In my case i don’t care if its line code or story line. Its to see the progression, you made.
if an update have 15 000 line in total and the next update 1.5 have 18 000 line i know i have to wait a little more cuz i read lot in on session. By the way thanks.
Till next time.
Getting close to another release. I just learned that choicescript has implemented a checkpoint system and I am trying to implement that. I already had a checkpoint system custom made, but the choicescript one is much easier to use, so I may end up using both. Each scene (besides the startup scene) will have a checkpoint made at the beginning of each scene, and there will be the opportunity to manually save as well.
Updated a lot more, added details for line total in the change log.
Thank you for the update 
How does difficulty affect the story?
Difficulty affects the story in number of different ways. First the game is scaled to be played on Normal for most Hosted Game veterans. When you first choose your difficulty, many things change. First if you choose easy, you start with more attribute points, than you would with Normal, or Hard. Also, on Easy you have 5 checkpoint tokens (or save restores), Normal you only have three, while hard you only have 1. Also, every skill based check, roll, attack, enemy strength / health, depends on the difficulty. On easy, skill checks are easier, normal it is neither easier or harder, and hard make skill checks and combat a little bit more difficult. If you play on hard, you are more likely to die if your ship takes too much damage or you take too much damage. On easy and normal, you have chance to survive and it is a little bit more forgiving if you make a mistake or things go wrong.
Also, the story does change slightly, but mostly in small ways, story content is slightly different, and people interactions may change a little bit, most of them small, but a few slightly bigger, and you may have more or less options in dialogues / choices. The requirement for certain things may be different as well. For example, upgrading your space craft is much easier on easy difficulty than it is on hard difficulty. You may start off with more credits and other resources on easy vs hard. Some achievements you cannot achieve unless you play on Normal or Hard. Certain missions may go differently depending on the difficulty. For example, lets say you play on easy there might only be 1 guard you have to get passed, normal might have 2, and hard might have more or maybe the guards are elite guards.
In terms of just purely story content:
Easy - 98% of the story
Normal - 99% of the story
Hard - 100% of the story.
Mostly it affects skill checks and how challenging the game is.
Depending on your play style here is are some good examples on what difficulty you might choose:
Easy - I just want to experience the story, and though there is combat and skill checks, I don’t want it to be overly difficult. There is still the possibility I could lose, but it is more rare that devastating results would occur.
Normal - I want to experience the story, but I also want combat and skill checks to be challenging. For the most part I should be fine, my character and ship can still be lost, but if I plan well and don’t overextend I should be fine. I can look for challenges if I want and avoid challenges if I want.
Hard - I want to experience the full story and I want everything to be more realistic and in some ways difficult. It shouldn’t be easy to be a Space Captain. I want the ultimate challenge, as it makes the payoff that much more worth it. I understand that even small mistakes can result in devastating consequences, and I need to be careful accepting risking missions unless I know I am ready and prepared for it.
Will the difficulty affect story items such as endings and certain events? The short answer…Yes (the story at times can be slightly different / there are slightly different dialogues), will you notice it (depends on what your doing), the long answer…it might not be super obvious on the main story, but for example when playing the scenarios you might see some major differences and the story in general may add more details / change things when you play on a harder difficulty.
Oops I need to fix that. It looks like he would offer different things based on your need and randomness. There was one scenario that didn’t calculate the reward correctly. Thank you for finding this!
Not sure if you already know that but because of Dashingdon shutting down at the end of January, it would be great if you immigrate your story to https://cogdemos.ink/ thank you
I did not know that, that is sad, I liked Dashingdon. Hopefully the replacement is just as good. Thank you so much for telling me.
Hello. I just wanted to thank the author for the wonderful work he has always done. My first interactive fiction was Life of a Mercenary and I have read all his other works too. I haven’t read this one yet but I am positive it will be another remarkable work and I am excited to see more of his stories in the future.
You attempt to force open the door…
(Strength Check) You only end up managing to hurt yourself, but you thought you heard the door buckle a little. Maybe you should try again?
Health: 25 / {35
Typo in health number.
When finding password clues, it would be better if there was a centralized place we can read them. Also, when you find the partial code to open the bloody keypad, it does not seem possible to read the clue again.
Upgrading the Navigation Chart does not cause you to lose credits.
I forgot to take a screenshot, but I did a side quest where I was supposed to patrol with some guards at the marketplace. I think it concluded with the mission being uneventful and me collecting the payout, but it became an infinite loop which I was trapped in. I’ll screenshot this if I try the game again and encounter this problem.
Good find thank you!
when trying to get inside the mining station and looking for clues to the password to the door with bloody keypad I go to the storage room and search one of the many crates. I can find things to sell, my credit balance goes up(depending on what was found 50, 100 or 200 credits) and in the next moment it is removed. Intentional?
While in same mining station, in Crew quarters door 108 I got Mining Room Locker Code: 1982, yet to find a use for it. Intentional?
After getting to the central station(chapter 3) I did a few missions from security job board and the starter one from Victor and tried to get my Agility from 0 to 1 in hotel twice. Failed twice,100 exp gone twice.
Also i suppose the exp cost is supposed to be shown as numerical when in hotel training simulation, and is not.
While doing the patrol station weapons locker I got the two criminals that try to open locker, noticed the gang tatoo and let them go. Text mentioned they were happy, but criminal underworld is still at Indifferent level. Intentional?
Can sell Heavy autocannon and Ion Laser repeatedly, no need to buy them either.
Would be nice to be able to save, for testing.
When in mining station fight against last drone with Cat and the rest, I can shoot the drone with ion pistol, and text tells me the drone is stunned. Next round i shoot with rifle and get shot by drone. If i miss, it can go on until i hit drone, and am notified drone is no longer stunned. If drone is stunned am i supposed to be hit?
The Grix reward being 0 credits is stil up btw.
During chapter 3 i got 4 cargo slots filled, no idea with what. It is not materials, when using check cargo in ship services have no missiles or anything, so how to check what is it? Or sell it?
When increasing ship hull the step that takes hull to 45 costs 2500, previous one was i think 170, the one after is 190. The one after that costs 3500. Doubt it was meant that way. Also I seem to have discount at Cport shop due to reputation but Cport rep in datapad is indifferent? And I am not sure there is actual discount.
I did the mission from Victor where I act as middleman in the sale of microchips and sold it for 11k. Got message that merchant relations were greatly increased. Checked reputation, saw no change, checked prices in market, no change. Intended?
During patrol at cport, I got stuck when patrolling market. Also please add save system. So I don’t have to redo everything after a bug.
