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Ahh, yeah that would be an issue I geuss xD.
As for modding RPGM games in general, a normal RPGM MV game, you just need to grab a copy of the "Game.rpgproject" file, and put it in the game's "www" folder, and you can open it in the engine like any other project you made yourself. (And there are similar files, named sligtly different for different version of RPGM games)
If any encryption have been chosen for the game originally... well the encryption is beyond terrible, there are easy to find tools online, that reverts that, in litterally a second or 2, easily.

Technically, you could also edit the json files directly in any text editor, though that would be really hard to do for anything but the smallest/ simple edits ofc.

Mostly technical fixing/feature improvement, though there are actually quite a few mods, of various kinds for Odyssey of Gianna, their ability to run together, done thanks to a mod loader, that in itself started as a "mod", by another community member, but got added to the base game in a later version, as otherwise normally, yeah more than a single mod at least is basically not possible on an RPGM game.

The game even got a wiki, with a section for mod pages, so the 2 mods I made (with the latter depending on the former) are https://gianna.miraheze.org/wiki/Modding:GUM_Core and https://gianna.miraheze.org/wiki/Modding:GUM_ReEquip if you want to see more specific information

Can ofc find links to the game itself, if you go back to the main page on that wiki too. Since it is a paid for fetish game($10 for base game + $5 for the DLC), you wont be able to find the store page by searching on itch, thanks to that whole payment processor situation.

You're welcome, and yeah the part about it conjuring up items, that doesn't exist in the player's inventory, if I remember right, is either a bug or very un-intuitive behavior at least of YEP_ItemCore, related to the indepedant Item stuff in there, or something like that, quite a while since I actually looked at that in details, so could be misremembering stuff. Regardless, it is easily bypassed, by wrapping the change Equipment command in a conditional, that checks if the item exist, if the idea is simply to equip it, if it does exist in the players inventory.

(All this knowledge I have of the engine, basically comes, mainly, from modding "Odyssey of Gianna"(another TF game), made by Vhiel, at a pretty deep level)

There is still the sign with "Welcome to the demo of adventures of Changes..." in the players starting bedroom

Also as soon as you access one of the braziers to save (don't even have to say yes to save(let alone then creating a save even), just interacting and even saying no to wanting to save, gives you a "Dragon Gem", and "Godess's Tiara" items. I don't imagine, that is intended?

Since I do know quite a bit about the engine, I decided to take a bit of a peek at the code, for the 2nd part, and it seems to be this code, that you run (via YEP_EventCopier plugin), that gives those items:

Maybe adding an upgrade that makes customers arrive already with some food in their stomachs (+1 level of food per upgrade). Would not only be nice to see the "idle" customers with a bit a belly, but also specially in the later game being able to skip the lower level's of feeding, that by then give basically no real money, would be able to speed up income quite I bit I imagine. These should be decently expensive, as the potential income/sec could be quite high, certainly should be meant mainly for mid to late game

Maybe along with it also an upgrade that give passive income, per food level in each customer. This would synergies well with that previous upgrade I mentioned, and actually make adding tables actually give increased income with it as well, rather than just being a buffer of customers. Would also open up for strategies like trying to keep multiple customers at a high food level, but not fully finishing them, for more passive income(But ofc the waitress would sort of interfere, which I think is fine, making such a strategy, while potentially powerfull, still take some effort to keep up). Again mainly should be intended for mid to late game, when upgrades are costing several thousands of coins.

That said really need to fix the performance hit you get when buying new tables, specially with such upgrades added, that makes it usefull to have more tables.

