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From Rags to Riches

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The game is currently 100% complete and contains close to 1500 images, and around 20-25 hours of game play. There are over 80 characters and over 50 hirable girls for the brothels.

The game has a few interesting mechanics. Throughout the story you get to upgrade Edgar's roguish skills as well as sexual abilities. You then get to use these to handle challenges before you and progress throughout the story. Furthermore, later in the game you get to establish multiple business of the.. let us say, catering to lecherous citizens of Tego, the main city. You must maintain, grow and upgrade these businesses with eye on your income and expenses as well as your business' reputation. Lastly you must hire and find girls to work your fine establishments. 

Finally if you play your cards right, you'll get to pursue your ultimate goal the throne and Lady Isabelle. But beware, there are several endings depending on the choices you made throughout the game.


If you enjoyed Ascension I: From Rags to Riches, you can continue the story in Ascension II: Arcane Prodigy found here

Updated 8 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
AuthorThe Pink Penguin
GenreRole Playing, Visual Novel
TagsAdult, Erotic, Fantasy, Male protagonist, Management, Medieval, Story Rich, Text based
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
LinksPatreon

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Hi, just checking on a few here. I've met several hurdles while going through the game and so have gone checking out some of the scripts while playing around with Narrat. Some of these minor issues I've self-modded a fix and worked, others I've set aside as to not disrupt/deviate the game flow, ie. changes that will modify variable state, experience gain and limit etc. 

  1. What is the unlock requirement for Ship Full of Women! achievement? In one run where I've done all 6 crew achievements + Catnara achievement + completed 50 crew serving side quest, and still the achievement would not unlock. Couldn't find the unlock script in the narrat files either so if there is one its related to maybe a data count or the combination of a few?
  2. The siren random event in Chapter 2 seemed to have a typo in the Stealth roll option (number 3) resulting the option grants Oratory experience instead. Also is the repetition intended for this quest upon first successful roll on each option? I find it intriguing that this quest existed in such a way as it means one can max out Perception/Oratory/Stealth(if its indeed a typo) very early if repetitively choosing these 3 options after clearing each option's first roll.
  3. The Natural Talent quest (Glory House hiring of Nala) seemed to have a flipped operator in one of the dialogues based on MC's dick size - Nala will comment that MC has a "big cock" despite the operator checking for a lower than 16 size count. 
  4. Era Tanaka's debauchery quest trigger is a bit iffy and honestly I've not put too much of a test to reproduce the error but it did showed in one of the playthroughs so far - The option to check on how she's doing would appear after at least 3 Era scenes (I counted 4 events contributing to this variable). Now if you clicked on the option at 3/4 count, don't complete the quest, load a save before clicking the option, unlock 4/4 scenes and get back to the club the option is no longer visible. I cannot recall if unlocking 4/4 is what caused the error or the loading of previous save messed up the state (which shouldn't be the case). 
  5. Is it possible to increase the save slots and save chances given the very limited number of autosave slots with Narrat? I understand the logic behind each save chance is the possibility of MC dying, but some quests that checks CG loads will benefit as well. If the save chances are too tedious, the save slot increment would be a good alternative. Just a suggestion though.

I'll add more if I find anything else.

First let me start by thanking you for your diligent work. Such detailed observations made it easy for me to fix the first 3 issues. The new version is available to download already, both on itch and Patreon.

For point 4, I'll need to investigate much more. It might be an underlying problem with the version of Narrat used and upgrading to the most recent of Narrat is not in the plans right (it would require weeks if not months of work do to many breaking changes and customization that needed to be built into Narrat, time currently spent on Ascension II).

As for point 5, what I could do is provide a semi-manual way for players to make saves at Edgar's apartment / cabin. I originally opted not to do that, as I wanted the game to be less of a scrub save type of game, but  if the players want it, I can put a few hours in implementing it.

Lastly, are you on my Patreon? If yes, please send me a direct message, there's a possibility I'd like to discuss with you.

Not really, I don't have a Patreon account.

I think with how the way Narrat manages saving and loading there's very little chance to avoid save scrubbing unless the game is linear through and through. I've modded the apartment choices to include a save command and configured the save slots to 30 instead of the default 10 though most players would not need more than 20 I'd reckon. The logic worked during playtesting though I've not verified the save state enough to identify issues. 

Some follow up to yesterday's issue and other newly discovered ones:

  1. I've re-read Era's scripts and most likely identified the cause of the issue. Since the option to check how Era is doing is determined by a variable counting how many Era scenes have been unlocked, resetting this variable to remove the option once clicked also resets the Era scene counts. Because the save point only comes in after this reset happened, player must complete the quest on that instance or Era will be locked out for hire permanently as if player failed the quest challenges. This will also affect all save files due to Narrat's behaviour as well, meaning any previous save that already unlocked one of Glory House/Dungeon/Amazon Guild will no longer work.
  2. Unless this is an intended feature, girls working in buildings with Intelligent as primary stat will not gain any skill proficiency as the stat is not part of the core case list when evaluating customer satisfaction.
  3. Just to confirm if the stat portrait of each girl can only be viewed during evaluation and skill upgrade. If this is intended then its fine, but its and idea to throw around to have a gallery view of these portraits for those that would potentially miss them if they maxed out skills while working, ie. an option that loads the images recollection-style. Not necessarily required, but another release as a mod for example.

Think there are other little issues like the investigation options at Rose's house, but pretty minor and not necessarily game changing both in VN and SLG wise so I'll leave them out.

