Weekly News #145

So, a week and a half has passed since the release of the latest version. All this time, we have been actively working on both creating content and improving the stability of the game. However, first things first, and we will start, as always, with randomized NPCs.

The first thing worth mentioning from this category is the most insignificant. New hairstyles for male RNPCs. You can see them just below:

In addition, some old hairstyles have been reworked. In principle, the entire system that exists has been redesigned in order to, firstly, ensure maximum stability, and secondly, create conditions for the creation of another innovation ... Skin colors for male RNPCs.

As you can see here, you have a choice of 24 skin colors. In addition, the ability to customize the skin color. This is the feature that people constantly wanted and wrote under the comments about the desire to add it, so it is here. Well, since we're talking about desires, we'll also tell you about another innovation that was also often requested.

Unfortunately, we can't provide screenshots here, so we'll just say it in words - sound. Do you remember the sounds from the missionary position? The sounds of intercourse. Now these sounds are IN ALL scenes. They change, of course, depending on the scene, conditions and many other factors. In addition, did you know about the possibility of hiding the interface during intercourse with RNPC? If not, then there are improvements for this case too - hints have been added especially for you, which make interaction with the interface more... Understandable.

Moreover, all these scenes now take into account the new clothes and base hair. This is a huge amount of work. All appearances/clothes - everything is displayed as it should.

It would seem that there are already quite a lot of innovations, right? However, this is not even half of the work. So, a new innovation that concerns the RNPC library is the ability to save in the cloud. Now, if you have a Best Friend subscription ($10) or higher, you will automatically have buttons in the interface related to cloud storage open.

The ability to export any of your characters and/or all of them to our servers, and then download them at any time to any of your devices is always great. When upgrading to a new version, when upgrading to a new device - whenever. We do not delete or interact with your data inside our servers, so this is absolutely your corner, received by you for supporting us.

Here is also the ability to save in the cloud. This entire function has been significantly improved. It is already available only from Super Best Friend ($25) due to the higher cost of storing saves (they simply weigh more than RNPC. One RNPC is about 10 kilobytes. Saves can weigh 12 megabytes). However, your storage is not limited in any way, so you can use it knowing that your saves and characters will not be touched. Of course, if you need all these functions - they are completely optional.

Well, and the most insignificant innovation from this list is setting poses for RNPC. It changes the standard pose of the RNPC on photos/interfaces. It can be useful for those who like to poke around in different functions and adjust everything to their liking.

Secondly, the plot. We won't drag this out for long, so we'll provide some developments:

Here you can see the backgrounds for the events already inserted into the game. So, especially for the plot character Suzuki Matsui, the plot line was continued for about 15,000 words! This is a huge event that depends very much on your choices, attributes, new interesting characters appear in it, and the game also uses mechanics that the player might have forgotten about. To get to this plot line, talk to Suzuki Matsui about the underground club in a personal dialogue when cohabiting/calling her.

Thirdly, optimization. So, here we will start with the methods that were applied to this version:

Complete rework of modules responsible for RNPC activity between each other/alone. In general, this refactoring has significantly improved the situation with the game's performance, increasing it by about 20-30 percent (OVERALL PERFORMANCE, NOT THE MODULE) and making it more stable. The code size itself has decreased almost twofold, the logic of this module has been improved. There is now much more life in the game world thanks to this.

Changed data responsible for caching. Purely in fact, this is an improvement in performance when opening interfaces/initializing appearance or scenes that you opened before. It works in general and in general, but for now it is in beta mode, as it can negatively affect stability and create unnecessary crashes. In the near future, we will make these settings more flexible to create optimal performance.

The work of the garbage collector in the game and the game engine has been improved, which will improve the situation with memory leaks and subsequent crashes in the case of very long gaming sessions.

In addition, a huge number of bugs and errors have been fixed to make the game more stable. You can read about them below:

New content:

The game plot with Suzuki Matsui was continued, which has a continuation of more than fifteen thousand words. All events with her are varied, the choices affect the course of the plot, as well as the game attributes of your character. To go further along the plot line with Suzuki, you need to either call her or talk to her when she cohabitates with your character.

