Yeah, this is an issue that has existed since the games inception. I kind of wish the dev would disable NPC's going into follow mode on their own, and instead just make it sort of work like the "gives you permission to sleep here for the night" thing. Where when it triggers that they'll follow you, the game will just remember that, and then you have to go into the menu and select to ask them to follow you instead.
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When the game is completed, will you be doing a full, all content release of the entire game and all of the exclusive content for a one time purchase? I don't like patreon because of the company behind it and because games there end up costing hundreds of dollars which I can't actually afford, but I don't mind dropping 20-40 dollars all at once on a full game purchase one time.
For reference, if you haven't already discovered, getting Oriana or Celandine to ~70% affection or so makes all your future visits to the bathhouse free forever. Also something you can try if one of them does offer you a free visit in, just ask them to give you the 5 gold to pay the entry fee, they probably will.
Aww, okay. Will be getting better armor, like metal armor anytime soon, or other weapon types? I was also wondering if custom item descriptions would be returning again? I remember in older versions when an NPC crafted/gave an item to you, it would have a description about how they or you made it and what it looks like generated from the conversation that created it, and that was really cool, but that doesn't happen anymore (except with food.)
The new update mentions that NPC's can give you quality and superior items now, but I am have trouble figuring out how to get them to do so? No matter how I word it, they just give me a normal quality item and name it "Green Item" or "Quality Item" but it will still be normal quality.
Also, I was wondering, do regeneration enchantments stack?
I also have a request. Can we get something that lets us detect traps? An enchantment or special lantern or something? I find that I just don't enjoy dungeons because it has never been worth going into them. Going into a dungeon only rusts away all my armor, goos up all my consumables, and burns me to death with fire traps without ever providing anything but garbage in return.
I just remembered a suggestion I've been meaning to ask for a long time and kept forgetting. When you ask an NPC for an item, they are only able to give you one at a time. This can be tedious for some things, for example I wanted to buy bulk lumber and nails from Aldric at a premium, but had to ask for them one at a time. And it seems like even an LLM can get annoyed, because Aldric gets quite frustrated handing out many of an item one at a time. Plus it's tedious! I don't suppose you might be able to add the option for NPC's to give you multiples of an item?
Another thing I was wondering is if you might add an option to disable parrying? The parrying minigame is actually just impossible, so every time I roll a parry, it just means enemies get a free crit on me and it's frustrating.
Blair was my favorite character until I started making my own too, I love snakes. If you like Blair only because they are a snake, you can also just generate your own, I like to use this website:
https://yodayo.com/text-to-image
It has a model called "Nova Furyy XL Illustrious" and it is great for making furry characters, I use it to generate portraits and such for this game regularly, though you'll only get a few tries daily without paying, but it's generation capabilities was good enough for me to throw ten bucks at them, and you get a LOT of generations out of just that. It'll even do nudity, if you want to make some nude versions of your portrait.
Hmm, perhaps instead of generating a new schedule,, you coulld have some manual edge case for specific NPC(s)? Perhaps design a villager (or use Mirel since she's usually only around half the time anyway otherwise) with their whole purpose being that at high relationship instead of giving the player house keys, they ask to move in and live with the player? Then you can just have a manually made 'lives with player' schedule for them, though it might have to generate some sort of pathing for navigating whatever players may have done to the shed.
Is it possibly within the scope of your game to eventually add the ability for you to ask NPC's to move in with you rather then the vice versa? I stumbled upon Mirel for the first time, and this playthrough I was playing a quadrupedal dragon, and she actually was the one who suggested it first, so I asked her to move in with me. She did folow me and go to sleep in my bed, where she remained for about 36 hours or so, only waking up if I talked to her, until she poofed from existence. Then later showed up walking back to town from the capitol,, and when I tried to bring her back, she poofed out of existence again. I just want to keep my kobold. D:
On a secondary note, there's a bug that's been present for the last two versions or so I keep forgetting to report, Celandine and Oriana seem to get lost a lot when navigating their own home. Celadine walks off into the woods, and Oriana goes to sleep outside of her room, as in llike outside of the house entirely against the wall of her room. This has happened on fresh download + installs and fresh save files for the past couple of versions.
Only with a custom character, afaik. When you make a custom character, you get 300 characters to make a description. You can also describe yourself to NPC's,, and they'll generally remember it, if you emphasize for them to do so. I constantly had to remind NPC's I was a quadrupedal creature that walked on four legs and after a while, they didn't need reminding anymore.
Though, I now realize that could just be a Celandine-ism. Celandine is a slut and will flatter and flirt with just about any character that talks to her in my experience, even with no prompting at all.
That might be because of some sort of prompt you did that they remembered? Sometimes when you ask an NPC to RP a certain way, they'll remember it. Like I've asked NPC's to post multi paragraph and describe their actions, and sometimes an NPC will just remember that I asked them to do that and be very wordy in al their responses.
I noticed that there is enchanted equipment now! I was wondering if there is a way to have NPC's sell/give you enchanted equipment through the dialog? I've taken to custom ordering equipment from Aldric through dialog rather then trading it, because you can ask NPC's to give it a custom name with is nice for personalization, but since you can't have them give you enchanted equipment afaik, there's no way to get enchanted equipment with a custom name!
