Making Depravity Matter (Patreon)

I frequently come up with new ideas for things to add to the game while trying to go to sleep, which is somewhat annoying because it keeps me up for a while, but is also how I came up with both this idea and the options for the poll I’m posting right now as well. So first off, I wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts to the depravity changes I've been thinking of, to give it more of an in-game impact.

Depravity is described as having negative effects, but right now it mostly just changes some of the players thoughts and actions to be sluttier. It’s described as causing negative effects in game, but I’ve been struggling to think of any substantial drawbacks it could have. Purity items like the one you can get in the second dungeon are an idea, but they only help a pure player catch up to a depraved one, as increasing depravity often increases femininity, making the player stronger. Having some lewd scenes require lower depravity is another idea, but in most cases, you would expect higher depravity to result in more sex, not less. The only exception I could think of would be someone refusing to have sex with you because of how depraved you are, but that would get old quite quickly. The only other negative I could think of for depravity would be to have it make the player weaker, but that would make slutting it up to get stronger a mute point, as high depravity and high femininity cancel each other out.

This brings me to my idea, making depravity reduce the players defense, but not their power. I think this makes sense in the context of a depraved and slutty player, as they would secretly want to lose fights somewhat, as losing battles usually results in your opponents playing with your body. Therefore, a highly depraved player might subconsciously lower their guard and not focus on their own magical defense as much, to give their foe a better chance of besting them. This way, even if a player sluts it up all the time, they will still have higher power from their femininity, but it gives the player an incentive to actually manage depravity. High depravity probably wouldn’t be able to reduce the players defense by more than femininity is raising it, to ensure raising these stats doesn’t end up making you feel weaker than not raising them at all. I would also add in cursed equipment at some point to counteract the stat loss from higher depravity, but those would have their own drawbacks or take the place of other equipment the player could equip.

If I’m giving depravity a real drawback, then I’d need to provide ways for players to actually reduce their depravity, as right now the options are rather limited. I was already adding a npc in the second dungeon that has a purifying event, and lets you donate silver to reduce depravity afterwards, but I will add other ways to manage depravity as well. I am also going to add silver as a reward for defeating the enemies in the second dungeon, and simply have the reward go down the more you defeat the same enemy, until it reaches a low point, but I won’t make them give out no reward like I did before, it will just be low enough to encourage the player to fight other enemies instead of grinding for silver, but if you really want to grind for something like depravity reductions, you can.

Giving depravity a drawback opens up more unique options for having high depravity. For example, I was thinking of a black magic skill set that can only be unlocked by corrupt players, that provides more powerful spells with drawbacks to them. This would probably be a kind of lewd magic, like summoning a tentacle monster to attack your foes, but it draws it’s power by playing with your body at the same time, something like that. This black magic wouldn’t be added right away, but I think it’s an interesting idea.

I'm mostly posting this because I think it's exciting to share new ideas with fans of the game, but if you have any feedback on other things you'd like to see depravity do, or possible issues you see with my current ideas, let me know in the comments.