More of the appearance room stuff is going to be in the 0.42.0 update. Aura is getting another outfit update and the underwear node is going to be opened or merged with the clothing one(the changelog didn't mention it separately from the clothes). The knowledge room and personality room are also getting updates in the same release. The dev has said they will be devoting an extra week to the mental changes side of development each month starting with this upcoming release.
Isn't that just your choice? Why is it cheating to play tactically? You decide how far it goes from the jump.
I mean, I think you should reframe how you are looking at it. Rather than sides, think of them as routes. A good route a bad route and the see everything route. Or whatever.
I'm personally aiming for a partial corruption. Having her become highly changed from who she truly was but still triumph in the end, basically leading to a bittersweet victory.
Other games you get the no corruption by playing good enough you don't loose anything
If you're roleplaying both sides then the Aura side would also need to optimize by never using remove her collar, avoiding as much lewdness/corruption/vice as she could, and never triggering a pink scene. I'm not saying it's not heavily biased toward losing, but that's also just the game in general.
That and also there are ways to basically offset nearly all corruption. Blessed water and the like can get you pretty far if you play efficiently in the middle game. Honestly, the hardest part of the run is having the money for the water and the spells you need to learn. since some of them are a guaranteed 2 corruption because they take so long. Then again, you can basically be done by day 50 if you try hard and get lucky.
I would like to add a bit more information that Beta didn't cover. At one point you got the clear gem once you reached an end of content area for the first time. Aura-dev was getting concerned that it was getting to be too much work to access the gem, and was considering adding an early ending where Aura was turned into one of Arwin's maids. He instead decided to just give the clear gem at the start of the game. That was by far the most information we have been provided about what to expect from endings.
You say it would be a lot of work, but half the corruptions are in a pseudo-order. So you could probably get away with a single or small number of triggers. Like 5/7 specific corruptions or even just a Point of No Return corruption. It doesn't strictly have to be complicated. Me personally, I want something like if you get into the final corruption chamber but don't finish it, you get a dump Richard end. (Or better yet have there be a final corruption when you finish all the current ones that allows you to dump him for Alicia)
The semi-open order of the events wouldn't really help with why it would be a lot of work to add an Aura dumps Richard mental corruption ending. It's the fact that Richard is woven into so much of Aura's IRL corruption.
