Newlife [v0.8.7] [Splendid Ostrich]

v0.8.7

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new event for the sleazy landlord when you’re living in the pleasant neighborhood.

Minor changes:

• Updated the “asks you to be his girlfriend” npc action in homedate to have a range of possible lines based on your relationship, rather than just using the same basic text every time it happens. I think this is an action that was largely unaltered since Newlife’s first ever version, back when the game lasted 26 weeks and becoming someone’s girlfriend was the furthest a relationship could progress.​
• Added some alternative lesbian-club text for situations where an npc who with the likes_sexy trait comes to be with you after you’ve been acting in a provocative way.​
• Added an option to kick the landlord out when he tries to inspect your flat. This will stop the event reoccuring for some time, but he will raise your rent a bit as revenge.​
• Added a new option for sultry characters to hit on the landlord in a very forward way at the start of the flat inspection, assuming they’re attracted to him.​
• As requested by Sluttycricket, made it easier to win your feud with the office rival by updating various scenes to increase the effect of victories over her.​

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to for reporting some of these.​
• Fixed an issue reported by Helvette and Zab where the rent amounts for your current and new home were not being compared correctly, resulting in text indicating that the more expensive home was actually cheaper.​
• Improved handling of the office rival dominance stat so the minimum value should actually be enforced consistently.​

v0.8.6

Major changes & additions:

• Added game mechanics and scenes to allow the PC to move home. This will be expanded with future updates.

Minor changes:

• Updated every one of the hundreds (bleck) of references to the PC’s “apartment” or “flat” to check for the possibility she lives in a house instead and return the correct text.​
• The neighborhood an NPC lives in is now influenced by their income.​
• As requested by Hippolyta, the jerk friend can now have a TONED body-type. This will be less common for randomly-generated jerks but custom ones can set it.​
• Made some adjustments & additions to the makeout male orgasm text to better handle the “sitting in lap” position. Thanks to Helvette for highlighting some issues here.​
• Changed the process for making the exe file. Please let me know if this leads to issues running it. The jar file is unaffected so this won’t matter for players using the jar to start the game.​

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added getNeighborhood, isLivingInFlat and getFlatOrHouse to the PC object for custom scenes.​
• Added HYPNOTIST to the custom NPC guides: it was allowed for custom NPCs before but wasn’t included in the guides. This trait has very minor effects in the main game, but may be more relevant in some custom scenes. Thanks to Stochastic for flagging up this omission.​

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Stochastic, helvette, StuntCuffer, Abby, JulianR.Amazing and Obort for reporting some of these.​
• Fixed an issue reported by StuntCuffer where the action to go back to side-by-side in the sitting makeout would always succeed even when it was supposed to fail and had text indicating as much.​
• Fixed an issue where failing the back to side-by-side and similar actions would still allow the NPC to initiate anal sex that same turn, even though these sort of actions are supposed to stop sex initiation (and do for PiV) until the following turn.​
• Fixed a “no actions available” bug reported by BannedHeresy in the NPC pregnancy reveal scene.​
• Fixed an issue reported by Anarchyst and Obort where newlines were added between parts of the relationship description even when those parts were blank, which could potentially lead to a relationship description starting with multiple newlines. This led to bad spacing in, most notably, the nightclub “describe characters” section.​
• Fixed a bug reported by AnarChYsT where the action to un-do the “don’t pull out” relationship status available to likes-bare characters was not working.​

v0.8.5

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new event that can happen if you are a housewife to someone with an office job (business, accountancy, civil servant, or certain special event jobs).
• Added a new event where you can ask an unemployed partner to seek work, and a follow-up if they agree to your request.
• Added a bunch of content for the evil hypnotist in existing scenes, including the club, dates, sex and the marriage scene. The goal isn’t to add an entirely new playstyle (which would take up far too much writing time for such a niche route) but rather to add flavour content for characters in these relationships. Therefore, there are still plenty of actions that also don’t have evil-hypno content – don’t expect it everywhere! This content is enabled by the “UNDER_THRALL_OF_EVIL_HYPNO” flag which is set when you finish a hypno session with him without breaking the trance, and removed if you do break the trance in such a session. This was requested by someone and I’d normally thank them here, but I didn’t take notes about who it was – sorry!

Minor changes:

• You can now ask an NPC what they do for a living in the club or at your home. This will give you the information regardless of your current knowledge level. Thanks to Zab for reminding me that this needed to be added!​
• Certain special NPC careers will be automatically known by the PC, and the repairman’s career will be known if you’ve encountered him while he’s working.​
• Added a new RECEDING hairstyle for male NPCs.​
• Added a new “important talk” option suggested by Death Magus for characters with the likes-bare trait. This lets you tell a man that any requests you make for him to pull out or use a condom are just playing and should be refused. When this is set the conditions for such actions will be reduced and your partner will always refuse them without your character being angry at the refusal.​

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Eulexia and Sky Dreamer for reporting some of these.​

v0.8.4

This release adds a new NPC-job-specific event, as well as various minor changes and improvements.

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new event that can happen if you’re in a relationship with someone who works in a bar.
• Added an “All Shops” option when you buy clothing, that will display a combined list of all clothing items from every shop.

