Pregnancy and Menstral Cycles

Bear with me through this, there's a poll at the end.

As many of you know, we've been talking about pregnancy off and on the last couple of weeks.  Today I have a little bit of information to share with all of you, followed by a question.

This morning, I received a pair of messages (Quoted below) from one of the people who help out with code.  It sounds like I'll be needing to start writing for pregnancy content before too much longer.  ;)

" I am working on this today, have worked out a way to do menstrual cycles  and have it work with little trouble. I will be able to flesh out a  variable fertility level using it. I am planning on having most of the  design work done today, with rough coding over the next week."

and

"Ok,  let's start with menstrual cycles, where human woman tend to align  their cycles when gathered together, it's a great deal easier to develop  as a single check for fertility. My rough idea is a cycle that looks  like this:
Days 1-5 are safe menstruation days
Days 6-9 are fertile days 5x% where x is the day of the cycle.
Days  10-17 are higher chance days  7x% where x is day of cycle, day 14 is  ovulation day, 100% chance with no protection. Days 15-17 there is a 33%  chance of egg collapse/breakdown.
Days 18-28 are safe days, egg has dissolved.

We set this to the moon cycle so the phase of the moon shows the  chance of pregnancy. It will make a tiny bit of flavor text have a big  impact on gameplay."

I told them that all sounded good and gave them the green light to run with it.

You might have also noticed the mention of moon cycles.  That's going to be a thing.  Moon cycles, weather, and seasons are all things we've planned for within the setting.  Its fairly low on the priority list still, but its something that we plan to add eventually (Probably around the time we begin to add the Mansion Grounds to the game.)

Now, on to where you all come in.  Because we're talking about menstrual cycles, I wanted to see how much realism you'd all like to see this approached with.

How I see it, there are three ways we can approach this:

1. Avoid menstruation all together.  The mechanic can run in the background that determines fertility, but you'd rather not see the cramps and blood presented as part of the cycle.

2. Do it as a bit of flavor text here or there, but nothing too messy.  This content might include things like one of the girls mentioning cramps, possibly being a little moody or wanting to be cuddled, maybe noticing pads/tampons in the trash or unused ones left out on a bathroom counter, those kinds of things.  Any flavor text related to sex for this would be minimal.  (This is what I'll be voting for.  I feel this much would add to the setting while keeping the "gross" factor to a bare minimum.)

3. Shark Week.  Let the blood flow.  A forgotten pad might result in a ruined pair of panties that you'll have to replace.  Mention of used pads/tampons in the trash wouldn't just be a case of noticing them, it would include details about their used condition.  Sex during menstruation is going to be messy.  This would also include the cramps, moodiness, and need to be cuddled mentioned above.

If we go with either number two or three:

-I could add a massage option that allows you to give them a belly rub that would ease the cramps for a while.

-When they weren't feeling well, they would be able to seek you out for comfort.

I suspect this poll is doing to fall largely on option 2.  I'll look at the results in a few days and kind of average them.  If things lean lighter or heavier, I'll make an effort to adjust the way I write the scenes accordingly.

I'm also going to plan to create an item that can hide the menstrual symptoms without affecting fertility assuming we add this content.

And a little hint for any of you who have a girlfriend/wife/fuck buddy, who wants to earn some serious brownie points:   Belly rubs between the navel and the slit helps ease the cramps.  Treat it like a full body massage and focus about 2/3 of your efforts on that area.  Doing it in the bathtub will save a lot of time on cleanup at well.  Most girls will be less moody afterwards and can get a bit cuddly (Which is never a bad thing, right?)  ;)  You're welcome.