Hey guys, it looks like JimThermic is retiring from TiTS writing. There’s still a few odds and ends of his in the hopper, but it works out nicely that there’s a ton of content from him in this patch to say goodbye with. We’re all gonna miss him, I think.
0.6.34 Changelog:
- New busts for Cass and Vaande, by Adjatha.
- Additional Vahn scenes actually coded in this time.
- JimThermic’s residential deck has been added to the game, complete with two new NPCs of his and a third written by Nonesuch. Enjoy them! (Accessible via Tavros station’s elevator)
- New busts for Emmy, Wetra Hounds
- Credits implemented!
- Mangos. You can’t handle them.
- A bunch of bug fixes, tweaks, and typo corrections.
- Probably some other stuff I forgot – be sure to point it out to me.
Lovely Emmy artwork by Shou!
Also, 2,500 words of new stuff written today too. Another day like that, and I’ll have enough Emmy stuff to push her next update.
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So whats gonna happen to Embry? Will she just stop at her current point or will she get somebody else to finish her?
Forgot to say, the new Emmy bust is minted nice one
You should ask Jimmy mate… Embry is Jimmy’s waifu.
I know, it’s just that i heard that Embry was a possible crew member. I am not askin for much, just Embry joinin Steele, Steele knockin her up, having some children scenes and some new conversations. If Jim isnae doin that i hope he lets one of the others do it
Well, you are asking for 100+ pages of content (since that the amount of stuff Jim put in the design doc)
Jim has stated that he won’t be returning to this site/ forums nor will he be available for answering any questions. So for Embry this is effectively the death of the author…
She’ll stop at her current point unless somebody volunteers to write for her. Kinda like every character whose author leaves.
Hopefully someone will cause Embry has a lot of potential for future updates, regardless after seeing Emmy’s new bust i really hope she has a possible future onboard Steele’s ship.
Giggity
Seeing this update was a good way to start the day.
…Mangos?
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/mango-meets-ben-affleck/n36920
To think I’ve never seen this before…
Thanks for sharing the video.
There was a lot of Mango sketches back in the day. I dunno what possessed people to turn it into a TiTS item 😛
My dreams have come true.
What..the..actual..everloving…fuck…
mangos? literally my favorite fruit, I think I’m able to tame a few of those
Wait is Jim really leaving or did I miss something? If so I’m pretty bummed about that. I loved his writing and his characters.
🙁
Yes he is leaving. He’s gone to work in other fields.
…….And Fenoxo has spelt his name wrong in the naming of this edition.
Dunno what you’re talking about. Looks A-Okay to me!
I’ll miss him T-T
I think fenoxo fell asleep when he posted “JimTheric” D:
shhhhh
Honestly I’m pretty sad that JimT is going, he has written some of my favourite characters. Either way I wish him a lot of luck for the future. goodbye Jim 🙂
I wish he’d at least keep in touch with me. He has some unpaid bounties from the bounty board I’d like to pay out (and I’d like to be able to buy any of his future published works).
FenFen!!! about the guy up top,who’d you think would finish Embry off? You or Savin?
Emmy seemed pretty decently self-contained as-is. I’m not sure why she’d need “finished”.
Yeah, seems pretty done to me. Just because someone wanted to add more to a character at some point doesn’t mean doing so is essential to their appearance as-is.
Still, a little smoothing out wouldn’t hurt.
This is terrible news for me, i love his work.
Damn, what a shitty way to start my day.
Well, regardless of my feelings on the matter i wish him great success in his chosen field.
PS:
Codex needs an explanation about the mechanics of:
1. Armor.
2. Fortification.
3. Defense.
Did not find those in item mechanics tab.
Is “ARMOR” a stat?
2. Bonus HP.
3. Damage subtracted from most incoming attacks.
Apparently armor is a stat if you trust what Naleen Scale Armor tells you. 😛
I understand it’s some kind of raw physical protection unlike shields which is essentially energy protection.
PS: Thanks for the other stuff.
FX. when i was walking the Vanae part of jungle between the sap tree and the destroyed camp without Naleen armor, i was damaged a lot through shields directly at my health by the spikes at forest floor.
Bit weird though, shouldn’t shielding protect against physical damage too? like kinetic? or did those spikes not count as kinetic? i have no idea.
Things that aren’t moving very fast pass through shields, so they wouldn’t protect you from stepping on something.
Shouldn’t having chitinous limbs like the Zill protect against the spikes?
