v0.8.3.8

Gameplay changes

• [NPC] Decreased the chance of getting NPCs with the Secretive trait from 20% to 15%.
• [NPC] An allowance of $400+ ($100+ for Materialistic NPCs) will now significantly decrease the chances of random Affection drops.
• [NPC] Fame (from battles and adventures) will now yield up to $10k+ (at Fame 1,000+) during auctions at Watery Eyes/Crystal Heights.
• [NPC] NPCs with smaller body types will now be glutted and “fattened up” more quickly with the Hearty food option.
• [NPC] The -20 Pacifist trait combat skill penalty now applies to training sessions from a captain as well.
• [NPC] A naked NPC with Corruption 60+ will now receive a +5 Focus modification for Acrobatics and Dancing sessions.
• [NPC] Emily (Tier2 slave) will now gain the Undying Loyalty slave if you pick the “Fatherly/Loving > Combat” route for your brother.
• [NPC] Goldwalkers can no longer be assigned as Followers during the day (Grimdark Difficulty only).
• [NPC/SEX] **Make out** during sex is now enabled for all NPCs.
• [NPC/SEX] You can now increase a female NPC’s Kissing skill to 100 through makeout actions (during sex).
• [NPC/HOMESCHOOLING] The Nerd trait now affects (+30) Administration homeschooling sessions.
• [NPC/QUEST] You can no longer use a convict contract on Aria Bianchi after completing New World Order.
• [MC] The Educator trait now works from day one.
• [MC] The Party Animal trait now adds an additional +1 Affection to each NPC if you successfully Socialize during a held *Party*.
• [MC/ADVENTURE] Searching for gemstones will now take 3h per attempt (was 4h).
• [HOUSEHOLD] Materialistic NPCs and NPCs with (battle) Fame below 5 now receive a +5% chance (per factor) to decrease WILLPOWER while being in a jail cell.
• [HOUSEHOLD] There’s now a functioning in-game popup helper for mines.
• [ARENA] DEX 80+ now gives a +10 modification to all battle rolls, while a DEX below provides a -10 penalty.
• [WORLD] You’re now able to sell furniture at Redhaven Market.
• [WORLD] The Lawful trait will now only disable House Carozza donations and not block the location from appearing on the map.
• [WORLD] Changed minimum sell price for Food Rations to $1 (was $0).
• [WORLD] You can now sell copper at The Assembly Plant.
• [WORLD] Added a Silfren mine raider attack event to the Conclude Day engine.
• [WORLD] A high City Corruption will now increase incomes from standard Goldwalkers.
• [RANDOM NPCS] Captured NPCs (combat) *can* now start with higher Melee and Ranged weapon skills even if they’re not high-level enemies.
• [ARENA] Reorganized travel time to and from The Arena. It now takes 18 minutes to and 18 minutes back from the arena, instead of 1h upon exiting the NPC Interaction menu.
• [UI] Completely overhauled the Homeschooling modifiers section.

New quest: The Sunderlands
Reaching Affection Amiable+ with Connor Sunderland (Black Guard from Warrior Hall) will now unlock his character quest which involves rescuing Mr. Sunderland’s wife and daughter.

The Sunderlands includes two new scripted NPCs, featuring 22 sex scenes, unique background dialogues and a unique item.

New quest: SWG R22
Visit the Drainage pipe in Stokke Hills to start a medium-length adventure that takes you through a fringe-science story with lots of pre-Severance lore and unique rewards.

New location (and quest): Marston Watch Tower
You’re now able to visit an old pre-Severance military installation in Marston Swamps. This location offers a rather long “dungeon crawl” best suited for mid- or well-equipped early-game playthroughs.

After clearing Marston Tower, you’re able to annex it in Fort Sera’s name, if the fortress’ Standing (toward you) is 100+, they have at least 85 men and $100,000 in their treasury.

New location: The Gymnasium (Crow’s End)
There’s now a civilian alternative to The Arena – a gymnasium which hosts Acrobatics’ quarter finals and grand finals on set dates. For over 250 years, many households and great houses have honored the tradition of signing up their top gymnast to these competitions. The MC *can assign* one of his Followers (if that Follower has Acrobatics 80+ and is 14+ years old) to the competition.

Winning a competition is hard – the other participants (found in a new $gympart object container) are actively increasing their skills as well and will try to do anything to win the quarters (once every 50 days) but also the grand finale (once every 200 days).

A winning girl is assigned Prestige (Civilian). A high Gymnastic Rep. increases Influence. *Winning* also gives you a cash and one-time Influence reward, similar to The Arena. Participating in a contest might also increase other skills and trait values, regardless if the girl wins or not.

