The Velvet Raven [Ongoing] - Version: 0.03b

What's New in The Velvet Raven Version - 0.03b?

New
– Pick your role at New Game (7 classes: Hustler, Mentor, Charmer, Builder, Scout, Showman, Wildcard), each with a starting bonus, a passive and a drawback. Name your character on the same screen
– Buy your acts: a new tavern offers the first act only; Improvements > Tavern > New Service sells the next one, each opening the one after. No Tavern Level or reputation needed. Price: one improvement level, then doubling (Normal 2,000 to 32,000; Hard 3,000 to 48,000). Until an act is offered, guests, crowds, Room Locks and Salvucci’s jobs skip it. Older saves keep what they had
– 10 guest tiers, Vagrant to Elite: richer guests bring bigger budgets, expect more and ask for later acts. Easier acts never drop below 5% of requests. Room cards and Rules show the odds at your reputation
– Wives ask for a night out after 7 days without a date. Yes = on that date you always get to pick acts with her, whatever her openness, no energy cost. Yes and no show: she reminds you next day; no or bailing again = -25 affection, -25 more each day until you take her. “Not right now”: -5, then -6, -7… After a raise talk she agrees to, you pick 2 of her acts to do with you
– Gifts: Market has Girls and Gifts tabs. Three affection types, her own type’s gift counts more. One gift per girl per day. Spa Voucher +50 energy once a week
– Best (receptionist Lv5+): sends the girl who’d earn the most from the guest, finisher included (tie: more energy, then lower energy cost). Button on waiting rooms, choice in Sends first / If tied, and a shift-list sort
– Music: “Chills” by Holizna (menu) and “Jazz 2” by Umplix (tavern), both CC0. Preferences > Volume > Music: GrooveDaddy’s Jukebox / My folder / Both / Off. Thanks GrooveDaddy
– Rules button (main menu + pause): every system with the real numbers, plus a search box (“payments”, “tired”, “money”)
– UI scales with the window (1440p and 4K look like 1080p), Zoom 50-200%, Minimum text size, darker Raven theme (or Classic), resizable panels, 10 save slots, Default videos layout, dropdowns sized to their options
– Difficulty sliders at New Game (move one = “Hard (Custom)” with Hard prices). Supporter Credits once the debt is paid. Unplayable clips get a retry before disabling, and Disabled Videos has a Convert button
Balance
– Energy: girls no longer refuse a guest for being tired, they work until empty. Running out mid-act ends it (less happy, no finisher) and she’s done for the night. The receptionist only sends a girl who can do at least half the act
– Builder: improvements 15% => 10% cheaper, the booking pay bonus is gone (was finishing far ahead of every class)
– Scout: 1 => 3 extra market girls, hiring 15% => 10% cheaper, one girl per list at 25% off. New drawback: every act needs 10 more openness (the first act’s first step excepted)
– Showman: drawback is now walkouts cost 50% more reputation (was 10% more energy per act)
– Service Speed Lv7-8: no more girl in two rooms. Instead 1 (Lv8: 2) more guests from the line join her room and each pays; judged half/half (or a third/two thirds) on his act skill and her group skill. She only brings as many as keep him at 70%+
– Max reputation per night: 6 flat => 5 at Tavern Level 1, +1 per level (12 at Level 8). Local Legend adds on top
– Tavern Speed is no longer an improvement: it’s a Patron option (2x-8x, Skip idle, Auto-sim). Games that bought levels keep them
– Hype near midnight only costs the part before closing; the rest is refunded (shown in the night report)
– “Did you forget about me?”: +5 once per girl, then +3, +1, nothing
– VIP Decor and Showman make a guest one tier richer
QoL
– One sort list for Roster, Market Girls and Gifts (Affection, Class, Cost, Date, Days Off, Energy, Name, Openness, Status, Talk, Tier, then the six skills); the shift list adds Room’s act, Satisfaction and Best. Alphabetical dropdowns. Sort picks are remembered between sessions
– Roster cards show the same lines on every card; promised girls show PROMISED / PROMISED! / PROMISE KEPT and stay on the shift, with a check before dating or resting one
– Arrow keys on the Roster move only between cards. Tier tags + Tier sort; her profile lists what you know about her
– Auto-train skips skills already at 100 (thanks Teerkan)
– Market details refresh right after a hire or purchase. Hire shows the gold you still need; every unusable button is clearly greyed out
– Refresh is free and off when every pack you have on is hired. Affection-only gifts are blocked when her affection is full (Spa, Lingerie until max openness, and a needed Apology still work)
– Esc everywhere: closes an open dropdown list first, then the page on top, then opens pause
– Loaded games say “Welcome back … Day N”. Popups taller than the screen shrink to fit. Pause pages have a solid backing
Fixes
– Auto-train training maxed skills; “Hard (Custom)” using Normal prices; Market Cost sort ignoring discounts; sale badge cut off; Build Room / Hire Receptionist not greying out; missing Roster status box; Esc on a dropdown also opening pause; story popup empty space and text touching its buttons at 1080p; tiny night speed list; long names breaking roster cards
– Room Lock dropdowns not opening; Customer Rooms title/status overlap at max level; Esc from pause > Preferences un-pausing the game; Preferences dropdown pulling the pause menu on top; “+0.0” on a maxed wife pick; Girl Packs summary line hidden; start menu running into its footer at 720p; wrong first bill and starting gold in the opening story; Music folder box cutting long paths
– Saves from 0.02h and 0.03a load in 0.03b. Patron options are in the patron build only