Ren'Py The Fixer [v0.3.2.39] [Sam_Tail]

[Sam_Tail]

Correct me if i'm wrong, and i do apologize for sounding like a broken record here... but wouldn't that be exactly what the psychologist would be for?

We picked Former Man, so if we want Sammy to keep complaining about it 5 years into the game why would we need to be kept from doing so? Logically Former Man would be a trait that can only be removed, not added, for obvious reasons, but in game terms it wouldn't be any different from picking Bambi, Nerd or Gym Bunny as a conscious player choice. The main difference would be that traits like Gym Bunny could be re-earned or added through the psychologist feature because it's not limited to her past, unlike Former Man would be.

A few reasons. Main one being the game is about Sammy and things she is currently doing or will do. Not what happened in the past. Also because the alternative to being a woman was death, so I wanted to have a positive note to it all and not all the angst and complaining. If she would have preferred death, then there is a big lake for her to walk into. And finally because I don't want to be writing late game content with all this still in mind and instead want to focus on things that have happened during the course of the game.

 

[Penitensary]

A few reasons. Main one being the game is about Sammy and things she is currently doing or will do. Not what happened in the past. Also because the alternative to being a woman was death, so I wanted to have a positive note to it all and not all the angst and complaining. If she would have preferred death, then there is a big lake for her to walk into. And finally because I don't want to be writing late game content with all this still in mind and instead want to focus on things that have happened during the course of the game.

Thanks.

I suppose it's a difference in POV then. To me, Former Man isn't that much about angst and complaining, but more about making the best of the hand Sammy has been dealt. Coming to terms with others seeing her as a woman is part of that, i agree 100%, i just find the internal dichotomy of the first couple of weeks interesting enough to want to extend that even if that means Sammy will be more reluctant to selling herself, and reacting negatively to getting involved in non-lesbian scenes.

 

[Sam_Tail]

Thanks.

I suppose it's a difference in POV then. To me, Former Man isn't that much about angst and complaining, but more about making the best of the hand Sammy has been dealt. Coming to terms with others seeing her as a woman is part of that, i agree 100%, i just find the internal dichotomy of the first couple of weeks interesting enough to want to extend that even if that means Sammy will be more reluctant to selling herself, and reacting negatively to getting involved in non-lesbian scenes.

I'm not saying it wont be expanded. It is obviously popular and how people like to play, so expanded is planned. I will probably do a bit of work on how acceptance works as well since right now the way it functions is little different from a timer. 2 weeks seems to be too short for it to really matter.



And since we are on a new page, I will add this again.

I will be recording a Q&A to coincide with the streetwalker update. So if you have an questions about the Fixer, it's development or whatever else, feel free to ask. You can ask here, DM me or on

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[FTFaceless]

I'm not saying it wont be expanded. It is obviously popular and how people like to play, so expanded is planned. I will probably do a bit of work on how acceptance works as well since right now the way it functions is little different from a timer. 2 weeks seems to be too short for it to really matter.

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And since we are on a new page, I will add this again.

I will be recording a Q&A to coincide with the streetwalker update. So if you have an questions about the Fixer, it's development or whatever else, feel free to ask. You can ask here, DM me or on

You must be registered to see the links

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Darn, I thought it says "FREE HUGS" T_T

 

[huyt504]

what the hell is this

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
ScriptError: could not find label 'school_photo_intro_stage_0'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "scripts/locations/school/school_events/school_photo/school_photo_intro.rpyc", line 7, in script
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 1974, in execute
    rv = renpy.game.script.lookup(target)
  File "renpy/script.py", line 927, in lookup
    raise ScriptError("could not find label '%s'." % str(original))
ScriptError: could not find label 'school_photo_intro_stage_0'.

Windows-10-10.0.17763 AMD64
Ren'Py 7.5.1.22070801
The Fixer 0.3.2.39
Fri Jun 14 22:10:19 2024

 

[Dept of Public Worms]

Darn, I thought it says "FREE HUGS" T_T

It doesn't say hugging can't be the use to which you put her.

 

[Gibberish666]

What is the game plan after the Streetwalker Update?

