Starting perks on some of the slaves can make a big difference in the early game. The female slave you can pick up in Marston Avenue from that center group of bandits (her name is apparently randomized) can have combat perks good enough to actually beat Raven in the arena with zero training. I picked her up on day 6 when I unlocked Crystal Hills and she beat Raven on the first try with these stats. Other times her stats have been considerably lesser and she was only able to beat Veteran or Heroic opponents.
HTML Masters of Raana [v0.8.3.8 public] [GrimDark]
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Ok, another 3 months in game time passed, got 2 more int from gambling. 
this will be a LONG time before 90.
I have fully upgraded house, give slaves allowence, have slaves jobless, have spices for food, and with no traits that lower them, they STILL decay. [even if in loving status, sleeping in masters bed vs guestroom does nothing, nor does moring bj vs no morning bj.]
Even my npcs like Loren drop stats each day, no matter their assigned duty.
WOULD HELP if it showed the # for affection and happiness when you switch the (?) toggle between # and text.
this will be a LONG time before 90.I have not found a way to stop decaying affection and happiness.
I have fully upgraded house, give slaves allowence, have slaves jobless, have spices for food, and with no traits that lower them, they STILL decay. [even if in loving status, sleeping in masters bed vs guestroom does nothing, nor does moring bj vs no morning bj.]
Even my npcs like Loren drop stats each day, no matter their assigned duty.
WOULD HELP if it showed the # for affection and happiness when you switch the (?) toggle between # and text.
Finally got a chance to use a great sword in combat and did 77 damage with my first hit. I suspect it would be less through heavy armor but that's some pretty sizeable damage. I like it.
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Not even a profile pic? I think there's one or two he hasn't made a profile pic of, that may be fixed in the next update as I recall someone else reporting that too. If you mean the limited sex pics for the randoms he's doing those now and we're voting on which ones get done first.
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Not if you want them pegged at 100, that will always decrease a little bit every day or so even if you have all the house improvements, the perfume, a Pure slavegirl, max allowance, best stables etc. I have been able to peg some girls at 100 if they were Starlets dancing at the Golden Dragon and had all or almost all of the other bonuses (except I limit them to $25 allowance these days).
On the other hand it doesn't actually matter much if they're at 80 or 100, I just like to keep mine at 95+ most all of the time for roleplaying purposes. It makes sense to me to keep them all that happy you have to do a little work.
Nothing as far as I know, though if you lose one night you'll find it won't stay at the max, you'll be a sliver off. I saw someone say that max poker fame was supposed to make it more difficult to win but I've not noticed that either.
For combat, AEsir worship, for finance Islam, for hunting Church of the Elder, for Influence Church of the Two Moons, for stamina Christianity, for willpower up to 80 atheism.
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Mine had decent combat stats but was no match for Raven, and with her Sweet Tooth ballooned up to 222 lbs in short order. I finally got her discipline up and she's now a svelte 99 lbs and I sent her to the Arena where the best she can do on a consistent basis is get 600-1000 from the second tier opponents. Oh, well.
Yeah that's about what I had in my previous game. How good she and Rebecca are in the arena pretty much determines how hard I get to push for Aria as soon as possible. Aria can't always beat Raven but in my games she has always been close so with some training she can do it. A lot of times she can beat her with no training, although never consistently unless I save scum.
BTW I finally did break down and get all the implants for my main and you're right about the tier 6 bounties being much more doable in that situation with your main tanking instead of a merc. That extra 50 hp is an extra plasma hit you can tank without going down which really makes all the difference. I haven't boosted my dex yet to see if that makes a difference but I could see that being worth doing if it does. I'm not currently using the Aesir religion so I don't have the damage boost from that yet.
The one(?) random slave included in the Public release gets almost all their images from the
/Pics/AvRan folder.That folder is not included in the current public release.
Expect it in the mid-August v0.8.2(Public) release.
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Wow. Even the yet to be born have it rough. Fighting in an arena. My mind is trying to work out the dynamics of this terrifying fetus.
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Age 0 is not a Fetus, the counting of age starts with the day of birth, not the day of conception. Baby yes, fetus no .
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Okay. You are correct but I think you're missing the point. Unless, you're neighborhood is full of babies with guns.
Is teaching at the academy the only way to raise faction with the academy? I decided to play around with religions this time and am starting with Atheism since that's what you are given to begin with anyway and it passively increases Willpower. But it seems like just teaching alone will take a LONG time to raise faction.
So far I took 3 of the academy classes and read enough books to boost my science and academics to 100+ each and have started teaching science classes. No luck so far on the random devotion increase you can get from having high science skill but I have been save scumming the teaching to guarantee +3 devotion per class.
Makes for a bit of a slow start but I can still just barely get a bounty plus the arena in each day on top of the class as well as either read a couple of books at night or go do a little fighting. Seems like having your willpower passively boosted to 100 might be a good thing though so Atheism seems like a reasonable start. The main problem with it is you get literally nothing from it until you reach 100 devotion. All of the other religions give you some benefits prior to that.
