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Re: Strive for Power - (mostly) text slave management game
Looks good so far. A problem I see though is that it seems nearly impossible to get a girl to like you without sex, and she's unlikely to accept it willingly because she isn't attached to you yet. Turns out raping girls will make them fall in love with you in a couple days vs talking to them/giving them gifts and such taking weeks? Kinda odd there. The game seems to be aiming towards having options, but raping/beating them silly in the jail until they love you and are easy to control is just is a million times easier and there's no penalty for it, especially since they'd just be rotting in there until they accept you if you don't wanna risk them bailing.
Making money at the start with all the balancing acts you have to do is a pain too. Especially since you need a bunch of different girls for different tasks because of the stamina/one job a day system. There's a lot of the classic "You need money to make money" issue in this too. New girls are a huge drain on your food supply and will be useless for quite a while, and then they can only perform basic jobs that barely pay off their daily cost. You end up in the negative and not being able to level them up and train them properly. It's way too easy to dig yourself into a hole early on.
The difficulty makes it so you have very few viable options to succeed, even though the game makes it seem like you can play in a variety of ways. I don't mind the challenge itself, just seems like some stuff needs better balance so the various money making options are actually viable instead of traps new players need to learn to avoid (Like doing quests too early that eat a bunch of money and don't reward any in return). You're almost bound to fail unless you know to get into prostitution and check certain areas as soon as possible (Unless I've just been hella unlucky in all my test plays), or you wanna wait a month until you can start affording better training for your girls.
In short, the game difficulty is designed to be played by somebody like the game dev, who knows how everything works inside and out. For new or even somewhat veteran players, there's a lot of random information missing. Some stuff is explained in detail and then certain things are just like "Welp, have fun testing something for weeks and realizing this is a waste of time in comparison to doing something else." lol. The store job should be more obvious in what is needed to succeed in it. "Physical labor at a store" kinda covers multiple stats and skills, at least the sex jobs and foraging/hunting warn you about what is needed.
Tips, Money Making Guide, Rare Monster Locations (Edited for patch 0.3.39):
Some bugs too: Game keeps trying to change my girl's hair to ponytails as well. Not sure what's up with that.
I know it seems like a lot of complaints but it's just because I've enjoyed this so far and see a lot of potential. I also wouldn't mind if entering the jail had a button at the bottom of the screen since you do it so often. That and running from a fight not sending you back to your mansion immediately... Though those are more minor/repetition issues. I've acquired quite a collection of portraits for various girl types as well...lol
Looks good so far. A problem I see though is that it seems nearly impossible to get a girl to like you without sex, and she's unlikely to accept it willingly because she isn't attached to you yet. Turns out raping girls will make them fall in love with you in a couple days vs talking to them/giving them gifts and such taking weeks? Kinda odd there. The game seems to be aiming towards having options, but raping/beating them silly in the jail until they love you and are easy to control is just is a million times easier and there's no penalty for it, especially since they'd just be rotting in there until they accept you if you don't wanna risk them bailing.
Making money at the start with all the balancing acts you have to do is a pain too. Especially since you need a bunch of different girls for different tasks because of the stamina/one job a day system. There's a lot of the classic "You need money to make money" issue in this too. New girls are a huge drain on your food supply and will be useless for quite a while, and then they can only perform basic jobs that barely pay off their daily cost. You end up in the negative and not being able to level them up and train them properly. It's way too easy to dig yourself into a hole early on.
The difficulty makes it so you have very few viable options to succeed, even though the game makes it seem like you can play in a variety of ways. I don't mind the challenge itself, just seems like some stuff needs better balance so the various money making options are actually viable instead of traps new players need to learn to avoid (Like doing quests too early that eat a bunch of money and don't reward any in return). You're almost bound to fail unless you know to get into prostitution and check certain areas as soon as possible (Unless I've just been hella unlucky in all my test plays), or you wanna wait a month until you can start affording better training for your girls.
