My biggest gripe is the ship sharp limit on shipmate quantity.
I have not played since it was introduced since I am waiting for this to be scaled back.
I don't want to dismiss most of my followers, and I don't want to start grinding like crazy to buy a bigger ship
My biggest gripe is the ship sharp limit on shipmate quantity.
I have not played since it was introduced since I am waiting for this to be scaled back.
I don't want to dismiss most of my followers, and I don't want to start grinding like crazy to buy a bigger ship
Have you stolen the Sidewinder from Zheng Shi? It's a significant upgrade over any other ship currently in the game, and is free.
Also, the Blackjack table with the Robot dealer allows custom bets, which means you can double your money each win. It's also easy to save-scum. Money is no longer an obstacle.
I also dislike he crew limit option, but if there's a cheat then there's no harm. How do you use the cheat codes btw? Do yo have to mess with the files or something?
I also dislike he crew limit option, but if there's a cheat then there's no harm. How do you use the cheat codes btw? Do yo have to mess with the files or something?
Basically the stuff used for Liliana's arm is coming at a discounted price because the company is doing charity work in a warzone, so a tax write off.
You pay way more for Paige's eyes because she's a private patient and you're paying for the procedure rather than the deductible on Myrellion.
A gripe: Getting a natural tail-cock through careful use of Tentatool, but having all the scenes that use it still acting like it was the result of a cockvine parasite.
Does it matter, it's a valid criticism. I get that Fenexo is into that but you have to admit, it does get a little off putting especially if your not into it
That's not the only herm/futa, I can name several. Syri, Sera (the demon shop owner), Nevrie, practically every vendor, and hell, an entire race that females are Hermaphrodites.
Whenever this conversation happens, I see the claim get repeated that dickgirls are the main draw for the game. While they are a major component, I think it's important to recognize that that's not the only reason people get drawn to this game. For some, it's just the sci-fi part. For others, it's just the customizability of your character. I personally found the game purely because of the furry aspect. Lucky for me, I find the dickgirls very hot as well, but it's more than likely for someone to find this game for other reasons, stay because there aren't any other games that offer those features in a smut game, and then get annoyed and frustrated by the existence of a significant number of characters with a body type they don't personally find hot.
For the sake of this we'll just refer to dickgirls/herms as 'Girls With Dicks' here. I'm responding to this because I don't think it honest critique.
Of thirty-three (33) NPCs on Tavros, only six (6) of them are Girls With Dicks. Alex is a maleherm, and doesn't count for the purpose of your critique. Aliss is also an Ovir Male, but because of her species' quirks, is presented entirely as a futa. So, technically, the number could be 5 depending on how you viewed the character.
But we'll go forward like this. Six futas from the game's starting location.
Vahn
Celise
Saendra
Sellesy
Shelly
Alex (MALEHERM)
Ramis
Fisianna
Kimber
Fadil
Zil Call Girl/ Zheniya
Kat
Jade
Gil
Aliss (OVIR MALE)
Inessa
Ceria
Lerris
Stella
Riya (FUTA)
Velta
Semith
Aina
Bizzy
Paige
Miranda
Ilaria (FUTA)
Liamme
Akane
Reaha
Terensha (FUTA)
Azra (FUTA)
Sera (FUTA)
Our tally so far is Six Futas.
Of thirty-three (33) NPCs/Enemies on Mhen'ga, only six (6) are Girls With Dicks. Some characters are not listed for brevity, because they are unsexable. Penny nor Flahne count for this, because that is optional. Moving on.
Able
Burt
Amber (FUTA)
Erika (FUTA)
Erra
Flahne
Kase
Kelly (FUTA)
Mica
Penny
Prai Ellit
Quinn
RK Lah
Syri (FUTA)
Tetra
Thyvara
V-KO
Yoma
Gryvain Agent (FUTA)
Kerokoras
Johr
Naleen Brothers/Female/Male/Mating Ball
Naleen (FUTA)
Pump-king
Venus Pitchers
Vanae Maiden
Vanae Huntress
Kane
Nine-tailed Zil
Zil Bull
Zil Female
Zil Male (ETC)
Bianca
Tally is twelve (12) Girls with Dicks so far out of sixty-six(66) possible detailed encounters.
