DCL’s take on the slavebreaker is as gorgeous as any I’ve seen.

Today’s patch is mostly ship-focused, though I do intend to write at least one scene for Synphia to get back into the writing groove. The patch notes look long, but that’s only because I gave each item a bullet point. <3!

0.7.289 Changelog:

• New NPC on Uveto: Synphia the Slyveren Mechanic. She sells new ship upgrades!
• New Module: Shield Vampire! This item attempts to steal a large volume of shields from an enemy vessel.
• New Module: Capacitor Vampire! This item attempts to plunder an enemy ship’s energy reserves.
• New Module: Advanced Crew Quarters! This item, while installed, should allow for two crew members to be housed here.
• New Module: Auxiliary Thrusters! This item provides a constant increase to thrust.
• New Module: Thrust Vectoring System! This item provides a constant boost to agility.
• New Module: Hardened Systems! This item increases your vessel’s system strength.
• New Module: Heavy Armor! This item increases the damage reduction of its armor by 25.
• New Module: Power Core Tuner! This item increases your energy generated per turn!
• New Module: Redundant Plating! This item increases your ship’s armor by 1000.
• New Module: Sensor Suite! This item increases your ship’s sensors significantly.
• New Module: Shield Upgrade! This module provides an additional 1,000 shields.
• New Module: Tuned Emitters! This module increases your shield’s damage reduction by 20.
• New NPC on Myrellion: Focalor the Fair! This lovable little Tove has some great ships available for great prices!
• New Ship: Clydesdale K7! This Steeletech-manufactured freighter has low stats but tons of room for crew and upgrades!
• New Ship: MSXI! This shield tanking ship is slow but packs strong electronics and decent cargo space.
• New Ship: Sledgehammer Mk II! This battle-geared vessel’s only weaknesses are a lack of crew spots and weak sensors.
• Ship recovery modules have been buffed.
• New Bust: Breedwell Matron.
• New Space Battle: Attempting to guess an incorrect password for Zheng Shi now lands you in a space battle! Try not to die.
• Fixed shields, shield defense, and defense being incorrectly calculated for ships.
• Fixed ship accuracy and avoidance stats from not being properly applied in combat.

Ushamee fits right in with the rest of Canadia Station…

0.7.288 Changelog:

• Artpack Released! Patreon backers can collect it on my Patreon page.
• New type of ship weaponry: Turrets. Turrets deal roughly twice as much damage as their standard brothers but require a crew member to fire. Note not every crew member is capable of crewing a turret. Yammi and Celise, for example, aren’t much for shooting. Others might surprise you, like Mitzi… You can buy your own turrets from the Dockmaster on Tarkus.
• New Busts (Adjatha): “The Servant”, Lurelings & Marions, Una, and Zheng Shi’s Mining Robots.
• New Busts (Shou): Forgehound, Vark, Ushamee in Canadia, and the War Alpha from the battle for Korg’ii Hold.
• New scene: blowing dick-having Shekka, by William.
• Various fixes and tweaks, courtesy of Jacques00.

Did you all think I was done riding the ship parade? You were dead wrong. Turrets are a big part of making crew worthwhile, and come Uveto/Zheng, I’ll be adding an upgrade that takes up one slot but provides crew space for two (in addition to more ships with better stats).

If I get some fun modules in by tonight, I might add another small patch onto this one.

Jacques00’s Raskvel Dockmaster is quite pretty.

SPACESHIP!

0.7.286 Changelog:

• New NPC on Tarkus: Raskvel Dockmaster, written by SKoW. She doesn’t have any sex scenes (yet).
• New vessel available for purchase from the dockmaster: Moondast Gruss.
• New ship upgrades for purchase from the dockmaster: Capacitor Bank (full energy recharge), Missile Bay (quad-shot kinetic/thermal damage), and Coil Cannon (top-end damage and energy cost, but kinetic damage).
• New Cheat Code: “clowncar”. Allows you to fly when over the crew limit.
• New Busts: Raskvel Dockmaster, Moondast Gruss.
• Various tweaks and adjustments to ship shop code to support multiple vendors.

