SexLab Philia 0.10.3

What: 

     SL Philia is a mod I've been intending to make for a little while now. Quite plainly, it tracks every sexual act the player engages in, compares it against categories of desires the player may have (Philia), and adjusts the player's timerate in SL Aroused each day according to how many Philia have been satisfied or unsatisfied. The mod features a deep mcm that displays each instance of each Philia, a way to manually turn them on or off, ways to gain and lose them naturally or through a "mindbreak/limit burst" effect, and full control over how much timerate is gained or lost each day. It triggers on waking up each day, so you must maintain a relatively normal sleep schedule to engage with it. It's not super strict with this stipulation, but there could be some weirdness with short days due to irregular sleeping. The mod is primarily developed--as most SexLab mods are--around a player character in the receiving role. However, I believe it should work consistently with a switch or giving PC.

Why:

     Mostly as a replacement to the absolutely wonderful mod SexLab Hormones. I love DeepBlueFrog and all the work they have put into their mods. Hormones has so many effects that genuinely are awesome to have available, but I have become smitten with just the one. Every day, Hormones will add certain amounts of arousal to the player based on a bunch of different factors. I really enjoyed this effect since it attempts to simulate an actual sex drive. Typically, SL Aroused sort of punishes the player for getting involved in sex with timerate. I understand how it is supposed to represent losing your mind to pleasure, but it didn't sit right with me that the mod leans the player either into never having sex to avoid penalty or just constantly being aroused. Most mods also don't engage with lowering timerate either. OSL Aroused as a similar feature with its Libido function, but I believe it's not quite what I am looking for. So I dreamt this up. 

How:

     Every time the player is pulled into a SexLab animation the Philia Tracker will make note of all the animation tags and all the races involved in the act. Then it compares them against all the Philia. You get one count for each Philia represented in the animation. Vaginal group sex with a dog? One count for Vaginal, Group, Bestiality, and Canine Philia. Since Philia mostly triggers off of animation tags, there is wide compatibility with most creature mods that are comparable to the animations they are pulled into. However, I will be attempting to create full compatibility with Demonic Creatures since I love that mod. It will work out of the box, but some creatures will use animation tags that do not represent them correctly. A prime example is many of the dwemer creatures being rieklings, bretons, or fire atronachs. 

     Once the day is done and you have had your night's rest, The Philia Tracker will pass the day's counts onto the Philia Effects department. If you have a count in any Philia, you will gain one day of that Philia being satisfied. If you currently have that Philia, congratulations, your commitment to a healthy sex life will reward you with a timerate reduction. If you don't have that Philia, fret not, there are two (three) ways to get it. One way is through the On Board Trigger. This is a number of days you can set for each Philia that will trigger the player to gain that Philia. Three days of Argonian loving? Argonian On Board three will trigger you to forever have a deep desire for those slick scales. The second way gain a Philia is through the Burst Trigger. This is--in my mind--a way to represent a "mind break" or "limit burst" event. It will only trigger on the number of sex acts of that Philia in one day being equal to or over the limit. Dropped your sword a few to many times exploring that spider filled cave? Insect Burst will keep you coming back for eggs after this first batch is out. The third way is simply to manually add a Philia in the MCM. I think having full control over an experience designed for roleplay is important. And, you can start a new character with Philia to represent their desires from the outset. 

     So you've been slutting it up a little too hard and you just can't cool off unless you've had half the higher races, the whole farm, and the latest in Dwemeri technology in every hole. What are you supposed to do now? Similar as gaining a Philia, to lose a Philia you have two choices. Off Board represents the number of days of abstaining from one of your Philia before you will lose it. Three days avoiding that muscled Nord might be enough to keep you from warming their bed in the future. Of course every day you leave a Philia unsatisfied your timerate will rise. So, it isn't going to be easy. Otherwise, you may manually toggle off any Philia for whatever reason. 

     You have a Philia, you've satisfied it, now what happens? Your SL Aroused timerate will drop by an amount equal to the number of Philia you have satisfied during one day multiplied by the timerate setting in the MCM. Two satisfied Philia and a Timerate Multiplier of five? A ten point reduction to your timerate. Three unsatisfied Philia and a Multiplier of ten? Thirty big ones added to your timerate. Increase and decrease multipiers are no long coupled. They can be set separately.

