Course of Temptation "Pour Decisions" Update Early Access (v0.6.0)

I need a password to download it. Am I missing something?

Levi Waser

Anthaum, thank you so much for adding the sports team icons! They look great, and work even better!

oldranger

Just in case, I upgraded my membership tier to a higher level and tried running the latest version of CoT, but I still couldn't find options like [Reflect on what turns you on]. After upgrading to the highest membership tier and downloading the newly updated version 6.0c, the only noticeable addition seems to be the ability to edit the PC's birthday. I'm not sure if that's due to the higher membership tier or if it's simply part of the 6.0c update.

Dunan Rayne

Well, on that screen, the only options I see are: [1] Get up [2] Change into yesterday's clothes and get up I don’t see anything like [Reflect on what turns you on]. (After agreeing to go on a date with the NPC the next day, I went to sleep and woke up in the morning.) Could it be that the available options differ by membership tier?

Dunan Rayne

what's the console method?

Zqui

One of the most lovely things about this game is the little details. I'm putting in a late shift on a Monday at the River Rat. I clock out, get back to my dorm, and my BFF is waiting for me there with my mom on their cell phone because she can't get ahold of me and has been blowing up their phone. It's these details that make the world feel lived in.

Theyeti

Every time you wake up, even from just a 15 minute nap, there's a screen where you have to select the option to "Get up". On that same screen, there's also an option to "Reflect on what turns you on".

Unshiny Snorlax

Maybe different colors of the pepper for levels of attraction? just a thought

oldranger

For the "ochre" seed, it was the NPC "Dominick Howard". Young Scientist archetype with no inclinations initially set. I always add a few myself, but I've never used the "groper" inclination. It only happened once on the first playthrough I used for the EA. I started over with that one as I noticed late that he was set to live in Helleborine Hall, and that didn't fit with the storyline I wanted to create. I probably still have at least one save file for that playthrough in my recycling bin if you want to take a look at it.

Anora Acadian

About the groper, do you remember what the exact event was? I've looked at a couple and they all require the "groper" inclination set

Anarchothaumaturgist

Yup, I think you're right, thanks

Anarchothaumaturgist

Thank you! I'm wary of making the icon area "too busy" but I do like the idea of an indicator for sports teams... I'll try it and see what it looks like

Anarchothaumaturgist

Birthdays were a very last minute addition, mostly just so NPCs could have them to enable one new event. I'll flesh them out a little more on the way to public release

Anarchothaumaturgist

am playing 0.6.0c now, and it's awesome as always - amazing work, and a lot of it! Am loving the new hot pepper icon when looking at "people here" - makes it much easier to decide who to talk to in early game a few thoughts on that topic: the new icon would be even more useful if you could tell from it - without having to open each NPC's profile - what the level of attraction is (hot, cute, mildly attractive, etc). Not sure how much work that would be to add, but if not a lot, it could improve early game QoL a fair bit. Also, if another ocin could be added to indicate what team if any the NPCs are on, that would help the same goal. But these are all nice to haves at best - awesome work as is, Anthaum! And my PC hasn't even started working at the River Rat yet!

oldranger

I am loving this update and have been having so much fun with it. Like someone else said, I have noticed that the birthdate function seems to go completely unnoticed by the game. I'm guessing this is intentional as after the first year of classes, we are still just repeating freshman year? Also, a couple things: - I am loving the new turn-ons and turn-offs we've been getting. I especially like that we can do five in each category for MC. It's great. Could we have facial hair and lack of it added to the options? Something else I noticed when working at the River Rat: I'm curious how the game decides which NPCs should grope the server. I was very surprised that my PC had her breast groped by a NPC who didn't have any inclinations set for them. I had expected that sort of thing from a character with something like the forward inclination, but not one who otherwise doesn't display that kind of forwardness outside of a relationship context.

Anora Acadian

There is a bug while working as a bartender that does not increase performance for a seat. I think the function "maybe_ask_another_round" misses a count++ at if (this.bar_waiting_time(seat) >= 30 || seat.rounds >= 2) performance += this.clear_barseat(seat); changing that to if (this.bar_waiting_time(seat) >= 30 || seat.rounds >= 2) { performance += this.clear_barseat(seat); count++; } seems like a solution.

valdnar

So with the introduction of the suspicion meter, I was thinking maybe partners have conversations with you about possible cheating as suspicion goes up, giving you a chance to lower it instead of only confronting you at the very end when it's breakup time. Seems more realistic that way and gives you another way around being caught with the charisma skill.

