Ren'Py My Early Life [Ep.1-16.00] [CeLaVie Group]

[Pirate1]

This game annoys the shit out off me for not opening the events after doing the same shit for 30 hours

 

[Aj Atkinson]

I was looking forward to this update and thought there would be much more action, like in some other previous games. But I was wrong:
- there is still not much action
- there is even more grinding due to new mechanics of arousal indicators
I thought it was convenient to see the mood, it would ease the next steps, but adding the second "weight" of the person - arousal to the existing "mood" made grinding even more challenging...
Money, they are unbalanced this time very much. Especially when each next step and situation demands more each time, this is nonsense. You start with the 10-12K but you will need more than 500K to get to the Event 65 of 77 with this grinding. This is EPIC fail.

 

[Pirate1]

Get URM
https://f95zone.to/threads/universal-renpy-mod-urm-2-0-3-mod-any-renpy-game-yourself.48025/

Then you can just search 'arousal' in game and set them to 10. Ezpz

Thank you, but man who ever made this shit is boss. I unlocked so many scenes

 

[yurilins]

This game is filth, the game is so complex and requires so many actions that you don't even know if you're stuck in a bug loop, or if you're right in the events, the tutorial doesn't warn you that you need to repeat some events to complete them. list. You're stuck every moment having to waste hours of real time to maybe reach the goal (if you're not in a bugloop).
I don't mind games like that, but they tend to be a waste of time.

 

[LegendBear]

This was posted by MrTM on **********. All thanks to him.
Drop the file in the game folder. Now, every time you enter Bob's room, all the girls stats will be maxed and $300 will be added.

I was able to finish this episode using this mod. Without it, it's not worth playing. I think the content of the episode was good, but the mechanics were a massive step backwards. I sincerely hope Bob takes note of how poorly these changes are being received, or the Patreons are expressing similar sentiments.

 

[RustyV]

If something's not broke don't step on it.

 

[a1fox3]

So the dad and the dad's girlfriend die leaving MC and the girlfriend daughters, how are they MC siblings?

Overview:
This story take place in the early years of Bob's life.
His dad just died in an accident with his new girlfriend. Bob and his dad's girlfriend's 3 daughters are suddenly without parents and Bob's dad just bought an expensive house.
They decide to stay together but money is small. Bob get's an opportunity to earn money. Follow Bob in his fifth adventure with his 3 gorgeous 'siblings'

The dad did not marry the girlfriend so they can not be MC's siblings.

 

[travkin]

Passing can be activated through URM. Mod - Ren'Py - Universal Ren'Py Mod / URM [2.0.3] (mod any Ren'Py game yourself) | F95zone Write Skip in the console search engine and change the FALSE of TRUE.
I put it on a copy of the game and so far I see no problems.

Can you tell me more here?

 

[Tequilas757]

In episode 7, what should I do at 20:00 in the TV room? Nobody shows up

 

[LegendBear]

In episode 7, what should I do at 20:00 in the TV room? Nobody shows up

Go to dinner on the weekends, the event is only on Saturday and Sunday and only after you have dinner.

 

[Celaviegroup]

Episode 7 of CeLaVieGroup's “My Early Life” game, the fifth in their series of biography of one individual, is a masterpiece of beautiful graphics. Each of these porn games involves the progressive corruption of one or more Female Characters, and episode 7 goes from some nakedness and touching to BJ's and CL. The FC's are still the same 3 sisters, with no additions, that have appeared in the first six episodes, and there are no new sandbox locations added in episode 7. As is standard with CLVG, there is no psychological story to get in the way of the gorgeous graphics, just a little explanation to go along with the events. If you want Dostoyevsky, there are plenty of other developers who use their graphics as a minimal addition to their story-telling.

MEL differs from the previous games in that the navigation scheme is different. It still maintains the comfortable concept of a set of events which need to be all completed for the episode to be finished, and these separate a CLVG game from most others, where it is hard to tell when an episode has been completed. This episode has an improved hint system, but what CLVG gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. The completion of events has some new tricks added in, so that trying to follow the hint system alone leads to many uncompleted events.

