I already think 8 LI's (including Calypso) is stretching it. At the current pace, with 3.5 lewd scenes per update and 6 months between updates, we're waiting a little over a year between scenes for a given LI. Of course this will eventually speed up when we can have more than one LI in a scene *Giggity*.
I don't mind including other women we meet, and I think Caribdis has made perfect choices on this front so far. Firstly, using Eva in 0.1 as fan-service/appetizer/showing us what we have to look forward to in terms of sex scenes, while also not deploying the main girls until later. And then the scene with Maat and Nova, possibly my favorite scene in the game so far, where a side girl was used to push the naughty side of Nova and thus accelerating her progression.
Side girls can also be used for plot purposes or character development, like in 0.6 when Eva may have caused some jealousy in Dalia and Alex. And as I said, there are clever ways of using them for lewd scenes as well, when it serves a purpose. But making a lewd scene with a side girl with the main reason being "she's hot" seem a complete waste, and I have come to expect more from Caribdis than that.
Finally, as a mathematical side note: Imagine that there's a scene with a side girl like Eva, and that to make this happens Caribdis pushes a lewd scene with an LI to the next update, and a scene in the next update is then pushed to the update after that etc.. Even if it is true that in the end the total number of scenes with LI's is the same, i.e. in the end we get the scene with Eva for free, then it is still the case that in the course of the development of the game (which will presumably take many years at this pace), we are still short one scene with an LI. I would much rather have a scene with a beloved LI today, than a scene with a side girl today and the scene with the LI in five years time.
I don't mind including other women we meet, and I think Caribdis has made perfect choices on this front so far. Firstly, using Eva in 0.1 as fan-service/appetizer/showing us what we have to look forward to in terms of sex scenes, while also not deploying the main girls until later. And then the scene with Maat and Nova, possibly my favorite scene in the game so far, where a side girl was used to push the naughty side of Nova and thus accelerating her progression.
Side girls can also be used for plot purposes or character development, like in 0.6 when Eva may have caused some jealousy in Dalia and Alex. And as I said, there are clever ways of using them for lewd scenes as well, when it serves a purpose. But making a lewd scene with a side girl with the main reason being "she's hot" seem a complete waste, and I have come to expect more from Caribdis than that.
Finally, as a mathematical side note: Imagine that there's a scene with a side girl like Eva, and that to make this happens Caribdis pushes a lewd scene with an LI to the next update, and a scene in the next update is then pushed to the update after that etc.. Even if it is true that in the end the total number of scenes with LI's is the same, i.e. in the end we get the scene with Eva for free, then it is still the case that in the course of the development of the game (which will presumably take many years at this pace), we are still short one scene with an LI. I would much rather have a scene with a beloved LI today, than a scene with a side girl today and the scene with the LI in five years time.
