I get the feeling you downloaded the game from the first post of the thread? 0.10.7.1 is the base game's version code but almost no one in the thread will know anything about it as the basegame has been dead/hiatus for five years and effectively everyone who is active in the thread has been playing pregmod and doesn't have meaningful knowledge of the base game.
i've heard about pregmod but I assumed that was the version I was playing since there's no mention on the original post about mods. I figured if it was a separate thing then it would have its own page like Lab Rats 2: Reformulate.
The short answer is, no, pregmod is something unrelated to the original link of this game and isn't on site. The long answer is, this has been forgotten about for years, until some crazy people took over the game and basically molded it into what it is today, including an actual breeding program where you actually get to see the resulting slaves of those pregnancies that used to be flavor text. For whatever reason, maybe because of the reality of having slave children, or someone has a hardcore loli fetish, the children can come out as an 18 year old vat baby once it's actually born, or it can be any number under the age of 18, of which the question becomes how low can you go.
This is a great way to put it. I'm always surprised at people who like Free Cities but get terribly offended that by the optional extreme content that Pregmod adds. Free Cities is a game about literal sex slavery, where consent is completely ignored and the resulting rape is often brutal and violent. The base game includes content that celebrates degrading women, forced gender transitions, forced prostitution, kidnapping, racism, incest, and murder. It's fucking dark.
I always found it funny this seems to be hard baked into the game. Even if you never touch the race content, what pops up in brothels always stuck out. "Your citizens prefer white girls like x," which by default means your white slaves will always preform better than any other race. If you wanted to min max, you'd just have every slave be white. I wonder if the original dev did that.
The answer to most of this besides the events that play where it's sometimes unavoidable, the player can always just opt into Paternalism, which seems to be pretty easy to get if all of your slaves are educated and happy. I didn't adopt it yet, but mine always says it's primed because only the fresh slaves are actually anything lower than devoted. You get a few events (and some alternate ones) where your Society option basically babies them. The descriptors just for the arcology even describes slaves as being precious and they deserve all the headpats, and it usually carries an air of some misguided utopia. Being a slave is actually better than fending for yourself out in the slowly dying world.
There's also Chattel Religionism, which some time after adopting, has a Council to determine exactly what virtues and focuses the religion will take. And while you could easily make a religion that beatifies slave-owners that have massive stables of groveling slaves, it is equally possible to form a religion that sees comfortable, educated, and trusting slaves as the pinnacle of virtue.
Yup, the innate 2-point bonus for white girls is FCDev's original work. So is the innate bonus for redheads with freckles, so I guess we know what his type was...
It's possible to play a paternalist slave owner as "not quite evil" if you are very careful (accepting only voluntary enslavement, setting rules to prohibit slave on slave rape, skipping the few events that have no true consensual option, and so on)...but the world around you remains pretty screwy regardless of your actions. If you take paternalism, your rival will take degrationism, so you'll always have your neighbors' behavior to remind you just how bad things are. It's a dark game...there's no avoiding that.
I mean, this basically reads as "I am the leader of a literal sex cult, but I'm nice to my sex slaves once I brainwash them, so it's ok." Not trying to diss your idea of fun (Chattel Religionism is a terrific FS with a ton of great flavor content...one of the best in the game), but that's also pretty fucking creepy and dark, even if it is an awesome power fantasy.
I'm going to go ahead and take that as a huge complement for the game. The FS and policy system is great, and it really lets you play with how you want your arcology to look, feel, and act.
Eh, I've seen way worse power fantasies. Besides, the 'brainwashing' can be as little as making them wear a mask for a few months while they work as a maid in a nice dress. But that's a matter of coding the game. If I'd been the dev, I would have kept a hidden 'Resentment' stat that could fluctuate many ways based on treatment, so outwardly the slave could look all Devoted and Trusting, but secretly planning an assassination attempt.
I do find one child event cute if you ever catch one that's clearly incapable of talking to you because she's foreign, and she just wants to live there, so one of the enslavement options is a straight up fake adoption. It pisses off your people, but it makes her like you enough that she usually ends up in the positives when she joins you.
It does have its own page on github. Google pregmod github and you should find it.
Using Webgl now so unless someone/s wants to work on the deprecated art packs......
