Please allow me to introduce myself- I'm a man of wealth and taste. May as well make my first post here a helpful one. This is one of my favorite games on the forum, and I'd very much like to see it continue to grow and refine. It's one of the few I've seen that has a real path to greatness ahead of it.
Preliminary testing of 0.22a
- Pregnancy appears to be broken in this build, even when checked to allow it. I came to suspect this when I noticed that none of the brothel slaves were getting knocked up. I've made several attempts to deliberately get a slave pregnant, even using fertility implants, to no avail. I'm still messing around with this one though, so perhaps this bug should be considered anecdotal unless others note it as well.
- Pathing glitches still need some work; NPCs still randomly getting stuck in the floor or other structure, sometimes floating above the arena pits instead of sitting in the bleachers, but there's a noticeable improvement.
- Xeno-pit and lethal pit animations sometimes freeze during teleportation sequence, leaving the teleport beam frozen in place.
- Transition to Galaxy map will sometimes show the teleport beams from the arena pits still operating as a shadow on the map. Presumably, the galaxy map is an overlay and not a separate operation.
- Scenario messages are bugged- sometimes clicking on "Plan B," "New Recruit," or some other message appears to randomly jump to a picture of Ava for some reason, and only option is to close. All subsequent messages after that glitch result in the same problem, requiring a reload.
- Still having troubles with textures on the characters, but it does seem to be improving. Bodies are still sometimes showing through the clothing, and in the odd case, a new slave showing up in the exam room bounces down and looks like fresh roadkill (eyes out of sockets, hair in their lap or merged into the middle of the skull, etc.). A glitch, but an amusing one.
- In diplomacy chart- "Micah" is misspelled 'Miach." (minor nit-pick)
- When male slaves come about, there are errors, such as "Sell HIS for (price)" instead of 'Sell Him.' Male slave biographies during examination also have this problem with mixing the two up. I'm assuming that the bio screens were meant to be interchangeable so you didn't have to write a bunch of new content in favor of more important priorities, but it isn't quite carrying over properly between genders. And no, I shut the trannies off completely for testing. Two genders- everything in between goes directly to the xeno pit.
- Unsure if this is intentional, but the owned holdings roster of your territories seems to be having troubles too. While controlling 250+ outposts and planets, you can only scroll through about 5 pages or so, and the rest don't show up when organizing them. Incidentally, the "previous" button reads as "next" the same as paging forward through the list. Just another minor thing I noticed.
- Holding shift to sell and skip dialog in the slave roster is causing some problems: sometimes not selling at all, and occasionally re-opening the slave roster results in duplicate slaves after trying, including but not limited to, rival main characters I haven't even attacked and conquered yet. I'm not sure exactly what is causing that, but it seems to be repeatable.
- Personal Critique: the male voice in panic mode doesn't convey his fear- it sounds more like he's practicing Lamaze breathing while dropping a deuce, and it just makes me want to torture him in front of small children even more. Might see if you can find a better sound for it. Then again, it may just be my irritable side peeking through the normal stoicism.
I'm sure I'll find more as I tinker with it, but these stood out. Hopefully it helps.
Additional thought: it might be kind of interesting in the future to be able to free a devoted slave and perhaps take her as a bride (maybe she would prefer to stay). Strictly speaking, I run the station like a business, but it occurred to me that it might be interesting to be able to start a Dynasty.
In the previous build, I went on a rampage and conquered about half the galaxy, and in one sector, I took a princess as a slave that had desirable traits (addicted to Sadism, stabbed the less fortunate, high charisma and intelligence, etc.) and she got pregnant and gave me a daughter when I broke her in. So I renamed the princess as a Queen and made her the head girl (perfect for keeping the others in line), and the daughter I assigned to be the Madame when she was fully trained. It might be something interesting to add to the immersion of the game.
Keep up the great work- I always look forward to seeing any new changes or ideas implemented in this game.