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I have a very low tolerance for femdom: Soft femdom is usually too rough for my taste. I guess I'll keep adding LIs to my lack of interest list.
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Ren'Py Funkelregen [v0.4] [Janamus Sura]
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- Jun 25, 2023
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I hope you take no offense to this question, but what parts of the game do you actually enjoy?
If I recall correctly, all our conversations centered around how to avoid certain aspects of the game, and by now you have in total blacklisted 7 out of 8 main LIs.
- Jun 26, 2018
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I like Rachel. And if Ladira, Sabrina and Zoela don't have femdom, I will like them.
I think I could have liked Sarle, but one scene prevented it.
Actually, in all games when writing in the threads I tend to focus more on what I don't like than on what I like. Possibly not the best approach?
In any case, the game is fine, at least the parts I'm playing.
You exemplify everything that should be done about current issues most anywhere.
If you don't like it, freely say so and let it be. Play/use what you like, don't mess with what it's not for you as someone else may like it. For me I don't like Futa(for an specific example). I block threads where it's unavoidable so I don't have to see it on the update pages, but I do not go in there and tell them it's wrong or disgusting or anything, I block it and move on to what I do like or what I can avoid(when content I don't like is avoidable I just avoid and try the rest as well) to enjoy the rest.
I hope more people take this approach. Maybe you do it just on this and not on other tags, but I'm not gonna stalk you for that. I'm just going to appreciate what I can see and agree to that which you said here.
- Sep 25, 2018
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I don't know if the translator will translate correctly what I want to say, but I see a lot of inaccuracies in this game. The first thing that came to my mind when I delved into the history of this universe was that I was dealing with a writer who had an idea for his first book, but at the same time had poor skills.
The good news is that skills are things that can be learned over time. I'm more concerned about the story itself in this game. If the beginning of the story is bad, even if the skills are better later, they will not fix what was once broken, and each new player will have to go through the worse part of the game before getting to the better part.
I will emphasize that I am not talking about the game itself and its mechanics, but about the history of the universe presented.
As a solution to this problem, I would suggest writing a script of the story you want to present in the game and making this script available to a wider audience so that some kind soul could say whether it is good or bad, and if it is bad, point out where everything can be fixed.
Let me give you a good example of what I'm talking about. SPOILER:
And now because of this one error, the developer will continue to develop the game based on this error, and the later he wants to fix this error, the more the game will have to be rebuilt.
The good news is that skills are things that can be learned over time. I'm more concerned about the story itself in this game. If the beginning of the story is bad, even if the skills are better later, they will not fix what was once broken, and each new player will have to go through the worse part of the game before getting to the better part.
I will emphasize that I am not talking about the game itself and its mechanics, but about the history of the universe presented.
As a solution to this problem, I would suggest writing a script of the story you want to present in the game and making this script available to a wider audience so that some kind soul could say whether it is good or bad, and if it is bad, point out where everything can be fixed.
Let me give you a good example of what I'm talking about. SPOILER:
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And now because of this one error, the developer will continue to develop the game based on this error, and the later he wants to fix this error, the more the game will have to be rebuilt.
- Jun 25, 2023
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First of all, regarding the example you've stated:
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- Jun 26, 2018
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In fact, adding a previous episode of allergic reaction (I don't remember if there are any) is enough to support the cat story as you are telling it.
- Jun 25, 2023
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It's quite early on (cafeteria_techs_01). Basically, Sarlé and Rachel meet really for the first time, shake hands and 5 seconds later, Sarlé already has an allergic reaction.
- Sep 25, 2018
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I know you can still "resurrect" the cat and build a whole story around it. You can do anything, after all, you are a developer. What I am saying is that the most logical thing a person should do in such a situation is not to kill the animal in the first place.
The lore of the game is really fleshed out and vibrant, love it and quite enjoy reading up on them.
However so far its been a slice of life in a spaceship format. Will there be other types of content for the narrative? Specifically main quests & side quests that are combat related or escort and ambassador missions or away missions to space stations, planets, space hulks etc? The lore is deep, i reckon many players want to see more of the world.
However so far its been a slice of life in a spaceship format. Will there be other types of content for the narrative? Specifically main quests & side quests that are combat related or escort and ambassador missions or away missions to space stations, planets, space hulks etc? The lore is deep, i reckon many players want to see more of the world.
- Jun 25, 2023
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First of all, thank you for your kind words.
Yes, you are right - at the moment, the game is almost completely confined to the ship. But by now, we got to know the cast and the on-the-ship main quests are close to ending, so the focus on missions outside the ship will steadily increase with every following update. Currently, I'm knee-deep in bringing Legestor to life, which will be a space station serving as a melting pot for the various alien cultures.
