You can do that(outside of searching)? How? I've been searching for some kind of guide to no avail.
It's not very intuitive. These are all options I would expect to find in the "Game Settings" on the main menu, but that's not where you'll find them. Once you actually get through the prologue and start actually playing the game you can customize the game-play a bit.
At the bottom of the screen, you'll find your basic game play buttons.
Click "
Me"
Click "
Encounters"
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Characters" allows you to look up and if you're in a location that will allow you to interact with a given character, you can trigger an encounter with that character.
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Toggle Known" will allow you to choose whether to interact only with characters you've already met or also meet new characters.
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Dynamic Personality" allows you to choose whether or not encounters will change your character's personality.
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My Fetishes" lets you decide to what degree your character likes or dislikes a whole slew of fetishes. This will affect how your character reacts to these fetishes. I'm not entirely certain if or how this affects other aspects of game play.
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My Personality" lets you adjust various aspects of your character's personality. I haven't got clue one on if or how this affects game play.
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Genders" has a major effect on game play. With this button, you can adjust the percentages of the various genders of other, randomly generated characters in the game. If you don't want to encounter a given gender at all, set the percentage to zero. On a side note, your choices here also seem to determine the gender ratio of any children birthed/sired by your character.
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Species" is functionally, nearly identical to "
Genders".
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Restrictions" allows you to turn off any fetishes you don't want to see. The "
Hypnotize" button, however, does not turn off Hypnotism, at least not in version 0.1.3. It's possible that this may have been fixed in subsequent updates.
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Goal Weights" lets you determine how much of any given fetish you want to see in the game. It's not perfect, but does a decent enough job of tailoring the game to your desires, here again with "
Hypnotize" being a glaring exception, which I hope has been fixed by now.