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Thank you for being kind enough to reply... I did find out the answer shortly after I wrote my question however in gameplay when the game issued the event. I'm currently at at standstill (which is primarily because of rushing through the current game build) but I'm rather certain I missed key event triggers & because of my progress those triggers won't happen. I'm loath to once again restart the game as I was forced to do so with the current build so I'm curious as to whether someone has made a guide or walkthrough that is contingent on chaos/corruption thresholds as well as specific time reqs? While I sincerely enjoy and appreciate the randomized nature of event occurrence, it's aggravating not knowing exactly how or when I missed the thresholds to trigger said events.
Here are a couple mini guides by diebesgrab to help get you started. They are a bit dated bus mostly hold up

Game Over Guide this guide tells you about the failure points in the game, where you have a task that you can fail to do resulting in a game over.
Getting Started Guide this guide gives you some tips and priorities for how to get off to a solid start in the game.
 
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I shave mine as my lady hates picking pubes out of her mouth guys. In return she shaves hers as i equaly hate picking pubes from my mouth. Give a little to get a lot guys. Hairy Lesbos - Yuck!
I shaved for awhile, but I found it was a hassle to maintain, and if I didn't maintain it the regrowing hair would she very itchy and scratchy for several days. It certainly contributed to me being more understanding when my wife didn't constantly maintain hers as well. That said even just trimming the hairs down to a shorter length can make a big difference for either party.
 
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Your assumption is not necessarily correct. As for guys shaving or whatever sure that'd be nice, that said blowing a guy with a thick thatch is easier than going down a girl with same. I tried ones and no matter what I did with my hand, hairs would escape to tickle the inside of my nostril. I ended up sneezing all over her inner thigh and the atmosphere is ruined. That's one of the reasons I wax and why I generally don't go down on girls with thick jungles.
Not gonna lie, that was funny as heck. I genuinely lol'd in RL. :ROFLMAO: Sex is often a wondrous and hilarious activity for people to pursue. :D Thanks for brightening up my day. Cheers! ;)(y)
 

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I shaved for awhile, but I found it was a hassle to maintain, and if I didn't maintain it the regrowing hair would she very itchy and scratchy for several days. It certainly contributed to me being more understanding when my wife didn't constantly maintain hers as well. That said even just trimming the hairs down to a shorter length can make a big difference for either party.
in before labelled as off topic :LUL:
I shave my back, sack, crack and chest once a month at the very least feels way cleaner after a shower. Sacks always a delicate operation though gotta just trim it down as best you can while avoiding nicks.
 
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Reviews will pick up in time, when the game offers the intended experience.

If we take time to polish things, people will complain we're taking too long.
If we rush to wrap things up and move on, people will complain we left the game incomplete.

Doomed if you, doomed if you don't.

I'd sell my soul to go back in time and do things differently. Alas.
 

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Way, way back in the beforetimes, the early backers (yay me!) knew him to be the "Nemesis", as I recall. Essentially, a counter to the rise of the dark overlord Rowan -- whether that be true or not -- and a champion to defeat him (specifically) and the rest of Bloodmeen's forces. That information and the associated image have long since quietly been removed from y'all's project's overview on Patreon and webpage. You guys have been really good at not letting anything slip on that front for basically forever -- to the dismay of many! :LOL: So no, you haven't revealed who it is in any official capacity that I can remember, but many of us have speculated that the Nemesis would simply make an appearance later on as Act I solidified itself. With the evolution of the project and the passage of time, all of this is subject to change (or has already) and I can't assume anything said here is correct anymore. Well, other than whoever this character will turn out to be will show up at some point in the SoC saga per your comment. ^^ Definitely looking forward to it though! :cool:
 
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Reviews will pick up in time, when the game offers the intended experience.

If we take time to polish things, people will complain we're taking too long.
If we rush to wrap things up and move on, people will complain we left the game incomplete.

Doomed if you, doomed if you don't.

I'd sell my soul to go back in time and do things differently. Alas.
Many expect devs to know what they are doing and some things take time to learn and grow, it's not like their is a book/course on how to make a AVN step by step, 2021 was a year of growth for Venus Noire as you guys have been the most productive and showed a lot of quality improvement than previous years and let's hope this positive trend continues.

