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tirelesslurker171 days ago

Thanks for the feedback :)

Things are kind of balanced on the easy side if you find a good approach currently; would some settings be helpful maybe? Perhaps that, some additional things to ramp the danger up, and a limit on teleporting away.

That's all difficulty stuff though. Combat wise, hm. An idea that comes to mind that's based on a feature I'd like to add (specifically possession/multiple souls in one body) is being able to use possession attempts to take some characters out of combat temporarily (or longer) as they're busy having a soul struggle instead; possibly other things like that. Perhaps fun but not an improvement, heh.

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BaseDeltaZero170 days ago

Difficulty options rarely hurt.

In the general case I'm not sure how to 'fix' it.  More/better nonviolent options to keep guests distracted longer?  The possession mechanic sounds like it could be fun, it'd give something for succubi to do in combat (besides tasers I guess).

It might not provide a direct solution but some kind of 'permanent' escalation mechanic, where teleporting doesn't completely reset threats and they become better equipped as time goes on, all the way up to a 'you lose'.  This threat could be mitigated by sending out traitors, perhaps.  (Which, traitors are the hardest to get via 'just bushwhack them').  A long cooldown on the teleport or some other means of avoiding just Battlestar Galactica'ing all your problems, also good.

It's probably not in keeping with the 'tone' per se but if it was possible for characters to actually *die* in combat, that'd substantially incentivize avoiding it.  Not only the risk of losing valuable characters in mass combat, but of accidentally killing the people you're trying to 'recruit'.

Perhaps adjusting the behavior of the beegirl hive could help as well.  As is they're too easy a source of powerful fighters and contribution.  Maybe make them more aggressive if they lose people and/or have a kind of internal economy where they need nectar to produce more beegirls.  Presumably could be reset (at least partially) by teleporting.

I don't want to get too far into just making a 'wishlist' though.

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tirelesslurker170 days ago

It's unlikely I'll add specific things, but it's good to hear thoughts. Riffing off the death stuff, accidental death (or severe injury) would be a reason to avoid combat - it could also lead to hostile ghosts/having dead bodies to revive or otherwise handle/etc. (also in line with the possession stuff, haha).

It's also interesting to hear about the beegirls, they're probably a good one for settings to increase the danger of.

There's a mechanic that might be good for combat overall that I've thought about which is room damage - I was initially thinking of it as a thing for champions to harm the manor with, but being a general side effect from combat might work well as well.

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