It's a big world out there

Hi everyone, welcome to the Friday update. Today we'll be talking School Council Poll results and what they mean for the next few months of development.

As some of you will remember, I periodically ask the council what general areas of the game they'd like to see given priority. This is slightly different than the polls which ask which specific characters or stories should go into the next update, and are intended to influence the more general direction of travel. I ask this question every 6-12 months, depending on how the release schedule is going.

Anyway, enough preamble, let's take a look at the results.

A quick note on methodology before we get into this: I told voters that they could vote for up to three choices, but a fair number cast more than three. Since neither Patreon nor Subscribestar has the function for me to limit the number of votes, in future I will simply allow all voters to cast any number. The first number is the raw total, the second, in brackets is the number after removing the ineligible votes. As you can see, it makes almost no difference anyway, with only home events moving as a result.

Poll Discussion

There is a strong theme here of the council wanting to see the wider city developed more. The notably weak showing for lesson events tells me that we have at last hit a point where the school day is no longer noticeably repetitive and samey, a charge that was frequently made in early development. However, with more repeatable events now and quests breaking things up by creating unique lessons, we're finally moving towards the goal of a school day that feels truly different each time.

Topping the poll was the Red Light district. A fascinating area of the map since 0.1, I teased some of the ideas I want to do at the end of Chapter 2. With the prospect of more clubs, legal and illegal, and an economic system in which Missy can get a piece for herself, there's a lot of potential in this area, so soon we'll be able to see her advance to the next stage of her career as a lapdancer at Cervexa, and perhaps meet her next wrestling opponent over at the Pussy Pit. Or maybe there'll be a new location altogether, and the option to become a prostitute?

Illegal hooking might tie in well with the second placed Crime and Punishment system. Another thread teased in the initial release, it's my intention to have a situation in which you can do all sorts of things you shouldn't be - as long as you don't mind being dragged before the court to explain yourself if you get caught! We've seen a number of different punishments in game so far, and the prospect of them happening to our girl is pretty delicious.

The third place went to more sec scenes for our existing girlfriends, currently Abbie and Lola. This is also good as neither of these two has had much love (or lovin') since the initial release. And since we'll be adding Becky, Jessica and Miss Paris, plus who knows who else to our harem at some point, it's probably about time we did something about that.

Honourable mentions to break events and walking to school events. Again, there hasn't been a lot going on here since 0.1, so about time they too were freshened up, as a second-tier priority. Home and after school events also maintain solid support, and since I'll be needing to finish the photography route to do Miss Paris's relationship quest, that's at least one after school activity those of you who are good girls that wear white panties can look forward to.

That's all for today, have a great weekend!

Trinian