Harem c8m4 released Sep 6 2019

[ker]

After way to long of a wait, I’m happy to give Harem c7m4 to my patrons! Cecilia has resisted your power for far too long, it is time to break that resistance once and for all. You could not have done that without the help of many of your women, but Terra may find herself changed by the events as well. And the rest of the world moves as well. There are two groups of interest in Elan, it’s time to curry both of their favor before making both of them yours. And of course, there’s so many beautiful women in The King’s Pleasure…

https://www.patreon.com/posts/harem-c7m4-i-17855021

Harem c7m4
-After a long time waiting, it's time to put Cecilia back into your harem for good! Or evil, up to you really...
-Terra had a huge role with Cecilia. Reward her as well but beware the consequences!
-There are two sides in Elan, the power and the people. Both sides have jobs for you.
-Neither the Namuhists or Betans would stay quiet after being beaten. They have their own plans for you.
-You've spent a fortune in The King's Pleasure. Alison may have some new skills to show off, given you've done the other trainings.
-7 new in-game scenes, 1 more scene for the Legate+ patrons
-229 new images, 172 new pages of text

Other
-Reorganized Legate+ scenes, moving Bigglack's and Arden's commission series into their own slots.

And with Harem c7m4 released to Patrons, Harem c7m3 becomes available for free! You have recaptured Cecilia, found out how she resisted you and found the tools to overcome that resistance. Time to start the process of breaking her. The Praetor of Corsix is the key to getting back into Celee, but you’ll have to earn his trust first. Caliga in Elan will need to trust you for your betrayal to work. And maybe the women of The King’s Pleasure can teach your own women a thing or two!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3KuKj ... TIzUTdrQUE

Harem c7m3
-Change to numbering, Chapter 7 begun when the player entered Elan. So c6m6 was the first release of Chapter 7
-Cecilia is a Shada, resistant to your power. The Mask of Senesca will finally shatter that resistance!
-Claudia and Caliga seem to be vying for your attentions. That could be useful, as are the people of Elan. Time to get to work.
-To get back into Celee, you'll need permission from the Praetor of Corsix, and you haven't taken everything from that area yet.
-Your women may be great in bed, but there's always room for improvement. Time to start training them in The King's Pleasure.
-5 new scenes added, 2 more coming for Legates+.
-123 new images, 120 new pages added

And of course, a few teasers from 7m4!

[ker]

7m5 and later plans:

I hope you all enjoyed both the new content in c7m4/the ‘great quest’ 7m5 April Fools Edition for Patrons and 7m3 for the public. There are a few things left in 7m4 that I want to adjust, a few quirks and balance issues, but not enough to release a 7m4.2. Those changes will be made in 7m5.

Let’s talk about what’s coming up! We’ll be introducing a few new characters in c7m4, although some won’t be joining the Harem for quite some time. I have the next two to three stages of the Elan storyline plotted out, and I think you’ll enjoy quite a bit of it. Not only in terms of story content, but the Elani ball that Caliga has been talking about finally happens and you get your shot at Claudia. Chinua also has new content, but you won’t get quite as far with her. And ArdenW, one of my commissioners, is using his scene in game for some new Rachel content.

Hiro and Altan are working on the questline which will allow you back into Celee. Altan is creating his first character that we’ll get introduced to in 7m5. It might be a while before she joins the harem, but I hope to keep that storyline moving along fairly quickly. Hiro has a quest in Corsixa done as well, and I’m hoping to finish up Edrin’s story this release. T51b is working on some Leona content, but I’m not sure if that will make 7m5.

Taking a bit longer of a view of things: I hope to put Harem c7m5 out to my patrons on the 20th and the public would get c7m4 then. I should have the Elan set up for the climax in c7m6, which I’d like to release on June 10th. c7m7 would be the climax of the Elan story and the reopening of Celee. Celee would be chapter 8 and it is likely to be fairly short, focusing on Celee and the Tenta in Denai. Then chapter 9 in Greca!