In short, the game difficulty is designed to be played by somebody like the game dev, who knows how everything works inside and out. For new or even somewhat veteran players, there's a lot of random information missing. Some stuff is explained in detail and then certain things are just like "Welp, have fun testing something for weeks and realizing this is a waste of time in comparison to doing something else." lol. The store job should be more obvious in what is needed to succeed in it. "Physical labor at a store" kinda covers multiple stats and skills, at least the sex jobs and foraging/hunting warn you about what is needed.
One of the big things is that advanced areas are easy ways to cheese gold, that's kinda counter intuitive. Normally you'd think you need to be prepared for further areas but the monster girls are pretty much as weak as the "starting area", and usually worth a lot more to sell.
Tips, Money Making Guide, Rare Monster Locations (Edited for patch 0.3.39):
1. Get an elf or demon assistant to start off with and make it so they studied magic. You'll probably want them for the heal ability or combat will be a pain. Make sure you "equip" it from the ability menu in combat or it won't be usable for whatever reason. Also remember you can't use it till you start fucking girls and stealing their mana, so be careful. They also start with skills that help use the lab sooner, which is nice.
2. Don't do the main quest immediately, it will cost a lot of money even if you capture the girl yourself (To train and feed her) and I don't think it rewards any money in return. When you're just starting off, that can put you in a hole that's nearly impossible to get out of. - Apparently this was fixed in version 0.3.39
3. Go to the brothel and pick up the hungry girl right away. If you don't the resource/training juggling will likely be too difficult to manage. She's almost necessary to avoid the early game pit you can dig yourself into.
4. Don't chase fleeing enemies, it costs your ally a lot of stamina and you'll probably fail to catch them until your agility is high. You'll actually probably be able to save enough stamina to fight another round of enemies if you just let them escape and complete the first fight, and that means another guaranteed girl and exp. Chasing girls is a fast way to draining your ally of their stamina and then they'll be unable to work at night.
5. Also make sure to check the stats of a girl before you jail/sell/avoid them by hovering over their name after the battle. Girls without starting skills or super attractiveness will likely just drain your resources and are not worth training.
6. As mentioned above with training, don't bother trying to be nice to girls. Just alternate raping and punishing them in jail to raise their affection and obedience. Just make sure you don't over stress them. - Apparently praising and gift have been buffed in version 0.3.39, so hopefully they're more viable now.
7. Make sure you don't release girls from jail that still say "This girl hasn't adjusted to her new slave life yet" when you check their mind with the spell. Even if she seems obedient and willing, she'll probably still bail. You also get a message when the girl can safely be released from jail if you don't have the spell yet (I think). Some rare girls can take an extremely long time to lose this trait, a quick way to avoid it is to get them pregnant. They seem to automatically lose their unwilling spirit and gain some affection towards you, enough that you can release them into your normal living areas.
8. The clothes a girl wear heavily affect things and you'll probably be alternating them a lot.
Sundress = Reduces stress
Maid Uniform - Makes her more obedient
Kimono = Improves her behavior (Obedience?)
Ninja Suit = Improves confidence
Pet Suit = Improves obedience
Miko Outfit = Helps her calm down (Reduces stress?)
Chainmail = Nothing?
Bedlah and no underwear = Makes her more lewd
Fancy underwear = Dunno
9. The brothel jobs unlock by simply giving the brothel matron an elf, you can find them somewhat commonly in the forest. This is worth doing right away as you'll almost instantly be getting double the shop job money even if she has her profits cut in half from lack of skills. This is how you actually start making money instead of scraping by early on.
10. Avoid the hunting job, stick with gathering food or working at the shop/whoring, then buying food yourself. The hunting job is way too unreliable early on.
11. Don't sell girls immediately after combat if you have room in your jail. For some reason you get less money doing that than if you send them to your jail first, then bring them to the auction. No idea if it's intended, but early on that money difference can be pretty massive.
12. There is no penalty from fleeing to your mansion from fights, aside from being forced to click a bunch of buttons over and over and over again. Use this knowledge to avoid less than ideal groups of enemies. Leaving fights however might drain a random party member's stamina apparently. Humanoid enemies will usually be better than fighting wolves for profit since you can end up with slaves to sell for example, I think they have a higher chance of dropping money too. Monsters like wolves and plants are usually a bit better for exp since they usually go down quicker/use less stamina. Also avoid slavers, and non "small groups" of bandits early on.
