Personalities

[Talana 💃]

Hi everyone of you matchmakers
I know that most of us gamers are geeky, arty or edgy - at least it seems so. Of course, in reality people are more complex, and most often a mix of different types.

I ask you guys to choose to be something else, like chic or glam or hipster or whatever - it will be a lot more fun to match you up. As it is now, my list of online clients consist mostly of the three types I mentioned to begin with.
It would be great fun with more choices ! And I think it is a lot more fun to match up Steam users, than fictional people .
Anyone agree ?

[greenendorf]

I'm in much the same situation as you, but I think a better way to solve it would be for the devs to address the balance of avatars vs. randomly generated characters. Being able to pair off other people's avatars is nifty, but right now, my black book (with all pages unlocked) only has 4 randoms who have probably been sitting there since the beginning. This leaves me with a ton of avatars who all appear to either be edgy, sporty, or hippy types. Also, most of my clients tend to be edgy, sporty, or hippy, with one or two arty types.

This is making the achievements for pairing off specific types very difficult to even attempt. Geeky, glam, vintage, chic, and practical types just don't seem to show up anymore. On 2nd playthrough, and have all locations unlocked.

Please don't get me wrong - I enjoy the game a lot and am not trying to be critical, but this seems like an oversight. Having more randoms would go a long way to ensure a good mix of personalities.

[abenlen]

Practical here. What? Playing computer games is a very practical hobby!

[Talana 💃]

Hello @greenendorf - I know what you mean ; I love the it, too ! And my critisism is just nitpicking, I know.
Because actually KP`M is one of the most perfectly fun games out there .
I have hardly anything at all to point at - and though some parts could become better, like maybe one extra random now and then - (not a bad idea at all ! ) - they were never bad to begin with .

@abenlen - Of course playing computer games is a very practical hobby
And artistic . And edgy. Intelligent ! And - all the rest ! Something for every personality out there

[Kat]

Love this game. I have over 60 hours of playtime and everything is unlocked, but I can't remember ever seeing a geeky or edgy person walking through my doors. Wonder if there's a bug.

[MsKittyPowers]

Hello everyone, I just wanted to chip in on this thread with some info on how the game works.

Basically between each date we look at the population of the black book and attempt to balance it out by removing the least used characters and replacing them with characters of types that aren't represented.

We do this by looking at type, gender, and gender preference, with the goal of having as much variety of types as possible with about three quarters heterosexuals and a quarter homosexuals, with a 50/50 gender split.

Then what happens is that whenever a new client enters the lobby, we check the black book and the new client is generated to match at least one of the candidates in the black book.

Now whenever we add a character we always check the online database to see if there are suitable avatars to fit the description we are looking for. E.g. if we have a shortage of gay female Hippies (provided Hippies are unlocked) then we go to the database to see if there is a suitable avatar, and if there is we pull that into the game. If there isnt one then we just generate one procedurally. The reason we are preferential to avatars is so that we generate dating data for peoples letters about their dream date.

So therefore, the majority avatar types have absolutely no bearing on the percentages of the various types in your game as the game decides what types are in your game regardless of the population of the database.

It's actually more to do with the order you unlock the various types in, as once a type is unlocked it can take a few dates to rebalance the population of your black book to inject the new types.

So we're not saying that there will never be an unbalance in your game, but the system will correct itself over the course of the game to make sure you see all sorts of characters.

[abenlen]

Very interesting info, I had no idea that the game took the black book into consideration when generating new clients.

Quick question, does this also apply for the very special client one gets at level 20? Will there always be an ideal match in the black book when they show up? I'm not at all sure that this UberVIP client is procedural generated.

[MsKittyPowers]

No, that VIP is not procedural ;-) I'm sure you can guess the type...

[abenlen]

Practical. No, hippy. Practical Hippy? Something like that.

[Talana 💃]

Originally posted by abenlen:

Practical. No, hippy. Practical Hippy? Something like that.

Umm - Hippy Chic , I am sure !

[BritBrit88]

I'm a practical type (at least as far as this games goes lol), so if you need any practical types for matchmaking purposes, feel free to give me an add.

[-V-]

Seeing as how Vintage is quite Chic these days, I'm not sure what I'd call myself. Better go Chic.

[Light]

I'm sorry, I just based my avatar's interests on my own and chose the clothes that I liked the most. x.o