Hm, so even you seem to be conceding that FOW may never be able to add the much requested context to the Pandora scenes. Despite the dozens of posts you've made in the past where you urged people to wait until the Pandora rework (which we still know nothing about) in the next update before criticising the current scenes.
Seriously, how much effort would it take FOW to add some linking animations like many people have suggested, which could have extra dialogue and build-up before the actual loops we see now. And why not tie these scenes to certain planets or events you come across while exploring the galaxies or even your ship? Isn't the whole point of exploration in a game to get rewarded for it?
Instead of FOW boasting about 50, 100, 200 or however many new loops in each new update, why not focus on improving the existing ones? I really think "less is more" in this case.
I’m presenting an explanation as to why the system is the way it is, and why it possibly won’t change the way you’re asking for. If it does, great, but it will be much more work and much more time before see any of it.
as for tying it to gameplay that presents a problem. Once people find out what quests or locations would unlock content they don’t like, they’d likely just ignore it. That could cause devotion progression to slow down, and the overall difficulty to go up as players could potentially handicap themselves.
The last thing you want as a game designer is people not playing parts of the game.
and before we suggest ‘well they could just play it and not view the content’ I remind you that people have lost their shit over a single line of dialogue that implied Lily fucked the mantics in her past. So I imagine a full quest revolving around certain subjects would just infuriate them.
Subverse is appealing to many kinks, but I’d wager the devs know that the more…diverse ones ought to stay within Pandora, while the romance bits remain as part of the story. So anyone that just prefers the wholesome vanilla romance it’s there. And all the other content can be unlocked at your leisure.
the next argument coming I’m guessing will be ‘why not stick to one side of the content line or the other?’
yes the majority of their films leaned toward non-con, bestial content. But you’d also be surprised how many fan favorites are the human only films or even the silly Mila Red Riding Hood. They know they have fans of both types of content, so why alienate one or the other? It hasn’t hurt them financially.
if anything I feel the universe they made perfectly reflects our own. There are those that want specific kinds of content, those that don’t, those that tear into each other for liking this or that, and a force that would much prefer if it was never brought up at all (until marriage wink wink).