Nothing is Forever
Nothing is Forever Skill Tree Update
Hi everyone,
For the next chapter the skill tree will be updated to better reflect the content in the game.
The old skill tree looked like this:
And the new one will look like this:
The biggest changes are in the honorable skills.
This group was always the hardest one to fit kinks with the personality. The sensitive and manly ones are easier, cunning also makes sense, but the honorable tree always felt a bit esoteric. So, I've decided to replace "Free use", "kinkster" and "Discipline", with "In front of others", "Group kink" and "Worship". I think these make more sense.
"In front of others" is a continuation of the "Exhibitionism" line and is self-explanatory. "Kinkster" was always weird and arbitrary, so, I replacing it with "group kink" makes more sense. This way, we have a new skill to use for the group sex scenes with more than 2 people. It's much easier to understand and have a much more defined purpose.
"Worship" is very similar to the "Idolization" skill that was present in the sensitive tree, but, moving it to the honorable tree means we can use it in a submissive or dominant context, making it more versatile.
That last change also frees up a spot in the sensitive tree. I decided to make all the inner corner skills related to the kind of relationships the player wants for the end. Things like: remaining in a relationship and being loyal; or cheating; or not wanting a monogamous relationship and preferring to stay promiscuous; and so on.
It seems like a good symmetrical way to tie all the personalities to different types of relationships/ends. This means that, in the manly tree, I have replaced "Own her" with "Promiscuous". The "Own her" skill was very restrictive. Besides, those types of relationships can still happen in game, without the need of a skill.
Still in the manly tree, I also replaced "Forced Orgasm" with "Over-stimulation", but this is just a name change, it will be used in the same scenes the same way.
In the Cunning tree, "Sadomaso" was replaced with "Findom". "Painplay" already covers that kink, and this opens up space for a new skill to be used a couple times.
All these changes also meant that some individual progression lines needed to be changed.
Here are highlighted all the changes to be clearer:
Besides this, I'm also retroactively changing the skills needed for previous scenes to better fit the new skills, but also some older ones.
For example, in the manly tree, we've already used "Dominant" a few times, while in the sensitive tree, we've never used "Submissive". Which I don't understand why I did that? I mean, if, for example, being pegged is not being submissive, I don't know what it is.
New skills like "Group kink" will also be added to previous scenes. Nothing of this will mess with your current saves, you can just continue them even if you don't have the skills needed for the previous scenes you already saw. Only the future scenes in chapter 8 will need them. New games will have everything correct from the start.
And, because there are now more standalone "Advanced Skills" that are not a continuation of a previous "Intermediate Skill", and that might be needed earlier in the story, I also changed the rules to unlock these skills. While previously you needed 4 total skills to be allowed to buy one of the "Advanced Skills", now you just need 3.
I hope this will make it less likely that someone gets locked out of a scene they want because they don't have enough points.
Cheers
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What about spanking, which is a dimension of its own? The key seems to me differing approaches. Even standard porn had basic ass slapping during sex, even before 50 Shades. It could fall under:
🟡Honorable's Sensationplay, but that also includes things like running ice cubes down her naked skin. As a "starting" skill, it's more the latter than the former. Sensationplay also strikes me as more of a Cunning tactic, gradual escalation to get her going with it. Honorable should be along the "daddy" lines (even if the title isn't used), "you spilled your drink in my lap, therefore you deserve to be punished", using a opportunity (only) when it's presented. Honorable is the art of getting her to agree to it, and being careful not to overdo it; the punishment should fit the "crime". Unless she asks for it, then by all means, go hard. Combined with the more cerebral Sensationplay or Painplay, the punishments get more creative.
🟢 I suppose for Cunning it would fall under Painplay, but that also includes unrelated things like nipple clamps, ropewalking, and so forth. I guess it makes sense if it happens in all categories (save that as a Sensitive it's you getting spanked). Cunning is more cerebral, "You'll like it when I do this because it awakens your primal core and enhances everything else you feel". Which is why is happens in ordinary porn, that's what they're doing, but with Cunning you can take it farther, but still being careful to not overdo it, because you want her to keep coming back for more. Cunning has the reactive aspect of Honorable, but also tries to engineer opportunities.
🔵Why does Femdom end up under Cunning? That sounds more like Sensitive type to me. Here the player is the one getting spanked, maybe to release his guilt over his pre-game indiscretion?
🔴Many is just "you deserve it, especially when you're a total bitch, and you'll take it when I dish it out." Spanking could part of Top or Dominant, and would happen then the player feels like it, not needing the girl to provide a leadin. I'd reverse the order of Top/Dominant, but I've gotten used to the lead/main thing of kpop, so I can live with this. Yellow and Green are careful to only leave marks that will fade in a day at most; 50-point Manly might leave her not wanting to sit down for the rest of the weekend. Manly approach will go hard on the submissives (e.g. chess player) because they're submissives, hard on the bitches (feminist, lawyer, and femdom) to break them, but probably go a little easier on the rest, maybe discipline them in front of others to demonstrate Ownership (new/replacement skill?), or make them wear slave collars to work, or similar overt displays. Maybe replace that ill-defined Cuckquean. Also maybe swap the point costs of Teasing and Bodywriting? Teasing seems milder.