I agree with you but you will think Evakiss would have a good idea of what her patreons like by now.
Contrary to opinion of some these "Sigma freeloaders", cuckolding has never been a big of deal for most of her patrons rather they prefer corruption/ cheating over it. This new poll doesn't include Cheating in it, probably reason why cuckolding got so many votes, it's the closest one to cheating.
Fucking your friends decade old crush in his vacation home while he is planning to confess to her isn't supportive to said friend.
Tough love is still love, right?. It took Perry like 10 years, some shock therapy counts as support too
.Even Perry knows he's lying his ass off. Much like you are about "supporting Ian's friends" when you know perfectly well what you're doing in reality.
I'm not sure if you are refering to the game or the RL now? If it's about the game then the answer is simple: we're limited in dialogue options. In RL on the other hand, I believe that two close friends who are interested in one woman could talk it through and at least be honest with each other, if that is what you were suggesting.Even Perry knows he's lying his ass off. Much like you are about "supporting Ian's friends" when you know perfectly well what you're doing in reality.
Well, it's a bit of both. Though the lie about "supporting Ian's friends" is mostly in RL, because having played the game you are fully aware that despite his claims about not being interested in Emma romantically Perry will try to confess his feelings to her in Ch.12, and so the actions you pick for your Ian are directly sabotaging his chances to have his feelings returned by Emma. "They should be honest and talk it through" is not an option in the game and, again, you know it.
Perry is a very high maintenance friend. Thus asking permission to fuck Emma would never work out. Either he sleeps with her or he isn't happy and you are not being a "supporting friend". The only way to keep Perry happy is to realize his feelings for Emma despite his denial and to play wingman. If he doesn't sleep with Emma he won't be happy.
I'm not sure why there's no option for Ian to discourage Perry from going after Emma. Ian can't even be neutral when talking about Perry's feelings so the game doesn't allow Ian to fuck Emma and be a decent friend. Ian can't even be a bit decent and try to stop Perry from confessing when he knows is totally doomed. I know that the game is already complex enough, but it feels weird with Ian being able to encourage/discourage Jeremy/Alison, Jeremy/Emma and Cindy/Wade.
Yeah, that's pretty meh. It doesn't make it any better that Ian's comments about Perry's failed confession can be then quite snide.
That's.. litteraly what I wrote in a previous post: we're limited in options in the game. There is no other choice because the author made it that way. So it all comes to this: do you care about the love interest or not?
From the beginning Perry's drug addict Pikachu was a pain in the ass where I had to convince him to do the most basic things and we really have to think about feelings and let him have the best ass in the game....fuck it, hell NO!!
Emma's ass is mine 
There's no problem here per se. It's just that you're being simply disingenuous in your reasoning -- separating friends and love interests is not an option when you are going for friend's love interest. And you know it, just like you know that Perry does eventually "go for Emma". So you've knowingly made a false statement that your focus in the playthrough was on supporting Ian's friends, while in reality you were sabotaging one of his friends, instead of supporting him. It's just like Perry's statement about only liking Emma as friend, when in reality he's got romantic feelings for her. It was this simple similarity in your respective behaviors that i pointed out.
That part fits, he's only really snide when his relationship with Perry is very low. It reads wronger when Ian has a high relationship with Perry and he fucked Emma anyway. Current writing only works for Ian fully helping Perry to get Emma while having a high relationship with him or Ian fucking Emma (bonus asshole points if you promised Perry to help him and you fuck her just a few hours later) and having a very low relationship with Perry.
I dunno; I think that the threshold for comment where Ian is actually sympathetic about Perry's situation is set too high. You need to have 8+ relationship with him, which effectively requires to never ever do anything that'd upset Perry. Otherwise you get the middle/neutral comment which covers whole range of 3-7 and is pretty meh:
if ian_perry > 7:
$ fian = "sad"
"I felt bad for Perry, but at least he had been true to himself. I hoped things wouldn't turn awkward between them from now on..."
elif ian_perry > 2:
"That sucked for Perry, but he knew he was fighting a lost cause. He played his cards terribly, and this was the result..."
else:
"Perry's self-centered ass got what was coming to him. Did he really think Emma would return his lame feelings?"I agree that the threshold is too high, maybe something like higher than 5 would be better. But that just Ian thinking, not saying it out loud. I could perfectly have that thought if I had a close friend like Perry, I just wouldn't tell it to his face once we talk about it.