Update 0.8.1


CHANGELOG 0.8.1

1. Added milk fullness % to top bar.

2. Fixed bug where looking at ending options then choosing to renew doesn't reset VIP interactions or store prices.

3. Added daily limit to coffee intake to fix infinite money loophole.


Sadly, the in-game updater is not working as intended so I'm still troubleshooting that.

Files

matriarch-win-linux.zip 1 GB
Version 0.8.1 23 days ago
matriarch-osx.zip 1 GB
Version 0.8.1 23 days ago

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Just a missing Image for now

Yeah, I can't believe I missed that. I already have it rendered, I just don't have enough content to justify a new build so it'll be included in the next update. Thanks for letting me know!

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So this is for 8.0 as a whole rather than the bugfix. 

Firstly, everything feels so much smoother. Not sure if I've missed an update or two, but the old version I have is so much clunkier. 

Additionally, I feel like I can earn money however I want without fear. 

Which is also a bit of an issue. It seems now that TIME is the biggest roadblock. Once you have a decent setup going you just want to get through the days as fast as you can. If you're dancing you watch for the "dance" notification and rollback time a little. Or if you're milking you load up on milk production and just do that. 

On the other hand... it was weird you could just load up in infinite ferili-tea straight  away so I'm not sure what I'd suggest as a fix. Perhaps having the MC start a few weeks/months into her term after the first one? 90 days is a LOT even if it's accurate. 

Otherwise, really great update. The game feels like it's in the best state it's ever been, and I haven't got to the VIP stuff yet I don't think? Honestly not quite sure how it works yet. 

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Lol. I was actually like 1 pregnancy from the VIP system.

So alright, some more notes. There are a lot of neat chat interactions, all the extra render work is super cool. The VIPs are interesting. I think you might want a way to target certain ones because I know I was more interested in the scientist's path but I built up rep with the CEO just from saying hello. Then I got to the "ending" and was like. OH. 

Now, not a problem for the moment obviously, but in the future perhaps?

Another thing I'll add is that I truly have no idea what options other than Chat, VIP stats and Milking do for me. Like I get they give me new scenes but other than that. Nothing. 

Also, not sure the emotion bar is working? I chatted for a little bit, got into green and then never once left it.

I'm glad everything is running smoothly and you're enjoying it! I've been doing some work on the code and trying to clean things up as I can so maybe that's making things run better? That or the shiny new layer of paint makes things feel more sleek lol. For the time thing, the best route to take if you want to blitz through a pregnancy is buy like 8 of the item in the shop that advances your pregnancy ten days. You'll skip right to the last week of your pregnancy. In the unity version of the game I made it so you could choose how long a pregnancy lasts and the game adjusts everything to that. I'll consider adding that in but I think the fast forward item in the shop should be a good stop gap till then. My only concern is as I add more activities in with the .13+ patches then people will be pressed for time between trying to make money, and doing the side activities. That's something I'll balance later on though. 

You shouldn't be able to load up on fertilitea like that. You can only buy enough to get to the next tier unless you talk to Trish to disable that mechanic. I added that option for the people that want to just skip to the newest images and I don't consider it the "right" way to play.

I'm not 100% sure how I want to tackle the random VIP thing. On one hand being able to target a VIP would be nice but in reality I don't think dancers are calling their clients and saying "Hey, come pay me for a dance.". I'm trying to keep the idea at least somewhat realistic (hyper pregnant dancers and sex crazed society aside). I'm thinking of an option to the eventual phone addition that lets you text the VIPs and maybe you could summon them that way? I'll see how things feel when more VIPs get added in and go from there. 

So the VIP help button causes you to build/lower the club reputation based on your choices. I need to tie this into more mechanics but at the moment it honestly doesn't do much. The plan is to make the club reputation affect how often people actually come to the club. Photos build/lower self-esteem and rep and also make some money (I think).

The emotion bar definitely works, it's just a little hard to get it low now.  It used to be easy to have your self-esteem lowered when you set your custom prices, but once I added the suggest a price mechanic it pretty much nullified that whole system. Early on when you're advertising without being known then it gets lowered fairly easily but that also goes away quickly. I need to go back and rebalance some things there. I need a department full of mathematicians at this point to help with balancing things. Turns out doing it "by feeling it out" is not a solid strategy.

Yeah the rapid preg pills were nice once I got over my instinctive aversion of it not being "optimal to use them". I also see your point in that you'll have more to do. 

Yeah I agree that the wait for the Fertilitea works well. It wasn't a complaint, I think it's a good change. Even if it was hilarious in the old versions. 

While I agree that "forcing" a VIP to show up feels bad, the other angle to consider is "If I know X is always going to show up at Midnight on Friday, maybe I want to work the floor that night" though with the current way time passes it'd have to be something else. 

Fair enough on the last two points. Not much else to add