The chance of winning is determined by Acrobatics, Dexterity, traits, body type, Affection toward the MC and unique NPC bonuses.

New location: Westside Abbey
You’re now able to assign female NPCs as nuns at Westside Abbey. This assignment works similar to The Arena – an NPC is unavailable 24/7 as long as she’s enrolled and costs a daily upkeep ($95). – Westside Abbey increases Discipline, Intelligence, Gardening, Domestic and a long list of other traits. – With enough Catholic Standing, the MC can appoint his enrolled girls to orders that greatly increases the chance of increasing specific traits or skills.

Westside District
Westside’s map has been completely overhauled and are now looking more “in line” with other city maps.

Job changes (Maid)
You can now assign daughters and wives to work as maids. – An assigned daughter or wife with an Affection below Undying has a 15% or 25% chance to decrease Happiness and Affection (down to Amiable) with one point per day. Effects are doubled if she has the Materialistic trait. – An assigned daughter or wife with Affection below Soulmate has a 15% chance to decrease WILLPOWER down to a minimum of 20.

Prestige
In 0.8.3.8, a new civilian fame variable called Prestige has been activated.

Prestige is gained by winning gymnastics competitions, performing at The Golden Dragon, lecture as a Professor at The Academy and doing other high-end feats of a more civilized kind.

You can ready more about Prestige here.

“Riding clothes” overhaul
The old riding clothes slot has been completely revamped:

• You’re now able purchase this attire (relabeled “Training clothes”) at Nika’s. Any female NPC can now wear Training clothes regardless of assignments.
• Training clothes provide an extra bonus if worn during training sessions/gym competitions.
• This change opens up for a lot more freedom when rendering future (or overhauled) NPCs’ wardrobes.
• NPCs dressed in “riding clothes” when you update from 0837 to 0838 will automatically add that clothing to your inventory when you change their attire.

Holiday dress availability
You’re now able to purchase the ‘holiday dress’ after finishing Nika’s quest.

Mindmancer overhaul
Applying Mindmancer now adds a “Mentally Challenged” trait to the targeted NPC. He or she also receives a -15 escape chance modification.

Jewelry
NPCs can now wear necklaces, which works just like clothes (Inventory > Accessories).

• While wearing very expensive jewelry (diamonds, embryls) might increase Affection for any NPC, a materialistic girl will definitely be *even more* inclined toward the MC if you allow her to wear a precious necklace.
• The MC can now craft diamond and embryl necklaces.
• The act of gifting “expensive trinkets” has been removed.

New furniture (Mega bed) – tier request
You’re now able to purchase a double-size imperial bed at The Carpenter in South Redhaven. This bed can house up to eight NPCs (master bedroom only).

Cannot be combined with other beds – remove any present double or single beds to enable placement of the Mega bed.

Combat overhaul

• Fighting in darkness (9pm-4:59am) now adds a -5 hit chance penalty for ranged weapons (MC, Followers, enemies).
• (Grimdark difficulty only) Using ranged weapons during storms (weather type 1 & 2) now adds a -15 hit chance penalty and a -10 damage penalty for plasma rifles (MC, Followers, enemies).
• All DENGI-type enemies now have the “Frenzy” ability, which causes a large damage increase as their HEALTH drops (starts at health 49 or less (+5), max +50 damage at health below 10). This ability is only active for melee weapons.

New pregnancy effects

• Any NPC that is 180+ days into her pregnancy and participating in combat now receives a -15 penalty when using ranged weapons and a -50 penalty when using melee weapons.

Difficulty adjustments

• Changed the negative hit point kill threshold for Ironman from -10 to -20.

