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That may be but that doesn't address my concerns with the game. My concern is that if you don't want to accept a loss the game makes it incredibly inconvenient to retry events through saves. You can have alternate quest paths for wins and losses and that's great but you should never make a system that forces a player to play the game in the way you think they should, give players agency to play the game how they like without inconveniencing them unneccessarily. In this case, don't make it inconvenient to retry events, don't make it inconvenient to explore an event you're not ready for and then be forced to play it out until you can reload.

I can understand not wanting to allow a player to save midway through a tense negotiation or fight but I find it very frustrating to try something, have it fail and get pulled into a combat I have very little hope of winning and have to either play it through to my inevitable loss or close the game and reload a save. I'd very much suggest having a way of surrendering a losing fight or allowing a player to load saves any time.