Looking at Tarkus, we see that there are thirty-five (35) characters and enemies, and of this there are four (4) Girls With Dicks! Del is a boy, and like Penny... his futafication is entirely optional.
Nessa
Shekka
Anno
Kaede (FUTA; she's part of Anno's stuff, so she begins here technically)
Beth Carver
Delilah
Edan
Verusha (FUTA)
Dr. Badger (FUTA)
Gray Goo Armor (Nova)
Lane
Bess/Ben
Una
Petr
Godi
Chaurmine
Zea
ENEMIES/QUESTS:
Raskvel Gang
Raskvel Fem
Raskvel Mom
Lumi
Gabilani Vactioners
Sand Worms
Sydian Male
Sydian Fem
Sydian Matriarch
Lapinara (FUNCTIONALLY REMOVED, no longer counts!)
Gray Goo
Double-Goo
Sex Bots
Nym-Foe
Khorgan
Kaska (FUTA)
Tam-Tam
Mitzi
The tally is now sixteen (16) Girls With Dicks out of one-hundred and one (101) encounters.
On our way to Myrellion, we start to run into some BUGS. And bugs typically have ovipositors, so for the sake of this, we'll say that all sexable bugs with non-optional ovi's are Girls With Dicks. Out of a whopping forty-seven (47) encounters we have eleven (11) Girls With Dicks. And depending on how you view some of them (i.e the Engineer), that number can go down. But she has a sex scene for bribery IIRC, so she stays.
Juro
Lyralla
Nehzara
Ara Kei
Shade
Embry (FUTA, to start. Can be changed to Non-futa)
Liliana
Nevrie (FUTA)
Byron McAllister
Emmy (FUTA)
Liriel (FUTA)
Yarasta
Giala
Vi Droid
Xanthe
Gene
The Seer
Asennia
Dally
Queen Irellia
Renvra (FUTA - Only uses her ovipositor)
Lieve
Mayren
Sierva
Merchant Queen
Anarrie
Shiare
Matron Oserre
Sellera
Anzhela
Lys
Briha
ENEMIES/QUESTS:
Taivra (FUTA, technically)
Nyrean Princess (FUTA, technically)
Goo Incubator
Cockvines
Intelligence Officer
Nyrean Huntresses (FUTA technically)
Ganrael/Ganraen
Infected Myrs
Bothrioc (SEXLESS- Does not count)
Queen of the Deep (Has an ovipositor, but otherwise female and futa isn't enforced - Doesn't Count)
Wetraxxel
Kara (FUTA)
Amara (FUTA - She'll be sexable in due time)
Dr. Khan
Lapinara Engineer (FUTA)
Our tally is now one-hundred forty-eight (148) encounters with only twenty-seven (27) Girls With Dicks.
Here we be on Zheng Shi! Of thirty-six (36) possible encounters on pirate-base, only eight (8) of them are Girls With Dicks. Yes, I included my Jumper Waifu Leila in this count, because she's getting closer to implementation-worthy, and this year will include a Rat's Raiders expansion.
Urbolg
Tivf
Bored Jumpers (FUTA!)
Roz
Overseer Maike (Sire of her race, technically a FUTA)
Rat's Raiders (6 NPCs)
Sec.Op Male
Sec.Op Female
Forgehound
Agrosh the Forgemaster
Slyveren Slavebreakers
Ardia (FUTA)
Olympia (FUTA)
Teyaal (FUTA)
Roo
Dane
Cherry
LDC
Shock Hopper (FUTA)
Lorelei
Vulriks
Corona Lorde Flamepup
Cherry's Wall Sluts --
Fanfir
Dual Raskvel
Gabilani
Taur (FUTA)
Walnut & Chestnut
Rodenian Boy
The tally sits at a beefy one-hundred eighty-four (184) encounters of which only thirty-five (35) are Girls With Dicks. This covers all of the main story destinations as of now.
New Texas next. Planet of underfocused and oversexed happytimes. Out of twenty-eight (28) sexable NPCs, only four (4) of them are Girls With Dicks.