This is just speculation on my part but considering the traps were made in mind for M’henga’s natives, I think the Vanae would have already thought of that.
this.tooltip = “This crude but effective looking armor is made in the style of ancient armors from days long past. Instead of using pounded metal to fashion the protective plates, the maker of this armor gathered discarded scales from Mhen’ga’s native Naleen species.”;
I must be missing something.
Nevermind i checked just now the armor has defense +3 not sure where did i pulled the armor stat out of. -_-” Maybe i had too much tits for one day.
While we are on the topic of armor, how exactly does the “grounded” flag on armor work?
Ah, interesting. It’s supposed to reduce electric damage, I gather, but looking at the code I’m not sure it actually does anything.
Should I file it as a bug on the forums, then?
I dunno, it could just be an intentional placeholder like the Power Armor tag on the Aegis LMG (which also doesn’t do anything yet, in case someone wondered).
Well, the “power armor” flag is placeholder cos the Aegis LMG is supposed interact with actual equipable power armor, but what would “grounded” be placeholder to. I mean there are actual enemies in the game that use electrical attacks.
Oh wow, i guess fallout 4 has had an impact on somebody huh. Huhu~ ^^)
@Meatbag:
Need I remind you that power armor was a thing in TiTS (I’m pretty sure KaraQuest2 was written before Fallout 4 came out), Fallout and general Sci Fi way before fallout 4.
So let’s not derail this any further, lest I go into a tirade on everything Fallout 4 did wrong.
Haha, need i remind you that fallout did not start at 4? xD
I do agree though that F4 could have been… better, to say the least.
I got bored mighty quick but still absolutely adored the X-0 i think it was called power armor in F4.. it looked so mightily badass…. Like, the pinnacle of badass.
“Haha, need i remind you that fallout did not start at 4? xD”
…read my comment again; I never implied otherwise…
Read my comment again, i never implied that you implied otherwise. xD
So yeah, let’s not play this boring game. ^^)
Hey guise I’ve been playing round with the wetra den (playing through losing to stuff as I usually try and play a male only dom) and I’ve been wondering; does anyone know how to get into the den proper without the bad end of becoming a new harem slave? Would love to take over the harem myself (gotta get my kicks somewhere ;p )
Write it.
I wish, I have immense trouble getting my thoughts down on paper. But I’ll give it some thought
I’d suggest starting with quite literally typing out your flow of thought. If, upon reading it latter, anything looks usable, put it in an order that makes sense. Go from there.
JimThermic leaving is the worst news on here in a long time. I’m really disappointed, but I understand things change. Is there any chance of a return in the future or is this premanent?
According to his final post in the forums, it’s for good. He’s leaving the smut writing business because it’s taking too much time from his regular writing and life.
>regular writing
Is that what everyone means by “He’s gone to work in other fields”?
Yes. He’s aiming to be a legit published author it seems and hopefully he finds great success.
I was pretty sure he already *was* a published author.
Jim’s leaving? That’s a shame, I really enjoyed his latest creations, such as Anzhela who had a lot of interesting dialogue and well-written sex scenes.
Nonetheless, we should thank Jim for his numerous contributions to the game and encourage him on his new endeavors.
So long Mr. Thermic, you will be missed.
hi i have a question os i post it here
it seems there is a lot of pc getting impregnated but not the pc impregnating npc is it me or it’s just that the npc dont have content with that yet?
A lot of things needed to properly implement conventional pregnancy is missing, and PC doesn’t have the means to stuff NPCs with weird alien spawns. There is Briha(Red Myr Deserter), but…
Darn, Jim was my favorite writer. Oh well, such is life is it not?
I’m curious about something. I can’t access Kara’s second quest for some reason. I distracted shade with flirting. Kara escaped. I beat Queen Tirava. I’m level 8, but I still won’t get a message from Kara. when I flirt with shade to distract her am I supposed to not head back to her place and sleep with her? Or is it because it’s the public build and I can’t access the quest yet?
Did you talk to Kara after distracting Shade? If not, head south from the bar to trigger the scene that you probably need. If you already did that then try flying to Myrellion a few times.
thank you.
So where can I find this new mango item?
They are a random encounter in the jungles of Mhen’ga, so your character has to walk around a while in there to run into one.
Woah, Emmy looks even prettier than I thought, way to go Shou!
Also, dem ears!
Thanks! I’m glad you like her!
I do agree, anubis type ears are always super cool.
