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A dominant Annie would be interesting. I think the developer has to make some kind of changes to keep the game fresh. Lets face it I can't see him continue with the concept of; introduce random guy, Annie screws random guy, repeat. I think he should add some conflict in the game. He's teased it before with Ryan and Martin but then just dropped it. He has set up scenarios if he chooses to follow them:
1. If you followed the Victoria path there is a chance she is pregnant.
2. Both Emma and Chose have said they love the MC
3. If you went down the Walker path he says he wants to make Annie his and she is wondering what that means.
4. If you threw Ryan out you could find out Annie is still in contact with him.
5. When Annie was screwing the two guys on the boat she said she felt in love which led the MC to wonder if she fall in love with one of her lovers
I'm sure I'm missing more I would just like some kind of conflict to move the story past just meet screw and move on. Oh and one last thing. Both characters have become very unlikeable. The MC comes off as an idiot and Annie is just a slut that doesn't really care about him even though she says she does.
1. If you followed the Victoria path there is a chance she is pregnant.
2. Both Emma and Chose have said they love the MC
3. If you went down the Walker path he says he wants to make Annie his and she is wondering what that means.
4. If you threw Ryan out you could find out Annie is still in contact with him.
5. When Annie was screwing the two guys on the boat she said she felt in love which led the MC to wonder if she fall in love with one of her lovers
I'm sure I'm missing more I would just like some kind of conflict to move the story past just meet screw and move on. Oh and one last thing. Both characters have become very unlikeable. The MC comes off as an idiot and Annie is just a slut that doesn't really care about him even though she says she does.
Refresh my memory, please... the Victoria path? I just finished a random replay and I can't remember who that is!
I agree that the rinse and repeat stuff gets old. Maybe do something where Anne gets upset with the main character and denies him sex and forces him to watch. The MC could decide if he accepts it or not. Maybe Anne leaves the MC temporarily and he has to put up with some degrading to get her back. Maybe one of the emails have a condition where she does some sex work and she falls in love with that lifestyle of rich men. There are endless possibilities but there needs to be more depth in the story lines
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Ah, I'd scrap that all if they just would sit down with a real polyamorous couple and talk to them about how to make the lifestyle viable instead of rolling around like two loose cannons on a pirate ship. Talk about the boundaries, mutual respect, and rules that make a relationship like that work. At this point, we are just waiting for one of them to roll into the powder magazine so we can watch the ship explode.
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Victoria is the blond who works in his office. To get to her path you have to do the following
1. Keep the Nicole path true
2. Keep your relationship points below 5
3. When Annie goes to Florida invite Nicole over. She will spend the night.
4. Next morning sleep in rather then choose to get up
5. Annie catches you in bed with Nicole gets mad and kicks you out (she won't get mad unless the relationship points are below 5)
6. You then go to your office and catch her and the boss. You have the option of joining in. If you do you get an option later to do her in the office and if you cum in her it opens up a potential pregnancy path
And while I think all the women in TAC are really hot, in my opinion Victoria is right up there with Annie as the hottest.
1. Keep the Nicole path true
2. Keep your relationship points below 5
3. When Annie goes to Florida invite Nicole over. She will spend the night.
4. Next morning sleep in rather then choose to get up
5. Annie catches you in bed with Nicole gets mad and kicks you out (she won't get mad unless the relationship points are below 5)
6. You then go to your office and catch her and the boss. You have the option of joining in. If you do you get an option later to do her in the office and if you cum in her it opens up a potential pregnancy path
And while I think all the women in TAC are really hot, in my opinion Victoria is right up there with Annie as the hottest.
I don't recall the specifics but when they were setting the ground rules for their adventure was anything established about him sleeping with other people? Encouraged/frowned upon/not even discussed? What were the actual rules? I recall one being she has to tell him about each encounter she has I think?
Given how much work it would likely be to explore all the various avenues of unresolved conflict it doesn't seem likely the majority of them will get addressed. The carousel of men she sleeps with will continue the remainder of the way until the majority of the routes start to merge and one ending can be used to explain multiple similar paths. Also yes both characters are extremely unlikeable and it seems almost impossible to redeem either. It really does seem like the original intent was a cheating/corruption/ntr story that, no matter what you do, ends in their separation. As opposed to a couple exploring their relationship and having an adventure as a couple with the possibility that it would actually reignite their passion for each other.
