Confused by this game. You can only fight in each area once? After the initial tutorial area battle in the first town, it seems to only be for buying minions? There's an option to buy for 100 each, and some option that takes 300 gold and seems to take one of your minions away.. I'm not seeing a way to battle/collect materials there again. The higher level areas require a TON of minions to fight, and I'm only getting like 200-600 gold a night. Is the game just a grind fest of trying to get enough money to move on to the next material area? This is pretty tragic if so. How lucky you are in the first fight changes things dramatically.
Also some option that brings you back to the inn from town and has a list of prices starting at 500, no idea what that does. How you can only go out to a town once a day is obnoxious too. Been reloading saves to try to test all the options.
Guess it's meant to be pretty light on actual gameplay.
1. Once you get through the tutorial, you unlock your first town.
2. Visit the place once the first time to unlock other places on the next map visit.
3. At the town after tutorial battle, you are supposed to Hire Troops to replenish those you have lost. By troop : gold ratio, the higher the better but there is a variance. Like 8k gold for 20 - 50 axe-pirates. For 'Bandits' in the first town, 5k gold, recommended troop recruitment for that amount is in the 100 something range.
4. Towns have 3 things, 'material market prices', shop items and recruit. Yes, it's annoying that if you visit the shop / recruit it takes up the exploration phase.
5. Inn Service, there are 3 types of 'inn skill levels' and the girls have a favorite skill type and a certain skill level quota that must be reached before they will visit. Furthermore, the more locations you unlock the more girls visit the inn.
6. For ease of gold generated mechanics, there is the big number at the top left in the inn service which will tell you how much gold will be collected at the end of the day. So if the number is 4, it means 400 gold. Unsure how it works but it averages between all 3 of the 'inn skill levels', perhaps having maids or unlocking more locations may affect the level too.
7. You are not supposed to complete it in 1 run. Retry / 'New game+' will keep your troops, gold and materials collected.
However, since a fast game-over usually involves losing all your troops, you be given the tutorial team again along with going through their deaths. If you have less than the default gold, they will give you 5k gold.
Yes, the game is pretty repetitive with what you are meant to do.
Exploration, Inn service, Night Visit, repeat.
At least compared to the developer's previous game Virgin Lode, i got the gist of what to do to get more girls.
Also, the 2nd girl ('thief') will give more materials is a +, though she tends to challenge other girls visiting due to more locations unlocked.
An average run will usually let you get 4-5 maids before an ending around day 58 something? (thats when i got an ending)
