Warning! Many words ahead (๑ʘ∆ʘ๑)

So, a little journey into my head.

I've finished the starting sequence of Chapter 3, that leads to the free-play. And here's the thing.

Originally (maybe a month ago) I was planning to add the final icon to the HUD, representing Gloria's resistance, like this.

The idea was to achieve several goals:

1. Provide a constant pressure to a player, the "battle of wills" kinda.

2. Make player's goal to find (develop) new patterns and give him(her) a sense of pride and accomplishment, when finally breaking The Boss bitch will become easier and easier.

3. Apply a strong debuff to all arousal gains before the critical research is made, making already discovered buffs not so potent (to slow down her Desire accumulation).

4. Make weekly-based rolls and report to apply more severe debuffs to player's progress (more hate gain, lewdness drop over-time, working point sabotage and such)

5. Include a game-over scenario and give player means to avoid it.

6. Something else

A lot of stuff circulated in my head. And the problem with this - the more you think about something, the harder it's to re-think the whole thing from the zero-point.

Like, why the fuck should Gloria still generate Hate (or drop it to zero), when we are already "at war". Plus: for the whole office-cumdump thing to work, I'll need to store her Reputation somewhere...

So. This weekend I gave it another shot, and here's what I think should be better.

Once you are in Chapter 3 (and past the boring Plot stuff), Gloria's Hate will be replaced by that Resistance thing I talked above (but overhauled). And her new stat (covered by Spoiler pic in Ch2) will be her Reputation.

It'll start at 1000 and slowly go down as you train, do public stuff to her and use her for your goals.

Some major plot-points will require it lower and lower, and that's how you'll move through the story with her.

It's still a concept, but at least it makes more sense (for now).

Once I code this shit in and give it a few test events and test-runs, I'll put it aside.

Same as in Ch2, once Gloria's mechanics are tested, I'll work on Maya+Esther. And come back later for the main dish.

At least that's the plan for now   へ[ : ⊚ ﹏ ⊚ : ]ง