Way, way back in the beforetimes, the early backers (yay me!) knew him to be the "Nemesis", as I recall. Essentially, a counter to the rise of the dark overlord Rowan -- whether that be true or not -- and a champion to defeat him (specifically) and the rest of Bloodmeen's forces. That information and the associated image have long since quietly been removed from y'all's project's overview on Patreon and webpage. You guys have been really good at not letting anything slip on that front for basically forever -- to the dismay of many! :LOL: So no, you haven't revealed who it is in any official capacity that I can remember, but many of us have speculated that the Nemesis would simply make an appearance later on as Act I solidified itself. With the evolution of the project and the passage of time, all of this is subject to change (or has already) and I can't assume anything said here is correct anymore. Well, other than whoever this character will turn out to be will show up at some point in the SoC saga per your comment. ^^ Definitely looking forward to it though! :cool:
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I'm still somewhat new here, so I wasn't around in the early days. But it seems to me that the project got away from them in a variety of ways. Maybe I would be bitter about it to if I was around in the more diretionless days. But their current roadmap seems to be steering them in the right direction and they seem to be making real progress toward completion. So I'm looking forward to it.
 

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If you look back on SoC development it's clear that it was chaotic during the early years. The goals were over-ambitious, some aspects of the game were being developed much faster while others lagged behind, art style was all over the place etc. Lots of very basic things were left for later while the devs were focusing on minor events that suit the fanbase's fetishes or introducing completely new plot points (like Fae storyline) that are still only in the very early phase.

So yes, if someone donated lots of money for the game while expecting relatively smooth progress on all its aspects, he/she has a right to be disappointed. The truth is the devs were (or still are) gradually learning how to properly create VNs and SoC is their experimental field. But at least for 4 years now, the progress is good and stable. It's not super fast, but the quality of new content is extremely high, both in terms of writing and art. Hell, I'd pay 3$ per month on Patreon just to see all the new amazing CGs that are constantly being produced.

SoC will probably take many more years to finish, probably even more than a decade (if we are talking about three acts). But I don't really mind it as long as the devs will continue to work on it keeping at least the current pace. Even right now, far from completion, it's one of the best Western erotic VNs.
 

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It's also a rather unique game: not a standard VN, not a full management game, but kind of in the middle, and with a good number of branches. Such projects (surely ambitious, and possibly overambitious in the early years) are always more difficult to steer.
 

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6 years. still in act 1.
I spent about 100 bucks before realizing that they really weren't interested in making meaningful progress. Yes, there are problems that need to be addressed but the devs mostly aren't working on them; they working on stuff that largely doesn't progress the story. Currently the top review on steam is negative. Half of the "Most Helpful" reviews on Steam are negative and nearly all of them mention slow development. 6 years. A team of people have been working on this title for 6 years and they still haven't closed Act 1. they're awfully quick to respond to criticism, for people allegedly hard at work on their game. When I supported the game on patreon I thought the game was only a year or two old and that the devs legit wanted to finish the title.
Fans blame the long development on feature creep and overly ambitious goals. If that's the case the devs are severely lacking in common sense.
I chose the most negative appraisal; they're just stringing people along doing minimal work until the whole thing collapses and they move on to something else. I enjoy gloating ITT because I've already been MAC banned from all Star Citizen and Tarkov
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6 years. still in act 1. Game currently being shredded in Steam reviews despite the devs asking patrons for positive reviews.
I appreciate your rhetorical skills bro. Starting and ending with the same power line is always effective ;) But I'm not sure I agree with the sentiment that "6 years. still in act 1" is a negative thing based on the team's circumstances or that the game is getting shredded on steam.

1) "6 years. still in act 1" -
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In all honesty, the team has accomplished a lot based on the dynamics of their resources over time ect.

2) "Getting Shredded on Steam" -
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Maybe I am wrong. But I think the needle for the game should be pointing up. They have a lot of positive momentum and things are starting to come together.

As a caveat. I've invested $100 into the game so far as well- and I'll keep funding proprortionally to how much I care about w/e routes they are working on.
 
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Man, who gives a fuck about Steam reviews of any kind. All it takes is for a game to be slightly progressive in a certain way and every bigot with a keyboard will slam the game with negative reviews, or for a game to pander to a certain group who will slam it with positive reviews. The last thing that should be used as proof of anything is something getting "shredded" on steam.
 

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So in other words no there is no female mc atleast as of yet.
No, there's a female MC. Alexia is what would be referred to as the dueteragonist, which is to say she's the second primary focused upon character. You may not click grids on a map to move her around, but she's the central figure of a large percentage of the scenes of the game, has a varied range of the kinds of scenes she appears in, and in general impacts the story to a great deal. If you removed her from the game SoC would not be worth playing. She is a main character, she's simply not the only main character.
 
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