Just keep in mind the further ahead I predict the less confident I get in the predictions. I’d like to move releases back to early in the month, but it will be a few steps to get there. But lots of cool new content for you to enjoy and new women for you to experience!

And of course, a few teasers to try to tempt public players into becoming Patrons!

[ker]

I think I underestimated how much of a writer’s block I had trying to get through Cecilia’s and Terra’s scenes in 7m4. Since those were finished, my production has shot up tremendously. So give me a minute to give Ceci a good spanking for being difficult before moving onto what I’ve been creating in the last week!

Alright, I feel much better now. Harem c7m5 is going great so far. I’ve already finished more in Chinua’s training than I was expecting to get done this month, and have her route to capture about 95% plotted out. We’re finally going to get to Caliga’s ball, seeing a few old friends and meeting a few new people there as well. His downfall is fully plotted. Speaking of parties, Altan is also finishing up his segment for another fancy schmancy part to attend, and there’s a scene commissioned in there as well, so it should be fun. Hiro has finished his Mercalius quest and most of Edrin, and I hope to get both of those into 7m5 as well. Rachel and Angelica are getting some in-game commissioned work done. Throw in some trainings and c7m5 is looking like a solid release even with its short dev cycle.

Patrons, remember to log in and cast your vote in this month’s TKP training poll. I will be closing the first poll EoD on the 10th.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/development-poll-8347674

And of course, what would an update would be complete without a few teasers from 7m4, trying to convince everyone to support the development of Harem!

[Karei]

ran into a glitch

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

where u have to kill 15 groups of the tu'than in the mine west of lesser corsix. it does not seem to keep track of them no mater how meny i kill still says need to kill 15. tried loading older saves and the last version still no luck. evil this play though if that makes a differences.

I'm having this same bug. No matter how many fights I do against them, the quest just never ends.

EDIT: It seems like enemies killed using Terra's spells, or at least her area fire spell, don't count toward battle-counting or kill-counting quests. During a replay through the game, I found a similar bug to the one above while using Terra's area spell to kill 20 bandits to reach the bandit leader. After killing them with just normal attacks, 20 bandits later, the leader unlocked. Then later, killing tu'than individually with regular attacks, I didn't have any issue this time, and the quest completed after 10 battles.

[ker]

After way too long in development, Harem c7m5 is ready for my patrons! Caliga has been making you do quest after quest for him to get invited to his ‘ball’, and more importantly, for a night with Claudia. That time has come. The Elani themselves are far more trusting, sending Chinua to you so you can train her in swordplay. Which you will, just not in the way she intended. Mercalius has heard that Caliga is throwing a party and will have his own. With blackjack and hookers! (No, he doesn’t actually have Blackjack). He also has a quest for you, sigh.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/18585391

Harem c7m5
-After months of work to get invites, Caliga's ball is finally happening. And with that, your night with Claudia and chance to make her yours!
-Speaking of parties, I could call c7m5 'The Tale of Two Parties'. And Mercalius knows how to party... and he has a certain secretary that could use a taste of your power... and a rather hot wife!
-Chinua has been brought to your base for training in swordplay. Time to teach her how to handle a piece of steel
-But it can't all be just fun and sexy bits. Mercalius does have work to be done as well!
-A document has been added to /walkthroughs, outlining the History of Rata from Kathleen's perspective. It will be added in-game in a later update
-5 new in-game scenes added (2 dance), 1 more to the Legate+ category
-224 pages of new text added, 207 new images

Bug fixes/QoL
-Numerous combat changes, reducing frequency of AoE from enemies and adding base attack to all enemies
-Fixed BGM assignment at start of game
-Numerous text/potrait/other issues. Thanks for the reports TG
-Simplified Westlands Camps, shouldn't be possible to get stuck there anymore

And with that, Harem c7m4 goes public! You’ve been chasing down Cecilia for almost a year, first recapturing her and then find a way to break through her resistance. Well, you have all the tools needed, time to get that job done. Terra was also very involved in the process, and might find herself changed by the experience. The Province of Elan is beign governed by a petty tyrant, and that gives you a great opportunity to take his place. Time to get working on that. And of course, more quests and an event in The King’s Pleasure!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuK ... TIzUTdrQUE

