I'd like to get your opinion on justifying a gameplay mechanic

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PS, something I am SURE is on your list already but is near and dear to my heart, is hard harsh throat/face fucking. Making the submissive/eager/struggling girl take it hard enough to make balls slap her chin and rattle her brain is A+++ for me. Especially with pigtails or horns or other good handles to really grip and pull at full ramming speed. Of course this also is a great place to have some nice breathplay, as she chokes on the cock, and/or is held down on it, balls deep as he cums, her throat spasming rythmically on him to milk out every drop as her world focuses down to just staring up at him. MMMMMMhmmm. Eye contact during BJ is also A+ stuff.

Marr

May be you already decided- but I would see selling pussy juices, or videos of their being made happy, as the way you get that money. The idea of combining the Govt agency and Pagent, could also work. It could be that the government has a monitoring and reward stipend in place, part of an "Farm Stimulation Bill" and the pageant could still be used as a bonus- your happiest best girl in whatever category you have this week, could earn you a bonus. It starts off tame, then goes for skills or fetishes or Hucow etc. If you did go the video route, when you have the girls do the pageant, it could be the picture/dialog or animation of the "winning event" displays- and that by winning that pagent it gets added to a CGI/Scene gallery. Kind of like a trophy shelf. This way even the tamest, or lewdest, of fetishes and events could be a goal for people.

Marr

"I also think that getting paid at the end of the day is more realistic" more realistic than what? "upgrades could be done during intermission between levels." Cool, that's the way it works at the moment :) "since the girls are there willingly you could be paid by them" I prefer (because I think it's sexier) that the women are human cattle. They're there willingly, but like a cow, they don't have any money.

Bawdy Ink Slinger

I like both but I would use pageant as bonus event every so often. I also think that getting paid at the end of the day is more realistic and upgrades could be done during intermission between levels. Also while I prefer the Gov becose I find it more realistic it still feels a bit forced. I think since the girls are there willingly you could be paid by them. The farm would essentially work like a camp or hotel, so you are paid based on girls satisfaction.

Sitis

Your idea is intriguing, but in my mind, it's important to get paid per action instead of EOD or EOW. In Diablo, you get a reward for almost every enemy you kill, be it XP, Money, a trash item you can sell for money, or good equipment. I think it's important that this game rewards as frequently. It's a little weird to me that after you feed Kira, she'd give you a rock, and then the next time you feed her she'd give you a coin. Where's she keeping all this stuff? It does make sense that they could give you this EOD or EOW though. I'll consider that. It might also be fun to have a "finding" stat for the girls. PS: If you hold down shift when you press enter, it won't submit.

Bawdy Ink Slinger

I think it would be more fun for the play to be able to buy an upgrade after the very first level. Someone proposed that instead of a government auditor, it could be a guild member. Even if nothing changed beyond that, I think it's a lot less boring. The problem with an experience ranch hand is there's no reason for you to receive money from them after every action. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea, just that it doesn't solve this problem.

Bawdy Ink Slinger

Agreed. Thanks for letting me know.

Bawdy Ink Slinger

Awesome ideas, thanks for sharing. Sorry I don't have an in depth reply beyond this. I'll consider all these ideas for sure :)

