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I'm guessing that you are playing an old version of he game, as those "errors" have already been reported and fixed.

Do not overthink the whole "step-family" dynamic. Some AVNs have "step-families" some have "landladies and tenants/roommates", this is because incest is illegal and hosting sites tend to ban games that contain incest, so devs create spurious relationships to avoid such bans.
I think you are the first person that I have seen taking the whole "step-family" nonsense seriously.
Actual incest is illegal, but depictions of it in media are not, hence why Game of Thrones (and many other movies and TV shows) are able to depict it so graphically. The fuss about it now is because of payment processors being puritanical dicks who have decided to control societies morals.

I was reading a book by a female psychiatrist on women's health recently. My wife told me to read it as she has PMDD (an extreme form of PMS), it was genuinely fascinating and taught me a lot about women. Also about men and my own health - much of it was transferrable. It was about hormones and how modern life screws with them and what that does to us. I thought it was interesting that in a bit about sexual desire she noted; the incest fantasy was very common with her clients. If her female client talked to her about experiencing sexual dysfunction due to waning desire, she would talk to them about what turns them on and often it would come up. She encouraged them to explore it via roleplay etc. The way she talked about it was very matter of fact, this is kinda normal in the same way that it is kinda 'normal' for people to like BDSM. This is the incest fantasy, about other people committing incest, not actual incest, which is something very different. Society imprisons itself through pretending that most people don't have some sort of unusual desires somewhere. The prevalence of these fetishes deemed "abhorrent" to society should be enough to say this isn't actually that weird, and if you just stopped being all weird about the fact that people enjoy fantasizing about these things, then we'd all get on a lot better. For 99.9% of people, their fetishes are just fantasies and they don't harm anyone.
 

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A few continuity glitches I've spotted as I'm playing.

#1 - Prologue: Lilly and MC in the kitchen, she generates a green fireball in her hand. Dialog says "blue". Easy enough to swap out that "blue" for "green". View attachment 5517126

#2 - Isabella's first scene with MC. Dialog says "...grinding against you through your clothes." MC was already naked. She stripped his pants off when she gave him the blowjob. View attachment 5517127

#3 - Sarah Sinclair: her dossier says she married Carl "Barker" when she was 18, and Lilly Barker was born a year later. Everyone else in the family is named SINCLAIR, and their dossiers state that the father is Carl Sinclair. View attachment 5517382 Could Sarah have married 2 men with the given name "Carl", with two different surnames? Yes, it's possible (my wife's late first husband was Jeff, my given name is Geoff, pronounced the same) but it would be unusual to say the least. But nothing in the existing lore indicates that happened.

#4 - Not to put to fine a point on it, but the step-family relationship does not apply to any of the siblings. The "step-" designation is for blended family members, people who are family by MARRIAGE, not blood. Example:

Father has child(ren), becomes single. Mother has child(ren), becomes single. Father meets Mother and they marry. The pre-existing children are now step-siblings because their parents are married. Father becomes stepdad to Mother's child(ren) and Mother becomes stepmom to Father's child(ren).

The existing story lore and the birth order of the children precludes that. Nothing in any of the family dossiers indicate that Sarah (or Carl) had a second marriage. So NO ONE in the family is a step-anything. If Carl supplied half of the DNA and Sarah provided the other half, the kids are all full siblings. MC dossier states he was "raised by" Carl and Sarah. SO, if neither parent provided the DNA for the MC, the options are:

A. - The Sinclairs are the MC's FOSTER family, "foster mother"/"foster siblings" would be the correct relationship.
B. - The Sinclairs ADOPTED the MC, making the family relationship "adoptive mother"/"adoptive siblings".
C. - If Carl provided half of the MC's DNA but Sarah did not (making him a literal bastard), we could possibly argue that Sarah is in fact a "step-mom" but the other children would be "half-siblings" not step-siblings.
Thanks for the feedback.

What version are you running currently? 0.36 is the latest public version.

The green fire thing has been fixed for 0.4 which is just out in early access so you probably don't have that one.
You are right about the Isabella scene, so I've corrected that for the next update.
I though the dossier stuff about carl had been fixed in the 0.36 update. It is correct on my version so maybe I fixed that as a first thing in 0.4, but I'm pretty sure 0.36 is where all the new updated and corrected dossiers went in. I flip-flopped on his name and the family name(Carl and Carter, Barker and Sinclair) and didn't realise I had left both in. It's Carter Sinclair.
The canon route is the one most people will play and so the game was designed around that, the other routes were added in as an afterthought and I'll admit, whilst I try to make as much as possible match the variables most put in for the relationships, it's not an easy thing to get right.

Adopted makes the most sense, so you are right "step" isn't the right way to define it. However, adopted doesn't have a phrase in common usage. People know what you mean when you say "adoptive sister", but unless there is something very officious or very wrong with the family dynamic, noone would refer to their sibling as "my adopted sister". They would say "my sister". The use of "Step" by default was really intended to ensure that if a patreon mod ever decided to poke around in the game during its early phases, they could not mistake what was happening because everyone was referring to each other as "brother", "sister" etc.
 