And here I thought you meant the actual fruit! That Mango is approve of! 😀
So that’s Emmy? Hell Yeah kk
I have to ask, after Myrellion there’s another planet? I got the prob and the coordinates but doesn’t appeared any new planet to go. The story is still being made or there’s some problem in my save?
There’s no problem with your save. Uveto is a long way aways.
And the coordinates from the probe aren’t for Uveto anyway.
=( Thank you for all of your hard work JimThermic! <3
I just remembered the race “bothrioc”. What happened with them exactly? They seem to have been written, but…
The person who was supposed to write them fell from the face of the earth.
Oh…
Sounds fun. Where do you think they landed?
And they weren’t really ever written outside of their codex, sooo. Got removed.
I bet its because he got a job that told him to quit the Sex scene. BASTARDS! (complete and totally unfounded and speculatory)
Also will JimT’s Vanae village be added in game? IT’s finished Right? RIGHT?! (sweats profusely)
I don’t think so. The matron is the only piece of written vanae material not in the game.
I’m not sure if my longer comment will actually pop up, but the gist is that I think Jag was referring to JimT’s original proposal for a M’henga expansion, which included some new characters, a boss battle, etc. Personally, I rather liked it, but JimT seemed to take it off of his project list in the forums before he even announced his decision to leave.
A link to the expansion map, which has a subsection linking to other aspects:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QeNnEgxDGGs88OWg57PhGNi354w1YWLdH9yDSpQy2aY/edit?pref=2&pli=1#heading=h.8ws5lj3lm8lo
Jim said something about cleaning out his google docs. You’d best make copies of all of that in case someone wants to try to pick up the torch. I went ahead and made copies myself, including a few of his more obscure unfinished projects.
Awesome, at least his work isn’t lost, even if he’s not going to be working on it.
Shame, hopefully his non smut writing goes well for him though. My hope now is that Savin doesn’t get burned out anytime soon, id hate to see my favorite characters abandoned.
I get burned out all the time. Luckily it’s not a terminal condition.
Just pop a huge bottle of wine like 10y old, and you’ll be fine. ^^)v
Found a quirk with Nova (Anno mission) even if you kill Nova in the end, the goo girl armor still procs the scene where Nova is alive as if you helped her gain new bodies.
K, that’s a bug–fixed in the pull request (#628).
Dang, Jim made some pretty darn amazing characters. If nothing else, hopefully some brave patron will finish something for the embry x-pack some time in the far future. Hope Jim all the best in his future endeavors.
Any new news about ouveto or shades sister quest?
Yes, actually, though I’ll go into more detail in a blog post sometime today/tomorrow.
I’m wondering would it be possible to make legs show as gooey leithan
like it does on arms and tail
so u could become galotian Leithan crossbreed
Body
* Tone: 45/30
* Thickness: 20/100
* Skin: Squishy, Lubricated, Goo
* Skin Tone: Ebony, Glittering Black Markings
* Arms: 2, Gooey, Leithan
* Legs: 6, Amorphous, Gooey
* Back: Dark Sylvan Dark Sylvan Wings
* Tail: 1, Long, Prehensile, Gooey, Lizan
* Genital Elasticity: 3
* Genital Location: Hind legs, Genital Slit
Is that a typo with double “Dark Sylvan” Wings or could that be a bug? Not sure if you can make your legs leithan however.
Fixed the wing printout issue and added the ability to retain leg type for a huge amount of biomass in the pull request (#628).
If implemented, when choosing to revert legs (not revert all), and the character has 5000 mLs of biomass or more, there will be an option to make change as Normal goo or Retain the shape. Retaining the shape should remove the non-goo flags and add the goo flag, keeping the type. Some appearance blurbs for legs will mention gooey where necessary, but not all of them have/need that.
A shame about JimT, but that’s the way of it sometimes. I think he was my favorite writer for TiTS because of just how similar our tastes are; looking back through his forum threads, it’s almost like looking at a parallel universe me except that he could actually write and contribute meaningful things to the community 🙁
Anyway, on a separate note–Savin, would you happen to have some of the art you got from Ches (I think) saved? Specifically, I’m thinking of the first half of the sauna piece for Syri–I think it got ate in the Great Blog Implosion of last year and was wondering if you might repost it?
Should be in Cheshire’s FA/HF or Tumblr gallery.
Eh, I had poked around on there and didn’t see any of the pieces. I’ll check again; I guess I was just hoping you’d have it directly saved somewhere.