Minor changes:

• As requested by cwr0308, added a MILKY trait for female NPCs. This will not be added by the usual character-creation process but can be chosen for custom characters.​
• The mugging scene now has text for when the PC hands over her purse but has no money, and gives her increased stress when this happens (because it makes the mugger angry, and she’s afraid he’s going to hurt her).​
• Made some text improvements to certain responses to the “tell him you’re ready” action while fixing an issue reported by Sync.​
• PCs working in sales can now take Ivy’s charm-increasing treatment more than once, though repeat treatments are only half as effective as the first. Side-effect are not halved.​
• Updated some text on the work-trip scene so wearing a short nightie with no underwear wouldn’t describe the PC as having a “bare lower body”. There’s now an alternative line for that situation.​
• Added some line-breaks to hopefully make NPC descriptions a bit more readable.​
• Added a new repairman career for those NPCs, thanks to Birb for highlighting that one was missing.​
• Updated how the low-self-esteem interaction with bad partner effects works, so that it will take effect every week instead of just weeks when the PC has interacted with them.​
• Low-self-esteem PCs now get a bonus to their maximum love if they have neutral liking towards an NPC. These PCs already got a large bonus towards NPCs they dislike, but this is lost if the relationship improves which can lead to dramatic changes in the relationship. I do like the idea of a low-self-esteem PC falling for a jerk only to lose interest if he doesn’t treat her badly enough, but the effect should be a bit more gradual: going from +25 to +10 instead of +25 to +0. Incidentally, I suspect this is the cause of the reports of excessive love-decay that I’ve seen: the issue looks like might not be love-decay at all but rather the big drop from an improving relationship.​

Changes for user-submitted content:

• It is now possible to set a custom sleazy landlord, as requested by several people, most recently by Darth Magus I think. You can do this by using the SLEAZY_LANDLORD trait on a custom male NPC. This conflicts with other special-NPC roles. The sleazy landlord will be set to be a sleazy jerk(even if you don’t add these values yourself) and will have conflicting traits (charming & traditional) removed.​

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some text issues. Thanks to Zab, Made 2 face black and blue face and Sync for reporting some of these.​
• Fixed a bug reported by Birb where the mugging scene would behave oddly if the PC was utterly skint.​
• Fixed a bug reported by Sameer where the impregnator breeding plot event chain could get have two different men with breeding plots and get confused about which should be chosen for a scene. Now, if the event chain repeats and the man from the previous time is still eligible to be the plotter then he will always be chosen. Otherwise, he’ll have the relevant trait removed so there should only be one plotter at any time in the game.​
• Fixed duplicate job section in the NPC browser, thanks to Birb for reporting this.​
• The braless shopping scene will no longer fire for a man you’ve had sex with, thanks for Sci for reporting this inconsistency with the scene’s text.​

v0.8.3

Major changes & additions:

Added internal functionality for NPC careers, with their job being visible at a sufficient knowledge level.

Added a new scene with a sleazy landlord and your lesbian partner that can happen if you’re unable to pay the rent.

Added a new friendship scene that can happen if you have an innocent female friend and also own the enormous teddy-bear, Mr. Snuggles.

Changes for user-submitted content:

Custom NPCs can now have their career set. NPCs without a set career will have one picked by the usual algorithm, just like with most other values.

Minor changes:

The amount you get from having your partner support you now varies based on their income.

Improved some of the spacing for descriptions in the NPC broswer.

Bugfixes:

Fixed some text issues. Thanks to Zab for reporting some of these.

Fixed an issue where some pregnancy text could incorrectly show at the office party even when the PC is not pregnant.

Fixed an issue reported by Sync where the bar-with-friend scene was sometimes referring to the PC’s lesbian partner as a man.

Fixed an issue reported by Zab where the text in the bf’s jerk friend ladder sex scene was often referencing the wrong relationship, resulting in your partner being referred to as “your acquaintance”.

v0.8.2

Major changes & additions:

Added a new random event for a sleazy landlord. Giving him an orgasm here will give you a discount on your rent, though only the first time this happens.

If you’re in a lesbian marriage you can now have a baby through IVF by visiting your doctor, as requested by littleslavegirl over on tfgs.

Updated the late-rent scene with modified versions of the “beg for help” and “demand an extension” actions submitted by Stochastic.

Minor changes:

As requested by Secondarian and Tilbet, love decay can now be disabled in the options screen.

Your spouse will pay rent if you are a housewife even without the financial-support vow as otherwise the PC, lacking income, would be in quite some trouble! Thanks to Amichai for flagging this up.

Visiting Ivy will have different text in the intro if you keep playing after the endgame. Thanks to Amichai and Kabasny for reporting the inconsistency of her still being available post-endgame even when the endgame sequence says she’s leaving town.

Updated the exlover minidate conditions to restrict it happening for horse+gym-jerk, and for when the PC knows her partner wants to share her. The likes-to-share route in this scene now also flags the PC as knowing he has that trait.

Updated some of the text when giving birth, to add some alternatives based on traits and so female-start characters will no longer get the “never before has it felt so natural to be a woman” text.

Bugfixes:

Fixed some text issues. Thanks to Grimgear, Made 2 Face Black and Blue Face and Zab for reporting some of these.

Fixed a bug reported by Newface where, despite getting the message that you wouldn’t need to pay rent, it was still being charged normally if you were married to your landlord.

Fixed an issue reported by Grimgear where the landlord is visible in the moving-in scene even before you enter the flat.

For consistency, custom good/evil hypnotists will now be sure to get the “hypnotist” trait. This shouldn’t have much gameplay effect, but might help avoid any niche weirdnesses, especially if people are using unofficial custom scenes that require the trait.

Fixed a bug reported by Grimgear where successfully convincing your landlord to lower the rent was actually increasing the amount charged.