Keep on mind you can find out some of these things beforehand by talking with the girls as a girl yourself.
The "if you blow it then that's it" would make more sense if there was new girls appearing frequently, instead of what seems effectively like a few static characters the interactions with quickly devolve into "drink and sit in awkward silence because you've already gone through all their lines weeks ago"
Definitely fair to say - I will have a think about this.
When are we going to have black guys as random guys that hit up on us?
This will likely be possible once the male NPCs can trigger the "new framework" sex scenes similar to the girls can now. This will mean that the guys dont have to go down the same standard core sex mechanics, which unfortunately there are not enough animations for to flesh out sex with each actress at the moment. At the moment it is not a focus since it is too difficult.
In this update, my charm keeps decreasing and I'm not sure what to do to keep it up I'm going to the bar and successfully hitting on girls, but it seems that doesn't count as doing something social.
There seems to be a bug around charm decay - I will try to fix it today and release a patch soon.
Always like checking in on this every now and again, dont mean to be a downer but doesnt seem to be much progress from when i played this at the beginning of the year
Ive checked the roadmap and dont see it listed, so does anyone have an idea of when stuff like Dairy Queen or Purple Pills will eventually get added?
Also kinda dissapointed the doctor talks about you getting even bigger tits from being pregnant but nothing actually happens afterwards, would love to see some benefit to having pregnancy = permanent transformations turned on.
I understand this perspective, but from my perspective and knowing the codebase, this year (2nd year of development) has been far more productive than the last one. Now, it may not necessarily *seem* like it to the uninitiated especially due to the tiny changes in version numbers, but in terms of gameplay, content and features added this year, I am quite happy with how this year has gone.
This game is different from Ren'Py games or Twine CYOAs etc where a scene is as easy as some text and pictures - it is full of tons of interacting systems that can all break each other, both the greatest strength and weakness of them. So often times dev work goes into depth rather than breadth.
This game also has the biggest modding scene of any adult game, and that scene only kicked off with the release of modding tools this year - if anyone feels starved for content, you only have to look at the 160+ mods for the game.
My goal is to make this game as much of a platform for their work as well as my own, so a lot of time this year has gone into developing and building out the modding tools, adding moddability down to the core of the game's codebase.
Odd questions
who better character to choose or is even out
Will the other characters able move the main story forward then red head
There will eventually be story moments for all 10 of the main characters
Okay, just tried it for a bit.
It's real CPU hog now. Before this update it took about 30-35% CPU - a bit much but bearable - but now it hovers around 60-70%. I've even seen it go above 80%.
My laptop is old, but this is unacceptable - and I don't have any other computer. Soon it will be impossible for me to play this game.
Transition/loading times have also increased, especially when going between shops in the mall and when going to bed.
I checked with players based on your comment - most players are not experiencing any speed differences at this point in time, and about half have reported a speed boost with all other factors being equal. So I would guess your speed issues between version updates are related to other factors such as browser storage at the time, things open on other tabs, etc.
I am working on ways to increase performance, but my toolset is limited. One thing I am aware of is that the game does slow down over the course of the game as the days get higher - I am working on a solution for this. But overall 0.18b generally speaking does not have a negative performance impact compared to 0.18a - that is not to say it will not be like that for some players on some machines and in some situations.