DevLog 11-16-2024: Ok gather 'round


Since it's release, I've been inundated with comments. All of these bring up some good points and I want to go over them...

Someone pointed out that Cadance is more or less completely useless. "Big woop, she's a healer with a damage thingy that is redundant, I just spam celestia's ability." Well, with that in mind, perhaps some class changes are in order:

-I'm going to increase the cost of Celestia's AOE ability, and remove her heal ability

-Cadance is going to get a lesser all-party heal. 

I've also been notified that Celestia is the only one with the "give up" ability. I'm going to be honest, it is completely vestigial given that you can get a free surrendering item from the Flim and Flam vending machine (the only free item they give you. Bastards.) Another pointed out that charging for healing is 'annoying' (or cringe, I forget which.) But I'd like to point out that this is the greedy, fickle, and arrogant nature of the Flim and Flam brothers: even though they hate you, they still nickel and dime you. Think of it like the Pay toilets from Bioshock. (which was a real thing, btw.) 

For example, a VERY rare item might be able to give the player the ability to fry the machine and force it to give out free healing (like those healing stations in bioshock.) In the changeling level there could be some restorative changeling slime lying around, and of course the vampire level... do I really need to explain that one?

Now, someone brought up there should be a unique drone gameover... I agree! You see, I had initially planned to have a special playable drone gameover where the player, playing a party of the droned princesses, would abduct some mares in the last standing free pony town. But I felt as though there was no time to do so. But now that it's out the door, I can seriously consider doing that.

Speaking of drones, I still have yet to find a way to make drone content easier to come by. If only there was a way to test whether a candidate can be droned, like if there was a way to check HP and OH HELLO, WHAT'S THIS?

That's right, while I was poking around I found this plugin that I thought didn't work (hence why it wasn't seen used) but then I clicked on it to see it in the menu and what do you know? There's settings! So now it's a simple matter of simply setting it so that the hypnogear gets applied when both a princess is naked/hypno'd AND below an HP threshold! Magnificent!  HAHA DISREGARD ALL THAT! THE PLUGIN DOESN'T WORK EITHER! It's the Placeholder States plugin all over again. 

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uhh, everything you say here sounds very promising, I hope we can see the new update with the changeling and everything else very soon

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I was going to start on the mansion first. I'm still not sure on how the changeling one would work.

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whatever you decide it's going to be good anyway