Would be cool to have the Personality displayed in the phone contacts list. It is not always clear from the responses what personality they match with. Maybe bake that in when you rebuild the phone list with the sorting options.
Ty for the speedy fix!
(Ps.: do i become a mayor bug tester here? *giggles*)
Invited this girl on a day trip to london. The game freezes when clicking on "Let the date begin!". Seems to loop to the same screen indefinitely. 100% Reproduceable.
All other day-trip-locations work perfectly fine! Only "London" freezes/loops.
Day: 750 (Monday)
The Girl:
Lola Ellis (161.6 kg) (+4.6 kg)
Height: 163 cm | BMI: 60.8 | Shape: Hourglass | Fitness: 45% | Status: Very Fat
Job: Musician (Off: Mon & Tue | Free: Morning)
Likes: The Shepherd Arms, Stand-Up Comedy, Dancing, Music
"Handsome" is officially not a gender-specific word. Could use it for both genders. Strange it is almost exclusively used for men. If used for women it may indicate a boyish appearance.
As fast as you fix bugs it is no problem if you release versions early. Actually i would recommend to release as soon as there are no gamebraking bugs. It is much easier and quicker to let players find bugs/glitches! Spotting your own oversights is just damn hard - let others do that for you! ;)
When a girl gets immobile during an event at a day out, there seems to be no event description for that circumstance.The girls DO talk about beeing unable to move during the eating/food part, but the story part describes them as "slender" and the event continues as normal.
Guess you have to be rather creative to get out of that quirk ;) Continue the event as barely mobile until you get home would be the easy fix. Having extra srories for every event would obv be the hard way.
Here i vote for the easy way because it does not take too much away from the overall experience and story.
... if i could vote again one of my choices would be 7. "Cooking minigame (use purchased/found ingredients to craft food & drink with a variety of effects)."
Cooking didn't appeal to me right away - but now it does ;)
More personalities, on the other hand, are hardly improtant because the 16(!) existing ones cover everything from posh to fedee imho.
Cool that you like the idea, Very much looking forward to that revamp. Treating weight and fitness seperately but with certain connections is probably a good idea. Other games do that by distinguishing between "cardio" training to lose weight and "strenght" training to build muscle/fitness.
Sure you have some additional ideas up your sleeve.
What about the ability to administer the weightloss medication to your girls when you are at your, their and the care -home? Plus: not only when they are immobile.
That way the pharmacy/medication system could also replace the medicine currently available at their home and the care home. Ofc that feature would have to be available without player weight enabeled then.
(Ps.: Nice to see how inventory and cooking can work in future.)
1. Character Contact Says: "Job: Data Entry Clerk (Off: Sat & Sun | Free: Morning)" But the girl is only free at Evening.
2. Color coding of town locations somtimes does not happen - visited locations stay blue.
3. After a DDD staff member was moved to gentle meadows the time of the day is: "It's undefined. What do you want to do?" This day always ends after one single event.
little request that somhow has gone under the radar: "Belly Shape" (smooth/rolls) option for female player character! (afaik they now all have smooth bellies, or is it randomized?)
Stopping my requesting avalanche here, the game is very fleshed out already, will go for a playthrough/maxing out session then ...
- You can have a gym or swim seession or a jog alone, then it is a bit more effective. You can have 3 fitness sessions per day so you can workout quite a bit! imho weightloss is ok now, was almost impossible in 3.0
Option for weightloss that actually makes you lose fitness comes to mind! Anorexic behaviour in a weight gain game? Think that has not been suggested yet.
- differnt sorting options for characters are a cool idea
Once DDD is activated you have to pay the rent even when you are Closed and have no staff. Here the option to go out of business without paying the rent anymore would be handy, especially when you have opened the business too soon and struggle financially. But also if you just want to go back to a sporty spa town ;) . Ofc when opening business again you should also have to pay the fee for it again. Maybe this could be handeled via a town location rather then an Upgrade.
Ps.: noticed you wrote a novel about Dizzy's Delightful Doughnuts, might snack that.
The balance between words to read and choices to make is almost perfect in this game - there is always just enough to read to keep the fiction going, enough stats to keep track of, at the same time you are constantly making/clicking choices that really matter! Then there is the managing part which is rly intuitive and gives you enough hints ingame to know what is going on. Lastly the minigames are actually quick to play and fun! Incredible how much is packed into this without any part of it becoming too laborious. Open world -Sandbox -Dating - Weight "Control" -Business/Town Managing -stat building and more! Quick and intuitive to play, every update so far adding something to enjoy!