Now that the dark fruit is present, I can finally summon the old gods and gain passage to the big jamba juice in the sky.
no.
Im’a do it.
I’m really liking all the new content. I can’t wait to see the new Emmy stuff your doing for the next update! ps. if I had an idea for something cool, is there like a certain topic on the forums where I should post it?
that emmy art is top shelf! that needs to be emmy’s new bust, also more emmy content in the next update? it’s a good day 😀
What if I told you that that IS Emmy’s new bust.
I would say that i’m not surprised because that art is AMAZING
First Jim leaves, then mangos are added. WILL THE TRAGEDY NEVER CEASE???
All part of my evil plan…
Yeah.. to me personally his Bess-13 alone is worth half this entire game. ^^)
Him leaving is a serious kick to the balls, but well.. can’t be helped.
I wouldn’t go that far, personally, but I will say that Bess-13 is the reason for the number of in-game days on my prime character.
Haha ikr but shes worth every single one.
Funny thing with my Bess-13, i names mine “Sekai” and only after found out how much it fit her general profile, you know, katana, glasses, maid outfit… turned out quite bad-ass. ^^)
Named*
I usually give her the librarian outfit, but then again, I do love to read.
I usually go for the “Space Pirate” outfit and fox accessories. I really liked how she felt like there was more of a story going on, and that you were interacting with a character as they learned, grew, and improved.
Even without the customizable appearance, I wish more content had her level of depth.
Well that’s the problem with this game currently, simply not deep enough.
Mostly what you do is run from planet to planet fucking everything that moves only to move to another planet to repeat the process.
No schemes, no mysteries, no twists.. only fucking.
Hell, we’re supposed to be rushers discovering things and all that right?
And yet, every time we arrive somewhere there already some kind of shop set up. How about arriving on a planet FIRST for once? finding some sentient tribe on it with it’s unknown goals and agendas and all that…
Well, anyways, i reckon Fen is aware where the game is lacking and will push the team to balance it in the end. ^^)v
Damn! Jim’s stuff is what got me hooked on TiTS… sending good vibes and good luck his way tho
Since there’s so much talk about taking up some of his other projects, I have a general question (and I acknowledge I’m being lazy by not just looking for the answer myself); is it necessary to be a part of the forum to write smut for TiTS? I kinda hate forums… I’m super anti-social on anything other than Tumblr or IG lol
No, you don’t have to be on the forum. It does help a lot though.
Hey Fen, please do something for Engie drones… seriously.
Make them actually useful and bigger variety wouldn’t hurt too because when i see something like this:
“Your drone repeatedly zaps Shade. (H: -1)”
I want to cry elephant tears.
What if shield generators got a damage number?
Example: the joyco Shield generator could attack 5, the kihacorp aegis shield could damage 16 and stuff.
Would it be a good idea?
I’d appreciate some simple damage boost, and i’d appreciate if they did not take an accessory slot like tam wolf does while being utterly worthless at the same time cuz that’s just wicked…
Another idea i had is to let player actually configure their bot, i mean, we are supposed to be engineers and all that right? so why not build your own bot? Select damage type, weapons, hull, etc etc… could be so much more fun than some pathetic something that does 1 hp damage like it’s now… ugh.
Also could just code in a tailored to engie accessory slot specifically designed for drones only.
Make it a slot, make the player code in their custom drone them selves (for extra evil, make it only take typing as an input, not pasting from another file/field).
Max out your INT and the damage is a respectable 12 pts. a round. Shade resists your drone’s damage since it’s electric; Tam-Wolf would go right through.
Making the drone scale with Int was one of the new perks you suggested for levels 9-12, not something that’s already in the game.
Drone deals 1.5*level damage (with very slight randomization).
@Fully Automated
I see, so i guess we’ll have to wait.
Probably for quite a while though 😛
PS: The customizable self-made drone is still up for discussion though. ^^)v
I don’t think 12 points is anywhere near respectable, personally. But that just me.
And that damage was with maxed int.
So 40 int, with shade’s electric resist, translates into -1 hp.. lol.
Yeah really at times like this makes you wish you could switch the drones damage type, that kind of versatility would be truly awesome to have. ^^)
Shade has 60% Electric resistance from wearing Lightning Duster, plus 7 points of Defense from a flak vest (not an actual item).
Even Tam-Wolf would only deal about 5 damage per round at level 8.
Dealing negative damage shouldn’t be possible. If you’re sure that’s happening, you should report it as a bug.
