Zorba the Geek

Lovely line up this time. It goes against the voting trend, but I find Keira especially appealing - her best version by far (imo). What a lovely face and legs she has. This time I think it'll be true, but I don't think I'll reach the goal of Usukami this time. Here's why: not enough kobans (as per usual!), I got ahead of myself in The Leagues and got to top dick in two accounts without being able to level up the right girls as I'd like with the formidable competition I face. This is in spite of the fact that I won the weekly competition in one account (handy koban reward though). So I face the rest of the week lose-lose (same with Seasons). Leveling up? Not enough of the right gems or (in the case of the current Blessings) only two worthwhile girls with golden hair (Sai and Lapis). The last two rounds of Blessings didn't suit me one bit. So I'll be taking a long break from The Leagues so I go back down the leaderboard where I rightly belong. I'm finding the manipulative nature of the new reward system and sub-events rather annoying because many of the tasks are in conflict with one another (like the Champions where my goal for PoA is to lose (naturally and playing The Champions just for this event), but where for other tasks it is to take part which means I eventually win (but seldom ever one of the girls). As for The Leagues, I did manage to get Dolly the Sheep, but no others. So there you are... Anyway, good luck everybody. As I was watching the girls parade in front of the Champion, I noticed that lovely little wolf, Ulfette in her gorgeous knitted red mini dress. As I was watching her I had iStipper playing and three girls were wearing exactly the same kind of dress: Li Moon, Eva Elfie and Liya Silver. So congrats to the artists for going with this most sexy style of garment. I mention this because I used to knit them (but in kid mohair). So I have am particularly partial to this style (more modestly designed though!). Were the artists inspired by these three girls?

English could be regarded as a foreign language to native English speakers, too. So many inconsistencies reflecting a multi-ethnic origin of English evolution as a language. We have 'Plough', 'Thorough', 'Thought', 'Through', "Though', 'Enough' to name a few examples with one syllabic root. These examples could be seen as a number of English dialects that were transliterated when English as a written language started to become widespread. This made a real mess of Samuel Johnson's attempts at writing the first English dictionary (as comically portrayed in an episode of Blackadder). I'm interested in the etymology of English and how the language was derived. We have Celtic Britain (interesting how similar Breton French is to Welsh and Cornish - Western Celts or Britons (utterly different from the Gaels of Scotland and Ireland). Then there were the Anglo-Saxons who gave us Old English with its mix of Fresland, Nordic and German (in a time German, itself, was evolving into a distinctive language of its own - notably Prussian). Contemporary were the Romans who gave us little of their language until the Normans (under the leadership of William Bastard) arrived in 1066. When the legal system and its idiom evolved into its modern form, French Latin was widely adopted, and was further incorporated into medical idiom. What is especially fascinating to me is how Norman-French names for meat cuts as applied to cooking became widely used in English: Poultry (Poulette - fem), Beef (Boeuf), mutton (mouton), pork (le porc), etc. Of course the French gender attributes were not kept in English. Then we had the evolution of personal pronouns (like thy, thine, thou from singular of 'you' to its plural forms - King James English. Whatever the case, English is still evolving, sometimes in ways I don't like, pedant that I am. My current gripe is how a verb has become a noun without any grammatical acceptability. The most annoying example is 'the learnings I have taken from such and such' The Forum spell checker even told me there is no such word!). Of course, the correct word is 'Lesson'. 'Learning' is an indefinite present tense verb; 'Lesson' is its noun equivalent. Why 'Learning' entered the lexicon as a noun I have no idea, but it really annoys me. I fear it will stick around as the media has widely adopted it. For non-native English speakers, it must be a real nightmare of confusion to understand all the inconsistencies! As for American English, they have anachronistic quirks of their Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: 'gotten', aint, etc, with spellings adopted to try to get around those very inconsistencies of British English. Try as they might, though, they are not winning the war on weights and measures. Miles, yards, acres, pounds and ounces are a thing of the past in most countries. In fact kilograms, hectares and kilometres are slowly creeping into America I've noticed, possibly because such a weird measurement as US gallon is used there, and only there. How's that for verbosity? WAY off topic too. Sorry.

