State of the Game: Open Cabin Door Policy
Evening all, it's a new month! v0.38.0 is now up for free at the usual page, and v0.39.0 is up for patrons!
This update focused almost entirely on the crew seduction system and the interactive scene, with a pretty heavy overhaul of how you get crewmembers into your cabin. Rather than simply picking a crewmember off of your roster you'll now be able to visit your ship's rec center, see who's available, and if you're talented enough you might be able to talk one, two, or (if you have the right trait) three officers back to your room. Additionally, I've added more options to the Specialist invitation scenes, allowing you to directly invite Specialists to a threesome if you've got enough of them in a relationship.
One big note about all this: while the procedural scene was largely written with all of this in mind way back when I set it up, there were still some tweaks I had to do to get group activities flowing properly, and more importantly: this update significantly increases the number of potential poses and interactions that can go on. There's a lot of potential interactions which have not really been tested, so if you see anything going on that looks broken or nonsensical, please feel free to file a bug report.
This update also comes with one moderately big announcement, which is that I'm declaring the 'midgame' phase of functionality development complete, and will now be moving on to the next pair of factions. This is particularly notable since it means that Carnal Voyages is now officially halfway done! ...Although technically I believe it's a fair bit further along than that. I'm certainly not done with all of the game's functionality though, for example at around the three-quarters mark I'll probably be adding in the final ship tier, along with actually implementing the XO relationship system which is only a few exposed pieces at the moment.
As I said though, the next update will be focusing on the next set of factions, specifically: the Roth! I already did a bit of work this month on setting up their home system, and hopefully by next update you'll be able to fly by and get an introduction. Until then, the patch notes are below, and game links will follow.
Thanks for playing!
v0.39.0 Change Log
Game Functions:
Modified interactive scene to add support for NPCs choosing to perform actions on other NPCs. If multiple NPCs are in a scene, self-pleasure actions will be less likely than with a single NPC.
'Seduce Crewmember' button has been removed from the Crew Roster interface. Replaced by the new rec center scene.
Scene Content:
'Cabin Invitation' scene added for the XO, unlocked if the player is in a sexual relationship with them.
Updated all Specialist 'Cabin Invitation' scenes to include options for also inviting one other Specialist (or two for Jodi & Desmon) or the XO. Requires being in a sexual relationship with each Specialist/XO.
Rec Center scene added to main ship hub.
This scene may be visited once every 20 hours.
Each crewmember and Specialist will have a 1/3 chance of being present on a given visit.
Player can attempt to seduce present crew in a number of manners (mostly trait-based), and if successful can invite up to two of them to join the player in their cabin for an interactive scene, or up to three if the player has the Gangbanger trait.
Specialists and the XO must be in a sexual relationship to have a chance of being present. Specialists and the XO have a doubled chance of being successfully seduced.
New Swinger and Lover seduction options added for those traits, with bonuses (or debuffs) based on the percentage of the crew in the rec center at the time.
Art Content:
Artwork added for Tier 4 Tactical and Engineering ships.
Roth System map assets added. (Not yet playable)
Codex Entries:
None
Bug Fixes:
Corrected 'solo' action text in interactive scenes which would pull from 'pillory' position text.
Corrected position mismatch in the 'oral worship' pose.
Known Issues:
None