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I'd argue that those are the same person. What do you think this would achieve?

I also find myself accidentally writing the villainy out of my villains if I'm not careful. It seems every one I write, in my quest to make them complex, ends up falling into one of a few categories: they become morally grey, or they're some minor grunt or monster that evades the need for...

It means you've been added as an author to those stories by their owners. I'm assuming that they're moderated stories, and the owner made you an author so they didn't have to review your chapters. Just ask them to remove you. Edit: Beaten by a fraction of a second...

Yes, that's correct. They would count as having existed for 18 years.

Actually, CHYOA stories are by default trees, not graphs, and you would be looking for the longest path, not the shortest. Each chapter can store a value representing the height of the subtree rooted at that chapter, and when a new chapter is added or deleted, increment or decrement that value...

I think Star Trek got away with that because it's not morally wrong, just legally, and Star Trek isn't actual pornography. Even then, it's not illegal to roleplay (or in this case, act) as a child if you are still an adult.

No. Paraphrasing the rules, a character is considered underage if at least one of the following is true: 1. The character is physically described as underage. (e.g. is 4'6", has not started puberty) 2. The character is mentally described as underage. (e.g. does not know what sex is, speaks like...

This can be achieved with a boolean variable for each item/place/etc. Literally, {if visitedDocks = 0}You haven't been to the docks.{endif}You can track length as these variables are updated, e.g. {if nPartners = 0}You're a virgin.{endif}

It's rarely a good idea, in my opinion (which is probably why I forgot about it). The best "excuses" to use it usually end up being third person subjective as some outside character or force is used as a framing device. I wouldn't claim that it isn't okay, but the more your protagonist deviates...

Yes. As SeriousBrainDamage said, this is one of the more unforgivable of writing crimes. If there were a Seven (non-trivial) Deadly Sins of Writing, changing perspective - at least without a very strong framing device - would be a contender. I don't see any reason your story needs first person...

The issue isn't uploading but storing the images, which I imagine would be very expensive.

Use a link chapter (5).

Stories usually aren't "taken down". The individual rule-breaking chapters are just locked, so no matter how the severe the story was, it should still actually exist. The complete list of rules is about as clear and specific as they come. The only reason a mod would have taken action against...

This would probably be more annoying than helpful on most pages. You can see this information in this exact format in the story map, anyway. On the stories where having author names next to chapter titles is useful, those authors will usually manually enter their names into the titles.

I skimmed through the first few chapters. Don't worry about it. It's probably not the most violent erotica I've read even today. I've certainly written worse. The constant references to the characters' ages, especially the main girl who "just turned 18", are a lot riskier in terms of...

If you have your story planned in advance, you can also calculate the earliest point that it's possible for the player to reach 100% X, and only start applying link chapters from that point onward. You also only need to add the link to chapters where X increases in the first place, though you've...

What separates a sci-fi story from a story with sci-fi elements? What distinguishes a comedy story from a story that is sometimes humorous? Where is the line drawn between romance stories and stories with romance? The difference is the main theme of the story. If you had to choose one...

The category matters most when readers specifically search for stories by category. This means that, when you choose a certain category for your story, you're choosing to market it towards a certain group of readers. Nobody would specifically search by Non-Erotic to find a story that's still...

Well, enumerations are generally defined before any variable instances are created, so I guess the types would need to be defined story-wide instead of in a chapter (i.e. on the Edit Story page). Alternatively, some high-level languages allow instance enumerations with the categories defined on...

You can use a fragment in the URL to highlight specific text. For example, https://forum.chyoa.com/threads/an-easy-way-to-link-specific-story-branches-to-other-people.4282/#:~:text=trying%20to%20link%20specific%20branches loads this thread with a few words from your post highlighted. There are...