HoHH: Coins and Mulligan Tokens (Patreon)
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This one's just for the patrons.
I'm currently working on adding a few fixes to put out a new, more player-friendly public demo. As people have suggested, I've added an option to skip The Madam's mulligan token explanation and also implemented a way for players to use mulligan tokens to be able to buy any charm.
There is one item on the todo list that has a question mark next to it:
Rename currency and mulligan tokens?
This was something I forgot about for the last public release. When I was putting the skeleton code together, I didn't have the names for everything, so I used variables to represent them so that I could change them later without having to rewrite tons of passages.
(This is true for all the NPCs and why they have generic names like "The Madam" and "The Elegant Woman". Those probably aren't going to change, because I quite like them as they are, but it does leave room to replace them during the game run should the player learn their real names after visiting them as a harlot.)
"Coins" and "Mulligan Tokens" are both generic names. They describe what they do, but are not exactly evocative.
"Coins" is the standard currency inside the House. That would be your "gold", "gp", "souls", or "gil" of fantasy RPGs.
This one I might leave as is. It's what they are and the text mostly reads fine with them as they are.
I did think about naming them "Succubus Hearts" to allude to the heart design on them, and that it seems both a plausible and evocative name for a token system in a succubus brothel. "Hearts" could work as an abbreviation. "SH" also, but that would require code changes for the various checks to use "Coin" or "Coins".
"Mulligan Tokens", yep that's a purely functional name that needs to go. It's named because the primary use is to 'mulligan' a bad round of harlots. Within the setting, it should probably have a fancier name like "Fate Tokens".
Again, there is a slight restriction here. In terms of coding change, it's trivial to change "Mulligan Token" to "Fate Token" across the whole project (as it's set once in one of the House Init passages). "Token of Fate" not so much, as I'd have to change an awful lot of things just to get the plural to show up correctly as "Tokens of Fate" rather than "Token of Fates".
Because I've been focused on pumping out faction-specific harlots, I haven't had much opportunity to run patron-participation like the various polls I put out in the first half of the year (and they will mean something when I get around to implementing the popular harlots.
I haven't forgotten!). I was thinking I might be able to do something here.
So here's an opportunity to suggest names for both the currency within the House, and a better name for The Madam's token system. Maybe I'll run a poll to pick if there are a lot of good suggestions.
Or just keep them as is if people like that.