Unity Venus's Club [v9.5.0.1] [Disgruntler]

[Disgruntler]

9.3 will be going up some time today. I'm happy with where it stands, the game balance is to my liking (though some things are going to be a bit tougher).

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Since I have started working on Venus's Club, there have been assorted minor changes to the Description.JSON, either discovered traits that can be set, or additional traits that can be set that I've discovered how to set in advance. My announcements to these changes are spread throughout this and the Girlpack thread, and while it's fine for communicating these discoveries live, it is not a good way to keep a record of these and any other changes that may occur.

I want to make sure you have a place where that information is collected and exists.

One document that I am including with 9.3 is a reference sheet to all the different fields in Description.JSON, what they do, what their defaults are, as well as a guide to the "Power" entry and how to use that to force a girl to start with a specific trait in Normal Mode. For those who enjoy going in and tinkering with the Description.JSON file and customizing your Normal Mode experience, I think it might be good to have all the information on the fields in one place.

Now, there ARE fields I have not included that you could set if you knew what they were called, but those can break the girl and how she functions, so I'm not telling you those internal fields. (for example, it's possible to have a girl start off working for the brokers with a level 100 resources contract. Useful for troubleshooting and bugtesting, but I'm not going to tell you how to do this.)

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Spoiler: Changelog - VCHH 9.3.J (the Jobs and Jewels Patch)

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[Disgruntler]

Latest Version of Happy Hour:

9.3.J (The Jobs and Jewels patch)

Mirrors: (WIN64 only)
MEGA

9.3.J is now live.

 

[Kane2607]

Are skills no longer supposed to increase by working the booths? I guess there's enough other ways to increase them anyway. Also the first Crown Jewels step i had (100 rep) was completed with me having like 30,maybe that was because of the advertiser staff that hit 112% at that point, didn't get anything for it though.

 

[Disgruntler]

Are skills no longer supposed to increase by working the booths? I guess there's enough other ways to increase them anyway. Also the first Crown Jewels step i had (100 rep) was completed with me having like 30,maybe that was because of the advertiser staff that hit 112% at that point, didn't get anything for it though.

Skills are a bit harder to grind, until you have a Trainer.

The crown icon to hire a jewel shouldn't appear until you fulfill all the requirements. Once it does, you'll see the Crown Jewel show up as a recent recruit.

The first one is relatively easy to get.

After that... not so much.

 

[Kane2607]

Yeah that's why i think something wacky must have happened, i'm not at 100 rep now let alone when it went to 4/5 available and there was no recent hire.

 

[Disgruntler]

Yeah that's why i think something wacky must have happened, i'm not at 100 rep now let alone when it went to 4/5 available and there was no recent hire.

Might be that pesky underflow error... do you have someone in your team with the trait 'Crown Jewel?' (Might have also accidently recruited her into your team through other means despite that not supposed to be allowed to happen)

 

[Kane2607]

Nope, no crown jewels in here! Also i'm not sure how you retrain traits but if it's that "Retrain 3" button i can't seem to get that one to work,maybe i'm blind and just don't see what i need for it.

 

[tweight]

Hello, I have a problem playing on Macbook m1 via parallels on Windows 11 (arm). Instead of all images from the packs, a standard white image is loaded instead of images from the pack, but everything is fine with the video.


i'm talking about this image

 

[Disgruntler]

Hello, I have a problem playing on Macbook m1 via parallels on Windows 11 (arm). Instead of all images from the packs, a standard white image is loaded instead of images from the pack, but everything is fine with the video.
View attachment 1822586

i'm talking about this image

Might want to talk to one of the pack makers who makes Mac packs, because this means it's not finding the files, so there might be some Mac-specific thing you need to do. I know that mac users' packs have some differences but I'm not an expert on the platform.

Nope, no crown jewels in here! Also i'm not sure how you retrain traits but if it's that "Retrain 3" button i can't seem to get that one to work,maybe i'm blind and just don't see what i need for it.

I'll work on this and get a fix going as soon as I get some time to do so.

Not sure how it's showing 4/5 crown jewels with you having none, but I can create an error check for it, and push that into a build.

 

[michiforever]

Skills are a bit harder to grind, until you have a Trainer.

assigned a trainer for group skill, had the max costume as well, played the day and had 0 improvements, are you sure it is working? tried it with a new game, and there it worked, maybe a corrupt file

 

[Disgruntler]

assigned a trainer for group skill, had the max costume as well, played the day and had 0 improvements, are you sure it is working? tried it with a new game, and there it worked, maybe a corrupt file

There's an element of RNG to it, and this may be affecting gains.

 

[ZipoZipo]

Greetings,

Great Work Disgruntler!

Please advise if there are gonna be any movement on the Nicole front. It kinda sucks that there is no story to it.

Neveretheless great job, and maybe its just me..

 

[Disgruntler]

Greetings,

Great Work Disgruntler!

Please advise if there are gonna be any movement on the Nicole front. It kinda sucks that there is no story to it.

Neveretheless great job, and maybe its just me..

Naw, it's not just you. I'm very aware that Nicole's story is something some people desire to see progress on.

But, it is divisive. Time spent on creating story is time not adding core features.