Tomorrow: more ship stuff, and perhaps some scenes for the beauty on the right. However, the hour grows late, and this whiskey insists that I stop being a productive coder ASAP.

Today has been pretty good for progress. I spent 30 minutes or so putting together some commission prompts for art to get from artists like Bashko – just like the Syri pictured at right! Yes, that Syri picture will be sliding its way into the artpack soon.

My next task was to burrow back into the ship combat systems and continue to flesh them out. Today’s project was the “Gadgets” menu, where various upgrades can be used like a PC’s special abilities. I loosely based the structure on the current combat item use, since they function in similar ways, but I had to chase down some interesting new bugs in target selection that cropped up. For example, shield boosters would continually refuse to activate, citing shields being at maximum no matter what your ship’s shields were actually at, because it was incorrectly assigning the item’s target to the PC him(her?)self.

With those smashed out, I’m pleased to report that shield boosters (1/fight shield healing), repair modules (1/fight armor healing), and shield disruptors (1/fight chance to deal 50% shield damage to enemy, based on the ship’s system stats). Note that all numbers, values, and abilities are subject to change.

The remaining things I need to tackle, in no particular order:

• Putting together some proper AI routines with various personality “types” that can be assigned to enemy ships to control them in a fight.
• Make sure enemy ships actually fire the full volley from their guns. (Right now only PC ships will fire their machine gun all four times.)
• Create a new ship type for our first foe, outfit it, and implement Wsan’s finished scenes.
• Put together the UI for comparing your current ship to a new one.
• UI for choosing to move all upgrades to your new ship
• UI for choosing to store or sell the ship you are replacing. (And figure out how ships will be stored/retrieved.)
• Determine how to deal with onboard storage – all items will always be stored on your “current” ship, which means I may have to prevent liftoff if you swap from a cargo ship back to the z14 and don’t have room for you 60 guns.
• Actually buying the new ship.

Milky Kiro drawn by Sulcate!

Public patch time! Cherry’s content is largely finished. Now I just need to badger Adjatha into finishing her galotian helper!

Edit: Pushed out a quick tweak that should fix Big Tiddy Goth GF. Will peep at the Cherry issues after jamming food in face.

0.7.282 Changelog:

• You can now fuck Cherry in her room… assuming you’ve found a way to deal with her paralytic skin.  …or not.
• You can now feed Cherry bubbles from your Bubble Buddy (a TamaniCorp (TM) product!)
• You can now “Blow Bubbles” with Cherry – which means stuffing a sextoy into her throat and face-fucking that… with a decent variety of outcomes and choices depending on how voluminous your loving can be.
• Bug & Typo Fixes!
• (ImagePack Only – available here) Lorelei’s busts have been added to the game. Unfortunately I pushed the new patch to the blog before merging this code fork in, so she’s only visible if you grab the image pack version for right now. Never fear – she’ll be there in all future variants of all patches.
• Known Bug: The check for being able to lift Cherry is backwards for the “lift&fuck” scene. Sorry!

This may seem like a light month for content… and that’s because it is! There’s good reasons for it, though – I swear. I struggled through reviewing something like seven months worth of backlogged submissions, many of them well over 100 pages. Less important intrusions were activities like finding a new place to live and going to Atlanta for a weekend to enjoy Furry Weekend Atlanta (and give a panel on our games)!

I like to think that once I’m securely in my dwelling productivity will increase owing the having a proper office space. Check back in 30 days, I guess!

New This Month:

• New Treatment variant: Faux Cow with a new cheat code (“fauxcow”) to force you to get it on your next Treatment dose!
• New Transformation Item: Reptilum
• New NPCs: Velta, Big Tiddy Goth GF, and Lorelei
• NPCs with new scenes: Ceria, Cherry, male SecOp, Paige, Dane
• New Expansion: Breedwell received an expansion for premium breeders!