Chunking through more and more little things that have been outstanding for a while from the backlog of things that needed to get handled better.

This week I spent a bunch of time experimenting with our new inventory components to find a decent way to repurpose the display for other purposes. What I’ve ended up with needs some more work and wiring in to other places to make it more obvious, but the player inventory screen now functions as an interface to manage piercings too. The buttons at the top of the inventory list can shift between the displays – for now, limited to the regular inventory display and the list of equipped piercings.

I think for the upcoming week I’m gonna spend a little time cleaning up old code and interfaces relating to various inventory handling systems, and then set into finally working on an offline downloadable build. Now that we’ve had a couple consistent weeks of not needing to crank out a bunch of hotfixes, I think we’re stable enough now to call it a good idea!

TiTS 0.9.003:

• [Backers] Mitch is hanging out on Canadia station. (Wheatly & Lowercase_Donkey)
• The inventory screen now supports a view of equipped piercings, mainly to enable a consistent means of identifying and removing them. (Gedan)
• Fixed a bunch of things dealing with piercing equip and unequip processes. (Gedan)
• The Grey Goo armor should now be repairable whilst not being worn. (DrunkZombie)
• Hardlight dongs should no longer impregnate Sela. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed a crash with Sela. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed some index issues with genitals that are selected via vaginaRouter/penisRouter/hermRouter. (DrunkZombie)
• Added some more custom card designs. (Jacques)

Another week hard at work for everybody; a lot of energy sunk into cleaning up more and more of the dangling threads left by overhauling systems.

I’ve spent most of my time delving into the back of the inventory code to clean up how we handled all the special casing required for a handful of complex items. I was hoping to get all of the inventory work I had to do finished with this week, but unpicking the weirdness that the OmniSuit and GooArmor are behind the scenes ate up a lot more hours than I thought it would – but they should now work much better with our new inventory layout. Piercings is gonna be up next.

TiTS 0.9.002:

• [Backers] Salvaging the Mastodon. Get real friendly with all the people populating the Crash Landing bar, and two weeks after your most recent visit you’ll be getting a message requesting help…. (Slab, Leek & Fenoxo)
• [Backers] Dating Teyaal’s daughter. Take her out on the town! (Savin & Leek)
• A bunch of work has gone into tweaking the Inventory screen. There’s now a few extra buttons available in the layout, and many of the Hot Topic interactable items that we were having issues with can now be directly interacted with through the Inventory screen. (Gedan)
• The OmniSuit and GooArmor had a lot of tweaking behind the scenes so there may be issues lurking; these two items need a lot of unique special cases in the code behind inventory handling, so there may be weirdness and issues lurking anew. (Gedan)
• The Crash Landing entry door is now properly locked, requiring a scene action to enter the place proper, forcing all of the state tracking to happen. (Gedan)
• Mid-combat scenes for the Raskvel should work properly again. (DrunkZombie)
• Salvager Brute pregnancy should no longer crash. (DrunkZombie)
• Ballistic Breast Liners should be in Sabrae’s store again. (DrunkZombie)
• Chance’s offspring should be listed correctly. (DrunkZombie)
• Naming the Sidewinder should be more resilient. (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Many bust fixes spread around the code. (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Onboard-ship event chances have been reduced. (DrunkZombie)

Sneaking out some bigly fixes just for the weekend. There’s a bunch more stuff that still needs some testing before we drop that HOT BACKER CONTENT action soon. Have a little mayternity art goodness for these trying hotfix times!

TiTS 0.9.001, Builds 2057 and up:

• Internally cleaned up how we make the game show the shop interface. This came with a lot of tweaks to ensure Supply And Demand is working as it should, and rig up a few more specific bits and pieces in a more general fashion so they should work globally for all shops. (Gedan)
• The Synthwomb implant should now totally avoid impacting virility. (DrunkZombie)
• The First-14 conduit repair process should now happen correctly for repeat visits, as should the flying-to event text. (Gedan)
• Sylvie now has some better indication as to the status of her pregnancy. (DrunkZombie)
• Further work toward the genitalia routers that was started in the previous hotfix. This should clean up a lot of the invalid indexes and the occasional crash that was happening. (Gedan)
• Teyall’s MSXI now has the proper stats, and so should be a much more formiddable challenge. Like actually shooting back after the first couple of rounds. (Gedan)
• Teyall should also not show up on ZS until all three of her ship combat encounters have happened. (Gedan)
• Azariah’s repeat approaches should show the proper first-time event for the first time only. (Gedan)
• Syri and Penny’s smut mails have been tweaked. (DrunkZombie)
• The Star Viper that can be rescued post-combat should now be able to leave your ship in some more appropriate places, and not leave in places where it makes little sense. (Gedan)
• The Anno & Shekka sleep-with waking up scene should work properly. (DrunkZombie)
• Milkbags should work properly now; various inventory handling systems should no longer make them overwrite each other in strange ways. There might be a few more lingering places where this can happen, but some extensive fiddling happened and it seems solid now. (Gedan)

TiTS 0.9.001, Builds 2068 and up:

• Fixed a bunch of shop and inventory errors relating to canMergeWith(). I completely underestimated how many items were lying around that needed specific handling when I implemented this last night, and I’ve spent a couple of hours now tracking down as many as I can – there may still be a few left, but all of the reported ones should be fixed. (Gedan)

