Bugs thread

DukeLeto7

guhdf This is intended. RPG Maker can only support 4 choices in ordinary circumstances, so it was more convenient to separate it into two sets of four in which Zirantia is "New". (It is only ₂₅ years old at the time the choice is made.)

Grim8P

DukeLeto7 The wiki was correct the last time I looked. The only thing close to this that I can think of is a choice where they offer to vote on different things in a single selection but you can still only select one choice.

If there is a save file with instructions on how to reproduce the issue, we can look into it more.

Thosha

There is a small bug where the Harem count gets reduced to 35 from 36 somwhere between the Harem Prison and the destruction of Ivala's Wall during the final battle.

DukeLeto7

Thosha I'm punting this straight to Sierra and @Grim8P, first pass analysis says it's something wrong with the CSCA Harem script, and I don't wanna mess with it.

DukeLeto7

Thosha However, before and after saves might be helpful.

Waitaminute. Doesn't Ginasta fuck off and delist herself until you talk to her in Postgame?

Thosha

DukeLeto7 Ha indeed, it seems that's the one. So the final battle is not bugged. However, if you first ask Yarra to check your harem size in the post-game it gets put back to 36 (even without Ginasta) and then when you get Ginasta back, you get to the impossible harem size of 37

Thosha

Thosha I noticed this because the Yarra statue in the extradiminsional HQ needs 36 harem members to spawn and since Ginasta temporarily left us it wasn't appearing (until i either got Ginasta back or asked Yarra to recount)

DukeLeto7

Thosha Probably re-added both at the postgame initialization and on talking to her then.

I'd look but I have no idea what the script call looks like and have things to do for once.

DukeLeto7

I said I wasn't going to spend time on this, but I figured it out in the shower.

The 8: Harem Counting common event counts up everybody who has their portrait display turned on in the CSCA Harem script code and sets variable 5: Harem Count to that number. It gets called every time you see the Harem interface from Yarra.

Clearly, Ginasta's leaving the harem was never handled properly as far as CSCA Harem was concerned. Sure enough, cruise on over to 21: The Final Battle/Battlefield Locus (4,0) and there's a commented out call to function of CSCA Harem that doesn't exist and a note that Sierra can't be dealing with it. Apparently whoever originally implemented the script, presumably for Harem Collector, never considered the possibility that a girl would want to leave the polycule. (It looks like the thing was adapted for some kind of Pokemon Pokepedia type thing.)

Implementing the function was pretty simple, but somebody else can test it.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1kl6ucextcqb0jl/RevisedCSCAHarem.txt/file

Just for safety, an invocation of 8: Harem Counting should be added to the end of Renthnor Wilds/Westbrook Village (10,2) to make sure the Harem Count doesn't get nerfed to 37 when Ginasta rejoins. Having the higher value is probably meaningless since I don't think there are any meaningful checks of Harem Counting in the Postgame.

Except...

Oh FUCK my life...

There's no handling for Neranda, Altina or Varia being dead.

UGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH....

Thosha

DukeLeto7 Damn what a rabithole that is... It is stuff that optimized playthroughs usually don't have to deal with so it is most likely hardly reported

DukeLeto7

Thosha Yeah, Sierra has been known to say that this harem script is more trouble than it's worth, IIRC.

Grim8P

It spawned an interesting convo between Duke and I around possible fixes that SL could implement and the lowest effort one still improves the game as far as I'm concerned, so it wouldn't surprise me to see it updated.

cgh

There seems to be a bug in the section on the Ardan Succession Crisis. The quarrel between Bhakan and Farnan in New Givini during the Ardan Sucession Crisis no longer seems to take place. It's supposed to happen in the NW building in New Givini. I've tried this three times, and all these two do is stare at each other.

This action used to work for me just fine. But It's failed always for me in TLS Public Release 1.1.2.

DukeLeto7

cgh As stated in Thosha's thread, this in a known bug in 1.1.2 that's fixed 1.1.3, which is only available on Steam.

I've asked Sierra to put a link to 1.1.3 on Patreon and the blog but she is very busy right now and hasn't been able to yet.

I just confirmed that it is fixed in 1.1.3, but here is a workaround to get past the bug if you are can't wait:

Get a save editor, and save the game immediately outside the equipment shop. Use the save editor to turn off switch 2320: TOWER RUN, then reload the game and enter the shop to have the scene play (assuming you have met both Bhakan and Farnan). Save again immediately and edit the save to turn 2320: TOWER RUN back ON. It's a load bearing switch and will fuck up your game in unpredictable ways if you don't.

cgh

DukeLeto7 Many thanks for confirming that I was not losing my mind here. I appreciate your response and possible alternatives. As to me, I can wait until 1.1.3 is issued. Patience, as they say, is a virtue.

And my apologies for first reporting this somewhere otther than the Bugs Thread. It's the work of you and a host of others like Thosha who have helped to make TLS the success it is.

cgh

DukeLeto7 Any idea when 1.1.3 will be released?

DukeLeto7

cgh It HAS been released, but only to Steam. I've asked that it go up on the blog, but Sierra hasn't had time yet.

cgh

DukeLeto7 Thx very much for the info.

DukeLeto7

cgh I was able to badger Sierra into putting 1.1.3 up on the blog.

https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2026/04/tls-113-public-release.html

cgh

DukeLeto7 You DA MAN! This bug was making the game unplayable. Many thanks to you and Sierra for removing this huge boulder in the road.

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