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LifePlay “How To…”

Grind Play

LifePlay is a life simulator game that allows you many ways to play your character. You can, at any time, simply cheat your stats to whatever value you want. The problem with that is it quickly becomes boring because there’s no sense of achievement. While players of video games often complain of “grind” the fact is the sense of accomplishment is best achieved by grinding it out; this is especially true in a game like LifePlay where it’s a single player and there is no way to actually win.

Most games have experience points or something, LP is no exception. In LP you can gain Perk Points and bonus points if enabled. This is essentially a skill points game where you get to choose what to spend them on. Perk Points can be spent on any of the available options, bonus points on a limited group of options randomly generated on the last action at orgasm for you or your partner.

First, I’m going to discuss some general gameplay elements. LP is an adult game and almost everything is centered around sex and sexual relationships. At the start of a new game or at any other time you wish to change them are a bunch of “mods”; as a general rule the more mods you enable the more chances you have to get laid and thus progress. Of course, which mods you enable will influence how you manage your MC, as in you may need a family, contacts of all ethnicities, pets, etc.

So, 1st let’s discuss character creation. You can be any of 3 genders, M/F/Futa. If you’re going to grind My suggestion is to play the “New TF Game” option as it seems to give you the most chances to get laid and thus accumulate points, although the others aren’t far behind. Ethnicity is all personal preference, its only impact being what ethnicity isn’t viable for the interracial mod. Age isn’t much of a factor either, the lowest possible is 18, unaware of an upper limit, they’ll impact the old/young mod but that’s again more about your preferences. The biggest impact is what genders you are attracted to because if you and a partner aren’t attracted to each other most points don’t count or won’t even accumulate; if you’re planning to grind, I suggest being attracted to all 3 genders to speed the process.

I do have to address the fantasy races here. While Catgirl is just a skin with no impact on stats or gameplay all the others have significant impact on gameplay. Elves get a weekly bonus to intelligence gain and more importantly become more attractive every time they have sex. For Vampires stat gain is time-dependent (night more, days less), energy is only significantly recovered by feeding, feeding on other fantasy races lets you gain attractiveness (elves), fitness (vampires), and fertility (orcs), and your hypnosis can be used to change attraction to you, even adding your gender to an NPC. Orcs have increased fitness and fertility but I believe penalties are to intelligence, interpersonal and attractiveness (I’m not sure, I don’t really play orcs). In addition, having fantasy races enabled will trigger NPC sex scenes as well.

As with almost every game, you’ll be needing money, the nice thing about LP is it’s NOT real-world money. Of course, Vinfamy is busting his ass on this side hustle and despite the game being free if you are enjoying it then it would be extremely nice of you to toss him a few bucks on his Patreon page to fund his ongoing efforts. As to in game money you’ll be wanting a source of income, luckily options abound, and they aren’t mutually exclusive. The only real limit will be how many game hours you choose to spend on them. Don’t worry about losing sex opportunities, you won’t, if you’re active at anything you’ll have chances.

Let’s talk about relationships. Firstly, your kinks and choices aren’t under discussion here, you do you. That said, I STRONGLY recommend that the 1st relationship you pursue be with someone with significant submissiveness. The reason for this is quite simple, even without poly enabled this game is NOT monogamy-friendly. Because of this unless you want your relationships to all be ending almost as fast as you can start them you are going to need a Significant Other who will accept your request for an open relationship, that way you can act on the opportunities from the NUMEROUS NPC offers you will eventually be receiving without much impact on your serious relationships. And since you accumulate most points by having sex the more people you can bang without consequence the better your life (and quicker the grind) will be.

Now we’ve reached the “How to…” part of the guide, I’m going to discuss Perks first.

Perk Points are accumulated via “achievements”, the exact criteria for each you can check on the so named tab. They are then spent on the Perks tab. The order I always spend them is “Perfect Date>Familiar Fuck>Steady Conquest>Highly Efficient>Bad Influence>(optional) Role Model>2nd FF>2nd SC>2nd HE>2nd BI> (optional 2nd RM)>3rd HE>Sound Investment 1, 2, 3. Beyond that go nuts. Special consideration should be given to Experimental Vaccines, games are weird, it seems to be tied to the player character, but sexually transmitted diseases will follow a definite pattern ranging from “never” all the way up to seeming like “after every 3rd bang”. If it’s annoying you (and it will), spend points on EV any time after the 1st Bad Influence, but not before. The effects of the order prior to that are simply too useful to pass up. Note: you cannot “cheat” a stat value to accumulate perk points, you have to earn them honestly by your actions. Also, for those stats based on a sex act, if your gender combo isn’t attracted to eachother the act won’t count. You also can’t achieve them with toys, including strap-ons.

Now, about stats. There is 1 stat that doesn’t seem to move no matter what you do, “public”. I suggest you set it to 100, more on why later. Now, your perk points are spent on things that impact almost every stat, but especially your non-sexual stats, conversely bonus points are almost exclusively on your sexual stats. What stats do… there’s a mathematical function done as part of almost every action you take in game, the exact elements vary per action, but essentially all the relative stat values are accumulated and then submitted to RNGeezus for judgment. As to the rest of your initial stat values, set them to whatever you like based on how much you want to grind.