Given how much work it would likely be to explore all the various avenues of unresolved conflict it doesn't seem likely the majority of them will get addressed. The carousel of men she sleeps with will continue the remainder of the way until the majority of the routes start to merge and one ending can be used to explain multiple similar paths. Also yes both characters are extremely unlikeable and it seems almost impossible to redeem either. It really does seem like the original intent was a cheating/corruption/ntr story that, no matter what you do, ends in their separation. As opposed to a couple exploring their relationship and having an adventure as a couple with the possibility that it would actually reignite their passion for each other.
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There wasn't any ground rules discussed as such. Yes she is supposed to tell him about her encounters but doesn't. After the Ryan incident She promised not to keep anything from the MC again but she still does. She knows that he sleeps around also but asks that he doesn't do anything with the girls from his work (depending on your play through) he does anyway, she has also said that she would like to watch him having sex with another girl.
This is where the game fails IMO. Even if the MC doesn't sleep around Anne will still sleep around with other's behind the MC's back and not tell him about ALL the encounters she has. I don't think it would matter if the couple did set ground rules from the start Anne would still be a slut and sleep with anything with a pulse, Young and old, I wouldn't put it past her to jump on a dog if it was about.
IMO this couple and the game are doomed. The only way I can see the dev saving this game is for Tony to confront Anne about her cheating, They have a heart to heart and Anne explains her thoughts and feelings when she goes off with other guys. IF they continue to be together they set ground rules that BOTH must abide by.
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I'm of the mind that the problem in the relationship isn't Anne. It isn't possible to cheat in an open relationship. If it was, it wouldn't be an open relationship. What the problem happens to be is that for one reason or another Anne doesn't always want to disclose who she is seeing. Even though 9 times out of 10 her husband wouldn't mind and in fact would enjoy hearing about it (in most playthroughs). That 10th time it is because she is with someone who is inappropriate (MC's Father) or too attached (pitchfork angry cheating husband). Yet it is clear from other times she does disclose that she is emotionally involved with her partners, not just sexually, and isn't ashamed to admit how she feels in these instances.
So what is happening in the relationship with MC that she feels that she doesn't have to share sometimes? It isn't fear of repercussions and she doesn't need to worry about his feelings. He isn't going to get upset or tell other people what she has done. So the secrecy is pointless. Unless... she is feeling insecure in the relationship and is starting to feel that her husband doesn't care about her anymore. She does get upset one night about her husband being too eager to her about her having sex with someone else, professing that it makes her feel used. This is, of course, the night when the MC can choose to sleep with her mother. It is a bit of a tempest in a teacup, and it might have been as a result of an unpleasant sexual encounter that we are not privy to. Given the history of the couple to this point, it is likely that her anger was misdirected from the man she was actually upset with. It is fully possible that some of the encounters she doesn't disclose and we do not observe are not consensual.
So something about the lifestyle is hurting Anne and making her feel insecure in her relationship with her husband. Maybe even unsafe. It is opening her to mistreatment and possibly outright abuse by other men and she is probably too ashamed to admit it when one of these encounters hurts her because it will interfere with her husband's enjoyment of his fetish. Of course, it is just a theory, and it would make the game a bit of a bummer, but there doesn't seem to be many logical reasons why Anne would "cheat" on her husband in an open relationship. Perhaps this is something that is a bit of a pattern for Anne. Perhaps in her promiscuous college days not all of her encounters were consensual, and instead of dealing with her feelings or her trauma, she piled on more promiscuity to bury them. Perhaps the same this is happening again, and she feels her husband is not protecting her but rather pushing her back into those situations.
In any case, the couple has a lot to talk about. Is their relationship salvageable? In the long road, probably not. But that doesn't mean that they have to go down in flames. Maybe they need more rules and maybe they need fewer of them. Maybe it is best for both of them if neither Anne nor Tony is obligated to report who they are seeing unless they feel it is important to share. Because neither of them has been fully forthcoming in any playthrough. We know that MC has concerns and reservations that he is not bringing up to her. It wouldn't surprise me to discover that Anne shares them but will not bring them up for the same reasons. It may be that they are more on the same page than we think. Whatever is the case, all that is required is that they come to an agreement and not make demands that the other partner finds unreasonable.
