Generally I find this to be a very well done game, using simple means to accomplish its goals, with 1 large problem: brutal beating of slaves, that is necessary to obtain 3 out of 4 very important potions in the game.
1st of all, even if things were to stay mostly unchanged, after collecting urine the paths in advancement tree could split, so we could get to potion of sympathy, even if we don't want to collect tears (and I mean split, not change order, cause why not to accommodate as well folks, who may not enjoy pet play).
Mostly though I'm somewhat disturbed by unnecessary brutality, which IMO actually has nothing to do with any real slave training, which is not about hitting them in the face with fists and damaging, but about inflicting pain in such a way, that does not damage the "goods". Why it is mostly punching them instead of spanking is a bit of mystery to me. IMO, even if the mostly senseless beatings were to stay, we should also have at least the option, maybe less efficient/having some additional cost, to obtain tears and raising discipline by spanking, which would not inflict any permanent harm.
Some folks may argue, that in RL slavery brutal beatings are often the case and spanking preference has more to do with BDSM community, than with RL. Well, yes and no. To maintain discipline in different slave camps, cotton plantations and still present very close to us forced prostitution brutal beatings are often predominantly used. AFAIK it is not the case though, if slaves are professionally trained for future selling on high end markets, and that's what we are dealing with here... simply because it doesn't make sense to damage the "goods", when we don't know what the preferences of a future buyer may be.
1st of all, even if things were to stay mostly unchanged, after collecting urine the paths in advancement tree could split, so we could get to potion of sympathy, even if we don't want to collect tears (and I mean split, not change order, cause why not to accommodate as well folks, who may not enjoy pet play).
Mostly though I'm somewhat disturbed by unnecessary brutality, which IMO actually has nothing to do with any real slave training, which is not about hitting them in the face with fists and damaging, but about inflicting pain in such a way, that does not damage the "goods". Why it is mostly punching them instead of spanking is a bit of mystery to me. IMO, even if the mostly senseless beatings were to stay, we should also have at least the option, maybe less efficient/having some additional cost, to obtain tears and raising discipline by spanking, which would not inflict any permanent harm.
Some folks may argue, that in RL slavery brutal beatings are often the case and spanking preference has more to do with BDSM community, than with RL. Well, yes and no. To maintain discipline in different slave camps, cotton plantations and still present very close to us forced prostitution brutal beatings are often predominantly used. AFAIK it is not the case though, if slaves are professionally trained for future selling on high end markets, and that's what we are dealing with here... simply because it doesn't make sense to damage the "goods", when we don't know what the preferences of a future buyer may be.
