Course of Temptation September Update Early Access (v0.8.3) (Patreon)

The early access period for the September update is here!

This update focuses on expanding the housing unit system by implementing roommate/housemate type relationships, allowing the PC to invite good friends and romantic partners to live in their apartment or suite with them. Implementing this also required nailing down NPC schedules more specifically, including giving them more specific and consistent work shifts, and giving them the same sort of daily schedule that Chicory Hall residents have always had, so they're pursuing their hobbies, eating meals, and occupying the bathroom at sensible times.

Along with this are roommate-related events such as sharing a meal, watching a movie together, or... walking in on them in the shower. Roommates also help you pay rent! Or at least they're supposed to, and their occasional failure to come up with the rent can lead to other events.

We're also adding much more transparency to the style perception system, with store items, your wardrobe, and your current outfit display all showing you exactly how the perception of your style is being determined and can be changed, all contributed by CGeorge. Rfpnj has expanded some food menus and added clear labeling of vegan items, and noonycurt has implemented secondary physique changes from gaining plumpness and from pregnancy.

As we approach the public release date, I plan to continue doing some more work on this update: 1) Extending the selection of roommate events 2) Implementing a chores system that can alter the PC's mood and give you more to like or hate about your roommates 3) Allowing NPCs to decorate their rooms and show some individuality 4) Implementing the flip side of the roommate relationship, where the PC is living with and owes rent to someone else.

As always, keep an eye on the student lounge in Discord for updates, or just refresh the early access download page periodically.

To report bugs or other issues, please use the bug-reports-ea channel (or just bug-reports) in the Discord. If you prefer not to use Discord, you can also message me on this platform.

Please find your early access link after the changelog! Thank you for your support, and I hope you enjoy!

Release notes

You can now ask good friends and romantic partners to move in with you and become your roommate

NPCs will generally only agree to become roommates if you’ve had a stable relationship for at least two months, if they have no mistrust or anger towards you, their Friendship or Romance attitude (whichever is most relevant) is at least 80%, and they have no other commitments (meaning that friends in committed romantic partnerships will not move out to room with you)

In order to move in, you must have a bedroom available — friends will expect their own bedroom or will room with an existing partner, but for the PC’s own romantic partners, they will live in the PC’s bedroom

Individual room ownership is now considered, meaning that you lose the ability to rearrange or alter a bedroom that an NPC roommate has claimed

Added some new furniture to the furniture department in JT Ult, notably couches

In new worlds, NPCs will now be assigned specific work shifts, so that finding them in a certain place of work on a certain day of the week at a certain hour is consistent

Townies now act on the same basic schedule slot system that students do; generally only really noticeable if you live with them, this means they’re now consistently in the bathroom in the morning, finding food around lunchtime if they’re not at work, in their bedroom at night, and so on

Roommate NPCs now visibly pursue their hobbies when they have free time at home, playing video games, watching movies, and the like

If you notice an NPC conducting an activity, you often have an opportunity event to attempt to join them, boosting your needs and your friendship with them

An event may fire if an NPC is just in a room doing a particular thing; for example, if they’re occupying the bathroom in the morning, you may need an interaction with them before you can get in there yourself

Roommates help you pay your rent! They’ll owe an equal share of the rent, which they will generally deliver to you in the last week before rent is due

Roommates may sometimes be short on rent if they’re not very wealthy, or they may want to perform certain favors for you in lieu of owing rent

The furniture available within encounters inside housing units should now generally reflect what you actually have in that room

All genders now have the same minimum slider setting in worldgen settings

Vegan foods are now more clearly labeled in shop menus (contributed by Rfpnj)

Added six new dishes to the menu for The Legislator (contributed by Rfpnj)

Added matcha tea to the BangCoffee menu (contributed by Rfpnj)

Added soda to the River Rat (contributed by Rfpnj)

You can now see the professor of your courses on the study and homework screen (contributed by Rfpnj)

When a professor tells you they can’t give you a task because you already have one pending, they will now mention which professor the task is for (contributed by Rfpnj)

The Character dialog now has a note about your No Goon Gourdtober status under the Essentials tab (contributed by Rfpnj)

Gaining plumpness will now have some effect on breast and butt size (contributed by noonycurt)

Pregnancy now gradually increases breast size, and the effect will gradually fade again after the end of pregnancy (contributed by noonycurt)

Items in clothing stores can now display both absolute style perception effects (for example, how dressy an item makes you look) as well as the relative effects compared to what you’re currently wearing (contributed by CGeorge)

Further, you can now see the style perception effects of individual options (for example, choosing black as a color adding to goth style perception) (contributed by CGeorge)

You can also now see the style perception effects of items in your wardrobe after purchasing (contributed by CGeorge)

You can now see your perceived style in the Current Outfit dialog, and how changing an item’s configuration (such as unbuttoning a shirt) will alter style perception (contributed by CGeorge)

The Current Outfit dialog now also displays the effects on style perception of your hairstyle and tattoos (contributed by CGeorge)

The Story Hints section for petitions now includes a detailed walkthrough to help you complete it (contributed by CGeorge)

Many fixes and tweaks

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