Others Porn Empire [v0.92b] [PEdev]

[Ogi]

Just a reminder that no matter if you recruit them as PA's or models, you still get the bonus.

Also not all "negative" traits are necesserly that bad, for example the crazy one makes the scene better, also if you got good models with a bad trait youcan still limit them to solo so that they won't affect anyone else.

And paying the loan back is easy as f@ck atm so there's nothing wrong with taking it, why waste literally hours with a 500$ starting cash and hookers farming?

 

[mbmb]

i sorta like these OP traits like nympho. it's like hitting a jackpot. would like to do more of them, but still keep them rare.
not on this version, but someday you'll do everything to keep a girl with that kind of trait.
and i'll make sure that dealing with them wont be easy.

good males in porn are (very) rare. i sorta wanted to replicate that. although if you play as female you've got plenty of choices.
talent search PA is your friend.

loans arent balanced in any way. i just made up numbers on the fly.
the idea is to have a special npc there and more you progress with her better loan deals you get. game also has to be balanced in a way that taking a loan would be neccessary if you want to expand you empire. maybe only for some "hard" mode.

endgame is something game doesnt have at all. it's hard to do one really.
even in other sim games, like simcity for example, theres nothing to do once you reach certain point.
there are catastrophes which i could also do here, but i dislike that mechanics. seems like a bad design to punish the player when he did all the right things in a playthrough.
i started making std epidemic and i feel it's a better way. you can prevent it, but it'll cost you.
need more "long term" shit like this. if you ignore the problem it can go away by itself (rarely) or you can get fucked hard.


AI is in plans.
have to come up with all the mechanics. possibilities are endless here just need to do the basics first.
stealing models for example. this will force you to put good ones on a contract, even if you have to overpay.
sabotaging the production. relates to security level.
something about websites. like AI pushing their website to devalue yours and stealing your subs.
plus the basic shit like AI dominating one category and you cant get a piece of the pie.

my wish then is to make some simple diplomacy.
let's say you take some big ass loan on day 1, start big right away and money starts rolling in.
some AI companies feel threatened and may join together to create a "super" company. you'll have a hard time dealing with them.
or you can go slowly, fly under the radar and fuck them over when they wont expect anything. buy them out, crash their company, whatever. you know few scenarios like that to keep things fresh.

endgame is a bitch.


thanks for the exploits mecha_froggy, i'll mix up everything now and make some impossible lol.

 

[Frederiksc]

endgame is a bitch.

Endgame is what you make of it. In other games like "König von St. Pauli" (King of St. Pauli) the game was finished, when you crippled all other companies, owned a brewery and sponsored/owned a soccer club.

So maybe a stadium with the almighty "PE Studs" and a cheerleader group with special "needs" and job criteria for both of these carreers? A weed farm in the hills run by your trusted addicts?
A "Pimp my Ride" *cough* garage for mods on your "property" *cough*?
A "hidden" bordello option (quest) for some serious trades like head hunting traits (human *cough* trafficing *cough*)

Endgame is when you feel the need for /more/ ^^

 

[Avgvstvs]

Leave the nymphos alone! lol

They are the best, and it's a personal war looking for one without other bad traits, so, dont change the nympho pros.

And i can live with bugs, crashes and etc, but bring that char creator that you mentioned before, let us create a happy camgirl nympho for once.

 

[Engelstein]

What about a Bangbus-ish scenario for the studio? Rent out a van and travel the streets, picking up "whores". First ones you shoot have your own girls and then start using the casting models when they are available. There's a lot of possibilities by parodying the popular porn sites.

 

[Sojonin]

What about a Bangbus-ish scenario for the studio? Rent out a van and travel the streets, picking up "whores". First ones you shoot have your own girls and then start using the casting models when they are available. There's a lot of possibilities by parodying the popular porn sites.

Kink.com has a ton of sub-sites that would fit the bill, among other groups.

 

[mecha_froggy]

Just a reminder that no matter if you recruit them as PA's or models, you still get the bonus.

50% true. Your MC gets the bonus trait, such as free meds from the nurse or cheap hotel rooms from the maid, but the NPCs themselves lose their bonus if you recruit them as porn stars rather than PAs. So while Leana the Cougar will give your the "creme machine" perk either way, her ability to level up the sex skill of your other models will be lost if you just make her a porn star. You need to keep her as a PA to keep that bonus. Ditto for Jenny - yes, either way she'll protect you from fitness decay, but leveling up your model's fitness requires her to be a PA. The nurse will give you the free meds perk either way but the half-off cost and recovery times for your models in rehab, again, requires her to be a PA.

So yes, you can get half of their perks - the MC bonuses - even if they're porn stars, but if you want all of their perks they have to be PAs. Like I said, though, the library girl with her whoopti-do 5% PA salary discount is so weak that having her just be a porn star is no big loss, and like wise Maria the maid only gives you free makeovers ($800 a pop normally), which is something that you'll only ever do for each model once, ever, and then forget about. Shelling out thousands of dollars per month to her just for that is not really cost effective in the long run, so again having her as a porn star rather than a PA is perfectly reasonable.

Naturally my suggestion to this is for PEDev to change the perks of those two to make them more worthwhile. Maria is obvious: Change her free makeover to free increase in beauty stat over time (just as Jenny raises fitness, have Maria raise beauty). The nerdy library girl (I can never remember her name) would, IMHO, be better giving some kind of massive website bonus - to be more exact, a bonus to camshow girls (once that gets implemented) since that seems to be her thing, anyway.