Again thank you so much. This is a great help. I've made the correction for 1 and 2. As for 3, that is as intended. A mod might make sense, or if there is enough demand I'll put the time into it to add that feature.

How can you level your kissing stat if it is at impossible difficulty during the Nymph princess quest? I have exhausted about all the side quest type stuff and very few opportunities to kiss outside of the very beginning when you are on the ship in ch 2?

Hello Login12345. In that version, you can not. More quests were added in Chapter 3 in the full game, many of which enable you to increase your kissing skill. Thank you for reminding me, that I need to create a clean demo version of the game for free play, which will limit a bit more how far you can get so as not to hit that soft lock for players.

Hey, I umm might have bricked the buildings button... Basically by having an empty slot in a building then going to candidates and hiring them before clicking on them to work in that slot, the menu just goes black with only the X in the top right.

Thanks for the info Thanatos. I'll see if I can replicate it

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Thanatos, I'm not able to replicate the problem. Can you give me more details on where you are at in the game and which version you are playing?

It's 0.13.0 Day 442, just Hired Trinity and have the Amazon Barracks unlocked

This happens every time you do this? Have you tried reloading a previous save?

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I've finally managed to replicate it. It will fixed in version 0.19.0

Does this game have sound?
I can change the volume in the options but it doesn't change.

Sound is not implemented yet. It's part of the roadmap next month. Sorry for the inconvenience.

All good. Was a bit confused if it was a problem on my side because you can adjust it, even though  with sound not being implemented yet. :D

Yeah, sorry about that. I hope you enjoy the game without the sound. :)

Sound is now available on the Patreon version. So expect it on the public version in 6-8 weeks.

Nice to see this still being developed. I haven't had the time to try the latest releases, but I do remember enjoying this when it first dropped. Excited to try it out again when I have the time :)

It's gotten a lot larger, so I hope you enjoy. I've currently hit the 80% of the game done, so I figure a few more months and the main storyline will be complete as well as most of the side quests. If there's enough interest on Patreon I might add some exclusive content as well, before I start the second game of the series.

Hi, I have a bug, I can't progress to chapter 2 after finishing chapter 1 in the port

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Hello Red Lotus (great name btw), it's not a bug. Chapter 2 is not available in the demo. It's only available as a work in progress on Patreon.

You do raise a good point. On my next update I'll be more explicit that this is just a demo and that it ends on chapter 1.

I hope enjoyed Chapter 1 though. :)

Yes, I enjoyed it so far, its a game with great potential

Thanks, I really appreciate that.

This looks quite promising from what I've played. I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops.

Thank you for the encouragement. :)

Is there a plan to make it playable on Mac?

Eventually, yes I'd like to have a MacOS version, but for now it's limited to Windows. If it gets popular enough, I'll at least create a browser version which should enable MacOS users to play it.

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In it's current state the game should be named from riches to rags more than the opposite, but i understand that's only the start of the story.

A nice RPG game with a paper RPG feel to it and nice porn as a reward.

Not overly fond of the fact that you can't take tests you failed anew once you load a saved game.

Had some issues with skipping the story too, sometime the game crashed when i did that.

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Thanks for the feedback Chestercat. The original title was Riches to Rags to Riches, but I felt like that was a mouthful :). 

I've debated a bit on that point of loading and retaking failed. Part of me likes that you need to try something different, but another part feels like if you are reloading it should be a clean slate. I look forward to hearing more feedback as I'm clearly still on the fence on that feature.

I'm sorry you are experiencing issues, please let me know where you hit those, and I'll fix them straight away.

True, the original title would probably have been a bit long. ^^

I do understand the logic, but if you follow that logic till the end a failed attempt should stay failed. Similar to a paper RPG where one only have one attempt and bear with consequences. Preventing players to attempt the same thing, but allowing them to try something else seems a bit weird to me. I have the same feeling with successfull attemps mind you, some rolls seem to have been saved as successful. Like the decision to ask for Lady Isabelle for a secret passageway. There was apparently no roll once passed, but here you left the possibility to pick an alternative route.

The game only crashed when i skipped the story i did read already, i ended up not doing that anymore and could finish the demo. The amount of times it happened the most was after, the erm... second choice i think, when i chose to use stealth to sneak in the manor after the majordomo said the MC was not on the list. As long as one doesn't start anew a billion time to get to see all the alternative paths/skill gains and/or get all the rolls to be successfull there should not be a problem of stability.

Well you convinced me. I'll get that change in by the next update.

Also some of the failed checks are actually funnier texts. Not that you should go fail everything for kicks.. :)

Only giving my opinion boss, maybe wait to see what others think.

I did see a few funny failed attempts, didn't have to try to get them to get some. ;)

Also i didn't go full on fanatic either.  Like the MC said he was a virigin and then failed -most of- the sexual actions i did let it pass.
I might be wrong, but i don't think the girl gets to cum even if all the checks are successes anyway.

But things like perception and cunning checks i didn't want him to fail them, given that he supposedly noticed and prevented a conspiracy.

What can I say, it's  a good opinion.

BTW, you might want to try being a bit less nice. The MC being a virgin is only one of the possibilities at that point.

Regardless you can definitely make her have a great time, but I made that purposely hard, because well, the MC is a bit of a nooby. I'll add a save point just before that section.

Some of this is to give an illusion of choice. you need to run through the tunnels because plot. The game is huge!  many times all the paths are basically the same,  This is done to allow higher quality content,  having three actually differnent options doesn't really help the story it would only bloat it.

True as that might be 'running through tunnels' is just boring and not so different from reading a linear story.