Chapter 5 polls results: players' favorite Love Interests

At the time of writing this, there were a total of 142 patrons that voted on your favorite Love interests. Thank you for your participation. This post will be mostly the results coming out of that poll.

This time I tried to make a more comprehensive interpretation of the results. This turned into a long post, but I think it's interesting one, if you're into this kind of data analysis. Grab a cup of coffee and help me try to interprete these results.

Your favorite LI:

First, just like last time, I checked how many players have a given LI has one of their favorite:

From 142 players, 81 have Emma as one of their favorites (57%)

From 142 players, 66 have Deb as one of their favorites (46%)

From 142 players, 50 have Kim as one of their favorites (35%)

From 142 players, 48 have Lea as one of their favorites (34%)

From 142 players, 41 have Jen as one of their favorites (29%)

From 142 players, 29 have Olivia as one of their favorites (20%)

From 142 players, 16 have Bri as one of their favorites (11%)

The biggest winner from this chapter was Kim that overtook both Lea and Jen since chapter 4 polls. That’s not very surprising since she had more screen time and lewd scenes in this chapter. But Emma is still on top and her advantage to the rest has even increased.

Manly vs Sensitive paths:

However, these numbers can be a bit misleading because most LIs have a manly and a sensitive path, but the amount of players is not distributed 50% on each path.

For example, looking at Emma’s scene on chapter 5, 57% of players are on her sensitive path, while 39% are on the manly path. From the discord channel, we also have 64% of the members on the femdom channel, and 36% on the maledom channel.

This means the numbers shown above are a mixture of all of these players' votes, but are heavily skewed towards the opinions of players in the sensitive paths. What I wanted to find out is:

• 1) What are the favorite LIs from players that mostly prefer the manly paths
• 2) What are the favorite LIs from players that mostly prefer the sensitive paths

That information would better help me understand which paths are working better for each kind of player.

Your favorite LIs in manly paths:

To find that out, I just crossed information between polls. For example, looking only at those players that showed misogynistic porn to Emma, what are their favorite LIs? 

The results are quite different from the overview shown above:

Emma: 67%, Deb: 18%, Lea: 41%, Jen: 49%, Kim: 21%, Olivia: 31%, Bri: 13%

For example, only 18% of them classified Deb as one of their favorites, in contrast to 46% if we also take sensitive players into account!

Players that spanked Jen in the MC’s office have a similar distribution of favorite LIs:

Emma: 60%, Deb: 40%, Lea: 43%, Jen: 50%, Kim: 21%, Olivia: 31%, Bri: 10%

And for players that had sex with Kim while she talked with Pete on the phone:

Emma: 68%, Deb: 29%, Lea: 39%, Jen: 46%, Kim: 32%, Olivia: 39%, Bri: 18%

Your favorite LI's in sensitive paths:

I also did the same exercise for the sensitive paths.

Players that showed femdom porn to Emma:

Emma: 58%, Deb: 68%, Lea: 22%, Jen: 19%, Kim: 48%, Olivia: 13%, Bri: 9%

Players that wore a strap-on for Deb:

Emma: 56%, Deb: 72%, Lea: 23%, Jen: 23%, Kim: 49%, Olivia: 15%, Bri: 8%

Players that become intimate with Kim’s shoes:

Emma: 59%, Deb: 71%, Lea: 21%, Jen: 19%, Kim: 57%, Olivia: 5%, Bri: 7%

Overview:

Within the manly paths and the sensitive paths, the numbers are quite similar, so I just did an average and got these general results:

Regarding players that picked sensitive paths, Deb is on top of their preferences with 70% of them picking her has one of their favorite LIs. Emma is second with 58% and Kim third with 51%.

As for players that picked manly paths, Emma is on top with 65%, followed by Jen with 48% and Lea with 41%.

I think this is more or less expected given their paths. But there are a few surprising things in this data.

Jen vs Deb:

Jen and Deb were supposed to be a bit of a mirror of each other. Jen is submissive and most of her content is geared towards manly players, with her sensitive path having just a couple teasing scenes so far. On the other hand, Deb is a dominant woman with most of her scenes being related to femdom. Not surprisingly, Deb is the favorite LI between players on sensitive paths… but Jen barely gets to be a favorite of 50% of players in the manly path. Why is that?

I think the most likely reason is that she’s “rejected” due to the ethical reasons present in her story (being a former psychology patient of the MC). 

Another explanation could be that players in the manly paths actually like more vanilla content? Lea (and Olivia?) are more favored between manly players than between sensitive players, which might indicate just that.

On the other hand, Emma is still the favorite among manly players and her lewd scenes are not particularly vanilla. But the truth is, even among players that chose to spank her, only 50% picked her as one of their favorites. So, the "ethical issue" can't explain everything, or else, she would be more favored among players that don't care about that. What am I missing here? 

Players on the manly paths that don’t have Jen as one of their favorite LIs, why is that? Is it because she is a former patient of the MC? Is it because her scenes are too kinky and you like more vanilla sex? Are her scenes not kinky enough? Some other reason?

How many favorite LIs each player has:

As you know, you could have picked as many LIs as you wanted as your favorite. However, the average number of picked LIs was 2.3. And this number was exactly the same from players in manly paths or players in sensitive paths. That's funny. Is this expected or surprising?

This might be just an artifact of the question. If we ask anyone to choose their favorite chocolate candy bars, and give them 7 options, they might pick just 2 or 3. It’s not like they don’t like the others, but, intuitively, if they’re going to pick favorites among 7 options, it makes sense to pick 2 or 3 instead of, say, 6. I think? Maybe not.

The interesting thing was that players on sensitive paths tended to heavily pick Deb, Emma, and Kim, while players in manly paths have their choices more distributed among all the girls. This means that Lea, Jen, Olivia and Bri are more liked by manly players than sensitive ones. Why is that?

Could it be that, if you’re just going to pick 2 or 3 options regardless of the question and the answers, femdom players have an easy choice and just pick Emma, Deb and Kim? 

Could it be that manly players just have more options and femdom players feel like just those 3 girls are interesting to them?

Or manly players don't yet have obvious choices so they pick, say, Olivia (or even Bri) in the hopes that her content will be better than what is now in the game?

Speaking of Olivia, why are manly players around 3x more likely to have her as a favorite LI than sensitive players? Are manly players more interested in the LI’s personality while femdom players are more interested in just kinks? Is there something about Olivia that is a turn off for femdom players? Or a turn-on for manly players? Lea and Bri also suffer from the same "effect".

I don’t know the answer to any of these question, but I find them interesting.

Femdom players, why do so few of you picked Olivia as your favorite? Bri and Lea are also more-or-less 2 times less likely to be picked you than manly players. Jen is the same, but I guess that's expected. The other 3 are more surprising. 

Manly players, why do so many of you picked Olivia as your favorite? She's even ahead of Kim and Deb and barely behind Lea, which is interesting given that she has no lewd scenes yet.

There are more things worth talking about, especially regarding each LI in particular. But this post is already big enough, so, I’ll leave that for another time.

If you have any hypothesis for the raised questions, let me know in the comments.

Cheers.