Thank you for the entertaining so far !
I like the approach of networking with human-like behavior, which should correspond to an AI.
You've wrote a lot and it looks like many thoughts about rl were implemented with passion.
I know it's probably hard to understand for die-hard HG fans, but if someone sits down and writes a WT mod for this complex, interwoven dating sim to make the game accessible to a wider audience, then I would like to suggest little things:
- So far, the game has been designed so that you read through every single conversation carefully and weigh the decisions offered according to your own gut feeling.
The hardcore fans probably zip through the game for the first 70 days, since each dialogue has already been read 20 times by then.
-> if I have seen it correctly, the mod should show the corresponding changes as colored text.
Following suggestion:
- there are usually 3 options to choose from: + / - / neutral
if you keep this option or your options during whole gameplay from top to bottom, the player gets used to it and does not have to read through the smaller additional text.
- as soon as more options are available, the new variant should be described but the basic principle should be retained (++ / + / neutral / - / -)
As a next suggestion I have a simple simplification:
Someone said that he would like to have characters outlined in color so that he does not have to search again and again under the tiny displayed heads. Something I really liked to read.
How about if the player marks his preference for characters and the mod brightly marks the way to fulfillment in these conversations?
Or the mod informs the player that characters A and B cannot be chosen together and that a ranking must be set for this.
-> what do I know, something like "date material", "fuck-buddy", "fuck piece on demand", "could may watch"
The remaining characters are left aside and a "free" choice on them can be made which, in my case, end in no special scenes.
Since I'm new to this Sim, I found it difficult to get anyone naked or start sexual interaction in the first run without guidance until ~ day 50.
I didn't get very far with just "nice or ass", as different triggers were required at certain points within these days.
So if you have read through what the individual characters have to say by day 34 but you neither know that this could have been an important decision in interpersonal relationships, you miss the junction and end up not laid.
In my example, I liked to date Michelle but got a drop down in relation for something like -50 in a conversation with Mark and ended repeatedly with her interested in movie only. Even if she told, Mark couldn't be trusted ^^
I see that some have dealt with the source code in order to record and trigger these points of the game progress with the desired candidate so that the game loop ends. Obviously it wasn't just me that the exact exit was seldom found if you didn't commit to one of the characters from the beginning and specifically concentrate on repeat its inclination via save file.
Others, like myself, had to find out from Guide 1.4 that with either a decision for evening scenes with a chosen secondary character, the option for a consistent further course of the game with the "I want to see what a steady relationship looks like with you- Character " is no longer available. The conversations, as they take place with David, so that all game progress up to the current status are discussed, aren't available or newly placed to a later conversation on which you have to decide again whether or not and when to.
When I realized this, I looked for a suitable save file, in which I suspected that the junction could be made and ultimately came to the conclusion that I had to start a new game in order to receive this mentioned entertainment.
At the moment I am so far that I suspect either a description error in the guide or a programming error. It may also be because I get a "Header Error" from .7zip repeatedly when I download v1.55 from F95 again.
The reason I'm starting again is probably because I'm eager to follow the MC's further story without having to exclude these characters.
As said, thanks for the entertaining so far.
