Hi everyone (especially devs!),

Thank you for this awesome and time-consuming game!

I have now played the game for quite awhile and I have experienced many bugs (while definitely enjoying the game!), This last bug is preventing me from playing further. I will split this post in two sections: One for bug-reporting and one for suggestions/experiences. A lot of these (or all of them) may already have been reported:

As for bugs:

- Sometimes the game will freeze when you move to the next screen and this always forces a restart. When restarting the game all progress in tavern mood is gone. This can also be abused. If the game crashes on the "economic" tavern screen on a day where goods have been delivered reloading the game will give you the same goods again for no cost and stack them with the goods you already received.

- When you level up a character you MUST spent their skill-points right away. If you don't the points are gone the next time you select that character. Also some characters only get 4 points while others get 6. I am uncertain if this is random, a bug or a feature.

- When a mission takes more than one day you will have to repeat the last quest on a given day when you continue on your journey the next day. This can especially be abused when the last quest boosts a stat.

- Many quests (especially later on) seem to be missing dialogue. Sometimes it will just say [monster25] instead of naming a specific creature. Unfortunately I have not written down which current quests are affected by such bugs.

- After having completed one of the final level 8 quests (SPOILER) where my party went beyond the portal to meet up with the old party who were stuck there I can no longer go to the adventure screen. I can only load the tavern, but there is just a continuous loading-screen when I want to venture out again. And there were plenty of level 10 and 11 quests available.

- I don't know it is a bug, but I have been getting very few tavern-quests for expanding the tavern - even though I have been successful in each one. There are no more quests, but I can still only serve 4 different drinks and 3 different dishes. Also it tells me that I can update my bathhouse and my wine-cellar beyond level 1, but I am not getting the option at all.

- A few quests will fail even if you roll a success. For instance I rolled three successes in the Archery winter-game (level 8 quest), but in the text I was beaten and only got the silver-medal in that discipline. Also some quests will simply stop. For instance the quest (SPOILER) where the head of the mage-school has gone missing. The final part of the quest is to reap the rewards, but it just shows a blank page when I try to select the quest in the menu.

As for features:

- Serving the guests quickly becomes a really boring chore. Most guests have a 98%/97% serve chance so I just click and click to get my new quests. Also I have reached tavern rank 13 which is apparently the current maximum so it feels absolute without purpose to serve people. Maybe later on you can hire a waiter or something like that do deal with some of the chores? Or at least give it more purpose.

- People's backstories are fairly short and not very interesting. It also feels really odd to reach their final info at friendship-level 100. I am in the 800's with some people and there is no reward for this whatsoever. I can understand the idea of giving the story ind bits, but I end up not reading them while they give them (because I cannot remember the earlier parts of the story) and then reading the full story when it is available.

- There are so many items that give absolutely no bonuses. For instance I received a (I think) golden plate which gives nothing. I can understand if these are just for selling, but then why incorporate them in the game when the shop still isn't available?

- Many quests give absolutely no hints as to what happens. I have now learned that when a person curses at me I become cursed, but it would be nice if I could see this during the even instead of noticing it during the quest-summary. Also in SO many quests it says that you receive an item of some sorts, but many of these items never show up in your inventory. (This is NOT the actual quest-rewards. They always show up).

- It is cool to have so many different skills but what would be even cooler would be a description of what they do. Right now the sword-skill and bless-skill provide the same amount of attack but (apart from a few quests) there is no noticeable difference between them. When I create a party I simply try to reach a high number in all four categories without paying much attention to what actual skills and items my party-members are using.

I think this is it for now. I hope my feedback is useful. I will gladly provide saves and/or game-files from my stuck party if this can help your further development of the game. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for the quick reply! I will try to provide answers to your questions :-) The game can freeze between any of the screens. "Freeze" was actually bad wording on my part. It is more of an infinite loading-screen. Moving from the economic screen to the tavern is what most commonly triggers it for me, but again: It can also happen between the other screens, It is NOT from alt-tabbing. I already found out that alt-tabbing is not a good idea at this stage :-P It may also have been [monster17] or [monster21]. I am 95% sure it was one of those three. I will send you a screenshot if it happens again :-) Ahh OK. Then my game isn't stuck. I just reached the current end apparently :-) I am not 100% certain. With a 14-man party I usually try to have 12 people active at a time if possible. I have already thought of three ways to make them more interesting:
1. Make the stories much longer, but also harder to access. The cap could be 1000 or 2000 friendship-points since the game is so "grindy" in nature. Once the cap is finally reached it could reward one skill-point or the like for ever 100 points.
2. Have people reward you with items when reaching certain friendship-levels; i.e. "I have been saving this heirloom for a special occasion, but now I am passing it on to you as you have become a dear friend and ally."
3. Have people gain new skills when revealing their stories; i.e. "I actually used to work as a healer in a temple". Then this would all of a sudden give them the "First aid" skill and so on. It was indeed a piece of equipment. Many pieces of equipment currently offer no bonuses. Others are (I think) probably going to be companions later on like "Tinkerbell" from the random encounter which is currently also an item with no bonuses. I also thank you for taking your time to answer all of my questions and share your thoughts. There is no need to salvage my party as I have apparently just reached the current end. And I probably wont do another play-through until more content is added seeing as I have already beaten most quests and heard most stories. But I will gladly send them if you can benefit from looking at them. Which files should I send you? And is their an email or can I just upload them here on the forum?

Again thank you! I think I will join you on Discord :-)