General Discussion

[Xela]

IC, it's an easy fix. Somehow Cancel button found itself in a size_group with some other buttons. Styles in the game are still a bit of a mess

I'll be fixing this and advancing jobs/tiers refactoring tonight.

[DarkTl]

Mirage class used for special effects inside BE enforces background resizing.

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    class Mirage(renpy.Displayable):
        def __init__(self, displayable, resize=(1280, 720), ycrop=8, amplitude=0, wavelength=0, **kwargs):It's fine only as long as battle background is 1280x720 already. If it's not, then before animation appears you see abrupt change in size, and then it jumps back to initial size after the animation. It looks terrible.

I'm not sure why you have to resize something before miraging it, but we need a decision here: either you make it universal or I resize all battle backgrounds.

[Xela]

Mirage class used for special effects inside BE enforces background resizing.

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    class Mirage(renpy.Displayable):
        def __init__(self, displayable, resize=(1280, 720), ycrop=8, amplitude=0, wavelength=0, **kwargs):It's fine only as long as battle background is 1280x720 already. If it's not, then before animation appears you see abrupt change in size, and then it jumps back to initial size after the animation. It looks terrible.

I'm not sure why you have to resize something before miraging it, but we need a decision here: either you make it universal or I resize all battle backgrounds.

Either one... I don't see any reason why not to resize backgrounds but resizing inside of the class should be quite easy as well.

[DarkTl]

Yup, I'll resize them in the next push.

[Xela]

Oki, I fixed mirage and cancel button issues. Gonna hack tiers/jobs a bit. Tomorrow I'll start with PyTFall on fresh head in the morning and hopefully get some real work done on those concepts.

[Xela]

I am trying to figure out Discord (I've been using it for a long time but never ran a server), this may be an invitation to the server: https://discord.gg/4tT4qmW

[DarkTl]

I think it works, although it's probably a free invitation for anyone. I wonder if discord keeps chat history like the forum chat does.

[Xela]

I think it works, although it's probably a free invitation for anyone. I wonder if discord keeps chat history like the forum chat does.

It does! All the way, I've seen that on all channels I am a member of. Forum chat looses history eventually, Discord seems to keep it around forever.

I am trying to come up with a good way to calculate tiers. I found our old Rank class:

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    class Rank(_object): # Will not be used for the next release...
        """
        Ranks, currently not in use in the game.
        """
        WhRANKS = OrderedDict()
        WhRANKS["0"]=dict(name=('No Rank: Kirimise', '(Almost beggar)'), price=0)
        WhRANKS["1"]=dict(name=("Rank 1: Heya-Mochi", "(Low-class prostitute)"), skills={"oral": 10, "vaginal": 10, "anal": 5}, total_skill=100, price=1000, exp=10000) # note: refinement is not a stat anymore!
        WhRANKS["2"]=dict(name=("Rank 2: Zashiki-Mochi", "(Middle-class Prostitute"), skills={"oral": 25, "vaginal": 15, "anal": 15}, total_skill=300, price=3000, exp=25000)
        WhRANKS["3"]=dict(name=("Rank 3: Tsuke-Mawashi", "(Courtesan)"), skills={"oral": 55, "vaginal": 40, "anal": 25}, total_skill=600, price=5000, exp=50000)
        WhRANKS["4"]=dict(name=("Rank 4: Chûsan", "(Famous)"), skills={"oral": 100, "vaginal": 80, "anal": 50}, total_skill=1000, stats={"refinement": 100}, price=7500, exp=100000)
        WhRANKS["5"]=dict(name=("Rank 5: Yobidashi", "(High-Class Courtesan)"), skills={"oral": 250, "vaginal": 150, "anal": 130}, total_skill=1250, stats={"refinement": 150}, price=10000, exp=250000)
        WhRANKS["6"]=dict(name=("Rank 6: Koshi", "(Nation famous)"), skills={"oral": 500, "vaginal": 500, "anal": 500}, total_skill=2500, stats={"refinement": 500}, price=25000, exp=400000)
        WhRANKS["7"]=dict(name=("Rank 7: Tayu", "(Legendary)"), skills={"oral": 1500, "vaginal": 1500, "anal": 1500}, total_skill=5000, stats={"refinement": 800}, price=50000, exp=800000)...
This is not a very good design for two reasons, one being that they are too job specific and it's simply too much work to do this on per job basis and second that it's not interpolating target values automatically. Using experience in favor of levels is also really, really weird.

We need to make a decision if there is going to be a fixed number of ranks or we just calculate them based of some general formula and they can increase indefinitely, like level and stats (still have fixed max values). If we decide to have a fixed number, we can one day name them Bit of an issue may be character that are somehow working a wrong job... but there are always favjob and currentjob to figure stuff like that out...

[Xela]

We prolly still should come up with a number of tiers... even if just pull some number out of our asses. It may turn out to be just as confusing as before otherwise. I am thinking 10 might be a nice round number

[DarkTl]

Naturally, I cannot use skype or discord at work as freely as forum, since they require more undivided attention than logging in, writing a post and logging out.

Every next rank might be harder to get than previous one, so 10 is fine. The question is, what to do after 10th rank has been achieved.
Also some simple jobs might have less ranks in total - like cleaner. Assuming that it won't be too confusing.

[Xela]

Naturally, I cannot use skype or discord at work as freely as forum, since they require more undivided attention than logging in, writing a post and logging out.

Every next rank might be harder to get than previous one, so 10 is fine. The question is, what to do after 10th rank has been achieved.
Also some simple jobs might have less ranks in total - like cleaner. Assuming that it won't be too confusing.

Question is if it can be achieved at all. I am calcing it at level 200 with skills/stats maxed out atm. It would take way too long to get there... They are going to install some furniture, so I am "going dark" for a while

[DarkTl]

Ok, I'll try out the discord.

[DarkTl]

I'm not satisfied with shields icons, they are pretty, but uninformative - even for me, even though I added them myself. I'll make more understandable ones.
And some elemental damage effects could use more work after we had to get rid of sprites recolors.

But in terms of bringing the release closer these things are as effective as making packs or adding items 

[Xela]

I'm not satisfied with shields icons, they are pretty, but uninformative - even for me, even though I added them myself. I'll make more understandable ones.
And some elemental damage effects could use more work after we had to get rid of sprites recolors.

I was thinking of maybe making them bigger so they move out of the frame somehow?

But in terms of bringing the release closer these things are as effective as making packs or adding items 

True

[DarkTl]

I can't find the code where you make buffs icons change alpha all the time. It should be reduced, they do it too much.