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Posted 2024-01-10 11:33:48 (edited) #1132716 YAY NEWS!!!

FurryFreak420 #31920

Posted 2024-01-10 19:21:59 #1132877 Wolves should keep their preferences. That's what I think at least.

🎄 Crya 🎄 #125808

Posted 2024-01-11 11:27:59 #1133052 Personally, I'm not interested in having different options in different years, mostly because it'll never happen. I have a Female Lead. She is about to retire into another Female Lead. There's a reason my leads are all named "Alaina I," "Alaina II," "Alaina III," and soon to be "Alaina IV." My pack is set up in a very specific way that leads me to be locked off unless I play against my pack lore. For another thing, one of the largest arguments against developing a 12 month event cycle like Lioden has is how stressful and difficult to manage events can be for some players. This only gets worse if you have an event like February where you have to learn patterns potentially three different times based on the wolves you're cycling through. And if you make it to a fourth year, are you really gonna remember those patterns from the first year? Having a consistent experience every year is much more satisfying. And I'd just like to repeat, these are pixels on a screen and lines in a code. They are characters that have been created for player enjoyment. The players are the ones the inform everything about these characters. Their families, their backstories, we make it all up in our own individual lore. We are the real life element that gets shafted being locked off from characters we enjoy. It doesn't effect the NPCs in any way whatsoever. Just us.

💀 Maladi idalaM 💀 #1568

Posted 2024-01-11 16:29:12 #1133184 Keeping their preferences makes the event a lot more replayable in my opinion, now that I've thought about it based on previous responses to the thread. Choosing a different gender each year and getting a different pool of characters is a lot more fun than replaying the same content every year. I know I'm looking forward to see if there will be any new characters because all of them were available last year (though I didn't get the Lunar ones, which I'm excited to see this time). If the choice is made to make every character available to every gender, however, I would still like to be able to see their preferences because I'd like to respect that- makes it more immersive in my opinion.

Auris #40721

Posted 2024-01-11 17:47:46 #1133204 You shouldn't have to choose a different gender just to be able to access different content. It's not satisfying for players who chose to go with the gender they identify as regardless or their lead, or those who choose based on their lead and have the same general lore / criteria for their leads (all male, or all female, or all NB if they so choose). And its not like you're even guaranteed to get the same content every year. For one, depending on how many lunar NPCs there are, you may not be able to unlock them all. For another, the order you unlock the NPCs is randomized, so you'll never really play the event the same way twice. And for a third, you can choose who to focus year to year. Don't want to date x y z this year? Don't have to. But at least it's player choice, not an unnecessary lock out. Let them have their sexualities and genders so we can have fun with the lore while staying respectful to the design choices of the creators, but don't lock us out of them.

💀 Maladi idalaM 💀 #1568

Posted 2024-01-11 18:46:01 #1133230 ^Sorry for any confusion with the similar subject matter of our opinions- I wasn't arguing directly against you, just sharing my own thoughts and experiences with the event because I realized I had more I wanted to say on it. I think you have some good points, though I have a different viewpoint. I do think that the characters having their own 'canon' sexualities while allowing players to go against that is a good compromise though.

Auris #40721

Posted 2024-01-11 19:19:48 #1133240 It seems like it is very close, so there should be a way to compromise. I don't know what that would be, but just a idea because the votes are almost tied.

Sunny #55478

Posted 2024-01-11 20:01:46 #1133253 I'm not sure how strenuous it would be coding wise, especially so close to the event start, but I think it could be interesting for there to be a "genderfluid" option along with the base three. This would allow access to all NPCs, at the cost of lower LB gain per date. So for example, say there are 40 NPCs total and normally only 30 can be accessed by each "traditional" gender choice (male, female, NB) 30 possible dates per day x 5 lb per date = 150 lb per day. Choosing genderfluid can open up all 40, and / 150 by 40 is... 3.75 lb per date. Which obviously isn't feasible, but I think my idea makes sense? Lower gains per date but with the maths that would make the LB gain equal if someone with a partial roster (30) and someone with a full roster (40) both got through every single date per day. That way players who want to immerse themselves only with wolves attracted to their preferred gender still can, and those who want to enjoy all the NPCs (of who genuinely identify as / has a lead who identifies as genderfluid) also can without having a clear advantage.

💀 Maladi idalaM 💀 #1568

Posted 2024-01-11 20:09:22 #1133255 I really really like that idea! Sounds like the perfect compromise to me personally + I like the idea of a genderfluid option in general.

Auris #40721

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