[Mod]Required Rent

[ThisWillSelfDestruct]

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Required Rent

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Required Rent is a household-economy overhaul for X-Change Life.

 

I've always been annoyed that X-Change Life doesn't have enough ways to pressure the player, or enough reasons to make hard decisions. A lot of that comes from money being too easy to come by, and no real drain on it as the game goes on.

This mod tries to fix that by putting a required weekly rent on the household. It does not fully replace the base-game rent system. It hijacks it: you have to cover the new bill first, and the old household bonuses only come back if you pay extra on top.

There are a fair few features and consequences in this version, and a balancing act around how your stepdad sees you as you fall behind — and whether you dodge the longer debts, or steer into them.

This version uses base-game art and systems, but it adds new scenes, situations, and outcomes that should give some replay value if you're bored of the usual offerings.

 

Difficulty
You are able to change:

• Starting rent amount.
• Max rent amount.
• Rent increase speed.
• Rent bonuses included or not.

 

This is a first pass. There's more planned, and some features may not play out correctly 100% of the time. I've tested it a lot on my end, but I wouldn't be surprised if some weird combination of flags, pills, and household state breaks it. The writing is very placeholder. I wanted a working foundation before I went deep on prose.

Requires X-Change Life 0.25.5+.

 

How rent works

Rent is a real weekly cash bill, due every Sunday. The morning planner HUD shows base rent, overdue, and how much is still due this Sunday.

• Money you send with the household 💸 during the week counts toward that bill.
• Sunday takes whatever cash you still have on you toward what's left.
• If you cover it, you're paid up. If he has to take the last of your pocket cash to finish the job, that still counts as collected.
• If you still come up short, the leftover is doubled and becomes overdue. Next week's base rent still comes due on top of that.
• Pay extra over the required amount and the vanilla household bonuses come back for the overage. Fridge breakfast stocking is the exception — that still works like the base game.
• If you're overdue, chore pay goes to the missed amount first. You keep whatever is left.
• Base rent can hike over time based on how your stepdad sees you.

Miss enough Sundays and the house starts taking other things.

 

 

New scenes and how to reach them

 

The rent talk
First-week Tuesday or Wednesday morning, your stepdad knocks and explains the house rules. After that, the planner HUD is live.

Clothes confiscation (Salvation Armani)
Miss a Sunday while you still have sellable outfits in the closet, and he is not on the household-deal track. Sunday morning he comes for the cheapest sellable clothes first. Proceeds pay down overdue. His tone follows the relationship. You can plead, offer to work it off, or (if you're a girl and the relationship allows it) try to pay another way. A successful blowjob uses the vanilla minigame and covers the overdue. Fail it and he sells the clothes anyway, and respect takes a hit.

Computer confiscation
Same Sunday-miss path, but the closet can't cover it (or there's nothing left to sell) and you still own the home computer. He takes the machine toward the bill. Radio Shack still sells the same one, the same way as the first time.

Home-office SECRET-ary work
Unlocked from a confiscation or date pitch if you ask to help more / work it off. After that, Work for stepdad is a morning activity. Yellow SECRET-ary pill, short secretary loop in his home office, Greg as the only interrupt. Starting that morning holds the sale; walking away after the pitch does not. Tickets spend on overdue, this week's due, organizing, intellect XP, or poor cash. A weak held-sale morning costs a lot of respect and friendship. Desk gropes can start from attraction, dominance, and low respect even before household sex. If sex lines up, he can pull you out of the morning; the evening is vanilla secretary-body Greg sex, and he forgives overdue at $25 per satisfaction. That home-office reputation does not carry over to DynaPill.

Paid "date" (Dale or Bruce)
Miss a Sunday while Greg is not sex-eligible (and not close), and either the closet can't cover the overdue or Bruce is already in play with a high bill / low respect. Sunday morning he pitches it. Evening is forced while he takes Alexia to a movie. Dale (from work) pays up to twice the starting rent, at least $500. Bruce, if known and still male, clears the difficulty's Bruce floor or the full overdue, whichever is larger. The client only pays if satisfaction is at least 8. You get one "not tonight" delay per playthrough if you aren't People Pleaser-locked.

