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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Streaming for reals

Well, not anymore, since I finished for the day.

Got quite a bit of the Crime and Punishment done. The basic way it works is that, for every illegal action you perform (public indecency/nudity, theft, assault, solicitation, etc), you get guilt points. The number of points you get depends on the severity of the crime. Once your guilt gets to 50+ points (on a scale of 0-100), there's an increasing chance that the police will show up at your apartment between early afternoon and night to arrest you.

Once you're arrested, you can pay the fine, or spend time in jail (warning, spending time in jail will be REALLY boring!). Either way, when you've done that, your guilt resets to zero and, depending on the severity of the crime you were arrested for, you get between 1 and 3 points added to your criminal record. The more points you have in your criminal record, the more severe the fines/sentences you have to face for your crimes.

At the end of every day, your guilt drops by 1 point, so if you go long enough without getting all up in the illegal activity, then you're off scot-free.

Eventually, I want to make it so that if you're arrested a lot, you get a trait for it (Criminal), which gives bonuses to slightly counter the penalties you get for spending time in jail (you'll still want to avoid spending time in jail, though), as well as additional options while in jail, instead of the wait/nap/exercise options that are planned for this release.

56 comments:

  1. I am wondering if it is possible to have a drug that can cause wing transformation?
    I was thinking something like a spinoff of redbull, example

    "Canned drink (Energy Drink)"
    The effects other than advancing wing transformation, I think would be best left to you.

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    1. I think this is a great idea - a humorous one as well!

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  2. "You adjust your fishnet stockings for a moment before leaving, making you're at just the right amount of slutty."

    Missing a "sure" there.

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  3. Sometimes when I go from the my room to the bathroom all the way over to the balcony and go back to the kitchen I just get sent right to the bathroom.

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    1. Yeah that's been there since a few updates ago - the game assumes you exercise anytime you go to the balcony, and does the auto-shower/makeup thing.

      Can be confusing at first but you get used to it.

      And personally I'd rather occasionally get sent to the bathroom for no reason than have to manually do all of that~

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  4. I'd pledge my eternal servitude to you if you added a relationship changer to the debug item. Re-doing the Genevieve relationship every time makes me want to hurt someone.

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    1. Haha, yeah. I love the game, I really do.. but man that would be the best gift ever to us. :)

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    2. And transformations...

      I finally broke down and started hacking the game with Cheat Engine so I could directly edit the succubus transformation variable and set it high enough to trigger the final transformation next time I sleep. I then add the appropriate sex traits with the testing item.

      Until releases slow down significantly (i.e. when the game is done) just about everything needs to be added to the testing item. :-/

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    3. man how did you get that value ?

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  5. for real real? not for play play?

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  6. Is Prostitution illegal in Cursed-land? Will you get arrested if you manage to get promoted from the stripper job?

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    1. Assuming that it is, perhaps it'd be a really nice idea to add in a cop random event for the hooker career line. Say, there'd be a 50/50 chance that the cop would be a good cop of a corrupt cop, with the chances of a corrupt cop showing up if your morality is low and if you've serviced a cop (good or corrupt) before.

      The cop would ask you what you're doing, and you'd have a choice to:
      A) pretend to be waiting for a ride [success based on deception skill]
      B) answer honestly: "working" [outcome affected by "Mean" and "Friendly" traits]
      C) offer special service [outcome affected by "Seductive" and "Animal Senses" traits, total charisma, whether you are a succubus or high succubus or neither, and which type of cop it is]
      D) use magic (will cast highest illusion magic spell on cop to make him go away, thinking that all is in order) [success based on illusion magic skill]

      If the cop turns out to be a good cop:
      A) success: good cop offers a ride home
      A) failure: good cop asks again, but option A is no longer available
      B) by default, 90% chance that good cop will arrest you, but 10% chance that good cop will take pity on you and give you cash, advising you to consider a different career. Chances are 60:40 if you have the "Friendly" trait, or 100:0 with the "Mean" trait.
      C) success: good cop is satisfied and leaves you alone. Chance of success by default is 2%, but is increased by total charisma, the presence of the "Seductive" and "Animal Senses" traits, and being a (high) succubus to a maximum of 90% success chance.
      C) failure: you are arrested.
      D) success: good cop goes away.
      D) failure: good cop arrests you for attempted assault.