(Ps.: Rant about other games alert! Too many text based games exist that give you a multiple pages read and then give you the choice between "yes", "of course" and "sure". Too many games are ruined by tedious lenghty "minigames". )
On Day Trips sometimes when you say "OK no problem" OR a girl denies when you try to persuade her OR an event fails becasue you are to heavy: the game jumps back to town showing the screen with the "The day is still young ..." option, continuing the day as if it had started in town. This is NOT gamebreaking and the game continues as normal.
Unfortuneately this is rather hard to reproduce for me becasue i did not find out what exactly causes this behaviour. I'll report if i find out and it is not fixed in the meanwhile anyway.
TY, tried it and: Loss per session seems to be ~ 0.3 kg (i'm german so i use kg) With the buff when doing it alone ~ 0.5 kg Sry for the whining but that is still very little ;) like 0.7 - 0.9 would be cool imho ...
While i'm at it: Could not figure out how it works to get girls off the donut addiction. They ask for donuts i turn them down they ask again - repeat. The addiction disappered temporarily but then came back - no idea what causes what here - i'm lost here (?).
Oof, like mentioned in some comments below, Weightloss has been nerfed to very ultra hard. A fitness session loses 0.1 - 0.2 kg. Makes it almost impossible to slim down for the player and the girls :(
Also like in comments below, fitness raises in a good pace, so you end up with very fit but still heavy characters.
Having the choice of strenght training to gain fitness and cardio to lose weight could be an elegant solution.
Reverting weightloss per session to the values before the big update could also quick fix this!
Hope this gets tackled in next updates so i can enjoy the back and forth, gain and loss Yoyo again.
On the positive side there is the option to also buy smaller clothes when you finally slimmed down!
for new players: You can buy larger or smaller clothes in the high street shops once your size has changed!
Only spotted one incongruent dialogue between events and the character description so far: The girl noticed"My thighs are getting thicker for sure. They're starting to touch at the top." but the description already said thighs "touch without a gap". Status: Slightly Soft; Shape: Pear
Slight incongruencies like that do not ruin the experience imho, you can even look at it the way that there is a difference between self image and 3rd person image, which happens a lot in real live ;)
Maybe make it so that: The player character does NOT have to always order the same food as the girlfriend characters but can choose his/her diet independently?
Would that solve the problem?
Ps.: Generally i enjoy the whole fitness and weightloss struggle, so more of it in the game, not only for the player character, is always welcome!
Maybe even some upgrades that help with fitenss, like "fitness instructor"? (i like to play with player wg off btw.)
Gave it a quick go and i'm amazed how much more there is to experience, the Events and Day Trips are super intuitive, also liking the new locoations & sub locations very much. The girls responses seem to be on spot. The game balance seems to be just right. Aware that i have seen nothing yet!
Ps.: A big update indeed, but i have found no bugs so far :)
Short Critic about "Height Change" For realistic adult characters height change is not comprehensible and thus immersion breaking. There is a difference between exaggerating body changes that do exist in real life AND/OR making up completely fictional body changes like growing wings, horns or changing height. The latter only fit in the fantasy-magical-fiction realm. I hope purely fictional or magical features will be optional.
read above - there is much more to it then just the number! There is a lot of Words describing how muscular the girls are, and many activities are affected by the fitness level. Saying this because i like this aspect of the game very much.
Ofc more of the above is welcome, but there is a lot of it already in there!
Fitness does that! When your girls are above 50% fitness the descriptions for them change and there is quite some muscle in it! It also allows them to jog even at higher weights. Fitness further affects actions: gym, swimming, jogging, going for a walk and activities which take place in the bedroom!
... Status changes too to reflect the Fitness Level
imho adding more activities to do, would be the way to go in the next update(s). Many further weight stages are not that important to me - maybe one more at the top weight and one more on the skinny side would add a nice touch tho. Subdividing the current weight range would be cool but might also be a ton of work. Let's see what the next update, announced as beeing "Quadruple!", brings :)
Ty confirming that the problem exists! Ofc there might also be errors in my report. Guess Taylor will look throug it from the devs perspecitve and then see what the error really is.
Bug reports are helpful. Almost every dev is thankful for them. + Yes this game offers very good interactive fiction!
