Brushed upon in the Spam Emails thread, it'd be good if we had a proper discussion about this.
Ultimately, Captain Steele will have as many live-in girlfriends/slaves on-board as Guy McCipher had sitting around his campfire in CoC, as well as many more similar "shore" relationships to the one they have with Embry. These are sex games, players particularly like having loving relationships with things they have sex with, most writers want to write waifus and most players are at heart completionists. So that's all inevitable.
What isn't necessarily inevitable is that we end up in a similar situation to CoC where every strong-willed waifu wound up in a bubble that ignored the champion noisily cheating on them a few feet over. For slaves this isn't much of a concern; it can be inferred the reason Reaha doesn't say anything about you carrying on with Anno is because her status precludes her from doing so. Would a nice girl like Anno accept you keeping a permanently indentured prostitute around? Particularly as most players wouldn't accept Anno fucking, let's say, a recruitable Dane when you weren't around? Much tougher to handwave, but let's say millionaire playboys keeping out-and-out sex slaves is completely accepted in the future. But let's say Dane *does* get on board, and the PC wishes to fuck *both* of his albino wenches but doesn't want to let them do the same. He's *also* picked up a sexbot from a trashheap that he's been taking out on dates and telling that he wuvs. Would they both really be cool about that? So cool they say nothing about it at all?
What I'm trying to get at is stuff like this needs to be addressed and thought about now, when the recruits are few and inchoate, so a year down the line we don't have space Izma, space Kiha, space Murble, space Amily and space Isabella all kicking around the same ship with no explanation or friction at all. New writers take their lead from what's already there, so if the current batch of followers are all written so Steele is a cheating bastard and they are all completely blind entities that exist only in their bedrooms, then that is what the future will be. Writing shit to notice other followers is hard! Particularly if you don't like them. Particularly as it gets harder the more of them are added. I know that. But we do need to think about the kind of experience we're building with NPC relationships, and if our decision is "fuck it, it's too hard, let's keep to the CoC model because players basically didn't mind that and it's the easiest thing", then let it be a deliberate decision rather than something we drift into.
Ultimately, Captain Steele will have as many live-in girlfriends/slaves on-board as Guy McCipher had sitting around his campfire in CoC, as well as many more similar "shore" relationships to the one they have with Embry. These are sex games, players particularly like having loving relationships with things they have sex with, most writers want to write waifus and most players are at heart completionists. So that's all inevitable.
What isn't necessarily inevitable is that we end up in a similar situation to CoC where every strong-willed waifu wound up in a bubble that ignored the champion noisily cheating on them a few feet over. For slaves this isn't much of a concern; it can be inferred the reason Reaha doesn't say anything about you carrying on with Anno is because her status precludes her from doing so. Would a nice girl like Anno accept you keeping a permanently indentured prostitute around? Particularly as most players wouldn't accept Anno fucking, let's say, a recruitable Dane when you weren't around? Much tougher to handwave, but let's say millionaire playboys keeping out-and-out sex slaves is completely accepted in the future. But let's say Dane *does* get on board, and the PC wishes to fuck *both* of his albino wenches but doesn't want to let them do the same. He's *also* picked up a sexbot from a trashheap that he's been taking out on dates and telling that he wuvs. Would they both really be cool about that? So cool they say nothing about it at all?
What I'm trying to get at is stuff like this needs to be addressed and thought about now, when the recruits are few and inchoate, so a year down the line we don't have space Izma, space Kiha, space Murble, space Amily and space Isabella all kicking around the same ship with no explanation or friction at all. New writers take their lead from what's already there, so if the current batch of followers are all written so Steele is a cheating bastard and they are all completely blind entities that exist only in their bedrooms, then that is what the future will be. Writing shit to notice other followers is hard! Particularly if you don't like them. Particularly as it gets harder the more of them are added. I know that. But we do need to think about the kind of experience we're building with NPC relationships, and if our decision is "fuck it, it's too hard, let's keep to the CoC model because players basically didn't mind that and it's the easiest thing", then let it be a deliberate decision rather than something we drift into.
