General consensus around the cheat points seems to be that something bad comes from them - get enough cheat points and your chosen girl will find out and dump you, etc.
But that would mean a lot of little variables all coming off - the cheat points are all over the place, you get some for the same girl, but they are generally all for different girls. A lot of them are achieved "in secret" too - when alone with the girl taking photos, for instance - so there's almost no chance that your chosen girl sees it happening unless it's something like covering Quinn's tits with your hands and the photo being shared along with all the other ones.
I always thought "Why would it give me a cheat point on my Jill path when I tell Sage in private that I was worried about taking a hot girl into my bedroom?" That doesn't make sense, unless Sage goes to your girl and tells her that, even though it's just a meaningless throwaway comment (it's not like you bang Sage there, etc.)
So for these cheat points to spoil your relationship, the way I see it, it needs one of two things:
- One of the girls you fool around with, for whatever reason decides to speak out and let your chosen girl know what happened. This could potentially be the trigger for your girl to go to other girls and ask them if you've messed around with them behind her back - otherwise, it's just one (potentially really small) thing that could have a really big ramification.
- You accumulate the cheat point that takes you over a threshold, triggering your chosen girl to walk in and see you, or one of her friends to see it and report back, etc. (You have 9 points, it gets triggered if you get a 10th point, for instance).
But, since the majority of these cheat points happen in private, they could potentially work the other way around - you gain enough of them and it's like a skill increase, making you able to cheat on your chosen girl
without her finding out.
You start off small with the cheat points (mostly) - it's little things you say, or sneaking a feel of another girl's ass when posing for a photo. Maybe if you get enough cheat points, you are able to get away with more. There are a couple of bits that might break this as a theory (Heather BJ, and I can't remember but I think you can still have sex with Camila on the dancefloor when on a MG path?). However, it's about getting away with it, and we're too close to the events right now, there's not been enough time to have it all come out in the open yet.
So maybe if you have enough points, you're able to "get away with" the Heather/Camila scenes, for instance, but if you don't have the points for it, you get busted with it coming out in Ep11 onwards...
I just figure there's a points variable built into the game, and they are not split out to what those points were earned for (except Bianca's ass?), just how many there are. So I guess those point totals can go one of two ways, but we only seem to focus on the one side of it...