Post by ankmairdor in How to make starting slave dominant?

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My reply to someone with a related problem should clarify the mechanics: https://itch.io/t/993501/dominant-servant-stops-forcing-me-qaq

Your problem is that you only chose 1 dom outcome. Whether you can solve this in-game will depend on if you saved before the alchemy event, as the last event only responds to prior choices. If not then you can only change the outcome by editing the save file.

To edit the save file you will want to open the file with a decent text editor. Many use Sublime Text 3 or Notepad++, but generally anything better than Windows' Notepad will work. Make a backup of the file before starting as mistakes are hard to fix. The save files use JSON format, so an online JSON editor can be used but is not needed for this.

Use the Find function to locate the "decisions" list (it will have a colon and square brackets following it). Inside the list will be various text in double quotes and separated by commas. The ones related to the starting slave will start with "ss" and the ending of each will indicate the choice made. The dominant ones are ["ssweak", "ssmassageweak", "sspotionweak"]. To get the Dominant trait, exactly 2 of the choices must be from this list and "ssyandere" must not be in the list.

BobaLives2 years ago

Thanks for the info - it's really helpful!

I think I should have a save file from before I upgraded the alchemy lab - luckily, I moved my save from my laptop to my desktop a few days back, so I should be able to just go back and use the older one from my laptop. It would require going through a couple hours of gameplay again, which would be annoying. So I'm kinda 50/50 right now as to whether that's worth it. It's ultimately not THAT big of a deal - I guess it just comes down to a one-off event and the 'dominant' trait.

That said, I made a backup of my saves and have been tinkering around in Notepad++. It doesn't seem to be working, though. Initially, I had 'fair' for the massage and the potion events, and 'weak' for the first one. I changed the massage to "ssmassageweak", so that there would be two of the three like you said, but the sex scene played out the same way as before, where she only gets the 'grateful' trait.

I was wondering if it could be because it's somehow 'locked in' at some point, where even if I change those the final event will be the same. My latest save was from the day right before the final event triggered. I also had a save from four days before it triggered, but I had the same result with that one.

Out of curiosity, I tried changing all three of the events to "strict" to see if that had any effect, but the outcome is the same.

Any clue if there's something I could be missing? Thanks again.

ankmairdor2 years ago

My mistake, the calculations for which trait they receive occurs immediately after the potion event choice, not before the sex scene. After the potion event the only way to add the trait is to make an edit to add the trait. The trait determines which text is used in the final event. Adding traits is not as intuitive as it would appear. There are a couple approaches to this as explained in this thread: https://itch.io/t/1675291/editing-save-and-mc-questions I recommend the approach in this post (https://itch.io/post/4753014) as the simplest approach.

BobaLives2 years ago

Ah, gotcha. Thanks again!