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For version 0.5, a trip to Taurus (Rachel's homeworld, settlements under pressure domes) is planned. 0.6 will start with an expedition into Meran territory, which of course will turn out to be bloody, i.e. you will have your playable combat as well as an expedition into an overrun "space hulk". Additional 0.6 will also have a trip to Vesella (Pirlia/Ladira's homeworld, ocean/beach world). Next, 0.7 will probably have a visit to Kastar de Rantar/Heretic's Boulder (Lintar's homeworld, not yet in the wiki, desert/wild west environment).
Somewhere after that, I have some ideas for trips to Laspergo (MC/Sara/Adrian/Annica's homeworld, Forrest/agri world), New Kassiopeia (Sabrina's homeworld, cyberpunk dystopia), Lyrea (Human/Terran capital, n-cap/Blade Runner-ish dystopian hive world) as well as other zick-zacking throughout the galaxy.
I hope this sort of roadmap matches your expectations.
- Jun 25, 2023
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The problem is, that I need this little scene to have happened for a sequence in the main storyline of the next update. So not having seen this scene and getting the plot point about Sarlé's problem with alcohol could lead to logical inconsistencies or permanent blocking of events.
Personally, when I play other AVN I'm a kind of 100% guy, who wants to see everything, even if I'm not 100% interested in an LI. Therefore, I planned Funkelregen with this mindset.
The fact, that there are people like you, who categorically want nothing to do with certain LIs, wasn't factored in for the initial conception, but in future updates, I will try to make mandatory quests more platonic and will make sex scenes either avoidable in main quests or will place them in side quests.
PS: I hope you'll remember, but if you play version 0.4, decline Zoela's offer to suite your tastes.
- Sep 16, 2020
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I wish the Dev would use names and words that we can really understand. I understand that you like to make up names, but PLEASE use names and words that we can understand. I'm on the verge of deleting the game because I don't understand most of what everyone is saying. It really pisses me off.
- Jun 26, 2018
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Personally, what doesn't excite me about the scene is that I don't want the MC to establish a romantic (or even sexual) relationship with Sarle: As I have indicated, the scene between her and Saefia has destroyed my interest in Sarle and Saefia (although the most frustrating thing of the scene is that the MC apparently likes it, which noticeably reduces the immersion at that point). I find the fact that they spend the night together more appropriate for a romantic route than one in which there is no type of romantic relationship between them.
In fact in my opinion it was a perfect moment to let the player choose whether he wanted to continue Sarle's route or not: They sleep together, then make it clear that the MC is interested in Sarle romantically. The MC sends her to her bed, possibly Sarle begins to suspect that the MC doesn't want anything romantic with her.
In reality, among harem fans you will find many who don't want to know anything about lesbians (and in fact not a few will consider the scene between Sarle and Saefia as netorare, which will automatically make them discard the game). The truth is that Saefia will never be the most popular LI: the combination of being bisexual, having had sex with one of the LIs before the MC and the fact that she will have more sex with other LIs possibly before the MC if you continue her route, doesn't exactly make her an attractive LI for many harem fans.
But there are even more who dislike femdom. Among harem fans, maledom is much more popular than femdom. Most likely, if half of the LIs have unavoidable femdom (no matter how mild) in their routes, most of those who dislike femdom (which is much more than half of the harem fans) won't touch the game. For others it will simply be enough to avoid those LIs.
On the other hand, many will want to establish a romance with all LIs, while at the same time avoiding fetishes that they dislike (generally femdom and lesbian sex). They will want all of this to be avoidable (that is, not to happen), and surely the scene between Sarle and Saefina will bother them a lot.
In any case, I'm not saying that you change anything, I'm simply making some observations that I hope can help you better understand what harem followers like and don't like.
Anyway, in my opinion, I think it's best to make all controversial fetishes completely and absolutely avoidable from the start. And if it's possible to make alternative routes, the better. But, as I said, it's only my opinion.
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I don't like sandboxes, but still started the game, but that scene just made me stop playing, usually I can tolerate those kinds of scenes, but when I thought about grinding for hours, go there do that talk to this and that, just to be watching stuff like this, made me stop the game, more so that those two were my favs, still good luck with the game.
- Jun 25, 2023
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I'm maybe missing a context clue, but to what scene are you referring to? I'm guessing you mean the scene with Sarlé and Saefia at night.
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In reality, I guess there are more people who have done like you, reaching the Saefia and Sarle scene and not moving on from it.
I'm not going to say that they were my favorite characters, but until that moment I liked them.
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Guess I really have to rework that scene somehow...
I never thought that to be such a problem...
I never thought that to be such a problem...
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Not everyone likes lesbian content, and some will take it worse and others better. Some (few) will not like it, but they will continue the game without it affecting them much. Others will simply discard the LIs and proceed to play avoiding romance and sex with them. Those who take it worst will simply leave the game.
I'm not sure what ideas you have for the rework, but certainly anything short of completely removing the lesbian content (either by creating an alternate route and keeping the scene for whoever wants to have it, or by directly removing the scene from the game) is going to keep the problem. So unless you intend to do that, I don't think it's worth modifying the scene.