HTML X-Change™ Life [v0.21.7.1] [Aphrodite]

[l1lym]

The game uses Harlowe's (random macro, if it creates a lot of twos there is really nothing I can do but I have not had this experience.

Note if you reload a game, the randomness "seed" may be the same as when you saved, so you will get the same roll again and again, if you have reloaded from the same point.

 

[Danceofmasks]

The only real way to get proper random numbers on a computer is to attach a geiger counter to your computer, take a background radiation readout, and use the 2nd to 4th decimal places.
XD

 

[funny feller]

wish we kept these avatars

You must be registered to see the links

the new ones look uncanny

 

[l1lym]

They could be easily modded back in, if someone wants to take the time I’d be happy to provide the old files.

But I strongly prefer the new ones myself.

 

[Brandu33]

Congrats, I once played that crappy mod too. Sounded good, but is either deliberately or accidentially bugged beyond repair. With it on, the bar pickup is completely unplayable.
That is something I experienced as well. Picking up girls in the bar is no fun to play anymore, it became a chore. While it should not be easy unless you have top stats, currently it is a pure gamble, because if you do not get the drinks and stuff right on first try (and this can be very difficult to estimate, esp. since these varaiables change between games), you can kiss that girl goodbye for practically the rest of the game.
That is a move into the wrong direction! In earlier versions it was fun going into the bar, flirting with the girls and you could get lucky too. Now it is just a frustrating chore even with girls you have good connections with!

Let's hope that the dev will eventually realize that in a world full of gender switching people guys could and should have a a lot of fun too. And thus that we will see more gameplay as a dude:
Inviting a girl over to MC place, going directly to her place as NPCs do. Dating. Talking to girls on the beach, in the mall, club etc. Some of the girls you meet being on a switch pill, or proposing to use said pill as a couple. Girls could and should check on you, give you a booty call, or chatting up. They could also when meeting you as girl exchange phone number. So you could be friend with one as girl and with another one as a dude. They could go shopping together, etc.
More girl on girl stuff too.
If you read the collectible cards Aphrodite as already some good idea, let's hope they'd be implemented...

 

[l1lym]

In terms of difficulty for the bar girls, the current balance of how difficult it is, is how I like it. I am still able to pick up girls with a low stat character but have to work for it. But it is incredibly easy to change via modding if anyone doesn’t like how it works.

 

[IDontGetWomen]

the cock roullete thing just doesn't work lmfao I can beat the time and somehow still lose, or literally no dick will ever appear and it's only titties but somehow I'll still lose then too.

 

[Brandu33]

In terms of difficulty for the bar girls, the current balance of how difficult it is, is how I like it. I am still able to pick up girls with a low stat character but have to work for it. But it is incredibly easy to change via modding if anyone doesn’t like how it works.

You need not to make it easier. It works well enough without mods. With girlgirl and br girl it's near impossible to hook-up with one though!

What is needed is to give them a bit more personality. Girls should give you a call, even a booty one. You should be able to go directly one a date at their place or to invite them at yours. And being able to meet girl on the beach, at the mall etc. Implement gifts, and dating too...

And why not befriending a girl while on the pill, going on a shopping spree with her, or a double date... Or having a bisexual or homosexual relation with one...

Give your world a bit more depth by meeting some people the character already know by happenstance in the mall, beach etc.
Give some NPC a female and a male persona, and having the possibility to discover and interact with both, with or without knowing it...
So many possibilities in a gender switching city!

Great game anyway.

 

[Follick]

Do you plan on adding female coworkers to have a relationship with?

 

[l1lym]

Do you plan on adding female coworkers to have a relationship with?

Yes I do plan to add female coworkers. Not sure about a full fledged relationship but we will see!

 

[Follick]

Yes I do plan to add female coworkers. Not sure about a full fledged relationship but we will see!

Nifty, do you plan on adding futa pills for the MC to buy, or are they just for NPCs?

 

[tseug]

You guys asking too much without thinking how much time dev need to spent for implementing all that things. In my opinion it's would be better to decrease available characters by default instead and move current into mods. For example just 3-5 main characters in base game should be enough.

 

[l1lym]

You need not to make it easier. It works well enough without mods. With girlgirl and br girl it's near impossible to hook-up with one though!

What is needed is to give them a bit more personality. Girls should give you a call, even a booty one. You should be able to go directly one a date at their place or to invite them at yours. And being able to meet girl on the beach, at the mall etc. Implement gifts, and dating too...

And why not befriending a girl while on the pill, going on a shopping spree with her, or a double date... Or having a bisexual or homosexual relation with one...

