It is not really meant to be obvious. It is mostly meant to make it so that when you start the game there is a bit of a natural build up with progression. A male start with -200 body confidence is not going to be working first day in the pub and bending over in the toilets. It sort of acts a bit like a timer to make some of the more slutty stuff delayed a bit so things feel a bit more natural.
Of course if you pick an origin with the slut perk then none of that matters anymore and only really effects more default or traditional starts.
The samdbox allows you to grind those stats back up, and with the more forgiving decay I hope it turns out to have a better feel overall now.
I guess it depends on how you play. In my testing while I do trigger the bad events early, by the time the harsh ones would roll around I would have already got to the level to reject them. Though I suppose if you walk around the school a lot looking to trigger the events then you will activate the harsh events much earlier with have greater punishments.
I am leaning towards a more story based progression instead of the menu to pick photoshoots. Much like a continuation of the introduction line. But we will see.
It have and is something I will probably do. But something I am finding with writing one of the new characters is that if something does X now and Y another time, it confuses things a lot.
This reply is about baby crazy generally.
As it is in the current build, the counter goes up or down based on the choice Sammy makes and not the end result. So asking for a pullout but the guy ignores and cums inside anyway will still reduce preg_desire.
Also with the addition of morning after and abortion pills, it's easy to keep it low if you want. Morning after pills off the top of my head reduces preg_desire by 30 and abortion reduces it to it's lowest possible. If as a player you don't want to get pregnant, you will no doubt be making use of these items and quickly get the child free perk.
It's possible for "creampie lover" to counteract the effects of "childfree" so you can not want a baby but still ask the guy to cum inside and use morning after pills as a contraceptive.
