Post by MarloweC in First quest impossible in all male mode?

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"Without main quest you won't be able to do literally the thing your character is designed to do, but it doesn't stop you from doing the thing your character is designed to do" - you somehow

"buy workers with money you don't have and magically cause them to do something that isn't even in the game, pay attention to a stat that isn't listed anywhere" - you somehow

"after some hard work they will do the thing that isn't affected by hard work" - you somehow

"you will be able to safely exit your city and hunt for the thing that you presumably already have by this point if anything you said is remotely true" - you somehow

100% guaranteed we did NOT play the same game.

I didn't try sandbox mode, but if it's that different from story mode, and story mode does not at all match the game's categories but sandbox does, story mode absolutely should not be an option.

Or maybe my download was corrupted somehow but still managed to run at less than maximum capacity, I dunno. But I can say for sure none of what you said exists in the game I played.

MarloweC3 years ago (1 edit)

Reinstalled and tried sandbox mode, and found some of the things you mentioned. Either they don't exist in story mode or they need to be unlocked. Still didn't find everything. The things I did find are also completely pointless at the start because they have requirements that you can't possibly meet when you first start the game, in either mode.

anwi_wi3 years ago (6 edits)

1) As far as I remember, the only major thing blocked by main quest is spell shop for your character and branding of captured slaves (I am not really sure about this one, as I never really cared about quests). I guess if you want to be a mage, then yes - you are fucked. But you can still fight, unlock abilities for warrior-like character, lvl up, travel, etc. I don't really know what more do you need.

2) You get 250 at start. Leave mansion, go to the slaver's guild and buy someone in range of 50-150 (>120 only if they are actually good). Go home and click on their names. You can choose their occupation with the middle-left button and you can see slave's stats/mood on the top. You can go to main mansion screen (Q) and click on interact button for mood stabilization.

3) On the stat list mentioned before you can see HP bar, Stamina bar and EXP bar. When it fills, you can talk to them for a lvl up. After day of work you can see that the meter fills up.

4) I don't really get this one. Buy ropes from market, exit city and hunt for more slaves. More slaves = more workers = more money.

And just because you can't play the story, because on your own self-imposed rules, doesn't mean it should not exist. Set ration lower, get the girl, give it away and put ratio back to 100:0.

MarloweC3 years ago (2 edits)

Well, you said you are dumb and figured it out... I'm thinking the reason this game makes any sense to you is specifically that you are dumb and the game is dumb. This game makes no fucking sense. There is no logic in how any of it works. Only someone not using logic would think any of that is a good idea.

Think about it. Slaver role gives you a bonus to selling slaves. There is no option to sell slaves. That should immediately tell you it's a horrifically designed game.

ankmairdor3 years ago (1 edit)

There are 3 ways to sell slaves which benefit from the Slaver specialization.

When traveling outside, the party menu can be accessed with the "Control" button (I don't know why it has that name), and in the bottom left is the button to "Quicksell Captives" for half their current value.
You can sell any slave to any slave guild; there are 4 slave guilds, which are located in most of the large towns. To access the one in the same town as the mansion (should be Wimborn, unless you have Leo's mod), leave the mansion, press "Visit Slaver's Guild", press "Offer your servants", and select the slaves one at a time to sell.
You can give slaves to fulfill requests, when in the slave guild press "See custom requests", select a request to accept and then select a slave to give. Note, you can only accept one quest per slave guild, and there is only a 33% bonus from Slaver spec compared to the 100% bonus normally.

Edit: added 3rd way

MarloweC3 years ago (3 edits)

What? I've been to the Slaver's Guild multiple times and never saw an "Offer your servants" button. Is it hidden in a weird location? Do I need to have more than just starting servant? Quest locked in Story Mode?

ankmairdor3 years ago (2 edits)

"Offer your servants" is offered unconditionally at all slave guilds, usually as the second button (it can move down if options for side quests are listed above). It is unaffected by game mode or slave count; you can sell the starting slave, though that's generally not a good idea.

Do you have any mods installed? That is the only thing I can think of which would cause that to change as it has been that way for several years.

The game is quite stable, but now and again we see unique problems with specific computers. In the appdata is a folder for logs (on Windows, %appdata%/Strive/logs)(Edit: if you installed through the itch.io app, it may be in a weird location and be easiest to open it in-game through the mod menu's "Open Mod Folder"). The godot file should list any errors that occurred (edit: updated when program closes), though the last 8 lines will be normal errors related to closing the game. However, as of version 1.0d the game no longer runs in debug mode and most errors end up crashing the game instantly, so I have doubts that it will show anything useful. Especially since it is very unlikely that only that button would missing, rather if there was a problem the slave guild would either not show up or behave as a softlock.

MarloweC3 years ago (1 edit)

Well there shouldn't be anything there now since I've uninstalled it, twice now. Never had any mods.

(Edit: Apparently there is still a log there despite having uninstalled it, but the log only has Godot warnings, no game errors.)

Quite frankly though, if a game has mods, chances are there's something un-fun or problematic about the base game.

anwi_wi3 years ago (1 edit)

Well it seems that the actual problem is on your end. Just in case, you can compare your game to these screenshots. They were taken at the places, where you seem to have a problems: slave menu and stat list, slavery guild and all the buttons. Also, I completely disagree about your statement about mods. There is no perfect game, but mods can help you to customize your experience, making gameplay exactly as you want it to be. For example "Gigastructural Engineering" mod for Stellaris adds tons of fun staff to play around with, but it is quite unbalanced and would be a bad idea to include in a vanilla. There are also tons of mods for different games that tend to overhaul them completely, so you could enjoy your old games with a new spark of interest. Anyway, here are your screenshots, hope you will be able to identify your problems and fix them: