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HTML The Time of Cherries [Completed/Ongoing] [Development Thread]
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Hi Dante,Hello.
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Lots of thanks to take the time to read that, and willing to keep playing the future builds.
PS: My first message in that forum
Glad you like it.
Yeah the game has evolved a bit since i created it in December - and 4 or so months of that is just getting the relationship event system in place so people can have non-softcore elements which is why not much event content is in place.
Please remember, the only thing that "creates" photographer stress is adding models. Taking photo's does not increase stress - it is just that new photos are not impacted by it.
If I want more money I will change to full time photography and get 5 shoots a week and as you don't deal with your boss you have less stress. I do nude shoots which will give me around 10k a week and let models break so I can get fresh models in if I want to do model achievements.
If I want contracts more frequently I will stay as part time and get a new contract every 2 shoots. However weekly expenses will kill you if you concubine lots and you will send yourself into a grind to advance... but that is your doing.
I concubine towards the end only when I need to reduce stress to get stress under 10% for my deception or meet the concubine requirement.
Wanting more than 5 girls concubined... you dog! hahaha. You don't think being the sugar-daddy to more than 5 girls won't send you broke? You are just doing photography after all!
Thanks for your feedback, and I am sure you will enjoy the future updates as they will probably address a few of these things.
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Thanks for the answer.
Well if stress does not work as I assumed, things are a bit different, but the main things more or less remain. I understand that the Concubines are not to have a dozen, but considering the amount of available girls and that the player has no choice on which ones will appear after you get the Auditions... the concubines seem a better way to get the ones you haven't unlocked.
Anyway, I will keep an eye to see how your game keeps growing.
Well if stress does not work as I assumed, things are a bit different, but the main things more or less remain. I understand that the Concubines are not to have a dozen, but considering the amount of available girls and that the player has no choice on which ones will appear after you get the Auditions... the concubines seem a better way to get the ones you haven't unlocked.
Anyway, I will keep an eye to see how your game keeps growing.
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One thing that hasn't really been pointed out and that's kinda unique to this game from other HTML games is that multiple playthoughs is encouraged, due to the way the achievements and deceptions work. You're never going to complete all of the models collections in one playthough (especailly if you add in additional models), and you're not really expected to. It's a double -edged sword really as you're gonna have people that enjoy doing multiple playthroughs and some that don't.
This is actually a great idea for endgame, further encouraging completeing complete collections and getting rewarded while being able to keep completeing collections on the same playthrough via concubine.
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So I am uploading new builds a lot faster than I would like, but as many of these have contained fairly important bug fixes so I guess it has been needed.
Most of the work on this build has been spent fixing up the event system. While I have only added 2 new events in this build the modifications made have meant that these events impact 15+ girls and events appear to now be working correctly. Better indicators of relationship events will probably appear in the next build.
- New - ModelsExtended: 2 new relationship event
- New - Skip Day button now available from studio screen. If your stress is over 40% it will also provide a short term deminishing stress reduction. If your stress is over 30% and you have concubines you will get a reduction from them as well
- New - A warning message will pop-up when the players stress goes over 50% letting the player know they should probably hold off on getting more models. Hitting the ok button will permanently remove this message
- Fix - The stress reduction fix for completing the antagonist event did the opposite, the fix is now fixed
- Fix - End game image file put back
- Fix - Relationship Events not executing properly
- Fix - Debug mode at start of game was not updating
- Change - Image tag can take modelname as extra tag to goto model's folder
So whats coming up?
I guess this can be split into two with development being done in no particular order.
Gameplay Elements
- Make better use of model stats within the existing gameplay (eg. model popularity affects shoot income)
- Competitions - Winning a competition will increase certain stats for model plus earn her a long term contract (the player may not want to select models to compete who have completed less than 5 contracts as this model will be doing this contract for a while - warn player somehow)
- Concubine - Initially I had intended that any non softcore events were only going to be accessible once you concubined the model - however as concubines are very rare and there are a lot of models in the game now this is not practical. Currently concubining a model needs to provide a higher stress reduction to allow for the player to have many more models. After a set amount of time concubined I would like the model to change into one of 3 types of concubines. My initial thoughts:
- Lady of Graceful Beauty - increases stress reduction
- Lady of Lovely Countenance - inreases your fame
- Lady of Complete Deportment - removes her weekly cost
- Website - affects the chance of getting a popularity card. The website will also provide a weekly income for the Model's where the player has completed all 4 sets. The amount of income will be based on the models popularity.
- Dressing Room - Intended to affect the chance of getting a poise card for the model. Poise would give a small boost to shoot profit, contract profit and competitions
- In your office you will have a set number of points possibly base on your fame. Fame affects the number of models you can however you can choose to redistribute these into your upgrades to boost the effects of your upgrades.
