💪POWER UPS

Consumable items as sexy or fun defensive/offensive alternatives to the claw game and swashbuckling.

Outside of testing, I don't think I actually used any items. Soda is only useful if you messed up your counting and a member that is searching will break. Cold shower feels very useless in the early game and unnecessary in late game. And planks did nothing unless you failed an easy minigame.

Since you have been asking about different aspects of the game I will go ahead and share my unrequested feedback. If you would like something more on topic I made a much shorter comment a few days ago. First thing I would like to see changed is exploration as it currently is designed whenever you go exploring the steps are as follows. While at an island you click on it a menu pups up with the available crew, their current idol affliction status, and a button to select them. Then once you select who will explore a new window pops up telling you to select who will hold the idol to which you need to click the select button. From there you are viewing the below deck crew area with a visual of each member you have, you then click their name then a little window pops up with their name, current location, status, and a button to hold the idol. Once you select that, you can finally click the button to start the exploration. Keeping in mind that I have never coded a video game and have zero idea how difficult it would be to implement, for the sanity of the player I feel streamlining this process would be huge. In my mind the best way would be when you click on the island a menu pups up with the available crew, their current idol affliction status or “exploring” if they are busy or “kracked” if they got nothing left, and two check boxes. The left one if someone is currently holding the idol, the picture of it will appear in that box, if they aren’t on the ship the check boxes should be faded or missing or indicate locked since they cannot hand it off. And the right box would be for them to go exploring, if they are busy or kracked then their box would be faded, missing or indicating locked. Once you make your choices you hit explore and move on. Traveling: I know you previously asked about this you currently have the treasure crane game and a swashbuckling or just the passage of time while you sail. I had previously suggested a passive event where a storm happens, and the ship is blown off course to a random island and takes a little damage. Another more interactive option would be something like a kraken minigame when the ship is on the ocean, and you can see shadows forming beneath the surface you need to use the arrow keys to avoid the tentacles popping out from the shadow areas, cause each time the ship gets hit it takes damage. Crew Upgrades: I did not try to dive into the game code so I don’t know how you have it set up, but the best I can tell is the upgrades only affect how much idol affliction each member can handle before they “Krack” You could make it also affect their exploration finds. Right now, they can only achieve 6 affliction levels; I am going to throw out a number in case you decide to expand their idol exposure levels. I propose making 10 tables for the exploration to roll from. With table 1 having the best odds for the most valuable loot and high-grade power ups, and table 10 favoring the lowest tear loot. From default with no affliction, they pull from table 8 and since the effects of the idols seem to distract the girls with 2 points of affliction, they roll table 10 before they krack. By upgrading the girls, they can improve their perception, allowing them better odds to find better loot. By the time they can handle 6 rounds with the idol, if they have a fresh mind, they will roll from table 5 but still when they are one round from losing all focus, they only get access to table 10. Hope I was able to convey my idea well enough. Power-ups: I saw someone comment that there should be something to give the girls an extra level, my mind shifted it slightly. I had the idea for a focus potion, when taken before an exploration she will be able to roll from one table higher offering better loot, so with the current Max level if Simone takes a focus potion before exploring she will be rolling odds from table 4 instead of table 5 improving the odds of getting the best loot from the exploration. Coincidentally if a girl has already cracked and takes a focus potion she will get enough of a clear mind she can go out for one more go with the idol allowing that one extra point of transformation, when you pick her up the focus will have worn off and she will be lost in her own little world of moans and happy noises. This could have the potential side effect of making the cold shower power up half as effective or raising the cost at the Den since she will need more time to get her head of straight. The other suggestion for a power up I had would be a treasure map, not available for purchase, but can be found in treasure chests or while exploring. When used a random island will get and X mark in its box this can happen even if the island has been explored allowing you to return to the island. The next time you explore that island you will have a 60% chance to pull two treasures, a 30% chance for three, and a 10% chance to find 4 treasures. Crew Interactions: After the girls complete their expeditions, they seem to pull from a list depending on their idol affliction levels after a while you start to feel like you’ve heard it all, maybe to make it feel like there is more variety allow a chance for lines specific to being at certain islands or finding specific items. Best example I can come up with would be Fayde finding a bottle of rum. She could talk about how she found a rum runner’s stash stocked with so many bottles; she nearly drank them all but remembered to bring one for her captain. Or something along those lines. Another thing would be the below deck crew area it seems the only point is to move the idol around, would be neat to have dialog options conversations to get to know the crew a little bit. They clearly each have their own unique personalities, I know it’s not necessary for the game but would add a little flavor. And of course, the closer they get to cracking the more distracted any conversation with them would be… I’m sure I’ve had more thoughts but I am tired so I will stop straining your eyes here.

