Oh! Okay, I understand. There are so many possibilities here. I was referring to stuff like changing positions. That's where dominant ppl mostly force their way with me. Had I read your original posting with more attention, I would have seen it already. Sorry, my fault.
I understand now what you mean. I wonder if I find something that changed.
I also take that you didn't report this as a bug on the Discord channel?
@MarloweC
-For some reason I cannot reply to your post -
No, sorry, that's definitely not my agenda. I love every option that is added to the game. But since there are so, so many things that are still lacking, it's just my personal preference to have other, more important to me, options implemented first.
And again (for the third time): I'm *all for* a possibility to *select* which clothes to wash. I just don't see why - as *the OP proposed* - this should be limited to "only wash stained clothes" which I interpreted as "all stained clothes". This would be pretty useless to me.
Wait, so in your case it didn't work with any of the 0.6.0 versions? Because I'm pretty sure that it worked in my case. I didn't recognize any significant changes in forceful behavior. Some of my partners did relent after a few tries but some didn't at all. But then, lately I played submissive characters, so perhaps it's easier to force the will on them? Is your character rather dominant perhaps? I'm just guessing, really.
You mean, it's impossible to go immediately, right? You can of course wait for one hour and go. There is nothing that would prevent you from doing it, right? So in the end we are talking about a one hour delay? In a game that plays over almost a year?
Well, everyone has their priorities, but tbh, the way the OP has written the original request, I would rather have Anthaum write new events instead.
And again, I don't mean I don't get the point of selecting pieces of clothing to wash separately. I do get it. Provided the game would add some really interesting reasons for it. Like what I wrote in my previous post.
My comments are only in relation to the OP's request. And I never had the problem with waiting the one hour when playing. But of course ymmv. Don't get mad at me. Not that I felt like anybody did.
Open the html file in a text editor and look at what the code looks like.
Not only are there more than 300,000 words (according to Anthaum), they are "all over the place". Do you have any idea how to implement it in a way to have multiple languages?
Not to snuff you, but it's very improbable that someone from the dev team will want to go this way. My answer is of course in no way official or anything. That's just from the comments I've seen from them when people asked about versions in other languages.
Yes, you are completely right. I forgot you mentioned both, Relaxation *and* Attention.
More activities are of course always welcome and if you are honest, the main work put into the game atm is to provide more activities. The whole River Rat thingy is full of new activities.
I think we are to see more and more activities as the development of the game progresses.
I still don't get the point. The washing process takes only one hour? I just put everything inside, stay there and play a niche.tv video and voila, everything is clean. At least at the moment it doesn't matter if you wash your clean clothing a thousand (or more) times.
I do get however that one might want to wash just some selected pieces. Like just *some* stained but not all. So you can wear all your favorite, unnecessarily stained, panties while selling all the others stained ones to the perverts.
And tbh, I also would like the clothing getting dirty, not necessarily stained, after wearing it for a while. If this was the case and wearing dirty clothing would cause some reaction (which to my knowledge it doesn't atm), and if the capacity of the washing machine was limited, *then* selecting which pieces to wash would be 100% justified.
The official comment on the weekly payments - as written in the difficulty options settings - is:
"The weekly debt payments are designed to keep some pressure on so you have to work a job or find money, which generally leads to interesting events."
So while I find your suggestion very nice to have, I doubt this will be implemented very soon. If at all.
Well. Perhaps for now. And compared to the QuickieBurger you are completely right. Keep in mind though that at the moment we only have effectively one year of college life. The college will hopefully have all four years enabled some time in the future. Already now I think a lot of stuff is leveling up too fast. After I finished the first year and started the second, there were very few challenges left.
Do you mean to be able to wash single, selected, pieces of clothing? I don't know what else would be the motivation to implement what you propose.
I don't get it. Could someone explain it to me? The way it is implemented now, just wear something not stained and everything else will be washed. Including all the stained pieces. What's wrong with this?
Can you give an example?
What happens if you change a gender of e.g. a cis female character with straight preferences to cis male, will she (now he) still like men? Or will he be straight and now like women?
I'm talking about the option during world generation to change the gender of some of the special characters.
I'm pretty sure this is completely random. My experience coincides with that of HamUnDo.
What's even "worse" is that sometimes you can see Trixie to be pregnant in her personal description while she is totally non-pregnant and cheerfully working without showing any belly at the pub.
Most other girls' descriptions are consistent with their showing in-game. Trixie is the first (and until now) only one where I noticed the discrepancy.
