Like Mario Kart, I would like items to split into two types :

1. Items that sabotage competitors
2. Items that buff or benefit you

I would like to hear form you your ideas and concerns regarding how this expansion is developed.



I'll share 3 item ideas I've had.

ALL MINE One is a convenience item that reclaims immediately all your waifu and husbando's.
Hire a Bodyguard Another is a sabotage item that prevents other members from claiming your waifu for a limited period of time.
Weekend Vacation Package And another would be a buff item that adds 72 hours to your total time together.


Some concerns of mine are what sorts of limits there should be.
Do we allow members to hoard items, or should you be required to use it or lose it ?
Should there be a limit of one random item per day? Or should the limit be higher?

Should items be allowed to target a specific member? Let's say there is that one person giving you a hard time, and you really want to sabotage them. xD

And what concerns are there from people with multiple accounts working to get around any per-day-per-account limits ... ?


I want this to be a positive addition all around, or to not do it at all ....
With luck, I'd like to launch something this weekend, and continue expanding it through the month.

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Sounds like a pretty cool system Rei! ^^ My only concern is that some people might misuse "sabotage" items out of spitefulness. It's not as much fun when members start doing stuff just to troll each other.

If used correctly though, it could be quite fun!

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This idea sounds pretty cool, but I do agree with nothingbroken about the whole spitefulness factor.

About hoarding vs use or lose? I would say to prevent hoarding for each item maybe you could put a cap on how many you can have at a time?
And maybe you could find a way to incorporate the bad+good heart system into these items?

Pixel's idea of having a cap, that seems very fair.

I was also wondering about waifu/husbando claims expiring after a certain period of user inactivity. It sometimes seems like people log onto the site, claim a bunch of stuff and then never come onto the site again.

Thank you for introducing new ideas to these games for us, Rei!

What you people think about this for a fourth item?

True Love: A preeventive item to use on a waifu/husbando. When the character is NTR'd there is a chance that the waifu/husbando will come back for you 5/10/20/30(randomly) minutes later. Chance for this to happen is (heart percent)/2 and if succeded heart percent is reduced by half. Effect lasts for 1 week.

is it OP or too convoluted?

And i don't think sabotage items should be allowed to use on a specific user, since botting/multi-accounting could exploit that to screw someone over and over again. Only the current suitor should be allowed to use items on a character.

nothingbroken I was also wondering about waifu/husbando claims expiring after a certain period of user inactivity. It sometimes seems like people log onto the site, claim a bunch of stuff and then never come onto the site again.

I was gonna mention this exact same thing.

I also agree that while sabotage items could be fun, trolls could just use them out of spite to be incredibly annoying. I like your first two item ideas Rei. But that third one, something about artificially increasing the total time counters just bothers me somehow. Probably cause it's the stat that matters the most to me. XD But in the end it's up to you, I wont argue. lol

@nothingbroken: I'll want to avoid allowing items to be used in a spiteful way.

@Pixel_Dragon: I have a couple ideas regarding the happy/unhappy stats. Maybe an item that increases happiness by a little for all your waifu/husbando's. Or an item that increases happiness by a lot for one.

@nothingbroken: Auto expire is still in the planning phases. I'd like to change how I remove them first, so that stats history will not be lost. I'd like to possibly have happiness decrease at a steady rate, and should that hit -100 and let's say a month has gone by without any activity from the member, they would be filtered out from the suitors list.

@rpgguy999: That's a pretty cool item idea! Active effects are within my realm of consideration. Might be possible to do!

Though .... if many people end up using the same item on the same character, and many people continue manually NTR'ing, I can only see diminishing effectiveness.

@Eiki-sama: I'd like to do a little more work on the time counters; make some stats pages that are easy to find/sort/navigate xD

What do you think of items that manipulate these stats ?

If there were items that could increase the timers, or prevent your claim from being NTR'd for a while ? I'm happy to drop this direction entirely if it seems like a bad idea.


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Thank you everyone for your feedback and support! ^_^

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I'm totally okay with items that prevent characters from being NTR'd for a while as long as there are limits to how many a person can have/use so that they aren't constantly using them to make a character impossible to NTR.

In terms of the timers, I'd personally prefer if those couldn't be increased with the items since I feel like the timers represent how much effort you've put into protecting your claims. If someone decided to keep using those items on a single character, they could end up with a far greater total time counter than people who have put in more ACTUAL time with that character. But like I said, in the end, the choice is up to you. :P

Oh and speaking of the stats page, I wonder if it would be possible to make a feature where you could compare the stats between two different users for a given character that they've both claimed. Like sort of a side by side comparison list of each person's total timers, longest timers, times they've had that character NTR'd, affection rating, etc. That could be cool. But then again, I know nothing about coding, so it could be more effort than it's worth. XD

I've been trying to think of ideas for more items, but I'm really bad at coming up with ideas. lol

Eiki-sama In terms of the timers, I'd personally prefer if those couldn't be increased with the items since I feel like the timers represent how much effort you've put into protecting your claims. If someone decided to keep using those items on a single character, they could end up with a far greater total time counter than people who have put in more ACTUAL time with that character.

I think I'm with Eiki on that one. ^_^ Having a character you love for a long time is a point of pride! I like to see how long I've been able to keep one. It might be a bit disappointing if other people were able to achieve the same things without putting in the same amount of dedication.

Rei Auto expire is still in the planning phases. I'd like to change how I remove them first, so that stats history will not be lost. I'd like to possibly have happiness decrease at a steady rate, and should that hit -100 and let's say a month has gone by without any activity from the member, they would be filtered out from the suitors list.

That part sounds great to me! Happiness should definitely start decrease if the user doesn't log in or interact with the site in any way. The character would get lonely, after all...

Eiki-sama Oh and speaking of the stats page, I wonder if it would be possible to make a feature where you could compare the stats between two different users for a given character that they've both claimed. Like sort of a side by side comparison list of each person's total timers, longest timers, times they've had that character NTR'd, affection rating, etc. That could be cool. But then again, I know nothing about coding, so it could be more effort than it's worth. XD I've been trying to think of ideas for more items, but I'm really bad at coming up with ideas. lol

Yeah I was thinking about that same sort of thing last night. it would be cool to be able to compare some of that stuff. ^_^

Also, @Rei were you planning on making these items only for the Waifu & Husbando? or would they also be affecting the Imouto and onii-chan?

Maybe with the heart stats there could be buff/debuff items that could be used to temporarily make the stats slowly tick up or down depending if it's being used on yourself or on a rival?

Maybe there could be an item that is more of a "wild card" so to speak, where there is a chance for something good or bad to happen?

Sorry, just trying to come up with more concepts now ≻w≻