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.
Yeah I know it's in the Help screen, just easier to have the text file open in another screen since you can reference that while in a dialogue or NPC stats screen. Makes cross-referencing all the many opinions you have to check much easier. Help data can't be accessed while other screens are open, so while it's helpful for finding info, when checking multiple things to compare against an NPC it's much clunkier.
As for the latter part, I mentioned Polyamory
and Threesomes. I've gotten her to
Love all other co-op opinions for both of those two, but will not raise opinion on either of them. It appears to be a case of won't raise Threesomes because Polyamory is too low, and won't raise Polyamory because Threesomes is too low.
And this also ties with the previous 2 responses... it's a fine line between explaining the math and not losing immersion.
Which is fine, but you also don't want a system that's too opaque or inflexible that it causes frustration when player's can't figure out what's blocking progression and therefore can't find a way to resolve it.
And hey this may sound like I'm complaining, I'm really not: I'm only talking on this thread because I like the game and think it has a good foundation and potential. Ultimately it's your vision for how you want it to end up, and some people do like grindier games so it's not like anything here is *wrong*. I'm just of the mind that the opinions system could probably use some streamlining; you're walking a fine line on making the game frustrating. Players aren't going to memorize 200 opinions and all their cooperatives and opposites, nor click out of menus to go to help over and over, nor keep an excel spreadsheet open on another monitor so they can cross reference the 20 different opinions they need against an NPC's actual stances. Most will simply drop the game. Which is why i think you need a less convoluted opinions tree, and/or clearer guidance.
And I say 20 opinions to cross reference, and a less convouted tree, is because that NPC I tried to raise Threesomes and Polyamory on, I needed:
Polyamory
Submissive
Follower
-Leadership
Anal_R
Grope_R
Voyeur
Vag_sex
Masturbation
Threesomes
Casual_sex
Cheating
-Monogamy
So just 13, not quite 20. It has the potential for still more, I just didn't need to do some of the co-ops; every one here is one I
had to change in order to modify its parent opinion. Still after raising all of these to Loves (or hated in the case of those two), for it to still fail at the end of the chain with no answer as to why or guidance on how to proceed.... surely you can see how that will turn off players to the game. That's a lot of hoops to jump through to still hit a wall with no clear path around it.
Anyway that's my two cents, do with them what you will. With all that being said, it is a neat game and definitely has some good potential; hope you have success with it!