13. Try to avoid having more than one girl "in training" early on. If a girl isn't making you money/food/cleaning, she's just draining your food supply. You should be prepared for any new girl you catch to be a money sink for at least a week, even after she exits jail, she probably won't be willing to work for multiple days. Early on going too fast/heavy trying to train multiple girls at once will bankrupt you.
14. Emily may be forced to leave you at some point, or depending on your relationship with her or stats, you may be offered the chance to replace her with her sister, or just keep her. If she's forced to leave, I think offering them supplies when they leave gives you the chance of her returning? Thankfully I managed to get her back doing that anyways. My first run I just had the option to keep her and she never left in the first place. I don't know what happens if you try to replace her with her sister.
15. Combat is generally the fastest way to level up. All girls need levels to prosper in their jobs, so you'll probably be shifting your combat team around a lot and fighting most days. Remember not to chase fleeing enemies and you can often take 5-8 fights a day before worrying about your girls' stamina being too low to work. This is usually a level or so a day even with a 4 man party if you take good fights. Remember that the stronger your party is in combat, the less stamina you'll use to complete a fight, which means more fights a day. This means focusing on raising a combat/strength/agility heavy party initially can make leveling up your other girls a breeze.
16. You seem to need roughly Novice in Sexual Proficiency, Body Control and an 2 Endurance to start getting full wages from prostitution + enough unlocked sex skills (Petting, Blowjob/Oral, Vaginal, Anal, maybe Toys are needed). It's worth it, as you'll likely be making 50 bucks a day even if she's only average attractiveness. There may be different combinations possible to reach it sooner, but that's when I first noticed one of my girls getting max wages. My other girl is missing Body Control but otherwise has similar stats/unlocks and she's still getting half wages.
17. Don't neglect magic, it's hella useful and lets you bypass a lot of the daily limitations of the game. Heal and Shackle are the first spells you want to buy. Heal allows you to mass heal your party outside of combat which can be useful when healing multiple party members in combat is too risky. Shackle also lets you capture multiple girls easily without stamina loss. Sedation can save your girls from stress, Fear can raise a girl's obedience without using your stamina, and Mind Reading can check the traits of girls before you sell or jail them. Domination is apparently a riskier skill and quite costly, but it massively improves obedience and loyalty. I've never had it fail or cause damage to the girl like it says can happen, but you should be careful of that.
Don't forget to train some of your allies with Shackle and Heal as well, the cooldown is too long if only you have them.
18. One of the easiest ways to get a high quality slave earlier than normal is to trap beautiful fairies and dryads (Much more common than the common races), and rape them until they become pregnant. Although you can eventually train the uncivilized perk away, it takes nearly completing the main quest, and quite a bit of time to fix them even once you have the ability to. You can get a high quality fairy or dryad preggers in less than a week and have a civilized child by them before you would have been able to fix the trait of the mother. Just make sure you have at least 500 gold saved to be able to choose to raise them.
19. Some common traits I've found that you can give your slaves (I believe these increase brothel profits):
Masochist: Just punish her a lot (You won't get a warning in the scene description like usual if they acquire it)
Effect: Reduces penalty from punishment, causes lewdness to grow from it.
Likes it rough: Just do a lot of rape, I usually choose anal, dunno if it helps
Effect: Lower penalty from rape actions
Deviant: Make her orgasm from stuff like anilingus, she'll probably need to be extremely aroused first
Effect: Sex actions are easier to unlock, no penalty for degrading stuff.
Pervert: Make her orgasm from stuff like anilingus, she'll probably need to be extremely aroused first
Effect: Sex actions are easier to unlock, no penalty for fetish stuff.