In Castle town, after you got the shopping etc qeust from the Priestess in the temple, you can keep entering the Adventurer's guild building and get the same dialog each time, including the 500gold reward, as many times as you want, creating an infinite money glitch there

Might be nice on the crafting screen before actually crafting, to be able to see the foodtype of food items (hearty, healty, bakery, alcoholic). SPecially when just getting a recipe, the first time, it can be hard to judge if it will actually be usefull or not to even make it, as you only see the quality(via the icon), not the type of food it is

And speaking of foodtypes, "Bakery" sounds weird as a food type, "Baked" would probably be a better word to use. "Bakery" is the shop where you would buy "Baked" food generally

EDIT: Also had one time, where the rightmost crop wouldn't sprout (even though it was long overdue, had planted it at the same time as the 2 other plots). But then when I finally replanted the other 2, it instantly sprouted. (I don't remember which of the other plots actually triggered it, as I planted them again right after each other, or what types of seeds was involved, if they might be relevant)

When trying to plant seeds in the new 0.1.4, the selection menu that pops up only shows food items, not the seeds. Thus, this makes planting anything impossible, in the newest version

EDIT: Did a bit more testing on this, and it seems that right after you load a save (and I would assume start a new game, I haven't tested that part though, but would make sense), you ARE able to select any item in your inventory when planting(thus including seeds), but as soon as you get into the feed dialog with any NPC, then you get locked out, and only able to select food items, for the rest of the session, untill you load a save game again (doesn't matter if you were locked out of planting at the time of saving or not). So I geuss there is a sort of work around, of saving and loading straight away each time you want to plant, but yeah certainly not working as intended there

Arborwyn 5 is Grass Carp, a common fish in the rivers of Arbowyn

Arborwyn 8 is is Amberglow Tetra, a common fish in the restored waters of the Sylvaraen Roots

My geuss, is your issues stems from being too well geared, since both are lowest tiers of fish. Make sure you get rid of all sources of luck you have, and in particular unequip your Worn Medalion, in particular, if you use that.

Essentially with end-game gear and buffs, your chance of catching common fish gets very low (and probably the worn medallion makes it flat out impossible, due to it being the lowest tier of fish), due to how high you chance of getting even epic and lengedary fish are. Even uncommon fish gets hard to find with end-game gear

Bugs:

Despite the game claiming I get a recipe for Blubberfin oil(I think that is what it was called?), or something like that, I have not been able to find it anywhere to craft, neither in campfires, or the crafting stations in my house, in the current 0.1.3, yet I remember crafting it in the previous version

Portraits for people in the encylopedia, usually doesn't show up the first time on a day, you check them entry in there. (You probably need to ensure they are pre-loaded, there are plugins that can help with that, at least for RPGM MV)

Using a Charming Bait item, doesn't seem to use up one of the baits, and also doesn't add any buff icon to the player, BUT it will remove the buff from Magnetic bait. Which magnetic Bait despite it's description doesn't seem to go away when you sleep

The FC-5000 fishing rod, claiming to give one strenght, seems to actually give 2 (at least 3 barriers are broken per click with it as the only strenght item equipped)

When Kaz is at least at the highest weight stage (when you can craft "Ring of the Waters"), if you go into her shop, she seems to sell the 3 old stat rings, including one of them giving "Speed", and buying any of them, they will not qualify for the upgrading recipes.

QOL Suggestions:

Make it possible to craft multiple of a recipe in one go.

Likewise make it possible to open multiple chests at once, they can stack up in pretty high numbers towards the end of the demo.

Also it is unclear, if there are any point to the normal attack, defence, magic attack etc. stats? And if not, wouldn't it make sense to use those(renamed ofc) instead of some hidden variables or whatever you use for the Strenght/Bite/Reeling/Luck stats? Would also make it easier to see at a glance, how much you have of each, specially when you have multiple sources. And yeah at least regardless, it would be nice to have somewhere to see the total of your current fishing stats

Also seems like there is nothing fitting into the head Equipment slot?

Despite all that, great game, can't wait to see where you are gonna take it, in the future. The upgrade to the fishing system in 0.1.3 was HUGE, far more intuitive, than the old version, and easy to actually see what you are missing to be able to catch fish, you can't at the current state

The 2 NPC's only seem to show up on day 11, actually. Not sure if intentional or a math error there?

