What about making the trio into companions?
I'm thinking they could make a unique idea and act together as a "single" companion. They would work together and act as one, with abilities reflecting each member.
Ill be honest tho I probably go with kitsunes due to daddy keros and my own uh undiagnosed father issues. I legit wish I could just dive into Keros's arms and cuddle for hours. No lewdness just cuddle and possibly cry on his shoulder.
That would be based if I didn't have a burning hatred for Keros for pulling a "I aged up your daughter so you missed your child hood, it's just a prank bro!". You know, cause he's the trickster god.
Why? Minogirls have been established as lactating spontaneously, the milk stalls were set up in-universe for their benefit, and otherwise for a particular fetish. It makes sense. No need to have cocks everywhere.(also cock-milking is *cough* stupid)
Fair enough. I haven't played any of KM, so I didn't have any context other than "milk stall" and what I knew of NT from TiTs. Prostitution just brings me out of the experience. It doesn't help that Sally was the introduction to it (for me), but maybe that is the fault of Tob's prose. The way she goes into legalese isn't what I'd call erotic.
that latter will make them have the same as before but only that you treat them better. You may not be able to imagine that but from their personality they are slaves that do what is told them and they only revolted because they got treated like shit. Their mental trauma make it so that they will only do what they get told because it is easier but else have no real drive. To make them back into persons with their motivation and not as mere servants you would have needed to send them away because they have to learn on hard way to think for themselve.
I'm not sure you
have to send them away to do that. The way they are treated now, I would agree it might be the best option. Assuming they don't immediately get captured again (the roads out of Hawkthorne aren't exactly safe), you could work to bring back their independence. My view of the dom is to work to lift the sub up in their capabilities. The job of the sub is to work for those goals and improve themselves. The sub returns to the dom to give up control not because the sub lacks the ability to control their own life.
For example, the first time I saw Pavo's (blacksmith at Orc's camp) content, I imagined that the champion would be disappointed (perhaps disgusted) at his utter subservience. Pavo is approached by an outsider and the only creative idea he can come up with is to ask for a BJ... instead of for freedom. He has already given up; he lacks hope. What I would want from a pure route with Pavo would be a soft dominant PC taking him as a slave and giving him back confidence.
You could help train the Cat harem in combat to help them better defend themselves. If you could work out the logistics of them being companions, that would also play into it. Being able to defend themselves could certainly work to restore confidence and independence in their ability to not sit around at the tavern all day waiting for you to return.
The whole "send them south" option felt as cynical as the writers appear to be. You just rescued them from a really shit situation, from a guy who is probably lurking nearby to take advantage of your absence, and your brilliant idea is to leave them to their own devices. I'm not saying ownership is the only option (what about setting them up in Hawkthorne? That bar must need some workers), but it felt like an easy way to hand-wave the issue of, I dunno, developing a character or three.
I'm not saying the catgirl trio have to be our glorified cannon fodder, but they are proven fighters and aside, our Champion is meant to be salvaging as much of the world he can in preparation for a confrontation against the forces of Kasyrra. Why would you risk their probable corruption and/or abuse at the hands of another abuser? It makes no sense. It's even dumber when you get no further development with their situation, as if they stop have any autonomy whatsoever. That entirely contradicts when you first meet them and they seem inclined to maintain some degree of autonomy and self-protection.
I agree with all of this, and it probably better explains what I said above. I think part of the issue is that the writers never really planned them to be more than a jab at Hired Gun (does he still post in the blog post comments? I haven't checked them in over a year). We only got so much content for them because of William. Once the spite wears off, there isn't much more drive to create content.
I like how this thread has slowly turned to mainly complaints about the writers and staff working on CoC 2, don't get me wrong though I'm not criticizing, I have my fair share of complaints about them as well. In fact the whole reason I started typing this post was to ask other's how they feel about the writer's blatant hostility towards pretty much anyone on their forums. And it's not like I don't get some of it, it comes with the territory of making a porn game, but sometimes it seems like they are just outright antagonistic for no reason. They act like it would actually hurt them to disagree or tell someone no like a decent human being, they're usual go-to are responses that just make them all look like assholes.
I've worked on the side of development, so I can understand how things can go wrong, and I have a perspective of how the developers feel when dealing with clients. The type of shit that has been demanded of me and my team with short notice deadlines have pissed me the fuck off.
That said, I would never be allowed to act towards my clients in the way Savin and Co act towards their clients. This is written text. You can reread and come back to what you are going to post to really ask yourself if what you are about to say is really a good idea. You'd think a group of writers would understand that better than a programmer.
Okay, wtf are the .pak files in the locales folder because they sure as shit aren't archives, nor are they standard .pak files because I can't even open them with programs that supposedly open .pak files. This ain't my first rodeo trying to mod my games, and generally I manage once I do a bit of research, but this one leaves me stumped.
