In the version 31 changelog, under 'Dating', it says, "Currently Mc can't be paired in the farm..." Does that mean that we're eventually be able to do that?
He's currently in the phase of using Dating to push MC breeding (and sex-training, which at least is far more controllable).
I think it's a bad idea, but whatever, the PoP Discord is an echochamber so whatever Syvaron decides they'll push.
Same reason you still can only use 4 (+MC unless you have the modifier that makes them deadweight) units now in Combat. He thinks that "adds more strategy" but didn't significantly increase what an individual character can do. At best, in conjunction with the reduced average enemy number (at least until that doesn't matter and they always spawn with more than you and AoE is expected/necessary) nothing changed, but if you say, preferred dedicated healer + mage + tank + Phys DPS + seducer, now you have to build MC to do one of those. If you want/need a pet to bypass portal inhibitions, too bad.
I'll keep playing but I definitely think we hit the point where changes are starting to hurt the game rather than help it. There IS fun shit he could be doing (the prefix/suffix thing would at least make loot have more variety, even if it's by customizing it rather than happening upon it, but the Upgrade/+1 system will need to work differently then) but right now it feels like he's changing how one thing or another works to push what players don't understand, and frankly what may not be all that interesting to them anyways. Dating for me is perfunctory for marriage or fast relationship gain so you can let extraneous units go and get benefits from it. The card system working off of sex skills (which are limited in growth ultimately) means you can absolutely fuck up building a deck, and most good ones max out their card limit. So even if you leave two decks alone, they're not nearly as good as they could be, or going against what you actually intend to work on in the date. Especially since there's no
Breeding deck if he's going to push this nonsense and RNG could genuinely leave you never getting the option for that card.