Man... i just love rumors. Literally cant get enough of them (especially once ive put the schemer trait on my PC)
In other news... ive actually found out something interesting about Praise. Apparently, Praise is not as useless as i expected - i ran through QtEdit after day one of a game, where ive dumped a number of praises on some guys, in order to clear the "Havent spoken to" status. The one that accepted (lean hetero dude) the praise had 20 partial love and like points towards me... that is HUGE, all things considered, but praising someone takes more time than regular love talk (which only gives 15 partial love and like points, at 67%+ and a good roll on result). Another thing worth mentioning is whether you accept praises or not, based on the traits and orientation of your partner. Praises are completely fine in a pure hetero or pure homo relationship, but if your lean homo girl starts praising you - keep in mind she might make her own like count towards you shoot up uncontrollably. Ive been in a situation once (long ago) where my lean homo girl would start showering me with praises for no reason. Ive accepted all of them, and afterwards i just wanted to fuck her... and she said "no". Eh? What the f...?! I tried again and failed, then again but tried to warm her up first... and failed again. At this point i panicked (what the fuck is going on?!), skipped through the day, took her home and went over to look at QtEdit. Turned out - all the praises made her like count overtake her love count (she dropped below 21 love count due to likes), which made her behave like we werent in a relationship (remember kids... dropping below 21 love count in a relationship means death of the relationship, especially if cheating was involved).
Ive also observed an... interesting mechanic, or rather, an interesting dynamic between interruption/competing and rape. Ive done no testing on this further, since there are limits of decency below which even i wont stoop down, but i have... seen "things" happen.
Try to imagine the situation:
You are just chilling in front of the toilets on the 1st floor of the school. With nothing to do, youre just watching a congregation of NPCs (fail to) interact with each other. Suddenly, a wild rapist appears, and starts to force one of the exploitable chicks to fuck him! Oh no! So, they start having sex, sending most of the NPCs running away in terror and... youre just sitting there, doing nothing but raising your eyebrow a little. Not long after, a guy deeply in love with the chick comes in and starts competing over the girl with the rapist. Unsurprisingly, the chick instantly chooses him, and after the swap they start fucking like nothing happened.
Two things to note here:
1. The guy had a lot of love count towards the chick
2. The chick wasnt exactly fond of him ("Not good with these types" status)
The thing im getting at (and, as mentioned, i havent tested this) is that a rape victim will choose anyone who competes over her, who isnt the rapist - the victim of rape gets 30 hate towards the rapist, so ANY number of LLDH that isnt 30 hate will win over the rapist. From my perspective - this is an easy way to make sex friends without going through the whole process of sluts and gaining love count with higher virtue chicks.
If anyone feels like doing some testing on this - please do. If theres one thing im curious about, is whether the chicks bad opinion about the guy who won the competition was low before the incident, or after. Because if it was after, then the hate/dislike isnt worth the hassle. If it was before, then you can make sex friends easily that way (only with exploitable NPCs and after rape... but still).
