Upcoming Changes to Urination Emergencies (Patreon)

Here's a comment thread from Itch.io for context. 

I say in the thread that this is the first time I've heard a complaint about urination emergencies, reviewing my notes, this isn't actually true. I have a note of one other person mentioning the peeing happening too often. I also have a note about someone mentioning how the content shield doesn't prevent urination, though I had that filed under feedback for the content shield.

I also know watersports stuff is icky to a lot of people, it's a pretty controversial fetish. It makes sense that it shuts people off the game. It should probably be optional.

The main issue is that urine is an important ingredient, and changing that is difficult. It is possible to maybe rename it and have it be available in the market under a different name if a urination setting is off, that would be challenging. Limiting the rate at which the player gets female urine specifically, for example making players buy it, could also introduce balance issues, whether the name is changed or not. The balance of the game sort of assumes female urine is easy to get in large quantities.

Thinking about it, though, I don't think urine as an ingredient is the issue. Even if players find it gross, it seems that the real problem is the regular "forced" engagement in a urination scene, which is a much easier problem to solve. I think I was sort of missing the forest for the trees, I took no action on removing the urination emergencies and similar content because I couldn't think of a way to remove all of the offending content.

In the next update, a game setting will be introduced that allows all players to shut off urination emergencies. It will still be possible to engage in other urination scenes, and will not affect the content shield. All it will do is stop warnings about urination and events where the player pisses themselves. However, female urine will still be collected and added to the player's inventory as though the event occurred. This will be accompanied by a notification. Basically, if this setting is turned on, players will gain female urine at a fixed rate over time without needing to see the urination events.

And that's it. That's my solution for this problem. I'm sure there will still be some complaints and discomfort around the ingredients and the fact that it's still possible to go and urinate, but I hope this change will at least make the issue more easily ignorable.