Think I used the cola once... I used the cold shower a fair bit, didn't use the planks at all. There should be some kind of power up that allows for an extra level of Kraken temporarily, almost like a tease for what is to come later in the game.

Probably (definitely) biased here, but maybe a helium boob power up could allow the girls extra carry time when they hit kracked status?

I didn't use any of the power ups if I'm being honest. I also had no idea whether or not "failing" any of the mini games or getting hurt and having the ship get to zero did anything because I was too scared to find out. I wasn't sure if I was playing wrong by never needing or using any of the power ups.

The only one I ever used was the Cold Shower and that was for getting in an extra island or two before returning to port. Otherwise, I didn't really bother with any of them. If I was to suggest a power up, it would be a magical ice cube that you give to someone when you leave them on an island while holding the idol so that the next "tick" of the idol won't apply. Similar to the cold water, but proactive and has its own niche over the cold shower.

I’d love an item that temporary increases the kracked count to make the girls bigger >: )

I used cola and cold shower the most. I never bought them, but I liked finding them as they let me grab more islands and maximize treasure

I have to be honest based on my own experience and reading the other comments it really doesn't feel like planks should have a whole island dedicated to them that you HAVE to unlock in order to progress in my opinion it should be just another item you can buy at the store and maybe that island could be used for some other purpose in the future

Never tried the Cola or had any use for the planks since I never took any damage. The cold shower I only used a couple of time when I knew I didn't have enough cash for the next upgrade / map piece I wanted and wanted to just hit a couple more islands before unloading. To make the planks have more purpose while traveling you could implement a chance for a storm that will drop you at a random island and damage the ship.

The explanations were fine. However, I used Cold shower occasionally, but that was it I'm afraid. I tried Cola but as it only works on one trip, it just wasn't worth the cost. On the subject of the planks, i simply never took damage, which is fine as I'm not a huge fan of that combat minigame tbh.

I never used the planks. I bought the other two to try out. Cold shower is clearly superior in price and mileage. As my playthrough progressed I found myself using them less and less. By the end I stopped using them all together and just hit up the closest three islands as the brothel was just as cheap.

Personally I didn't use any of them, on paper the cold shower seems the most useful but I think it's still better to sell them.

The only real change I'd like to see is the closer the girls are to krakening the better loot they find this adding an incentive to send them out closer to breaking instead of clean.

All the power ups are simple to understand but the cold showers were the most useful. The Cola I hardly used because it's only useful for one trip and by the time you max out the girls, it's kinda useless. Planks are borderline useless sad to say because the mini game is a bit too easy. You have to purposely screw up to even use the Planks and Angrys repair services. Maybe add in a random chance of the ship being damaged by rocks so the Planks would be used and maybe have the cola last 3 sails at least and to balance it make it a bit more expensive. As per a power up I'd like to see added? The Monkey Paw. Not the ones already used but actually new ones like what we found in the original Ample Chests. Both of you could entertain the idea of applying them to Captain Ruby herself since she never holds the Jade Idol and I think it would only work with Ruby herself since if you have Monkey Paws accessible to the others, there's the risk of the jade idol no longer being useful or downright redundant.

cold shower and coke did right by me. the degree of harm my ship [didn't] take rendered the planks a bit pointless. if I could have sold them, I'd have been less annoyed getting them as plunder

Cold showers were handy if you need to refresh one of the girls to explore more islands, I don’t think I used the planks once( the mini game was pretty easy). I don’t think I used the cola often but I think they could be useful. I think it would be cool if we could give ruby some upgrades sort of like Adelaide had in Bountiful Harvest.