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That's completely untrue. As is being discussed just upthread: properly functioning open/ENM relationships have rules. Sure, that rule could be "fuck anyone you want, no consequences," but it almost never is. There are people, places, and behaviors that simply aren't acceptable, and that's negotiated between the partners.
The past trauma thing because of what the husband did or didn't do seems kind of a stretch. I mean it's possible but seems less likely then her just being a slut. It's impossible to know for sure unless the dev fills in some back story or gives glimpses into what she's actually thinking at the time. If she was insecure about the husband and their relationship, she get upset when he doesn't want her to sleep with someone else.
If the open relationship allows them to 'fuck anyone' without issue, then I'd assume getting emotionally involved and attached to them would be the equivalent of cheating on some level. I mean there has to be something that's just for them or it's not really a relationship. What would differentiate the husband from another guy she sleeps around with?
If the open relationship allows them to 'fuck anyone' without issue, then I'd assume getting emotionally involved and attached to them would be the equivalent of cheating on some level. I mean there has to be something that's just for them or it's not really a relationship. What would differentiate the husband from another guy she sleeps around with?
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Since when has it been an open relationship? The whole premise of the game was to be more adventurous together. At no point does the husband force Anne to sleep with all and sundry, yes he encourages it but never forces her. Ryan is one example of him encouraging her but also an example of where she does cheat on him, As the second time Ryan comes to visit she sleeps with him and then denies to the husband that anything happened until he come home from work a few days after and catches them fucking on the couch. Another example of Anne cheating would be walker on the beach, at no point does the husband say to Anne that she must sleep with walker (in fact I'm not even sure if the MC knows that walker is there or what Anne had to do to get the time off for the holiday) yet because she is pissed at the husband she goes off and fucks walker.
As I have mentioned before the whole point of this trip that they are on was to celebrate their anniversary together. Depending on how you play it. They have both spent more time with other people than they have with each other.
As I have mentioned before the whole point of this trip that they are on was to celebrate their anniversary together. Depending on how you play it. They have both spent more time with other people than they have with each other.
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Yes thats the point. Especially in case Anne fucks with MC's Dad there should be a proper reaction possible because it doesnt match the fact that he broke up with Emma because she did the same. I can agrre if she cheats but this forced cuckolding script was a bit a bad anf unlogic surprise..better let the MC break up the reletionship and put a game over screen at thus point. Also if she cheats witv Martin without telling him later may Emma should tell him and he drops Anne.
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Well, except that the player's the one who chooses whether or not Anne and Martin have sex in the first place. Other choices are available.
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The choice if yes/no is okay but even if i want her to cheat or fuck with Martin i want also choose how MC reacts to it and what consequences he applies there..currently you will get just forced by script into a spineless cuckold dialog. This would be a opportunity for the writer to set up a divorce and may the MC continues the rest of the story with Zahra, Chloe or another partner while on this way he sometimes sees or meets Anne in some situations ...would be a great potential but may to complicated to realize...
I think if Anne cheats it is also okay and maybe exciting for gamers to experience it but in the case that Anne fucks Martin in front of MC and he just turns cuckold and obeys it by forced script even he droped gorgous Emma before for same reason...that is the point which doesn't work out logcal for me.
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No you don't. You get "forced" into that by passing up multiple opportunities to stop Anne from entering the shower with Martin, and the final choice menu explicitly warns you what will happen if you do. What you're asking for is like making your character put his hand in a roaring fire, but wanting to choose whether or not he's going to get burned. That's not how it works.
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An open relationship is the only way that we can define this relationship. Anne does not need his permission or require his direction to sleep with anyone. Neither, evidently, does he. This is not a proper polyamorous relationship. That would be much healthier, and they would indeed do these things together. But they do not. They are instead practicing radical sexual freedom within their relationship. Anne doesn't consider, upon seeing a recording of her husband fucking a married woman without her husband's permission or knowledge, his actions to be cheating. Ethical non-monogamy is not only not being practiced here, but they don't even seem to know how it works. The examples of cheating with Walker and Ryan are dicey because both are well-established sexual partners (that she slept with because the husband arranged it) at that point so while she isn't told she must fuck them there is no rule that says she can't. There is also no rule saying that she can't fuck someone else just because she is upset. Or that he can't for that matter.