Harem c7m4
-After a long time waiting, it's time to put Cecilia back into your harem for good! Or evil, up to you really...
-Terra had a huge role with Cecilia. Reward her as well, but beware the consequences!
-There are two sides in Elan, the power and the people. Both sides have jobs for you.
-Neither the Namuhists or Betans would stay quiet after being beaten. They have their own plans for you.
-You've spent a fortune in The King's Pleasure. Alison may have some new skills to show off, given you've done the other trainings.
-7 new in-game scenes, 1 more scene for the Legate+ patrons
-229 new images, 172 new pages of text

Other
-Reorganized Legate+ scenes, moving Bigglack's and Arden's commission series into their own slots.

ran into a glitch

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

where u have to kill 15 groups of the tu'than in the mine west of lesser corsix. it does not seem to keep track of them no mater how meny i kill still says need to kill 15. tried loading older saves and the last version still no luck. evil this play though if that makes a differences.

I'm having this same bug. No matter how many fights I do against them, the quest just never ends.

EDIT: It seems like enemies killed using Terra's spells, or at least her area fire spell, don't count toward battle-counting or kill-counting quests. During a replay through the game, I found a similar bug to the one above while using Terra's area spell to kill 20 bandits to reach the bandit leader. After killing them with just normal attacks, 20 bandits later, the leader unlocked. Then later, killing tu'than individually with regular attacks, I didn't have any issue this time, and the quest completed after 10 battles.

That is really strange... but I've never been able to figure out why that bug happens, so a very strange reason makes sense. I'll take a look at it for the next version, for now it sounds like you found a solution.

[ker]

Hello everyone! I’ve hope you enjoyed the new content released in Harem c7m5 (if you’re a patron) or 7m4. And I hope you took the time to try t51’s VN dating sim, not really my own preference in adult games but to each their own!

Harem c7m6 is coming along well. About half-way through the development cycle we have over a hundred pages written, about 100 images created and most of the base code already in place. Exactly where I would hope to be about this time of the month. Hopefully I’ll be able to start beta testing by the next week, again about when I would want to start beta testing for an early-month release. Which feels very strange. After all the hurdles and bumps Harem’s development has gone through in the last year, simply being on schedule is not the norm. But a good thing!

So what’s coming in Harem c7m6? More things to do and more ‘things’ to see of course! The next step in Chinua’s training and you’ll be learning more about her, the history of the Elan and more about the fabled First Empire. In exchange, she’ll learn more about her own people, particularly about their more relaxed sexual mores. Which would be quite pleasant for you as well. But it can’t all be fun and games, there was a noble murdered. Not that you care, but his beautiful mistress disappeared at the same time, and that is of interest to you. Terra is more powerful than ever before, maybe she can find the last elemental hearts that you need to craft the Solis diamond. And hopefully get either hers or Noemi their turn in The King’s Pleasure, as well as a bit more practice for Donnie/Tomas and an expanded inventory for Rachel!

All that I’m hoping will make it into 7m6. What’s further into the ‘maybe’ category would be another questline in Elan to further undermine Caliga involving Ralap, a noble you met at the party. I’d love to get both Noemi and Terra’s training done this month, as well as maybe a bit of progress with either Fiona (not-Eowen path) and Edrin, but those are probably on the wrong side of the bubble already.

If you want to get instant access to Harem c7m5, I of course would love your support! Maybe a few teasers will get you more interested!
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2583450&u
If you haven’t had a chance to try out T51b’s new game, give it a shot at:
https://www.patreon.com/MidnightHearts

[Lucky777]

Goodness gracious it's been a very long time since I played this game.

I don't even know how it's going to go when I finally get back to it.

What I DO know is that playing from the beginning every update is.. not going to happen from now on I guess XD

Grats on getting so far, and sticking to it for so long.

... Dunno when I'll actually download it and look at how things have progressed, but I can tell for sure getting to the end of the content will take a substantial time.