For me, it comes down to the idea that adding new story to Nicole would be very tedious (due to how it's implemented, it would not be easy for me to just add new chapters of writing) coupled with the simple fact that I don't download or rip videos myself. Not my forte, so to speak. I just build systems and maths and stuff. And when you couple that with the fact that, well... I just don't know where to take her story after the final date. I'm just not confident I can deliver here.

I understand your desire for more Nicole stuff. I'm just uncertain I can do you right on that front.

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As for what my brain is cooking up right now:

A) I have many ideas for mechanics and direction that have ended up on the cutting room floor. Many ideas that just haven't got a good 'fit' for them. Good ideas, wrong game. That's just the nature of the best. But, these ideas might fit in a different game. So, I am considering starting up a new project, though no ETA at all on news on this. What I can say is that if I do create my own game it will:

1. Take place in the same general 'universe' as Venus's Club, and be a spinoff.
2. Be a systems-based game in the same way Venus's Club is.
3. Have a different gameplay loop entirely from Venus's Club (otherwise I'd just do it in Venus's Club)
4. Have a different gameplay fantasy than Venus's Club. We have two VC-Girlpack games based on running a club. We don't need a third, or more importantly, I don't need to be making a third. If I want to make a Strip Club/Brothel game and mechanic, there's no need because VC already exists and scratches that itch. The game I am thinking of would play to a different game fantasy.
5. Use the VC Girlpack format, which is the biggest strength of VC. VC was always a decent game but it was the Girlpack system that came out of it that made it really good, and kept me coming back. Without the Girlpack system, there would be no Happy Hour, and none of us would still be in this conversation today. Any game I'd want to make would want to have the same customizability and user control and expandability that VC has, and there is no need to reinvent the wheel when this wheel rolls so nicely anyways.

B) Bug fixes are always a concern.

C) My next big patch won't likely be a gameplay patch, but a utility patch. I'm currently in the drawing board/ui building phase of creating a utility that will permit the player to edit the contents of the Description.JSON files through the game's ui, rather than by editting the JSON files directly. On top of this, I am considering a means to be able to edit the data.yml file for TUSC play as well. Most of this is for my own convenience, at the end of the day.

 

[ChubberLang]

Doing a quick run (normal with crown jewels) from the start and I'm noticing a few of my hires (maybe 1 in 10) are not starting with a specialty at all. I only noticed after Delta White (I set all my packs to 0 to speed up testing) was given hot teacher but had no specialty at all.

I restarted the game and hired my 24 girls again. This time a different group of three had no specialty.

Is this a bug, an issue with the girlpacks, or are some girls not supposed to have specialties?

 

[Disgruntler]

Doing a quick run from the start and I'm noticing a few of my hires (maybe 1 in 10) are not starting with a specialty at all. I only noticed after Delta White (I set all my packs to 0 to speed up testing) was given hot teacher but had no specialty at all.

I restarted the game and hired my 24 girls again. This time a different group of three had no specialty.

Is this a bug, an issue with the girlpacks, or are some girls not supposed to have specialties?

The game tries to force a specialty; I need to introduce more checks to lock it in. Noted, thank you.

 

[jggold]

9.3.J is now live.

A couple of things I noticed on the play though.

1) One of my Crown Jewels was a girl I already had. Didn't cause any trouble, I just sent the one I already had to a full-time back stage role. I had to move her back stage because ...

2) "Retiring" the first of the duplicates did ... nothing. She didn't disappear from my roster or from the selection panel. I don't know if it was because the CJ version was still live.

3) When I got to the secret portion of the crown jewels it just sort of bugged the whole system. I had a girl active in that area and she never came back. It let me do the secret stuff with a girl ... but she was just gone forever, too. I played another 2 weeks and both girls were nowhere to be found.

But what you've done is great. I truly enjoy the depth you've provided.

 

[Disgruntler]

A couple of things I noticed on the play though.

1) One of my Crown Jewels was a girl I already had. Didn't cause any trouble, I just sent the one I already had to a full-time back stage role. I had to move her back stage because ...

2) "Retiring" the first of the duplicates did ... nothing. She didn't disappear from my roster or from the selection panel. I don't know if it was because the CJ version was still live.

3) When I got to the secret portion of the crown jewels it just sort of bugged the whole system. I had a girl active in that area and she never came back. It let me do the secret stuff with a girl ... but she was just gone forever, too. I played another 2 weeks and both girls were nowhere to be found.

But what you've done is great. I truly enjoy the depth you've provided.

Appreciate the bug reports. Will be working on fixes for them as best as I can.

I appreciate your patience in this regard. Testing CJ is VERY time consuming cause setting it up is a grinder (and you can't start it on existing playthrough)

 

[tweight]

Might want to talk to one of the pack makers who makes Mac packs, because this means it's not finding the files, so there might be some Mac-specific thing you need to do. I know that mac users' packs have some differences but I'm not an expert on the platform.

and who makes packs for macos?

 

[Disgruntler]

and who makes packs for macos?

I'll have to find a maco-made needle in my haystack and get back to ya.

 

[jggold]

and who makes packs for macos?

Might take the question over the girlpacks thread.

You might get a quick answer about who makes the packs and how they interact with Happy Hour from the makers themselves.