Inner Circle post for 0.4.11 (Patreon)

Hi all,

I've started work on the cheating update. There's quite a lot of content that can be written about this so it might be best split over several releases. One thing I'd like to do is implement the core section first and then add a small event in the custom-scene format rather than directly in the Java. That way writers can have an example of an actual implemented scene.

To start with I'm just going to be handling the PC cheating. NPC infidelity is part of my longer term plans but it simplifies the initial version if I can focus on just one direction and not have to consider situations like the PC cheating as revenge for previous NPC unfaithfulness.

The general idea for cheating is that men will be split into 3 general categories. I'll probably enable the traits for female NPCs as well, but they won't have an effect for them as the PC can't have a lesbian relationship in the current version:

- Normal men will dislike the PC cheating and are likely to leave her if they find out.

- "Doormats" will dislike cheating but will not leave her, even if the PC uses it to humiliate them

- Some men will like to share their girlfriend. They'll be turned on by the PC sleeping with other men and will encourage her to do so. I know that there's a bit of a difference IRL between cuckold-fetish guys and guys who are just comfortable with their girlfriend sleeping around, but for simplicity's sake I think I'll combine them into this one trait.

The first question is: which traits should be available for which NPCs? I think that "likes to share" should be forbidden for men with the Romantic personality, but otherwise I can imagine any of the above traits working for any normal NPC. Are there any other combinations you can think of that should either be forbidden or should be more or less common?

I think the game will need some extensive changes to actually store what the PC has done with other men. My current thoughts are that each NPC will store what the PC has done with them in 2 categories: a list of things she's done with them while being unfaithful on her current BF, and a list of what she's done full stop. The latter will be useful in writing dialogue and things that reflect on her previous sexual experience with them: essentially it'll be a refinement of the hadSex and hadAnalSex methods.

I also think I'll have different severities of unfaithfulness. It'll be worse to have sex with another man than to kiss him. I think there'll be 3 general categories: severe (sex/anal), moderate (heavy petting, oral), light (kissing, mild makeouts). These will influence the NPC's reaction.

The main scene for this release will be the "cheating discovery" scene. There'll be 2 paths into it: if the PC confesses or if the NPC has discovered what she's done and confronts her. In the latter case he'll only discover what she's done with one specific other NPC. That will in the future allow events to be written where an evil NPC blackmails the PC by threatening to tell her boyfriend what they've done together.

I've sketched an outline on paper of how the discovery scene will flow. One question I have: one of the paths is where the BF demands the PC agree to a condition in order not to be dumped. I've thought of 2 conditions: one where he insists she hook him up with another girl (potentially an attractive female friend of hers) as a way of 'evening the score' and one where he demands that she be his bitch from now on and locks them into the always_rough relationship status. Can you think of any others?