Art

• Added 3 arena scenes (Enya).
• Added 22 sex scenes (Av217, Av218).
• Added 40 wardrobe/inspect pics (Av217, Av218).
• Added 8 inspect pics for Clea Vallas.
• Added 150 wardrobe pics (Av100-Av109, Av120, Av136).
• Added Clea’s “turn around” inspect pic.
• Added 2 morning breakfast scenes for Clea.
• Replaced Rebecca’s “cummouth” scene.
• Replaced Loren’s “turn around” inspect pic.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that would display double wardrobe pics when equipping randies with WEGA armor (armor display: on).
• Fixed a red error bug that had a small chance of showing up during domestic events.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn’t reset chance rolls for guards put under a Captain’s training.
• A depleted or paused Kahill mine can no longer be depleted.
• Fixed a bug that would mess up Hunt Labs when selling prowlers if you’d completed Project Erebos (strange dialogue, missing buttons etc).
• Fixed a slave market saturation bug that checked the wrong gender container.
• Fixed a Secretive quest bug that wouldn’t add the proper amount of pistols from one of the hidden caches.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn’t display Mae’s and Celeste Sunderland’s “turn around” inspect renders.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn’t apply the +2 WILLPOWER boost during the wrool cat domestic event.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to go beyond the allowed number of NPCs for workshops by assigning workers as followers, assign new workers and then unassign the old workers.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn’t decrease Administration when applying MindMancer.
• Fixed a missing “Game over” notification for The Ring quest (fight inside Baltor Hotel).
• Added a missing option checker unsetter to the Home passage, which will make fast travel time deductions more even and less confusing.
• Removed several instances of the old “Riding skill” (= “Vaginal skill”).
• Fixed an “owned embryl” display error at Redhaven Market.
• You can no longer break bounty quests by accidentally clicking on “Deploy camp/enter cave”.
• Removed the (inactive) “Spend time together” framework for Kelly, which would produce a blank screen.
• Elixir of Serenity will now display correctly in the MC’s Inventory.
• Kahill mine can no longer be raided if it’s paused/Depleted.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn’t add the Preacher bonus to conversion attempts.
• Fixed a bug that would loop interrogation attempts and not give any new “Secret revealed” events.
• “Loads taken” now also includes oral shower and arena scenes.
• Fixed several bugs that wouldn’t incorporate Kindness into relationship and slave master checkers due to a misspelled variable.
• Mrs. Helm’s race should now read “Scandinavian”, just like her daughters.
• Fixed an AP display bug with the Nemesis SR-C.
• Fixed various display bugs that would render texts suggesting Aria was Chancellor even if you had sold her to The Mastersphere.

v0.8.3.7

Gameplay changes

• [NPC] Seve Pásztor now starts the game as an anal virgin.
• [NPC] Seve Pásztor quest initiator Power Value threshold decreased to 10 (was 15).
• [NPC] There’s now a unique interaction event for Aisha Hasan after her father’s failed coup attempt (event will activate immediately on old saves if coup event has already happened).
• [NPC] Lessened an NPC’s Stamina loss during homeschooling sessions – especially for Acrobatics and Dancing.
• [NPC] Increased the chance of decreasing the Attention Whore Trait Value after combat encounters from 25% to 50%.
• [NPC] Added a unique first-interaction Rachel event with a choice-based outcome.
• [NPC] The effects from Unbreakable has been enhanced (2-5 points, 85% chance).
• [NPC] Guys are now less likely to randomly end up with the Docile trait.
• [NPC] Miss Winton is now signed as a slave instead of a convict when added to the MC’s household.
• [NPC] Luckie is now signed as a servant instead of a convict when added to the MC’s household.
• [NPC] Floor crawlers with Notoriety 100+ (“Prost. score”) now hand out the same Happiness (+1) and Affection (+1) boost (to NPCs using that FC) as if their Fame was 200+.
• [NPC] The Pantry skill>NPC Domestic should now update properly.
• [NPC] Hovering over “swallowed semen” now shows the amount of digested calories.
• [NPC] Aria can no longer start with the Pacifist trait.
• [NPC] The Valkyria now starts with a 65 Fame value.
• [NPC] Herculean body types now receive an increase DEX/Acro penalty when attending the gymnastics course at The Academy.
• [NPC/LOG] Added Corruption and sexual skills to the Conclude Day log.
• [NPC/BONDAGE] There’s now a much larger chance to increase the Flagellation skill during training room sessions, even if the roll failed.
• [NPC/BONDAGE] Kinky attires during training room sessions (clamps, gags, hooks) now add a higher chance for perverted trait increases during orgasms (+2%/attire).
• [HOUSEHOLD] Your household gardens now receive a -25% yield penalty if you don’t have an assigned gardener.
• [HOUSEHOLD] The lvl 2 kitchen upgrade now provides +1 Influence.
• [FACTIONS] Decreased the possibility of suffering very high rebel casualties during the “Rebels under attack!” political event.
• [INVESTMENTS] Gero Falkenstein’s store now has a 1% risk of getting shut down, if City Control is 15+.
• [SERA] Donating captives to Fort Sera will now increase their PV up to 1,000 (was 100).
• [WORLD] Traveling to Imogen’s Barrow through the Home shortcut will now more or less match manual walking/riding (stables built) time.
• [WORLD] Updated The Goat’s Toe (tavern in Kahill) with new sounds and better food/drinking descriptions.
• [WORLD] The smoke from “The Great Hamilton Fire” event will now disappear after 90 days.
• [UI] Added a Clear All Followers button to the home interface pane.