I guess we'll have to call the first PoA this month 'Alt PoA'. Despite its onerous (and expensive) requirements I was happy to get the new version of Ulfette. Well, I have no real idea how I managed it, but in this current PoA I got both more readily available girls in all accounts with two days to spare. This is despite being perilously low on kobans (like under 1000). I set out to get Santa Claudia as early as possible and I managed this on the first day. This gave me enough time to complete all 60 champion performances and the 120 defeat villains tasks with natural recharges. Fortunately for me I managed to get the right two contest tasks for my last days, both involving selling items. The girls... I part company with most of you, according to the survey results. I thought all four were a superb lineup, and it's great that Holiday continues her sexy transformation - I wish I was in a position to have got her. Santa Claudia's second pose is interesting for her facial expression; a mixture of defiance and flirty challenge (her turn for a spanking!). Her eyes and mouth are so subtly drawn. Jingle hasn't altered that much from her first version. While it's nice that she's still unquestionably Jingle. it's a little disappointing that she wasn't allowed to evolve into her slightly more domineering and punitive role. The artists have chosen the most beautiful hair colour possible for her. I have a very real weakness for strawberry blonde, especially with the lustre they managed to impart. Since we've included Path of Valour in the discussion, I have to comment on Hobby Alana. In her third pose there are enough banana skins on the floor to suggest she's eaten enough bananas to become slightly radioactive from all the Potassium 40 in her system. That's quite apart from the sexual innuendo from having so many bananas in her mouth. [Sorry for all the spelling mistakes from a US point of view. I use the British spelling which is used in Aotearoa-New Zealand.]

I tend to concur with many of the comments above. A POA that is completely off-schedule and unannounced is a mean-spirited thing to do. However, I'm not too heartbroken (only mad as hell) because in my opinion, there is only one of these haremettes I think is any good and who I'm most likely to get and she's Ulfette. Having this scheduled without forewarning straight after Legendary Days is especially mean-spirited to say the least and seems to be how this game is evolving. I had already dumped a lot of kobans in my effort to get Felicia and I was run very short, not to mention a mediocre drop rate for the concurrent Orgy Days. I have still to get Willow (my first effort) in this account so it should tell all. Normally I'd have two by now. Then there is the so-called rewards. Oh, yes, we get Xmas Arcana, if we haven't already got her, but requiring us to get ALL available girls (including Pachinko-only) for a measly collection of gems just spells out the meanness even more. The final task to get Ulfette is a very tough 70 champion performances and I'm sure to run out of options before then with all of the champions resting. I'd like to ask what the bloody hell's going on!? Ever since the removal of dating tokens with dubious justifications with words like 'balance' and 'exclusivity' we've seen a steady decline in worthwhile rewards (plus a drop rate for single EP spins that has definitely fallen off the cliff). And still, I keep getting a confetti drop of champion tickets when I now have over 8,000 of them in every account. Yes, something is truly haywire.... Like this damn event. It's actually now at the point where even those paying for kobans and orbs are given very little value for money now. It only feeds the gambling curse of hope. It's reached a stage where the fun has gone out of the game for me. I'm being manipulated into wasting more and more of my precious time for fewer worthwhile rewards (like girls) and I have more to do with my time than this. If it weren't for my admitted addiction to this game I would quit forthwith, but it will take only a few more of these mean-spirited retrograde changes to the game for me to finally be pushed out. The dreadful artwork for Path of Valour is another nail in the coffin. They managed to transform the normally sexy Jezebel into someone with the figure of a snake. Now that's an achievement. I'm bound to get some criticism for this post (not least being the spread of topics), but I've got it off my chest. Others more into the esoteric nature of gaming and math calculations would be delighted with the changes and they are made for this group. Still, there are times when (for me anyway who is into this sort of thing) there are some great affection scene and quest scripts - often very clever and very funny - and often tell a complex and compelling story. If it could move more towards romance and love (and perhaps more personality development that would allow us to identify with the characters) and away from plain fucking without any real passion, the game might manage to keep me, but there will still be great parts of the game in which I take no part or where I'm only an occasional participant. Of course, this is my choice, but the cost would be fewer and fewer opportunities to get fewer and fewer girls. Kobans and combativity are the key, but these are dished out a lot more sparingly these days.

