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The plans stand.
🕑 Added 2023-06-11 12:03:41 +0000 UTCSo. It's done for now:
I. Cadonis arc. Fully. Including both the lewd scene and its, ahem, accompanying scenes. Already in the game and tested.
II. Iolanta's arc and the ending part of the update. Draft only. Completed ~15 minutes ago. The draft still needs to be edited, translated, edited again, coded, tested, and a number of other purely technical things to be done. But by June 16, it should be ready. Tight timeframe for me, but still.
Oh yeah, the lewd scene on her arc... Well, that kind of scene hasn't been in the game before. The first one of its kind. Well, depending on your choice, of course. With some other choices... You know what? You'll soon see yourself.
I had to change some things...
I want every part of the game to be something different. Whether it's the circumstances, the challenges, or the narrative, it doesn't matter. It matters that you, the players, don't get bored with the same activities. That's why I wanted to end the relatively calm first half of Chapter 2 as if a little ahead, into the coming adventure (or misadventure...). That is, to shake up the narrative a bit, and then - Boom! - End of the update. On a juicy cliffhanger. So you're like, "Wow!" "Wait, what?" "Hey, I want more!" Well, like they do on TV shows.
Emm... That won't happen. I just can't make it in time. These lewd scenes turned out to be... yep, bigger than they were in my head. Never happened before! And yet again... Anyway, I won't dare ask you for another delay. So the 1.5 update will be finished on a relatively calm note. No cliffhangers or sudden twists and such, alas. All I can say is that the dynamics of the next update will be, yeah, different.
Nevertheless, 1.5 is still the biggest update so far. I hope you like it.
A little hint.
I'll probably do a big post after the update on this aspect, dunno. For now, briefly. If you're afraid of going through the arc of Cadonis, thinking it will ruin Iolanta's arc or spoil your relationship with her, or something like that... Well, no, it won't. I'll even say more, Iolanta's main arc has nothing to do with current events. Her main arc begins with your first meeting in Chapter 1. And it is closely interwoven with the main storyline. There's no way you ruin it just because you decide to hang out with Cadonis. Iolanta's potential dissatisfaction with this is and will be, of course, but she... This woman has her own plans for the protagonist, that's obvious, there's been too many hints of that in the game already. But Iolanta is not the kind of woman who will abandon her plans just because Selene has decided... to be a little wayward. She’ll adapt. She always adapts.
It could be said that Chapter 2 has more of Iolanta's sub-arc than her main arc. I just need the sub-arc of the displeased Iolanta as a replacement, for players who, for whatever reason, effectively reject Cadonis. Personally, in my opinion, the Cadonis arc in the context of the ensuing narrative gives a more interesting and believable grounds. Grounds of maturation. As an experience to go through. But how you want to roleplay this - is up to you, sure. I just wanted to say that by choosing Cadonis in this chapter, you won't really break anything with Iolanta in the future. Her main arc is too important for the story.
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Defiant Explorer
Pregnancy is based on chance while (any) ejaculating goes inside. This is one of the many "hidden mechanics" in the game. No numbers will be visualized by the game. A bit more detail here: https://f95zone.to/threads/inner-empire-v1-3-defiant-explorer.130720/post-9384288
mrengineer
How do you planning to implement pregnancy mechanic? Is it going to happen due to certain sex scenes or a mechanic like each creampie has a chance to get her pregnant or each one increase a stat and when it reaches to a point she gets pregnant?
Defiant Explorer
Actually, thanks to Mrengineer for bringing my attention to a part of the code I haven't looked at in about a year or so. Well, you know: "don't fix what works"... Anyway, there was something missing from the Sensuality section. Namely, a display of possible bisexuality. Now, if Selene had sex with Iolanta in Chapter 1 there would be this phrase: "It also turns out that I'm into women as well. This is sooo against the laws of gods and men... And yet, I feel what I feel. The soft line of women's bodies makes me tingle, mm-hmm... Maybe it's always been like that, but I just didn't pay attention. Hmm... Well, now I know." Alas, there will be no sex counter for women. For this I need to add additional variables at initialization (start) of the game, which I can... But in your current saves it won't work. And what I did - will work perfectly with your current saves, guys. So it's not a bad solution, I think. So, the Sensuality section now works like this: 1) first part (a hidden counter of different men and a text description based on origin) 2) second part (paragraph for bisexuality, only displayed if there was sex with Iolanta, criteria may be expanded in the future). 3) third part (non-con, if happens, if not the standart phrase: "The world is a cruel and dangerous place. But the good thing is that I never had to do anything against my will. I hope it stays that way in the future.").
Defiant Explorer
Only the new man counts. For 2 scenes with Cadonis, it still counts as +1. Iolanta does not count (this is a male counter). Assuming your counter is probably 3 (Barnabas + Lassander + Cadonis). Description changes, specifically for Hairess: Virgin (0): "I'm a young girl, but I... *blushes*. I had kisses! With men! Oh, okay, with boys. Several years ago. My uncle kept me safe from everything else, but now he is not around! So... I can do whatever I want!" More than 0 and less/equal to 3: "Now I am a woman. It's strange, but nothing has changed. Though it's amusing to remember my uncle's efforts to keep my purity. As soon as I left his care, I... *blushes*" More than 3 and less than/equal to 9: "Now I have some experience with men. Yes, yes, plural, hee hee. And it looks like I like it!" More 9: "Oh, I've had a lot of men. And many times. Remembering how naive and innocent I once was... Such ridiculousness. I like dicks! Those little fleshy things... get bigger and harder in front of my naked body. The very thought of it makes me wet. Oh yeah. I want more." The second half of the description you quoted is... is for non-consensual situations. That is, the first part of the description is in the "Sensuality" box for consensual, and the second part for non-con (if any happens).
mrengineer
I tried to get it all(did the 3 in a row with cheating guy, tax collector, twice with cadonis, Lolanta scenes) And it just says "Now I am a woman. It's strange, but nothing has changed. Though it's amusing to remember my uncle's efforts to keep my purity. As soon as I left his care, I... *blushes* The world is a cruel and dangerous place. But the good thing is that I never had to do anything against my will. I hope it stays that way in the future." I think it's an underwhelming statement. :) Instead of boring numbers there could be different statuses like prude-picky-adventurous-promiscuous-slut etc. that changes depending on numbers.
Defiant Explorer
It's already there from the first game version. It's just that instead of boring numbers, there's an artistic description (Character Sheet -> Personality -> "Sensuality" section). In terms of code, it works on hidden variables. Each sex with a new man adds +1 there. The descriptions change at values: 1) More than 0 and less than/equal to 3 2) More than 3 and less than/equal to 9 3) More than 9 They also depend on Origin (each one has different descriptions).
mrengineer
A 'body count' stat would be nice to track how many people our heroine slept with.
