Pregnancy for Taur body PC's has been broken for 10 YEARS

[Template_Username_3]

I am just going to cut straight to the point.

If your character is any sort of Taur and you engage in any sort of inflation/pregnancy content, the game treats all of that as if you are a biped, from the descriptions of your character in the appearance screen, to various pregnancy progression events, to the eventual birthing scenes, even the adaptive mannequin you can use shows how your upper torso is swollen when all of this should be happening the Taur section of the body.

Meanwhile, every single Taur NPC that can get pregnant have their art displayed correctly, their appearance descriptions set right, and their pregnancy/birthing events all take their quadruped status in mind, even at the very start of the game, if you select your starting race to be Leithan, the little image that pop's up correctly shows the pregnancy on a taur as seen below.


(Also this icon should be used for the ''Bulky Belly'' status if you play as taur, but that's just me)

But I am sure this is not exactly news to anybody since this pregnancy discrepancy has been in the game for 10+ years now I think, so why I make this post now ?
I just happened to be looking at the patch notes and saw this line pop up.

0.9.157 (May 3, 2026)​

''Under the hood work to prepare for the player mannequin to display ears and tauric body shapes. (Jacques00)''

So assuming this is not fake or something, and they add taur body shapes to the mannequin (bless you Jacques00), if all of the above is still in place they way it has been last 10 years, it's going to immediately conflict with the work being put in to the mannequin.

And while I get it that going back and making taur friendly variants for the Appearance Screen and various preg events etc is some work, I would assume its less work than making a 1000+ word taur exclusive bad end to the game that most players never see, or a 500+ word taur exclusive sex scene, since all you really need to do is tweak existing dialogue and not write brand new material.

Granted I don't know how the back end of the game works so I am willing to concede here, but if the game can apply ''if taur'' alterations to many other parts of the game, I don't see how the pregnancy/inflation description system in appearance menu is out of reach.


And to prove I am not all bark here, here is a quick 2 minute (rough) revision how I would have the appearance screen display late stage pregnancy on a taur.

The original/current

''Your distended belly is so gargantuanly huge that you have no hope of seeing the floor anywhere near you, let alone your legs. It’s a small miracle that you can even stand upright with all that mass slung out in front of you. Your belly protrudes unnaturally far forward, the sheer size of it making movement difficult.''

Taur Variant

Your distended belly is so gargantuanly huge that you have no hope of seeing your hind legs, It takes a lot of energy that you can even stand upright with all that mass hanging underneath you. Your belly protrudes far beneath and to the sides of you, the sheer size of it making movement difficult.


Granted this is just 1 revision out of 50 or more that the game needs, but even starting with the Appearance screen, and hopefully the upcoming mannequin displaying the pregnancy correctly would be cool, considering there has been Taur content added to the game year after year, but this part has been left untouched for over 10.

So all I ask is that next time you plan on adding a multi hundred work exclusive taur scene, you use the time and energy to fix all this instead, at least the pregnancy/inflation indicators for appearance screen if nothing else.

 

[PanzerGuitar00]

Wow. And I thought me and razor were the only ones passionate enough to raise a stink like this.

Props to you for speaking up, man.

 

[Template_Username_3]

Wow. And I thought me and razor were the only ones passionate enough to raise a stink like this.

Props to you for speaking up, man.

I have been lurking around the game for 10+ years or so, and I suppose 1 reason why many others don't necessarily voice these things out is because it does need a certain level disinhibition to make an forum account to a porn game, much more so to advocate what most people would consider extreme fetishes/kinks, so it's no wonder.

I just happened to see the patch notes from 2 months ago, and decided to voice this out, since it will affect the upcoming addition to the game.

And more so I just want consistency on what the game sets out to be normal behavior for every NPC, but then shits the bed with the PC, especially on a text based game where what is written happens, it would be like playing D&D and suddenly the DM starts taking LSD and everything they say is gospel no objections.

And I think its time to finally get this sorted out, there has been more than enough time to get this fixed, especially post Java Script where there should be no tech issues preventing it either, but again I know nothing of the back end for the game, so who knows what kind of spagetti code is going there.

But I refuse to believe that the game can take 30 other things into account between gender, genitalia, colors, skin type, leg type, tails, and inherited traits for children for pregnancy, and in every other aspect of the game, the game runs a ''is taur/is not taur'' check, but for PC pregnancy while they are taur, everything gets thrown out the window and the PC gets cut in half, literally.

 

[valk42]

editing work is infinitely harder, more boring and inherently a coder problem than a writer problem. i would agree that it is deeply important, but you underestimate the ease. writing one block of variable text is awesome, editing 100 strings for something you don't care about isn't. and none of the coders are taur fans the way the preg guy, who codes most pregnancies, is a preg fan

 

[Template_Username_3]

editing work is infinitely harder, more boring and inherently a coder problem than a writer problem. i would agree that it is deeply important, but you underestimate the ease. writing one block of variable text is awesome, editing 100 strings for something you don't care about isn't. and none of the coders are taur fans the way the preg guy, who codes most pregnancies, is a preg fan

That is sad to hear, but the facts are that the people making the game have set the rules how pregnancy/inflation works for taurs, there has been multiple new taur scenes this year already, so its not like taur content has not been touched in 10+ years, and is some old relic of the past. also a quick look at the logs says PC taurs have been part of this game since...

0.2.054 (September 23, 2014)
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Half-leithan is now available as a starting race.

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All I wish is the game devs to adhere by the rules they created, and sure someone newer on the team having to cash out checks that were written 5+ years before they started working on the project is not fun, but it comes with the job.

And moreover, if they don't want to deal with the issue of PC taur pregnancy...
Maybe, just maybe...

Don't add more taur pregnancy content to the game before the backlog is fixed so you wont make the discrepancy issue worse, nobody forced them to add those pregnant mom pictures on the character creation screen for example, they don't add anything to the core game, but they did add them, they could have just had the core race feature trait images, but they chose literally to stick a preggo taur as the first thing a player selecting a leithan as starting race sees, so the devs can't cry foul if someone asks why suddenly their Taur character is some biological freak half the time.

And I repeat myself here, but if they do not fix this, and they add the Taur Mannequins into the game, while not fixing this, you are literally building on sand, and once again kicking the can down the road making the problem larger and larger and larger.

(Then again that has been the way past 10 years so... maybe they can just kick the can down the road forever)

 

[valk42]

you are conflating writing and coding