Dolly the Sheep!!!? Remember her? She was the first recognised cloned mammal. Since she was from an original I guess Dolly might better merit the name of Alt. Dolly. I don't think it was a coincidence that she was named, Dolly. There's a certain level of this kind of humour with HH these days. Anyway, a sexy ewe might mean something in some countries with the mythology of their supposed ability to satisfy lonely high country sheep farmers (and bachelors). Yes, I'm sure it's a myth! This Dolly brings some sort of digital reality to this myth. She sure is cute and she sure is servile, like any good sheep. I did manage to get her on the last day of her availability. It was touch and go because I had advanced too far up the leagues to get enough of the low hanging fruit and in the end I lost a lot of the time.

My strategy is a drug called L-dopamine.

Against all the odds, I got her in my Lili account with one of those x100 drops. I thought they were a thing of the past, but I'm glad to say I was wrong. Felicia Cross is so damn cute for a giant. Nice touch reprising Nara, too. She's nicely drawn in this version. She looked so forlorn before, like the weight of the world was on her lonely shoulders. It seems Felicia 'sprung her to life'.

As I had predicted, Finalmecia became available, and (also predicted) she was a mythic girl. This is such a pain to me because I'm NEVER in a position to gain a mythic girl. They are always placed with a villain who competes with another one I'm performing against in another event - not usually the same villain. Because Donatien was the right villain in this case, I was able to at least see how truly hard it is to get one of these girls. I had no other intention than that because I knew I didn't have a dog's show, and so it proved. I also discovered why she didn't appear in all performances against Donatien every time. I was welcomed to the feeding frenzy of players having to compete for 9000 available shards every 2 hours (they sure disappear fast!). Yes I took the trouble to read things more carefully this time. In this I can now see the point in the 50X performance option, but this is unavailable to me in my usual koban count. I got her up to 4 shards max (none in two accounts), one at a time. This is appalling! Am I wrong to assume she might've still dropped with a x100 jackpot? Those who got her, excellent luck and great work. Given the effort needed to win her love and mighty boobs, this is great work indeed. But me... I'm not going to try again. It's just too depressing! I dipped a toe into freezing water and got frost-bite.

I have to come clean here. Not long after I submitted my comment, I checked the account harem where Trixie was on 97 shards and I saw I had enough dating tokens left to get her. I'd given up on those because I thought they were removed, but no! So Trixie joined my harem. Yay! Good pose involving Zeina too.

I answered my own question regarding leveling up my girls to open the gems upgrade option. I found out one has to go out of the market and into the harem. It's a bit of a glitch in the system. Checking the gems unlock requirement from there told me that I had, indeed, leveled up enough girls to unlock the next level. I still think it's a crock, though, and wastes a lot of time I don't have. Add to that annoying business with the blessings and it can be a once-a-week grind to change my team. The last blessing rewarded 'playful' girls, which meant I ran out of those yellow gems and couldn't level up Val Levitya in all accounts. Her stats were amazing.

Yes, I agree with the comments above mine. These girls (at least the two I've been able to acquire) are pretty average. Ha! Squala, mershark? Actually, the genus Squalus refers to spotted dogfish. She should've been called 'Lamna' Oh well, I have cats, wolves and now merdogfish in my harem. I wouldn't have minded an actual shark because I think sharks are the most beautiful and graceful creatures in the sea, perfectly adapted to their lifestyles. They might eat us sometimes, but we don't belong in their domain. We kill alot more sharks than they kill us - overwhelmingly. All the same, I can't ever see us befriending Bruce in the way we befriend dolphins. Boy, though! Putting my cock in her mouth? Have you seen those sharky teeth? Hers would make the filed teeth of the headless horseman in Sleepy Hollow pale. I suspect I might end up with progressively fewer girls in my harem from now on. If she's so into oral, how will I satisfy her and avoid an inadvertent transgender reassignment?