Date-fail warning
If the client isn't satisfied, the next morning Greg warns you to cover the overdue before Sunday or he will send someone. He will not name it.

Bruce collection
Fail that warning, still be overdue the next Sunday, and have Bruce known and male (and Greg still not on the deal track). Family leaves. Living-room Insta-Strip scene, forked from the bar. Resist checks are much harder than vanilla. The overdue is covered either way. After this, Bruce owns the rent.

Bruce owns the house
After collection, about half of evenings he can call the way a Resistance deal would — except there is no refusal. Arrival uses the vanilla family greetings. If you're already female he uses whatever pill you're on. He only forces a new pill if you're male (Compliant or Breeder on owned nights), or the Insta-Strip overlay during the original collection.

Greg's household deals
Miss a Sunday while he is sex-eligible, or close (high attraction, low respect), or you already have a deal on the books. Clothes and the computer become what happens if you refuse the deal, not the default. He never HUD-claims the rent the way Bruce does.



A dominant, low-respect Greg can keep this structure even if you pay the number. Setting no more sex kills the sexual deals and the money track reverts to clothes / dates / Bruce. There is a cash buyout if you want out.

Deal mornings (after a deal is on)
Drawer Basic if you're still a guy, gropes, morning oral, requested outfits / breakfast, Friday club lock, and grounding if you blow off the domestic rules.

• One overdue wipe — once per playthrough. Generic bedroom sex, the whole missed pile goes away.
• Touch deal — he may touch you whenever; female at home in the morning; $50 Basic in the drawer. Weekly credit toward rent.
• Oral deal — mornings upstairs, more of the week covered.
• Sex deal — weekly sex, no other men, Friday club at the Pickle, more credit.
• Domestic package — outfits he picks, breakfast he asks for, chores, Friday club, female every day. He covers the week's rent. Failures get punished (including an over-the-knee scene if you ignore the outfit).

 

 

 

Please provide feedback, ideas, and bug reports in the Discord. Thank you for checking this mod out.

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• Submitter
  ThisWillSelfDestruct
• Submitted
  08/15/26
• Category
  Gameplay Changes & Events
• Requirements
  XCL 25.5+

 

[Hessi]

Oh, this sounds extremely nice. I will definitely give this mod a try. Thank you!

[rrh]

Awesome, I was adding the same because there really is no reason to pay rent.
An idea based on the whole Date thing:

- check if the Backpage mod is installed and if yes, set up a Backpage for the MC and use those dates.

- with Alternate Living Spaces maybe even evict the MC at some point.

 

[Talbert]

After the talk with the stepdad on the second day when he explains the rent system, I get blue text on the identical blue background. It can be read after marking it, but better change the colour depending on the chosen design.

 

Stepdad follows my male char day one into all rooms. If I cook something for him, he tells me it is wrong, although he never stated what he wanted. This happens on all days, all morning scenes:

 

 

Edited August 16 by Talbert

[ThisWillSelfDestruct]

The step dad follow should now be fixed, along with a few other things that had slipped through the cracks.

I'll have to do a pass and make sure that the mod follows all the style choices and colors, since I didn't even consider that as a problem. XD

[MHans121]

I've been waiting mods like this lol. My main gripe with the game is there's plenty of avenues for the player to get sucked into the x-change rabbit hole, but not real pressure to actually fall into it. A broke male character has no consequences other than not being able to buy nonessential item like drinks, coffee, and movie rentals. High masc male characters need a large amount of greed to start getting hooked on the pill

[stseifer]

The mod is very good and the updates are fast and impactfull. My 2cent feedback, can you add a meta.meta file in the package so the mod loader knows that it has to replace previous versions?

there is several ways to place the metadata but I think in the root of the zip file should work


meta.meta (suggestion)

metaVersion: 1
name: "Required Rent"
version: "0.1.58"
loversLabId: "50800"
author: "ThisWillSelfDestruct"
baseGameVersion:
  atLeast: "0.25.5"

 

Edited August 18 by stseifer

[ThisWillSelfDestruct]

Thanks for pointing that out! I'll have a meta file in the next update.

[xarvenius]

somehow i end up with corrupted save files that are unloadable after doing secretary morning work for the stepdad regardless when i do it and if other mods are present or not.

