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Probably, topic starter just drew that in GIMP or something.
(and maybe AI was somehow involved, like an assist to draw background)

It's quite pricy though...
I rememebr being stuck in sex slave harness and a with a slave branding on face – wthout a penny behind my soul...
The level was pretty low as well. 🤨
That was terrible, so if anyone loves good challenge(or masochism) – I recommned you trying that adventure. 🫠

Woah, I didn't know you could do that. ( o_o)

The bottleneck of this project – is that it's being made by 1 dev, and it's being developed for over half a decade already.
So, if it took so much time to just develop Jun's animations...
Imagine what it would take to develop sex scenes for a whole separate character.
...Unless those would be like 1-2 time events, and made as a slideshow with text. 😁

So kinda, just understand what's possible, and what's impossible – taking reality into consideration.

Also, by plot – Jun's noticing that you don't have sex with her even for short periods of time...
She got really jealous and defensive about Anon even seeing other girls...
And got really upset, understanding that she's just a toy after all, and would never be able to give him offspring, unlike real women.
So, actually having affairs with nun or a clothes store girl... Likely, won't end up good.

I've already noted in a different topic, that bot would smear you over the walls like pate. 🫠🤖

Interesting, I didn't know selling stocks lowered their price.
Thought programming was so, that charts are completely random.

You really don't need much, just an average visual novel writer – to significantly expand on the plot branches, dialogues, options, etc.
Compared to other games I've played, like even Summertime Saga, a mild example...
MDRG really haven't even scratched the surface, on what can be achieved by simply having more quests and more text. 😉
Would work especially good if stonks.ic was nerfed, and significant part of money making was put on quests, to make them useful.

On having AI within the game... That doesn't cost $100,000 of IRL money, can be implemented rather cheaply...
But, I don't think it's a good idea in general – seen this implemented in Minecraft with villagers, and even in TES III Morrowind with NPCs...
Nyeah, you get artificial idiots pretty much. 🙂

I've found it mentioned, again on some 3'rd party website...
It is also the only way to obtain unique good quality body parts for the bot, which are not sold anywhere else.

Haven't tried that yet, but I think it works through answering some E-mail(which otherwise looked like average spam), and then there's also a website on Anon's desktop where one can find contracts from pharma companies to fulfill.

Lmao, congrats. 🙏😁

Huh, I didn't know you could pick those up...
Maybe some new update thing, it's been a while since I played last time.

Huh, farming Noer orking cave?
Haven't heard of that method yet... What are you doing there exactly?

I only know that the place can be used as a fast levelup method, where at leverl 1 you surrender yourself to orkind rapeloop, and it's possible to survive there indefinitely, due to Lona being fed and somewhat cared for in there.
It's like you can easily reach level 40, and then sneak out on you own...
Only inconvenience is then paying Elise for sewing up all 3 holes stretched in and out. 😂

As for the best ever money making method I've discovered in that game – it's gathering and selling mushrooms from infected forest.
One can make about 7-8 golden coins per IRL hour this way, so method is really potent.

In earlier versions having  a cannibal perk and being able to collect human meat  from Orking Tower made sense(one above Noer and below Saint's Church)... But this method was nerfed due to lowering price on human smoked meat + there seems to be more orkinds there now, than there were before.

By game theory, it's worth pimping Cocona, because if you can sleep with her – this roughly saves 3 coins per full day... And half a day you still gotta pay for bed.
Also this is only available at Burning Keg, and can't be transported anywhere.

Meanwhile, if Cocona is used for prostitution – clients pay extra for her, about ~5 coins per "use", and it's possible to utilize Cocona 2+ times per half-day.
So she brings about 20+ coins per full day, which is 6 times sleeping at any tavern on the map + coins could be saved up for later. 😋

Lmao,  main reason so much money is available – is that development's in Alpha stage.
Money making is imbalanced, and it's begging for being nerfed. 😁
After all this is a game about being broke and lost at life, living in dystopia... But stumbling upon a beautiful high-tech robo-GF. ♥
It's not an ultrarich simulator – at all.
I remember weird feeling, when having 10s of millions $, and Jun asking $100 like it's a huge deal – and you could even refuse that like a stingy MF. 😉
Or Jun stealing 2 ramen noodles from Landloard during riots, while we were stocked on food for months. 🤣
Game's still progressing as if I'm broke AF, and that's how it should be for the story's sake.

A billion dollars...
Bruh, that's some serious greed problem right there, if one grinds for candy wrappers that badly – even in a small NSFW videogame. xD

Maybe game should have some bad ending for that case, like if you got over 10 million $ – you get "IRS open up" event at 3 AM. (  -_-)
In that game there's really no sense ever making more.