Year Matsumoto

ive thought of a type of underwear if not in the game the traditional floral Bra & Panties

Ian Kinnell

Thank you! I'll see if I can track that down

Anarchothaumaturgist

Follow-up, some errors in waitressing such as Him/He/They in the pages where you deliver food to tables. He smiles. Her eyes moved. Stuff like that. It only happened when it was serving a professor who had other people at his table. Update is immense and great, so keep up the amazing work!

Ysabella Reynolds

We need PREGNANCY Anthaum, with so many ways to earn money now let’s spend it on our kids

WanderingWeeb

Do you remember what event it was, or where it happened?

Anarchothaumaturgist

Nehuah

I don’t quite understand your comment. Are you saying there’s a button to edit turnons/turnoffs? If so, can it only be modified on mornings with special events? If not, could you let me know where to find it?

Dunan Rayne

Birthday seems to be a bit wonky to me. Setting the birthday towards the end of the year makes the main character a year older at the start of the game, and if set towards the beginning of the year, going through the birthday itself while playing didn't change the character's age that is displayed.

Nehuah

You can edit the turnoffs/ons in the 0.6.0 version. It's an option on the same screen that reminds you about dates and sporting events when you wake up.

Unshiny Snorlax

An option to just wait for 5-10 minutes while working in the River Rat would be great. I'm currently making my character go to the bathroom to wash up a bunch so characters will request another drink or leave the table. Also maybe the costume store could be open every other saturday as well as the fall break? Just to make it easier to get your hands on masks for future masked streaming. Love the update so far!

AJ

When I first suggested the idea of facial features, I wasn’t imagining something as detailed as different shapes for eyes, noses, or eyebrows. I had something much simpler in mind, like categorizing faces as “beautiful”, “average”, “ugly.” Of course, everyone has their own beauty standards, but there are general trends most people agree on. People can generally recognize someone as pretty, handsome, sexy, or cute—that’s why movie stars and models exist. In life-sim games like this, I think those elements are really important. I want my carefully customized PC to become the most beautiful girl or the most handsome guy on campus, someone who’s admired by potential romantic interests (and maybe even some same-sex admirers) and envied by others. If it’s difficult to define beauty and ugliness in the game, maybe you could let players customize the beauty standards themselves. For example: Eyes that NPCs like or dislike. Noses that NPCs like or dislike. Mouths that NPCs like or dislike. Something along those lines. But honestly, compared to a simplified “beautiful-average-ugly” option, the current Distinguishing Feature system with detailed NPC preferences might feel too heavy and complicated for the game. One more thing—if you want to create “the most beautiful NPC” in the game, I think the Distinguishing Feature options for NPCs should be as detailed as they are for PCs. Right now, you can only assign one facial feature to an NPC, but shouldn’t they be able to have multiple features like PCs?

Dunan Rayne

I just have one question. In the Distinguishing Feature system, do NPCs in the game have likes or dislikes about the facial features you can assign to PCs and NPCs? Every time I start a new game, I spend a lot of time customizing my PC’s nose, eyes, mouth, and other features, but I’m not sure how those features actually work in the game. Like, I can’t tell how individual NPCs perceive them. Even when I create what I think is the most beautiful face for my PC, I’ve never noticed NPCs commenting on it or changing their behavior because of it. So, has the interaction between NPCs and PC facial features not been added to the game yet?

Dunan Rayne

Could I ask if there are any plans to add a feature to edit turnons and turnoffs during an ongoing game? It would be nice not to have to restart a game just because of those settings. (I'm in tears as I dump my save file of 12 hours of play and restart :)) Also, it would be great to see more options for turnons and turnoffs, like things related to the NPC's manners—such as rudeness and politeness, lewdness and modesty.

Dunan Rayne

Very impressed with the new update! Bar content is awesome so far, keep up the great work!

Theyeti

I'll probably end up adding the option to dance to more events. One day there will also be a strip club location, so I'm just wary of overlapping with that too much. Long term, going from the River Rat to the strip club will probably be a logical progression for some types of characters, so it does make sense to have some of that dynamic here too.

