FLOWERTHIEF'S PROFILE

author=dude797
First a little update to my testing idea. If you delete the profile for default toons from your custom story, then you can test your custom toon in clean mode. Just instead of seeing keika and miki, you see their number ID's instead. The beauty of this is, you can always replace the profile for default toons in your custom story and then run a story test to ensure you have the right characters in every scene.

Hmm, that's kind of how it already works. If the game doesn't have a profile to match ID=2, for instance, it will assume you want to assign the active speaker as an NPC whose name is "2". However, commands such as FRIENDLY and AFFECTION UP will produce warnings on startup. I think it's important that the game produce those warnings because it's quite common to accidentally write invalid commands when you've set the active speaker as the player or an NPC.

Second, is another scripting question! In game stories 1, early on in the story you get to race her. Should you take a shortcut, the game uses a jump command to story 5 so you can meet another character. My question is, what's preventing story 5 from playing before story 4? I only ask because I need to do something similar with my custom toon.

CONDITION = 5 DONE
The above line prevents the story selector from selecting Story 5 until Story 5 has been played. In other words, it can never select Story 5. The only way this story can be played is through a JUMP from another story (JUMP ignores conditions).

Actually, Ichimaru brings up a concern I had myself. I don't want the customization features to become so complicated that they scare people off. I should mention though (as I did in the custom content page) that at the same time new customization features are being added, there will soon be a user interface that makes creating characters easier for everyone. It might be ready this weekend, we'll see.

Ah, by the way, I still don't know how you can actually manage to get Cheimi, no wonder she is a secret character!

Yup, you can't date her, get her phone number, or meet her in generic school events. With Chiemi the key is....

Yup, that's one of the reasons I don't recommend mixing them.

But don't delete the built-in stories. Some of the built-in introduce stories have other built-in stories as their conditions, so you could run into problems trying to selectively delete some of them. If you really need a character to appear in a story without her having been introduced, there is a workaround--make her appear in a branch. Miki, Keika, etc can still appear in branches even with clean mode on.

Okay, that should be doable.

In other news, I've got something brewing that will make creating characters a whole lot easier.

The reason for reviews of free games to exist is flimsy enough to begin with imo. Reviews of commercial games are valuable to potential buyers because you want to know if a thing is going to be worth your $$ before you pay for it. Since money is not a concern when it comes to free games, you read a review mostly because you want to save the time of downloading, installing, and playing up to the point where the game has convinced you that you're going to enjoy it. But unless your internet speed is unusually slow, I don't see all that as much of a gain. Often times you would be better served to simply try the darn game for yourself than to read someone's review of it, especially if that review is long. The worth of a review of a free game is overrated imo, and long reviews especially so.

If, however, you are using reviews as a method of giving feedback to a developer (who did not explicitly request your review), I think you've got things all wrong.