Btw, it's mostly useful for equipping pressure plate mines – those are a real WMD in that game. ( x_x)

Yeah, I'll try again once new version comes out...
Agree on seeing bad endings not being good for one's mental health – I remember not paying rent once, for reasons of investing all my money into stonks trade... Had good amount stored in coins, but didn't noticed how rent day creeped in(got knocked out due to tiredness).
And I was shocked that you're being immediately forced out into cold, by police, and with all of your stuff smashed  or thrown out of the window, including Jun. ( x_x)
They didn't even let me walk 2 steps to computer and convert the money.
This is pretty terrible, the Landlord was a jerk of course – but I didn't expected him actually DREAMING of literally ruining me, and having this trap prepared and charged all along...
If I lived like that IRL, and rented an apartment from someone who I knew(!) wished me harm THIS badly – I would changed place of living immediately. ( -_-)
Or maybe preemptive-attacked first...
That was a bad neighborhood, with lots of bad people after all – assaults and accidents happening all the time. ( ≖_≖)

Accidentally found it...
I kinda love it. 😍

TP is pretty much shop keeper "momentarily remembering" that he owes you some change. 😅
If you walk out the shop – all of these burn up.
Coins are real money meanwhile, ones you can keep and hoard.

Try it, and look up into inventory. 🙂

Maybe he presses ctrl, which makes Lona eat the weeds/fruits/vegetables on the run.

Oh, I get it – like Overly Attached Girlfriend. 🫠👩🏻

In a way, there are such characters already:
1. Bobo the Pig – fits perfectly, he requires regular "petting" 😘 for him to continue following you (each time adds more days of companionship).
Only, having kids with him is impossible, which is probably a good thing;

2. In a way, these 2 companions... They woud follow you, in exchange for mating. 🧐
Only, it's inconvenient that you can't replenish the days while on the run – and gotta return to the Fishtopia tavern.
I think it's more of a bug/incomplete  develoment – would make total sense being able to prolong companionship while travlling, and the older guy even mentions this in his dialogues. That you would "give birth to many kids", and when disbanding him that he "still wants more seggs". Also during map encounter, slave hunters would see you wih a fishkind, and would assume you're his woman. 🤔

Heh, these two guys are quite hilarious to have around too – they would try to mate with any female NPC encountered in the game. 🫠
(troublesome, but often funny as heck)

I'm probably only one here who doesn't know what "yandere" is. 😁

Is that some new update items? Last time I played LonaRPG was like half a year ago. 🧐

Ha, there were 2 topics recently, discussing these exact questions. 😁

https://itch.io/t/5740024/rich-lifestyle-for-those-who-have-over-10m

https://itch.io/t/5724110/stonks

I do love games that remember your prior actions, probably my favorite being Deus Ex (classic, from year 2000).
However, despite game remembering what actions you took many levels prior – it never used those to sabotage your gameplay many days/weeks after.
Probably, only controversial moment in DX was exiting Ton' hotel through window(allegedly not helping Paul survive the ambush), which would end up with your brother dead, lying on a dissection table, instead of standing and talking to you later on the same spot...
But still, even that only made 1 other character die, which still allowed you to continue playing.
(same in Life is Strange, 1 girl jumping from school roof – if you screwed up... but YOU will continue playing)

Btw, another notorious feature, that exactly Deus Ex was known for...
Was giving multiple(!) instruments and paths of solving immediate problems.

Like,  when there's mission – you could get to the destination through sewers, through  street, or through roofs...
When there's keypad code – you can ask around for it's code, buy it through bribing an employee, find it among someone's e-mails, etc...
When you gotta sabotage some industrial machinery – you can turn off it's coolant from a computer, or straight blow the thing up by stackign explosive barrels next to it...

So, like in life – there are always multiple paths and choices to any problem.
And it happens extremely rarely, that death is imminent, and you have absolutely nothing to do about it.
(like being stuck on a death row before execution, or having terminal illness, etc)

And even then it's like obvious, bad things would happen to you.
Not that things are going great! There's absolutely nothing to worry about! ...and then boom you died! 💀
Because some minor thing long ago, that you wouldn't even made second thought about – caused some shadow chain of events, that lead to your insta-kill so inevitable, that even with a time machine you having 0 ways to prevent it. 🧐
That exact thing – is no good, expesially in games.

In life it can very rarely happen, like a piano falling on you walking the street – (because a month ago you had a quarrel with friend, who didn't called you today, making you walk out of your home 5 minutes earlier). But at least IRL you'll be dead, and not worrying. 🤷‍♂️
(and if you had time machine – you'd just hang around at home for 5 more mins, easily!)

