I'm sad you don't like her, but I can understand your reasoning - especially her interactions with Ladira can be quite nasty... In the next updates, I'll focus a little bit on showing her vulnerabilities and maybe I'll be able to convince you again...
The quest line with the Pirlia x Saefia scene at the end is in fact failable so you can basically ignore it, if you want... Furthermore, Saefia is a Nut&Go person (at least in regards to the female LIs), so don't expect much Saefia x Pirlia action in the future...
For Pirlia I've scheduled the next sex scene for Version 0.6. It will happen during an MC x Pirlia training session in the gym, when the MC starts teasing/taunting her until she "snaps" and gets her piece of the cake, getting them into something like a 69 position:
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Beyond that, I have no idea yet how to further her sexual evolution... (I'm open for suggestions...)
If you said: "Pirlia is going to have two routes, one femdom and one vanilla" to give an example, then I might be interested (it would still depend on the fetish of the other route). But the thing is that her route is going to be basically femdom (at least at first), and later including non-femdom scenes isn't going to change that.
In any case, as long as we can avoid the scenes and start a romance with her, then I don't see the problem.
On the other hand, I haven't started the quest "Somebody ate from my plate!" mainly because Pirlia doesn't interest me and a lesbian scene between her and Saefia interests me even less. Which means I have no incentive to do so.
This exchange is a little bit hidden - I fear most people haven't seen it:
Ok, I guess I'd pay to get in.
Regarding Zoela and her lies: Yes she does lie to the crew and stuff, but I tried to balance that by portraying her overwise as a quite kind and caring person - but that's easy to say by the one, who knows how the stuff will play out and who has living Zoela in his brain for about 6 years... After all, Zoela's main goal during this scene is to distract the MC, while Numquam and Voice finish the repairs, so she certainly goes 2 or 3 steps too far...
I'm not going to comment on the scene because I haven't seen it. But that Zoela has been lying to the crew (including the MC) since the beginning of the game is undeniable.
Maybe for the prelude of Zoela's next scene, I let the MC be a little bit butt-hurt about being mistreated by Zoela and wary about another sexual endeavor, so he demands that the belt stays away...
I don't know, there is an option to avoid the scene, so I assume that those who have seen it is because they like it. So it would be best to ask if they want the belt or not.
Also, for those of us who didn't do the scene it would seem strange that the MC requires that the belt be left outside (our MC don't know of the existence of said belt). But, on the other hand, whoever didn't like the first scene, I doubt they'd want to see the second one (at least with the belt). Of course all of this assumes that avoiding Zoela's first scene hasn't closed her path.
I know people who have a problem with something tend to be the most vocal, while the rest usually quietly enjoys. But according to the poll, Zoela is the most popular LI and according to the popularity spike it's also specifically because of her scene and there are at least 11 guys who really like the blue muscle mommy. Therefore I'd like to call upon these groups before I run the risk of changing something due to a handful of very loud voices. (Please don't take that personally, I very much appreciate your input...)
Variety is fine, the only thing you should keep in mind is that it's not a good idea to mix things up: Pirlia is an LI focused on femdom (light or not so light, whatever) I guess with romance, so include some scenes vanilla with her is fine. Including a maledom scene wouldn't be so good (unless it was as an alternative to another femdom scene and in an attempt to turn the tables... but it's something I don't see happening with the difference in strength and size between the MC and her)
In the same way, forcing us to have a femdom scene to follow the good option to continue the Lintar route, LI with maledom, is to mix two fetishes that are different and for many people incompatible (they like one or the other). But it isn't necessary to eliminate the Pirlia femdom scene, simply making it avoidable is enough.
On the other hand, the poll only says that the largest minority likes Zoela (20% isn't the majority) the most. It doesn't tell us how many of that remaining 80% like her and how many dislike her.
I don't remember the name of the game it happened, but the Dev did several polls (if I remember correctly through his patreon account), among them: choose your favorite LI (you could only choose one), and choose the LI that you hate the most (you could only choose one or check the box for none). The same LI won both polls.
Of course this doesn't mean that you have to change her, it only tells us that sometimes a LI can be liked by certain people for a specific fetish (or any other reason), while many others dislike her for the same reason. It usually is more extrem when the fetish is more extrem and only this LI has it.
To give an imaginary example. A game with 15 LIs, 14 with vanilla/light maledom content and one with rather strong femdom content. If you do a poll asking which is the players' favorite LI, all the femdom fans will choose that LI, while all those who don't like it will choose one of the other 14. That can make that LI win (A higher number of vanilla LIs, the more you will disperse the vote among them, while the femdom vote is concentrated in that single LI). If, on the other hand, you ask about the LI they hate the most, all femdom haters (which are generally more than femdom fans) will choose that LI, which will possibly win the poll.
On the other hand, if in the same game you change the question to what LIs do you like? and you let the player choose ALL the ones that he likes, there is a good chance that the LI with femdom will be the last.
By this I simply mean that the poll tells us exclusively what was asked, and not beyond that.
For example, just because Annica is the last one doesn't mean that people hate her or don't like her. Possibly if you do a poll asking if the people like Annica, almost everyone will answer that yes. If you ask the same question with Pirlia, the result might be tighter, since she has a more controversial fetish.
Even Nyx in Oppai Odyssey, who I've ranted about elsewhere, is more appealing to me than Pirlia, though that's mostly because after the first unavoidable and horrible femdom scene with her (which can now be skipped, though only by being pathetic and literally instantaneously giving in to her unreasonable demands, which is the least satisfying method of skipping a scene I've ever seen), every other scene allows the MC to turn the tables and dominate her instead.
I basically quit the game because of that scene. I didn't like either option and that made me not continue with the game.
