- Jul 17, 2019
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No, but I don't really like to wholly half-ass features.
No problem. As I've said before, you can do your own mods without my explicit approval, or even over my refusal. If you want them included in the main mod, though...
It's... barebones. I don't particularly hate it or like it, but if I wanted to do something like that, I have what I think are better and more balanced ideas. They're at the bottom of the list, if at that, though.
Already in the WIP version, without pregnant followers going into combat, and most interactions are available from the 'normal' interaction screen.
Which is the complete opposite of my intentions with the mod. If something is too easy, I'll tweak it to make it harder. If something is impossible, I'll make it less so. It might take a while for this to filter down into a release, and I don't catch all of it (which is why you fine people are here to tell me about exploits
), but that's not a reason to give up.As I said, I don't believe in a big bad dragon inspiring loyalty. Fear, absolutely. Bootlicking, definitely. Some SS-style affection, maybe. Worship, possibly. Genuine loyalty? That has to be reciprocal.
Anyway, if you're happy with it, good. I find this loyalty mechanic wholly artificial, and, as I said before, would make an actual 'affection' mechanic instead, if I had the time and motivation.
That would actually be something I could use, even if not in the immediate future. If you have a design doc or something, I'd be interested in seeing it.
Given that you can have dozens of pregnancies, and thus exponential growth, that is stupendously unbalanced.
Not to mention that I'm trying to make girl minions less attractive overall...As I said before, I'm moving to a 'hatchling' model, and egg quality therefore matters less than it used to. You still get a more useful hatchling that matures more quickly, and maybe even a grown one, but the stat caps are still there, lower than before, and the maturing process takes perhaps a few months. Having more random eggs that average a little higher is largely just flavour.
It could be. But this is not it, or it is for very few people like yourself. Players these days have some serious expectations.
I heavily doubt it. But the mods here can be a shitshow at times.
Edit: Linked it into the OP for others to try out if they wish.
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Not years. I think I could do something like that it in a week's worth of work. A full week, that is. It would have crappy writing, limited art, and postpone all the more interesting stuff on my todo list. That's why I'm not doing it.
Ravager also does it better, doesn't have the same art constraints, and is generally superiour at making you care about the womenfolk.
I don't think so. That same imagination you were talking about can fill in a lot of gaps, but you have to give it considerable material to work with if you want the result to be memorable. I'm very much not into romance (when I still watched TV, I used to take a break when a Hollywood-mandated affection scene was happening), but I've read several books with romance I really liked. For instance, the Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. There's nice world-building, interesting social customs, everyone had agency and the romance didn't feel tacked on, shallow or sentimental. On the contrary, it was the larger half of the motivation the protagonists had to do what they did, they faced problems due to it and persevered. Another one I recall vividly was Brother's Price by Wen Spencer, which was basically a gender-swap version of Cinderella, except the prince was a harem of princesses, some quite tough.
And Cinderella was the eldest of four brothers among 32 siblings, which was considered a very good ratio.The thing to note is that both the above authors are women, and this generally tends to hold true for anything that has interesting romance in it. While this dragon-rape thing is very much something most women would have a very hard time connecting with.
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