

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It has incest content, just not with NPCs related to your PC (which we basically only really have one option). And yeah, it sucks. But lets stop this here. This is a thread where we complain about lack of updated related to a game called Lilliths Postponed.
lol, that'd a good name for it
 
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I've actually brought this up in the discord before the answer i got is that shes promising to focus on main content again which then led into the argument of what "main" content is for instance the fields which are a completely side thing are considered main content and apparently it has been the major hang up in development
I'm kinda new at this (waiting)game and so on, but... isn't the highlighted part the same thing that's she has been saying for over a year?

Like, since when I first downloaded this game, the biggest change ever done besides the removal of companions, were some sidequests.
 

alex2011

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I mean, cant the dev just hire a professional programmer to remake the game for her on a new better engine for a couple hundred bucks?
They could, but as they have stated before they won't.

You're right about random generated offspring incest scenes being almost the same as generic sex scenes, and you can even make acquaintances and slaves call you mommy/daddy/etc. if you really want.

But during the main quest you find out Lilaya's true relation to the MC (why she looks uncannily like your aunt Lily).
You can also optionally be turned into a demon by Lyssieth, making her your demonic sire, which also makes Lilaya and Meraxis your half-siblings. According to the Gates Motel thread, even step-parent/sibling incest or adopted-parent incest is forbidden, based on Patreon's clarifications to the dev.
The demon transformation leads to a followup orgy between Lyssieth/Lilaya/Meraxis/MC, which gives you a chance to take Meraxis's virginity and impregnate her if you want.
Admittedly, the actual sex scenes still use the default LT sex system, but the unique dialogues and circumstances leading in to the sex makes it way hotter.

It's those scenes, and the potential for similar non-machine-generated interactions in the future, that are worth preserving.
The transformation is actually not required even if it is meant to be, my latest run MC is still human except portions I specifically transformed with a certain debug only demonic transformative. Not enough corruption to transform.

The save file doesn't increase that much, but my god the memory usage does. I honestly don't understand how the game's memory usage balloons out of control with more NPCs while the actual save state doesn't. And I don't care enough to go figure it out anymore.

So I'm mostly just blaming Java.



So it most likely doesn't have *all* of them saved. Only children and NPCs that haven't been explicitly removed from the game. The options are basically 1) attack them in world and choose the "remove from game" option. 2) Enslave and sell them.

All other NPCs and children are saved.

That said, I don't think the dev *intentionally* made this all really simple to find. I think she just used the most basic, pre-packaged XML handler she could find so she wouldn't have to write her own file handling lol

I can't entirely blame her though, that's what I'm currently working on for my own project. I want it to be 100% modable through basic, easy to read/write text files, and I want everything to be loaded at runtime rather than compiled into the game. Which means writing my own file management and parsing that'll handle loading all the game data from the disk. Bit of a pain in the ass, because I'm basically designing a language again, but super fun. Haven't done this since uni lol
Most Java games don't do this. I play Night Games and usage doesn't go up like this, but I get into LT and it skyrockets.

I'm kinda new at this (waiting)game and so on, but... isn't the highlighted part the same thing that's she has been saying for over a year?

Like, since when I first downloaded this game, the biggest change ever done besides the removal of companions, were some sidequests.
Yes, that is what they've said, multiple times.
 

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Are spiders planned to be put in at some point? The spinneret option is there when making a custom slave but isn't usable.
 

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Now Notepad++ also takes a shit every time I try to open my save; I have a feeling it's got to do with the latest public release because I never had this problem with 3.9.9
This isn't really a solution to the underlying problem, but handles extremely large text files exceptionally well. I've thrown 100MB+ files at it before (if you think LT's saves are bloated you should see the crap I have to deal with at my day job :() and it always handles things in stride. It isn't free/open-source, but if you're willing to deal with a nagware prompt once in a while it should work fine as an occasional editor.

Just to give you an idea of how it performs, I just loaded a 15.7MB save into it. It took about 2 seconds to load the save and there are no delays in scrolling or editing the file, and searching is pretty much instantaneous.
 

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This isn't really a solution to the underlying problem, but handles extremely large text files exceptionally well. I've thrown 100MB+ files at it before (if you think LT's saves are bloated you should see the crap I have to deal with at my day job :() and it always handles things in stride. It isn't free/open-source, but if you're willing to deal with a nagware prompt once in a while it should work fine as an occasional editor.

Just to give you an idea of how it performs, I just loaded a 15.7MB save into it. It took about 2 seconds to load the save and there are no delays in scrolling or editing the file, and searching is pretty much instantaneous.
Thanks, I'll try it out.
 

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Are spiders planned to be put in at some point? The spinneret option is there when making a custom slave but isn't usable.
It might be a situation like the naga body, I was able to make "tail body" potions in 3.13 but they never actually worked. Then I got .15 from here, turned into a snake morph, and after that turned my legs into a giant tail with no further issues.

I guess sometimes the infrastructure gets put in place before the actual morph that makes it work is ready.
 
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