Adrian'smole

Yes, Alicia Carott and her mother, Louise... Perhaps, too, some stats on boob size (and especially whether they are natural or augmented - may as well extend the 'cattle market' analogy). No, seriously, I agree that this is an interesting and positive addition. It would be interesting to know how to really satisfy their romantic sides (eg meal, alcohol and gift preferences) with the possibility of upping their affection more and faster and have them want to fuck us more often and harder if we are able to meet these (great workouts for the arenas!). So, in addition to the regular gifts and books we could buy their favourite food, drinks and a wider range of gifts. Probably too complicated, but perhaps a thought. I'm still trying to work out whether Bunny and her sisters are were-Leporids or, more specifically, were-rabbits as stated. I ask this trivial pursuit question because their names are a hint: Hari (hare?), Rabbi (rabbit?) and, of course, bunny. Of, course, if they are of the same family they would have to be rabbits, unless Hari was adopted (Rabbi looks to be the adopted one, though, according to her skin colour - or her mother had an experience with a BBC). The taxonomic family Leporidae includes all the hares and rabbits. I also agree that many of these basic aspects to the playing of the game should've been factored in right at the beginning. You have Abraël (and so I assume you are charm). Think what this might mean for hardcore players with Bunny and Fairy as 'common'. Charmers trounce hardcore in the dominance triangle anyway so this introduction was a further knockback to hardcore. In neither of my hardcore games do I have Levitya. I have her in all my know-how games so she has little value for these on my battle teams. Yes, there is a huge risk that a strong element of unfairness will be introduced, like: "To those who have, more shall be given. To those who have not more shall be taken away." - to bastardise the scriptures out of all context!

Yes, there is the potential here to further kick a heck of a lot of hardcore players, especially, in the guts. Those HC players lucky enough to get Levitya will be further rewarded, but the rest of us have to stick with Bunny and Fairy (maybe Edna of the girls not in EP - or those who won Justine during the Back to School event, if we were lucky) and have their values reduced because the first two are 'common'. Forget Ankyo. Her stats are so pathetic already that she can be put in the upper-middle category of 3 star girls. I have pleaded and pleaded with Kinkoid and others to rebalance the stats for the readily obtainable 5 star girls to make the game even remotely fair for hardcore players, but not a peep out of him or others. I'm starting to get really shitty about it and may be booted off the forum unless I restrain myself . So we now have all the hype about changes to the harem, but nothing to address the very basic iniquity referred to above. It's not as if they can't do it. There was a major rebalance last year and this had the effect of penalising know-how players (affecting Solveig and Mountain Sophie for example), so it can be corrected again. Since Fairy, both world reward girls have been charm (Kalissa and Lenaelle). If Shina ends up being charm too we will know for sure there is a conspiracy of bias at play - if we haven't worked it out already. The contrasts between my know-how and hardcore accounts in arena battles is stark. In my know-how accounts I haven't needed to manually increase my personal stats to remain competitive, but I had to for hardcore. Furthermore, I had to do this for my highest HC account if I am ever to beat Finalmecia when she's fully levelled up. The difference can be explained by the fact that I have only two potential 5 star hardcore girls in my harem (apart from Ankyo whose stats are so pathetic she can be disregarded). If I can afford the 19.1m cash to complete Fairy's final upgrade she will still currently offer attack power of up to only 9.9k (compared with Samane's or Abrael's 11.1k). It sounds like this will be further knocked back under the new rarity ranking system in favour of those HC players lucky enough to get Levitya. I've yet to come to grips with the changes, but they sound pretty arcane to me and, like you implied, I remain both sceptical and cynical. While it's not there yet, I agree that there has been a steady evolution towards a cash-grab in this game and I will be one of those who would leave if this comes to pass. I am ultimately looking towards supporting the game, but through the Patreon route, not through coercion and manipulation in some kind of 'loot box' system through which we would be expected to spend real money if we are to ever advance through the game at any more than a crawl (I have quit other games that do this). Overall, it's an excellent game and deserves to be supported (as HH need to earn money), but I want to be able to choose how to do this. I'm not sure how to achieve a balance between fairness in the game and the need for HH to remain commercially viable... Maybe a good proportion of DLC, as well as major game upgrades, that we can purchase (and this would mean much less internet traffic and less of this current strain on HH's servers), or an online subscription model. There are some real fishhooks, though, with either option and a lot of players will leave unless it is fairly managed and promoted.

