Sancho1969 answered this question earlier.
deuxrayme
Remembrance
I think it's too early to judge the significance of some of the variables. Tess has a habit of creating a lot of variables, but some of them (including the ones you thought were unnecessary/forgotten) may well turn out to be classic "Chekhov guns hanging on the wall" that will shot one day, and it's not necessarily going to happen in ch8 at all. We all know that Tess wrote the game's story quite a long time ago, and her introduction of certain variables seems to me a deliberate decision, with a view to their future use. Who in the end will be right, time and new chapters of the game will show.
Yeah, I didn't say anything before because of this.
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can be still used, was my idea for the sisbonus & poor/rich prisoners variabls. (Though if the prisoners refer to the pods, it should've had some effect by now).
Similarly some variables can be retired after serving their purpose, like the z points etc.
Problem is the lesbian & bisis option doesn't fall into this category as this imo was less of a story variable & more of a player preference variable & there were clear instances where it should've been used.
It's like saying you didn't forget about the saferoom during the burglary but rather plan to use it in the future only.
Or saying you intentionally didn't read them their rights but planned to do it in a future arrest.
Also creating 2 variables (lesbian+bi sis) for the same choice is meaningless. What's the point of lesbiansisopen, which is the same flag as bisisopen (checks if Olivia chose female slaves too).
Example of weird variable coding.
Hope you're right tho & we get some payoff from those early variables. The calculations I had to do to get sisbonus while balancing sis_bro_p & sisgood & sisevil
to be fair it makes sense with the context of that scene that youd miss out on sex since Kane wouldnt have the time to be fucking around with piggy since Olivia wouldnt be otherwise occupied and since at the time they both still thought they were brother and sister, a three-way was out of the question
I already mentioned this & also mentioned the simple solution to this. Olivia & kat can talk about work if players choose to avoid lesbian sex.
Basically, if players say yes, you get lez scene & piggy scene. If players say no to lez scene, the girls keep it professional & talk about z-rank executive stuff while MC puts piggy away(piggy scene).
I guess the logic was MC could only get time to do the piggy if Olivia was otherwise engaged during that time.
Dover's complaint about this is justified though, as even without an alternate Kat-piggy-MC 3some(more renders more work, Olivia waiting alone doesn't make sense), the dev could've just said Olivia & Kat were discussing the game show while MC had his piggy.
The 3some in consideration here is not Olivia-Kat-MC as Olivia had already turned down Kat & MC-Olivia is not developed to that extent anyway, as you said.
What Dover suggested was that, after being rejected by Olivia, Kat follows MC to basement & joins the MC-piggy scene.
However that doesn't work as Olivia waiting alone for them to finish fornicating doesn't make sense, and Olivia cannot leave as she has to leave with MC to transition into the next scene smoothly.
Only solution is to replace the lez scene with a non-sexual alternative to make time for the MC-piggy scene.
This kind of stuff is often done to cater to player preferences, but since it isn't there & the bisis variable wasn't used post chapter 5, I feel dev forgot or didn't care.
