meow382

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Following the suggested dialogue options, Ambrose has said that he rejects the alliance but accept the Writ. Is there some step that I missed? I thought there's a way to make him accept the alliance without rejecting your Order leadership.
About the only way to get the alliance without giving up anything is to make sure to help out Big Dick every chance you get. Basically every supply cycle. So if Emily has restocked then remember to head over and help Big Dick.
 

Willdero

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Had to restart my game. And I can't go to the north road to go to Lothario's Estate. Is there something I am missing or is it a bug?
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hreserves

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The druids disappeared from my save, is this normal? And how do I get them back?
They're only around during the Grow unless you have the trophy they give you.
If you didn't get the trophy intending to come back later, they'll show back up during the next Grow.
And if you played the final version of the VX Ace version of the game, I intend to make something similar after the story is complete so you can revisit the different seasons whenever you want.

hi i am new to this game, can someone give me hints how to find the secret room in the amaira estate please?
That depends on which room you're trying to get into.
If you're just trying to continue through the main story, I'm guessing you mean the attic. To get up there, go to the eastern side of the Estate's second floor, then navigate through the boxes to get to the door on the west side of the attic.
There's also a box you can push to open up a shortcut once you get on the other side of it.

Does someone know how to defeat the servant of fire ?
There are a few different strategies. The two main ones I'd suggest are:
Use your mage-types to do damage that isn't fire element
Give your party a different elemental blessing, which will remove the fire blessing

He's not overly complex otherwise - he's just immune to fire damage.

Following the suggested dialogue options, Ambrose has said that he rejects the alliance but accept the Writ. Is there some step that I missed? I thought there's a way to make him accept the alliance without rejecting your Order leadership.
Sorta - meow382 already pointed out the important bit, which is going to Big Dick's to do one of the mini-quests there as often as possible.
The ending you get with Archibald is based off of your overall reputation score instead of a specific "Archibald reputation," which is generally pretty difficult to raise. Giving Archibald more stuff lowers the score threshold. You can raise (or lower) your reputation during his segment, but it's only 3-4 points.

Had to restart my game. And I can't go to the north road to go to Lothario's Estate. Is there something I am missing or is it a bug?
There shouldn't be any bugs there.
The only thing that transfer is checking for is whether or not Phoebe is in your party, and Phoebe is only removed from your party during repairs that early in the game. She and Melissa are added back in when you go to the Deep Wilds for more wood.
What usually happens is people cheat more Scrap Wood into their inventory to skip repairs instead of using the in-game skip, which causes them to miss the part where they go into the Deep Wilds and Ella is their only party member. Though they usually get tripped up on the rat swarm boss since Ella can't kill that many rats by herself.
If that isn't the case for you and Phoebe is in your party but you're getting that message anyway, I'd appreciate it if you could give me the specific series of events you went through before that point so I can investigate further.
 
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ThanhLong32

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i have trouble in fighting the dude in the mansion after i exited the west forest. whenever i won, the battel keep looping over and over, how can i fix this?
 

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It was the wood thanks.
You're welcome!

i have trouble in fighting the dude in the mansion after i exited the west forest. whenever i won, the battel keep looping over and over, how can i fix this?
That sounds like it shouldn't be happening.
Can you be more specific? Which dude at which mansion?

Unless you mean Archibald when you fight him early on during Lalita's segment. You're not supposed to be able to beat him, and that will loop forever.
The point of fighting him (aside from it serving as a tutorial for how a later fight will work if you don't manage to avoid it) is wounding his pride by wasting his time rather than winning, which gives you some reputation/affection bonuses. Once you hit 35 rounds, he'll say "Your persistence is utter madness!" and after that you'll stop getting dialogue and you've gotten everything you can if you do anything except concede at that choice.
You can also lose at any point without hitting a game over.
 

ThanhLong32

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You're welcome!


That sounds like it shouldn't be happening.
Can you be more specific? Which dude at which mansion?

Unless you mean Archibald when you fight him early on during Lalita's segment. You're not supposed to be able to beat him, and that will loop forever.
The point of fighting him (aside from it serving as a tutorial for how a later fight will work if you don't manage to avoid it) is wounding his pride by wasting his time rather than winning, which gives you some reputation/affection bonuses. Once you hit 35 rounds, he'll say "Your persistence is utter madness!" and after that you'll stop getting dialogue and you've gotten everything you can if you do anything except concede at that choice.
You can also lose at any point without hitting a game over.
in other words, in the second time i fight him, i must have to loose to him then?
 

swanky4

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The war isn't that hard even with the maids spawning that far south. Providing you leveled your maids as much as you could before the war. Should be around level 36 even without using your money to pay to level them if you fought at every opportunity. If you invested in contracts with Emily and were smart with your money make sure to invest in leveling at least one maid on each team above and beyond that though.