[ker]

We have a wiki! And 7m6 update.

http://harem-db.lewdbit.studio/wiki/Home

First, a huge thanks to Leonard for setting up the start for a Harem wiki. It’s one of the things commonly requested and something I know very little about creating, so thanks to him for spending the time to create it! As far as I understand how wiki’s work, their designed to let community members log on and add information that they think should be added. With a hundred people making small updates, they can grow to be incredibly comprehensive. Although this will mostly be a community thing, every page I write in the wiki is a page of content that I don’t write for Harem. And I’d rather be making content for Harem then talking about the content already in Harem.

Speaking of making content, work on 7m6 is going well. Been in beta for about a week now and have caught the vast majority of the bugs (I hope). As the testers work, I’m finishing up the last of the written content and images. Already have ~150 pages of content and images ready or already in the beta, hoping to get both near if not over 200 by the time we release. I’m penciling in Friday the 8th for the release, which should give you all the weekend to enjoy the new content. And at the same time that 7m6 comes out to patrons, 7m5 will go public.

As always, thank you for the support!

Goodness gracious it's been a very long time since I played this game.

I don't even know how it's going to go when I finally get back to it.

What I DO know is that playing from the beginning every update is.. not going to happen from now on I guess XD

Grats on getting so far, and sticking to it for so long.

... Dunno when I'll actually download it and look at how things have progressed, but I can tell for sure getting to the end of the content will take a substantial time.

I've had people say 30+ hours. Although it's more of 'thank you to everyone whose let me do this as my job' instead of 'sticking with it'!

[ker]

And Harem c7m6 is ready for your enjoyment! You’ve learned that Chinua’s far more than just the protector of her tribe’s herd and if you teach her more about her abilities, you’ll ‘learn’ far more about her as well. I heard all the requests for Orichalcum armor in Rachel’s shop, so that will now be an option in her shop. After you both upgrade her and her shop of course. Altan had you attend Mercalius’s party in the last release. While you were mostly interested in the beautiful women there, everyone else seems far more concerned with the dead body found the next morning. Maybe if you investigate the latter you’ll get a chance at the former! And using Terra’s new skills, Derek has added the last of the elemental hearts quest. We aren’t quite there yet, but Eldari women will be on the menu soon!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19334479

Harem c7m6
Content additions
-In your first training session you learned quite a bit about Chinua. It's time to start molding her into a suitable woman, and her fellow Elani Kathleen should be helpful in doing so.
-Rachel's shop has started selling Orichalcum weapons and if you do some work she might be able to add some armor into the shop. And some new moves in the bedroo... dungeon! After getting her assessed at first.
-While you met all kinds of beautiful women at Mercalius's party, everyone else seems more interested in the dead body found the morning after. Maybe if you investigate the latter you'll find the former.
-The quest to find a way to get to the mysterious Eldari is coming to a close, but you'll need to find the earth elementals. If you only had a woman in the harem who can sense elementals and just got a lot more powerful.
-Speaking of training, Donnie/Tomas is helping to train your women now. Angelica's turn, although her standards are quite high...
-6 new scenes added to the game! (likely another 1-2 to come)
-181 new images, 186 pages of new text (likely another ~20 to come)

Bug fixes/QoL changes
-Updated a few characters at base
-Donna will relearn her Inner Focus skill if she had it in Celee
-Various portrait/text fixes
-Updated ch6+ mechanical guide to make it a bit more readable.

Overall, I’m happy with the new content in 7m6 and I hope you enjoy it! And as always, I love to get any kind of feedback you have, my players have a huge amount of influence on how the game is developed. I will be releasing a Harem 7m6.1 early next week as well. I wanted to add a Legate+ scene and something in The King’s Pleasure, but I’m not sure if I’m having a writers block involving those or just a bit worn out. So I decided to release 7m6 without and spend the weekend seeing if I can get those done for a .1 release.