Anarchothaumaturgist

And depending on the dominant clientele, for the sake of this example it could be the punters, you could feed them seductively, like holding one end of their food in your mouth lady and the tramp style, or feeding them by hand kinda thing

Kso Ghost

The new update has been pretty fun, small suggestion, what if the dancer role could be its own unique job rather than having to rely on someone asking for it?

Kso Ghost

Small bug I found is that a Veggie burger after being hired costs $5 but it still processes as $6. Hope that helps!

Ysabella Reynolds

There isn't yet... birthdays were a very last minute addition (I wanted NPCs to have them for a specific event) but I'll add a way to set your birthday in ongoing games by the time we get to public release.

Anarchothaumaturgist

Alright , so for the birthday part..I genuinely don’t wanna start over. Is there anyway to like , edit my character just to add her birthday? Let me know please!

Iam Mitty

Basically all for the River Rat I think, it's all the server and bartender events. But I also hope to get another update out this month for a different area of the game.

Anarchothaumaturgist

i added the "manager", role in the V.riverrat.jobs array as anthaum said what you can also do is manually increase days and shifts worked (low chance that it might break the save) but more importantly increase day since last promotion and then you should get the prompt next time you show up at work. You can use any online save editor to do it

Keybob

how do you get promoted? feels like I've been working there for months but am still at the initial $2 per hour wage

Vayes

The problem is that all the lust you build up drops to near 0 because of the waiting so it sort of defeats the purpose.

Azure

Roughly, what ratio would you say those events are for the River Rat vs the rest of the game?

MisoSquared

It's more so an abstraction the same way working at QuickieBurger or interacting with your chat when streaming. You're not actually doing something or interacting with your chat only once an hour. It's just so players don't have to click through several events for a single pay period. You can think of it as the most interesting customer that came by that hour.

MisoSquared

I downloaded the game on my android phone and I played it and then I exited out of it, went back and my files were gone

GothamRose

55 mins wait between customers is quite a long time to wait.

Azure

saves don't carryover if you're using Firefox. use the save to file method

Vayes

Yup I tried the console method and got into manager level. One thing that immediately becomes apparent is that topless uniform + exhibition inclinations = Arousal spiraling out of control and Release becoming unmanageable. Overall I think status/resource management when working at River Rat needs to be reviewed.

Lionel Sharpe

I completely lost both my save files 🥲

GothamRose

Running setup.RiverRat.promote("manager") in the console should work, or add "manager" to the V.riverrat.jobs array

Anarchothaumaturgist

All good man, that's why early access exists. Is there any way I can change a variable in the save to skip to the manager role ?

Keybob

Looks like a bug! I'll have a fix in the next build, sorry about that

Anarchothaumaturgist

I cant seem to get promoted after bartender, i have been doing months of bartending now. is it a bug or am i missing a linked event

Keybob

Thanks! I pushed a round of fixes just a few minutes ago, that one should be fixed, among others.

Anarchothaumaturgist

Dont know if this is reported. Player may get asked to remove bra when working at river rat. If player doesnt have bra equiped, this will result in an error. And players bottom will be removed from inventory.

Lionel Sharpe

Good idea! I'll add some coffee to the menu for the next build. Though I do like the idea of vending machines too. Maybe for an upgrade

Anarchothaumaturgist

The Rest bar seems to be a problem for extended River Rat serving. Have you thought of adding 'keep me ups' like energy drinks or coffee in accessible areas? Kinda like those japanese vending machines?

Vayes

"Around a hundred new events" casually 😭 yall cooked

Borkus

Thank you! Hangouts/dates will definitely continue to be iterated on!

Anarchothaumaturgist

Already so many exciting additions! The glory one was the main reason I didn't want to go anymore so good looks! I have been having so much fun with this game and you along with your team are truly exemplary for creating such a cohesive immersion. Other things I've wanted are a chance of being texted by friends for a reminder about hangout time, more extensive destinations to go on hangout seshes, and the ability to hang out/mess around in the mornings. Please let me know if there's absolutely anything I can do to help. By the end of the year (if I'm not already) I'm switching to the highest tier to give you as much resources as I can!

Tokyo