[Mod][XCL] [0.20.2] XCL Pill Sales Dynamics

[AliAnon]

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[XCL] [0.20.2] XCL Pill Sales Dynamics

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Adds pill shortages to your office sales job, providing occasional incentives to select different pills than you would ordinarily want to sell. How often the shortages occur can be configured (from constant but changing shortages, to a new shortage approximately every month). Shortages can be for: a single pill (Goodgirl Petite, Ready-Maid, or SECRET-ary), two SWP pills, all of Instagirl's pills, all of WANGL's pills, or rarely, all pills except Dumb Bitch will be unavailable. The duration of shortages varies, depending on random chance and the type of shortage. Sometimes a shortage will be serious and will require up to an additional week more than usual to clear up. With this, you can no longer be safe to constantly sell Goodgirl Petites and never face consequences or risks in your sales job. It is possible to configure the frequency of new shortages, and configure up to 4 concurrent shortages/situations at a time.

 

This doesn't generally increase the difficulty of the game on its own, unless you increase to multiple situations at a time, but combined with the Mean Leads mod, your sales job has the potential to get much more difficult.

 

More pill sales situations are planned!

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• Submitter
  AliAnon
• Submitted
  05/14/2024
• Category
  X-Change Life

 

[dingounderpants]

What a great idea!

 

[testry]

Brilliant idea for a mod, with a terrible and unclear name. It's not at all clear from the name what this is going to do, so I would suggest changing it.

[AliAnon]

On 5/27/2024 at 12:27 PM, testry said:

Brilliant idea for a mod, with a terrible and unclear name. It's not at all clear from the name what this is going to do, so I would suggest changing it.

A fair critique. Changed the name to Pill Sales Dynamics. Also confirmed it to be working in 0.20, and changed how pill shortage situations are processed, so now things change every workday, even if you don't go into the office.

 

Future plans include price changes for pills based on pill shortages, possible shortages after large enough sales (maybe even tracking actual pill stock in the background). I might also check out the Bigger Sales Numbers mod and see what compatibility issues there are.

 

Far future plans include situations that aren't about shortages, but production issues, leading to lowered ethics for a pill (e.g. turning a good girl petite from Good ethics to medium or poor), and also giving the player a side effect if they happen to already be female when doing a demo, or possibly giving a side effect even if they pop the demo pill as a guy. Definitely want to include more than just vanilla side effects in these situations too.

[lustytoph]

any reason why i get this error ? The number 0 cannot contain any values, let alone the string "goodgirl basic"I tried to perform an operation on some data, but the data's type was incorrect.       it happends with all the pills

[AliAnon]

On 6/24/2024 at 7:45 PM, lustytoph said:

any reason why i get this error ? The number 0 cannot contain any values, let alone the string "goodgirl basic"I tried to perform an operation on some data, but the data's type was incorrect.       it happends with all the pills

 

Just got back from travel for work. Where is this error showing at? Got a screenshot or savegame? I'll try to replicate it in the meantime.

[Talbert]

I get these all over the place, especially prominent by viewing pills.

 

But it is with an old save, I do not get these errors starting a new game. So I think you have to start a new game for this mod to work.

 

[Morath]

I like this mod, the idea is really nice. There are two things though I've noticed while playing a game with 0.20.5 and only this mod, nothing else.

 

1.) Either my RNG is really off or the shortages are very selective. I would say at least 2/3 of all shortages were either Ready-Maid or SECRET-ary, it is very seldomly anything else and I haven't got one shortage for a whole family (like "All SWP" or so) as of yet. FYI, I am playing with "constant shortages", does that maybe have anything to do with it?

 

2). Not sure if the second part is related to the mod, but for the first two times that I got leads, I got some quite good ones, like e.g. "qualified" ones while I was still sales level 0 or 1. I never got that good ones that early, I found that a bit strange.

[AliAnon]

On 7/9/2024 at 9:12 AM, Morath said:

I like this mod, the idea is really nice. There are two things though I've noticed while playing a game with 0.20.5 and only this mod, nothing else.

 

1.) Either my RNG is really off or the shortages are very selective. I would say at least 2/3 of all shortages were either Ready-Maid or SECRET-ary, it is very seldomly anything else and I haven't got one shortage for a whole family (like "All SWP" or so) as of yet. FYI, I am playing with "constant shortages", does that maybe have anything to do with it?

 

2). Not sure if the second part is related to the mod, but for the first two times that I got leads, I got some quite good ones, like e.g. "qualified" ones while I was still sales level 0 or 1. I never got that good ones that early, I found that a bit strange.

The shortages that are possible have different chances of occurring. Probably something I need to revisit some time, but the general goal is to make the more ethical pills less stable. They go to greater lengths to keep undesirable side effects out of the formula, or to a minimum, unlike SWP pills. So they are "touchier" and more prone to result in a shortage. There's also some oddity to the selection logic in the currently available version, that will be gone in the next version.

 

The mod doesn't (yet) touch leads at all, so your Qualified leads are a random chance. Might be some vanilla changes going on, but it's not this mod.

[Morath]

The new version 0.20.2 looks better, at least I finally got the very first Good girl-shortage.

One small thing that could be addressed by the mod: I got a shortage for the Petite-Pill, but I could assign myself a demo with that pill from the notice board. Maybe you could hook there as well, assuming that is possible and disallow that notice while the shortage is in effect?

 

[lendiforma]

great mod but needs an update I think, makes Dairy Queen pill unavailable at all times

edit: made a small fix for it to show up, still needs to be included in the shortages though

dairy fix.zip

Edited January 9, 2025 by lendiforma