They are. Not only do some actually help and get to see the subduing (Eleanor and Sofia with Angela and Cara respectively), if you go to the college after having enslaved the college girls, Mary not included, you can find them talking to each other about you. Some of the dialogue suggest helping in expanding the harem.
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$ renpy.notify("money_plus") $ notify_money = " + $ %i" % school_book_minigame_money_earnedThank you so much for the suggestion, it worked perfectly!
Not avoidable without missing a lot of content since the lesbian stuff is connected with old and new characters. By the way things are going, it may be possible that newer content will not be accessible without doing the lesbian stuff if the lesbian character completion is needed for the plot to progress. There is also a number requirement in your harem to progress the story so in the future it is possible that you cannot progress without adding the lesbian characters in your harem. Dev promised before that this will be optional but by the way things are, in effect he did not keep this promise so no longer supporting.
The whole point of side characters were less work load and therefore the wouldn't get the same treatment as the main harem, such as pregnancies. This is somewhat different with an upcoming side character, as it will be part of her story.
Kaput is lying or at the very least grossly exaggerating the amount. Let's break it down with all the LI's in the game at the moment:
When you learn to subdue people you get a third mind control.
Yup, thanks - got it. I wasnt focusing progression with Sofia/Chloe which later opened that path to acquire subdue power (nice touch with BG3-like questline - I lol'd). I was really checking out different storylines and was messing around with different characters over the time. Hence the grind with "Ava says" minigame at the end of the day. It gives good XP. Anyhow, thanks a lot for elaboration. Have a nice one.