Hmm I feel like I met everyone in the game by now, but still missing one person entry, the number 12 person under "Port Beren", anyone got any idea where I might find them?

I don't think so, but there are some qeusts, that take a few days for the result/reward to show up, and there is the growing that takes 3 days too. Also another vendor shows up during the weekend specifically, so day tracking does play a role (and I can only assume there will be more of that kind of stuff when we get to a full release whenever that is)

Found another collision error:

Good old RPGM collision error here

Welp, like an hour after I posted that the situation changed, a bit. While still true at the current setting, the game will be completely de-indexed, adult games that does not offer ANY payment (not even optional) for now, will be reindexed now https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content

It sounds to me, that you don't actually fully understand the impact the whole adult game situation have on this game. Sure you may never plan to earn anything from the game, but also as with all other NSFW/Adult tagged games on the platform, while the page for the game (obviously) still exists, as far as most of the rest of itch.io's systems are concerned it might as well not be, as it is completely de-indexed.
That is to say, even if you specifically type in "Magical Viking Erika" in the itch.io searchbar, you will not even then find the game, let alone trying to find it via tags or other kind of searching. Meaning the chance of anyone finding the game who doesn't already knows about it, is exactly 0% on itch itself, and even people who do know about it, have to either know/remember the exact URL, or actively be following you, to get notifications in their feed.
So to get anymore new players at this point you will have to use other platforms, and specifically link the game from there

Hmm... that name seems familiar ;)

But yeah I certainly would love for that to be the case too, if possible. There is a certain charm to the original style, and also a bit of a uniqueness tbh as well, and I personally think I prefer to old style. You don't see many games use that kind of graphics, where the new one is far more normal to see.

I do also acknowledge though, it might not be feasible to, keep making new assets in particular, in 2 styles as well.

The save file itself would need decoding, to edit, so that gonna be near impossible. The maps themselves are technically a bunch of json files, so can be edited with any text editor like notepad or similar(though this will only work as a fix, for any playthrough where you have not yet been in there during that stage), the syntax is NOT very userfriendly, so finding the right stuff to change... I would say is likely gonna be near impossible too, but map ID is 249, so the map file with that number in it, in the www/data folder, if you despite that do want to give it a try

I don't think there is a way to upload files directly in these kinds of comments, so too much effort really, for such a small thing, that I can bothered to actually do that

Not on the self/sheath selection screen, or for combining elements no

When installing and launching the game (The zip version) through, the itch client, it doesn't open the game directly, but just the /big-things-industries folder in windows explorer instead

I got kinda pissed at that tbh... Since I am so bad at coming up with names, I probably spent half an hour or more (litterally), trying to come up with/find a name I would like, only for the game to go FU, you just wasted all that time

The bug always seems to happen at any stage of the game, and in all new playthroughs as well

Pain killers: Works as you would expect (takes your money, reduces pain, and can't buy them if you don't have the 20$ asking price)

Massage Oil: Doesn't take your money, but does increase belly capacity, but only can buy as many as you have money for each day, before it stops increasing belly capacity. (ie. if you have $20, you can increase you belly capacity twice that day, before it stops increasing it anymore, BUT you will still have $20 after those 2 purchases, that you could spend on a pain killer if needed, or keep for next day to use for more massage oils then, if you have $1000, you can get it 100 times, so on and so forth)

Scented candles: Does not work AT ALL, doesn't take your money, and doesn't reduces stress. However if you do attempt to buy as many (or more), than you would be able to afford that day, it does block you from buying the Massage Oil, so seems like they are being bought with the same pool of "phantom" money as Massage Oil, just not having any effect

Hope this formatting and more detailed info makes it a bit easier to understand, and keep track off