So far I took 3 of the academy classes and read enough books to boost my science and academics to 100+ each and have started teaching science classes. No luck so far on the random devotion increase you can get from having high science skill but I have been save scumming the teaching to guarantee +3 devotion per class.
Makes for a bit of a slow start but I can still just barely get a bounty plus the arena in each day on top of the class as well as either read a couple of books at night or go do a little fighting. Seems like having your willpower passively boosted to 100 might be a good thing though so Atheism seems like a reasonable start. The main problem with it is you get literally nothing from it until you reach 100 devotion. All of the other religions give you some benefits prior to that.
I think there might be something bugged with regard to the stamina drain and/or finish of certain sex scenes in the version I'm playing (MoR_082(A4,2)). Not sure what causes it because it doesn't always happen, but some sex scenes a girl will drop to 0 stamina then bump back up to a positive number, then back to zero, etc. So you can have for instance an 8 hour long blowjob if your main has enough stamina.
I did a morning blowjob with Nicole which was actually my first interaction with her since recruiting her from the academy and it lasted from 8am til about 5pm and took her from around 50 happiness and indifferent affection to 100 happiness and loving all in 1 really long blowjob session.
I did a morning blowjob with Nicole which was actually my first interaction with her since recruiting her from the academy and it lasted from 8am til about 5pm and took her from around 50 happiness and indifferent affection to 100 happiness and loving all in 1 really long blowjob session.
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Yep, I think what happened was people complained about the girls not being able to take much of a fucking and Grim changed it so every time they get down there near zero and orgasm (I think) they'll get a few more points of stamina. If she got that many points of affection my guess is she was getting stamina points from orgasms. As practically the first thing I do is raise stamina on a girl I'm going to be 'working on' I don't run into it as often anymore so my analysis might be mistaken, but I think it's the orgasms that do it.
Yeah I raise stamina with the girls as well but for Nicole I had literally just picked her up the day before so zero stamina increases and zero happiness/affection increases prior to that blowjob. I did pick the arouser perk but she must REALLY love sucking dick if she was having that many orgasms to keep going for 8 hours. I had just bought my charm up to 89 at the hospital so I figured I might as well brute force my way to amiable on her so I could get her set up with the news radio job.
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She spent her first shift on her knees under your desk, sounds like a good way to deal with her actually. Looks like it worked out nicely for everyone.
Finally figured out that to work towards vassal status with The Academy you have to join the Historical Society and donate stuff to them. I'm thinking Atheism is probably not that great of a "religion" to start with anyway though since it gives you nothing til you hit 100 devotion and then takes more than a full in game year to max out your willpower assuming that 10% daily chance is accurate. Probably better for the mid to late game. In my Atheism start by day 77 I had gotten a grand total of... 1 willpower from Atheism. Not exactly earth shattering, especially since it required spending 30 days teaching at the academy.
I'm thinking Aesir might be the fastest to get to vassal status since you can donate slaves to them and that damage bonus would really help with the tier 6 bounties. It would be painful losing that if I decide I want to work on getting vassal status with the other religions later but I guess by then I might be able to scrounge up some kind of extra bonus to make up for it like using a slave with a damage bonus instead.
Christianity could be an interesting first choice because of the stamina bonus. Same with Cult of the Elder for the elimination of the stamina penalty during heat waves and storms.
The main problem with going with Aesir first is that I think that's the one I would eventually want to end up at but I assume you could switch back to it again at the end and it doesn't take that much to build up devotion again.
I'm thinking Aesir might be the fastest to get to vassal status since you can donate slaves to them and that damage bonus would really help with the tier 6 bounties. It would be painful losing that if I decide I want to work on getting vassal status with the other religions later but I guess by then I might be able to scrounge up some kind of extra bonus to make up for it like using a slave with a damage bonus instead.
Christianity could be an interesting first choice because of the stamina bonus. Same with Cult of the Elder for the elimination of the stamina penalty during heat waves and storms.
The main problem with going with Aesir first is that I think that's the one I would eventually want to end up at but I assume you could switch back to it again at the end and it doesn't take that much to build up devotion again.
I started over again for the bazillionth time, this time determined to do a zero save scum, zero F5 game.
Since I know from previous games that tier 6 bounties are extremely questionable without save scumming my plan is to skip those entirely for this play through which means I don't ever need 4 top tier mercs for bounties. So starting from that premise I decided to see if I could get by with zero top tier mercs and still do the tier 5 bounties. First order of business was getting Doyle some duraplate so he can tank until I have the money to get all the health implants for my main so he can take over tanking duties. I suspect I will have to skip the tier 5 bounties until I can afford to boost health on my main to 200 because there's no way I'm going to be able to guarantee a kill on the plasma guy in the first round without Ayden. I can do the regular random arena battles with just rifles but Doyle takes a LOT of damage.
Second thing I'm noticing is where the true line is for the valkrie from Marston avenue in the arena. With no training she can't consistently beat either of the legendary opponents even with a weapon. She can beat them rarely but that's not good enough IMO. She can beat the heroic opponents bare handed some of the time but not all of the time, however she can beat them 100% of the time with a sledgehammer. So that's decent money and influence prior to training I think.