TiTS 0.9.001, Builds 2089 and up:

• A lot more investigating has been done to dig out various item issues surfacing with canMergeWith() errors. ShockBlade, StrangeEgg, Slavesuit, Tents, and all of the Hardlight Equipped items should now no longer crash. (Gedan)
• Hardlight equipped underwear should also import properly from Flash saves. (Gedan)
• Olympia’s tailcock shifting has been cleaned up further. (Gedan)
• Zaalt no longer drops his shockblade. This was an oversight from converting the Flash mechanics, and the ultimate source of the ShockBlade crashing in the players inventory. (Gedan)
• It should no longer be possible for time passage to result in fractional minutes. (DrunkZombie)
• A variety of shops should no longer inappropriately clear out scene text. (Jacques)
• Some multi-hit combat attacks should be better about presenting their output. (Fenoxo)
• The probe event on Mhen’ga should pass less time, enabling Conensol to be utilized for the potential scenes involved. (DrunkZombie)

Cheeky late Sunday update!

Ardia expansion is going live for Backers with this – keep in mind that it is designed for ardia domlevels lower than 6. Once you’ve visited her folks at least once, the next time you’re warming Ardia’s bed Ardia is warming your bed, you’ll get a little treat and an offer to visit her home again.

TiTS 0.9.001 Release Notes:

• Backers: Ardia’s low-dom expansion is now available.
• Haleypreg should be more resilient. (DrunkZombie)
• Various mimbrane tweaks. (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Tail Genitals have been cleaned up. Much of the data relating to tail genitals was reworked right on the cusp of us moving over to the JS port, and there was a lot of things that needed tweaking to fully account for their new structure. (Gedan)
• A variety of scenes written by Will and scattered around the game. (William & Leek)
• Slightly improved cache-control headers, hopefully better avoiding issues where peoples browsers refused to see a new version of the game. (Gedan)
• Random ship fights have been re-enabled. (Gedan)
• Evenings talk menu should work properly. (Gedan)
• The Great Majin should work properly. (Gedan)
• AoE attacks should no longer cause a crash in combat. (Gedan)
• A second means of getting duplicate Siegwulfes should no longer occur. (Gedan)
• Riley should no longer trigger too often. (Gedan)
• The ship installables menu should now be in the installables-tagged room and not storage. (Gedan)
• Results of Event Whorizon should be more verbosely inspected to drive access to Syri Hellhound. (Gedan)
• The pool in Ten Ton Gym should no longer leave you with the Temporary Nudity Cheat, nor should it allow you to leave the pool room in this state. (Gedan)
• Anno’s bust should properly update depending on her clothing state. (Gedan)

Shoved some hotfixes out of the door too. Version numbers the same but with a higher build number

TiTS 0.9.001, Builds 2018 and up:

• Some parser tags used for Syri got cleaned up. There’s still some work to do on a few others. (Leek)
• Leithacharm had some logic fixes. (Donkey)
• Under some circumstances, when using implants with physique penalties, it was possible to get a double penalty. This should be resolved. (Fenoxo & Gedan)
• The system used to handle NPC ships in hangars that the player can interact with has been overhauled. This should fix the remainder of issues with Great Majin, but it will require it’s location to cycle one more time for the data to fix itself. (Gedan)
• Mitzi more aggressively filters the items she can wear. This fixes an instance where you could have given her the OmniSuit collar in the Flash version, but if she attempts to wear it in the JS version – via an imported save – causes a crash because it is no longer a valid armor slot item. If you had previously given her the collar you can still get it back from her, she just won’t randomly attempt to wear it nor can the player tell her to wear it. (Gedan)
• More AoE explosion output fixes. (Gedan)
• The level up UI now ignores fractional stat values when near the cap, allowing you to actually cap your stats up to the max. (Gedan)
• Syri’s OmegaOil applications should now run as expected. Existing applications will take 7 and a half days, new applications will expire after 3. (Gedan)
• A bunch of tweaks to fix bust presence through KiroQuest: Po Edition. The full fixes will require us to clear out our built image cache, which will happen on the next “full” build rather than a hotfix. (Gedan)
• Many instances where you could repeatedly activate a button that used to disable itself after the first activation should now work as expected. The Extort button after random ship combat is a good example of this pattern. (Gedan)
• More ship combat crashes should be fixed, specifically those relating to “statusEffectv1” and similar. (Gedan)

TiTS 0.9.001, Builds 2026 and up:

• Removed some duplicated fixed tail genital stats output. (Gedan)
• Cleaned up some parser stuff in Hellhound Syri content. (Gedan)
• Minor fixes to some Wulfe scenes. (Gedan)
• Minor fixes to some Dhaal Motoblitz scenes. (Gedan)
• Minor fixes to some Aria scenes and her bust display. (Gedan)
• Fixed non-text buttons being disabled. This fixes the storage menu for example. (Gedan)
• Cache the default bust rather than attempting to pull it out of the image manifest every time we need it. (Gedan)
• Hand-So console tweaking. (Fenoxo)
• A bunch more rooms in Dhaal have real descriptions. (Fenoxo, Donkey & Jacques)
• Reworked some internal functions that allow for genitalia selection. We had two versions of these for each type of menu we wanted to generate that had become somewhat out of sync, so this was an attempt to cut the least-functional version and convert calls from one to the other. There may be issues lurking in the wake of this. (Gedan)