Money Making Guide:
1. Trying to capture fairy girls and dryads from the Far Eerie Woods can be highly profitable. Monster Girls usually make for bad sex slaves without tons of training (Can't prostitute them initially), but can sell pretty well to slavers (100-250 gold a piece if they aren't ugly, since they often start with a lot of skills). You can dodge all fights there until you find a "lone fairy" or monster girl for a higher yield. Because you're only fighting one enemy at a time and they're pretty weak (You can probably solo them at level 3-4, especially with heal), you'll also take very little damage/stamina loss so it can be repeated quite a bit every day if you don't mind grinding. You seem to use less stamina the more member in your party, so it's recommended to have a full party for this.
This is probably the easiest way to make money early on. Some other areas have rare girls like this as well, but they don't seem as likely to be attractive/profitable as fairies and dryads are. - Monster girls have apparently been buffed in 0.3.39, so this may be more difficult than before.
2. Next up is the obvious prostitution. Girls can fight a bit every day (Don't go under 50 stamina or so or they'll be forced to rest), and still prostitute themselves, so it's just easy passive money. You need some combination of Endurance, Body Control, Sexual Proficiency and sex skills (They actually need to be unlocked, from the unlock menu, just because you can have vaginal/anal sex with the girl, it doesn't mean it's unlocked.) it appears to start getting max wages and making more money. Max wage even for average girls is around 50, and it can quickly go up to 80+ a night. This is pretty reliable income that will offset your food costs.
Escort is the next step up and takes quite a lot of skills over normal prostitution (Allure added). At this point you might want to buy beauty consumables from the market for your girls or start finding more attractive girls to increase profit. It takes too long to gain new skill points once your girls reach the escort job, so higher beauty/attractiveness will become more helpful at this point if you're working with mostly average girls. Getting average or below girls over 100 gold reliably a night is very difficult.
3. Selling girl fluids in the marketplace. At first I thought this was terrible because it wastes all your stamina, but then I discovered some girls give essence just from kissing, so the tradeoff isn't always terrible. It is seemingly random though, so this is more of something to do on the side than a get rich quick scheme.
Rare Monster Locations:
Marsh: Demon, Halfkin Wolf Girl, Slime Girl, Arachnid, Lamia
Mountain Ridge: Harpy, Seraphs and Gnomes from Wandering Traveller encounters
Sea: Lamia, Nereid, Scylla, All types of rare monster girls from Bandit Camps
Far Eerie Woods: Dryad, Fairy
2. Don't do the main quest immediately, it will cost a lot of money even if you capture the girl yourself (To train and feed her) and I don't think it rewards any money in return. When you're just starting off, that can put you in a hole that's nearly impossible to get out of. - Apparently this was fixed in version 0.3.39
3. Go to the brothel and pick up the hungry girl right away. If you don't the resource/training juggling will likely be too difficult to manage. She's almost necessary to avoid the early game pit you can dig yourself into.
4. Don't chase fleeing enemies, it costs your ally a lot of stamina and you'll probably fail to catch them until your agility is high. You'll actually probably be able to save enough stamina to fight another round of enemies if you just let them escape and complete the first fight, and that means another guaranteed girl and exp. Chasing girls is a fast way to draining your ally of their stamina and then they'll be unable to work at night.
5. Also make sure to check the stats of a girl before you jail/sell/avoid them by hovering over their name after the battle. Girls without starting skills or super attractiveness will likely just drain your resources and are not worth training.
6. As mentioned above with training, don't bother trying to be nice to girls. Just alternate raping and punishing them in jail to raise their affection and obedience. Just make sure you don't over stress them. - Apparently praising and gift have been buffed in version 0.3.39, so hopefully they're more viable now.
7. Make sure you don't release girls from jail that still say "This girl hasn't adjusted to her new slave life yet" when you check their mind with the spell. Even if she seems obedient and willing, she'll probably still bail. You also get a message when the girl can safely be released from jail if you don't have the spell yet (I think). Some rare girls can take an extremely long time to lose this trait, a quick way to avoid it is to get them pregnant. They seem to automatically lose their unwilling spirit and gain some affection towards you, enough that you can release them into your normal living areas.
