I've come up with an Act as a courtesan Order for the new Slave Order system, I'd like any comments on the numbers and also availability - I was thinking only slaves who have trained as Courtesans who live in the mansion.
Remember each order lasts for 4 hours
Points:Refinement+2
Tiredness+6
Reputation+2
Charisma+2
Blowjobs+1
Fucking+1
Conversation+2
Pay is Charisma + Conversation + Blowjobs + Refinement + Fucking, up to a maximum of 450 gold.
I was wondering if Reputation and Seduction skill should be included in the formulas as well
Using Seduction would be a terrific idea; it's been a bit silly having a skill that's not useful for anything. Singing and dancing skills, too.
ReplyDeleteMay I suggest that since the job 'pays' well in 'Reputation', maybe drop the payout in Charisma and Conversation?
Also, for less-than-qualified courtesans who attempt this, the reputation should suffer!
BTW, can up the gold payout; people who pay for high-class prostitutes tends to be fairly price insensitive. SuperFreakanomics had a case study of programmer-turned-escort/prostitute; in her late 20's, she started her career at an hourly rate of $300, raised to $400 within months, then to $450, and finally hit $500--and had nearly no drop in demand.
So you'd vote for anyone being able to do the order, just penalise them if they are no good? (would make life simpler, as atm there's no way to make it Courtesans only). As for the money, it's a game balance thing - the standard jobs all have cutoffs and 450 for 4 hours compares nicely with the maximum payout of 180 for 2 hours (that I can get with my SM - YMMV) for working as a chef. Also when I posted this on FP Cmac said I should keep it small.
ReplyDeleteWasn't thinking that any slave can do it, but if the engine doesn't (yet) support discrimination based on achieving courtesan, then why the heck not?
DeleteKeep it simple, ship it out, then revise based on feedback is always a good plan.
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As for the high gold payout, is it possible to make the bar for actually getting big money very high? Let's say:
* 125 minimum in Charisma, Sensibility and Conversation
* 95 minimum in Fucking, Blowjobs, and Nymphomania.
* 15 minimum (what completing Courtesan training gives)
Same as the Onsen job, give a token amount of gold if the patron wasn't satisfied.
Another idea: If there's a way to trigger events based on stats, can add an encounter (say, at palace) which flags "Courtesan" as a possible job. (e.g. Like Mihoshi can unlock 'Model' as a job from an encounter that only can happen after Charisma hits 30.)
Can play with the numbers, but probably should have at least 10 Seduction, 100 Charisma/Conversation/Sensibility to impress someone who may be interested in recruiting courtesans.
If all that is too complicated, I'd say save it for version 1.1. Ship a simple but high quality 1.0 module quickly is a good goal.
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BTW, my conception of a high-class prostitute is a trophy wife rented by the hour. That is, she is young(er than the legal wife), lively, beautiful, easy to talk to, caters to the patron's every whim, and sexually adventurous--and needs 0 commitment after payment.
My image of a courtesan is one such person with a more cultural bent. Like, plays instruments, performs tea ceremony, and stuff, er, such as ... embroidery?
Feel free to ignore my suggestions if that's way off base for what you have in mind.