Rogue-Like status update 12/16 (Patreon)
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Ok, so there's still a lot of graphical tweaks and some mechanics updates that I want to get in before I wrap on the Rogue side of things, so that might take another few weeks, but I still want to get a version to you by the end of the month, so I'm going to start triaging things, and knock together a playable version of it in the meantime. It'll fix most, hopefully all the existing bugs, and likely cause new ones, but you'll get to play with the new settings and animations.
I wanted to get your opinion on something in the meantime. A lot of you responded that you found the game "too easy," that she would basically have sex right away and you could do just about anything in the first few days. Part of this was due to some bugs that causes some of her stats to max out instantly when they shouldn't have, but also there was the sandbox nature of making it possible to do anything so long as she liked you enough (and I probably set targets a bit low in that version).
I'm thinking of shifting it to a system that is slightly more linear, not a truly linear "max out X before you can move to Y" system, but a little bit more "in order," so that you need to do at least a little foreplay before you can jump to anal.
In the system as it will launch in the upcoming 0.92, the basic requirements of love/obedience/inhibition will be higher than they were in the previous builds, so it will take more effort to earn the higher tier actions, the top tier ones will require more than half the available stat levels (300 is the max), even in private, but you can still do them in any order. If you can convince her to have near-max stats without actually touching her, you could theoretically jump straight to anal or whatever you like. The possible alternative would be that you would need to do at least a few of the foreplay activities to unlock the more significant sex acts, and then a few of those to unlock others, etc., making it impossible to jump straight into the top tiers (although you wouldn't have to do everything along the way).
So which would you guys prefer?
A. The system would be free form and controlled only by how much the girl likes you.
Or
B. The system would be slightly more linear, requiring you to work up to the more intense sex acts through some more softcore and medium options.