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Surprisingly the previous poll has split somewhat even, which means we might see two different systems in strive 2. But for this time I'll go through major changes on the current sex system before we will be considering further changes.
Lots of the stuff I'll be explaining is related to the background of the system, so you might no get what's this about, unless you have been looking into code.
Firstly, my personal issue with current sex system, is that it's not very intuitive and lots of the stuff happening without player knowing, so we cut down those and replace them with something more obvious.
Slave reaction. Currently slaves can 'react' in 3 different ways to every action. Like it, be okay with it and dislike it. It's based on slave's stats, such as lewdness and lust, and sometimes traits and decide how much stats slave receive from action. Except there was not much of indication of actual reaction, and past certain point you will only generally get positive reaction from anything. What made it worse, is it also bloated event code significantly.
Lube mechanic: you could've observe it during earlier iterations of sex system, and even though icon has been hidden in later, it still exists. Basically the idea behind lubrication mechanic was to present a foreplay opportunity which in turn would make slaves react better to harsher actions. And it had same issues as the previous entry: non-indicative, can be quickly ignored later on.
So, with this in mind, I've decided that the system should be built around specific goal: achieve as many orgasms as possible (be it specific slave or more). The secondary goal, is to provide more depth and make foreplay also useful in it (since it gives less stats it may be ignored easily). Now onto direct corrections:
- Slaves orgasm as they acquire enough lust points
- Instead of lube mechanic, I've added "Arousal" state. While not aroused, slave only receive half of the lust points.
- Different actions give different amount of both lust and arousal points, so foreplay actions will arouse partner faster
- Continuous actions will only produce half of the points starting the second turn (so setting everything on repeat and passing turns is a poor decision now)
- Already performed actions on the slave during this interaction will be slightly less effective with every repeat (so spaming single action will also be a poor decision)
- Orgasms are generally much slower to achieve (partly due to removal or reaction system which doubles stat gain on positive reactions)
- Sex traits being reworked: now they are often tied to specific action group making slave get more arousal/lust from specific actions
- Some items will be making it into sex system as well, giving a buff to stat gains or making slaves instantly aroused.
In a previous post I've mentioned how the system will not be used in same manner as strive 1 to generate mana for days. So what is it for now? Basically it will be improving slave's behavior (obedience, loyalty) and might provide some working buffs. It will also build up a lewdness stat which will be utilized by certain skills including mana gain.
Let me know what you think about it and thanks for the attention.