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mintymuz said:
And I love having essentially the same mod for different games
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This is the hardest (and most time consuming) thing for me to do... keep the aesthetic and feature locations consistent across VN's. It looks like I just copy/paste a template but it's way more complicated than that tbh. I go out of my way to insure it "feels" like a SanchoMod so once you get over the initial learning curve of it's design Core one can quickly go in and make their normal "default" preferred options and get to playing the VN without the mod interfering or being the overall experience's priority visually. I want it to feel natural and simply a part of the VN, not a tacky addon that is either intrusive or takes the dev's vision too far out of it's original context.

That's the goal anyway. It's hard to pull off if I'm being honest (for me anyway, I'm no pro imho, I just know some coding tricks). FreeRoam guides are the worst. I've found over time there's a very fine line between giving enough info and handholding. Too much either way and it falls apart, either not helping enough in general or being way overbearing and taking the "game" out of it completely. I spend most time with these FreeRoams when they are applicable. It's a tough balance and always debatable how far is too far to go with them.
 
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Sancho1969 said:
This is the hardest (and most time consuming) thing for me to do... keep the aesthetic and feature locations consistent across VN's.
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Man, yeah that seems like it would be the easy part! Sucks that it's not the case.

I found a few minutes to check the recent filedrop and can confirm all the bits I noticed earlier are sorted. Thanks once again for that! Still a bit weird that if you don't chat with Ivy in the dorms, the game drops two posts from her once you chat with her outside the party. I scrolled back and cleared the earlier one though, now I know what it's all about.
 
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franklin99 said:
Is there anyway to use the mod to turn off the roxy path?
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Mods, in general, help you with choices or cheat stats, they don't play the game for you. It's easy to skip the Roxy path just by making a couple of early decisions. In my first playthrough, I skipped it entirely by accident. You can go home instead of showering at the gym just after meeting Roxy, go early to cheerleader practice rather than walking around and meeting Roxy at the sorority house, not talk to Roxy at the party where she's drinking at the top of the stairs... If you're keen on ignoring Roxy, you'll automatically take two of those options anyway.

Roxy is really not my type of girl, but her path in this game is fascinating and wholesome to me, and absolutely my favourite. I get that won't be the case for everyone, but yeah, she's also easy to avoid.
 
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mintymuz said:
Mods, in general, help you with choices or cheat stats, they don't play the game for you. It's easy to skip the Roxy path just by making a couple of early decisions. In my first playthrough, I skipped it entirely by accident. You can go home instead of showering at the gym just after meeting Roxy, go early to cheerleader practice rather than walking around and meeting Roxy at the sorority house, not talk to Roxy at the party where she's drinking at the top of the stairs... If you're keen on ignoring Roxy, you'll automatically take two of those options anyway.

Roxy is really not my type of girl, but her path in this game is fascinating and wholesome to me, and absolutely my favourite. I get that won't be the case for everyone, but yeah, she's also easy to avoid.
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I enjoy her path, but I was seeing if I could just MOD some changes to keep her sisters path open :). Thanks for the response!
 
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I would like to ask a question, the mod simply didn't work for me, it even appeared in my menu, but its option doesn't appear when I'm going to make a choice or something, it doesn't show what I'm going to gain or lose... Someone tell me what what could it be?
 
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JuninPk said:
I would like to ask a question, the mod simply didn't work for me, it even appeared in my menu, but its option doesn't appear when I'm going to make a choice or something, it doesn't show what I'm going to gain or lose... Someone tell me what what could it be?
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Which folder did you put it in? The "main" folder or the /game/ folder within the main folder? If it isn't registering, that's usually the problem - it's in the wrong spot to be properly read.
 
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JuninPk said:
The mod says it is downloaded, but no help with choice options appears
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I know Sancho is working to perfect another mod for a recently updated VN right now (or, at this time of night, having finished it, might be sippin' a Crown and Coke and ignoring his computer for a bit :LOL:), but I think you can toggle the guide/suggestions off in the little control panel down on the lower right. Green means on, red off (if I remember correctly).

I think the one you're looking for is "Choice Guide". This first shot shows it in green as I'm hovering another of the items:
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If yours is red, like the MiniStat and SanchoFont are in mine, that probably means the suggestions are disengaged.

Just hover over it, if it's red, I'm guessing the pop up message will read "Enables Choice Guide", rather than "Disables Choice Guide" as mine says. Just click it to see if it changes to green. If so, you should be good. I think you may have to check on every route if you have multiple.
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I'm actually in the midst of another VN with SanchoMod, but this feature is the same for all VNs he serves.

Good luck.
 
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ThorinKing said:
I know Sancho is working to perfect another mod for a recently updated VN right now (or, at this time of night, having finished it, might be sippin' a Crown and Coke and ignoring his computer for a bit :LOL:), but I think you can toggle the guide/suggestions off in the little control panel down on the lower right. Green means on, red off (if I remember correctly).

I think the one you're looking for is "Choice Guide". This first shot shows it in green as I'm hovering another of the items:
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If yours is red, like the MiniStat and SanchoFont are in mine, that probably means the suggestions are disengaged.

Just hover over it, if it's red, I'm guessing the pop up message will read "Enables Choice Guide", rather than "Disables Choice Guide" as mine says. Just click it to see if it changes to green. If so, you should be good. I think you may have to check on every route if you have multiple.
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I'm actually in the midst of another VN with SanchoMod, but this feature is the same for all VNs he serves.

Good luck.
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hey, thank you, I managed to solve the problem on my own, but I appreciate your effort and help, thank you
 
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franklin99 said:
I enjoy her path, but I was seeing if I could just MOD some changes to keep her sisters path open :). Thanks for the response!
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Are you asking how to keep Natalie's path open? If so she doesn't have a path. The dev scrapped her as a potential LI and replaced her with Nikki as an LI. Natalie hasn't received a new scene since U18, we're currently on U25 so some 7 updates backn now.
Sancho1969 said:
You can trust me on this Natalie out / Nikki in LI change... the dev even took Natalie out of his phone cheats and put Nikki in place... or I should say Shaddy's old phone cheats.... a story for another day though.
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DragonKingSword said:
Can this mod change stats I want to increase intelligence a bit to help with Nikki.
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You can change those stats, yes. I think it might be just in the game though, rather than specifically the mod? You go to the phone, and there's an option there to turn cheats on or off (I can't remember what the option is, but I think it's towards the top of the icons).
 
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I have a problem, I don't know if someone already asked this, but whenever i click the bottom right icon, the main mod window doesn't appear. So what is wrong?
 
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