The number of "corruption points" you need to reach each "corruption level" goes up with each level. This was done so I can add an abundance of corruption causing events (avoiding the problem of needing to hit exactly the right event to trigger more story stuff) without also having the player rocket up to the max CL and missing out on the perception of gradual corruption.
I think you're experiencing this:
I haven't had anyone else report that, but that could just mean nobody's bothered to bring it up. Does this slowdown go away if you restart the game?
Would you believe me if I said in a few hours?! I came down with covid this last week and ended up getting a bunch of writing done while I was half-unconcious. Rather than sit on those events for 2+ weeks as I work on v0.4 I'm putting out a mini update with 5 new written events and minor tweaks to some existing ones. There's no new drawn art though, so if that's what you're holding out for you'll have to wait a bit longer.
i spend most of my infection in bed either sleeping or reading on my phone because i had no energy for literaly anything else.
There was a 24 hour period where I was in the same boat. I found writing too a lot less mental energy than drawing or coding, so when I got bored of being sick I started doing that.
My guess is you're using "show" and "hide" instead of "scene". I haven't looked at your code/script at all, so no idea how it's formatted at all or how you do it, so I could obviously be completely off here. But this is usually the issue when people call Ren'py a 'memory hog'.
show mom_1 with dissolve
m "blah blah"
show mom_2 with dissolve
hide mom_1scene mom_1 with fade/dissolve
m "blah blah"
scene mom_2 with dissolve
etc...scene mom_bg1 with fade
show mom_1 with easeinleft/right/top/bottom
show mom_2 with (any of above)
hide mom_1
...
then for the next scene/environment just drop a scene and it'll basically give you a fresh plate:
scene mom_room with dissolve
Hmm, that might be it. I was under the impression hide and scene were fundamentally doing the same thing (hide works on specific displayables, scene works on entire layers), but it's worth looking into. I'm going to whip up a test scene and see if I can provoke this slowdown issue on my machine so I can start properly bug hunting.
Which bits are you running into with too many clicks? The "get dressed before/after work" loops are the two parts that stand out to me to fix, but if there are other sections that are consistently frustrating I'll take a look at those too
What I'm referring to is more toward general VNs, where there's just a lot of dialogue, some choices, and single renders/layers. So, if it's any more complicated than that, it's hard for me to say without looking at it.