8. The clothes a girl wear heavily affect things and you'll probably be alternating them a lot.
Sundress = Reduces stress
Maid Uniform - Makes her more obedient
Kimono = Improves her behavior (Obedience?)
Ninja Suit = Improves confidence
Pet Suit = Improves obedience
Miko Outfit = Helps her calm down (Reduces stress?)
Chainmail = Nothing?
Bedlah and no underwear = Makes her more lewd
Fancy underwear = Dunno
9. The brothel jobs unlock by simply giving the brothel matron an elf, you can find them somewhat commonly in the forest. This is worth doing right away as you'll almost instantly be getting double the shop job money even if she has her profits cut in half from lack of skills. This is how you actually start making money instead of scraping by early on.
10. Avoid the hunting job, stick with gathering food or working at the shop/whoring, then buying food yourself. The hunting job is way too unreliable early on.
11. Don't sell girls immediately after combat if you have room in your jail. For some reason you get less money doing that than if you send them to your jail first, then bring them to the auction. No idea if it's intended, but early on that money difference can be pretty massive.
12. There is no penalty from fleeing to your mansion from fights, aside from being forced to click a bunch of buttons over and over and over again. Use this knowledge to avoid less than ideal groups of enemies. Leaving fights however might drain a random party member's stamina apparently. Humanoid enemies will usually be better than fighting wolves for profit since you can end up with slaves to sell for example, I think they have a higher chance of dropping money too. Monsters like wolves and plants are usually a bit better for exp since they usually go down quicker/use less stamina. Also avoid slavers, and non "small groups" of bandits early on.
13. Try to avoid having more than one girl "in training" early on. If a girl isn't making you money/food/cleaning, she's just draining your food supply. You should be prepared for any new girl you catch to be a money sink for at least a week, even after she exits jail, she probably won't be willing to work for multiple days. Early on going too fast/heavy trying to train multiple girls at once will bankrupt you.
14. Emily may be forced to leave you at some point, or depending on your relationship with her or stats, you may be offered the chance to replace her with her sister, or just keep her. If she's forced to leave, I think offering them supplies when they leave gives you the chance of her returning? Thankfully I managed to get her back doing that anyways. My first run I just had the option to keep her and she never left in the first place. I don't know what happens if you try to replace her with her sister.
15. Combat is generally the fastest way to level up. All girls need levels to prosper in their jobs, so you'll probably be shifting your combat team around a lot and fighting most days. Remember not to chase fleeing enemies and you can often take 5-8 fights a day before worrying about your girls' stamina being too low to work. This is usually a level or so a day even with a 4 man party if you take good fights. Remember that the stronger your party is in combat, the less stamina you'll use to complete a fight, which means more fights a day. This means focusing on raising a combat/strength/agility heavy party initially can make leveling up your other girls a breeze.
16. You seem to need roughly Novice in Sexual Proficiency, Body Control and an 2 Endurance to start getting full wages from prostitution + enough unlocked sex skills (Petting, Blowjob/Oral, Vaginal, Anal, maybe Toys are needed). It's worth it, as you'll likely be making 50 bucks a day even if she's only average attractiveness. There may be different combinations possible to reach it sooner, but that's when I first noticed one of my girls getting max wages. My other girl is missing Body Control but otherwise has similar stats/unlocks and she's still getting half wages.
17. Don't neglect magic, it's hella useful and lets you bypass a lot of the daily limitations of the game. Heal and Shackle are the first spells you want to buy. Heal allows you to mass heal your party outside of combat which can be useful when healing multiple party members in combat is too risky. Shackle also lets you capture multiple girls easily without stamina loss. Sedation can save your girls from stress, Fear can raise a girl's obedience without using your stamina, and Mind Reading can check the traits of girls before you sell or jail them. Domination is apparently a riskier skill and quite costly, but it massively improves obedience and loyalty. I've never had it fail or cause damage to the girl like it says can happen, but you should be careful of that.
Don't forget to train some of your allies with Shackle and Heal as well, the cooldown is too long if only you have them.