While in a game, an inescapable setup even existing – would keep you disturbed every single time you even remember about that game, for the rest of life. 🫢

"Bobo the pig's wife", lmao. 😅

One of the quick leveling mechanics I found – was giving yourself to the goblins at the starting sewers...
Despite gangraping her 2 times a day, and making her give births... Believe it or not, they're FEEDING her and make sure her HEALTH was on an okay level. So you literally can survive with them for infinite amounts of time. 😉
I tried that couple times, starting the game at about level 40. 😂
Only con is, Lona would have completely stretched out orfices, which would take a pretty penny to fix at Elise. 😊

When I played first time, which was back in 2021 or so – I thought that if I worked hard at Big Momma's tavern, I would have enough to sleep at, have food, and would eventually save up 20 gold coins to escape from the island... 😇
I was a completely different person IRL back then, too...
For example, I wasn't allowing anyone to touch Lona, even when preforming dancing job – I was taking away some clothes to tease, and would put them back on not to arouse the crowd too much... And if I overdid it, I made sure to escape to my room, close the door and go to sleep – so bad guys didn't touched my Lona. 😇
Well, different times I guess... Different eras. 🧐
As you may figured out, it's not easy to progress in the game that way. It's exactly like IRL, being stuck at an exploitative job.
Where you would work for 40 years, and then would be kicked out without 0 regrets, ending up on the street as poor as you've been at 20 y.o. only starting. 😉
So, little by little, I tried to make more coins, here and there. In any possible ways.
First, bending more to the audience during dances, getting carried out...
Which a few tims resulted in Lona actually getting caught and raped. 😘 That's how I first lost virginity in that game.
And that's where things went downhill for me in that game. I was re-installing it every half a year or so, finding and tryng new things.
Lona tried to make money as a dancer who gave her all and then also took the rape with 0 prob, Lona worked as a prostitute in different districts, worked as a beggar, as a burglar, as a thief, as a pickpocket, as a con artist...
Heck, things went so far, at some point I was going to goblin tower(one under church), collecting meat of dead people, smoking it, and selling it in huge quantities to the bank, which actually gave me first good money. Like 1.5 gold coins per 30 minutes. 😉
I also tried to be a "priestess" at the church(who knows, would know 👀), tried to do quests in the guild, tried making money at the arena, tried travelling across map, once even  ended up on some sex island filled with pink flowers, which I collected by 100s and then sold for a pretty penny. 😉
Damn, I've even pimped Cocona, who was a girl with a mind of a 5 y.o. and who trusted me 100%. 🥲
So yeah, dude – the sole idea of the game, is finding ways to make money, where it is incredibly hard making even a few coins – to escape from that hell hole. Eventually the ticket price would get to 30 gold coins(inflation), and you have to be able to get there, one way or another...
And like 99% of things you could make in the game, is a waste of time. You can trust me on that. 😉
But still it was good fun going through it all. 😊
The game actually even taught me many lessons IRL. Both in business, and life in general. It even has philosophic value to it. 🤌
(like burning 3 abomination nests, and absolutely 0 souls not giving 2 shits of a fuck – like not even letting me, half dying, starving, and covered in filth into some town, because I didn't had a stupid ID, lmao that was golden 🏆)

AlexMaxback, the game is deliberately riddled with bad mechanics and bad options, to make it similar to real life in crisis – where the most things you can do, the most places you can go to, jobs you can take, the most people you may associate with or help...
Would be either a waste of time, or would repay you with harm and danger. 😉 It's all BY DESIGN. 😈

If you were some homeless refugee girl trying to survive on your own – of course, most jobs would be exploitation, many groups would try to capture you into labor or sex slavery, most sources of money or food would be scarce and dangerous, organizations would be corrupt, people would be not caring and untrustworthy, there would be no places to sleep, maintain hygiene, etc, etc. Instead, there would be constant hunger, depression, and close calls of getting harmed.

What I can recommend you, as a 1'st time player – use game theory.
Make lists of mechanics you can earn coins with, mechanics you can get food with, places you can sleep at, etc...
All are slightly better or worse(use timer IRL to compare their efficiency).
And once you discover the better ones(I don't wanna spoil them) – life would get better, little by little.
You'll finally get a breathing space, and ability to explore. ☺️

Remember, that LonaRPG is a special game,  and there's only 1 time you can play it the first time. 🥰

