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0.21 Tentative Design: Gender Overhaul Stretch Goal
🕑 Added 2019-02-12 02:14:01 +0000 UTCBefore I get into the meat of this post, I wanted to take the time to thank you all for making this possible. I'm humbled by the amount of support you've given for this project.
That said, oh man. This is going to be another big patch, and I've been slightly dreading it since release. It's a bit surreal to finally write the design out.
Note that I'm not going to start on this until after 0.20 is completed, but I wanted to put this out a bit early so people have time to comment on it before I start with the implementation.
Design:
The Gender Spectrum
First off, the goal of this patch is to create as much variety as possible. Broadly speaking, there will be a few core "variables" that will determine the display of a character:
Body Type: This will be able to exist at any point from Female->Androgynous->Male.
Penis/Clitoris: This will also be a spectrum from Missing->Clitoris->Pseudo-penis->Penis. There will be multiple penis options, as there are currently vagina options, ranging from micropenis to unrealistically monstrous.
Vagina: This will be pretty much on or off. Characters will still be able to have one of a small variety of vagina types, which will be able to coexist with a penis/enlarged clitoris or not.
Testicles: Yes or no for both genders. These might end up being mutually exclusive with vaginas because of... mechanical limitations.
Ovaries: Ovaries will be invisible normally, and will simply dictate whether a slave can become pregnant.
Pronoun: By default, the pronouns used for a character will correspond to their body's gender (or whatever gender they're transitioning to). You will be able to change this from the inspection screen or the rules assistant though.
Broadly, this allows male, female, trans-male, trans-female, null girl, null boy, and a couple variants of futa slaves.
Transformation
The hormone panel will include male and female hormones, so you can alter slaves' genders over time. There will also be surgical options to change genitals independently of hormones.
The player will start as male, female, futa, or "other" based on your answers to the fetish interview, but can also be customized with the same systems you use for slaves.
New Animations
I plan to add two more animations to the general sex engine for this patch: Cowgirl and Amazon. That should help to cover the case of a PC with a vagina. I'll also be updating the existing animations to add explicit anal versions.
New Stats
Slaves and citizens will get stats for attraction to men, attraction to women, and attraction to "in-between."
New Furniture
The dairy will get two new semen milking machines for slaves with testicles.
Events
Many events will be reworked to allow for male, female, or in-between slaves depending on your fetish interview answers.
Fei will also become a Futa if your answers to the fetish interview allow it. I feel like it suits her character.
Fetish Interview
The existing fetish interview will be expanded, of course, to account for the new content. You'll be able to choose if slaves can be male, female, or both, and what level of in-between there can be.
Most of this stuff isn't quite my kink, so (as with 0.20's furry content) please tell me if I'm going in the right direction.
Comments
Hab
As a part of this, please make it possible to make Amazonian slaves. Specifically, tall and muscular with respectable breast size. Currently the muscle size and definition possible on slaves doesn't really allow for this unless I'm missing something.
StationmasterDev
There is a grid, but it's too subtle. I have a task to improve it on my community improvements list, and plan to get to it in the next patch after the gender overhaul.
crash.7ds
Has it been suggested to add a grid when building and some kind of tile count when "drawing" out rooms? My autism demands it and threatens to take my dog hostage if I don't ask. I really like my dog a lot, so...
SteveA
It all sounds nice. My only concern is that there won't be much to do with the new slave types. You should add new roles that male slaves can fulfill. Like overseer type roles and combat roles. It would be nice if you can assign a male slave to inspect/test female slaves in the brothel and report if one is not good at her job. And to have a male slave train them more efficiently than the training room. Another idea is to have a breeding room where you can assign male and female slaves whose only job is to breed. Also a male slave should do better at the arena than a female slave. Love this game!
A lot of this isn't my kink in particular either but it would be nice to have some gender variety, if for no other reason to have decoration variety for the hanging captured soldiers I keep around my base as trophies. Once again, an impressively ambitious plan... I look forward to seeing how it develops even if I don't plan on using it TOO extensively.
Amuziĝi
Oh, one thing, though: I might like to be able to toggle the gender attraction system off, at least when it comes to NPCs interacting with the player (or when it comes to what they actually get out of whichever partners they're paired up with). This game's proposed version of the system is one of the better-handled versions of it that I've seen, and by a wide margin (there's at least one game out there where all it really serves to do is to just make the majority of characters in the game automatically not attracted to you if you're "in-between," which is understandably not ideal for a sexual fantasy), but even so I'd like to have an option in my playthroughs to just throw the whole idea of incompatible sexual orientations being a thing in this sex fantasy game out the window.
Amuziĝi
Oh, hey, this sounds more or less perfect, in terms of what characters are possible in this system (there are so many different things you've made explicit options that are usually explicitly kept from being options in other games) and in terms of how the rest of it is handled. Balls with pussies is a bit of a kink of mine, and one that I've never seen a game developer even consider as a possibility before, so go figure.
