~ Suggestions & Improvement ~

[Legate of Mineta]

I don't think we have such a policy- but the Player is unlikely to be in a position to consume.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: This is probably something that cannot be implemented for Y2, but maybe for Y3 or later years: can there be a tagging system of some sort for lore, so that the player can choose to read only lores associated with a given skill (or even subskill)? I am very interested in reading the lores about religion, but since the lores are often not named something obviously related to their skill or subskill, finding and reading them at the end of a game is very tedious.

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhialto;

That would be awesome! Very interesting to tag them all, too.

[Schwarzbart]

I hope we see the change of appearance via glamour play more of a roll once the students becoming interested in the other gender. (just had a bug in Sims 3 where a lean girl suddenly looked like a fat ogre once she sat down. This natural brought the thought up that this would be a funny glamour failure in Academagia.)

[Rhialto]

@Schwarzbart: Miya could also use glamours in such a random event to flirt with both sexes - but being Miya, her flirtation might be very strange...

[Legate of Mineta]

This would be hilarious, both as prank and as a critical failure!

[Schwarzbart]

Just got the idea for a real mean "prank". A chair that use the energy of glamour already on the person sit on it to make a glamour of its own that look like the other glamour are dispelled and let the person look more ugly and fat the more glamour is on him/her already. The person sitting on the chair are actual complet unaware of this effect.

[Legate of Mineta]

LOL!

[Schwarzbart]

I think from the background for this chair could be like this:

"The chair once was created as master work of a Hedi student in his last year who hated that his College members used glamour magic mostly to look better. When he demonstrated the effect of this chair by let a god like looking girl from the same year sit on it, the girl turned in the most ugly thing most people of the audience ever seen. Half of the present people had to puke because the look of the girl simply became unbearable. As till this point the Regent didn't even realized that the girl was using glamour all the year to keep her good looks, both got full points for their exam. This would be the end of the story of this chair if it wouldn't show up every few years again in the Hedi college despite that it was added to the list of banned items long ago. But so it became the ban of all the vain people of this college and one of the most dreaded items cursing this college."

[Rhialto]

1 hour ago, Schwarzbart said:

I think from the background for this chair could be like this:

"The chair once was created as master work of a Hedi student in his last year who hated that his College members used glamour magic mostly to look better. When he demonstrated the effect of this chair by let a god like looking girl from the same year sit on it, the girl turned in the most ugly thing most people of the audience ever seen. Half of the present people had to puke because the look of the girl simply became unbearable. As till this point the Regent didn't even realized that the girl was using glamour all the year to keep her good looks, both got full points for their exam. This would be the end of the story of this chair if it wouldn't show up every few years again in the Hedi college despite that it was added to the list of banned items long ago. But so it became the ban of all the vain people of this college and one of the most dreaded items cursing this college." 

May I edit what you wrote?

[Schwarzbart]

sure

[Rhialto]

@Schwarzbart: "The chair was created as a masterpiece by a Hedi student in his last year who hated that his College members used glamour magic mostly to look better. When he demonstrated the effect of this chair by letting a very beautiful young woman from the same year sit on it, she turned into the ugliest creature whom most people in the audience had ever seen. Half the people present had to puke because the woman simply became unbearably ugly. As until this point the Regent had not even realized that the woman was using glamour all year to keep her good looks, both got full points for their exam. This would be the end of the story of this chair if it did not show up every few years again in Hedi College –despite being added to the list of banned items long ago. But it became the bane of all the vain people of this college and one of the most dreaded items cursing this college."

[Schwarzbart]

Thanks Rhialto

A other idea for a Event with followed short adventure. (Probably best suited as Morvidus only)

A breeding Experiment goes wrong and created a new small pest that breed like crazy as long there is enough food and because of the size this pest is also hard to find. The event it self is just searching for the hiding spots of the creatures. In the follow up adventure the character realize they didn't got all of them and so the search start anew but this time there air based attacks (like poison or smoke) as well.

If the students not manage to eliminate the pest before the end of the year the professor control all luggage to destroy all food items that the pest not escapes. ( I suspect Joana is the person last keen about this result, all her snacks for the trip home gone. )

 

[Schwarzbart]

Because it might be to problematic to track what wand the player used how many times and how long he have equipped it I think it would be best for simulate the player wand connection to slight change the equipped wand with the import tool. 

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: Could actions that improve the relations between a PC and a random student of the opposite sex be reworked to exclude Antonio and Louise? They are not the types of people who are attracted to people of the opposite sex.

Furthermore, could there be a hidden type of random skill assignation in - one that only gives random skill in licit activities/fields of knowledge? That way, in Y2 if one learn through a use of, for example, Office Hours a Gates/Mastery skill from a professor, such can be interpreted as meaning something about the character or location.

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

Unlikely for Y1, but taken care of for Y2. For the Skills, it's possible in Y2.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: That's OK. Any inconsistencies in relation growth during Y1 can be written off as pubertal craziness or yielding to peer-pressure. All of my suggestions are now for Y2.

 

[Schwarzbart]

And there I thought Year 1 is still pre puberty, at last for the boys and many girls, and that is the reason why all romantic adventure was put behind a background.

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

Yup.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: Well, all of the students in Y1 are between 12-14 (mostly 13) and have good nutrition, so I thought that at least some would be going through it. Was I wrong?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

No, what S is saying is that, in general, Romance isn't something until the later Years.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: True enough, and I hope that what I write for Y2 is keeping within those boundaries. Thanks for the clarification.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: Should we move our story ideas to the "Idea Pool" thread?

As for an idea: It should be impossible in Y2 or future years for two or more members of the Triplets to be in the same clique, unless some [redacted] type event happens that makes them unafraid to reveal what they are. The Triplets should also be barred from harassing/harming each other, unless some [redacted] type event happens that makes them enemies.

[Schwarzbart]

Thanks to the forced autoupdate of Steam when you start a game could you work with free DLC for the free content upgrades in year 2? I know that publish past versions via the Beta Version is a way that is taken by Paradox but it feels kind of wrong to me to force player who want to finish a game to activate the Beta Mod and select the version the where playing.

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

If it's only content, yes. If there is a CP, though...that would be the problem.

Rhi;

Great suggestions!