Since 0.6.8, I've planned to use major version numbers (0.7, 0.8, etc.) to denote breaks in save game eligibility for the New Game Plus option. Many 0.6.8+ slaves now suffer from a bug involving their age variable, so this update cuts off NGP eligibility for previous versions and is numbered 0.7.
This update gives slaves hip and shoulder stats, which I've been intending to add for a while. Added stats have become less frequent as the game moves towards a 1.0 release, partly due to well-founded complaints that the game already presents an extreme number of things to track and manage. (Slaves are now modeled by more than 150 distinct stats.) I think this is a good addition despite those concerns, since it changes very little for players who are not interested in it, it provides more depth for those who are, it increases slave distinctiveness, and it improves the realism of the game. The new stats model bone structure rather than soft tissue. The way preexisting stats worked together had bothered me for a long time, since neither growth hormones nor implants can change the underlying frame. In reality, there are pretty hard limits on the asset sizes different body types can handle without appearing disproportionate and strange. Furthermore, having only height and facial beauty stats available to help model underlying bone structure has made slaves too interchangeable, since enough drug treatment can wipe out almost all physical individuality.
This update invokes a couple of FC lore concepts that I haven't touched on for a while. First, Beauty: it's a mostly-hidden stat, but it appears frequently in changelogs. It's a measure of how many citizens of the arcology are willing to pay to fuck the slave over the course of a week. It does not act as any kind judgment from the game as to what the player should think of a slave's appearance. It's a market measure of a slave's beauty from the perspective of the population as a whole, and nothing more. Second, pornography. Sex is so ubiquitous in the Free Cities world that porn just doesn't pay. Players have often suggested a porn star assignment and a porn studio as an upgrade, but the money just isn't there in a world where sex is so cheap. This update takes another approach by using porn for publicity, not profit.
Finally, there have been many, many requests since the current assignment system took shape to provide more flavor to slaves' weekly lives with minor random events or something similar. This update adds a prototype vignette system to the Whoring assignment. It produces single-sentence glimpses of a slave whore's life, which may have a trivial effect on money or reputation, or even no effect at all. Balancing the lack of direct interactivity for these vignettes is going to be hard, since I don't intend to add a direct punishment system. If slaves screw up once a day, a PC with ten slaves will be doling out 70 potential punishments every turn, so FC is assuming that an immense amount of correction goes on offscreen. Once I've gotten some feedback on this, I intend to open the system up for user content submission. This is uniquely suited for crowd-sourced content, since once it's extended to other assignments as well as Whoring, thousands of vignettes will be required.
- Ball drug relief with FemPC error
- Starting slave customization hip descriptions
- Ball drugs not growing balls
- Ghost clit effects
- Futanari Sister pair selection
- Pregnancy refresh bug
- Brothel error
- Debugging flags
- Hips defaulting to very wide
- Bad vignette names
- Other minor issues.
Pornographic publicity
- A Media Hub upgrade is now available for the arcology, which allows the player to make video feeds of individual slaves publicly available.
- Funds can be spent to publicize individual slaves' feeds, and the Rules Assistant can be instructed to do this automatically for excellent slaves.
- Making slaves' video feeds public will increase their individual impacts on future society development, and subsidizing slaves' publicity will strengthen this effect.
- Paid publicity can eventually increase prestige if enough funding is provided over enough time.
- Added testicle enhancement drugs.
- Moved some effects from penis enhancement drugs to testicle enhancement drugs. Each will only grow the other organ if it is at its absolute minimal value.
- In addition to their growth effects, testicle enhancement drugs enhance cum production.
- Slaves who are allowed to masturbate may develop cum fetishes while on testicle enhancement drugs.
- Slaves who are not allowed to masturbate may receive bonus Trust while on testicle enhancement drugs.
- Rather than selecting slaves for two slots in the Pit, the player can now add slaves to a list of eligible fighters.
- Added an option to the Pit to toggle between selecting two random eligible slaves to fight and pitting the Bodyguard against a random eligible slave.
- The personal assistant will do her best to schedule a fight during weeks when other events do not intervene, and eligible fighters are available.
- Slaves' hips are now statted: as a bone structure stat like Height, changing it is difficult and limited.
- Height and natural hormonal makeup contribute to randomly generated Hips.
- Broad Hips increase Beauty, and narrow hips reduce it, though Gender Radicalism and Slimness Enthusiasm will remove the latter effect.
- Butts that diverge too far from the size of the slave's Hips will apply a penalty to Beauty, but Butts that are proportional to the slave's Hips slightly increase Beauty.
- Very broad or very narrow Hips will widen the criteria for attractive weight one step in the direction of more weight or less weight, respectively.
- Hips can be broadened or narrowed one step with surgery like Height, with the one step restriction removed by upgrading the surgery.
- Hormone treatments can affect Hip development for slaves under age 25.
- Hips added to starting slave customization.
- Slaves' shoulders are now statted: as a bone structure stat like Height, changing it is difficult and limited.
- Height and natural hormonal makeup contribute to randomly generated Shoulders.
- Slaves with Shoulders broader than their Hips suffer reduced Beauty. Gender Radicalism will remove this effect and Gender Fundamentalism will increase it.
- Extremely large Boobs can distract from broad shoulders, preventing the Beauty penalty.
- Shoulders can be broadened or narrowed one step with surgery like Height, with the one step restriction removed by upgrading the surgery.
- Hormone treatments can affect Shoulder development for slaves under age 25.
- Shoulders added to starting slave customization.
- Random event for trusting slaves when the weather permits tanning.
- New slave market fluctuation events.
- Revisions to preexisting events to account for recent changes.
- Added The Futanari Sisters, an enigmatic group dedicated to transforming themselves into futanari, who fund their operations by selling their own members. They function like a slave school.
- In addition to being a source of slaves with an unusual combination of features, they have a unique behavior: Sisters will only form relationships with other Sisters, and any two unattached Sisters will instantly pair off as lovers if the rules allow it.
- Added an unusual endowment event for the Sisters that involves a schism over the definition of futanari.
- Added a prototype random vignette system to the Whoring assignment for feedback, which has more than 100 potential outcomes. It needs many more, so it will seem repetitive; it can be disabled under Options.
- Slaves' Attractiveness Score (previously referred to as Beauty) and Sexual Score can be displayed on their individual menus.
- Added a Kiss option to the generic sex scenes.
- Revised the Default Rules logic to respect variances in weight attractiveness created by Hips.
- Revised the Rules Assistant and Autosurgery logic to avoid automatically giving slaves disproportionate butts.
- Slightly reduced the base effectiveness of growth hormones to balance them against implants.
- Reduced the incidence of several common fetish sources to increase effective fetish variety.
- Concubinage is now a potential source of the Emotionally Bonded relationship status.
- Boosted the sexual history requirements for slaves to become Emotional Sluts.
- Maximized Reputation will no longer negatively impact prosperity growth.
- Rebalanced distribution of weather severity.
- Slaves without ovaries or balls will now slowly lose sex drive, though nymphomania will prevent this effect.
- Descriptive expansions.
- Code consolidation.
- Bugfixes.