Also a good idea to have Iris as a maid, earn the spider trophy and beat the secret boss. As well as doing Ivy's relationship quest. Not sure if Ivy's quest is needed for her to help with the defense though because I have always done hers before the war. If you have done all of that Iris's cooking will add a healing effect on Phoebe and Melissa for a few rounds, Bianca's pet spider will escape and poison the attackers, and Ivy will give a debuff to the attackers as well though I forget what it is off the top of my head. You can also leave the map and heal those two between turns easily. Between all of that Melissa and Phoebe can hold off any team that makes it through.

Knowing that it is OK to ignore those, and just blitz north and liberate estates as you go. Other than the time I stupidly dragged out the war to level my maids I always managed to save all of the estates with minimum issues. As far as I can tell they don't reoccupy estates you have liberated. Though I guess they might if I let the war drag out long enough.

All you have to worry about is heading north and liberating what estates you want to liberate.

Personally I would have arranged the teams differently but they are decently balanced teams though June's team could use a bit more fire power in my opinion.
I was just moving north and ignoring the ones that spawned southward but then I was finding the battle line wasn't moving any further north with ones further south of where my three groups had advanced to.
 

WORTIGER

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Yeah, that sounds like a bug. Combat shouldn't be triggering immediately every time you enter a new room.
Though it's worth pointing out that with the way it's set up, the shadow doesn't always follow you through the same door if he's chasing you. Sometimes he'll come through a different door from the same room, or try to cut you off and come from a different room entirely.
If you try to about-face and go back into the room you just left, or if you stand still for a couple of seconds, that might be what you're running into. The follow timer is really short, so it might seem instant if he follows you through the same door you used and you haven't moved or you tried to double back and go through the same door again.
As for running away - the engine calculates your escape chance based on your party's average agility compared to the enemy's average agility. The shadow is fairly fast, so if you're having trouble running away, it might be worth switching your party out for faster Maids and/or giving them gear that boosts agility.

Either way, I wasn't able to recreate the issue. If what you're running into is literally immediate and you never have the chance to move after entering a new room, I'd appreciate it if you could give me some additional information about what you're doing so I can look into it further.


Yeah, that shouldn't be happening. I'm not able to recreate the issue, either, which is doubly frustrating because I know where the enemy squads spawn is based entirely on game logic and has nothing to do with what you as a player are doing (outside of pushing the front line forward and destroying/liberating locations, anyway).

Enemies are meant to be able to re-deploy squads from behind the front line if they still control a location (which is why the liberation events are strategically important), but that should only be happening if those events haven't been completed.

Though I did run into an issue where enemy squads weren't going to the location they're intended to respawn at, which I've seen reported by others who fixed it by leaving the war map and re-entering it to reset everyone's positions.
I think I just found out why their locations weren't updating correctly even though the variables were correct. I'll have to test it more to be sure, but this should now be fixed for v0.23.2.


The basic steps are to find two Holds (there's one in each swamp region, both associated with nearby Folk villages), then go to the tower in the North Swamps after an event, then return to the Hold the event occurred in.
If you're still stuck, let me know which step you're on and I'd be happy to answer any other questions you have.

You can find Melissa's old panties in her room in Uncle Gil's Estate if you want to go looking for that. Otherwise they'll eventually become available in Emily's shop as a Contract for you to get regular shipments of.


Right meow.
Technically almost two weeks ago because obviously there's a lot of shit going on right now with adult games and I mod for a few AVN servers as well as running my own dev-only server and I was preoccupied with helping people as much as I could while also being out of town to help family but that's a whole other barrel of worms.


If that's the bug I think it is, that should be fixed for v0.22, which I just finished uploading and adding to the OP.
If you're still running into some or all of this in v0.22, let me know and I'll look further into it.

I loaded my 0.21 save from after the war, but unfortunately I found the same damn bug in version 0.22 as well. So I reloaded a save from just before the last cult meeting and started this damn war all over again (thinking the bug was due to some issue that triggered during the war in the old version, and that couldn't be retroactively fixed in the new version). Unfortunately, even re-running the entire war with the new version, I still find myself with the same damn bug.
 

meow382

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I was just moving north and ignoring the ones that spawned southward but then I was finding the battle line wasn't moving any further north with ones further south of where my three groups had advanced to.
I know. You can and should ignore those, and continue to blitz north. Once you liberate estates in an area move on. Whether or not the line moves doesn't matter much. Just get your teams to the Amaira estate ASAP. I have fought through the war a good 5 or 6 times at this point. Including times when the frontline wouldn't advance. I just liberated the estates and villages I wanted to liberate and moved on. No negative outcomes. The point is to end the war fast so that there is no time for bad things to happen.
 