Edited out because of --> Sorry for the profanities, but I'm mad as hell and have been for quite some time now. I hate injustice in all its forms.

That makes absolutely no difference for hardcore and what you say is just weasel words. ALL the girls I'm taking about are common (charm, hardcore and know-how) so presumably their stats would be equally affected. I'm talking about a complete rebalance of the base stats, but it seems you guys either can't see it or refuse to do so.

Regarding the rarity status of girls, Shao is regarded as an epic girl. I have her in three accounts! Weird. On another matter, in the patch notes I do not see any efforts to rebalance the extreme bias towards charm and particularly against hardcore in terms of attack power and class stats of girls. Compared with charm (SIX 5 star world reward girls, each with attack power of over 8k - THREE are over 10k), hardcore has only TWO 5 star world reward girls (plus Ankyo), only two of whom have attack power over 8k and NONE over 10k. Given that charm is dominant over hardcore in the arena, this bias is even more pronounced. Ankyo's stats are a bit of a joke. At 5 stars they fall in the upper-middle of the 3 star range for girls so she can be ignored from consideration. Why she was not treated the same as any other 5 star girl introduced so far I have no idea. Sure, hardcore have Levitya as an option, but few players got her and I notice she's in the legendary category for rarity anyway. This does NOT redress the balance in favour of hardcore any more than a token amount - with an awful lot of hype accompanying her release as well. Why has the bias not only been allowed to happen, but perpetuated for later world reward girls? Sort this out urgently instead of all this cosmetic tinkering with the harem and how much it may cost us to upgrade our girls!! I have yet to analyse how much these changes will affect hardcore girls, but I may comment in due course.

I might have a hint here. There is a cookie/API that is often slow to launch (performing handshake). It is www.statisgeek.com... Failure to properly load this can slow the rest of the loading process right down. I can read the progress for loading on the bottom left in my browser. I'm also wondering if different browsers cause different issues. I use Mozilla Firefox.

Cheers for that. Congrats on getting the girl in your class. I have a sneaking feeling that all their battle stats are up there with (say) Edna or Secretary Rabbi so you might be able to use Noomye on your team.

That would have to be a record for last minute! Well done. Dark Lord appears to like you; he hates me!

Yeah, I got her too and, to me, she's one of my best girls. Despite her demonic credentials, she's feminine, shapely, beautiful and sexy! I agree with you about the footjob. I don't think it is a spoiler with this lack of detail. It only goes to show just how much the artwork in the game is evolving and the fact that the artists are prepared to take a few risks. This came off really well with Venam and I can't wait to see what the others are like.

Sorry to say again, but I don't think there's a remote chance HH would do this. Part of the charm (and risk for players) in this game is its randomness and we just have to suck it up if we don't succeed. My answer, as people will know by now, was to largely bypass this event and concentrate on upgrading my harem. The reward for me in doing this was upgrading Princess Noemy in two accounts to 5 stars, winning Venam and upgrading her to her 3rd star (and appreciating her loveliness in the process). If I'd taken part in this event, my usual lack of success against Dark Lord would have had no effect other than to cost me an enormous amount of money and delay these upgrade opportunities. I figured that events were coming so thick and fast that, if I were to take part in every future event, these opportunities would remain forever distant! That I managed to win Rabbi twice in two accounts without really trying simply emphasises the random nature of these drops and how unfair this must seem to players who have spent up large for combativity refills to try in vain for these girls without success. Depending on how the RNG is configured determines if the chance of a drop increases with each unsuccessful try or whether it makes no difference. I happen to believe it makes no difference and that the system resets back to random after each attempt. There might be a difference, however, depending on the number of girls left to collect from each boss. It stands to reason that if there are (say) three girls to collect your chances of a drop taking place is three times as great than if there is only one girl left. If the system uses the 'accept/reject' random key (where (X-1)n gives an acceptance value - and a drop - and Xn gives you the money instead (where n is the random number drawn in the RNG), even this may not apply. I think the RNG is also configured according to the probability set for a drop to occur, like (say) a 1000-sided dice or a 10,000-sided dice, or (in the case of an accept/reject system) 1000 six-sided dices or 10,000 six-sided dices depending on the probability (drop rate) set. I know HH tweek this rate.