While Alice (punk chick) has a good PA bonus to marketing, I'm not sure that really fits her personality - especially since her story is basically whining that she can't get anyone to do photoshoots of her in the first place. Instead I think she'd be better represented as a combination of free tats & piercings from the store (similar to what Maria currently does) as the MC perk and her PA perk to be using her rebel charisma to convince models to let you give them makeovers, tats and piercings without being under contract (which would be a very powerful talent to have) - "You're cool, I want to be more like you, could you dye my hair like that, too?" basically.

 

[Ogi]

mecha_froggy hmm now there's a few things i seem to have missed in that case, thanks for pointing it out, guess i'll have to throw a 3rd game to check XD

 

[Spaz545]

Buying properties doesn't seem to work in the latest version, neither after finishing delia's story or using the "enable property buying" from the dev menu. No buy button shows up when i click the properties.

 

[qwertysmith]

Buying properties doesn't seem to work in the latest version, neither after finishing delia's story or using the "enable property buying" from the dev menu. No buy button shows up when i click the properties.

I think MBMB mentioned that the properties thing got fucked up in the export of this Dev version.

 

[mecha_froggy]

Add to bug list (dev 0.78):

1) Alice McLean, Debby Carter and Elizabeth Dillon are all missing their bonuses. All show up as regular PAs with no specific role or perks, either for themselves or the MC.

2) Pregnancy discovery scene now just goes to an empty office and the model vanishes. No dialog, no pop-up, no graphics, no options.

 

[mbmb]

Add to bug list (dev 0.78):

1) Alice McLean, Debby Carter and Elizabeth Dillon are all missing their bonuses. All show up as regular PAs with no specific role or perks, either for themselves or the MC.

2) Pregnancy discovery scene now just goes to an empty office and the model vanishes. No dialog, no pop-up, no graphics, no options.

1) i know, i've removed their bonuses since managers will get those. special chicks are OP anyway. no roles for them anymore.
they're going to be regular staff members. some makeup artists, some PAs and so on. you'll still get perks from completing their stories.
it's not set in stone, just testing some stuff in the dev

2) nice

 

[random78905]

Are PAs bugged to not schedule photo shoots? Since they have options for the photo studio I figured they would book shoots there too but I can only get them to book shoots in the normal studios.

I was also messing around with website stuff and while my first site doing Solo content worked fine, opening a second site and doing Photo content did not generate any fans or money despite having a higher average scene quality than the first site. I did a quick test and opened a third site focused on Girl-On-Girl which functioned correctly.

You can crash the game at the job center by hiring someone and then clicking on their name without leaving the menu and hiring them again. Similar to the already fixed bug where you could interview someone multiple times.

 

[OUK]

Does somebody know details about the cost of a pregnancy/abortion in this game?

At what point at the "Expenses" are the abortion cost of 1.000 Dollars shown?

And when an actress should be pregnant and "bear" the child, where are the 100 Dollars/week shown? How long are these 100 Dollars/week have to be paid? In game mechanics it would "normal" that these payments only have to be done as long as the actress is pregnant or are these payments allready have to be paid longer than just duringe the pregnancy?

Maybe it would be possible to extract the information about pregnancy/abortion cost in a specific display in the "Expenses"?

 

[Fury2]

Is there a way to help? Like perhaps i could send a bugged savefile or something

 

[mbmb]

Are PAs bugged to not schedule photo shoots? Since they have options for the photo studio I figured they would book shoots there too but I can only get them to book shoots in the normal studios.

I was also messing around with website stuff and while my first site doing Solo content worked fine, opening a second site and doing Photo content did not generate any fans or money despite having a higher average scene quality than the first site. I did a quick test and opened a third site focused on Girl-On-Girl which functioned correctly.

You can crash the game at the job center by hiring someone and then clicking on their name without leaving the menu and hiring them again. Similar to the already fixed bug where you could interview someone multiple times.

maybe. i'll check whats with photoshoots and websites.
job center should be fixed.

Does somebody know details about the cost of a pregnancy/abortion in this game?

At what point at the "Expenses" are the abortion cost of 1.000 Dollars shown?

And when an actress should be pregnant and "bear" the child, where are the 100 Dollars/week shown? How long are these 100 Dollars/week have to be paid? In game mechanics it would "normal" that these payments only have to be done as long as the actress is pregnant or are these payments allready have to be paid longer than just duringe the pregnancy?

Maybe it would be possible to extract the information about pregnancy/abortion cost in a specific display in the "Expenses"?

probably forgot to specify where the $1000 belong. i'll fix it.
child support isnt implemented. you aint paying shit. abuse it while you can.

Is there a way to help? Like perhaps i could send a bugged savefile or something

you can send me here on pm. you'll have to zip them otherwise it wont allow you to attach to post.

 

[kasdjak090]

So how do you check animations other than Boy and Girl?

 

[mecha_froggy]

So how do you check animations other than Boy and Girl?

Buy an actual studio, then you can do whatever you want with any two (or three) models you want.

 

[mecha_froggy]

Suggestion for new PA skill: Legal and new PA role: Lawyer.

As this game expands I foresee more & more needs for the tycoon to have, well, a lawyer on the payroll. Paternity suit? Call your lawyer. Busted doing hidden camera without consent? Call your lawyer. Cops bust you for drug possession? Call your lawyer. Get caught doing an outdoor scene in the park? Call your lawyer.

 

[mbmb]

Suggestion for new PA skill: Legal and new PA role: Lawyer.

As this game expands I foresee more & more needs for the tycoon to have, well, a lawyer on the payroll. Paternity suit? Call your lawyer. Busted doing hidden camera without consent? Call your lawyer. Cops bust you for drug possession? Call your lawyer. Get caught doing an outdoor scene in the park? Call your lawyer.

yea thats pretty nice. could build a lot of events about lawyers pulling you out of shit.