About Glassix new AI

Hi everybody

I'll start by apologizing for the quality of this new version. I was a bit rushed by the time when I released it and the release post was quite short. I didn't want to detail my personal situation in the release post because some players repost new versions of my game on porn forums with a simple copy/paste of my release post so I'd rather avoid giving too much information on those posts. I'd also like to thank you all for all the feedback you sent. There is a lot of information to process and I'm afraid I don't have enough time to answer to all of you individually so I'm using this post to sum up all your feedback.

Now that I have more time, I'd like to clarify my situation with you. Again, I have no problems, only happy events. The day of the release, I actually finished working on it at 2AM with 2 hours sleep to get up a 4AM to prepare the post then go on a 11 hours trip for my brother's wedding and I just came back yesterday. Maybe it was a bad idea to release the game when I knew I'd be too busy the following days to correct bugs but since many of you wanted a try even with bugs, I gave it a shot. For June, I'll have a similar situation because my sister is getting married at the end of the month which will require another lengthy car trip so I'll try to organize myself better this time, even though the v0.14 content will be much less problematic than v0.13.

Now let's get back to business 

First, I'd like to quickly explain how the AI currently works.

The AI basically picks destinations based on a schedule and will calculate how much time girls will stay there. The AI will simulate all destinations walked by a girl if a lot of time is skipped at once. For example, if you play during the morning at 7AM and skip 9 hours, it'll be 4PM when you finish waiting. The game will simulate 9 hours of play time for all met girls which can take its toll on the game. Obviously when skipping a lot of time at once, not ALL of the skipped schedule should be simulated but only up to a point. I added 2 parameters in the config.xml file to allow me to tweak this. First, the <speedtime> tag determines the time in minutes until when the game will just fast skip the schedule. Currently set to 120min, it means if you skip 2hours or more, the game will not calculate everything. The <speedrollback> tag determines how much roll back the game should calculate if the skip time has been enabled. Currently set to 30min, it means that it'll only simulate 30 minutes of the schedule before the skipped time. If its was 7AM and you skipped 9 hours, the game will now only calculate the girls schedule from 3PM30 until 4PM. By tweaking those 2 parameters, it's possible to reduce the lag in game if necessary. I also added some parameters to choose the bladder, hunger and dirtiness max value as well as the time spent for the related actions. Some of you said girls didn't go to toilets enough time per day so tweaking those values should solve the problem. I'll wait for more feedback to confirm this part.

Next, I read all your feedbacks and started to correct the issues. Here is a kind of FAQ prepared with most of your feedbacks in mind.

• Some events have no images

This bug contains different issues. All girls can go to toilets/bathroom but out of the 29 available, only 12 of them have the images ready. The other possible reason would be that I forgot to prepare the images for the related outfit. For example, before the AI, Naomi was never supposed to go pee during her work, however it can now happen. I'll have to add those images asap. So if you have missing images for any of the 12 finished girls, please report me the event and outfit which was supposed to be displayed so I can add them asap. If it's about the other 17 girls, you'll have to wait new polls to vote for new girls to be finished. Currently, CarpeNoctem is working on Hanae (the nurse) and Shizuru (the cop).

• Are swimsuit available in game yet ?

No. The only swimsuits for the moment are for the 3 new lifeguards but their daily images are not done at all. Swimsuits will be added in another version.

• Girls outfits in events do not match their current outfit

I'm investigating this issue but since it's not game breaking, I'll deal with it once the more urgent bugs are solved. But it should be simply solved with a proper tweak to their new schedules.

• Girls outfits are completely wrong in some situations (like Saiko being at school in a bath towel)

I'm investigating the issue. It shouldn't happen obviously and the bug must be due to the way I handle the change in outfits in the schedule.

• Girls are busy when working making it harder to get points

True, I disabled this annoyance. I wanted to make it more real, preventing the player from annoying them during work most of the time but it brings more annoyance as a result so I'll just remove this part to make the game easier. 

• The game is quite slow now

This is an issue I'm working on. This is mainly due to errors in pathfinding so the more feedback and debug log I get, the faster I'll be able to correct those and reduce the lag time. There's also a lot I can improve code-wise but it'll take me some time to add those.

• How to send bug report ?

To help me debug, the best way would be to send me the save file containing the bug and the debug log located in the game folder by email. The debug log is cleared each time you launch the game to reduce its size so be sure to send me the debug log once you finished playing. You can send the files to contact@gaweb-studio.com

• The game is getting too big

Another issue with a simple solution. The images in the scenes are actually bigger than the game dimensions. I'm planning to scale down all images to match the dimension of the game which should greatly reduce the weight of the game. I'll also crop all transparent images to gain space since a lot of images have a lot of useless transparency. I'll need some time to deal with that properly but you can expect the size of the game to be reduced in the future.

• Only one girl can follow

Yes, it's normal. I'll have to add a scroll when more than 5 girls are in the same rooms before allowing several girls to follow.

• Only 3 girls show up when more are present in the same room

I'm investigating the issue but I'm planning to add an horizontal scroll when more than 5 girls are in the same room to allow unlimited amount of girts in the same room.

• Girl sometimes have both the follow/stop follow options

It should be solved in next patch.

• Save files from 0.12 trigger weird bugs

I'll look into it but normally, they should be compatible without troubles. Only the AI itself has issues, v0.12 or not.

• Girls don't go to toilets/bath on time

To go to toilets/bath/eat, girls require 2 conditions : be at 100% in the related parameter and then be in roaming mode. Depending on their schedule, they might not be allowed to roam such as students and will need to wait after their work to go to the related room. You can see if a girl is allowed to roam by checking their status page and see if "Roaming" is indicated in their schedule.

• Girls move too fast

It's normal. With this new AI, the way you play game is changing. You have all the information in the girls status page for when you need to catch a girl. You won't be faster than her so you'll instead have to check her destination to reach her there. A player suggested added the possibility to give them a phone call to have them follow you which is actually a good idea and should solve those races bug. (Thanks MrYoyo)

• The teleport cheat is not working

Yes, I made a blunder in the code and the teleport cheat was only available in dev mode. It'll be corrected in next patch.

There are a lot of other things reported by players not indicated here but be sure I noted all of them and will do my best to correct them asap.

A last word on this new AI feature. I know most of you might not really care about it or find it troublesome. This new AI DOES CHANGE the way the game is played. But this new way of playing the game is intended to bring more life to the game. There are still a lot of bugs with the AI but once it's corrected and the girls schedules are properly updated, it should bring less issue in the girls daily patterns and overall give more fun to the game. Events will need to be adapted to work with this new way of playing, not being limited to static time like before which should give more freshness to the game.

That should be all for the moment. Thank you all for your feedback and support !