Ogram
Amma
Ellie
Herman
Zephyr (FUTA)
Big T
Yammi
Carrie
Cora
Millie
Yancy
Gianna (Optional futa, does not count)
Brynn
Haley (FUTA)
Cameron
Canada
Lola
Simone
Mirrin (FUTA)
Busky
Horisha
Peck
Brandy
Betsy
Victoria (FUTA)
James
Sally
Ciaran
I can list all of the side-planets but since this has gone on long enough...
Canadia, Gastigoth, and Breedwell, and Kiro, I'll just give you the final tally from NPCs, Enemies, and Quest stuff. Not adding Poe A because it's purely an event that changes your character in varying, huge ways.
Two-hundred thirty-six (236) sexable encounters, and out of all these, only forty-eight (48) are Girls With Dicks). And that final futa number is also including yet one more Futa I will add to the game (Reina), whom will have a Purefem option available to manly PCs. So it can go down.
Edit:
Forgot Korg'ii Hold. Slipped my mind , whoopsie~
And KiroQuest, that can be lumped in here to raise the numbers even further, but the overwhelming ratio against Girls With Dicks still stands - and, it's very much assumed that if you weren't into Futas, you'd never go on KiroQuest to begin with. So should that be counted? Up to you to decide.
All I wanted to do was point out that there is a richly detailed plethora of content in this game that has nothing to do with futa/herm content.
@William. You listed both Erra and Kase under both Tavros and Mhen'ga, and listed Saendra as (FUTA) despite starting as female and only getting a dick if Steele deliberately pushes for it. However, this still leaves 'chicks with dicks' as less than 25% of all sexable encounters. (You also forgot to put (FUTA) next to Kaska, even though the numbers suggest you (correctly) counted her in the total.)
Still, that got me thinking about the number of sexable masculine characters in-game, since the game seems to focus more on feminine characters. I count ~66 (including Uvetans), with up to three more depending on the player's choice of sexes for the rival, Lane and Bess/Ben. To my surprise (and no doubt that of many others), that's actually more than the number of girls with dicks (60: the above 48, plus 12 more from Uveto and KiroQuest).
@William. You listed both Erra and Kase under both Tavros and Mhen'ga, and listed Saendra as (FUTA) despite starting as female and only getting a dick if Steele deliberately pushes for it. However, this still leaves 'chicks with dicks' as less than 25% of all sexable encounters. (You also forgot to put (FUTA) next to Kaska, even though the numbers suggest you (correctly) counted her in the total.)
Still, that got me thinking about the number of sexable masculine characters in-game, since the game seems to focus more on feminine characters. I count ~66 (including Uvetans), with up to three more depending on the player's choice of sexes for the rival, Lane and Bess/Ben. To my surprise (and no doubt that of many others), that's actually more than the number of girls with dicks (61: the above 49, plus 12 more from Uveto and KiroQuest).
If we're going to talk numbers, what would word count look like? How much actual content is there for Penny, Emmata and Sera as compared to Tanis, Ciaran and Vahn? I could write a stick figure male combatant and then write a fully realised futa character with two separate arcs, each with compartmentalised suites of sex scenes... which is in fact what I have done. Each counts as 1 in the tally. There's a reason why players come away with the impression that futa are the main draw of TiTS: the writers like them, they lavish attention on them, and pay lip service to the idea it's for anyone who doesn't like them.
It's fine. Like null_blank says, it's peanut butter for folks who like peanut butter. I suppose the larger problem is that, like CoC before it, TiTS presents the idea of providing for all fetishes, and not really doing that once you get into it. Most porn games are more up front about what they're giving you. TiTS appears to have 5 in every category, when what it really has is 2 in most and 12 in one.
I think the other word on this subject would have to be that outside of CoC and its derivatives it's a much rarer fixture - so these games are something of a bastion for those who're into feminine characters with dicks. Attempts to dictate what sort of content -should- be in them (especially if, as it usually turns out, they're pushing male-dominant vanilla hetero sex) come off as an annoying and entitled buzz from those who're upset at the ~10% of porn games that aren't made with them in mind.
