Hey DD, you did a great job with this game. I have a question for you.
How is the relationship with Nat handled if you pick choices that do not favor her? I am wondering if there is a possibility to lose her if the MC pursues other girls. You don't gain or increase mc_c variable if you pick such choices and that variable will most likely come into play during future Natalie scenes.
I believe turning down Zoe on both occasions in order to stay loyal to Nat would exclude Zoe from being included in the harem, which is something that I do not wish to do (but, damn, rejecting her feels good, especially her surprised behaviour and following comment)
So, I briefly touched on it a couple posts back but there are some really good questions here that I think it will help everyone if I expand on it a little bit. I'm not really going to answer them in order, please forgive me.
You're not going to be locked out of anything. I mentioned this a few times before where there are some girls who will only get 1 or 2 scenes (at least that's the plan for now) so if you turn them down then yeah you've sort of locked yourself out of content with them. Zoe isn't going to be a main LI so much as she is attached to another LI. You'll know which one if you fucked Zoe in the club before meeting with Ness. So, Zoe isn't going anywhere for now regardless of the choices you've made. There might be another scenario like the one in the MC's bedroom where the scene plays out differently, but I haven't written or rendered anything yet so no promises.
More specifically for Nat, she's not going anywhere either. I have kicked around the idea of letting the MC dump her, but I decided it would create way too much work for myself. You'll be able to skip a lot of her content if it's not something you're into but she'll still be around. I'm trying to come up with a 'good boyfriend' reward that will fit into the story as a sort of apology to all the players who skipped some of the earlier sexy content because Nat is best girl but I haven't figured that out yet.
Don't get too hung up on mc_c, mc_e, or any of the girl's _r stats. They mostly just change a little bit of the narration and they are very vaguely defined. The mc_c and mc_e are sort of just a way for me to get an idea of how you are playing the MC, and as far as content with the other girls go the _r isn't going to unlock or block anything for you. I know me saying this isn't going to stop people from worrying about these variables or even making cheat mods to max them out, but seriously, don't worry about them.
Speaking more broadly about my approach, the game is going to be pretty linear. There's not going to be a sudden shift to a free roam/sandbox mode. I do want your choices to matter though. Which means the experience will end up being different, beyond just an occasional line of narration, depending on your choices. I am also aware that players don't like 'missing' content so I want there to be plenty of opportunities for you to experience every scene. It's a hard needle to thread and I'll probably fuck it up but I'm going to give it the old college try.
Also, I know the sexy content so far has definitely favored players who were unfaithful to Nat. I'm sorry. I debated adding in some more sexy scenes with Nat but I was afraid the game would turn into the Nat show and I wanted to maintain the pacing, there's a pretty major development coming up that we need to get to. I'm not trying to be one of those devs who keeps promising all the things you want in 'just a couple more updates'...
but, very soon you will be able to both be loyal to Nat and fuck any girl you want.