One of the tricks might be thought of as the invitation idea. For example, there is a bookmark which is designated in the pool area, but if you go there unprepared, you will find no FC's there and no way to complete the event. Instead, you must have dinner with the two youngest FC's, where they say they plan to have this event. But you cannot just randomly have dinner with them to accomplish this event, because many dinners do not have this invitation. A dinner scene might alternatively have an invitation to the TVRoom to play a game, which has the same problem.

Another trick is a phantom event. There are at least two of them, scheduled according to the hints for a morning timeslot in the oldest FC's room. But you can go there at the scheduled time dozens of times, and nothing happens. These events are completed by having the MC sleep over in this FC's bedroom at least four times, which is not predictable by any dialog or hints. They have no connection with their scheduled tod's.

There are more chores events, which occur in the older FC's room, but are only completed when the MC has completed chores he was asked to do somewhere else in the sandbox; the chores include cutting the grass (pool area), buying groceries (deli), cleaning the bathroom, and doing the laundry (kitchen). Each of these has to be done at the right place and time-of-day.

CLVG has continued with their habit of having events that need multiple hits to fulfill the event. In previous episodes, the player might have to go to the same location, at the same time-of-day, up to 10 times to finally score the bookmark. CLVG has gone wild here, with up to 16 hits required in at least one event. There are lots of these 'progress' events in episode 7. Typically they involve identical graphics for the beginning, with something different at the end. This means it is impossible to back out of a scene if it has 'grindy' graphics (stuff you have seen before), as the end of the scene might be the only different part. If you are very attentive, you might note that the event count does not advance until you visit the place/time-of-day sufficient times. You can also check the hints to tell you that you need to keep hitting the same scene/tod, if you can locate the proper line in the list.

Some events require a large amount of money to be transferred from MC to a FC, so if you have trouble on an event involving payment (most seem to), up the amount. For example, the kitchen morning event requires a payment of 1001 or more to complete. No cheaping out in a CLVG episode.

There are chains of events as well. On one, the player needs to first go to the lingerie store to be invited to produce a poster, then back to the oldest FC twice (offer and acceptance: 1030 in kitchen), then back to lingerie store, then back to kitchen to be whisked away for the photoshoot. Then there is the photo prep stage in Bob's room in the evening, and then 7am in the morning to get a phone call, and then later to be whisked over to see the poster mounted for display at the lingerie shop. When a character is whisked, there is no choosing to go by the nav system, you just appear there.

There are also two finale events which can only occur as the last two events of the entire sequence. All in all, this episode is more difficult to complete, what with invitation events, phantom events, chain events, finale events, chores events, chain events, and expensive events in addition to the regular ones. You might spend 8, 10, 12 hours figuring it all out. The increased challenge is more than compensated for by the new graphics. CLVG is by far my favorite dev.

Thanks
Please keep in mind that my supporters always get instructions how to play this update. My supporters have also been informed that hints to further progress is shown in the stat. That will also happen when I make a public release. On the frontpage - all players have been informed that this is a complex game to play and not a 'click and watch novel'. My supporters have also been informed that hints to further progress is shown in the stat. It looks like many players here are - of course not - aware about that as the version here is a non public leaked version.

 

[J_M]

Thanks
Please keep in mind that my supporters always get instructions how to play this update. My supporters have also been informed that hints to further progress is shown in the stat. That will also happen when I make a public release. On the frontpage - all players have been informed that this is a complex game to play and not a 'click and watch novel'. My supporters have also been informed that hints to further progress is shown in the stat. It looks like many players here are - of course not - aware about that as the version here is a non public leaked version.

I'm sorry to say but if your game requires additional AND external info on how to play it, it means it's a bad designed game. I can understand the need to get more support for your work but that's not it!...

