Well yeah, relationship wise it wouldn't matter much since you can already choose whether Claire likes boys or girls (or both) and a number of outfits are already pretty unisex, so... why not? Aside from trying to finagle her way through PE class only her relationship, Taylor (regardless of gender) and her parents would know, and when the spy stuff starts she could still be required to act her gender and wear dresses because the missions might require it of her (then again, if she picks the bartending route...).
It would be restricted to smaller breast sizes for obvious reasons (no amount of chest bindings is going to hide an E-cup) but personal preferences aside bigger cup sizes tend to have an easier time seducing people, or getting attention dancing in the Club, so... it kind of evens out i believe. Not to mention it would be optional to begin with.
But like i said, spur of the moment suggestion when i saw A-cup mentioned.
I mean, that would be a whole new Prologue path. It would require *quite* the implementation, but there's interesting ideas here for covert activities. Noted. Thanks!
Note: Never hit a game over. Just bad dreams, panic attacks, and the general notion that my character was going batshit craycray.
As a player I can't see the Stability score for my character.
I can do F12 and SugarCube.State.variables. to check values.
SugarCube.State.variables.mindBreak = 1
SugarCube.State.variables.mindCorruption = 0
and so on. See attached for saves for that character.
When she hit the HOMEBASE the first time the game said she could make 17 bad decisions before reaching a bad ending.
She met a guy at the Club and had consensual sex (which she initiated and wanted) with a guy back at his hotel, and then she started having panic attacks and waking up at night with cold sweats and exhibiting signs that she was severely unstable and going batshit crazy.
It actually said a number?
Who was the guy she hooked up with at the Club? Callum? The Chinese guy?
I don't know if her crazy dreams and shit after that were the result of THAT choice or her prior experiences or if they were making things worse.
Anyway, here was my thinking with her upbringing / backstory.
- Okay, so first strike, I think I made her dad be a distant asshole. That was my bad. Probably didn't help anything.
- Then I had her get into a gang - which made sense from my thought process. She dealt drugs, got used to firearms, fucked the gang leader and made him fall in love with her, struck a deal with the rival gang that didn't involve her body, etc. She got street smart, street cred, and prepared for the sort of underworld characters she'd be dealing with in the main game.
- When she got to high school she buckled down and busted her ass. She graduated early and decided to take a gap year.
- She spent her gap year backpacking around Europe and doing things that would be useful for her legend/experience/etc
- Then she went to an Ivy League College. She didn't bother with sororities or frats and just focused on the academics and the gym. I think she did some sport, but I'm not sure.
- Somehow she fucked an INSANE amount of people. Like 75 or 150 or something. I had no say in that, but it seemed like a good thing. Like, when she would fuck someone in the main game he would just be like 1% of her total count.
- Somehow she picked up an INSANE amount of traits and kinks. I had little say in that, but it seemed like a good thing. She'd be able to enjoy herself in a lot of different situations.
So, yeah, that.
I'll need to go back into the bodycount math -- clearly something is wrong here.
I didn't try to make her a complete fuckslut, but I did try to create a character that was prepared to handle the situations she'd have to deal with in this game.
Don't get me wrong. I've made complete fucksluts in this game before that hit the "Do you want to quit now or cheat to have your character's stability brought up to the minimum" in the past. I've made a lot of other characters in the past, some virginal, some debased.
But the Claire Campbell in the attached saves was a legit attempt at a more-or-less optimal build for an espionage operative.
Feel free to poke around as much as you like with the back end details.
note: It is perfectly okay if my thought process is completely different from your thought process. It is YOUR game. I'm supposed to learn & adapt to your thought process during YOUR game. Maybe I'm just not picking up on enough hints of how to learn & adapt to your thought process.
Thank you! No, honestly I appreciate this sincerely.
My goal is for the game to be a balance where there's, call it, three different experiences:
1. Virginal Claire who has to deal with corruption and giving up of herself to accomplish the mission. Crux: Strong internal compass and stability, but low abilities so has a tough time making forward momentum.
2. Slut Claire who has to skirt the dark demons inside her to not be eaten up. Crux: Low stability, high stats. Has to resist the 'easy' path to try and focus on actual accomplishments rather than just give of herself and be swallowed up by the sexual underworld.
3. Normal Claire that rides between the two. Crux: Might hit situations where her abilities aren't enough, might hit situations where she risks succumbing to the underworld.
That does bring up another question about these saves.
I swear at some point the game told me that she was well endowed or extremely well endowed or some other way indicated that she had massive breasts... yet:
Measurements: 34A-26-35
note: Not sure if I misunderstood, misinterpreted, misremembered, or if it was a bug/glitch.
Weird...I wonder if that's one of the more recent bugs that I think we addressed in the last 0.8.3. I'm thinking it must be.
All in all, your post is really good food for thought.
I might need to go back in and change the color/flavor of some of the freakouts.
I need to go into the bodycount math and refine it.
It's a work in progress and I'm glad you're enjoying it and giving the feedback, it's integral to make a good game!