      If it turns out to be a corrupt cop:
      A) success: bad cop leaves you alone
      A) failure: bad cop asks again; option A is no longer available
      B) by default, 50% chance bad cop will demand free service, 50% chance bad cop arrests you. Total charisma increases chances that bad cop will ask for free service - up to 100% chance. If you comply, you're let off. If you refuse, you're arrested.
      C) success: bad cop is satisfied and leaves you alone. 70% base chance.
      C) failure: you're arrested
      D) success: bad cop goes away
      D) failure: bad cop get angry and decides to have his way with you before arresting you for attempted assault.

      it's just a thought; but it'd be cool if something like this was implemented ^^

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    2. That's pretty damned well thought out.

      Also, if you get imprisoned, you should be able to exchange 'favours' with the wardens in order for early release/special privileges, or work your way up the pecking order of the prisoners with the same. There's also an opportunity to indulge in shenanigans with the judge here.

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    3. I got caught on a thought train...

      I'd dig the idea of exploiting a corrupt law enforcement system. I'm getting goosebumps from the idea of the possibilities! Haha

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  7. Does anyone happen to know where the dog girl transformation is on the priority list?

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    1. He said on one of his other comment sections that he's done with transformations for a little bit. He wants to focus on new, or half finished content instead

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  8. Hmm... if I get arrested, will there be any lust management options? (e.g. masturbate, sex with prison guard, etc?) I just thought it'd be something to add.

    Aside from that, do you plan to have a jail/prison escape option? Say, using whatever skills you have, you could seduce, talk or fuck your way out of there - or at least to shorten your sentence. Like, if you do the warden or the chief a "favor", he'd release you early.

    Also, seeing as how you could service your landlord instead of paying rent, do you think you'll add an option to use your "feminine wiles" to prevent arrest?

    Anyhow, good job and thanks for the awesome work AM - Cursed! has become my favorite non-graphical adult game (closely following CoC) in the past month. I'm looking forward to any and all future content! (still trying to figure out the high succubus... haha)

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  9. High succubus, according to the wiki, requires being full succubus and taking the bird statue from the lab (i.e.: getting wings after 100 days, which by being full succubus are demonic), then having loads of sex (which you should already do as it's your sustenance). Eventually you become a high succubus... but it's unfinished...

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    1. Ahh I see - thanks!

      AM said in the Sept. 20th post that the Transformation Overhaul was officially done, so I thought that included the high succubus as well.

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  10. Since there is magic in the game, would we ever get the chance to turn the tables on Maria?

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  11. Man, I REALLY hate browser crashes when I've just typed out a long comment.

    Grrrrr.

    Anyway ...

    After a female client: "You get out of his car and head back to your spot as she drives off." HIS car?

    "... what you have given birth too." Should be " ... to."

    Haven't donated due to abiding hatred of Paypal, but have ideas:

    As Hooker or when performing Hooker-type actions, invite clients to get kinkier, with chances of them liking or disliking it, going too far or kicking you out unpaid.

    As "his girl" in the Secretary career, have another VP try to poach you.

    As "his girl" in the Secretary career, have the guys talking about you proposition or try to blackmail you, with options to deny anything's going on, call their bluff, demand payment, hint that you can be bought or just go for it like the wanton slut you are.

    As "his girl" in the Secretary career, be invited to join "him" on the company ski trip, with nightly and maybe lunch-time sex menus.

    As "his girl" in the Secretary career, be invited to join "him" on a "ski trip" on which you won't be leaving the chalet at all, as he and his many friends have a lot of needs and expect you to satisfy them.

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  12. Guilt seems tricky. There's a Morality scale that gets exported already, could use that to determine state between Guilty Conscience and Amoral; but it seems like Succubi should automatically grant Amoral.

    Criminal might actually be used to increase the chance of arrest, given that cops tend to round up the "usual suspects" every time a crime goes down. However, it might also boost your chances of being invited into a larger crime, with higher payoffs, if you felt like writing those NPCs and situations up. An available "Do Crimes" option on the "go somewhere special" menu just seems hilarious. :D

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  13. what's with this crime thing? Why do I feel GTA is sneaking itself into cursed?