This might finally be what tips me over the edge and has me either quitting the game or drastically reducing my involvement to classic events and orgy days. This is on a par with girl drops from epic orbs that seem to have fallen off the cliff such that even paying members would be significantly disadvantaged and they'd have to be left wondering what they're paying for. Gambling has its limits. As is so often the case with the so-calIed explanations in this game they're as clear as mud. I'll give you one instance: As these screenshots inadvertently illustrated, in order to awaken the girls above a certain maximum (in this case, in this account, 450) it tells me I need to have leveled up 35 girls to level 400 before this can occur. Well, I leveled up 35 of my girls to the magical 400 and it still tells me I must level up 35 more girls to allow awakening to 450. I'm buggered if I know what's going on. I have more to do with my time these days than piss around with this sort of confusion. Maybe my girls have gone to sleep with boredom on me and they yearn for a much better cock then I can offer them. I don't know. Good luck everybody deciphering all these changes.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a go. God, I couldn't agree more! Justine is... like wow! I wouldn't mind being excessively stalked and dominated by her, standing up to her and eventually seducing her with tender and ever-so-gentle loving caresses and kisses. That'd do it. Ahem... To me this is her best version and much better for the wait for her upgrades. Nice treatment with eye makeup and lipstick (she's actually making an effort). I wish I could figure out her hair colour: brown or chestnut. Whatever, she's hot! I almost didn't get her as I had to make do with under 1,500 kobans in each account, but I got her in all six. I was eternally grateful for a good contests draw as I had stacks of legendary books to use on my girls and didn't have to go The Leagues route. I've always loved Salem too, but find her 'maternal' boobs a little OTT. Big boobs work much better on (say) Acadia. Justine reminds me in character of a girl in another game: Ayano from Crush Crush - very cute, and even beautiful, but, unlike Justine, very lethal with instruments of murder. I've always thought Justine could be turned around with the right approach, but Ayano cannot be redeemed. Roll on Alice in Fuckland in a few hours. What's the bet Bunny (AKA Alice Carott) features strongly.

Yes, this is important for Mother Angel's 'blessings', I guess, so we can make temporary changes to our orgy teams. Me, I can't be bothered. If they want to express their confusion by revising parameters they can knock themselves out as far as I'm concerned. I've long bitched about this on the basis of general accuracy. Those preparing the girls parameters (profiles) I swear they are colour blind. They especially have trouble with 'red', 'orange', blonde, or strawberry blonde. The haremette where they got the hair colour description exactly right was Alt Jingle whose hair is given as 'strawberry blonde'. This is a very beautiful hair colour and Jingle is made truly lovely with this hair colour. Anyway, those wishing to upgrade their girls on the basis of hair colour should ALWAYS read their parameters and not get side tracked by their images.

Yes. I'm wondering about the extra event mission too. For me they start around 10pm which means I may have to stay up all night when the longer missions kick in. As it is, being rather busy these days, it was a tight timeline to finish in time, even before this change. It's pushing me to consider the unthinkable - finally saying goodbye to the game so I can have my life back. Boohoo. Anyway, the girls... Oh yay! Vechta as a mission girl! Very generous. Now I can check out her affection scenes. Like Blue, I love kitty cats even more than I love pussies. Holly Heck! This looks like a great version of Holly, on first impressions, but it looks like I'll get her quite soon. Holly has a particular meaning to me since she's a doppelganger for a real girl who was a very good friend and one who could've been rather more if I hadn't stuffed things up. This anime version seems much keener to get to know me than the real one I kinda fell in love with, hideously unrequited. Nataly was one of the Cameo girls and I wasn't able to place her until I checked the kissing booth in Begin City. She wasn't the one giving French kisses, but the one doing hand jobs with our hero's balls in her hand and who used aggressive marketing methods. I managed to get her in the Mythic Pachinko a couple of weeks ago. Better looking as a cameo than her original version IMO. The rest... I've got most of them already, except those that are Pachinko only. I've said it before that I don't think this version of Tabatha is very well drawn. I preferred the Splatters Archipelago adventure version.