Your last update, if it's unable to recognize the directory of a custom character, just deletes it all, including all the files I made for it. :< No backup is created, it just deletes all of your work. I don't know why it suddenly didn't recognize the directory and deleted my custom character, this is the same one I've been using since the update that added custom characters and they worked just fine until this recent update killed it forever, the files are just gone now.
I am referring to Aldric specifically. Rosalyn seems to be a bit of a wildcard. Every playthrough she's entirely different for me. I've had runs where she immedietly asks me lewd stuff the first time I Talk to her, and some where she gets offended if I say anything lewd even if I got her relationship high.
In the meantime, asking/begging NPC's for food and to use their beds is way to subsist for free, as a leech. You can even make a game out of it if you prefer, by becoming friends with them first and moving in with them, or just straight offer "favors" for such (the merchant NPC will often jump at the chance to give you stuff for "favors"). For example, one of the characters I RP became the guard's squire, and so he let's me sleep in his bed and I get rations and equipment and pay for slaying enemies from him. Really as long as you can convince a character to do something, they probably have the power to do it. Just be mindful that sometimes they'll hallucinate functions that they are not capable of doing or that don't even exist in the game yet--one of my earliest bad experiences was being sent on a wild goose chase from NPC to NPC to get my items repaired, ther eis no item repair function in the game yet.
The pixelart is AI too. And the entire premise of the game is that it is all AI. There is even a guide included on how to make your own character. You say the dev "cheaped out" but they're only selling the game for 8 dollars, with a large amount of the content being free and included in the demo anyway. Having to budget for hiring an artist would triple this games price at least.
Mm, I do have some feedback. I am not sure if it's possible to fix this, but if it is, something I noticed that is mildly annoying during group conversations, is if an NPC participant says something another NPC participant dislikes, even if it has nothing to do with you, they lose affection with you. This is pretty funny if you end up in a group conversation with Oriana and Celandine at the bathhouse, because Oriana HATES nearly anything Celandine says. x3
Yeah, an option for the player would be great, I got two great images for m characters as nude or armored that I'd love to swap between. Also I think I might know what the issue is? I think it only reads the offset when you start a new game. But there's no way to know how my portrait will look in game, except by saving and loading and then talking to someone. Is there any way to adjust the portrait offset on an existing save file?
I did not, I tried numbers even in the thousands. Right now, it reads as follows:
"dialogSpriteScale": 1.35,
"dialogSpriteOffsetX": 200.0,
"dialogSpriteOffsetY": 400.0,
"allowedSexes": [
"Male",
"Female",
"Intersex"
],
On a side note, do you think it'd be possible for the player to have the option to have a dialog image portrait for them for being clothed versus nude?
Yeah, I think I got jebaited because my first experience with it was extremely good and natural. First time booting up the game, I wandered out of town, got beat up by monsters, wandered back into town, bumped into Darian, who sort of took me under his wing and gave me a full set of leather armor and an iron sword and taught me how to fight, and in return I Was supposed to go on patrol with him every night and eventually he deputized me and it was kind of surprising how natural and organic it felt. It wasn't until playing with a new character where the cracks started showing.
Ooh, okay. Sorry for asking so many questions. It is impossible to get real answers out of the NPC's, they'll make stuff up. SOMETIMES I can get them to admit stuff is fake or real if I make it very clear and OOC talking about the game system. But then sometimes they'll randomly decide we're talking about pathfinder or something and start telling me dnd rules, lol. It's wild.
Saving seems to just stop working after about 3 in game days. I can't save my game anymore. Whenever I click save, it hangs for a long time, and nothing happens when I get control back.
I found a janky fix for this. I was using my GPU for the AI locally, and then when saving stopped working, I switched to using the server, but a conversation or two later, saving stopped working again. Then I switched back to my GPU, and now saving works just fine. Is there maybe something that clogs up the save pipeline somewhere? My save files aren't unusually large, nor is the memories when I exported them, so I'm not sure.
Do NPC's base your appearance off of the portrait, or can you write in your own description somewhere? Is it possible to upload your own portraits? I want to play the snake, but not look androgynous.
Also I've been having difficulty with the inventory system. Selling items to NPC's doesn't seem to work. And when I ask an NPC to list my inventory, they tell me a list of items wildly different from what I see in the UI. Especially Aldric, he'll often make up items, say he's put them in my inventory, or say he's buying my items and give me money, but nothing changes in my actual inventory. He'll also tell me crazy stuff like "Oh no, you really have that item, just check your character sheet by typing /char in chat!" And then when I type /char in chat the only text is just aldric going "Yup, see, right there, it's on your character sheet."
Edit: It turns out I was trying to do all my trade transactions through chat dialogue instead of the trade window. I left notes of my original problem just because it was funny and maybe something the dev might want to explore, tweak, or laugh at? But yeah, trading works now if actually using the proper interface. Although, this is frustrating in it's own right because the shopkeepers are never in their damn shops.