The default stat values are always the same for new player characters, excepting fertility which will range from 1-5%. You will start at 33 years old, $3,000, with a 100 for energy and mood, 50 for attractiveness, fitness, intelligence, interpersonal and proneness to orgasm, 30 for perversion, 20 for all of the sex stats EXCEPT sub which is 0, almost all the other stats are 10 excepting job experience and intoxication which are 0. Based on how much you want to grind adjust any/all as you see fit. Note that attractiveness is quite hard to raise, especially compared to the other stats, there are simply fewer opportunities, and the better ones require both money and a lot of time.

Your stats will be changed based on your actions and random scenes that pop, but unless you plan to trigger specific scenes from the command line you will have very little control over the random scenes. You can of course spam the same action multiple times to work a stat (ex. spamming “groom” to work on attractiveness); make sure to turn off the timeout after action option in “Settings” to do this. Your other option is your bonus points.

Bonus points happen from sex. They are 0-3 possible choices based on the position you were in at the last orgasm, and they are accrued both for you and your partner(s), chosen at random. Note that fitness, perversion, attraction to player and +/-proneness to orgasm and +/- masochism can occur in ANY position, while bondage and public will never be options. All other points require that they be at least 1 element of a position, so for example you won’t see anal unless one of you had a cock in your backside. Quite obviously players building a dominant MC will have a bit more control as you’ll be choosing the positions and setting the pace. I have seen point value options of 0.1-2.0 and assume that’s the entire available range. That range seems to diminish on the top end based on repeated orgasms in the session and whatever your value in the relevant stat, i.e. if your fitness is over 50 you probably won’t see a + 2.0, etc.

Now, the priority for spending points… of course it’s your character/partner and you can do whatever you like. However, let me give you a reality check here. Since the system has been implemented, I’ve been doing almost all my grinds from a stat value in almost every category of 0. Functionally what this means is two-fold, very few people given a choice want to have sex with me AND I have such little staying power that I rarely reach orgasm and sometimes my partner can’t either, meaning no bonus points (perk point accumulation is NOT affected as orgasm is not required for any of the achievements). Since we are trying to accrue bonus points we need to maximize the number of orgasms and that’s why the following order of priorities. Note, for single scene randomly generated NPCs there is no priority, point changes are not applied until you finish having sex and you’ll never be seeing the NPC again unless someone got pregnant.

Until each value hits 20, take the highest value given for either fitness, perversion, or +proneness to orgasm. This is because fitness decides your staying power, you need 20 perversion to get a sugarbabe, and proneness factors into every determination of how much you enjoy any sex act and thus the pace you can go. After 20 you don’t need to worry about perversion at all, it climbs very fast just from normal gameplay. After 20 perversion, always take fitness or proneness, whichever is the highest gain, tie goes to fitness. Do this until that stat reaches 60, at which time the stat is reduced to tier 3, because you’ve reached the point of diminishing returns (great, you can bang for 15 minutes, means nothing if that missionary vaginal is giving you no pleasure to eventually orgasm from). However, fitness, perversion and proneness won’t always be in the pool of available choices, that’s when you go to the next priority tier.

Tier 2 priority choices are the highest value offered for either vaginal, anal or rough, ties as you see fit. The reason for this is simple, these are combined common elements for determination of pleasure to get your next orgasm. In other words if you are banging doggystyle it will be in a vagina or anus and it may be rough. So even though your doggy stat may be at -35 the fact your vaginal and rough are both over 40 means you still might be enjoying yourself, thus building your next orgasm. These will stay tier 2 all the way up to 100.

Tier 3 priority will be all those stats I don’t specifically list as bottom tier. Again, you always want to choose the highest value available among them, so for example doggy +1.7 would trump oral +0.8.

The bottom tier are masochism, attraction to player, perversion above 20 and the absolute bottom is -proneness. Masochism is being changed based on whether you or your partner are dictating the position, pace and roughness/femdom elements. Attraction to player is being handled based on having the familiar fuck perk leveled. Perversion climbs faster based on your actions, basically if you strip or bang it goes up, for your partner it’s controlled by the bad influence perk-capped to your current perversion. As to -proneness, I read that above 80 means that your arousal starts to climb at all times but you want to keep that below 20 at all times for at least 1 game year, actually it only needs to be below 20 at 9:00 am on the day the points are granted and at SOME point on every other day, easily done based on you’ll likely be fucked at least once every 2 hours after about day 3 unless you are exceptionally repulsive or you just play REALLY weird.

Now, the best way to accumulate bonus points for quickest gain. Ok, remember how I said above you want public at 100? Well, remember or not, I said it. There are 2 situations where it will be an element in the pleasure accrual operation. Sex anywhere besides a home, prison or a bathroom is considered public. Also, a three (or more) some is considered public. This is good because even with 0s in every considered stat in the operation that 100 will always be factored in. So, accept or extend propositions as often as possible, with an emphasis on group sex and public locations.

Another possible element is bondage, once the bondage stat is high enough it can increase the pleasure female body-types derive from sex. Bondage points are accrued by having sex in bondage. For NPCs this is easy, just put them in at least 1 piece of gear when you bang them, but note that this is also likely to make them more submissive, so decide which you prefer. As to the PC, you cannot just put yourself in bondage to gain in the stat, an NPC has to do it for you-the exception being “office plaything” which for whatever reason has no effect on the stat. However, once your stat IS high enough you will benefit from the increased pleasure gain by putting it on yourself.