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If you mean you have to interact with them, yes. I doubt you have to have sex with any of them. But the interactions are part of the story. It could be written so both are an option, but as you guessed that means two very different stories and we'd have much longer development time.Yeah could be although i wasn't selecting the "both" options the mode has at certain junctions
I guess the story wasn't written in a way that you can be as dismissive and elusive to people in the past ( which is the sensible thing to do in a time travel scenario) which is shame but I guess it would mean writing two separate stories with one being the cautious time traveller mode where the future women don't remember you all that well, if at all, vs the one we have where many of the women do or feel like they do ( maybe we spill the beans/get called out in the future episodes)
More significant choice based outcomes can be done but the scope of the story will either be smaller, or you'll find multiple people are making the game, or both. Ripples is as far as I know a one person production.
But I think time travel stories are far more fun when you're not sensible about it. And when even trying to be sensible often runs into problems - you're trying so hard to avoid bumping into person A that you walk around a corner face first into person B, or your attempts to avoid changing an event are exactly what changes it, why not have fun with it?
For the mod: I think it's a consequence of how an "allow all possible paths" mod would need to be written. Say there is a variable stay_in_bathroom. Sets to True if you did, else False. Get to the garage and the check is made, did you stay_in_bathroom? What's the mod to do here? What is the value when you choose "both"? And if you choose no but that could block you from some later scene selection? So in the spirit of offering you the option of all paths, it acts as though you chose whatever gives the most content.
I'm guessing here, but it's a flaw I've seen in that kind of mod before, and from a general developer perspective it makes sense.
The mod for Ripples is in my opinion unnecessary unless you're going for all content. Choices, as far as the girls are concerned, are obvious. Choices for rest of the story are not necessarily inconsequential, but won't dramatically affect the overall trajectory, so pick what you want.