Thanx for all your comments. One question was answered... the x100 drops are still alive and well. So congrats to you all who got one. To Natstar... You were right not to give up. In Peregrine Took I eventually got her to x97 shards with a top-up recharge possible before the end of the event. So, given the pattern of drops, I rated my chances and I waited til the last 10 minutes. BIG MISTAKE....(!) God, you couldn't make this up! I woke up at 2am (my time) having fallen asleep with 1 hr 34 minutes left to go when I had last checked, only to learn, unsurprisingly, that the event had ended with my secret crush put on the shelf of broken dreams at x97. My only consolation was that she did want me, but expected me to work just that little bit harder in fine legendary style. That's what I tell myself anyway. The worst bit of bad decision-making on my part, though, was that I had been encouraged to spend my dating tokens based on the rotten news that they would be stopped ('until further notice') and we had a limited time to use what we had. With what I had before I went on the 'big spend' I could've got her. So, with all my good intentions I'm now left with 210 kobans to get me by for future events. Sucks to the max! Has anyone maxed her affection yet? I'm keen to know if she's as shit hot as she seemed and whether her affection scenes measure up. Sometimes these are a let down. All very subjective of course and one dude's junk is another's treasure. You may all weep for me now. I won't mind and I would appreciate your sensitivity. Hahaha.

Great choice of thread, this, and the 'no spoilers' rule is acknowledged, but I may creep over the edge. Oops if I do. As members may have noted, I've been going right back through the world adventures when I've been bored. The outcome was really interesting for me. From Digisekai on (or maybe even the end of Splatters Archipelago) much was revealed about the Haremverse and our hero's somewhat accidental role it. The story ceased to be linear and took on an altogether more expansive multi-dimensional identity. Much has to do with characters' memories and how this has played into how the Haremverse and other worlds have been nuanced and even created. That they do unwittingly create worlds is revealed in the shared experiences of other characters. Oh, and something else I cannot discuss, but it has something to do with the founding characters... There has been a lot of switching and space-time dimension events that lovers of the movie, Donny Darko, would appreciate. For those wondering what 'alt' means in front of new haremettes, it refers to their 'alternative selves' and 'alternative dimensions' (like Shokushu), but none of this is true for the were animals like the Longteeth and Carott families who, as is known right from the start, are able to cross dimensions at will and do so to recruit more heroes. Some of the profiles (such as Alt. Lupa's) have actually been hinted at in the story - blink and you might miss it, unless you do what I'm doing and review the whole story from go to whoa. Even Moe Bunny (one of the Mythic girls) makes absolute sense when one appreciates how much she means to our hero (and vice versa), and how much her deepest memories play a role. Moe refers to deep affection and we have to guess what that might mean as it applies to Bunny. Could it actually be that dreaded 'L' word HH are so loathe to seriously use in this story? The bit I'm still puzzled about is the existence of new worlds. Up until now I had assumed they were pocket dimensions within the same Haremverse, but I may be wrong. Is it all our hero's dream or just a game? If the writers are attempting to mess with our heads they succeeding - in the nicest possible way! Some of the characters' names bear scrutiny. Seraphine, for example. This appears to refer to a 'fiery' maiden or personality. This doesn't match her at all, but does her Raphine/Neono offshoot. Seraphine is definitely a name that would best apply to the likes of Kalissa, for example - quite literally in her case. It's become a very much more interesting story as it has evolved within Hentai Heroes and for this I am very grateful. It is more than a mere sex-fest than early on with (from my perspective) too much fucking, fluids and squirting, except when they play a role in parody and comedy. Fortunately there is an awful lot of that and lots of laugh-out-loud moments.