I can see story beats continuing to take the back-burner, that's fine. I'd like to see more balancing, bugfixing, and more work done on the currently existing game mechanics, and some more UI improvements - rather than even more new and incomplete stuff getting added in. The game is in a perfectly playable state, but I think feedback could be improved if the game was even closer to what we should be able to expect in a final product. Examples in the spoiler.

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[wastedbrainpower]

Former man perk is a bit of an outlier because it very much focuses on who Sammy was and not who she is, so with that one I want it to eventually go away so Sammy can become who she currently is. Living 5 years in the game and still complaining about how you used to be a man doesn't feel right with the story, but still being a bambi makes sense.

It's clear to me now that people have been roleplaying former man in a lot more ways than I'd realised.

Although I previously said I want the trait to persist in some form, I'd never really meant having them display any particular "masculine" personality traits, let alone a particular sexual orientation due to that start. I wouldn't want anyone to be restricted to only certain content or a particular playstyle by it, since being a particular gender/sex can mean entirely different things or nothing whatsoever to different people.

I do have my own idea for who Sammy was, is, and who I want them to eventually be, and I hope to have freedom to just roleplay that through my choices.

I would certainly soon get sick of lots of "woe is me" and reminiscing about having had a penis 24/7.
That initial awkwardness and the light teasing from the sister you get in this route is great, and I honestly couldn't think where exactly I'd like it to see the trait go from there.


The only thing that really got me about the trait disappearing is kind of down to semantics.

Whereas people can stop being a particular thing (e.g. nerd, jock, whore, man, woman, bird watcher, ect.), you logically can't stop having been a thing, only change your attitude towards that thing and yourself.

It's the trait having the word "Former" right in the title that makes the disappearance of it feel more like a retcon of the character rather than an evolution.
For that reason I think the trait should persist but with an adjusted description, and effect on which dialogue can trigger, that reflects Sammy having completely come to terms with the changes in their life.

 

[CurtimusPrime92]

any ETA on official public update release instead of patreon preview leaks?

 

[psudo420]

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This. Also let the open buttons also close the windows and it would be nice to have perks as icons+tooltips in the main display. There is no indication that the user should check the menu when a new perk is aquired, as a result they can be easily missed.

 

[Beggarman]

FWIW I would suggest (maybe at around the same point as when Former Man would usually convert to choosing a normal backstory) that it switches to like a faded version of the perk, rather than outright removed, and have references from then be much more minor/shorter/not special/whatever. I do kinda agree that you're probably never going to get over the "hey, I used to be a man!" thing but yeah, you're also not going to be go "Oh, woe is me, I used to be able to get people pregnant but now I make babies, how could this happen!?" like 5 years in, you'd probably have offed yourself by then if it was that bad. I think it's more about still occasionally acknowledging it, rather than having big old scenes all the time about penis envy.

idk why but ever since i use auto click in 2021 the game have been in a state of lagging and low fps

even if i delete it from renpy and wipe it completely from my computer it still lag when i redownloaded it

now the skip is really jank and the cheat is also really slow register

is there a way to fix or just unlock the fps of renpy
Edit: it take up 700+ mb storage

tbh I've been trying to work out what the actual issue here is and I'm not sure you have the right game? I'm not too sure what autoclicker would be useful for and that game size is multiple times more than I think the game actually is. Maybe double-check you're on a clean install of the game and haven't just been copying over the old install?

 

[huyt504]

FWIW I would suggest (maybe at around the same point as when Former Man would usually convert to choosing a normal backstory) that it switches to like a faded version of the perk, rather than outright removed, and have references from then be much more minor/shorter/not special/whatever. I do kinda agree that you're probably never going to get over the "hey, I used to be a man!" thing but yeah, you're also not going to be go "Oh, woe is me, I used to be able to get people pregnant but now I make babies, how could this happen!?" like 5 years in, you'd probably have offed yourself by then if it was that bad. I think it's more about still occasionally acknowledging it, rather than having big old scenes all the time about penis envy.


tbh I've been trying to work out what the actual issue here is and I'm not sure you have the right game? I'm not too sure what autoclicker would be useful for and that game size is multiple times more than I think the game actually is. Maybe double-check you're on a clean install of the game and haven't just been copying over the old install?

ok, now that i have remember more clearly
i did save a Lot in the game,so much so that the game download increase to 1.2 G
But i did delete all of it and it's still lagging

 

[Axismundi]

I think it's more about still occasionally acknowledging it, rather than having big old scenes all the time about penis envy.