Give your world a bit more depth by meeting some people the character already know by happenstance in the mall, beach etc.
Give some NPC a female and a male persona, and having the possibility to discover and interact with both, with or without knowing it...
So many possibilities in a gender switching city!

Great game anyway.

Thanks - I do agree, and now this is a lot more possible with the new NPC scene framework I've added in. The female NPCs actually all have tags for a fairly fleshed out personality, it will just have to be exhibited via game mechanics and scenes.

By the way, in case you like reading, I've written some X-Change books (all completely free), covering some fun scenarios in the game world (they were commissions from subscribers). You can check them out here:

You must be registered to see the links

And a "movie" or two:

You must be registered to see the links

For example just 3-5 main characters in base game should be enough.

Part of me wishes you were there to tell me that 2 years ago when the game started

But now it is 10 and they are too deeply integrated in the game to be otherwise... so 10 it will always be

Nifty, do you plan on adding futa pills for the MC to buy, or are they just for NPCs?

In my current design, it will be mostly NPCs, and possibly 1-2 side scenes for the player. I will be curious to see if mods attempt a core Purple pill, but it would be very difficult with a capital D.

 

[Terakahn]

When you work as a secretary or says you can go down to the warehouse during lunch to help out. But it never gives me the option to do this. Any idea what I'm missing?

 

[Sin-X]

In terms of difficulty for the bar girls, the current balance of how difficult it is, is how I like it. I am still able to pick up girls with a low stat character but have to work for it. But it is incredibly easy to change via modding if anyone doesn’t like how it works.

Yea I think my comment that kicked this whole debate off more or less highlights the problem as less about it being difficult and more about lacking in oppotunity.

After the first meeting with them when you find out about them, what drink they like, what there views are on x-change and so on regardless of if you do well or not with them the conversation with them for all subsequent meetings is dry it becomes a rinse and repeat of clicking give girl a drink and clicking chat only for it to tell you that you both sit there in akward silence.

This is alleviated if you do well as you can then pretty much rinse repeat sex with them so long as you do well on your first chat but if you don't pick the correct options then interaction with that character becomes almost non-existant.

There just needs to be more oppotunity to interact with them even if the starting point for that is making the questions like "hey whats your views on x-change" repeatable.

Atleast this is my view on it but maybe that's just me

One idea could be to have them appear in more location then just the bar like the mall for instance and have similar dialogue interaction with them minus the drinking since that wouldn't make sense then you would naturally have more oppotunities to win them over... just a thought maybe this add to much complexity?

 

[tseug]

When you work as a secretary or says you can go down to the warehouse during lunch to help out. But it never gives me the option to do this. Any idea what I'm missing?

Don't checked in this version but in 18.a that content was disabled cause only few pages of scene was ready. Images and videos almost ready and you can find them in game folder.

Checked. It's still disabled:

(if:$character's "temp pill" is "true" and $office_events contains "reputation fixing suggest" and not ($time_events contains "secretary warehouse") and (1 is 2))

 

[Brandu33]

By the way, in case you like reading, I've written some X-Change books (all completely free), covering some fun scenarios in the game world (they were commissions from subscribers). You can check them out here:

You must be registered to see the links

And a "movie" or two:

You must be registered to see the links

I do read a lot and do creative writing too. I'll have a look at it, thx.

 

[l1lym]

WELP. I have now posted the Dec 28 build. I call this one the technical clusterbombe because it is cool but it will probably explode on you, but I haven't yet witnessed anything go wrong. It includes:

• Brand new save screen (courtesy of Goctionni for writing the javascript to save metadata high enough the game can access)
• Lots of bugfixes
• Technical streamlining of various code in the game, so that you SHOULD get a significant performance boost after playing for a couple days (of in game time not real time) - this should be a big benefit to players who have long save games with high day counts
• Some fun new features that Datdude69 added about 1 hour ago around spiking etc!

This version COULD break stuff because so many technical things have been updated. So please preserve any saves beforehand just to be safe!

You must be registered to see the links

You must be registered to see the links

(it's the Dec 28 one - you can apply the patch the same way as always, by merging it over your existing files)

 

[funny feller]

hi, I noticed something,
in the downloaded offline version, I get lags, especially with the new clips from bruce/bree breeder pill.
that aside, when I refresh the page, it takes a while for it to show anything, and when I pressed f5 like 8 times in one second, my computer fan turned on for 5 minutes.
I use refresh to go back to start of day as a sort of quickload.

 

[Kevin Smarts]

Funny how my reply to this post mysteriously disappeared

Was it struck down from the Heavens?