 

[Celaviegroup]

I'm sorry to say but if your game requires additional AND external info on how to play it, it means it's a bad designed game. I can understand the need to get more support for your work but that's not it!...

Completely disagree, sorry - I have not made the decision that someone should leak a 'half' game You're blaming me because someone else have given you a 'half' game!!! More or less all games needs instructions and I have decided to give some hints and instruction in combination with the game to my supporters. Exactly the same as I'll do for the public release. You can either wait for the public release and instructons/hints or accept that you didn't got it all from the leaker. Otherwise don't waste yours and my time - find something else to play.

 

[deviant9]

Can you tell me more here?

There is nothing complicated - download the URM mod from the link, 7zip and put in the Game Folder. Start the game, open mod with ALT+M and go to Search, write Skip and in all places where FALSE has a TRUE change button. I advise you to make a copy of the game just in case.
PS. This mod can change many other parameters, but it can break the game, so experiment only on a copy.

 

[BoobiesSugoi]

Some people are never happy^^

First they complain that there are to many variables to find the right place at the right time...

Like way to many rooms/locations and now when this MAIN feature what I loved about "Room For Rent" has been reduced way to much and the recent EP has nearly NO "puzzling" any longer into it people can`t even get the MONEY together to progress...

I mean this game has become so very easy, and now, what`s next?! - they want you to make the game only 20min. long^^
So they can move on to the next 0815 game.

Holy cow - trying to please the crowd really comes at a very high prize.

 

[J_M]

Completely disagree, sorry - I have not made the decision that someone should leak a 'half' game You're blaming me because someone else have given you a 'half' game!!! More or less all games needs instructions and I have decided to give some hints and instruction in combination with the game to my supporters. Exactly the same as I'll do for the public release. You can either wait for the public release and instructons/hints or accept that you didn't got it all from the leaker. Otherwise don't waste yours and my time - find something else to play.

I'm not blaming anyone really... It's your work and you do whatever you think is right with it. I just said that I think the game is not well designed. Whatever reason is behind it... not my problem. I shall play or ignore the game (half-game, full game, doesn't matter), that's on me. Is the game good or bad, that's on you - the developer. If you are happy with the result, then all is perfectly fine.

 

[J_M]

Adding to the above. I like some of you characters, not all, unfortunately; and I also can get behind the idea of the proposed gameplay. Implementation however... a bit lacking, at least at the moment. Still respecting your work.

 

[Zauldjamin]

Hi, love the game so far. I've run into a problem in ep. 4. I'm currently at Sunday at 7am with only $149 and no way to sell images. I have maxed my hacking skill but I simply can't find out how to make money. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[gopherino]

Completely disagree, sorry - I have not made the decision that someone should leak a 'half' game You're blaming me because someone else have given you a 'half' game!!! More or less all games needs instructions and I have decided to give some hints and instruction in combination with the game to my supporters. Exactly the same as I'll do for the public release. You can either wait for the public release and instructons/hints or accept that you didn't got it all from the leaker. Otherwise don't waste yours and my time - find something else to play.

CLVG - you are paying the price of excellence. If your games weren't so well-done, there would be a lot less interest in those who can't or won't become accredited supporters to get leaked copies at the earliest moment. Perhaps you can accept the leaking of 'half-games', whatever that means, as a testimonial to how much people appreciate and wait for your monthly updates. Perhaps you might even find some useful gems among the pirates' comments here, as your games are quite innovative in navigation and other features, which means they need thorough review.

 

[RustyV]

I found that sometimes the labels under the girls portrait at the top are faded into the background, not a big issue.
This update was fun, progress was made between the MC and the girls.
Am I the only one who thinks Lynn will do anything if you pay her enough? I'm not sure if the MC is corrupting her to have sex or turning her into a prostitute. Which could be a plot set back for the MC, Lynn gets caught taking money from a guy for some sex act and this news makes the girls angry at the MC which pushes their relationship backward and he has to work to regain their trust.