Demon negotiation

[madimpossibledreamer]

     A fix to the negotiation system

Cerkkim:

I’m sure everybody knows about the extremely annoying demon negotiation system in this and the other SMT games.  Fortunately an MMO is much easier to patch than a video game.  A couple months ago, Aon posted something about a rumor involving a fix to this negotiation system to make it less annoying and was scoffed at.

            Disbelievers, scoff no more!  The dev notes for the Tuesday patch include ‘a fix to the negotiation system’.  The dev diary says that alongside the personality combinations, they’ve also added a ‘visual identification’ for individual demons so there’s some sort of cue as to how individual demons of a certaintype will react to negotiation options.  I’m not sure what this means, and they don’t elaborate.

            It wouldn’t surprise me if they aren’t going to come out and say what does exactly what though they may give vague, annoying until you figure it out useful hints as always.  (Care about their player base?  Sure?  Going to hold our hands through this game?  Absolutely not.)  So it’s up to us to develop a database for those with less time or less puzzle-solving power on our hands when it gets implemented.

            (If they make an obvious rhyme or reason to it, I think that’ll cut out at least half the complaints.  Many people don’t care as much about being wrong as understanding why they’re wrong.  If it’s just because ‘the randomizer said that this was the correct response’, that doesn’t cut it, because there’s nothing they can do differently to avoid the annoyance the next time.)

Akira:

Aaaallll right!  It’s about time; that only took for-freaking-ever!  I’m up for it.

            On a side note has anyone heard from a rather helpless male kitsune lately?  I’ve been bugging him IRL but he hasn’t responded to text, which is a clear sign that something’s wrong

 

Sohei: A name would help.

Akira:

Are you kidding?  How many helpless male kitsune have you run into lately?

…Koual.

 

Sohei: No, but I’ve heard some disturbing things lately.  There’s a post on the forum asking if anyone knows where he is.

Akira: Maaaan.  Well, if I know him, it’s just that he’s gotten in trouble for not doing his homework.  Don’t worry too much.

Sohei: Hmm.