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    1. ditto.. more frustration yay, what is this.. RL?

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    2. If it was real life, then there wouldn't be magic - meaning that the main character would have never turned into a woman. But if the mechanics strayed too far from what is practical, it'd lose its constructiveness. I believe a law enforcement system to be a nice feature as long as it is yielding and is not too strict (as this is a game, not real life as you said).

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    3. GTA is just one of the many games out there that based itself on illegal activities. I'm pretty sure that the crime and punishment aspects in Cursed! won't even account for 10% of the game...

      I welcome a little realism to the game - or at least a line of new sex scene prospects. :D

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  14. Any chance at getting a relationship (genevieve, etc) booster added to the test item? Grinding for anything is hella long.

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  15. Ok, i don't understand people asking for that: Genevieve interaction isn't complete at the moment, so, the ONLY thing you can do is grinding her relationship. And you want a cheat to skip it... to what? If you grind it again everytime it's for the sake of interacting with the dates... not for what you get after it. So, why bother? Just asking really, i can't grasp it.

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  16. I'm that dude who had the corrupt .rag issue in the chat during the steam . . . I found out it actually *is* because of loading the game across a network share. I have a copy of the game on my C: drive which works fine; I copied it to the network drive and compared md5sums -- they match, but the one on the network share won't work. RAGS says it can't be read every time. Just FYI.

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    1. RAGS is being an absolute pita for me. It locks up and crashes ludicrously often. It'll work if it's the first thing I do after booting the computer.

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    2. Actually, on a different machine I'm still getting the same damned error -- even on a local drive.

      I have a copy on my network which I know is correct (well, it better be; it has the same MD5 sum as the copy which works), so I copied it over to a second machine and did another md5sum to verify its correctness . . . the sum matches, but RAGS still says it's unreadable. Tried it on a different local drive on the same computer, same thing.

      All in all, I think RAGS was a very, very, very stupid choice of platforms, since evidently the people who wrote RAGS were even more incompetent than I imagined.

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    3. Windows Network Shares are just all around "special." A lot of programs that aren't made with Microsoft's file management API have a hard time with them.

      I would suggest mapping your network share to a drive letter. Most programs that are too stupid to understand network shares are also too stupid to know the difference between a mapped network drive and a hard drive.

      Having the same problem on a local drive is... well... I can't even hazard a guess.

      As for RAGs being a poor choice... I agree... but it's a moot point. AM is over a year into this project (it's been at least that long since I was aware of it). There's no going back and starting over at this point. :-/

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  17. Regarding turning the tables on Maria, hey you spend every hour of everyday training your magic for a year you'll probably be able to topple Dr.Strange with how fast your skills increase. I'm all for mindbreaking and sexslaves

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  18. Considering the new futa content, will there be an effect for being an monsterous futa to jobs such as stripper, prostitute or well any scenes where you are scantfully clad? I mean stiding out of water with only a tiny bikini top covering a 14 inch monster is a wee bit conspecuious

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  19. How much do i have to pay you to increase the PC's limits such as bigger breasts, hips, ass, dicks or allowing larger or smaller 10-12/2-4 foot charactors. I've wanted to do a lephrechaun run. What's your going rate brotato? Because a K cup ain't enough for me.

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    1. if k cups aren't enough for you, consider getting an expresso machine

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  20. This game has completely lost focus and momentum. The last update to the story was on 3/22, over six months ago. I just don't know what the point of the story is anymore. Originally, back before AM opened it up to donations and it became furry-centric, it was all about some petty jerk forced to adapt to life as a woman to atone for all the mean things he did over the years. It had a clear protagonist and a clear antagonist and a clear end in sight (specifically, the end of the year). But now? I don't know anymore. What does programming communication mannerisms for highly specific furry transformations accomplish in the long run? Nothing!

    tl;dr version: the game has lost its vision and is now mostly about donating for fetishes.

