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Offline Bloodly

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Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« on: November 03, 2009, 10:08:50 AM »
In the store, you're allowed to use Shift and Control to select multiple items to transfer/buy.  I feel that on the main Girl Management screen, the same functionality should apply.  If only to reduce the clicking to set multiple girls(but not 'all', thankfully there's a button for that) to a routine.

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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 10:25:56 AM »
Good point... that is odd, that it wasn't set up like that in the first place.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 10:33:28 AM »
I totally agree, it would be a nice little feature.
But i guess it would make some little problems with the button girl details, when you have selected more then one girl.
 
Edit: Just saw the multiselecting is already mentioned in the to do list. This list is getting far to big for me to remember. sorry.
 
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2009, 04:53:42 PM »
hehe, yeh its already planned. The new girl management screen allows you to multi-select for the purposes of assigning jobs, selling slaves, freeing slaves etc.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2009, 05:35:48 PM »
It would be nice to have on the gift screen too, so we could select multiple girls to give a gift to (presuming the inventory/store has enough for all girls).

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It would also be nice to be able to group girls together within a building.  You could then assign and change jobs by groups, or do it individually.  As an example, lets say I have three activities going on in a building: whoring, serving in a strip bar, and making porn movies.  I could assign my girls to three groups, and then assign the groups to duties (group A whores, group B strips, and group C makes movies).  When group C finishes a movie, I can simply change the job for the group (back to making movies, or perhaps a different job) rather than hunt down each girl in the list and change the jobs individually.

Alternatively, you could add a sorting function to the girl list, to sort by name, job, skill level for a particular skill, etc.  Having both would be extra cool.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2009, 08:59:34 PM »
Seconded. Being able to sort and rearrange the girls in a brothel would be very helpful.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2009, 04:07:25 AM »
Hmmm, allowing giving gifts to multiple girls would be nice but would result in terribly messy code. I'll add it to the todo list but it will be low priority for now.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2009, 01:57:20 PM »
Assuming you have a function you ca call to give a girl a gift, and that you have some internal id's for girls, I would think it would be rather simple.  Something on the order of:

create an array containing the id's of all selected girls
for each (girlID in array)
     giveGift(giftLocation, giftID, girlID)
next

Of course, I haven't seen your code, so I have no idea if that is feasible at all.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2009, 07:49:12 PM »
Long story short this game was built without any design. So the code isn't exactly nice (and i learned why design is important :D). The game was originally intended to test the waters how popular indie games in the sex industry are. However since this game has a following I'm continuing to develop it until the todo list is empty. I already have 2 designs for new games, 1 of which isn't really to do with sex but will still have some references in it. Its really hard to not start creating these games, but i force myself to wait until this one is done.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2009, 08:35:14 PM »
Honestly, necno, don't just tie yourself up with this one.  I'm not saying you should just stop now - there are plenty of areas that, arguably, need improvement - but you'll probably never get to a point where you can say it's perfect.  No game is ever completely perfect.  I'd rather see you create more games than spend a year polishing this one.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2009, 11:52:07 PM »
I hate to agree with letmein here. But with how this game is constantly getting bigger and bigger, it might be a bigger project than originally intended.
Might want to put an end to that to-do list of yours, and just focus on finishing it up and fixing bugs.
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Re: Allow multiple selection of girls in Girl Management.
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2009, 08:54:50 PM »
hehe, I'm already splitting my time between this and another project. I've decided I'm going to finish this game and now that there are other people working on it as well it should move quickly after the next release.
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