The hobbies leveling process is ridiculous!

[rperez]

Some of the girls require level 50-60 in "X" hobby and after level 40, it takes 5-8 hours just to advance one level! I left the game on, I went to work for 8 hours, plus half an hour to buy groceries and go to the post office and when I got back, it barely advanced one level out of 15 that are left to achieve the target level! Please fix this crappy flaw!

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Play more and max out your prestige multiplier.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by rperez:

Some of the girls require level 50-60 in "X" hobby and after level 40, it takes 5-8 hours just to advance one level!

Yep. You can't finish the entire game on your first playthrough unless you either spend money, or wait several weeks. (Each level takes even more time.) You can, however, "prestige" from the stats screen - even if you haven't finished all the girls - to increase your bonus multiplier, until it only takes a couple days to complete the entire roster.

[ErinyesAg47]

Note one of the achievements (in-game): Have the game on for a year total. Also lesser achievements for 4222 hours, 5832 hours. It's that kind of game.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by ErinyesAg47:

Note one of the achievements (in-game): Have the game on for a year total.

Well, since the game autosaves when you exit and reloads when you open it, that achievement amounts to "own the game for a year."

[TheBeautifulOne]

Originally posted by Holy:

Play more and max out your prestige multiplier.

WIth 2048 prestige and 16 bonus mult, it took me 3 days to get form 49-50, 59-60 will take half a year

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by stratzvyda:

Originally posted by Holy:

Play more and max out your prestige multiplier.

WIth 2048 prestige and 16 bonus mult, it took me 3 days to get form 49-50, 59-60 will take half a year

Yeah, and the hinted at new girls will probably be even more ridiculous when they're released.

I guess they've got to pressure you into actually spending money somehow, instead of just relying on the utterly impatient. But I'm the sort of person who wouldn't spend money on this sort of thing even if the art was better and the girls were nakeder, so it won't be my cash they get.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by Rann Aridorn:

But I'm the sort of person who wouldn't spend money on this sort of thing even if the art was better and the girls were nakeder, so it won't be my cash they get.

I don't understand this. Could you explain why you want to play a game that you do not value enough to pay for?

It's an honest question. "I don't know" would be a valid answer, if not a satisfying one. ;)

[Sculpture.gif]

Originally posted by Rann Aridorn:

Originally posted by stratzvyda:

WIth 2048 prestige and 16 bonus mult, it took me 3 days to get form 49-50, 59-60 will take half a year

Yeah, and the hinted at new girls will probably be even more ridiculous when they're released.

I guess they've got to pressure you into actually spending money somehow, instead of just relying on the utterly impatient. But I'm the sort of person who wouldn't spend money on this sort of thing even if the art was better and the girls were nakeder, so it won't be my cash they get.

From what I know, they do plan on removing the prestige cap one day! They just don't want things to be broken when someone gets ridiculously high.

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by cdarklock:

Originally posted by Rann Aridorn:

But I'm the sort of person who wouldn't spend money on this sort of thing even if the art was better and the girls were nakeder, so it won't be my cash they get.

I don't understand this. Could you explain why you want to play a game that you do not value enough to pay for?

It's an honest question. "I don't know" would be a valid answer, if not a satisfying one. ;)

Because it's free and I can play it without paying for it, and get pretty much all the features by just having some patience? True, in this case it's a truly epic amount of patience, but I'd rather just forget about its existence until I remember one day and uninstall it than be nickel and dimed to death by overpriced microtransactions.

I mean it's not like I never use in-game stores. I've given STO plenty of my money. I'm just not going to spend it on this sort of game.

[Drunk Bunny Games]

Or, just change the year on your PC Time and Date settings.

[Penguiniey]

Originally posted by cdarklock:

Originally posted by Rann Aridorn:

But I'm the sort of person who wouldn't spend money on this sort of thing even if the art was better and the girls were nakeder, so it won't be my cash they get.

I don't understand this. Could you explain why you want to play a game that you do not value enough to pay for?

It's an honest question. "I don't know" would be a valid answer, if not a satisfying one. ;)

Why pay when you could just not play for five months and get the same progress?

[frag2k4]

Originally posted by Penguiniey:

Originally posted by cdarklock:

I don't understand this. Could you explain why you want to play a game that you do not value enough to pay for?

It's an honest question. "I don't know" would be a valid answer, if not a satisfying one. ;)

Why pay when you could just not play for five months and get the same progress?

Progress capped at 7 days, also why are people necro'ing a thread from 2 years ago?

[Penguiniey]

Originally posted by frag2k4:

Originally posted by Penguiniey:

Why pay when you could just not play for five months and get the same progress?

Progress capped at 7 days, also why are people necro'ing a thread from 2 years ago?

I dunno you tell me

[Nevermore]

Oh trust me I know I currently have a bonus multiplier of 1,843 and to get to level 62 in a hobby takes a month, 30 days and some odd hours. I reset so I'm not just sitting here for a month, but geez it's going to take forever to beat this game.

[Penguiniey]

Originally posted by Nevermore:

Oh trust me I know I currently have a bonus multiplier of 1,843 and to get to level 62 in a hobby takes a month, 30 days and some odd hours. I reset so I'm not just sitting here for a month, but geez it's going to take forever to beat this game.

I agree that it's a bit ridiculous that each level of a hobby takes twice as much time as the previous level, it really starts to show in the later levels, even with multipliers