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Do not overthink the whole "step-family" dynamic.
... I think you are the first person that i have seen taking the whole "step-family" nonsense seriously.
That would not surprise me in the least. ;)

I live my life somewhere along the Autism spectrum, in the area commonly referred to as "Asperger's Syndrome". So, yeah, I overthink the hell outta stuff, then over-explain or "over share". Think about Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, and you'll have a pretty fair image of how I look at, and interact with, the world.

And I'mma shut up now. :LOL:
 
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The fuss about it now is because of payment processors being puritanical dicks who have decided to control societies morals
While the Payment processors did the actual deed, they were pressured into it by an Austrailian group called Collective Shout, which effectively lobbied them. It is hard to say whether the payment processors could have just ignored them, as the Ozzie government has shown itself to be quite keen on taking on big business like with the News Media Bargaining Code where social media companies were brough to heel and forced to pay news services for just displaying their content. I don't want to get into an argument about whether they should or not, so please don't at me over it, I'm just pointing out that they did this, and had the payment processors ignored Collective Shout they might have been next to feel the wrath of the Ozzies. Not to mention the fact that groups like Collective Shout often have extensive links with other such groups (often also backed by American Evangelical groups like the Herritage Foundation).

TLDR: The payment processors did the thing, but they probably wouldn't unless forced.
 

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While the Payment processors did the actual deed, they were pressured into it by an Austrailian group called Collective Shout, which effectively lobbied them. It is hard to say whether the payment processors could have just ignored them, as the Ozzie government has shown itself to be quite keen on taking on big business like with the News Media Bargaining Code where social media companies were brough to heel and forced to pay news services for just displaying their content. I don't want to get into an argument about whether they should or not, so please don't at me over it, I'm just pointing out that they did this, and had the payment processors ignored Collective Shout they might have been next to feel the wrath of the Ozzies. Not to mention the fact that groups like Collective Shout often have extensive links with other such groups (often also backed by American Evangelical groups like the Herritage Foundation).

TLDR: The payment processors did the thing, but they probably wouldn't unless forced.
Collective Shout were the catalyst, but MasterCard were already going down that route. Something to do with the Mormon Church holding a $900,000,000 holding in the company and pressure from them to not support anything they don't like.

Even if that wasn't the reason, the big institutionals like BlackRock insist on arbitrary EDI and ethics standards for any investment they make, the big companies chase these. So collective shout may have pushed them over the edge, but the 'ethical' investment standards of the big funds brought them to the precipice. It was why Steam ignored it all for so long, no shareholders to worry about.
 
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Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone and thanks for your interest and support over the last 5 months! These are a teaser of some bonus content images I'm working on for patreon. I get pretty much all my feedback and interaction with my 'customers' here, so here is a little thank you :) 00349-3440095145.png
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Thank you for all the updates and content so far Jubs! I also want to say it's a great idea to share some renders that didn't make the cut as a treat to the fans. Don't forget to use that 5080 to play a few games during the holiday! “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”.

As to the payment providers; they have been political for a long time already. Paypal, Patreon, Visa, doesn't matter. It's more likely they used the Collective Shout clout as an easy distractor. They wanted to do this, and now everybody will direct their hate towards them, while Mastercard gets what they want.

As far as incest goes, I did the classical language courses in (what other countries would call) high school. Incest was and is veeeery common. Not something you'd be advertising, but also not something to avoid. It's mostly something that is shunned in more modern (western) societies. As far as I know the only concrete ethical concern is a higher chance of birth defects when an incestuous couple conceives, which is the reason for the ban.
 
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Thank you for all the updates and content so far Jubs! I also want to say it's a great idea to share some renders that didn't make the cut as a treat to the fans. Don't forget to use that 5080 to play a few games during the holiday! “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”.

As to the payment providers; they have been political for a long time already. Paypal, Patreon, Visa, doesn't matter. It's more likely they used the Collective Shout clout as an easy distractor. They wanted to do this, and now everybody will direct their hate towards them, while Mastercard gets what they want.

As far as incest goes, I did the classical language courses in (what other countries would call) high school. Incest was and is veeeery common. Not something you'd be advertising, but also not something to avoid. It's mostly something that is shunned in more modern (western) societies. As far as I know the only concrete ethical concern is a higher chance of birth defects when an incestuous couple conceives, which is the reason for the ban.
I did get 2 games of BF6 and an episode of Despatch in....

I'm currently working on the codex and improving the prologue for 0.41, still have to overhaul Alex's sprites, but the amount of cringe I get when I look at the early sprites for Alice, Lilly and Sarah finally got too much.

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This week has been about tidying up a few minor bugs or issues with 0.4 and adding in some improvements to the main game for 0.41.

I've spent some time working on the codex, learning how to put in scrollable display frames rather than the static ones I have now. These will make it easier for me to do more detailed codex entries but also apply the same features to character profiles so I can add in notes and achievements with different characters as you progress. I've also added in a brief history of The Triumvirate Federation and it's 3 city states, as well as maps of the planet, continent and local region.