Interrogations (Tier request)
There’s now a 20% chance a captured NPC comes with a special secret. You can interrogate that *out of* the NPC through kind, persuasive words or through threats with the help of a new Interrogation framework. The result might provide skill boosts or mini quests. The missions and who receives the “Secretive trait” are random.

Enslave mercenaries
The MC can now enslave mercenaries (and some paragons) by convincing them to sign an indentured servanthood contract (Talk>Affect>Enslave). While the roll is extremely difficult to succeed, trying to persuade high-Respect, high-Affection, high-Corruption NPCs when Ikaanos is affected by low Prosperity/Control will turn a lot of factors to your favor.

A mercenary/paragon that enters slavery immediately loses his salary.

Forged documents
With enough influence and contacts, you can now frame a slave for a crime he or she didn’t commit, immediately turning them into convicts. Forged documents can be purchased at The Transit Department in The Palace district. Apply a document through Interact > Inventory > Accessories.

Sexual statistics
You’re now able to see how many times you’ve ejaculated in various orifices on each NPC (NPC Menu > Examination). As these variables didn’t exist in earlier versions, they all start at 0, even on legacy saves. You can easily modify them with the help of the console, however.

Overhauled STAMINA regeneration (NPCs)
Instead of a flat 20 Stamina points, all NPCs now recover 10 Stamina points + 1/3 of their Max Stamina. Felix, for instance, with Stamina 80, will now recover 36 Stam. points (instead of 20).

Tongue piercings and overhauled Inventory buttons
Nika’s Clothes now offers tongue piercings. Tongue piercings help propel the MC’s “Cum! state”, adds Beauty and Charisma mods, helps an NPC to improve her oral experience and may display unique texts during oral sex scenes. – A tongue piercing, along with butt plugs, now have icons in the Inventory pane, with corresponding hover over info.

New workshop and tavern caps
With the upcoming factory/mining frameworks, and due to popular demand, the worker cap for Taverns and Workshops has been decreased to 7, +1 foreman (was 10, +1 foreman). This will allow a fully staffed workshop to occupy one single NPC page. – Workshops that are overstaffed in old saves remain unaffected. – Turn this feature off by setting “oldworkshop = true” in the console or savedditor. That’ll allow you to keep the original cap of 10.

Overhauled armor repairs
The armor repair system has been completely reworked. You can now view all owned armors’ current state at The Armor Store and repair them with just one click.

The Academy

• [MC] Increased base income for all held lectures with +$50/day.
• [MC] Doubled the “Academy Disposition” bonuses for incomes from held lectures.
• [NPC] There’s now a 15-age minimum requirement to work at The Academy, regardless of skill or Influence.
• [NPC] Science and Academic professors now have a 10% chance to increase their corresponding skills (cap: 100).

Difficulty changes

• Grimdark: You can no longer assign “away” NPCs (vendor assignments, scavvies, Academy) as Followers between 8 am and 4 pm, thus ending a well-known exploit that allowed you to have sermons and fights all day while still getting cash from Abbot Roo or Nika’s. This is also true for Group assignments. You can also not “Clear” an assignment, set the NPC as a follower and then reassign that NPC between those away hours.
• Grimdark: Using a melee weapon in combat now costs 1 Stamina point, both for the MC and NPCs, down to a minimum of 5.

New weapon: Great axe
The Great Axe is a solid durasteel heavy weapon favored by several Aaesir tribes. It’s available at Imperial Arms in Em city.

• STRENGTH requirement: 100+.
• Power attack bonus: +15 damage.

New armor: WEGA
The Transit department now sells WEGA armor – a PAC (Russian/Chinese) pre-Severance durasteel suit boosted with an internal healing nanite coat.

• Soak: 43.
• Heals 5 health/turn during combat.

Achievements
There’s now a brand new Masters of Raana achievements section in Economy & Influence > Achievements.

New story NPC: Clea Vallas (Av39)
Clea Vallas is a renowned bounty hunter and high-tier warrior NPC with a history and character tied to the current affairs of Ikaanos. This paragon mercenary becomes available after you’ve decided to help Aria (1) or if you sold Aria (2) to The Mastersphere. Her acquisition quest starts in Redhaven if (1) is true. She’s instantly available at The Orient if Aria’s rebellion has been permanently thwarted by the MC (2). While Clea is meant to step in at the first half of Aria’s quest, her *event* executes immediately on legacy saves that’ve completed Aria’s quest, with some texts rewritten to better fit that part of the timeline.