- Create story elements for each deception as you progress through the game. While this isn't something I have thought about much, I am certain it will have a huge impact on the overall feeling of the game and give it a lot more depth.
- RPG Character Creation system - This may be a possible replacement for the 4 deceptions and depends on if I can implement the various story elements into it. At the start of the game your character will grow up and experience 4 life stages. Each life stage you will be offered choices (Think Mount-n-Blade as to what happend to your character during that time. The choices you make will define your end game goals (and potentially alter certain initial gameplay stats like stress or fame). While to me this sounds fun the story ements in the game are more important and this complicates that.
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It does not appear to be finding his mod. The 90 it is giving you is the modelsextended figure that it is bringing across when it can't find the file... I haven't worked out how to deal with it neater yet.
When you extracted build 14 did you put his mod back in? Copying the files into build 13 should also work.
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Copying his v0.13 into the latest build works fine... all-be-it a butt load of models.
Useless fact: A "butt load" is an actual unit of measurement
Given a butt is 491 litres, and assuming the average model is what 70 litres (allowing some wiggle space) that would actually be only 7 females... Ok so buttload might be an understatement.
Nothing creepy here... move along people
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I have made progress on the improvements mentioned in an earlier post.
There is now a little heartbeat icon next to the relationship, when you hover your mouse over this it will tell you if the model has any relationship events and how many are left to see.
Late game upgrades have changed. The lounge is now available earlier where you can now construct a website and dressing room.
I am still experimenting with the above but currently there is a pool from which you can spend money each week to boost benefits of your lounge, website and dressingroom services.
There is still a lot more that will get updated along with this such as the concubines and competitions, not to mention adding the dressingroom bonuses to everything.
There may be the odd bit of quality of life improvements also splashed in (not to mention a handfull of new bugs)
There is now a little heartbeat icon next to the relationship, when you hover your mouse over this it will tell you if the model has any relationship events and how many are left to see.
Late game upgrades have changed. The lounge is now available earlier where you can now construct a website and dressing room.
I am still experimenting with the above but currently there is a pool from which you can spend money each week to boost benefits of your lounge, website and dressingroom services.
There is still a lot more that will get updated along with this such as the concubines and competitions, not to mention adding the dressingroom bonuses to everything.
There may be the odd bit of quality of life improvements also splashed in (not to mention a handfull of new bugs)
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Updated my modelpack with Leanne Crow. It's kinda heavy with all the animated webp but she's a fine lady:
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I also updated Elsa Jean from jpg to webp so it should work. Cassi0peia aren't done yet and still in jpg.
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I also updated Elsa Jean from jpg to webp so it should work. Cassi0peia aren't done yet and still in jpg.
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Nice to see other people starting to add models
Some feedback from past experience.
1. Line 35 in your .lsm needs to be closed or it'll throw errors and won't work. Remove the comma so it looks like this :-
You can also edit the mod description. Since this mod overwrites ElsaJean for Tiffany Towers (and I'm not even sure overwriting the base models and having both code use "ElsaJean" would even work tbh) you should specify that since you're releasing it to the public.
2. As far as I'm aware animated webp won't play unless they are displayed for events.
3. Following on from point 1, it's never really a good idea to replace things in the main game. To easily fix this rename "ElsaJean" in the code to "TiffanyTowers" and rename the ElsaJean folder to TiffanyTowers. You might also want to edit the stats as it's using Else's stats which in-game will look rather jarring. Use Babepedia or something similar for the numbers.
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not getting errors with stilfulls mod although images are broke. images are in the right place.
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Ah, great for pointing these things out. I think I corrected all of them now.
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Works fine for me. I even tested by downloading my data and images and adding it into a new install of the game. Are you using chrome and got everything updated? Dunno what the issue could be.
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I updated the data-file so try download it again and the new Tiffany Towers folder that I updated the names with.
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Concubine Improvements are well underway, and you can view the models complete set from the concubine screen now.
I still need to implement the Lady of Lovely Countenance.
In my current game I have 19% stress with 15 models (and not everything unlocked)
I have 7 concubines, 3 of them are Ladies of Complete Deportment so they don't attract the $1000 cost.
The above earnings are working Full time, so only 2 shoots each week and I am just breaking a small profit.
I still need to implement the Lady of Lovely Countenance.
In my current game I have 19% stress with 15 models (and not everything unlocked)
I have 7 concubines, 3 of them are Ladies of Complete Deportment so they don't attract the $1000 cost.
The above earnings are working Full time, so only 2 shoots each week and I am just breaking a small profit.