Trixie, with the pretty face and those wonderful 'thunder thighs' so alluringly clad in fine fishnets. Yes, we wants it, Precious, but she's playing too hard to get. Performance after performance I get the cash icon showing, or the occasional legendary gift item (or the useless champion ticket confetti). I worked out that I'd need 5,500 kobans to even have a slight chance of getting her, if the drop rate remains consistent. In my best account so far (Peregrine Took) she is on 52 shards, the next best (this one) 34. Clearly my dick isn't up to scratch. She might suddenly change her mind with a x100 drop, but these seem to be no more. Can anyone confirm a x100 drop for her? Meanwhile, I've been enjoying reliving the world adventures from Digisekai on and a few lights have gone on in my head. My excuse has been that I had lost track of the story having to wait for energy to recharge. Replaying it uninterrupted allowed me to catch the thread and understand things a lot better. The best of luck, everybody.

Tell me, has anyone got a x100 drop on Trixie yet? I think they must've removed these. I haven't actually had a single x100 drop since the last Orgy Days event,which (for 6 accounts) is very unusual for me. If they have gone (or the drop rate for them is dramatically reduced), this seems to be a pattern that has steadily crept into this game - right across the board with respect to drop rates. If members can reply that they have, indeed, gained Trixie with a x100 drop then I'll just put it down to my bad luck.

These events are just a 'toe in the water' for me. I had some spare kobans in my Herbie Hynde account (also the account where she appeared in the thumbnail as obtainable). I gave it 40 tries and not a single shard. I understand getting a girl with 6 stars is a tough ask by definition, but over a short 3 days is an impossibility for someone in my 'financial' circumstances. Therefore, I've given up, for this and all subsequent events and I'm returning to the main event that Mythic Days always conflicts with. Hey, you might be able to answer this... Why doesn't she show up in all my accounts as being obtainable if I go to Gruntt to try against him? If she is not displayed is she still obtainable, even if her thumbnail is not displayed. But damn! Yes, she is one right-royal housemaid - the ultimate classy hottie. I've always loved all these cuties, who seem to be identical - ie clones of an original. Reproduction by parthenogenesis, much like aphids? Reproduction by the queen housemaid without sex (hero intervention) since she was likely to be constantly pregnant? This seems oddly un-Hentai! This is so 'stream of conscientiousness' of me, as I'm thinking out loud here, but I may have answered my own question. This hot chick might, indeed, be the queen housemaid, caught between pregnancies. These efforts have turned her grey, it seems. I sound as weird as Heinrich Himmler (or Hitler for that matter) where stream of consciousness and daft pseudo science had become a matter of national policy.

Wow!! A truly hot version of Bonny. I always liked her bob hairstyle that always looks immaculately groomed, no matter how many asses she kicks (oh, except for her last two poses in her original variant where her hair was allowed to grow). I hope I manage to get her, but I don't like my chances. The drop rate from EP seems to be steadily falling away, but here's hoping. I appreciate Bonny's backstory too and I have developed a lot of sympathy for her past and how it made her loathe men. It makes her seem real somehow. Certainly Selena can appreciate her and the same backstory. I'd be interested to see how her affection scenes are handled. Not a bad version of Lilith either and her leathers and zippers are superbly executed in their fine detail. She has always had a pretty face, and nice upper body, but I do struggle with her hooves. I don't think I'd enjoy a back massage from her where she climbs on me. As for Mynx, she seems out of character, but then this is her first variant as far as I know. She seems more at home floating around in space. She was always more cute than pretty to me. In her opening pose this time her expression seems very severe. Atila? Not sure about her (I didn't like her original variant), but I'll reserve my judgement until I get her. Akhates? Yes, well. I'm looking forward to getting her, but, hey, she already cosplays (or tries to roleplay) Princess Agate. So she remains true to character. But as a nurse? With those scary, unreal eyes I'm not sure I'd be any more comfortable about being her patient than Notka's. Katherina? Oh yes! Nice to see a gag in her gob for a change. She seems to have submitted to it rather easily, if her facial expressions in her animation is any indication. As for Alex - nothing new here to excite me and the same goes for Piper. In her appearances in Splatters Archipelago I always far preferred Tabatha (who was ruined for me when her cameo version came out). I remain hopeful that Cameo Tabatha will get a makeover, more akin to her adventure scenes, even if I had to look at her unnaturally elevated boobs. I would've liked Tabatha to be available this event, but no. I'm not busting my guts to try for these girls, not enough kobans and I want to build these up. If their shards drop it means they love me...Que sera sera. It looks like Akhates already does and she's champing at Katherina's bit to race into my harem, 79 shards on her already. Good luck everybody.