A global reworking of sounds was carried out during 18+ scenes with randomized NPCs: now each scene has its own sound, its own patterns, and in general, now any scene you choose will at least somehow sound. Moans, sighs - depending on what you choose and the depravity of the girl, they will change.

For randomized male NPCs / when creating your character, you can now change the skin color to any that interests you. Custom skin color is also available there, due to which it can be made both darker and lighter. These same different skin colors can also be generated on RNPC.

To the interface of sexual contact with randomized NPCs, tooltips to buttons that few people knew about were added: hiding the entire interface and hiding the menu.

For male RNPC, four new hairstyles were added, which can either be generated on them or selected in the editor of your character/RNPC.

A new possible setting was added to the RNPC editor on the page where their character is configured: now you can configure a pose to your taste from the available presets, in which this very RNPC will stand during the time outside of a forced change of position. During display in contacts/interfaces, etc.

A cloud saving function for RNPC for Patreon subscribers of the Best Friend level ($10) and above was added to the game. This function works the same way as cloud saves: a separate folder in the cloud is created on your email, where you can access your characters at any time. They are not deleted over time and will be in the same folder both after a year and more, allowing you to transfer the characters you need not only from version to version, but also from device to device (from Android to PC and vice versa).

The English translation was slightly improved by our players from GitHub (https://github.com/kaitosi117/translate-school_game_to_english). You can see the results of the work in a more accurate and understandable translation of some interfaces and moments related to the RNPC.

The cloud save system, which our Patreon subscribers might not know about for some reason, has been completely changed and improved: now they are permanently enabled for everyone, but if you click on them without a subscription, a warning will appear that it will not work. In addition, the system itself has become more stable and began to report errors that could occur if it all worked incorrectly on your device.

A complete refactoring of the code responsible for the activity of randomized NPCs in the location was carried out: now it does not cause any problems at all. All bugs associated with it have been fixed, starting from activity with No No and ending with its general incorrect operation. There are 20-30 percent fewer miscalculations, conditions and other unnecessary things, and the game's performance has improved by the same amount. In addition, the number of crashes (not exceptions) has decreased, when the game crashed without any errors.

Some system functions have been changed, garbage collectors have been added to the game code, due to which potential crashes on weak devices should be reduced.

Some parameters responsible for caching have been changed, due to which there should no longer be lags when calculating the appearance of the RNPC.

Now situations where the RNPC does not want to communicate with your character for some reason are available ONLY at the difficult difficulty level. This was done because this mechanic could be annoying or not liked by people who came to the game just to relax.

The price that the RNPC requires to do homework from the academy for your character has been changed: now this price is higher, and also directly depends on his bribery.

Now, if your character helps Suzuki with a card game, after this interaction her level of card game and experience is displayed for a better understanding of the progress towards completing the storyline.

Improved the system of playing cards with randomized story-type NPCs, due to which the "End Game" tab no longer breaks the plot if such a mechanic is present in any event.

Added additional conditions to the storyline with Suzuki Matsui to prevent some inconsistencies in the storyline with her and fix some bugs/deficiencies related to this.

A significant refactoring and improvement of the systems responsible for generating RNPCs was carried out: now you can generate the specific NPCs you need using keywords in the function, which improves interaction with this system and makes it more reproducible in terms of creating modifications.

A significant refactoring of the systems responsible for randomizing hairstyles for male RNPCs was carried out, due to which there are much fewer "Bald" characters in the game session, and in general the system has become more stable and understandable than before. With fewer errors.

The hairstyle display system for male RNPC has been improved: shadows are no longer painted along with their custom hair color, but exist on a separate layer.

Some old hairstyles have been reworked for male RNPC, resulting in new display options.

The 18+ scene for the "Missionary" position now displays 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update.

The 18+ character scene for the "Doggystyle" position now displays 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update.

The eye construction methods for male NPCs have been changed.

The scene when peeping at a female NPC in a toilet stall has been updated to display 10 new sets of clothing that were added in previous versions.

A minor refactoring of the systems responsible for the in-game engine has been carried out, due to which there are fewer possible errors that occur in the game. Including individual ones, due to problems with permanent files/fonts and some other systems.

