I mean there is always next yearI like your idea! Sadly I have a roadmap that will already take over a year to implement and I can't afford to expand it. Expanding scope is a major reason games get abandoned. I wish I could do everything.
Yeah, take a break, it's important to look after your mental health and inner self, avoid burnout. Good on you.I've never really like it when there's a long delay between game updates and the developer tells a sob story explaining why so I'll skip the sob story and just say what's happening. After I put out version 0.10.2 on December 3 I didn't work on the game again until my post above on February 11. I planned to take a break in December but it turned out to be much longer than I expected. Yesterday I finished rendering the images for the new version. I'm getting a little faster creating them and I think the quality is improving slowly. Today I started turning my detailed outline into the actual text and it's going slowly because I'm rusty after writing no code for 3 months (too many typos and syntax errors plus having to look up variable names I used to have memorized
Erm... I'll plead the 5th.
I guess I could move all of the renders into the 'mods' folder when building the game or maybe I can figure out how to create a separate folder for them. I suspect it will make the game take longer to load but I'm not sure. No promises but I'll look into it.
Thanks for the comments. Some interesting ideas but they don't fit for me.
Even back in DSCS there was a placeholder for buying bots on the 'grey net' in 'trade offers' but it wasn't finished. There is a technical issue that was very limiting (details too long to describe). In SR24 some changes were made that reduced the magnitude of the technical issues but they still exist. A while ago I tried to implement this but couldn't quite make it work reliably. I will try again, I'm better at this now and maybe I can figure out a way around the issues. No promises. The last part about going to get the bot would be too much work, sorry it will be delivered instantly just like buying parts. Not realistic but practical.
When you make it a feature (you can do it) make it progress time / energy or something to simulate going to go get it (if it's a freebie / pickup only bot). Only put a couple cheap/free bots on the market place per week that don't stay there that long (depending on the condition that you have to guess from the description).
Your ideas are interesting and I like them but you are asking a lot. I'm sorry but I won't add that much work to my roadmap for the game. If I do this the implementation will be a standard 'trade offer' on the 'grey net'. I will put in a few offers that will appear randomly the way these offers work and people are welcome to write mods to add more. I got started by writing a mod to sell parts this way, maybe you or someone else will get started by writing a mod to sell bots. Again, no promises.
Not in the game now and none is planned. I'm not aware of any mods with that type of content either.
Thank you for your reply. I wasn't asking for an easy mode just a means to increase the odds at a cost but its not important.
Sex between the human female characters and male sex bots will probably be in the game. There are two things planned, one in the story line and one in a new location where this would make sense. I won't guarantee it though, they are not critical to complete the story line.
Your question about the 'grey net' is valid. I've been tempted to simplify it but so far I've resisted. 'Messages', 'Games', and 'Programs' were in DSCS and I believe they would have been used if the game had not been abandoned. I leave them in thinking I'll use them "some day" but I probably never will. I experimented with merging the 'trade offers' and 'off-topic offers' so you go directly to a combined list of both but this means scrolling through more offers all the time. More realistic but it would get tiresome. The 'bookmarks' with 'Ray's online' and the other grey links inside is pure flavor and could be removed. Perhaps I should break the "top row only" format and when you enter the 'NetConsole' use the second row of buttons so I can put all of them on one screen. This would allow me to leave the grey flavor buttons in the game but reduce the number of clicks to get where you want to go. I'll experiment with this but no guarantees.