And with 7m6 being released to my patrons ,7m5 becomes the public version! My patrons may know Chinua’s secret, it is now your time to learn it in a very hands-on training session with her. But the real highlight of 7m5 was the two parties. Caliga finally is throwing his ball, meaning you’ll finally get your chance to see all of Claudia. And Mercalius is throwing a party in Meti with a bunch of new women to meet, and a night alone with Angelica! Mercalius is also the gatekeeper to get back into Celee, but you will have to earn his trust before he’ll let you back into that agitated area.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3KuK ... TIzUTdrQUE

Harem c7m5
-After months of work to get invites, Caliga's ball is finally happening. And with that, your night with Claudia and chance to make her into your woman!
-Speaking of parties, I could call c7m5 'The Tale of Two Parties'. And Mercalius knows how to party... and he has a certain secretary that could use a taste of your power... and a rather hot wife!
-Chinua has been brought to your base for training in swordplay. Time to teach her how to handle a piece of steel
-But it can't all be just fun and sexy bits. Mercalius does have work to be done as well!
-A document has been added to /walkthroughs, outlining the History of Rata from Kathleen's perspective. It will be added in-game in a later update
-5 new in-game scenes added (2 dance), 1 more to the Legate+ category
-224 pages of new text added, 207 new images

Bug fixes/QoL
-Numerous combat changes, reducing frequency of AoE from enemies and adding base attack to all enemies
-Fixed BGM assignment at start of game
-Numerous text/portrait/other issues. Thanks for the reports TG
-Simplified Westlands Camps, shouldn't be possible to get stuck there anymore

[UnLimiTeD]

Man, it's been a while since I've been here.
I've originally been sceptical of your reboot in an effort to ... make it less dark, I suppose?
But it turned out better than expected. I now managed to play through the last month version, and while I can play bingo with the scenes (woman cums, next textblock: "that pushes you over the edge" ding ding ding ) it's managed to do something I'm only used to from Visual novels - it left me sad it was over (for now). That nice bittersweet feeling of unfinished business and having to say goodbye to a world, so I have to commend the worldbuilding.
Took me nearly 50, so it even has a comparable length. Though I suppose a good 10h of that were random encounters and doind other activities while the game happened to be running.
Well, sometimes the character has a bit irritatingly limited mental faculties. Like

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Sex with Ulya - there's been women before that resisted at first, potentially several times, and this one now clearly does - ... let's try ordering her around. ... What? ^^

One question though, regarding acquiring Naitay:

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

I assume, barring a mention, that everyone in Shenetore speaks the Cheli native tongue. Including Ralph. But when Naitay calls forth Angelica to whip her to death, she answers. Is she supposed to be speaking Ratan in that moment?

Also, I do notice that the main menu doesn't take the sound settings from the rest of the game. Is that even fixable?

[CloudRipper]

Im kind of curious what everyone's favorite party to use is? Only reason I ask is so far every time I play, I stick with main character, Sara, Angelica, and Terra til after Corsix, then I just pick a random girl

[Darthjake]

Sarah, Samantha and Angelica.

If I know I'm going to a fight that has heavy physical resists, I'll swap Kathleen and Terra for Sarah and Samantha.

[UnLimiTeD]

After recent playthrough:
Always Terra.
Magic AOE is too important to drop if I can help it. Thusly, also very rarely Samantha, who uses party buffs that are better spent on fighters. Also one healer, which in the early chapters was angelica, but later chapter donna breaks even with high speed and group heal. Kathleen is used when ice is required, or against some strong groups by letting her go berserk; Naitay can be strong due to her speed, though her skillset is highly boring in how little tactical choice it offers.
Sarah can be good against few strong enemies, or those with elemental resist. She said something about parrying that I haven't quite seen reflected in her skill options yet, though.

[CloudRipper]

Ok, only complaint I have with playing the dark playthrough is the draining slaves ability the MC has. Makes it harder for me to do auto play lol.
Other than that, I enjoy playing either of the playthroughs and seeing the differences between the two

[Kijuma]

Just a quick qestion, what would be the recommended minimum level to achive before entering Corsix? I ask this since I have hit a hard wall in regards to the enemies of the sidequests before entering the tram. My entry level was 30.

