Status report for Alpha v19.6

First off, Trisha has won the poll!

Secondly, Jiffic generously decided to make a new banner for the game's page, for free!

Thirdly, progress goes well on the update, I have gotten a lot of QoL stuff and balance work done.

I have only the new status effect and the Kaia(Manticore) update stuff left to do, I'll be trying for before the month ends, but failing that the update should then be very shortly into the next month. 

Here's the in progress change log of what I've gotten done so far, for those interested.

v19.6 change log 

Content

-Lillian has a new dialogue that gives you a free skill! Making this made me realize how out of date and clunky the NPC system is so in a future update I’m going to rehaul it so they just use the standard event system. Either the bug fix update following this one, or the Feng update.

Quality of Life 

-Skill tooltips now display an estimated damage, heal, buff/debuff, status effect chance, and status potency where applicable.

-Crit chance and crit damage are now displayed on the character menu.

-The character menu now has a bevvy of new tool tips for stats.

-You can now re-sort your skills in a few different pre-set ways.

Skills and Damage

-Multiple skills have had their learning requirements increased and prices in a few cases.

-Tweaked a bunch of skill damage values. Almost all increases. This includes some player skills. Below are more specific changes.

-Grope ass, Seduce, and breast caress no longer cost energy. 

-Spank now does more damage, but now costs 5 energy instead of 2.

-Ear Tease has increase charm chance.

-Whip now uses technique instead of power.

-Breast Nuzzle now has recoil, but deals more damage and costs no energy.

-Nerfed Distracts damage.

-Pound can no longer stun, can now lower damage output of enemy for a turn.

-Added Tantric Thrust, an allure scaling sex skill.

-Added Moxie, an allure buffing skill that scales with allure.

-Added Pussy Worship, a face sit specific skill that scales with allure.

-Lowered allures global percentile damage scaling from (0.01*allure)*movepower to (0.003*allure)*movepower. It’s base flat scaling has also been lowered to 0.05 from 0.15. 

-Nerfed the Alluring perk’s buff to flat allure scaling to 10 from 15.

-Lowered all skills flat scaling with their related stats. Except caress.

-All skills now have a small percentile scaling with their related stat similar to the above allure percentile scaling. Except caress.

-Core skills no longer scale less than normal skills, as their stat calculation generally gets a lower number.

-Redid the defense equation, it now works completely differently, so it now scales based on damage taken, power, and will power, no longer taking into account level. So early enemies can now actually arouse you again, and the decrease in damage scales way better as you’re hit with bigger attacks.

-Added optional statusEffectScaling field to skills, specifically for buff/debuff skills currently, as some of the buff skills were bonkers good compared to others. This allows me to set the rate that stats increase their buff/debuff. Some buffs were nerfed while a large number are still basically the same as before.

Game Start and Progression

-Lowered starting arousal to 100, max starting arousal is now 150.

-Increased starting spirit to 3, max spirit at starting is now 3.

-Spirit can no longer be increased with stat points after character creation. Every other source of spirit still works. Spirit only gives 2 stat points when decreased. Someone should try a 1 spirit run.

-Increased ‘hard’ modes starting stats and points.

-Energy now is increased by 10 per point put into it. Energy no longer increases by 5 every 2 levels.

-Increased the value of multiple healing items.

More Balancing

-Added the Virility stat that is = to your level + 10*spirit + any applicable perks.

-This stat increases the healing and energy drain perks monsters have.

-Energy drain perks now have a bit of randomness to how much they drain.

-The Heroic Cumback perk now also scales with virility in addition to luck, and now has a 60% max chance to keep you going and gives you 10% virility that counts towards it’s base chance.

-Virility will also be used for other future additions to the game.

Modding

-Added displayPain, displayMagic, displaySeduction, displayMouth, displayBreasts, displayAss and displayPenetration, skillTags to properly display skills in the player’s skill list in the correct section when they do not use the related tag.

-Skills tagged with holy will always scale off the player’s virility.

-Added the SwapLineIf function, it’s a little complex so please check it out in the mod manual! 

-Menu option can also now be restricted by virility.

Fixes

-Trance no longer auto puts you back to 3 left after you start to snap out of it the first time.

-Restraints now actually scale with their related stat!

-Kissing boost perks now work correctly.

-Enemies will no longer respond to your attacks if they get interrupted.

-Enemies should no longer double print skill use lines due to stance and skill tags. Looking at you imps.