Furmilk

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They each have a different number of scenes, but I think it's around 12 in total. Though none of those are while they're visibly pregnant, if that's what you're looking for.
Really? That's such a bummer. Will there be visible pregnancy with scenes eventually? Also I hope there's plans to use that pregnancy permission for the maids. I could see it being a problem with most games due to party size, but given the amount of maids you have, I could totally see only the current party not being able to get pregnant, and the rest being able to, and not rejoin the party until they give birth.
 

swanky4

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Oct 7, 2023
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I know. You can and should ignore those, and continue to blitz north. Once you liberate estates in an area move on. Whether or not the line moves doesn't matter much. Just get your teams to the Amaira estate ASAP. I have fought through the war a good 5 or 6 times at this point. Including times when the frontline wouldn't advance. I just liberated the estates and villages I wanted to liberate and moved on. No negative outcomes. The point is to end the war fast so that there is no time for bad things to happen.
How? When I try to go to the estate it tells me the frontline is too far south and won't go into that property.
 

hreserves

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in other words, in the second time i fight him, i must have to loose to him then?
If you're in the spot I think you are, yes.
If you're in a different spot, I'd need more information in order to clarify and figure out what's happening.

I loaded my 0.21 save from after the war, but unfortunately I found the same damn bug in version 0.22 as well. So I reloaded a save from just before the last cult meeting and started this damn war all over again (thinking the bug was due to some issue that triggered during the war in the old version, and that couldn't be retroactively fixed in the new version). Unfortunately, even re-running the entire war with the new version, I still find myself with the same damn bug.
That's frustrating. I've tried addressing different parts of bugs like this at least five different times now.
You getting shunted onto the war map after the war is over I found and fixed, though - there was a conditional branch that was set incorrectly.
The Nithercott Servants issue I'm not able to recreate though - even using your save. They're alive no matter what method I use to get to them. Do you remember if there's a specific fast travel option you used that this happens on, or does it happen every time for you no matter which you use?

Really? That's such a bummer. Will there be visible pregnancy with scenes eventually? Also I hope there's plans to use that pregnancy permission for the maids. I could see it being a problem with most games due to party size, but given the amount of maids you have, I could totally see only the current party not being able to get pregnant, and the rest being able to, and not rejoin the party until they give birth.
Unfortunately unlikely at this point.
I did originally want to either incorporate getting the Maids pregnant into the affection quests or add a system for it as part of the post-game (along with a bunch of other optional and side content - the events around the Estate are maybe 10% of what I really want there to be), but support for Maids & Masters has never been particularly high, and with everything else going on (both with adult gaming in particular and gaming as a whole, as well as with me personally), it's really difficult to justify adding in absolutely everything I'd like to.
There have been several points where I considered cutting the affection quests even before recent events just for the sake of being able to finish the story and call the game complete. At this point, though, it's not like pushing forward will cost me any more than it already has.
Even if development is slower than I'd like it to be, I'll still be able to at least get all of the affection quests done and still be able to hit v1.0 before the end of the year unless something catastrophic happens.

How? When I try to go to the estate it tells me the frontline is too far south and won't go into that property.
You just need a Maid squad adjacent to the location. Melissa tells you that when you try to go to locations you otherwise don't have access to.
That's the main point of moving the front line northward - being able to visit locations during the war without needing to position a squad next to where you want to go.
 

hreserves

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I come to Aimadh only at night, what i can do?
If you're on the "aggressive" path for Viridius (whether you chose that path or failed at negotiations), you just go through the village and around the ranch to get to the Estate to continue the story.
Once you're past that point in the story, you can visit the village during the day as normal.
 
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If you're on the "aggressive" path for Viridius (whether you chose that path or failed at negotiations), you just go through the village and around the ranch to get to the Estate to continue the story.
Once you're past that point in the story, you can visit the village during the day as normal.
Thank you
 

meow382

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is anyone here know how to do discombobulated bibliothecary side quest?
That is the one where you recruit Quinn correct? Basically she asks you questions based on stuff which can be found by reading the books in the library where she is located. If reading isn't something you want to do it is very possible to brute force it. Quinn will tell you when you answered a question wrong. So just pick a different answer to the one you got wrong the last time until she says you got the right answer and then write it down until you get them all correct.
 
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That is the one where you recruit Quinn correct? Basically she asks you questions based on stuff which can be found by reading the books in the library where she is located. If reading isn't something you want to do it is very possible to brute force it. Quinn will tell you when you answered a question wrong. So just pick a different answer to the one you got wrong the last time until she says you got the right answer and then write it down until you get them all correct.
this one
 
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