New building: Mine
The MC can now purchase mining rights at the Town Hall in Hamilton Sq. or conquer mines from powerful warlords. Doing this enables him to build mines and extract valuable metals from mined ore. A mine works similar to Zapin Fields, with an assigned foreman and permanently deployed workers.

You can read more about Mines here.

Prospecting
“Prospecting” is a new profitable job that can be done in prospect-enabled districts if the MC has at least one “Prospecting gear” in his Inventory. Prospecting involves searching through caves for gemstones and panning for gold in mineral rich brooks.

You can read more about Prospecting here.

Art

• Greatly improved the sharpness of the game’s combat sprites, which should make them look less blurred against certain combat backgrounds. Thanks @maxsad.
• Replaced the old piercing scene at Nika’s.
• Added 2 wardrobe pics for Caitlin (padded, riding).
• Added 6 arena scenes (Tori, Sofia).
• Added 22 sex scenes (Clea Vallas, Av140).
• Added 7 Morning BJ scenes for Clea Vallas.
• Replaced Lovisa’s doggy sex scenes (x2).
• Added one new alternative anal (normal) scene for Av1 (“tier” request).
• Added combat sprites and combat wardrobe for Av211 (Kate).
• Replaced the Power Katana with a new sword asset.
• Replaced Helo’s archive.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a critical bug that would initiate the New World Order political quest chain if you sold Aria to Kymanto.
• Fixed a display bug that would show an unintegrated MC Admin income.
• Added the missing cyber cannon icon for roaming NPCs.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn’t give the Family Man Wife the Scavenger trait (Domestic focus).
• Science is now correctly applied to the MC’s Administration competence calculation.
• Fixed a display error with Floor Crawlers that would set an unproportionable high amount of wear without taking numbers of active FC into consideration.
• Pressing the closeup/armor/civilian clothes buttons when interacting with NPCs will no longer pass time (6 mins).
• Fixed several bugs with Michelle’s quest that pointed toward the wrong framework. These bugs disabled many dialogues and skill/wear gains at The Mad Preacher’s stronghold.
• Tori no longer starts with Stress 40.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the MC to lower the Unbreakable trait through sermons/lectures even if he didn’t have the Dominus trait.
• Fixed a bug that would produce duplicate armor wardrobe pics if a random NPC was wearing HULC armor.
• Fixed several red errors that appear during Amelia’s quest.
• Fixed a duplicate error for the Lone Wolf trait.
• The engine will now read Aria’s Av container instead of Laika’s when processing Aria’s sell price during the slavemaster route of New World Order.
• Fixed a _daysa setter in the Party Engine that wouldn’t count the number of days an NPC had spent in your household.
• Fixed various bugs that wouldn’t display and execute Bud’s Ammo Pack trait Prosperity override.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Herculeans’ Melee skill to increase endlessly at the dojo.
• Fixed a bug that would disable the Control drops from investing in The Wrool Cat Wranglers.
• Fixed several setters that wouldn’t properly execute political effects based on Aria’s Corruption.
• Fixed various tavern setter bugs that wouldn’t add modifiers based on Chaos and Reputation.
• Enya now receives her announced +15 Arena combat bonus.
• Fixed a bug that didn’t apply Happiness and Affection bonuses to freed slaves.
• Pure NPCs now receive their intended +20 Kindness boost.
• Fixed a rare bug that would get you stuck in Dockgrave tavern when selling NPCs through the “Full House” action.
• Fixed an Auto Buy Food display error (“Change:” was set to 0).
• Fixed a bug that wouldn’t increase the FEMALE saturation market pool.
• Fixed a display error with the top left training dojo.
• Selling 50 units of Food at Redhaven market will now increase the market supply number correctly (was 10).
• You can now use MindMancer on males (Mercenaries or below).
• Fixed an old _npc.build checker that would reset Armor/Clothes view for NPCs at the arena.
• Fixed a missing steel checker when crafting Doctor’s kits.
• Tori will no longer appear in texts at Virax Springs if you have her assigned to your household or if she’s dead.
• A combat-focused Family Man wife now receives the +20 Stamina bonus instead of the academic-focused one.
• Fixed a bug that excluded WILLPOWER from the Conclude Day NPC log.
• You can no longer purchase Seve Pasztor and go into debt.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Mr. Blaylock to regenerate HP above his Max HP value (Prowler in The Depths questline).
• Fixed a bug that would lower Happiness to the negatives for starving and underfed NPCs.
• Fixed several typos.