100%

Of course, the challenge then becomes writing enough blerbs so that they don't sound repetitive, and also making sure that it's not about penis envy.

 

[ChesseKun]

Thanks.

I suppose it's a difference in POV then. To me, Former Man isn't that much about angst and complaining, but more about making the best of the hand Sammy has been dealt. Coming to terms with others seeing her as a woman is part of that, i agree 100%, i just find the internal dichotomy of the first couple of weeks interesting enough to want to extend that even if that means Sammy will be more reluctant to selling herself, and reacting negatively to getting involved in non-lesbian scenes.

I mentioned this before but personally think it could be interesting to have the ability to actually be into it. Being able to not just immediately accept but embrace the fact you turned into a girl. But accepting what you become shouldn't remove what you were.

 

[Suncatcher42]

I mentioned this before but personally think it could be interesting to have the ability to actually be into it. Being able to not just immediately accept but embrace the fact you turned into a girl. But accepting what you become shouldn't remove what you were.

Like a trans girl origin, where Sammy is immediately happy to have been transformed but still references her pre-transition?

 

[ChesseKun]

Like a trans girl origin, where Sammy is immediately happy to have been transformed but still references her pre-transition?

Yes, something like that.

 

[PixelLewd]

I feel making it something along the line of trans kinda makes it have different connotations to what I've understood most want out of it here. But maybe its just me seeing it that way

 

[one.grit]

I noticed that the version in log.txt says the game was compiled in Ren'Py 7, is there any plan to get Fixer in Ren'Py 8?

Also, I noticed that when going to the still in the slums whatever logic there is to comment on Viktor is backwards. This character never went to haven (in fact this Sammy is totally new and hasn't done anything but exercise, watch TV, and run to the still) and claims to have seen him in a place she hasn't visted yet. This dialog does not appear when a character has already been though haven however, hence the comment on the logic.

 

[Beggarman]

I mentioned this before but personally think it could be interesting to have the ability to actually be into it. Being able to not just immediately accept but embrace the fact you turned into a girl. But accepting what you become shouldn't remove what you were.

Like a trans girl origin, where Sammy is immediately happy to have been transformed but still references her pre-transition?

I kinda see where these are going and don't disagree that it would be nice, but my expectation would be that it might be too small change to be worth it (i.e. a few too many changes but that aren't significantly off what you might expect from baseline anyway). I think this would be something that's maybe close to just being RP'd by going with a more positive late origin choice.

I noticed that the version in log.txt says the game was compiled in Ren'Py 7, is there any plan to get Fixer in Ren'Py 8?

Might be misremembering or outdated, but I think there's something slightly fucky with 8 that breaks existing code a little.

ok, now that i have remember more clearly
i did save a Lot in the game,so much so that the game download increase to 1.2 G
But i did delete all of it and it's still lagging

To be honest, I'm not really too sure what the issue is. Assuming you're using auto-clicker to play out a large number of days, it might just be that game length is making saves big. If it's not just the saves, then I would assume auto-clicker is doing something to make the game bigger or there's some colossal error logs somewhere that auto-clicker's powered through, as I don't think the game should be increasing in install size through other files... ever?

 

[Penitensary]

I kinda see where these are going and don't disagree that it would be nice, but my expectation would be that it might be too small change to be worth it (i.e. a few too many changes but that aren't significantly off what you might expect from baseline anyway). I think this would be something that's maybe close to just being RP'd by going with a more positive late origin choice.

Agreed. Male Start Sammy is already trans, technically, so if the procedure was something he had wanted then it's just Female Start with extra steps, as i feel he would jump on the opportunity to stop referring to himself as male and remind his sister that he used to be her brother. I can't see him missing being a man, which is what Male start is about.