[Research] On Chastity and collars!

Hey friends!

I hope you are having a wonderful day!

So today I come to you with some questions!

As usual, I use player feedback to improve the game, and find answers when the questions are related to topics I don’t know much about.

First topic!

Power collars!

So power collars came as an idea a while ago, and much before that I had a similar idea inspired by skyrim mods.

In my games collars are usually one of the first restraints enemies tend to put, being somewhat on the low end of the power scale. So “Power collars” (I could actually use a better name for this) would just be the same collars visually but enchanted, and they would provide a much harsher debuff. In the same way that hand and leg restraints work, requiring a previous lower level restraint to be in place before they can be put on by enemies). 

So in this way power collars would require normal collars to be on the character and then, when put they will provide a harsh debuff/limitation.

Examples of this would be:

Exhibition collar: While wearing this collar you can't redress yourself.

Shock collar: Whenever you try to remove a restraint from yourself you take damage and a has small stun effect (Fortitude 15)

Slut collar: You are always considered to be in a free use state, allowing enemies to have sex with you whenever they want. (This collar will remove itself after some time)

Submission collar: Your attempts to gain domination always grant 1% domination.

Servant collar: Your attempts to gain an escape gauge always grant 1% escape gauge.

Drone collar: Your maximum Resolve cannot be more than 1. (So you will constantly fail charm and trance checks)

These are the ideas I currently have, you can suggest more to me, and if they fit I could add them. The idea is that having a power collar would be punishing akin to one of the big restraints but in a different way.

As always you will have to enable them on the bondage section, so you can enable the Exhibition collar but not the Servant collar for example.

Buffs extensión

One of the mechanics I’m trying to implement and make fun to play is using several buffs. However, one thing that I keep finding is that, on a sort of “meta” analysis, using buffs is not a great idea if you plan to fuck, because of the long-ish duration of sex you may end up losing all the buffs before you get out of sex, and as such, some gameplays may not be desire to enter sex, which would be a shame.

So here are my questions: would you like to have passively, whenever one character cums to extend the duration of all the (extendable) buffs they have by 20 seconds? 

This could lead to some unintended combos, but it could also make more viable the use of stacking effects and buffs (such as the Frenzy buff, or the Divine might buff)

And lastly, this is where my expertise drops to 0, the topic of chastity.

I don’t have this fetish, and I Don't understand it much (I mean I do understand the intellectual part of it, but I don’t exactly get what “gets you going” with this one).

So far I have two options on how to add chastity to the game, each option has their own implications, so I would like to get your feedback by voting here, and maybe talking about it on the discord or below. For game purposes I intend chastity to work mostly as a magic effect, rather than a metal cage.

Option 1: Chastity as not being able to use genitals for sex

I know this is the “real” chastity, however for gameplay purposes this implies that characters with the chastity restraint/ buff will require specific sex animations that they will be able to participate in. This means that on average they will only be able to see/use 10-20 animations at maximum, from the almost 200 available on the game. With this option the character will lose Willpower the longer it goes, unable to participate on sex, especially if enemies manage to arouse them. 

Option 2: Chastity as being unable to cum

This option is more friendly to the game itself, as the character will be able to participate in all sex animations, but they won’t be able to cum. Every time they would cum they instead gain a stack of frustration (increasing damage done and damage taken) and whenever they finally cum they will lose a massive amount of willpower (based on frustration stacks). 

This is a more lightweight option, but also a bit more dynamic.

As always chastity will be a module by itself, so you will have to enable it to experience it.

And that’s all for today, friends!

I will be coming back on the weekend or next week with this month’s update!

I hope you like ninjas and big titty courtesans, because that’s what is on the menu this month!

Cheers!