If anyone would provide solid info about that I couldn't thank you enough.


On a sidenote:
I entered with about 3000 Gold and that has gone down to less than 1000 by now, so I must urge all of the active players to grind up to *at least* 10000 Gold if not more.
...and also..

Spoiler warning:

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

I also highly recommend that you get mythril-weaponry/armory unlocked as this will help tremendously.
And buy several full sets of those since you might get new battle-allies along the way.

[UnLimiTeD]

I have barely reached level 32 at the end of chapter 7 - or rather what I assume will be the first third of chapter 7 once it's fully done.
I also got into Corsix with a lot of money - As shuffling girls into and out of the brothel unequips everything and I mostly used the same 5 or so characters, I didn't need full equip, so money wasn't a problem either.
I was happy when I first read that in the re-imagining most sidequests and grinding are optional, but then I did them all anyways because they contain story, and the world building is top-notch.

Oh, but regarding that:

One question though, regarding acquiring Naitay:

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

I assume, barring a mention, that everyone in Shenetore speaks the Cheli native tongue. Including Ralph. But when Naitay calls forth Angelica to whip her to death, she answers. Is she supposed to be speaking Ratan in that moment?

I have found another case of this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

When (light route) bedding Kathleen after first being in the Corde Library, the MC takes his ring off. Either he shouldn't be able to properly talk to her anymore, or maybe there should be a line where he notices - something along the lines of "to your surprise, you can still understand her." ~ maybe the ring translates still when nearby, or it takes a while to wear off.
After all, so far we've always been told that the ring translates, not that wearing the ring immediately teaches the wearer any language they hear or read that was known when the ring was first forged.

[CloudRipper]

Ran into a pretty bad bug in my opinion. Im going after the fire elementals now, and soon as I beat the first one its not letting me do anything else, I saved right after but now it keeps giving me an immediate game over

Edit: Nevermind, I noticed that while Im in the area my health lowers, so that is my mistake and I apologize

[ker]

And we’re back!

What an interesting few weeks. Had to deal with a family emergency coming off of the 7m6 launch which soaked up the first week and then had the worst writer’s block I’ve ever had before. Simply staring at Word unable to get anything going, and almost immediately junking everything a few paragraphs in. And then just when the block starts to break, Patreon suspends my account.

But we’re back now! Patreon updated its rules for mature content to be even more restrictive on what content is appropriate for public facing posts. I actually agree with most of them as I simply don’t want minors playing Harem. It is clearly an adult game and should only be played for adults. When they came out with the new rules I had gone through my prior posts from 2018 and made sure that they were sanitized but didn’t bother with the 2017 and prior posts. My bad, and when I got reviewed the account was locked until I fixed those. A bit annoying, but mostly a result of me doing a half-@#$ed job on my first pass. They’ve re-reviewed my page and it now meets their standards.

So where does that leave immediate development? 7m6 is fairly stable and I’ll try to clean up any of the small bugs for the 7m7 release. The delays will push the 7m7 release into the middle of July instead of the beginning, but there isn’t going to be enough time to get enough done for an earlier release. I’ll be coming be making more posts talking about what’s coming in 7m7, but for now, I just wanted to know that I’m back on Patreon’s good side!

[CloudRipper]

So I have a question,

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

my actual computer is off being repaired and I have a loaner right now

is it possible to take a separate replay file and place it into the folder and the two can merge together, or work fine with two separate ones in the folder?

[Darthjake]

Sarah, Samantha and Angelica.

If I know I'm going to a fight that has heavy physical resists, I'll swap Kathleen and Terra for Sarah and Samantha.

Okay now I'm using Sarah, Naitay, and Angelica, although for forest fight with the Nahumist Priest I took Kathleen, Terra and Donna, and barely squeeked by with Terra killing the last mob before the last shot could take her down. And that was with grinding in the spirit cave with Kathleen, Terra and Angelica to get my party to the 40.