     Well, sort of. SL Aroused is a very odd beast. Timerate is subject to a exponential curve of degradation represented in SLA's MCM as the number of days it takes for a third of your timerate to be lost. At the default rate of two, it can happen very quickly and the gains and losses from Philia are a little strange. They don't quite align with the numbers you would expect in the MCM. But, I believe Philia should at least work as a mod that sort of simulates the rising and lowering desire of a healthy person satisfying their sexual preferences. Philia will work much closer to expected at an SLA Timerate decay of ten days, which is the maximum. Timerate will still lower over time, but you will need to rely on Philia to really manage it.  Setting the timerate gain per sex act to the same amount of the timerate lost by Philia is probably the best way to engage with the mod. It will mean that acts that only satisfy one Philia--such as masturbation--will keep you timerate neutral with a gentle decrease from decay. The player will have to seek out specific sexual encounters to neutralize the effects of multiple Philia, however. Since each sexual encounter will add the same amount one Philia will remove, it will be important to satisfy as many Philia in one encounter as possible. While having mutiple Philia will allow you to lower your timerate, failing to satisfy them will push your timerate up just as fast. So, it's supposed to be fun.

     I have included an optional file for download that will replace the MCM script from SexLab Aroused Redux. It extends the range of possible Timerate Decay days from ten to one hundred. At one hundred days to decay one third of your timerate, timerate is effectively only lowered by satisfying Philia! There are also some oddities at this high of a curve. One being that the amount of timerate gained per sex act (the setting in SLA MCM) is strangely doubled. So five gained becomes ten. If you decide to use this file, make sure to set your Philia Multiplier (Philia MCM) to twice the amount of Timerate Gained (SLA MCM). *This also occurs using the maximum natural value of 10 in the SLA MCM without my edit. No idea why. But, I recommend playing with the decay rate vs. Philia Timerate multiplier until you are satisfied.

     Info on all the MCM options is in the Configuration page. Hover over the text to see a tooltip on the bottom that explains each option (Onboard, Offboard, Burst, ect.).

Current Philia:

Future:

     This mod's core loop has been tested by me over the course of a month now, but I know myself and I know Skyrim so there will likely be a bunch of bugs I'll need to iron out. So if you try the mod out, please beware there might be issues and, if you could, mention them in the support thread. Otherwise the Roadmap looks like this:

Demonic Creatures support

Possible change to full gender tracking vs the use of FF--- and Lesbian Tags, so Hetero/Homo Philia will be used

Support for SLPlus (I haven't done a switch to AE so I'm waiting on that. As well as more feature support for SL+). This will enable better gender tracking and possibly a Futa Philia

Magic Effects added with each Philia. Probably just a visual thing in the menu with a erotic description for desiring each category, could add bonuses to attributes if people want that

Full rewrite for optimization? I think the mod should run well, but I know there are tricks out there with arrays and whiles and such to speed things up 

Other creature mod patches as they are needed

OSL Aroused version

FAQ:

     Philia has a fairly robust set of debugging messages. Please have debugging enabled for bug reports. The logs for papyrus debugging go to Users\[Your User]\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Logs\Script. Philia's messages are prefixed with [SLPh]. Please include these logs either in the comment or DM them to me if you are embarrassed to post them publicly for whatever reason. Believe me, I will not judge any mod that also appears in these logs. Though I may debug other mods throwing errors if I spot them, who knows. 

     Incompatible with any Arousal mod that removes the SLA esm. Unfortunately, the ability to manipulate timerate relies on adjusting a faction in SLA that can only be accessed by having SLA as a master. I do wish to create a version compatible with OSL Aroused since I believe that will be the future mod I'd use in conjunction with SLP+. I'd likely recreate the same function with OSLA's libido feature. I need to switch over to AE and check how SLP+ works with SLEN and SLIA before I make the jump. 

     Currently likely incompatible with SLAX/ASA. 

Required Files:

SexLab Aroused/Redux/Baka Edit 

PapyrusUtil

A well tagged Animation selection such as Billyy's SLAL pack (which I based my tags on)

AFAIK Compatible with AE (I haven't switched over so I can't check)