Steph has now entered... the Doc Badger Zone. Where a controversial project is neither dead nor alive, suspended in indefinite animation, because killing it or letting it live are both unpalatable options. It's also where Sera lives.
EDIT: And Bess used to live, until Gedan liberated her from the space-time lock. But he ended up all
Dalek Caan for that.
I think it's a matter of priority more than anything, really. You can assume all you like that it's some kind of inaction to spite the complainers, but in actuality, I'm sure it's more about:
"Hey, this stuff is finally coded. It functions properly and in sequence as it should. There are no outstanding bugs with this as it stands and I kinda like the content presented so far. Yea, it's pretty much done here and I'm at least marginally proud of what I've accomplished. Wait--what's this? A rewrite with no additional follow-up content to support it yet? Well, while this drastically changes the interaction with this content, I guess I'll put it on the to-do list...
After I finish the buttloads of other work on the to-do list and/or progress the game's development forward to be on a reasonable schedule for the game's content growth."
So with that in mind, it paints a different perspective on the matter. If it ain't broke, don't fix it--but if people want it to be fixed to meet their needs... fix it later, I guess?
This is a game with regular after combat rape. I would think that if we were going to bend over backwards to protect players' feelings from unwanted fetishes, that would have been where we'd have started.
Like I mentioned before, some people are finicky about what they want to complain about... Especially if a fetish displayed is not one that lines up on their list of kinks. Wild post-combat rape? That's completely fine. Incest with bastardized siblings? Totally A-Okay. Forced bimbofication? Whoa, hold the phone. My character has no agency in this situation, we need to fix this right up. I will overlook the quality of the content and any attempts at a forewarning to demand a rewrite! (Of course, I'm over-dramatizing it for effect, but the reactions that actually played out was not out of line with this hyperbole).
I am probably going to get a banned for this or at liest a warning probably but here goes anyway.
You'll probably have to try a little harder than that if you want to get banned!
I played the distract-Shade thing recently - which leads directly into fucking her - and it's not even broadly hinted at.
I also think it'd be a shame to meddle with much, because it's quite a good scene overall.
Indeed, I don't think it should be touched with either since it was well done. And it's this exact scene/choice route that I find blind-sighting for those who don't favor incest content in their play through.
There's no option to avoid the sex if the character decides to choose this route (Actually, you can refuse to do her with a "
Sorry, No").
If any change were to be adequate for the "
Sure" choice, maybe an alternate followup option that leads to a few paragraphs talking about going to her ship with the promise of sexy time (to allow Kara to escape), then getting into dialogue about wanting to know more about the cunt-snaked cat-lady (before thinking about engaging in the rompfest) to avoid the sex if possible (similar to the double layer warning of ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BE A HERO?! to make sure the player is serious business). Shade'll probably be discouraged that the sex was not had and that Steele wasted her time and will probably demand Steele owe her at some point for the loss. This will still allow Shade to be on friendly terms with Steele, though Steele will be in debt to her, and the sister continuity will still be intact. But definitely don't do an entire rewrite with hints and all that.
And the problem is less with having children and more with the taboo nature associated with incest. Unless you have generations of it, there's minimal risk of bad things happening to the child and things like women having children at too old an age is more dangerous to the child.
Incest doesn't have to involve penetration, eating out your sister for example, is incest.
Get your reality out of my fantasy! Gah!
But seriously, real talk. This is a fantasy-themed game based on sexual fetishes. A player will inevitably run into a kink that will not rub them right in a particular way. This is especially more true the greater the player's
persnickety level is. It is impossible to gauge and account for every player's nuances, but it is possible to try to please as many of the target player base as possible. This target player base is broad in terms of taste. For every disliked fetish, there will be ten others the player will most likely approve of, it's just to what degree they will hate that disliked content. Will they treat it as a bad choice, learn from it and silently move on... or will they create a forum topic to vent about their frustration on the issue because it affects them personally... or will they search out a forum topic that will confirm their already set biases and try to add fuel to a fire to help light the torches of the next lynch mob? (Again, another hyperbole, but you get the point... hopefully.)
I'll change it to reflect that.