I'm not sure I understand how Sympathic Link is supposed to work. What exactly are "trust" actions? Actions which give favor? Small talk? If I link trust to lust for instance, and perform actions which give favor, I don't see the target's lust stat increase. Similarly, if I use something like lust overload, I also don't see the target's lust stat increase.
Are these hidden stats or something? Am I looking at the wrong thing?
Furthermore, mom and sis seem to be stuck at 10 corruption. The "ask for a small favor" option still has the personal questions choice, but it no longer gives corruption. Asking for a large favor has no followup choices. Do I need to break familial ties or something to proceed to the next corruption stage?
using dominate to gain control depends on the player.stats (like health, energy, willpower... but also the level of powers, abilities)... this are building a basenumber comparing to npc , who should be dominated (his/her willpower, abilities from char-type, lust, love or other effects)... if the player has a higher sum, the control effect will be higher... for short, it is often needed to dominate the same npc more then once to gain a sufficient control.... to reprogram the npc, mindcontrol has to be level 3 (for example)... lust overload used against a npc (several times) will lead to nymphomaniac behaviour, love overload to obsessive behaviour... and so on... other mindpowers will work overnight with growing effects... if you are not using cheats most effects you have to use at least 2 or 3 times, for... depending on the base-effecting-power (as mentioned before)...
all this and more is explained in the wiki, reachable from the menu-screen... look at the special topics... most of them have an example or a better explaination.... increasing lust, love... .there are other actions needed... they are in the basic menu of a npc-interactions and unlocked if you have the needed stats for it
for mom/sis most changig process need a control like 60 or more... sometimes only a control of 40 is enough... the result might show in 2 days or in a week... thats the fun of the game, that all is working different from other players (depending on their stats)... and maybe the reason noone is able to replay exactly the same way as before, since it is likely that at a given situation one has different stats... and inside the game are variants of responding/reactions to be surprised again and again