[ThisWillSelfDestruct]

50 minutes ago, xarvenius said:

somehow i end up with corrupted save files that are unloadable after doing secretary morning work for the stepdad regardless when i do it and if other mods are present or not.

What's the corrupted save look like when you load it? Were you using the most recent version of the mod? Are you using the Desktop App or HTML?

Edited August 21 by ThisWillSelfDestruct

[xarvenius]

1 hour ago, ThisWillSelfDestruct said:

What's the corrupted save look like when you load it? Were you using the most recent version of the mod? Are you using the Desktop App or HTML?

which desktop app? i only know about a downloadable html version and a webversion you cant use mods with.

running the downloadable html version and i managed to have it happen in 0.25.6 and 0.25.9, didnt have versions inbetween and not had it used on older versions, and use the 2.7.1 exe version of ther modloader.
modversion i have loaded is atm 0.1.73 and i have noticed it on the 0.1.62 and 0.1.72 too.
i did already check for file integrety and if different browsers would help (so far i tried google chrome, opera, operagx, firefox and even edge).
the save gets corrupted in a way that makes it unloadable and thus i cant tell you how it looks when i load it as it just refuses to do anything when i try to load it while tryin to load another save works fine and when i just reload the site it goes back to the last morning wakeup before doing secretary work fo the stepdad.

i always delete old modfiles before putting a newer version of a mod into the modloader and the same goes for xcl itself, so atleast in theory old files shouldnt be there to interfere.

edit1:
did go by and specificaly triggered it via the sunday rent overdue collection and exportet the autosave from that morning and a manual save from the next day, both are unloadable for me but might have some data you can work with.
what i didnt do was changing the whole modlist for this as from my testing so far it didnt make any difference.

bugreport_requiredrent_corruptsave.zip

Edited August 21 by xarvenius
edit1: added savefiles and explanation for them

[ThisWillSelfDestruct]

6 hours ago, xarvenius said:

which desktop app? i only know about a downloadable html version and a webversion you cant use mods with.

running the downloadable html version and i managed to have it happen in 0.25.6 and 0.25.9, didnt have versions inbetween and not had it used on older versions, and use the 2.7.1 exe version of ther modloader.
modversion i have loaded is atm 0.1.73 and i have noticed it on the 0.1.62 and 0.1.72 too.
i did already check for file integrety and if different browsers would help (so far i tried google chrome, opera, operagx, firefox and even edge).
the save gets corrupted in a way that makes it unloadable and thus i cant tell you how it looks when i load it as it just refuses to do anything when i try to load it while tryin to load another save works fine and when i just reload the site it goes back to the last morning wakeup before doing secretary work fo the stepdad.

i always delete old modfiles before putting a newer version of a mod into the modloader and the same goes for xcl itself, so atleast in theory old files shouldnt be there to interfere.

edit1:
did go by and specificaly triggered it via the sunday rent overdue collection and exportet the autosave from that morning and a manual save from the next day, both are unloadable for me but might have some data you can work with.
what i didnt do was changing the whole modlist for this as from my testing so far it didnt make any difference.

bugreport_requiredrent_corruptsave.zip 7.35 kB · 1 download

I was looking into this earlier in the day, and I do think I figured it out. If you do the secretary job with the dad before actually getting the secretary job at DynaPill first, it can do some really funky shit and twist the code into knots.

I had to make it so that the secretary morning uses a full copy of the job, instead of pulling from vanilla pieces of it. I'm doing a few sanity checks to make sure that doesn't break anything else, but that should fix the save issue.

[xarvenius]

2 hours ago, ThisWillSelfDestruct said:

I was looking into this earlier in the day, and I do think I figured it out. If you do the secretary job with the dad before actually getting the secretary job at DynaPill first, it can do some really funky shit and twist the code into knots.

I had to make it so that the secretary morning uses a full copy of the job, instead of pulling from vanilla pieces of it. I'm doing a few sanity checks to make sure that doesn't break anything else, but that should fix the save issue.

something else i just noticed is that if you get grounded the parts of that are specific to getting fucked arent showing up, for example the pleasuremeter where you can see how much pleasure someone involved in the seen has at that point.