Thank you.

I searched for a thread on this topic, but I couldn't find it. So apologies if I have duplicated an existing topic. No doubt George or one of the other moderators will remove or move it if that's the case. The demise of the dating tokens "until further notice"... At least they still apply for the upcoming classic event (presumably from tonight - my time). HH argue it's to 'restore balance' and to maintain the 'rarity', (or exclusivity?), of girls. I was intending to use event tokens to get those girls available from Legendary Days or from Legendary Contests where I had missed out, but with enough shards for them to be within reach. But now this will be unlikely. Although girls reappear in Legendary days, they do not seem to in Kinky Cumpetition or Legendary Contests. Nor can I ever obtain these girls from Mythic Pachinko it seems. I could've saved and saved my dating tokens to eventually get them but now my hopes are dashed. Oh,and it's not as if the dating tokens were freely available anyway. One could only get them during classic events, ie, once a month. I don't see why I should be denied future dating tokens just because I want to woo and date those special girls I most lust after to 'get them over the line'. Kinkoid loves to trot out the word 'balance' a lot when a change is made to players' disadvantage. He did this with the significant reduction in the availability of the x3 epic orbs in PoP (and it is). What he didn't say was that this reduction is across the board, fewer single orbs available from epic daily missions, too. As well as this I have noticed a reduction in the drop rate for girls where orbs are spent, not a huge amount, but noticeable, especially when compared with earlier times. Having said that, I just got two girls on the trot from spending orbs in Peregrine Took: Fangirl Jezebel and Madame Lilac. But this was exceptional. In three accounts I saved up orbs until I had twenty, then played EP to see what would happen... big fat zero! And this played out over time in all my other accounts except Peregrine Took. I have had girls drop with only one orb to play, but this is understandably very rare given the nature of the RNG, and for me this was always the case. I have to concede that the original setup for PoP was unusually generous, and I've gone on the record as having said that, but I think they've gone too far to 'correct' things. They have also introduced three new categories to compete with those existing for rewards (in previous patch notes). Not only this, but the new rewards offered are pretty underwhelming. I say 'compete' because the new and the old still have only 6 temporary slots to fill, but with 3 new categories to compete for the random allocation of slots - 7 as opposed to 4 originally. And already this has had consequences for me: Two weeks on the trot in this account without my most covetted categories: Bouncing buns (koban and cash rewards) and It's Just Natural (x3 epic orbs and cash rewards). If we're talking about 'balance' how about revisiting the champion ticket confetti they keep throwing at us? I now have over 6,500 tickets I can use in each account and I'll never be able to use them all. From my perspective these need to be cut right back with some sort of balance restored. Others who are keen on Champions performances might disagree with me and play it a lot, but I restrict myself to PoA events where I like a clean slate (impressions at zero) to give myself a decent shot of achieving all 60 performances in time with all six champions intact. Those who like playing a lot have probably won all six girls so, apart from PoA, what is their incentive to keep playing? For them, being swamped with tickets, in daily missions especially, would surely be pointless. I do admit that in PoP I have received far fewer tickets since the three new categories were introduced, but I still seem to get an awful lot of them. I guess we must wait breathlessly for these exciting new opportunities talked about to manifest - BDSM, I can't wait! Do I have to wear a baby's bonnet and get tied to the bed in my undies so I can enjoy being thrashed within an inch of my life by some bosomy Brunhilda in leathers and a cat o' nine tails? As Hannibal Lecter would say: "sounds charming", and it also sounds like your average British public school fantasy. Oh, one last thing, that dreadful Foreplay Event from the last anniversary... it would seem that neither Spectra or Serena are now available. They're not on my list of thumbnails in EP and I didn't manage to get them at the time (no great loss, as far as I'm concerned, but that's not the point). My question is why not? If they're truly one-off girls, this makes them genuinely exclusive and also tells me that the last anniversary wasn't all that generous compared with previous years. In fact, for me it was an utter non-event. It was especially unfair to newer players not that far along the worlds.

