v0.49 Content Planning Poll!

Might be a long shot but just wanted to offer a small suggestion. Even if it's somewhere down the road. Can there be an option added that changes the relationship status of the MC with Jennifer and Lily? Like can they be changed to roommate and landlady instead? Would make for better replay value. Also, can the option for the MC to get his own house or apartment be an option. It is underwhelming to be makings thousands of dollars a day at a company and still be forced to live in your mothers second floor childhood bedroom

Chief Solo

Yeah I think Lily's the only truly attractive girl in the game = P Until she puts on that garish makeup.

Schattenjäger

I must say though, I really really like our sisters face and body! Like... a lot!!

waffel

Hey maybe you could team up with modders on their discord server ?

Ashani

This would be really easy, wouldn't require dozens-upon-dozens of hours of rendering images, archiving hundreds or thousands of new images and 100+ MB increase of the download size.. IF he'd swap to 3D models (which he's already got and uses to render-down to flat 2D images) which renpy supports-- Or, better yet, swapping to Unity and C# for much faster development, performance, capabilities, performance, graphics, performance, and 3D models, and just better in general.. Did I mention the performance would be immeasurably better? This is something I've offered to help with for over a year. It's painful, for me, watching him re-create the wheel from scratch, release after release.. He's already pushing well outside the bounds of Ren'Py's capabilities and is deep inside the territory of a true 'game'. LR2 stopped being a "visual novel" just a few months after development started.

Mash

Seems to me the *overwhelming consensus* is story events, can we PLEASE stop with the business mechanics for a while and get some actual content involving the characters? Also; Truly CUSTOM characters for static/persistent characters (eg; family)- Make them look like they did from LR1, not just another generic (read; unattractive faces, all of'em) face that is indistinguishable from any of the other randomly generated faces? Y'know, I'm *positive* there's a way to render 3d models in 2d renpy, albeit rather difficult. But then you could just have skeletal animations as well as facial morphs for truly unique characters and no more DAYS spent rendering all the individual images and having to archive+distribute thousands upon thousands of images. I'm a competent C# coder with more than 15 years experience, and nearly 30 years with programming in general-- and have experience with Unity- The offer to help you port the project over to Unity still stands, even if you'd prefer not having an open 3D environment for free exploration and prefer to keep a visual-novel style.. but still retaining ALL the capabilities of a true 3D game engine under the hood.

Mash

Should add more positions into the game. like the riding one and hand job ones you already have in the game but for some reason can't use them because one is restricted to one character and event which is jen and the other is locked in another event

Tencho1998

As for other enhancements, I really wish ass expansion serums could be a thing, but that may not be possible in the confines of LR2's character models, I don't know. Also probably way too much work given what the next update is meant to focus on.

Killer300

Having gotten to the point of changing hairstyles, it would be really nice if there were at least moderately unique faces for the major non-random characters. Right now, their distinctness feels way too tied to the face-shape/hair-shape combo, and changing the hair makes them almost unrecognizable. Changing hair color doesn't make me lose track of who they are, but changing the style makes them seem like a new person immediately. (This is particularly annoying with Alex, b/c I can't stand the messy short hair and really wanna change it to something more coifed, like her LR1 style...)

Nona

I disagree with more random stuff ... i want storys that make halfway sense and that are not over in 3 clicks. Isn't it not enough for you that every 5 minutes one of your employes want to chat with you? That at a certain point of playing every employer wants you to help them have sex when you enter the room. There are plenty of random events. I would realy like to have more plotlines (and plotlines with ends) and less random events, even if this mean i would have only 30 Minutes to play per new release and maybe if nothing changes in mechanics than you could play from your last game and not start every time from the beginning. I would still be a fan of a switch between mechanics updates that require new games and story/graphic updates that not require a new game.

Victor

Thinking about how with the family story you play through the same events every time, how hard would it be to assign randomly instead? Maybe this play through Mom has a secret stripping career that Lily wants to find out about or Rebecca has a job interview and Gabrielle needs help with her instapic account. Seems like that could lead to a lot more replayability.

Yeah. Variety is better than repeating the same content every time. The game has all this random character generation but the family story lines are the same every time

I'd like more story content, and honestly with enough addition to story content I'd like more coercion / sleep sex content Maybe a memory eraser trait to reset taboos and a sleeping potion

Ankh of Life

Like if your mom gets fired from work or your sister drops out of school..

Togashi Jack

One thing I'd hope is that if we get family employees that it won't be done in such a way that it feels obligatory to hire them. That feels like something that should be a choice that opens up different content rather than an obligatory path. Give that Jen currently has her own other at-work stuff that probably goes without saying, but still.

Nona

ALL OF IT!!! YESSS!!!

Exodon

I would like to question that you have actual experience by reading what you are writing. A real 3D enviroment needs way more work than what is in the game yet. And VR support, i don't even know where to start what this requieres if you want to make it worth the effort, so that someone would like to use it.

Victor

Oh, and it wouldn't be hard at all (as it already works with Mono) to get an android-compatible build out of it either. This would solve your number-of-files problem you kept running into a while back

Mash

Can I add a new category to the possible vote-options? UNIQUE faces that more accurately match LR1 for the unique/legacy characters? Jenn and Lily look just the same as every 3rd person you encounter in any given location If you're still having a problem with the number of files, I wrote a custom file archiver a while back that basically just groups an unlimited number of files together into a single .mx archive, and can be used by either calling 'app.exe ImageArchive.mx ImageToExtract.jpg -bytes' to get the bytes for the desired image, or without the '-bytes' option, and just a path to extract it to My archiver uses google snappy compression, so decompression is at MEMCPY speed, or basically several GB/sec (de)compression rate, as well as optional encryption to keep people out of the archives The program also has a .dll release that can be included/called by another program (python can do p/invoke dll calls, can't it?)

