[0.2.5] Eliza Quinn option Research|Experiments destroys equipped bondage items

[Zsar]

At least affected:

• Buttplug
• Rope Harness
• Vaginal Plug

Expected behaviour: The items should be moved to inventory instead.

[Alexofp]

Stuff getting destroyed in written scenes is kinda intended. That was my decision. Otherwise you'd be able to unlock locked gear by just starting a certain scene. You still get freed from it currently but at least you don't get it for free x3

[Zsar]

Unlocking already is free, though:

• The BDSM skill levels so fast, when you keep at it, that it stops being a problem at ~day 3.
• Before that, just spam 'Rest'.

Un-unlockable items should probably block the scene outright, if they are in the way, or stay on if not.
(E.g. the Rope Harness never conflicts with anything, nor do the plugs - and these items are not even locked at all, unless Smart Locked.)

Most NPCs would also probably just re-lock the items afterwards, character-wise, would they not?

(I concur it is not a bug as such, but the whole restraint economy is rather strange: Getting -particular - restraints is the hardest part of it, everything else just happens. And even getting them is relatively straightforward by pre-equipping items in all slots but the right one and then bothering an NPC with 'Rigging' preference.

These guys, meanwhile, produce an unending supply of new stuff out of thin air, whereas the PC is the only one who actually has to hoard them.
The stocks description and some Eliza scenes explain, whence the supply came to begin with, but the extend and modus of their proliferation are still rather silly.)

[Zsar]

Somewhat tangentially, this also affects restraints without locks, which the player can simply remove at any time (unless other restraints block that ability).

Particularly the Rope Harness, which also doubles as regular clothing without any (effective) negative effects, and which can be dyed for 10 credits, is on that list.

... But maybe this is a different angle on how to approach this issue: lockable restraints "grow on trees" in the game, whereas all items less proliferate and/or of alternative usefulness are in the not-actually-locked category. Other than the Rope Harness, that would be the two Plug types.

So maybe a filter on lockedness would resolve the issue not-technically-yet-well-enough-in-practice.

This way, say, a regular Blindfold (completely negative, but another non-locking item) would be retained, but a Smart-locked blindfold would be destroyed.
(But then, why not just cut it off with a Shiv oneself? - On that note, Kinky Dungeon has a very immersive struggling system, perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it is that game's main mechanic.)