Sunday 7 April 2013

New Build - Potions and Forward Time!

Whee, and new build is ready! It is here - TEMP DOWNLOAD - http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g93de719216b2906c9992613202605dc81032f1fb5

Lots of new stuff, I guess it should be build   4 instead of 03.2, but I am very tired and am not thinking right.

The way the game picks what enemies you meet is all changed, and encounters should be more regular now. Also, time now moves forward, counting up from day one, and no time limits. I had to go through changing all the time increases form minuses to plusses, and could maybe have missed some, so keep an eye out. Oddly, I just noticed when doing that that no time passed when you stayed in inns, dunno how I never noticed that.

 Lots of minor bug fixes, jobs should no longer disappear for one, bu I haven't been able to track down what makes you able to buy too many trade items, or get ghost ones sometimes. I will track it down soon, I hope. Oh, also you should not get money from defeating enemies who it makes sense to have money.

 More detailed character definer is in, more details will be added, let me know if you feel I'm missing something important.

 I have not fixed anything to do with the combat - I'm planning on replacing the whole thing as my next major bit of work, so it's not worth it. Just bear with the dull buggy combat for a little longer, please.




 The big new thing is the introduction of Alchemy and potions! To get to do this, you'll need to join the Alchemists Guild in Branston (library will help you if you have trouble passing the exam), and then go gather some ingredients. If you have trouble finding them slriglians dna sremoorhs thgif. (hint written backwards to protect the spoiler adverse. You'll need at least three ingredients and ten shillings to make potions. There should currently be six useful potions you can  make, and two duff ones. New potions will be added as new ingredients are. The potions generally cause transformations and body part changes, if they seem not to work, you might be the wrong gender to be effected by them - test them on a peasant, and you'll always get one of the right gender.

 I had absurd amounts of fun writing the TF's, looking forward to doing more. If anyone has a pet TF they'd like to see, I'll stick it in for 10 bucks if it does not break any of the game rules.

 With potions being all new, they might mess up, please let me know. And other stuff might mess up too, same applies. Hope you all enjoy the new build, if you enjoy it enough to want to help us make rent and pay bills, we'd appreciate it. Thanks and have fun!


32 comments:

  1. Aaand... Mediafire doesn't like you.

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    1. And by that I meant mediafire is having a term of service issue with your game.

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  2. Welp. Can anyone recommend another half decent, free upload site?

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  3. Distribute Content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, harassing, threatening, unlawful or promotes or encourages illegal activity

    Yeah... you need another site. They no like this game.

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    1. The US Supreme Court finds text to be impossible to be pornographic or obscene, which makes this all the more stupid. Throwing that in means they can basically kick anyone they want, because it doesn't have a legal definition.

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  4. It is hardly any of those things at all! :( The closest you could pin on it is pornographic. New temp link up now, anyway.

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  5. Think in "Durr, I'm a jerk", also known as lawful neutral wage-slave. This contains some slightly pornographic content. Therefore, it has completely smashed the set guidelines and must be nuked from orbit. Not that I'm saying he's a complete ***hat, but they tend to be rather strict about these things.

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  6. Hello Seldom,

    is there a way to fuck the millburns daughters and not get caught?
    if not maybe, add something like if you work like 3,4,3 (days)
    you get a sex scene without getting caught? and if you choose another number of days you get caught.

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    1. Huh, nice idea. Maybe I could tie it to your thief skill. Hm, that skill needs a better name. Chicanery?

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    2. I like the word chicanery.

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  7. The purple fruit actually made existing breasts smaller. I doubt that I was intentional ^-^

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  8. Jow Seldom,

    i want to vote for a location.
    you say please state your vote choice in "the text field" when paying. where is this text field, which text are you referring to?

    and i sent you just now, an email did you get it?

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    1. There should be a little "type in" box that appears when you go to make a payment. If that doesn't work for any reason, just send me an email from the same address you made the payment from with your vote on it. Thanks! :D
      Also, email got and replied to! ^_^

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  9. Didn't get the random option for character creation in?

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    1. Nope, after doing the setiled on, I was prettye xhausted, and starting to make stupid mistakes (I wrote a bit of code to manage hair length, am sure I saved it, and then had it vanish! No idea where it went).
      I will add a random character generator though! Might work on that now, looks like I'm done sleeping for the night. :(

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  10. The game design is fairly nice, although I'd worry that the way you're structuring the files it'll be difficult to alter creatures and encounters in the future.

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    1. HM, I just reorganised the way the enemy's are stored and picked to make it easier to add new stuff. :( Is there a better way I could be organising it?

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    2. Generally, you want your piles into segments you'll be able to manipulate. So all references to a specific monster should be in a single place in a single file. An encounter should mix monster specifics and encounter specifics.

      But how you were doing it, putting every monster's wins in one pile, loses in another, stats in a third, and encounters and graphics in a fourth was a recipe for each file to have a slightly different references that would break.

      Like for instance, you were referring to 'centaur' in the loss pile and 'excent' in the monster pile; and gave them different indexes (12 and 13). I looked that up because I knew the win condition didn't seem right.

