If you read my generally complimentary posts as whining, then I guess we have massively divergent definitions of the word.
It's because your posts came off as backhanded. If it's not your intent I apologize but we've had more than one occasion of people being snide.
the moment I mentioned the addiction mechanic I got a lot of very defensive responses.
We've had people get weird about it to a point where when someone brings up the absence of the mechanic it's assumed they're going to be weird about it.
I appreciate that there's an attempt to improve on RLE
This is another thing that annoys people following the project because there is no attempt to improve on RLE. Null Hypothesis has never had RLE's gameplay loop and as someone who can see into the dev rooms, it's going to be diverging even further away from it.
They're two separate games.
The current implementation doesn't allow for very much variation though because it limits the player to "say nice things to improve love score"
This is by design.
The game is about developing romantic and platonic relationships with X-Men characters. Corruption, addiction, and obedience stats would be antithetical to what we want to do with the game.
If you want a pure sandbox experience, go play RLE.
If you want a narrative-focused game centered around forming relationships, play this game.
If you want a narrative-focused game centered around dominating x-gals... Wait for someone to make that game.
On the other hand, the game was intentionally made to be as moddable as possible.
Right now I know of three projects in progress. One that turns all the characters into yanderes, one that makes Null inherently more assertive and the girls less so, and one focused on smaller life sim stuff like random events and mini games.
While I'm here I'll say this for everyone reading that if someone wants to mod in addiction and obedience that's entirely possible. We have no interest in incorporating it into the main game but we support those who want to use the tools that we have provided.
The discord has an official modding channel to discuss stuff.