Well, it was displayed to me as follows:
“Your drone repeatedly zaps Shade. (H: -1)”
I’m not sure whether this is a bug or not myself.
Well, it’s probably nothing to worry about, i don’t recall her hp at the time but it’s likely just plain -1 from whatever she had at the time so nothing to worry about. ^^)
Oh yeah, I forgot its displayed like that. It says -1 HP because one point of HP got removed.
In other words, you just dealt the normal minimum damage.
Kind of citing a terrible example there, using an enemy who is highly resistant to your drone’s damage. As Savin mentioned, they can do 12 damage a round vs some enemies, which adds up to a large amount of damage over a few turns, along with whatever boosts we hand out with higher levels.
At level 8, you’re looking at the following:
1 + level + rand(2 + level / 2);
That’s 9-14 points of raw damage every round, even if you’re healing yourself of waiting. The last time I played, I loved my drone damage, but tech speccies seem plenty strong at present.
There aren’t that many enemies without resistances and defense, especially after Tarkus. Defense particularly hits Drone Command harder than any other damage perks since it applies a flat reduction to each attack, and drone’s damage is a separate attack with low base damage.
It’d be fine if the drone attacked every turn no matter what, but often times my drone won’t attack because I took an option other than attack or shoot.
That shouldn’t be happening.
He might be refering to the fact that the drone won’t start firing until you take the first shot in combat, or he didn’t notice his drone went down for a turn cause his shields were down, but then it came back cause of the perk to revive shields to a quarter of it’s former capacity.
Engie as a whole ain’t weak, never was yeah, but drones are part of engie perk set and therefore should be effective, i think. Nobody wants sucky perks after all 😛
BUT, if what fully automated said is true that from level 9 drone begins to scale to your int amount then perhaps it would be okay as is.
I would still love to build my own drone though, give him cool AI, personality settings maybe different skills (like we could give tam wolf the ability to sniff enemies maybe?) that kind of stuff. Would be lota fun and a good distraction from.. you know, the usual “fucking everything that moves”. xD
Could be bit of a challenge to not make that kind of stuff op however.
Damn shame about JimT. Like others have said though, such is life. Hope he finds success in his future endeavors. So long and thanks for all the smut, JimT. =)
Nice Hitchhikers reference there.
Now i suddenly want to see a section in the codex titled Guide to Galactic Hitchhiking with the first line being Remain calm!
“And bone often”?
This is probably a bug right?
http://postimg.org/image/6gmi9zta1/
Or is he subtly hinting you something? p_p”
Heh, reminds me of a certain Ausar: “Prepare your anus”.
Easy Fit is cheap on purpose, since it’s effects are temporary and supposed to be used a lot if you’re doing big dicked creatures. Were it a transformative it would be more expensive.
Doesn’t seem entirely legit.
First of all the lube effect it provides is permanent
Next. even if the enlargement effect is tempo it’s not even needed because your holes get tighter overtime anyway and i never really had problems with sizes even if i did not use it, i guess by bitch is as trained as she could possibly get or something heh.
So, basically this thing is to get some lube going, probably only from your ass too nothing else. Since vags eventually get their own if you play with Vanae gals long enough 😉
Any way for myself to get rid of the BIMBO stuff?
Don’t take the stuff labelled “This will permanently make you an idiot” in the first place.
Wish there were plans for there to be a way to get things like boost pregnancy speeds or lust cap with out getting bimbo’d. Also I don’t see why the treatment has a 100% chance to give things like brute/ditz speak and weak willed when the actual residents of the planet where every one takes it don’t seem all THAT bad.
Yeah only void pirates have probably a base on texas, probably right on T’s ranch, and probably tampered with treatment… for a nasty set of nasty goals… dellllicious~
So, do you have an idea for a public release date?
Ides of March.
Best comment I’ve seen all week.
Will the Vanae Village be Coded? I hope it’s complete D: !!!!
I don’t think it is, so probably not.
i keep getting this over and over when trying to use my lasso on the varmint
http://prntscr.com/a6emfu
Bug report forum located here →↑
I can’t access/find the residential deck when I go to the Tavros station’s elevator
Are you actually playing the backer build?
I don’t really know. Probably not. How exactly do you do that?
Pay actual real monies.
My memory is atrocious, so I can only remember the red myr. Plus it doesn’t seem to be on the wiki What characters were written by jim?
If JimThermic is gone, does this mean we’ll never unlock Inessa’s belt and boink her? D:
Who knows. Wouldn’t hold your breath for it :/