Ren'Py Straitened Times [v0.60.1] [HRelease]

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1231488663

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I wonder if the dev has ever played his own game and knows how much of a mess it is. Progress hidden behind spread sheets. Instead of just giving you a hint where you can progress it lists 200 things in a spreadsheet telling you where you can't progress that you have to scroll through to find the one thing where you can progress, but that progress may require you to progress in another thing on another character's spreadsheet. When you know what you need to do and you grind for it, at any point the game can just slap you in the face and hit you with a game over screen because you didn't go to school or didn't go to diner and if you are fast forwarding you'll get kicked to the main menu and there will be no autosave so you'll lose all your progress.
There are events you can do only once a week and you can so easily miss them because you didn't do another pointless thing. In a game where you have to grind and fast forward anything it gives you these annoying timed mechanics like you having to pay for an extra room every week even though you may only need it to trigger an event once a week. Have to pay for a single bed every week or the hotel management will just barge in your hotel room and change your beds. Have to tell the aunt to stay at the hotel every week or she'll just go away. All while you are juggling these 10 different things making sure you can even trigger events, you're constantly under the threat of a random game over because you didn't go to your school that only has two teachers and two subjects.
I am surprised the dev doesn't force you to shit and piss every day and give you a game over because you didn't breathe manually.
 
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1231488663 said:
I wonder if the dev has ever played his own game and knows how much of a mess it is. Progress hidden behind spread sheets. Instead of just giving you a hint where you can progress it lists 200 things in a spreadsheet telling you where you can't progress that you have to scroll through to find the one thing where you can progress, but that progress may require you to progress in another thing on another character's spreadsheet. When you know what you need to do and you grind for it, at any point the game can just slap you in the face and hit you with a game over screen because you didn't go to school or didn't go to diner and if you are fast forwarding you'll get kicked to the main menu and there will be no autosave so you'll lose all your progress.
There are events you can do only once a week and you can so easily miss them because you didn't do another pointless thing. In a game where you have to grind and fast forward anything it gives you these annoying timed mechanics like you having to pay for an extra room every week even though you may only need it to trigger an event once a week. Have to pay for a single bed every week or the hotel management will just barge in your hotel room and change your beds. Have to tell the aunt to stay at the hotel every week or she'll just go away. All while you are juggling these 10 different things making sure you can even trigger events, you're constantly under the threat of a random game over because you didn't go to your school that only has two teachers and two subjects.
I am surprised the dev doesn't force you to shit and piss every day and give you a game over because you didn't breathe manually.
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Try using the cheats... I love this game BECAUSE I use cheats, otherwise I would be just like you... Cheats are useful to keep the school/diner attendance as well as those pesky details like room rental and beds. It gives you the freedom needed to focus on the events provided by each update.
 
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1231488663 said:
I wonder if the dev has ever played his own game and knows how much of a mess it is. Progress hidden behind spread sheets. Instead of just giving you a hint where you can progress it lists 200 things in a spreadsheet telling you where you can't progress that you have to scroll through to find the one thing where you can progress, but that progress may require you to progress in another thing on another character's spreadsheet. When you know what you need to do and you grind for it, at any point the game can just slap you in the face and hit you with a game over screen because you didn't go to school or didn't go to diner and if you are fast forwarding you'll get kicked to the main menu and there will be no autosave so you'll lose all your progress.
There are events you can do only once a week and you can so easily miss them because you didn't do another pointless thing. In a game where you have to grind and fast forward anything it gives you these annoying timed mechanics like you having to pay for an extra room every week even though you may only need it to trigger an event once a week. Have to pay for a single bed every week or the hotel management will just barge in your hotel room and change your beds. Have to tell the aunt to stay at the hotel every week or she'll just go away. All while you are juggling these 10 different things making sure you can even trigger events, you're constantly under the threat of a random game over because you didn't go to your school that only has two teachers and two subjects.
I am surprised the dev doesn't force you to shit and piss every day and give you a game over because you didn't breathe manually.
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Try using this cheat mod:

https://f95zone.to/threads/straitened-times-v0-58-1-hrelease.52690/post-7606639

With it you can forget about problems with money, about deteriorating relations with LI, about missing family dinners. Grind is reduced by an order of magnitude, if not more. For other things - use the manuals for each of the LI. Standard walkthroughs of this game are impossible, they were, but were unsuccessful. Just play, increase the level of sexual tension with your LIs and gradually you will get through this game. And the game deserves it.
 
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nejfan

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Holy fuck this game is impossible to fap to, gg dev. Even with cheats and a walkthrough it's the grindiest shit ever. Everything's unclear and there's no real ingame guide so you basically have to read text documents/pdfs from this forum to get somewhere at all. If someone were to make a mod that pretty much removed all the grind it'd be waaay more fun to play damn.
 
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Nextdoor residents said:
Guys what new scenes are there in 58.1
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Best way is to go back through the thread to where each version release happened, someone generally gathers the new scenes into a post with how to find each, as well as the discussion around them.

An update organised chronological walkthrough would probably be most suitable for this type of game, don't think anyone can be bothered. Plus some flags require repetition or a stat check which might not be immediately obvious when you are playing.
 
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