Newlife 0.8.12

Hi all! I've had a bit of a tough time lately - I had to go into the hospital for a while and things have generally been difficult.

However, there is good news - the latest version of Newlife is out, and it's quite a big one! This update adds a new neighbourhood along with a bunch of content around living there and earning a living as a sex worker.

There are some things I wanted to add but wasn't able to get round to, and it could probably have used some more testing. Barring further health reverses, I should be able to get on with things in the next month and I'm hoping for good progress.

Enjoy the new version, and let me know if you find any bugs. I won't have stable internet access for the next week or so, which is why I'm putting the release out now and not taking the weekend to test & make small changes/fixes. That means I won't be able to fix any bugs until late next week, but I will pick up any reports and make sure I take care of things when I can.

Enjoy the springtime, and have fun!

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

Added a new 'bad' neighbourhood, a crummy flat in the redlight district in a building used for 'other purposes'. This is overseen by a new landlord (the “Pimp Landlord”) who is always the landlord for this home and only this one.

Failing to pay your rent in the non-redlight homes will now have the PC evicted instead of going into debt. Failing to pay in the redlight area will still cause debt, although this may be changed later.

The PC can, on moving into the redlight home, offer to do sex-work as a side-gig. This is handled by events and is not treated as a “day job”.

Two new events for the redlight home, focusing on the impact living there can have on her work. Both of these are currently only available for working characters.

Minor changes:

Increased the weight for the “interact with first baby” scene to make it more likely to fire during its restricted time window. Thanks to AnarChYsT for highlighting that this potential issue.

Added an action to go back to the initial choices to the move-home scene, now that there are multiple available moves.

Redlight neighbourhood has a slightly higher chance of mugging events (90 weight, compared to 80 for the starting home and 10 for the pleasant one).

Added some stats and game-flags to track prostitution, both in the new redlight content and the existing hotel/street scenes by Secondarian.

Rent modifier is now tracked on a per-landlord basis rather than a single value.

Changes for user-submitted content:

PIMP_LANDLORD can be customised. Bear in mind that this NPC is always the landlord for the redlight district and only that – he cannot be given other landlord traits.

Bugfixes:

Fixes to some text issues. Thanks to StuntCuffer for reporting some of these.

Fixed an issue with text about changing landlords when moving back to a home you've previously lived in.

Fixed an error reported by Gamecat007 where one of the childfree events was throwing an error when opening.

Fixed a bug reported by StuntCuffer where the “dragged to bed by your hair” route in the scene where your husband demands you fulfill a breeding vow was still triggering for shaven-headed PCs.