Quick question: I have a two girlfriends already, both love polyamory and hate monogamy. There's another girl that I want to make my girlfriend with 91/60 opinion/attraction, loves polyamory and hates monogamy but keeps refusing. She's fine with sex, but refuses to become the girlfriend ... what gives?
There could be a bunch of reasons. Liking Being On Your Own or hating Marriage can be a factor too. But she likes you that much she should eventually come around.
Something is possibly not working as intended then.
My MC had an incestuous relationship with his sister, opinion/attraction was 100/100, he dumped her, stats dropped to about 80/100 and a "he dumped me" penalty of about -20 appeared in the modifiers, and while she still initiated sexual contact, she wouldn't go any further than groping, because MC was her 'enemy'. The 'he dumped me' penalty has steadily fallen but the enemy tag remains. Relations remained high and she propositioned MC with becoming his girlfriend again, and accepting this either removed or overrode the enemy tag, as she was prepared to go all the way again.
It seems from your description that the 'enemy' tag should not be applied in this case. but I could be wrong.
Ok, I see that "enemy" is being used incorrectly. It's generic message saying that you pissed me off recently so you aren't getting any now. Will fix. But regardless of the message, that can be overcome with time. But in general if you dump someone don't expect them to come back to having sex with you.
The game should give the player feedback on why attempts to change an NPC's opinion failed.
The reason is that the RNG came out with a low enough number. It's a combination of all the factors, most importantly your Sociability score, their Will power (low is better), how tired they are, how much they like you and whether they like to follow orders.
Well the one currently causing mild annoyance has 100/75 op/att of me, far less willpower, Loves Sex, Loves Casual Sex, Loves Voyeurism, Loves Being Submissive, Hates Monogamy.
Will not accept Polyamory or Threesomes.
getting through the opaque maze of opinions to succeed at that top list of loving everything, only to inexplicably fail once you actually reach your goals is not a great time. In-game hints of "hey you failed, try improving these couple things:" would be helpful. Or easier successes.
The game's still in dev so not like I'm expecting things to be perfect right now, just something to look out for. As it is a player basically needs Likes.txt open in another monitor to try to untangle what is going on; that's not ideal!
Get familiar with all the possible opinions. You don't have to open the likes.txt file,you can look it in the Help screen. In this case there's a Threesomes opinion. May sure she likes that (or at least has a neutral opinion). If she doesn't like it the rest won't matter.
I can't really say what other factor may be inhibiting her. I've also seen this happen, and yet trying again later she will finally agree. Nothing I know of changed, unless it's just one of those variables you can't predict.
And this also ties with the previous 2 responses... it's a fine line between explaining the math and not losing immersion. Giving exact reasons why something didn't work turns this into a bit of a math game and that's not fun. At the end of the day, all these characters are modeled using formulas that determine how they respond in each situation, with a hefty amount of randomness. So in general, if she says no, try again (usually another day as many situations are remembered and it will spew out the same result if asked the same day). Usually hopeless cases where it will never say yes are identified as such.
and another sugestions, it will be great, and very welcomed if characters can go over 100 energy. be it for certain traits (like any sports, is fit...etc)
and i dont know as for you, but in my game there are way to many virgins. i can get it for under 20 or even 25, but to have 38 and 43 yo virgins ? yes, everyone saw that movie, but it was male, not woman.
it will be great if 25 yo virgins will have some backstory behind it. like religios, saving for mariage..etc. and you will get archivment if you did it before mariage.
Those traits are already included in the base energy calculation. The more fit you are the more endurance you will have.
As for too many virgins, yeah, that's true. People want that. And in general, the virgins do have potential backstory behind them... when a character is created we evaluate the chances they had sex in any given year based on their lewdness and various opinions such as sex, casual sex, marriage, etc. Then based on their age, we calculate how likely is that they haven't had sex at all. So if you find a 40 year old virgin, chances are her lewdness is really low, she hates sex and marriage etc.
In general, the chances of a 28 year old with -99 lewdness is like 97%. A 28 year old with -50 lewdness has a 20% of being a virgin. Those numbers keep dropping off the older they get. At 0 lewdness, the chances are < 3%.