The locales folder is not what you are looking for. You are looking for the resources/app/ folder for the game content. Under that folder is a large main.X.js file where the X changes with each version. It's minified and difficult to parse. People (including me) are working on de compiling it. I have a mod loading tool I'm working on that currently beautifies it, but it has some issues due to the source map. I have ideas on how to fix it (and I know there is one person working with Regex that implemented a way to deal with the same issue in his own implementation, so it should work). I've temporarily changed my focus to working on mod injection utilities at the moment, as I can likely use them to modify the JS AST in the ways I want to improve the beautify part.
Honestly I try to avoid deep discussion about this game because of the wild inconsistency in central design for it, but the sad part is there are so many ways good feminist or sex-positive analysis/phil would hihlight the fucked up things this implies about views of women (esp sex workers who run brothels) despite trying to pass itself off as taking a moral stand. "Ah yes you encouraged her sluttiness so now that's what defines her; that's the natural consequence of this!". Talk about reducing the autonomy of women to consciously evaluate major changes in their life (and remember, most of this stuff is probably happening in a month of 'IRL TIME" tops because of the game design) and change organically.
This is reads as depressingly misogynistic shit dressed up as "you're QUESTIONING her CHOICES, what did you expect?" I've read in a while. And I say that as somebody who's an enthusiastic supporter of slutting it up and has an actual academic history of studying sex work - although yknow, the institutional way it's portrayed in this game makes me kinda creeped out a little bit. It's even fucking more insane when you realise their actual justification for this horribly one-sided narrative that basically reduces women's agency to "well you shouldn't have encouraged her to be slutty so she's incapable of conceptualising a balance of enjoying sexuality in an open way alongside romance" (or deconstructing either) BECAUSE doing so introduces a game mechanic of "trade offs" between one path or another? Aren't these the same goddamn people who flip the fuck out over the same shit being a reason to say stuff like "Mario shouldn't have to always rescue the princess"?
I mean sure who the fuck expects a nuanced understanding of the dangers of normalising sexualised behaviour as ritual practice in a videogame written by people with literally no professional experience in the history of sex, religion or power dynamics and are paid in a very specific system that incentivises finding a loyal subscriber base to live out their power fantasies instead of creating mass-market content that is commercial and makes a universal human point ... but christ.
clarification: not replying to the post, but the the image quoted (just to clarify)
"kinda creeped out a little bit"
Only kinda? When I first read it all I immediately started thinking that tobs was purposefully sabotaging the Mallachites in order to make his stuff look better by comparison.
Also, how does making Cait go from turbohorny for free because her religion to turbohorny for money because her religion cause her to be more turbohorny? Is she just in it for the money of selling her womb? The temple supposedly gives the infrastructure required to have the whole womb rental, so is the only reason she didn't do this before because she didn't have the infrastructure? Is getting her fat on miniotaur cum not encouraging the turbohorny by itself? Why is institutionalized prostitution the requirement for turbohorny encouragement?
Is Cait a demon? Am I being tricked? Was she stealing my soul at the start of the game? Have I ever actually seen my soul? How do I know I actually still have it...
Was this character, the one most prevalent in the game, planned at all?
I'd also like to hijack this to say that I'm deeply confused by how all of this is supposed to play into an open or poly-amorous relationship. Isn't that supposed to be Savin's thing? Certainly seems to be the goal of Anno, and I thought it was with Cait. I don't think I would be able to explain why I feel it doesn't make sense, because I'm not really into the whole open/poly-amorous deal, so I'm not an "expert" on the rules/expectations in that group.
I think I might be understanding this. If you choose the temple Cait becomes a fuckbuddy. She doesn't love the champion, just views them as a friend and so isn't set on having a baby with them. If you choose not to build the temple, Cait becomes either poly/open with the champion and wants to specifically have a baby with them.
Now, I'm obviously proverbially "writing the game" for them at this point. I would expect Savin to be the one to explain this in the game, not for me to try piecing this together. This isn't my "fetish", it's Savin's. Savin should be the one selling this content to me.
There was that one pol that put Brienne and Kiyoko above Cait despite Cait having way more content. I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. Is it possible that even open/poly people don't care for Cait?
So I've read in the thread that you can de-dick Evelyn and Berwyn (or at least that it is planned) is that feature implemented yet? Note: please don't bitch about it if you don't agree. I don't care about your opinion if you can't respect mine.
Read the viki but so far no info about it, and most importantly is it possible to do Evelyns content without having to give her blowjobs or handjobs or whatever? I can just about handle Arona, in the sense that I can ignore the fact that she has a dick (wish you could force her to drink a potion that gets rid of it, but sadly her author seems to be a dick in that regard... yes pun intended).
As for Evelyn I always get locked out of her content when I refuse her.
In regards to Evelyn, I was recently going through 4chan for the last week and I came across a this:
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So, I honestly don't know if Evelyn sub content is going to happen. Personally, I would much rather a writer be honest and say what they mean than rely on "3-day memory", mostly because I've come to the discovery that computers in fact, have long term storage.
No info yet on Evelyn tho other than Wsan saying he's planning on the expansion.
If he hasn't revealed much more info I would be very suspicious about it ever happening.