Are there plans to develop this into something more after the jam? As it is right now, while a neat idea, doesn't exactly offer a lot of content, even without "cheating" via free Massage oil, once you understand the system it doesn't take long before you clean out the client list, and still have capacity to spare, making it impossible to stay above 100 current progress for long at a time, most of the time sitting somewhere around 80-90 progress, sometimes dipping even lower than that too

Yeah something not working right there. Pain killers does seem to work and take money for me. Massage oil, it seems you can buy as many as you have money for each day, but it never actually deduct money from you, so you can easily get way more belly capacity than you can use in just a handfull of days. Scented candle neither subtract money, nor seem to have any effect on the stress, despite it is supposed to reduce stress

Well played with that title, well played

Nordenhaven sidequest SPOILERS ahead

The sidequest "A gift for Heidi" is impossible to complete the last step. After breaking in and stealing/eating the candy from the Extra Secret candy room, and going back to give the candy gift to Heidi, the quest didn't complete, as it was supposed to, and the dialog scene that I got also seemed odd, like something was missing.

Since I do own the RPGM MV engine, I decided to poke a bit in the code, and sure enough, the reason it happen is that event EV003 in "The Extra Secret Candy Room", sets variable #145 to 9, which is high enough to trigger page 3 on the "Heidi" event, instead of page 2, as it should at that point, skipping that whole page, which have the completing of the quest on it.

At least I was able to manually fix it for my own save, by manually setting variable #145 to 8(which is probably the valu the candy room should have set it to) and then speaking to Heidi again, and by no means is it game breaking either, since it is the last step of a sidequest, but it is a bug none the less, in the current v2.3.7 of the game

Would it be possible to have an option to show the character weight in kg, instead of lbs (Or have both shown at the same time, whatever is more convenient for you). Rounding it to make it look better in the UI, would ofc be fine. Like the starting weight of 125lbs (which as a Danish person tells me absolutely nothing, without looking up conversions), would be 56.70kg, so showing it as 57kg would be fine then.

It does ruin the immersion a bit, to have to constantly do mental math/check unit converters to be able to really tell what their weight is

huh, interesting, but yeah that worked too, even if it is a bit more cumbersome to do when you just need a SS from a game :(

As with basically any RPGM, here is a collision issue (You can walk from the bridge to the pipes unto the sand), on the Processing Plant Entrance map

I am having this issue as well

Considering how long since last update, I very much doubt we gonna see more from this game. :(

But yeah it is kinda sad to only have a single resistance type in the game, as it pretty much dictates a focus on only specific units (specifically, cannons + baloons, with a few catapults for "economy", is one of the best comboes I think), where with more resistance types, say a bio wall afterwards, all of a sudden the arrow launchers would be needed in probably a significant amount too, and builds would be become far more interesting and complex, in what type of units to use and how much of.

The solar panel upgrades seems pretty useless, what with only decrease the charge time on top, which is already pretty fast. Maybe replace them with an upgrade that increase the amount of battery power from the pickups that well giver bettery power underwater? That would both allow it to increase a bit (but not as reliably as the max battery capacity), how far you can dive, while still reducing the charge time to some extend at the surface (since you also pick up battery charge pickups on the way up, so you gonna end up with more battery when you arrive)

You can disregard that entirely, is an engine thing, but has absolutely no effect on the running of the game

I had the same issue yeah sadly

What is the difference between "Population Growth" and "Workforce Growth"? I mean population is your workforce afterall AFAIK

Thank you, that worked, didn't quite have that many on me, that worked, but I don't remember anywhere it even hinting about needing multiple watermelons, did I just miss it, or is it just very obscure on that point?

So how do I get Ophilia to do whatever she planned to alleviate the issue of being too big to inside the Curious store? I already talked to her where she mentions to bring her a green fruit with a red inside or something like that (I assume watermelon). Though I do by now have a bit of every grocery(and "meals") on me anyway, but I don't see any options for to hand her anything, other than the normal 3 "blessings" each morning, to make her do whatever she was planning.