I'm sure you have quite a few fans around here, even if they're mostly silent. But we do appreaciate your work! And think about it, Nergal himself integrated your patch into the game, there's no bigger fan than him! He could drop a thank you though, at least in the form of code comments...
Haha, well thats good to know ;D
And I do hope he likes me and doesn't think I'm a prick for not giving him money... XD
But at the end of the day, if this stops being fun for you, it's not worth doing. I definitely agree that doing the SmurfyPatch just for the public releases is the best idea, it stops you wasting time. There's usually some new content in the public release anyway, a couple of extra scenes and such. Might as well patch the "finished" version each month.
As long as its fun and I have TIME to do it, I'll continue, so for now I'll go on as I have, but at some point I might go to public releases only.
As for the corruption thing, I get what you mean. It's a big hassle by the sound of it. However, the pure and corrupt routes lock when you select a specific dialogue during the early interaction, they are not dependent on your "score". Not as far as I can tell. So uhm maybe if it's easier you could just bump up everyone's starting values to say 20? Not sure if that's easier to do or not, no idea how the starting values are stored. But if each bar would be 20% full at the start of the game, it would pretty much eliminate the early game grind while still allowing players to choose their prefered routes. But like I said, if it's too much work forget about it, it's not a big deal in the end. Better focus on making the game bug-free! Thanks again!
True, which dialogue you get during the scene has to do with 2 things.
1: Did you trigger the pure or corrupt version of the scene?
2: Sex level.
And Sex level is calculated from what your Rel and Cor are, and which version is determined by (you guessed it) if you're going down the pure or corrupt path. Technically, through hacking, you COULD trigger the pure version of the scene with 0 rel and 100 cor, but that would mean that you get the sex level 5 pure dialogue.
This is why it's so hard to get this to work the way you want to.
Is this anywhere near worth playing yet (like that dick wooch's version) or is it still threadbare?
I have avoided it since the second update which had almost no content and was still bugged
"Nergal himself integrated your patch into the game, there's no bigger fan than him" not suprised he cant code much better than a person learning for a few months
He started with good intentions but they soon disappeared when he saw cash
Well, it's improved since then, and it has more content. So I would say probably?
Also, he can code, his focus is just on creating/adding more than it is fine tuning what is already there.
And before sounding like TOO much like a rabid fan boy I'm gonna stop defending a guy I don't even know that well.