Sorry to say, but the drops are random - in EP or against the bosses. I found this to my cost trying to win Levitya in my two hardcore accounts during the Legendary Days so-called event. Truly perversely, I won her without even trying in all four know-how accounts where her only value is as dubious eye candy. In my last stint at Epic Pachinko (each 8X single plays), I got zero girls in 6 accounts, Super Girl in one and Zoe in another. Apart from a few legendary equipment and gift items, most of my 'wins' were useless (mostly charm) epic equipment items that I promptly sold. In fact, in one game these epic items were all I got out of all eight tries. Compare this with the Second Chance event where I had Tachibana and Asta (in consecutive single plays), Skytte, and Shao. I also managed to get mostly legendary gift and equipment items (same number of plays, but the contrast was stark). I had luck on my side that time, but much less luck last time. I actually think the RNG in Epic Pachinko IS skewed toward event girls first, but this doesn't mean you won't get regular boss girls or EP exclusives. I would've loved to try for Easter Bunny (I love Bunny in all her forms, and especially her pig-tailed Easter form), but I haven't got enough kobans to risk single plays this time. In two accounts I need to save 6000 kobans in order to complete Samane's and Fairy's final upgrades to 5 stars so 10 play EP is out for these.

It was the opposite in my case. I never did get Hari (probably through lack of effort), but I got Rabbi in two accounts (for the same lack of effort!). I just wasn't into this revival event and I spent most of my effort upgrading my harem and getting Roko Sensei to a point where he starts paying out well when I beat him. I was rewarded in another account when Venam dropped. I didn't spend kobans for any refills and this has never worked for me in the past anyway (Levitya is a case in point - also held by the accursed Dark Lord!). Dark Lord has always been a problem for me. He hates me with a passion! In the events he tenaciously clings on to his captives and refuses to loosen his grip. I can usually get his girls in full 14 day events, but mostly miss out in these 7 day revivals.

Seems that some people have the same gripes about Dark Lord that I do. No luck getting Hari, but I haven't tried very hard. Dark Lord's costume for this event is kinda... weird! He has a big red scrote and balls under his chin. Since he's a cock (in the avian sense of the word) I guess having a set of balls beneath his head is entirely appropriate! I have Bunny's sexy and sophisticated dark sis in this account. I reckon that milf mum of theirs had her way with a BBC to conceive Rabbi (why am I not surprised!?). Rabbi's about to get her final upgrade.

That's assuming she'll be Levitya. This is hardly likely, nor will the girl be hardcore - probably charm if the imbalance of class allocation to girls follows trend.

Yep! Got Venam in another account after only 35 battles. Just a moment ago I managed to upgrade her to her 3rd star. She may be a demon but she's so, so beautiful in all her profiles and affection scenes. She's more feminine and shapely than sister Mala - at least in my opinion. I'm kinda glad she's my first in this world, even though she's charm. Wadda hottie (literally, I suppose, and figuratively)!! In terms of game strategy, in my know-how accounts it's Noomye I want. Venam must've been an outlier because I've had no luck since from battling Roko Sensei part time until he levels up enough.