Monday, January 30, 2017

ALPHA 0.9.6: A Thousand Words


"Free Cities: a text-only slave management game." I suppose I have to change the banner now.

This update adds support for an optional rendered imagepack for FC's slave girls, contributed by Shokushu. I'm grateful for the amount of effort that went into this contribution. When I've downplayed the likelihood of seeing slave girls in FC in the past, it's been because I doubted a satisfactory imagepack could possibly be created. This imagepack includes 768 .pngs, and could only be held to that exorbitant number by not modeling race or age, among other things. Genital configuration, asset size, muscles, pregnancy, obedience, and fetishes are all depicted.


If any of this disturbs you, I suggest you reconsider. Images aren't and never will be the primary focus of FC. Display of the imagepack can be toggled from the options menu, and it's my intent that with image display off, FC will look and play the same as ever. Downloading the imagepack is not even necessary if image display is off. Finally, the imagepack and the .html will be updated separately, so repeatedly downloading the imagepack won't be required unless it's updated.


Saves from versions before 0.9.5 are incompatible, but 0.6+ saves are eligible for New Game Plus. Latest hotfix is 0.9.6.5 (1700 February 3), save compatible.

0.9.6.2 download with imagepack: DropboxMegaPlease apply hotfix 0.9.6.5 by placing it in the game directory.

0.9.6.5 download without imagepack: DropboxMega.

0.9.6.5 fixes
  • Patched incestuous pregnancies under Egyptian Revivalism, again.
  • Minor improvements to RA logic for growth injections.
  • Minor UI and image display refinements.
0.9.6.4 fixes
  • Fixed several passage links broken by the move to the new developer environment.
  • Incestuous pregnancies under Egyptian Revivalism will no longer truncate the end of week report.
  • Improved logic and descriptions for wearable dildo and plug effects.
  • Corrected application of the obedience and devotion entrapment upgrades for the Corporate Market.
0.9.6.3 fixes
  • Migrated development to a TweeGo-derived development environment for FC, by Spagetti_Code; GitHub integration is planned.
  • Fixed the plot event sell all options again.
  • Addressed several minor bugs located in the code by FC_BourbonDrinker.
  • Applied a bugfix for an issue that was preventing chem damage, by FC_BourbonDrinker.
  • Applied a bugfix for an issue that was preventing organic language learning, by FC_BourbonDrinker.
  • Added an image option to display only basic poses in slave summaries while retaining fetish images for individuals.
0.9.6.2 fixes
  • The Egyptian Revivalist bonus for incestuous pregnancy should no longer produce $rep issues.
  • Fixed several bad breast fetish references that could break slaves' fetishes.
  • Addressed yet another issue with the relative recruitment event.
  • Rent from ownership in other arcologies will now be properly credited to the PC.
  • Patched an issue with matchmaking by returning play to the main menu after discussing relationships with a slave.
  • Reclaimed some wasted space when displaying large slave images.
    0.9.6.1 fixes
    • Addressed a nasty issue that was preventing most weekly skill gains.
    • Restricted matchmaking to worshipful slaves as originally intended.
    • Fixed errors in the standard punishment event.
    0.9.6 changelog

    Shokushu's imagepack

    • Added a 768 file rendered imagepack, contributed by Shokushu.
    • Provided code support for image display in many passages, with assistance from Shokushu.
    • Implemented an image display toggle; the game can still be played from the .html file alone if images are disabled.
    Other updates
    • Emotionally bonded and emotionally slutty slaves can now be matched up with similar slaves to form relationships.
    • Special descriptions will now appear in green when slaves pass skill milestones.
    • Removed the green color from generic skill training descriptions to limit attention to skill milestones.
    • Sexual energy gains from organic sources like Devotion, relationships, and health will stop short of nymphomania, requiring active intervention to maximize libido.
    • Milk and cum production code improvements, by Anon.
    • Bugfixes and future society balance improvements, from FireDrops.
    • Bugfixes.