Shady Deals v0.11 Progress Report

Wassup!

v0.11 is a purely content update. Shocking, right? It adds just one entirely new thing: the Yacht.

The Yacht is a late-game acquisition, available only after the player captures the harbor. It has its own cargo space and unlocks two new positions: yacht trader and yacht dampers. Yacht dampers work like regular dampers - just much cheaper.

The main feature, though, is the yacht trader. Once you assign one, they'll start selling your shipments to passing sailors - basically for double the price you'd get from the Distributor. This happens daily, and the amount sold is random.

I’ve been thinking about adding some kind of demand fluctuation mechanic, and I’m still considering it - probably later. But for now, the Yacht is the most profitable biz in the game.

But why, if it’s only available in the very late-game? Well... right now is just for numbers.
But starting from the next update(s), i plan to introduce heists required to finish the game - and the Yacht will be necessary to access them.

Also-also, that’s not all. I’m planning to make the Yacht an op platform to meet new, very rich NPCs - by throwing parties or something like that. Still designing it. Won't be included in v0.11, yeah.

Of course, there’ll be a possibility to fuck the yacht trader - just for the sake of "why not".

I did slightly redesign the conditions for getting extra attention from the crew, though, to keep at least a grain of logic behind their actions: now, the Boss actually has to allow crew members to be lewd around her. Only the "Crime Legend" Boss can grant that permission, while "Slut Boss" has this perk by default.

Random commentary about the Boss’s traits will still happen regardless, this toggle applies only to the new stuff I’m adding - otherwise it felt too out-of-nowhere and forced.

Speaking of which - there’ll be commentary from nightclub goers during the striptease shows in the Boss’s club. Some of it might even come from her accomplices, with potential to escalate further. Well… at least, that’s the plan. I haven’t written it yet.

What else have I done besides the Yacht?

Well, I investigated why the EndDay passage lags so much. It was obvious from beginning that the issue is with autosave. I spent some time trying to optimize the saving process... and nope. Me iz too stupid for that. Honestly, it took way too much time for something that didn’t work out.

But hey - if you can't fix it, make a workaround. So, starting from v0.11, you’ll be able to set your own autosave interval to whatever feels right for you.

I also did some work on stuff that’s not really important to the end-user - but I’ll write about it anyway.

Starting from v0.11, the game will now save all gameData when saving, and properly load it when loading a save. This should preventively fix a bunch of weird issues that can happen when loading old saves on a newer version. Some browsers, FOR SOME REASON, don’t save gameData at all - and that breaks time tracking and every time-related widget in the game.

Another thing: while debugging the gameData issues, I changed my locale and time zone in Windows. Apparently, if you load a save after changing your time zone - the game shifts time accordingly. So if you saved the game at 08:00 in UTC+3, and then load it in UTC+5, the save will load as 10:00, lmao.

It’s very unlikely this would break anything for anyone, i mean, how often do you change time zones... but still, for the sake of robustness, I’ve now tied all time-related stuff to a singular time zone internally.

Okay, important stuff - what’s left before the update release?

Mostly writing event content and searching/cutting media. Aside from the things I already mentioned, I also want to:

• expand the streaming and gloryhole content,

• check one more bug report,

• update the UI of "the Code",

• put more stuff behind the "allow the lewd actions" to justify addition of this check,

• and rework the taxmen math.

Honestly, media search is the most tiresome part for me - everything else should be quick and easy.