I spent some time reworking the prologue as well. I've now replaced nearly all the old sprites from the first half . All of the bit on Earth has been done and all but Zara's and some of Sarah's sprites have been reworked on the first evening in Luminaria. I wasn't expecting this to take very long as I thought it would be relatively easy to just create the new sprites and slot them in. I hadn't really counted for the all the zipping around the screen I had going on in the prologue. Or the complication that slightly different sizes and alignments of characters would cause. It turned into quite a chore. I suspect I would be better off not trying to fit new sprites into the old structure and just rebuilding the scenes from scratch. There are some before and after shots included above.

I've been working on the xmas bonus stuff, the patreon poll has indicated Gabriella and Emelia as additional characters to add to Lilly, Alice and Sarah's xmas specials. This has been quite useful for trying to iron out the issues caused by the hardware upgrade. Because I have better hardware, stable diffusion doesn't need to use some of the addons it has that sped up generation time on lower VRAM cards. Which means it now produces nicer quality and more precise images. But that has screwed with the consistency of how it produces those images compared to the old ones. So I've had to spend quite a bit of time refining prompts to get them looking as close as possible to how they did before, whilst still allowing for the higher quality image to show through. I've got this mostly sorted for Alice, Lilly, Emelia and Gabriella now. Sarah still needs some tweaking, her eyes aren't quite right. But that could also be because of the upscaler. I had to revert from using SwinIR as the upscaler tool to using R-ESRGAN. Which is supposed to be a realism based upscaler, but I was finding it was doing weird things with eyes and losing a bit of skin detail. I've gone off to find some alternatives and tested a few different ones out. I've settled on one called Remacri, as that seems to retain fine detail and not screw with facial structures too much. This is apparently because of the prevalence of anime being generated by SD means that a lot of the upscalers expect anime input and slightly screw with the output to fit that dynamic.

I'm now working on the next content update, which will feature the debriefs after the 3 missions the MC has completed. This will start to reveal some of what might be going on and what Zara is involved with. It's also the route that you start to get to know Zara better and unlock her personal story and activities. Depending on how long that takes, I will look to start adding more short-form content to the game as well. Shopping trips with characters, little nights out with them. Opportunities for other characters to get some screen time. I also intend to include some adult content with those characters that have already reached that stage of relationship with the MC, to cover the gaps whilst I build other characters to that stage.

I've included a sample of the Gabriella & Emelia xmas images I've been working on. I've got them all produced for all 5 girls now, I just need to pick and process the images and I'm about halfway through generating the animations. The examples are not upscaled or processed in any way, just the basic output. Should hopefully have 0.41 out for public release tomorrow evening.

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0.41 is available here:



Patch notes:


0.40 Patch notes

Added in the first Academy Mission.

Fixed a few miscellaneous minor bugs and spelling/grammar issues.

64 x sprites and static images of Alice.

34 x animations of Alice

58 x sprites and static images of Lyra

20 x animations of Lyra

5 x sprites of Zara

1 x animation of Zara

57 x sprites and static images of secondary characters.

79 x backgrounds, static scene images and items.

10 x background animations.

21500 words of story.

about 2850 lines of scripting so far.



0.41 patch notes

Improved codex screens.

Added in codex entries for Astrum, Luminaria, Eldrigham, The Triumvirate and the geography of Lumis.

Reworked the prologue by updating and replacing sprites in the early section:

11 x sprites of Alice

2 x animations of Alice

13 x sprites of Lilly

1 x animation of Lilly

6 x sprites of Sarah

A few miscellaneous fixes to animations in 0.40 content.

Further spelling and grammar error fixes.

Removed 2 crappy animations, one from the sex scene with Emelia and one from the journey in the first cartographer's guild mission.

Hope you enjoy it!
 

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0.41 is available here:

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Patch notes:


0.40 Patch notes

Added in the first Academy Mission.

Fixed a few miscellaneous minor bugs and spelling/grammar issues.

64 x sprites and static images of Alice.

34 x animations of Alice

58 x sprites and static images of Lyra

20 x animations of Lyra

5 x sprites of Zara

1 x animation of Zara

57 x sprites and static images of secondary characters.

79 x backgrounds, static scene images and items.

10 x background animations.

21500 words of story.

about 2850 lines of scripting so far.



0.41 patch notes

Improved codex screens.

Added in codex entries for Astrum, Luminaria, Eldrigham, The Triumvirate and the geography of Lumis.

Reworked the prologue by updating and replacing sprites in the early section:

11 x sprites of Alice

2 x animations of Alice

13 x sprites of Lilly

1 x animation of Lilly

6 x sprites of Sarah

A few miscellaneous fixes to animations in 0.40 content.

Further spelling and grammar error fixes.

Removed 2 crappy animations, one from the sex scene with Emelia and one from the journey in the first cartographer's guild mission.

Hope you enjoy it!
I assume you dont control the actual OP which is why you posted about the new version here. F95 has actually a system in place to make sure, that uploaders etc take care of things the 'right' way.

Press 'report' on this post and then select 'Game update' pointing to your new link ;)
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Reason I mention this is that most of the malware stuff and problems we had around here originated from stuff that wasnt on the front page of games. Users are generally asked to be cautious about downloading from anywhere else than the OP links.
 
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