Post by Feddycalzelunghe in Aric's Expansion Rebred

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Hi Aric, first of all thanks for all the hard work, I think this mod really gives the game more depth and options, especially with some of Ralph's Tweaks enabled.
I've been playing and tweaking stuff for a few days, and I would like to report some bugs\ask some clarifications about some of the content of the mod\overhaul:

1) Training grounds. They are not working at all for me. I have a lvl 11 Rich Dragonkin trainer with maxed out stats and more than 500 battles, but her trainees (low level, of course) don't seem to gain any experience or learning points at all. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
2) Also training grounds, this time a clarification: is the Tamer specialization working for the trainer? I've tried training some "uncivilized" people with a tamer, but to no avail. I do realize the specialization itself requires time and luck in any circumstance, so I'm wondering if it's at least doing something.

3) I love what you did with the farm. The whole bottling business is a work of genius. I wonder though: is there any way to have people who work in the farm gain some experience from their work? It seems to me like the game provides slaves with experience related to any of their possible jobs (except maybe Lab Assistant or Jailer) and it would be fitting to have low level farmhands who have the chance of getting stronger while doing the job.
4) Also about the farm: I gave a bottle of Milk to a slave with low energy, but the popup window said I'd given her a bottle of Piss instead. Not sure if the effect was correct, as she had a little bit of stress already. Found the solution, it was just a spelling mistake in items.gd. The effect was, indeed, correct.

5) Are the MC's fetishes affecting the gameplay at all? If yes, how can I change them? I can't find the answer anywhere, sorry if it's been asked before.
6) Is there any chance to encounter randomly one of the "special" races Ralph added to the game (like Gargoyles, Ents, stuff like that) or breeding is the only chance I've got?

Sorry for the long list of questions, I have been collecting them for a while before coming here and posting :) Thanks again for your hard work!

ankmairdor2 years ago(+2)

1) It was recently discovered that the trainer job was not included in the list of jobs to be updated at the end of the day, thus it has no effect. This can easily be fixed by opening ".../files/scripts/Mansion.gd" with a decent text editor, finding the line starting with "var corejobs" at the top of the file, and adding to the list:

,'trainer'

2) The tamer specialization has not been changed to handle trainers working with trainees. Slaves working the same jobs will effect each other, but pairing different jobs has to be done explicitly. In "Mansion.gd", the line that starts with "if i.spec == 'tamer' &&"can be changed to:

if i.spec == 'tamer' && i.away.duration == 0 && i.obed > 60 && (i.work == person.work || i.work in ['rest','nurse','headgirl'] || (i.work == 'jailer' && person.sleep == 'jail') || (i.work == 'farmmanager' && person.work in ['cow','hen']) || (i.work == 'trainer' && person.work == 'trainee')):

3) The farm has job skill experience for each of the jobs: farm manager, farmhand, milking, bottling, milk merchant, and stud. How much impact the experience has varies considerably, and unfortunately farmhands never use that experience for anything.

4) The bottles use a copy-pasted function that was altered slightly for each; however the first line of text says piss for all of them. Generally(RNG dependent), if a person has a good fetish opinion for drinking that type of liquid then they lose a lot of stress, else they gain a bit of stress.

5) Fetishes have a small impact on the gameplay and I see no exceptions for the player, so I assume yes. I believe the save file is the only place to change the MC's fetishes at the moment; it's not too hard to do with a online JSON editor, but the daily updates can reduce the values you set unless you disable that option.

6) The code for creating people does not include a way to specify a hybrid race so it is currently not possible to intentionally generate them outside of breeding. There are no specific conditions against them being randomly generated but the chances are fairly low due to the various factors involved.

Feddycalzelunghe2 years ago (2 edits)

"There are no specific conditions against them being randomly generated" is all I needed to know. Let the hunt begin :D
Thanks for all the answers, oddly enough I was editing my post while you were finishing yours, I managed to find and correct the spelling problem for point 4.
You were super useful, I will add those lines to the files at once!

EDIT: Uh, should I add 'trainee' beside 'trainer'?
EDIT2: The Trainer job now works as it should, thanks.
About point 3: what I meant is that if I have a slave do, let's say, entertainment, or hunting, that slave will eventually not only get better at his\her job, but also gain enough normal XP to actually level up. Farm jobs don't really give experience, whereas it would be useful\realistic if I could add strength\agility to farmhands\milkmaids without having to resort to take them out to tag along while I fight bandits.

ankmairdor2 years ago

I completely overlooked the point about experience towards person level. I suspect it to be an oversight that experience is never even mentioned in the new farm system.

Feddycalzelunghe2 years ago

Ah, well. My farmhands are a bunch of Orcs, they'll manage with what they've got already.

Thanks again :D

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