Because that'll break Job Mod dancers.

More seriously, it'll take away the 'one-day brothel' style, which I'm a great fan of. All girls active for a day, blowing through all the customers in an orgy of group sex and whatnot, then the next day or few some sleep, some do quests, some train, etc.

Quote from: Jman on Mar 18, 2025, 03:46 PMBecause that'll break Job Mod dancers.

More seriously, it'll take away the 'one-day brothel' style, which I'm a great fan of. All girls active for a day, blowing through all the customers in an orgy of group sex and whatnot, then the next day or few some sleep, some do quests, some train, etc.

Okay, I like that argument. 

Quote from: Goldo on Mar 18, 2025, 03:10 PM

Quote from: Alpha_and_omega on Mar 10, 2025, 09:53 PM

Quote from: Jman on Mar 10, 2025, 09:45 PMBeing able to channel your rep into customer budgets similar to how it works for advertising might be an idea?

That's exactly what I'm asking Slider to less customers and more budget bonus

I mean technically if you set all your customers to be royals and nothing else, it does basically that.

But if it's not enough, another slider could be added (with furniture?), but the effects on game balance would have to be scrutinized (unless it is a very late game option, which I suspect it may be).

As Jman already told you, I have so many royals overflow even when at 0 publicity and all royals.
And it feels off that a high-class brothel that is so exclusive that only the richest nobles are allowed to enter (my head canon is that it is on reservation) would be punished by reputation loss.
Additionnally, each unattended noble hurts reputation far more than each unattended beggar.

In real life the highest reputation clubs/restaurants are very exclusive after all.

Does it break the game ? Not at all.
Does it hurt (my personal) immersion? Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, you can certainly cultivate an air of exclusivity, but if the service is bad, the princes have every reason to badmouth you.

Your problem is that they're not respecting the reservation limits and are taking all their brothers and cousins along for the ride.

Well I'm sure the customers that got bounced at the door gave bad ratings on Yelp. But maybe I could add a community manager to the game whose job would be to suppress customer complaints.

Quote from: Goldo on Mar 18, 2025, 03:39 PMOkay. I have to ask though, why don't I just lower the number of customers, with no budget upside? 

You could make the higher quality clients take more reputation

Like if 10 reputation gave you 10 beggar customers, it would only give 5 thug customers, or 1 merchant or something like that.

Actual gameplay question:
What exactly is required to win over Narika and let her let you help her? I don't remember being particularly  rude to her or anything but there seemed to be no way to win the final confrontation at the MagicU

Quote from: Gizmoman on May 14, 2025, 08:52 PMI don't remember being particularly  rude to her...

That's exactly the problem.

You've got to put her down throughout chapters 2 and 3 so that she can get her tsun-tsun going. Actually, it's kinda unclear and schizophrenic at times, so perfectly tsundere.



Edit:

Quote from: Gizmoman on May 14, 2025, 08:48 PMYou could make the higher quality clients take more reputation

They do. Goldo's even scrapped the 'each customer costs more' system since... some version of 0.3t.1? So ranks should have some more effect. The biggest problem here is that beggars cost only five times less than princes, and princes only come into play during the very last chapters, so the difference isn't massive. And the budget differences between tiers aren't too big, either, so I guess it evens out.

Quote from: Jman on May 14, 2025, 09:00 PM

Quote from: Gizmoman on May 14, 2025, 08:52 PMI don't remember being particularly  rude to her...

That's exactly the problem.

You've got to put her down throughout chapters 2 and 3 so that she can get her tsun-tsun going. Actually, it's kinda unclear and schizophrenic at times, so perfectly tsundere.

Got it, thanks

Is there anyway to edit/make a custom trait to make it so the girl with that trait has a more likely chance to perform prostitution while working? I am not talking about half-shift whore half-shift work, strictly just performing sex acts while working as well? I don't know if that is entirely just a customer thing. I found that it would happen more often if the girl was naked and working but I don't know how much that boosts the odds. I also know there is that upgrade that boosts chance of "crazy" events happening (i don't know if that's exactly what it is called) but honestly I would still like these services to happen even more often after unlocking that brothel upgrade. If not a trait that can be changed due to it being customer based, is there a value in the code somewhere I can change to up the frequency these night services can happen?

Sure, make one that increases ("boost", "customer events"). You can use the dim lights furniture as a template.

You'll still be constrained by being non-naked, since there's a 50% chance a clothed girl will just strip for a bit.

You can certainly also up the base 10% chance, if you wish:
            chance = 10 * girl.get_effect("boost", "customer events")


I feel like I'm softlocked in Act 3. I was kicked out of the school and let the blue haired ninja go after capturing her. I'm not able to find a way to progress either quest. BK0.3t.2 v 250418

Depends on which patch version you were running when you got kicked out of MagicU. What does your quest for Narika say you should do?

If it's still about MagicU, you can try consoling this (one line at a time):
                NPC_narika.flags["c3 path"] = None
                story_flags["ninja hunt locked %s" % get_ninja_district(NPC_narika)] = False
                NPC_narika.flags["magicu failed"] = True
                game.set_task("Find another way to stop the Void Kunoichi.", "story3")

You should now be able to hunt Narika again, provided you have the other stuff required to contain her.

Had a follow up question the custom trait for customer events I was making. Is there a way to make it so in the trait, it says that if a customer event does take place, then the girl's tip is increased by like 50% or something like that. Basically want to make it so if you do use this girl that has the trait for customer events to happen more often, then that girl will also make more from customer events.

Not without changing the game itself, I'm afraid. 'Extra service' really doesn't have much that distinguishes it from regular performance, the code specific to that is all about whether it happens and which act to use.

I suppose you could always ask Goldo for such an effect.