Not to disagree with you, I completely see it like this, too, in general.
Although one might argue that "The Fixer", although written in RenPy, isn't your typical visual novel and, while containing a lot of important information in text form, might lead people to believe it is mainly a visual only game.
Of course people who play "The Fixer" without following the full descriptions and the story written in text form miss half of the fun of this great game. It's our "duty" to point this out to them. ;)
CoT Roadmap, which is one of the links at the top, btw.
And, generally, CoT Wiki
Anthaum is not really active very much here on itch.
The best way to suggest changes/improvements/features is to become a Patron (the lowest tier is just 2$) and post them in the appropriate Discord channel.
I think - besides what MarloweC said, which I didn't know - the game is far from being finished and there is a lot of potential. It will surely be improved as time goes by.
Considering what MarloweC said, if you play cis male (and so I assume you have a lot of ideas for cis males) how about writing some events or event ideas and submitting them to anarchothaumaturgist? I think if they are good, anarchothaumaturgist might include them sooner or later. I think all the players would benefit from this.
TLDR; Popularity and exposing the breast area is the key. As far as I understand, the costume is completely irrelevant. Other that you have to wear one.
So, I was a very bad girl and have looked into the code and - as far as I understand -
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It depends on two factors. Your (or the other contestants') popularity and if you riled up the audience.
Enticing the audience means you have to expose your breast area. If you are female, this gives you 400 temp bonus points (_maxresponse). In case of a male it further depends on your build and can be 400 temp bonus points if your muscle >= 500 and your plumpness < 500 or else it's 200. Than the final bonus is randomly calculated between 400 (200) and 200 (100). So between the previously set temp bonus points and half of it. This is the formula:
set $costumepopbonus to setup.rir(_maxresponse / 2, _maxresponse)
Your popularity is the value of your reputation["popularity"]["student"]. You can examine this at runtime in the javascript console like this:
V.reputation["popularity"]["student"]
The other candidates are measured by their popularity and it's a pretty complicated formula which can yield a value between -1000 and 1000. The factors considered are wealth, charisma and inclinations. Look for the function
setup.people.npc_popularity
in the code for more details on this.
Then all contestants, including you, are put into an array which is sorted by the calculated values. That's how the winner and the other placements are determined.
The array used for the placement is _sorted and is a temp variable during the calculation event so just before the third place is announced.
This is the result of my analysis of the current (0.5.5f) code. I might as well have overlooked something and then my response could be completely wrong. I would have to test it but at the moment I have no char during the event.
Hmm. That's strange. I tested the game with three different browsers (Edge, Firefox and Chrome) and everything works fine.
What does it say if you right-click on the missing picture and choose "Open Image in New Tab" (Firefox) or something similar? In the new tab you should see in the address field where the browser is trying to open the picture from.
No, no, I understand. I didn't try to accuse you or anything. There are so many different events in the game.
My rant was more directed to the general audience who might read our conversation. I just felt it necessary to point out to everybody that this is a game far away from reality. Your comments were just the right occasion.
Don't do this at home, kids! ;)
Just being offered the possibility to resist doesn't mean you will also be actually able to resist in this game.
You can rise Confidence slowly by having your Mood very high, near 100. And this in turn can be achieved by being well fed, clean, well rested and, yes, sexually content. So either have sex a lot or just masturbate. You can lower your Confidence by unwanted acts performed to you. But I don't know if this is permanent.
I would argue that driving your desire up by drugs and then making you accept sex is as well a rape as any other. This at least is my understanding how this would be handled in a real life court.
And this whole notion of women who "just pretend and just need to be aroused and then they are willing" is a very misguided misconception from real life porn, has nothing to do with reality and which, funnily enough, matches this whole misogynistic world of "The Fixer" perfectly.
And your argument about Allure is also borderline, since many rapers argue it's the women's own fault for wearing revealing clothing.
Don't get me wrong. This is a game and not reality so it has its own rules and laws. I'm just saying any game setting of "The Fixer" is as good as any other since any comparison to real world is - or should be - deeply disturbing. Which I think is exactly one of the goals of this game. To be exaggeratedly satirical and caricatural.
To be honest I'm very glad that you aren't raped on every corner in "The Fixer". The whole notion of the forced re-population, child licenses and women being forced to carry to term their offspring even in cases of planned brutal rape is already disturbing enough. But of course that's my own opinion and I'm liberal enough to accept anyone's view in a completely fictional world.
Thanks for clearing up the situation with the bullies. This will move the Bambi origin a bit down my pipeline of origins yet to play.
