In those times, the slaves, even the ones rulers used as their personal assistants,
If the MC gave them the "choice" of fucking him or being thrown in a dungeon then you would be right.
I actually find the consent discussion really interesting, because it gets to the heart of something I've been thinking about for a while; the seduction path currently feels like two separate paths squashed together. The seduction path actually feels more dominant than the rape path, because Karder has gotten a woman from "your very presence disgusts me, paleskin" to "breed me, master" by... using Force Yield five times.
You completely screwed it up. There will not be a do over.
This will never happen. I offer the players moral decisions but I want them to own their choices. You want to play a (virtual) bastard? Pay the (virtual) moral price. As a player, I hate the "she actually likes it" or "she grows to like it" or whatever other authors color their moral washcloth.
Isn't that basically what you're already doing with the game now? You can ravish every wench when you conquer their fiefdom and then play them the "seduce" route and they're a-ok with that, because, as you specifically put it previously, you give the player a free pass on those rapes. I can't think of many women in the real world that would forgive and forget and work closely with, and for the benefit of, their rapist - without coercion.
To be fair the girls DO refer to your previous actions dureing the seduction routes.
I actually had your answer here in mind when I wrote that;
Has your view changed or is there a distinction there?
I'm not sure how referring to fictional works contradicts my statement about women in the real world, but w/e. I will acknowledge that there are some few people in the real world somewhere that like anything you'd care to mention. I seriously doubt, in this specific case, you could convince me that EVERY leader of EVERY fiefdom would ascribe to this particular extreme kink. And it's all irrelevant, anyways. He says everyone gets a free pass on Karder raping the women when they are captured, but then says he won't ever pander to the idea of women getting raped then building a consensual, willing relationship with him. That's EXACTLY what he has set up now if you choose the seduction route in the castle. The only difference is the location of the rape(s).
I'm not going to wiggle my way to some morally flawed excuse on how this makes sense, I simply think the post-combat-ravishments are very in theme of the game and I want people to enjoy them without suffering consequences later on. Like infinite ammo, health potions and limitless carrying ability, it's a clear case of Gameplay Vs. Realism where I knowingly chose to bend my own rules in favor of more streamlined gameplay. I thought a lot about this exact dilemma before implementing the feature in 0.2.
I don't think there's a distinction here so I'll go with "my view changed".