Mash

I still want to help you port the project over to Unity, to have a true, live, 3D world with actual 3D models, and first-person experience- And better yet, at that point, it wouldn't be hard AT ALL, to add VR support to the game. Edit: Imagine not having .zip files of thousands of images and just having morphs for models and just applying different clothing objects to a flat model with variable shapes by way of vertex morphs and weights.. just sayin'

Mash

I offered to help him port the project over to Unity so we could have true 3D "live" models as are in typical games Could even make LR2 a first-person GAME, not just a visual novel business simulation Imagine waking up in a room, in first person, exiting your room and maybe running into Lily, then out to the kitchen to see Jenn (possibly naked) cooking breakfast, then walking out the house, down the street to work, navigating the office and interacting with characters, etc I've got a fair amount of experience with Unity and offered to help port he project over to Unity but Vren declined, sadly.

Mash

Again, with so many other comments I've responded to here- This is already a feature of LR2-Mods (google it) as well as MANY other enhancements and quality-of-life fixes (like clicking a location goes there without having to 'close' the map)

Mash

This is already a feature with "LabRats2-Mods" (https://gitgud.io/lab-rats-2-mods/lr2mods) and so much more. There's also a "BugFix" branch there that fixes all bugs with each new release Vren does.

Mash

There's been SO much expansion on the business, other people, aunt/cousin etc, but it seems like the original characters from LR1 have just been forgotten. Jenn+Lily, Alexia, Steph, their stories REALLY need to be fleshed out more. We need to get back to the LR1 "secret ending" of having them ALL together as a harem

Mash

This is possible with LabRats2-Mods.. There's also LabRats2-BugFix that fixes all the bugs on every new version release. The mods add all sorts of options, and even new content (GOOD new storylines that don't feel out of place at all) Edit; To find LR2-Mods, just google it- https://gitgud.io/lab-rats-2-mods/lr2mods

Mash

There was talk about a rendering overhaul a while back. Is there any updates to share on that front or still kinda on hold?

DerpNibbles

What are the plans for new outfits? Would like to see fetish, cosplay, maid, bondage, etc at some point

Yes, more faces would be a huge improvement

+1 to that - hoping for unique job positions/events/interactions between the family and employees

Ashani

Also... much better family and children tracking needs to be developed. That system is a complete mess.

Sidrew

Something better needs to be done with the graphics/models in the game. This needs to be tackled at some point.

Sidrew

I have two enhancement requests, one of which should be minor, the other almost certainly isn't. These are related. At present, once you get beyond a certain point, there really isn't any point to auto selling serums, as all it does is increase Attention. ENHANCEMENT 1 - Of course, sometimes you WANT to increase Attention to provoke the visit. However, if you have hundreds or thousands of serum in stock, it is tedious to sell it 10 at a time; can we have a 'sell all' button as well as the extisting -1 and -10? ENHANCEMENT 2: On the other hand it would be nice if we actually had something to spend our money on. You can get all the business improvements for a fairly modest fee; perhaps we could purchase a new house for the family (to take care of Jennifer's money troubles; also potentially move in Rebecca and Gabrielle too). Could we purchase the other businesses (the electronics store, the gentlemen's club, the sex store, and so on)? I'm sure Vren has some ideas for end game 'loot' that are better than any of this of course.

GAZZA

Yeah agreed. Girlfriend is a trap at the moment; the only thing it does really is make it possible for you to get caught cheating.

GAZZA

I would say for the first please expand it to be an option to higher ANY person you hit a required relationship with, or at least ones with a pre-empting role (like student)

Laughingowl

Gotta go with more content with the sister - Although I'll join the "throwing out other ideas" train as well, and say I'd love it if girls with onlyfanatics would ask/be able to use the PC to produce 'content'.

Profugo Barbatus

It'd be nice if it was possible to hire random townies you may have met as well. While with relatives I'd assume there would be specialized role-related material needing added, if you're just hiring a townie (or stripper, I suppose?) that you've cultivated a good relationship with, it'd be fine if they were just a normal employee.

Nona

Also if it was possible to expand the fuck date action to all your lovers over a certain sluttiness that'd be great. The repeatable sex with rest periods is really useful for generating Clarity and trance states, its so strong it actually creates a gameplay reason to not have the girls break up with their previous relationships. I'd like actual benefits to the girlfriend status.

Partran

I'd love a way to regularly share a bed with sis/mom after they're your girlfriend

Partran

Would also like the ability to allow a change to referring to Jennifer so you can actually refer to her as that. Tried a lot of different things but doesn't seem to be an option

I'm voting for option 1, but with a condition. I don't want to just employ them like any other employee. I'm only interested in employing them if they will have some unique position or benefit to contribute to the company

Baarogue

Instead of family better develop content with public relations girl and research girl.

Adam Król

Time to tell the aunt what the the little cousin has been up to, and was any white knight promise to help them, embrace their slutty side. 😈

Zankriger

Oh no milf bros, we have to rally and win more content for Jen and Becca !

Ashani

As much as I want to see more content between the characters the idea of actually having the option to have more access to the family by having them for for you is greatly more appealing to me

markjr