New sets of clothing added in previous versions are now generated on randomized male NPCs.

Your character can now wear all the new clothing that was added in previous versions. It is available from the corresponding menu.

A minor refactoring of the code responsible for changing your character's clothing, as well as in general for this, has been carried out. UI and mechanics: it is now more stable, the UI itself makes better use of in-game functions and is less of a cause for exceptions that could occasionally be thrown.

The randomized female NPC interaction scene "Grope Breasts" now displays the 10 new hairstyles and new clothing sets that were added in the previous update.

The randomized female NPC interaction scene "Hug" now displays the 10 new hairstyles and new clothing sets that were added in the previous update.

The randomized female NPC interaction scene "Kiss" now displays the 10 new hairstyles and new clothing sets that were added in the previous update.

The randomized female NPC interaction scene "Masturbate in front of me" now displays the 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update.

The 18+ character scene for the "69" position now displays 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update.

The 18+ character scene for the "Cowgirl" position now displays 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update.

The 18+ character scene for the "Side" position now displays 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update.

The 18+ character scene for the "Blowjob" position and interaction now displays 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update. In addition, this scene now displays the appearance features of the female RNPC, as well as the tattoos on her, which was not the case before.

The 18+ character interaction scene and the "wank me" position now display the 10 new hairstyles that were added in the previous update.

The mechanics of automatically creating clothing sets for male RNPC was cut due to possible errors and bugs caused by this system.

The Chinese translation was updated by our player RogerJKD: the new interface, new systems and some previously untranslated text were translated.

Now in the RNPC editor, men and women have the position of their hands and body depending on their character, as it already works in the standard game session. All this only works on the RNPC, when editing your character, he will have the standard position of all this.

Fixed Bugs: 

Fixed a bug due to which several pairs of glasses could be generated on your character/RNPC male.

Fixed a bug due to which the position of your character's hands and RNPC could change as you interact with the interface for no particular reason. Now their position is static and does not change unless there is a special reason for it.

Fixed a bug due to which an exception could occur during the initialization of the hug scene if the female RNPC had a hairstyle that was added in previous updates.

Fixed a bug due to which the "Wrinkles" appearance feature was not displayed in the 18+ scene of the "Side" position on the female RNPC.

Fixed a bug due to which an exception could occur in some very rare cases during the game in Russian/English at the beginning of the game session due to the inability to find the background inside the game directory.

Fixed a bug due to which the clothes on your character through the corresponding interface were not added properly, completely ignoring your clicks and working as the system wants, not the player.

Fixed a bug where in the clothing change interface on your character, some clothing sets could be missing the bottom part of the clothing, causing the clothing set to appear as if it did not contain pants.

Fixed a bug where stockings/knee socks could spawn on top of the clothing set of a female RNPC when wearing the "Top and Jeans" clothing set. In addition, a bug was fixed where this clothing could also spawn on other clothing sets that were not intended for it.

Fixed a bug where stockings could be on top of the clothing of a female RNPC in the RNPC editor.

Fixed a bug where an exception could occur when trying to peek at a girl in a toilet stall.

Fixed a bug where some text could be displayed as Russian when playing in English.

Fixed a bug due to which, when playing in English, buttons and some text could simply disappear in the interface.

Fixed a bug due to which, when playing in English, some interfaces could break.

Fixed a bug due to which the game could throw an exception during initialization of the 18+ scene of the "Missionary" position in some very rare cases after transferring game saves.

Fixed some typos in the text when playing in Russian.

Fixed a bug due to which the 4th base hairstyle on randomized male NPCs could have an incorrect length of the back hair types, completely ignoring them and creating a "Gap".

Fixed a bug due to which in the editor of the appearance of the RNPC/your character, on these same characters the back part of the hair was not displayed if it was a man.

Fixed a bug due to which the eyebrows of the female RNPC could be doubled in the RNPC editor.

Fixed a bug due to which the hug scene with randomized female NPCs could cause exceptions.

Fixed a bug due to which when putting on the "Underwear" clothing set on your character, if he did not actually have them according to the character data, he was without them and repeated the "No clothes" clothing set.

