Basically yes. You can hang out with other girls, but that increases the risk. Take the second ice cream shop scene. If you flirt with Melanie, Caprice will eventually kick you to make her displeasure known.
I'm genuinely curious. What is your idea of the "difficulty" of the game? What is the purpose?The idea is that women are less tolerant of your behavior towards other women or other actions they disapprove of.
The difficulty does not change the content of the game, just your journey through the game. In hard mode, you should find it more difficult to pursue multiple women.
I guess I'm asking what makes the narrative sense to having a character, Caprice in this case, not simply break up with you, or stop talking to you, instead of fucking others in your face?
My guess is you want it to be different and/or more interesting. A lot of people don't find that interesting and your only solution is "don't go for Caprice", but, in my opinion, avoiding a whole Love Interest is not ideal. Are you planning on having a button that gets rid of that option so that we can flirt with girls as we please like all Harem type games? (I KNOW you don't have the tag, that's why I said type.)
Lastly, you said in the Dev notes:
What does this have to do with us as a player? You didn't explain if it would ever effect us. Is that "blacking" character going to affect our many love interests? Or is it just for a side character that we have to rescue? If we don't stop this guy, is he going to "black" the girls as well?A main story thread involves a male character (not the player) blacking women for sex. One of the solutions to ending the blackmail is to film him and blackmail him into stopping. There will be other solutions to end the blackmail besides that.
I think it's weird that you felt the need to use that term, but here we are. I'd appreciate some answers. Thank you and good luck with your game!
Mid-post Edit:
I'm assuming that you meant "Blackmailing" rather than Blacking, which is racial term for a black man having sex with a woman. Just wanted to point out that I think that's what you meant. I'll leave the rest of the comment for posterity.