18. One of the easiest ways to get a high quality slave earlier than normal is to trap beautiful fairies and dryads (Much more common than the common races), and rape them until they become pregnant. Although you can eventually train the uncivilized perk away, it takes nearly completing the main quest, and quite a bit of time to fix them even once you have the ability to. You can get a high quality fairy or dryad preggers in less than a week and have a civilized child by them before you would have been able to fix the trait of the mother. Just make sure you have at least 500 gold saved to be able to choose to raise them.
19. Some common traits I've found that you can give your slaves (I believe these increase brothel profits):
Masochist: Just punish her a lot (You won't get a warning in the scene description like usual if they acquire it)
Effect: Reduces penalty from punishment, causes lewdness to grow from it.
Likes it rough: Just do a lot of rape, I usually choose anal, dunno if it helps
Effect: Lower penalty from rape actions
Deviant: Make her orgasm from stuff like anilingus, she'll probably need to be extremely aroused first
Effect: Sex actions are easier to unlock, no penalty for degrading stuff.
Pervert: Make her orgasm from stuff like anilingus, she'll probably need to be extremely aroused first
Effect: Sex actions are easier to unlock, no penalty for fetish stuff.
Money Making Guide:
1. Trying to capture fairy girls and dryads from the Far Eerie Woods can be highly profitable. Monster Girls usually make for bad sex slaves without tons of training (Can't prostitute them initially), but can sell pretty well to slavers (100-250 gold a piece if they aren't ugly, since they often start with a lot of skills). You can dodge all fights there until you find a "lone fairy" or monster girl for a higher yield. Because you're only fighting one enemy at a time and they're pretty weak (You can probably solo them at level 3-4, especially with heal), you'll also take very little damage/stamina loss so it can be repeated quite a bit every day if you don't mind grinding. You seem to use less stamina the more member in your party, so it's recommended to have a full party for this.
This is probably the easiest way to make money early on. Some other areas have rare girls like this as well, but they don't seem as likely to be attractive/profitable as fairies and dryads are. - Monster girls have apparently been buffed in 0.3.39, so this may be more difficult than before.
2. Next up is the obvious prostitution. Girls can fight a bit every day (Don't go under 50 stamina or so or they'll be forced to rest), and still prostitute themselves, so it's just easy passive money. You need some combination of Endurance, Body Control, Sexual Proficiency and sex skills (They actually need to be unlocked, from the unlock menu, just because you can have vaginal/anal sex with the girl, it doesn't mean it's unlocked.) it appears to start getting max wages and making more money. Max wage even for average girls is around 50, and it can quickly go up to 80+ a night. This is pretty reliable income that will offset your food costs.
Escort is the next step up and takes quite a lot of skills over normal prostitution (Allure added). At this point you might want to buy beauty consumables from the market for your girls or start finding more attractive girls to increase profit. It takes too long to gain new skill points once your girls reach the escort job, so higher beauty/attractiveness will become more helpful at this point if you're working with mostly average girls. Getting average or below girls over 100 gold reliably a night is very difficult.
3. Selling girl fluids in the marketplace. At first I thought this was terrible because it wastes all your stamina, but then I discovered some girls give essence just from kissing, so the tradeoff isn't always terrible. It is seemingly random though, so this is more of something to do on the side than a get rich quick scheme.
Rare Monster Locations:
Marsh: Demon, Halfkin Wolf Girl, Slime Girl, Arachnid, Lamia
Mountain Ridge: Harpy, Seraphs and Gnomes from Wandering Traveller encounters
Sea: Lamia, Nereid, Scylla, All types of rare monster girls from Bandit Camps
Far Eerie Woods: Dryad, Fairy
Some bugs too: Game keeps trying to change my girl's hair to ponytails as well. Not sure what's up with that.
I know it seems like a lot of complaints but it's just because I've enjoyed this so far and see a lot of potential. I also wouldn't mind if entering the jail had a button at the bottom of the screen since you do it so often. That and running from a fight not sending you back to your mansion immediately... Though those are more minor/repetition issues. I've acquired quite a collection of portraits for various girl types as well...lol
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). A list of all the traits would be great.