Does it matter, it's a valid criticism. I get that Fenexo is into that but you have to admit, it does get a little off putting especially if your not into it
You do realise that its not just Fen who writes characters, right?
People who contribute to this game often do so with content they want to see. So that might be female characters with dicks. It might not. But the point is that they are catering to their tastes, not to yours, not to anyone else. Theirs.
And look, I get it. I'm not the biggest fan of that kind of content. It turns characters that I would have loved into characters that I just like.
But here's the thing. When you play, no one is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to sex up a female character who just happens to have a dick. They aren't to your tastes? That's fine, but there will be something you can enjoy. You have your fun and let others have theirs.
I like herms, it's actually one of the strong points that draw me to the game and I would like more of them for sure. Still, I understand where the critics come from and even understand it (I kinda had the same problem at first with the furry content) but I think people forget how this game plays with imagination and how easily you can just "turn of" the parts you don't like. You don't like dickgirls? Well just play the pussy scenes and as soon as you read something about her dick just move to the next parrafraph.
An end to this Insanity, so clearly in view. Or, is it merely a trick of the light?
You'd think people would just agree to disagree at some point. If they believe there are to many guys with tits, so be it. You can't argue opinion and it's exhausting to try. There will always be conflicting opinions. IE Those who don't like the portrayal of relationships be they sub or dom/hetro or homo, how the tone of the story shifts like a coked up meth rabbit, or (personal favorite) the inconsistency of the narrative. By the time you're raw dogging pirate lords are you a hardened rusher or still the baby faced idiot everyone thinks you are. Was mommy a benevolent caregiver or a heartless crone was she even there at all. I'm 90% sure I've heard all three in a single play through.
I understand its the nature of the beast too many chefs in the kitchen and no one's using the same recipe,but fuck man what's the standard.
But I digress could we let people vent in peace without a research paper or a paragraph of moral superiority. End of the day you're all here for the same thing, so beat ya meat flick ya bean or shove it up ya ass. What you do in the privacy of a Starbucks parking lot is your business. Now I return home, claim my birthright, and deliver my family from the ravenous clutching shadows of the Darkest Dungeon.
It keeps coming up because the forum membership isn't static. We get new people every so often, and some of them feel like complaining about a topic that's been brought up before.
Some of Steele's multiple personalities are due to the Kind-Mischievous-Hard scale, but the conflicting bits of Steele's past is kind of weird, since they all have to go through Fenoxo, I'm pretty sure. Then again, this game has been in progress for years. Maybe he changed his mind or forgot. Or doesn't care that much and goes with whatever sounds good.
He tends to lay these things down arbitrarily and in pieces.
For instance a good bit of content assumed that Steele went to school and made casual references to it (and still do even now) but once the nursery was implemented it was established that the nursebot home tutored Steele.
One other minor gripe I have is how piercings barely show up descriptions and don't seem to make much difference. It seems that only tongue, nipples and clit are ever mentioned in scenes. But I can understand the limited mentioning of piercings in scenes (all that coding). What I don't understand is how (apart from the piercings Lund gives you) they aren't even mentioned in your description (accessed through clicking on the portrait icon).
One other minor gripe I have is how piercings barely show up descriptions and don't seem to make much difference. It seems that only tongue, nipples and clit are ever mentioned in scenes. But I can understand the limited mentioning of piercings in scenes (all that coding). What I don't understand is how (apart from the piercings Lund gives you) they aren't even mentioned in your description (accessed through clicking on the portrait icon).
Most of it's great. I'd add the ability to permanently disable / bypass some of the more annoying types of enemies, though. The way the plant ladies on mhen'ga were handled is pretty good, but for example, maybe get some access codes or some other method to bypass the mecha goblins. Tarkus has a pretty severe numbers jump in general; that's not a bad thing, but adding more options to make it surviveable through role-play would be nice.
The ability to not interact with rail-road characters in general would be nice. Mentioned elsewhere, but the entire mika scene-set was initiated by a railroad, lead through a railroad, and ended with a choice that amounted to, "Do you wanna see the sex with these characters" and nothing else. Most of the rest of the game handles these sorts of things very well, so i guess it's just kinda jarring to see it handled so linearly in this regard.