Not everyone likes big boobs anyways. 😉

Lmao, the curse of ending #14 strikes yet again. 😅

I like your thinking – just trying to learn about that world first. 😁
Obviously, whoever's in control there — their regime's heavily reliant on 20'th stratagem, a.k.a. "fishing in muddy waters".
Hence why newsfeeds make 0 sense(they're waging psywarfare on own citizens), there's anomie(laws are obscure, loose, and arbitrarily work or don't work – despite mass surveillance), people are deliberately impoverished and separated from economy through waves of galloping inflation and zeal of maximum automation – yet there's free bread dispensers to then put plebs on tight leash, and of course this food supply is startegically cut whenever there's any rioting 👍. Social structure is atomized to the limit, where families were succesfully broken down, first being replaced with AI GF bots, and then even that was taken away, being replaced by pr0n. All people live alone, not even knowing who's the next door neighbor, hating and being afraid of each other – so divide and rule at it's finest 👍.
Yeah, that's kinda the world – that simply begs for studying, to even know where you really are and what further options are available. 🤔
So, that's already spending big money on politics then! 😉
And like, organizing own intelligence agency – with which Shanice could be of tremendous help.
Btw, church could've been restored and financed, plebs lured in by giving away extra food, etc... And then used literally like in medieval times – gathering intelligence through confessions, steering the plebs by bullshiting them with religious sermons, etc. 🤔 And then starting local orders, a-la jesuits – to pry around, carry out operations, etc. 😂
Oh well.
The game's universe indeed has potential, but we should not forget that it's just a small indie project, and also a NSFW game 1'st – not even visual novel.
So, I wouldn't expect much, and definitely in short time.
Was just an interesting piece, to have fun with in our real world – which is getting closer and closer to dystopia as well.

Huh, looks like I figured where was the problem with your run.
"Staring at the charts for hours straight" – this mainly. 🧐
How it can be done instead – talk to Jun 2-3 times every day, and she would tell herself there are "anomalies on the stock maket" – only then it's worth checking "stonks.ic", where usually one of the coins is getting either extremely low, or extremely high.
Then also, it's not worth staring right at it 👀, but just re-checking every now and then.
I usually went out for walk, slept for 1-4 hours, or had fun with Jun. 😉
Then re-checked the charts... Sometimes also saving the game if luck was particularly(!) good.
Btw, the chart dynamic is random every time, so it was also possible to re-load as many times as you want, keeping the chart going up and up. 😋
(this is also practically cheating/exploiting, but you don't necessary need to do it – to still have tremendous success with "stonks.ic").
Generally, this approach worked really smooth and casual, and didn't felt like grind, at all.

Heh, on that "buying something actually exciting" – we touched that question on a neighboring topic:
https://itch.io/t/5740024/rich-lifestyle-for-those-who-have-over-10m
I would love to see more ingame options of course...
But, from IRL experience – I know there's nothing really to spend big money on... Even when you have those.
Basically, what you can do when there's far more than enough for own needs...
*Is either starting an organization(any kind, from business to charity), and then paying other people so they could have enough... Which is not without personal risks, and is generally a game for a specific taste(being executive and all – some get high from it).
*Or, the ultimate thing is – going into politics... Which has 1000X more personal risk, because now you're tryin to step on other people with big money, big organizations, big connections, big influence, and FAR bigger experience. Which would likely end with your 💀.
This is where big money are spent, while stereotype of "beautiful life" is prety much a lie – someone invented it to bullshit poor normies. 🧐

Dude, I wonder what you'd do to yourself if you were a LonaRPG fan. 😅

Got weird feeling, about a week after finishing the game this way.
Author just confirmed there would be new version soon... Which should be a good thing! ♥

But, last experience being, that robo-GF just snaped, and ran away at the peak of relationship...
(yeah, "allegedly kidnapped", but that's not how it 100% looked like while playing the game)

So, now Jun has a feeling behind her character – of an ex, that already ran away once. :)

And finding her in a DITCH, AGAIN, with missing body parts and all memories erased – would too feel weird, like stumbling on your runaway ex somewhere in an alley, unconscious and in a puddle of piss and puke. Me saying tck, tck, tck... ( '-_-)
Especially, when(after re-starting new game) – I somehow lost millions of $ and all friends, and now gotta start all over gain.
Definitely a *Marge' hmmm!* moment.

So yeah, before I was like (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ towards Jun.
And now there's that ( #-_-) feeling.

Yeah, I've played my first time about a week ago, the game's pretty cool and I've enjoyed it.
Only, instead of forever life – got ending #14, for which there's been a separate recent topic. 😁
I hope gamedevs add more stuff the next time I'm back, will probably play again in half a year or so. 😇

Real rich people actually got this very same problem – they saved up an immense amount of candy wrappers...
But they still walk the same streets, and operate in the same economy as everyone else...
They describe being rich, as "sitting on a huge pile of cash", while what they can buy is practically the very same set of products, as the normies have access to.
Yes, there exist so called "luxury brands", but they always provide very marginally improved quality of products/services, while charging insane markups like 10X, 100X, 1000X, etc. over what an analog costs normally – all pretty much being scams. Like, an ultraexpensive restaurant food is not much better to good homecooked food, and $1,000,000 Lambo is not much better transport to a good car costing $20,000...
Hence, why IRL most rich just ignore luxury stuff – seeing through it, as if some gypsie con artists are trying to milk them. 🧐

The ingame luxury food store does exactly that – selling like simple cheap foods as rice, tomatoes, meats, etc...
Just with immense markups + snatching 1 million $ off your pocket for just walking in. 😅

200 IQ reply here., bravo.