I agree and we have slowly been removing all the non death ones, as to me it feels like a cop out. Much better to write out the slow decent until the overdose happens. Of course that mind set is also the reasons why abduction stories, prison stories don't work as well, because then you split the focus of the game up into smaller chunks that don't overlap.
We add 10 hours of prison story content for a update and any player not in prison gets a update with nothing new to do, same for the reverse. Which is why I am personal not in favor of content that splits the game up, if that makes sense. Means more work for us and less content for you guys, at least that you are likely to see.
Smaller story chunks I am in favor of, like the starlet story arc is only for cool kids and jocks, but it is just a small part of the over all game and you can experience most of the rest of the game while doing it. Something like abduction or prison, then when those are happening the rest of the game is blocked, which means they have to be indepth enough for long term playwith a LOT of content.
Anyways hopefully that all makes sense on why I am personally not keen on big long story arcs that block the rest of the game content.
Of course you're right atm. The main portion of the game is highschool and if I'm honest there are portions of it that even there get boring sometimes, with certain ways of playing through it. Second semester mainly is a chore. February the most if you have little things planned to do on the side. There's other low points in first semester, like maybe October?
I don't know how you guys gonna do 4 whole years of Uni. I've seen mentions of clubs, parties and such now that I got to it, still I'm cautious about how will manage to do later years and keep them engaging.
EDIT: But, what I'm thinking with Leonid is to make it in one go, not make it some kind of ongoing thing. There's a lot of blackmail and also a lot of bdsm in game, but the best bdsm is hands down the abduction/leonid story. Holds the most promise. The other being that lady at Mon Cheri that eventually gives bdsm club card, still meh in comparison. I'd say have Lariska's mom take over her role., scenes and everything. There's also the hotel by the highway that holds promise. Again Leonid stuff and mainly what it could become is better imo.
Kendra does some stuff too and I like how the scenes are made to follow a certain progression. It isn't random like for the Mon Cheri madam, or Christina shower ones or everyone else. The only bad thing is that Kendra scenes begin to cycle from the start again after you finish them. That sucks.
Then you have Peter, the Erotomaniac owner. He has almost nothing.
What I'm saying is that the game should rid of some bdsm NPCs and consolidate the ones that hold most promise with their images, parts of dialogue or scenes.