Fixed a bug where equipping the "Underwear" outfit could cause your character to display incorrectly in scenes involving groping female NPCs' butts.

Fixed a bug where the game could throw an exception during the "Grope Breasts" scene initialization in some very rare cases after transferring game saves.

Fixed a bug where the 18+ character scene with a male NPC could cause the eye types to display incorrectly in the scene itself, as well as missing eye whites, when playing as a male.

Fixed a bug where the 18+ character scene for the "Side" position could throw an exception if the randomized female NPC had a base hairstyle of 30 or higher.

Fixed a bug where your character/male NPC's tattoos could be over the female NPC's in the 18+ character scene for the "Side" position.

Fixed a bug due to which the body hair in the 18+ character scene of the "Doggy Style" position was displayed incorrectly.

Fixed a bug due to which the leader of the hooligans/some RNPC considered plot-related could not want to communicate with your character, asking him to "Leave".

Fixed a bug due to which the game could give an error when loading the game with modifications installed that add tattoos, and/or in cases of new versions when transferring saves.

Fixed a bug due to which, with the help of certain manipulations, it was possible to go beyond the values of the maximum number of biographies in the RNPC editor.

Fixed a bug due to which the generation of a forced type for certain qualities of the RNPC did not work if this RNPC was a man.

Fixed a fundamental bug related to randomized NPCs and their emotions: previously they could change their emotions to standard ones as part of some narrative in the narrator's screen, which could break the atmosphere. Firstly, this problem is gone now, and secondly, the entire emotion change function has become more "closed", which is why it does not allow any unnecessary changes to itself.

Fixed a bug where some parts of the interface could have a missing character icon instead of some text when playing in Chinese.

Fixed a bug where randomized female NPCs could have missing front arms when naked or wearing swimsuits.

Fixed a bug where when trying to dump homework on a randomized NPC, the price he/she offers could be incorrect and show as False.

Fixed a bug where if you customize your character, you could not customize their body properly because it would output the setting for the situation instead of what was required.

Fixed a bug where some scenes, including 18+ characters, could throw an exception or make the girl you have some contact with bald.

Fixed a bug due to which tattoos could be on top of clothes on female RNPC and/or even on top of the face, which created certain "Interference" in all this. The same applies to moles and some other minor features of the appearance of female RNPC.

Fixed a bug due to which cloud saves, uploading to servers and unloading from there could work incorrectly, preventing you from uploading saves to the game servers properly.

Fixed a bug due to which an exception occurred when importing a character from the old version to the new one through the character library.

Fixed a bug due to which, when entering the menu with clothes for a male RNPC/your character, an exception could occur, resetting all your created settings for him.

Fixed a bug due to which the "Appearance settings" tooltip in the interface was not displayed in the RNPC and/or your character editor.

Fixed a bug due to which emotions inside the RNPC editing interface did not change depending on the nature of this RNPC.

Fixed a bug due to which when changing the position of the hands during editing a female RNPC, if it had any bracelets, they could not follow these very hands, completely ignoring their position and literally hanging in the air.

Fixed a bug due to which stockings in the RNPC editor could disappear when trying to hide clothes on a female RNPC, although they should not.

Fixed a bug due to which stockings could reset during editing a female RNPC when hovering over a button / some other interactions with this very interface.

Fixed a bug due to which a female RNPC had several overlapping layers with eyebrows in the RNPC interaction interface.

Fixed a bug due to which the sounds of sex during the change from missionary position to another and after an attempt to switch to the same missionary position simply disappeared.

Fixed a bug due to which, in the case of changing clothes on your character using a specialized menu, RNPC could consider your character naked and not allow him to go to any locations except his apartment.

Fixed a bug due to which the number of options with hair length could be greater than the real one in the RNPC/your character editor when editing a male gender. 

As you can see, quite a lot of work has been done, but even more will be done in the near future, especially on the stability of the game and its performance. At the moment, SPECIAL work is being done on this due to the increase in the number of complaints about it. You will be able to see our next report in another week and a half, on September 15. By that time, we will have conducted more tests, created more optimal conditions for the game to work and improved the game from the content part. In the meantime... You can enjoy the new micro-update!