Exactly what I'm trying to say! There's no more middle ground. Game now pretty much makes you either play very seriously only, or enable Hmode to fap only. There's no more middle ground while playing legit. There's no logical reason you should take so much damage from being grabbed if the simb is horny and just wants to subdue you.
I didn't know your levels(and loot?) is now shared between arena and story. But I wouldn't use arena as an XP farm either way because I think it's more legit to start from 0 in the story mode. But you can argue that it's on me then. Also can you explain what you mean by "the hub"? I only you know can force spawn supplies in story mode via quest and randomly find in the abandoned houses. Sometimes you get lucky or very unlucky with the latter, explore the WHOOOLE accessable map and find just a couple/three medic containers that only have antidepressants and inhalers.
Easy. You would play normally as in legit, and when you decide in your headcanon that it's time for sex, whether it's the beginning with foreplay, or time for progressing to more serious forms of sex, or you really just wanted to fap, you would either "let" yourself get grabbed or instead of trying to bait it, enable h mode to save time.
While gameplay wise sex didn't have any consequences yet, if you had any sense of immersion, you'd feel "guilty" or other emotions for letting your MC get raped which helps against porn desensitization. If you only play games taking only the mechanics at face value, and not using it as a foundation for your own thing, I can see how you can't understand this but I hope I helped you see a different point of view why or how people play Hgames, and why the old system worked so much better for many people.
Also the problem with calling and emphasizing the old system as "themporary, placeholder etc " as an arugment assumes that the corrent system isn't going to be replaces or changed either. I believe at some point the dev didn't even necessarily plan to fully replace the older system, and how can you know he won't do the same with this one? I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's just that it doesn't mean anything and a pointless thing to say in this context.
I understand your concern, one does try to immerse oneself into the position of the MC and in a game where one can have sex and the player is horny af, you wouldn't feel any guilt until the nut, but a flame-war won't fix it(I might be exaggerating a bit, but this train of thought just goes to hell and back).
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I've seen the same imbalance in the game as Edgar here. The gameplay loop isn't really something to write home about yet, but the animations and the models are pretty much spot on for an H-game. Could use some tweaking, but for such a small-scale thing, it's actually pretty good.
I would suggest, to have more ways in which the enemies corrupt the MC. As of right now, the arousal gauge is only a resource to use in the sex minigame without it having any kind of drawback. If the enemies were able to increase this gauge in addition to it having a pronounced negative effect being filled or full, then the players would have an incentive to empty the arousal gauge. (Sex or sedatives could be used as a way to ward off the inevitable punishment of the arousal gauge)
Perhaps a connection to the stress gauge? I'm just throwing ideas here.
The way we initiate intercourse is kind of RNG at this point. I guess the idea was, that the sexual skill path would be a kind of succubus build, where the MC could screw her way through hoards of mobs, but there is no other reward for choosing this route(other than the obvious). The game is basically actively trying to thwart my attempts at sex in a very punishing way.
I am very curious as to what the plan for the eggs is! For now, the tentacles are nothing more than a fetish-plant that will give the preg-fans the tingly bits, but otherwise, they are not a threat, even if a bit annoying at times. They REALLY need something to make the egg-laying aspect make any sense investing into. Hell, those eggy bastards may even carry the whole sex path thing, if they are worth enough time investment to farm their eggs.
That's my two cents for now. I'm really excited for the next update! This thing has so much potential! Keep at it!