dHarry. How can I top your last post? POA is always a love-hate with me when I don't have as much time as I used to. This time I Iooked at my koban bank in all accounts and thought, "Not a dog's show!". I was wrong. With over a day left, I managed to get both girls I could get in all but one account. Even in that account I'm just waiting for the Leagues and Seasons to refresh so I can get the last 20 points to get Nariko. I'm beginning to master the strategies and timing for playing this game. I even went to sleep and took long walks for some much needed sun and fresh air. Spring is in the air here, along with the scents of early freezias, daffodils and the dazzling yellow display of native kowhai trees. I didn't encounter any of the issues others reported. Does this apply to Nutaku only? I don't play Harem Heroes, only Crush Crush on that platform. Oh, the girls... Not overly fussed on any of them apart from Nero, except that dHarry ruined her for me. Thanx dude! A modern day witch with a modern day chemistry lab cauldron in her hand. Lots of chemistry with this lovely. I always thought the original Nariko was really beautiful and sexy, but this version missed the mark for me. As for Harmonia, do any of you watch really old retro TV comedy? I'm thinking of The Beverley Hillbillies. Harmonia is a dead ringer for Ellie May with the appropriate 'double barrelled slingshot'. At least it looks like real water dripping from her fingers, rather than 'black gold'. Given HH writers' and artists' penchant for amusing parody in lots of their scenes and scripts, they might've missed an opportunity here, but then it would over most players' heads I expect. As for Arianne, unlike her sexy previous versions (even in her one-star appearance) she doesn't seem sadistic or sinister enough. I found this aspect of her frightening and very appealing at the same time, but then I might be a bit weird. In general I found the artwork a little sloppy in the two girls I could judge, especially their boobs. Only Nero scores a pass and only for the pose I could judge. It looks like she was drawn by the original artist (as was perhaps Harmonia). The two winnable girls seemed to depart too much from the originals in style and execution and were clearly from different artists. For me this was off-putting.

I have to stop doing this!! Oh yea of little faith! I managed to get her in this account (and in Herbie Hynde) at the end of the third day. First day 25 shards, second 50 shards and third 25. Bingo. My tactic was a surprise attack from behind... Umm. Had a bit of cash to spare on the donation contest and a ton of equipment to sell. Touch and go though since I almost ran out of both cash and goodies. I had an agonising wait to see if others would catch up waiting at 5th place on Day 2 for the last two hours. I dropped to 7th, but it was enough. Champion performances and defeat villains were a doddle for those 25 remaining shards I needed. Had barely enough cash to max out her affection, though. I haven't been left this broke for ages! But it's feet up for me now. Good luck everybody. I was trying as hard as I could to get her since I had other things to do and these contests were so time demanding. Was I happy? I thought I would be. Here was a very unusual looking woman with great eyes and makeup - very... errr, purple though. Her best pose is her first in my view - lovely, curvy figure and crushing thighs. Yeah, dHarry, I get the point about Michael Jackson (but not Janet), but Michael couldn't have those feminine curves - bony instead. I'll give the artist the benefit of the doubt with 'magical purple flush' and I think he was trying to create a special luminescence about her (bioluminescence) and I could imagine the ghastly, pallid complexion of MJ, after dHarry brought it to my attention. It didn't quite come off and so I largely agree with the vote. The first three poses are the best, in my view.