      ^-^

      I love to help, although I haven't programmed in python in uhh... Nearly twenty years. x-x Yes, that's pre-web.

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    3. Hah, and here I was thinking I was being clever in keeping all the defeats and victories together in one place. XD Bah.

      Thanks for pointing out the centaur thing, I'll fix that now.

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  11. I love how down the head alchemist is - like she's tried the *immortality potion* and couldn't do it, otherwise why the doom-and-gloom about it when the player doesn't ask?

    Not sure if it's a bug or not, but if the giant relieves me of any alcohol I have, and that's none at the moment, shouldn't the giant be annoyed instead of happy?

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    1. Whoops, will fix the giant! XD

      The head alchemist thinks conciousness and intelligence are the WORST thing. I didn't plan for her to be to insanely misanthropic - it just popped into my head when I went to write her dialouge and needed a "hook" for her character. It amused me, so I extende dit to the rest of her guild.

      I'll be adding more alchemist guilds in other towns, those guys will probably have cheerier dispositions. Or at least othr things to be gloomy about :P

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  12. cold be good cheat options for fap guys

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  13. I don't know if I'd call it a bug per se, but worth mentioning

    In Branston, you can buy Gin for 10 shillings...then turn right around and sell the gin for 12 shillings, giving you 2 shillings profit for each one. Yeah, I know it's not much, but might want to make it to where either Branston won't buy/sell the gin (your choice), or have it be that a player won't get rich after 30 minutes of making a profit.

    Also, just wondering when you plan on getting the Sex Broker and house of ladies pleasure included..quit teasing us! (seriously, just wondering when you will get to it)

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  14. Whoops, thanks. I have a tendency to get confused with the buy/sell prices!

    And I'll try to get the Kaldeslav and Knip sex job s in soon. :P I'm going to start adding the element quests soon, and I'll probably start with either the fire or wind ones, so I'll be working on one of those areas.

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  15. Interesting extension to the intro! Over a hundred other chairs eh? I wonder if they all chose to stay. I would, lol.

    Is there any way to increase your mind skill other than the library?

    Bugs found:

    Intro typo: samaratin (samaritan)

    Crissa said:
    > The purple fruit actually made existing breasts smaller. I doubt that I was intentional ^-^

    I thought something was up with it in the last version, but this time it appears to be working correctly for me; big breasts almost immediately became huge. Perhaps a couple of the names given to certain breast size numbers have been swapped.

    Missing space in appearance:
    Round back, you have abig plump butt.

    Oh by the way, assuming you walk 20 miles a day, which is more a cattle-and-chattels pace than that of a lone hiker, the south to north distance from Knut to Boff (29 days, not counting any east-west travel,) is about the same distance as Brighton to Aberdeen. Not sure if that's intentional. It makes the villages seem awfully sparse and far-flung even assuming you travel that slowly. Adding in the extra distance to Kaldeslav gives 36 days, a really fit and hardy adventurer might be able to hike from the northern end of the Saudi desert to the lattitude of St Petersburg in that time. :D

    Commatical displacement of one of the library buttons:
    Not today ,thanks.

    The alchemists guild has "regualr explosions".

    Oh... shit:
    The Pouty Night Mare's lust is 0 of 47.
    The Perky Night Mare's lust is 0 of 1000.
    and she can't be groped like the others!

    Why are monsters more resistant to my advances now my sex skill is at 100? Even with normal lust maximums, they're much more likely to resist when I go through the options in order. My resistance hasn't improved one bit, and nor have my skills.

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    1. The combat is horribly broke, and will stay so til I rebuild it. Hopefully I'll be ma enough to face doing that in the next day or so.

      Man, that immortal nightmare is still showing up? I was SURE I'd nixed it. I will get her nerfed.

      Hah, good point on the distances, I gues I really need to reduce them. The Whistling Heath, the mayor area of the game between the two mountain ranges, is meant to be big and desolate, but not THAT big and desolate.

      I think the purple fruit error has to do with how I've described the breast sizes, I will investigate.

      You can get mind points by refusing to eat the fruits too, I think.

      THanks for the bug reports!

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    2. You're welcome! I guess now my character knows what all the fruits do... oh, I might have to make her stop eating the purple ones.

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  16. The calculations for trade items appear off, if you can only sell/trade one at a time it is easier to not decrement by the whole stack size of items but by 1.
    But at that point, please consider to increase the cap for carrying any kind of items!

    might also be worth it to make recurring things like sleeping a single function you call with a few parameters to tighten things up a bit.

    interesting game, really like it!

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    1. man, good call on sleeping function, dunno why I overlooked that.

      Can you explain about the sell/trade thing some more, please? I've been having trouble with that.

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    2. Don't beat yourself up about it, really, the game is fun, once you get lost in details things can get less fun.

      Regarding trade items: noticed on this build that when stolen from after a loss you can not buy new items.

      In gormster:
      "Endurance Training" if rosew > 0:
      $pcarry = pcarry - rosew
      $rosew = rosew - 1

      you got it perfectly right on the other towns.

      I'd use a texteditor to list all instances of "pcarry -" to see if there is a variable there which doesn't belong.

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