I plan on swapping her out soon for Rebecca so I can train up her melee stats. My arena results will get significantly worse for awhile with Rebecca in there, but I figure the valkrie with 100 melee should be able to dominate Raven with a weapon.
The last thing I've noticed so far is that with nobody using anything stronger than a rifle yet some of the random enemies around town are just not reliably beatable even with duraplate armor. So I'm not clearing the marston or stokke hills bosses for now. I usually get zero weapon drops anyway so I'm not missing that much other than influence.
Oh that brings up one last point and that's money from combat. Without F5 I make maybe 25% of the money I used to make with combat since I frequently get zero drops. So far it's day 15 and I've seen zero assault rifle drops and haven't even attempted any enemies with coil guns yet.
Definitely makes for a slower start, but I'm actually finding it more fun. There's no more frustration of using F5 til I get the result I want or reloading from fails. I do take rare stat losses if I happen to try a fight that's too hard but not very often.
So far Doyle and Dexter are both getting very reliable. I suspect it's going to be a long road for Bud though. My fourth is Loren for now but I think I'll swap her out for Aiko once I have time to convince Loren that being a whore would be more fun than getting shot at. I think once I have the money for a stealth suit I might just put my slaves on a permanent combat rotation with 1 slave always being part of my squad. So it'll be Doyle, Dexter, Bud, and 1 slave.
So far I'm at day 15 and the only thing I've bought besides a few house upgrades is a suit of duraplate for Doyle. Money is tight. I went with crafting as 1 of my starting perks this time so I should be able to get some of those crafting investments up and running a lot faster than normal though.
Edit: As luck would have it, I got my first tier 5 bounty on day 20 when I definitely wasn't ready for it. Decided to try it anyway so sold most of my stuff to buy the aim implant so I could at least have an auto hit with the assault rifle I finally found. Turned out to be one of the easier versions of the tier 5 (only 2 enemies) so I managed to do it and a plasma did drop. So the next one should be MUCH easier with an auto hit plasma shot now for my main.
Since I know from previous games that tier 6 bounties are extremely questionable without save scumming my plan is to skip those entirely for this play through which means I don't ever need 4 top tier mercs for bounties. So starting from that premise I decided to see if I could get by with zero top tier mercs and still do the tier 5 bounties. First order of business was getting Doyle some duraplate so he can tank until I have the money to get all the health implants for my main so he can take over tanking duties. I suspect I will have to skip the tier 5 bounties until I can afford to boost health on my main to 200 because there's no way I'm going to be able to guarantee a kill on the plasma guy in the first round without Ayden. I can do the regular random arena battles with just rifles but Doyle takes a LOT of damage.
Second thing I'm noticing is where the true line is for the valkrie from Marston avenue in the arena. With no training she can't consistently beat either of the legendary opponents even with a weapon. She can beat them rarely but that's not good enough IMO. She can beat the heroic opponents bare handed some of the time but not all of the time, however she can beat them 100% of the time with a sledgehammer. So that's decent money and influence prior to training I think.
I plan on swapping her out soon for Rebecca so I can train up her melee stats. My arena results will get significantly worse for awhile with Rebecca in there, but I figure the valkrie with 100 melee should be able to dominate Raven with a weapon.
The last thing I've noticed so far is that with nobody using anything stronger than a rifle yet some of the random enemies around town are just not reliably beatable even with duraplate armor. So I'm not clearing the marston or stokke hills bosses for now. I usually get zero weapon drops anyway so I'm not missing that much other than influence.
Oh that brings up one last point and that's money from combat. Without F5 I make maybe 25% of the money I used to make with combat since I frequently get zero drops. So far it's day 15 and I've seen zero assault rifle drops and haven't even attempted any enemies with coil guns yet.
Definitely makes for a slower start, but I'm actually finding it more fun. There's no more frustration of using F5 til I get the result I want or reloading from fails. I do take rare stat losses if I happen to try a fight that's too hard but not very often.
So far Doyle and Dexter are both getting very reliable. I suspect it's going to be a long road for Bud though. My fourth is Loren for now but I think I'll swap her out for Aiko once I have time to convince Loren that being a whore would be more fun than getting shot at. I think once I have the money for a stealth suit I might just put my slaves on a permanent combat rotation with 1 slave always being part of my squad. So it'll be Doyle, Dexter, Bud, and 1 slave.
So far I'm at day 15 and the only thing I've bought besides a few house upgrades is a suit of duraplate for Doyle. Money is tight. I went with crafting as 1 of my starting perks this time so I should be able to get some of those crafting investments up and running a lot faster than normal though.
Edit: As luck would have it, I got my first tier 5 bounty on day 20 when I definitely wasn't ready for it. Decided to try it anyway so sold most of my stuff to buy the aim implant so I could at least have an auto hit with the assault rifle I finally found. Turned out to be one of the easier versions of the tier 5 (only 2 enemies) so I managed to do it and a plasma did drop. So the next one should be MUCH easier with an auto hit plasma shot now for my main.
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