Isn't it a good thing to have options?The problem in this game has always been the choice and the amount you can make while not locking out other paths when you make that choice. People don't quite understand how high a number gets just by multiplying the result by 2 over and over.
But at the base of it you have 6 main paths
Faithfull
Anne Cheats (players choice)
Anne Cheats (games choice)
Tony Cheats
Both Cheat (players choice)
Both cheat (games choice)
6 paths is easy to follow, but wait,
lets multiply that by 3 when we add the Cuck or not, Swing or Not, Swing and Cuck choices
up to 24 now.
next comes the Martin Air or 75k choice and we are at 48 different ways to play.
Cuckquean is next and that 48 doubles to 96
next choice is separation, which only comes on the cheating path, so not quite doubling, more increasing by 2/3s which is 64.... bringing us up to 160 different ways now. after separation comes reconciliation or not (which again is not quite doubling only 64 paths can chose to divorce or separate so we are now up to 224!
Finally you have 4 different piercing options so we are at now at a count of 896 different variations to play this game.
I mean this is just rough numbers and not really an exact science and I haven't even taken into account the choices you get when it comes to LI's
essentially its only a handful of choices and doesn't seem like that much to track, but its a lot of results that may not work well together.
Its no wonder its gets messy
I still love this game a lot. And a main thing why i love it is, that you can play it in different styles and versions on an on...