FLOWERTHIEF'S PROFILE

@dude797
Big thanks for that report. I had better put out a release tonight with a fix for that.

@Marrend
Ah, you're absolutely right. Story 2 has speaking lines for Masako, so that story can't show up until Masako has been introduced. I should have noticed that.

Another thing you could do if you want to keep Story 3 as the introduce story...make Masako appear as a vanilla NPC in Story 2 (since you don't have her actually appear on screen). In other words, you could change all the "ID = 10" commands in Story 2 to something like "ID = Female Student". Her speaking text color will be black, though.

The heartache counter...ah yes, that could be a problem if you use ENCOUNTERS OFF and PHONE UNKNOWN after her state is FRIENDLY or higher, as I see that you do. Hmm, what to do about that? I suppose I'll just make it so that the heartache counter doesn't apply when encounters are off and the phone number is unknown. I'll take care of this asap.

@dude797
Hey, thanks a lot for those. Sorry I didn't notice your post until just now. I'm gonna credit you as a tester just for that.

@Marrend
The last version of your story file that I've got had that problem with the uncommented comments that we talked about which was generating warnings. Were you able to eliminate all the warnings? If you still have uncommented lines in Story 2 before the PLACE declaration, then the PLACE declaration won't be properly recognized, and that's one thing that could cause the story to never come up.

Other than that nothing looks amiss to me. Just to be clear, you're getting Story 1 but not Story 2, is that right?

About the error you get with Clean Mode on... you've convinced me I ought to replace it with some generic event with no characters in it. Although that could definitely get repetitive for players. Until a girl is introduced, that generic event will be the only event they ever see.

I should note btw that if no girls have yet been introduced and there is one valid story event that introduces a girl, then it *will* get selected no matter what it's priority. (That's what allows the very first story event that introduces Miki to be selected even though the priority of that event is medium) I should prob'ly add this to the documentation.

About 3 girls being the minimum you must meet with Clean Mode off, that is correct. If you take the shortcut in the race with Miki you will have met only Miki, Keika, and Tsubasa. To avoid meeting Shihoko later on you must not approach her when you stumble upon her after school. (which will cause you to meet Tsubasa if you haven't already) To put it another way, there are two mandatory events from which one character or another gets introduced. In the first you will meet either Riho or Tsubasa. In the second you will meet either Shihoko or Tsubasa.

But there is no maximum. It should be possible to meet Masako along with the entire cast of built-in chars.

The original Kingdom Hearts. Everyone seems to love it but it seemed dull to me. I played up to the final boss fights out of a sense of obligation rather than enjoyment; the final boss fights were so cheap that I drew the line there.

In general though I am rarely disappointed with my gaming investments :)

"CONDTION = 10 LOVE" should still produce an error since it's part of the header. (the parser isn't yet expecting speaking lines)

edit: oops duplicate post