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  21. Well, it's more that the game is still in its early stages, and so AnonymousMan is working on making the world and how you experience it much more gratifying. What's the point in making an ending that isn't satisfying to get to? He needs to flesh out the existing story, and maybe a few side quests, and then move on the next part, and flesh that out. And because the guy still has to live, sometimes (well, most of the time) the commissions will take priority over the other work. You have to start somewhere, and that may as well be the beginning. Plus, as I said, the game isn't even finished. The possibilities are endless...or at least as endless as RAGS will allow...

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  22. I was one of those who disliked the way the game developed. To much TF and fetishes BUT after this is/was finished the new updates look great and more realistic.
    Yeah sure i want the story to continue and see were it goes but i have to agree with the writer above the game needs sidequests and fetishes and jobs and stuff. The center of the game isn't the story it's the daily routine and how you manage it. thats why i'm not tired of clicking almost the same buttons every day^^

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  23. "Buddy, whatever she's asking you for, it's a steal, believe me, nya. When it comes to sex, Chastity is the best there is, and worth any price."

    *giggle*

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  24. when am i able to buy the maid outfits?

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  25. "You can't imagine not being told what to do, and the though arouses you quite a bit..."

    The thought, with a t!

    There's one in the catgirl descriptions, too, but RAGS just crashed again. One of the lines says:

    "... and they's covered in fur too"

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  26. Hmmm... am I just imagining things or does AM not upload each update anymore?

    Most recent version available for download is from 9/20 and I *really* want to try out the features described in OP.

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    1. The Crime and Punishment stuff is the game mechanic he's currently working on, not something he's already finished.

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  27. I'm kinda eager to give nudity and crime a run.

    Maybe have an illusion spell that reduces the chances a cop will recognize you if you have high crime count.

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  28. "While Succubus is quite a vision of loveliness, you're not in the mood to have sex right now." I didn't name her "Succubus."

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    1. Actually, there are several places where that happens, along with:

      "I'm so close 'Mother'," she says senusally, apparently more in control than she has been the last few times, "I just need a little more power, and then...then you'll see, won't you?"

      Senusally?

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  29. Just some bugs/typos that I noticed (correct me if I'm wrong guys) :
    _ Unique traits are in the game for the Dragon Transformation, but there no "Unique traits option".
    _ If your character is pregnant with twins ot triplets, your character's belly will still get bigger as if she was pregnant with only one child (but in the "Appearance option" it said that your character's belly is quickly getting huge). This affect the maternal clothes you can wear etc.
    _ Still for pregnant characters, all the sentences you can have during a pregnancy with one child are singular form even if your character is pregnant with twins or triplets.
    _ Last bug I noticed => While your character is a succubus, when you choose "Examine" the game says that your character is "a sinfully beautiful succubus". But, if you get the High Succubus transformation, the game will said that you are "an attractive woman of a young but blablabla" and you will still have the description of the features you had when you were a normal succubus.

    I hope that I was understandable since english is not my native language ^^. And of course, thank you a lot AA for your work !

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  30. " ... desperately hope that that doesn't come back to bit you..."

    BITE, with an E.

    Also, I've noticed that the first time I meet the drug dealer after loading a game he offers me a "small pink pill" and a "bag of herbal tea" but once I've used them they're a "lithe pill" and "bag of natural balance tea" because I know what they do now ... and if I save there and reload that point tomorrow they'll be back to "small pink pill" and "bag of herbal tea" again.

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  31. " It's a weird little thing, with red skin and small wings that don't look like it would support it should it choose to fly. "

    Like THEY would support it!

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  32. Found three bugs.
    1. I bought some of the skill books and DVDs before I bought a bookshelf and when I use the clean up option said items don't get put away.
    2. After you get the neat freak trait and clean the description does not change until the next day.
    3. When you wear nylons and get current clothes tailored you get the first part of the getting the nylon fetish (about how you are liking the feel of nylons) even after having the trait.

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  33. "You are currently wearing a fishnet mini dress. The tie of your bra and panties is clearly visible (along with the bra and panties themselves), and anyone daring enough to undo the knots and leave you naked."

    Surely "to undo the knots would leave you naked," or "could undo the knots and leave you naked."

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  34. ..... or "daring everyone to undo the knots and leave you naked," of course.

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  35. "You suddenl notice that your breasts don't seem to be quite as...bouncy this morning."

    Missing the Y off "suddenly" there.

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