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Yeah, but "feed/change/burp the baby once a day or be charged $100+ each" isn't the most fun thing even if it's simple and not excessively time-consuming. Kinda feels like a punishment for interacting with a game mechanic at the moment. I mean, especially with all the Soft-Bad-Ends where you're pretty much guaranteed to be held captive for several days until you find a way to escape just means you're even further in debt since you can't even try to offer an excuse (not that Baily would care to hear it anyway).

Though, the part that annoys me more is the whole "It was a Glory Hole accident and we explicitly have no clue who each other are, but as soon as my baby is born, I know it was *you* PC who knocked me up! So I'm putting your name down at the orphanage, and despite me having parent(s) who make more than you could imagine, you're the only one who has to put any effort into taking care of them!" thing. Be nice to see the other parent show up to interact with their child on occasion. Maybe once Named NPCs are fully integrated with the pregnancy mechanic?

Though, Course of Temptation currently has a similar issue. My character lost her virginity in the classic "~WhAt ArE yOu DoInG sTeP-bRo?~" stuck-in-the-dryer scene, that explicitly states that you have no clue who is out there, and they have no idea who you are (unless and until they pull you out). But, upon talking to the BFF, PC immediately bragged about losing her virginity to this very specific NPC, [insert RNG name here], who she'd never even met to my knowledge, let alone gotten the name of, outside the encounter.


I've seen a few games where it's vaguely glossed over by having the baby: immediately be put up in an orphanage, sent to live with your character's parents, magically aged to maturity before setting out to live on their own, a monster that magically ages to maturity off of your milk, and even taken to a learning center/creche to live with your old (gynoid) nanny.

Having to actively take care of a child would be quite an interesting and *realistic* mechanic to add in, could be pretty fun too, but it'd also be a whole lot of work to add into any game, especially one not centered around parenthood (adult or otherwise).