Bawdy Ink Slinger

Another option I thought up that may fit is to have them give you an item of some value , dont know everything about the game but could be stuff from a field or a town like a random coin they dug up, a peculiar looking rock, some seeds with which you could also also a little bit of rpg leveling by giving each person a finding stat so as the game progresses and things get more expensive your people get better at finding stuff so when you do a good job instead of rocks and stuff they may find a mobile phone or if you want to be slightly less lax with the realism have them find other stuff that realistically they never could have found but pretend they did and have like a rare collection where isntead of just selling the stuff you can also save the best bits such as if one finds excalibur or a rare ancient chest full of gold, you can sell it for lots or save to fill out your collection . There are obviously still a couple of issues with the idea mainly being that while each action increases the chance of finding something good you firstly dont get something until you finish the cycle so while each action goes towards the reward each action itself isn't rewarded. there is also the problem previously alluded to of while its not necessarily entirely fiction and impossible for the people to keep finding all this random stuff it is very much a stretch and while I know the game involves hucow and harpie transformation which is fantasy it just depends where you draw the line. The final thing which not necessarily a problem but to be considered is you would need to come up with a fairly long list of different valued items to find to try and reduce some of the repetitiveness of getting the same stuff over and over. Also sorry for wall of text when I tried separating into paragraphs it just submitted the message instead. on a final note if not interested in other ideas or dont like this particular one, then out of your two I much prefer the auditor as the day to day income for actions and the pageants as like a weekly or monthly chance for a bonus

Hognus

Does the money need to be cash in hand? Hang a clipboard on the gate for each subject with an annotated list of needs met and an estimate of the $$$ you'll receive on the next pay cycle (weekly/quarterly/etc). Players can plan around upcoming costs (and the status bar could show the expected cash in hand on the next accounting day). New small businesses starting with government loans are often given access to advisers with the money, so the Auditor could be a Startup Counselor, or a liaison from a VC firm that invested, or a representative from one of your buyers vetting that you're using Organic(tm) techniques, or a third-party rating organization (that you're potentially paying for their evaluation and assistance...), or an experienced ranch hand you've inherited from another farm that knows the best ways to treat stock without knowing the business / logistics / strategy side of the game so they can recommend actions that you'll have to compromise on.

I don't mind if there are pageants but as an actual justification, the government auditor makes much more sense - its a really good reason why npc farmers would care about the girls welfare as well. And perhaps if you keep consistently high standards government sends perks or new equipment, etc.

Drake Breen

Why not both? Suggestions on overcoming the cons of the pageant: Give the girls stats. Happiness (obviously), fitness, health, skill, confidence, sexiness, whatever. Your actions bump their stats, and the stats are plugged into a formula (or simply added) to determine their pageant score and thus income. This opens up some fun stuff like outfits that boost certain stats, training, etc. There could be also be events that give a bonus just for the next pageant (maybe the girl does something sexy, which boosts her confidence or whatever). This is important because otherwise the same girls are always the best in every situation and the pageant becomes very grindy. If you want to make it more involved you could also have a stable of NPC competitors that they have to beat; some girls might match up better against others, but you can only enter X number of girls, so you have to examine the competition and pick your girls carefully to maximize income. As for the auditor, well, if this is an H game she should be seduce-able. Having her simply fall in love with the MC would be a little static; maybe she has a thing for hucow girls and you can get the auditor to help you out more by convincing your girls to take care of her. This would allow for interesting day-by-day activities so it does not just become "put 3 best girls in pageant, click next day". The auditor could become even a sort of quest-giver; she might give you money if you can fulfill certain fantasies of hers ("I always wanted to play with a girl with DD breasts" -> you need to enlarge the boobs on a girl and then convince her to play with the auditor, "I always wanted a 3some" -> you need to get the lust/obedience/whatever on 2 girls high enough that they will both want to do it, etc).

Dubsington

Yeah, I like that idea a lot

Bawdy Ink Slinger

Having the auditor as tutorial/helper while using the pageant for bonus income or other goodies could work. Maybe add daily quests to make the auditor more interesting?

Telv

Why do you prefer it?

Bawdy Ink Slinger

I may not be understanding the suggestion, because I see it as details on the pageant idea, but not a different idea.

Bawdy Ink Slinger

I definitely prefer option 2, the Gov Auditor. But they're both good ideas. I wouldn't mind seeing either one being used.

#3000

Keep the pageant, but maybe have visitors instead of the gov official? Like, school trips or tourists or however you wanna spin it. Not just one person to judge of the quality, but many people appreciating the quality of the girls. And for the tutorial, maybe have an old farmer give you the tutorial before he retires?

LazyOwl