The poll could have an effect on the game as the dev will see what stories his patrons are most happy with and maybe tailor his game towards this.He has already said that he will not spend so much time on the GW route because people are not interested in it at the moment.
To be clear, I like polls and think they're a great way to engage your members. When I had a Patreon it was really useful for keeping people interested in your content. But you also have to be smart about them. In a poll like this, you almost need to remove Dylan and Ellie because they warp the results. Since you know they're popular what you're really asking is "Which secondary character do you like best?". That could be useful information.
It's not about continuing or not. It is the in game logic and motivation. At present also we have the choice but Sophia is doing the task under Aiden's pressure not willingly or happily, L&P is planning to make it so that Sophia does it willingly. That is what I don't like
It also depends on what "optional" means, because there could be 2 possibilities:
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Alyssa is tied to the Aiden route and maybe Zac as well, so dropping the Aiden route and you will lose Alyssa and maybe Zac too
I feel L&P just did the poll to engage his patreons a little. Results were clearly obvious, everyone who had an event last update did really well. Be it the old men, Ava boys, Aiden and Dylan is always popular.
Polls like this make me roll my eyes because I don't understand the goal. It feels like confirmation bias and the worst kind of popularity contest. Polls should ask a less open-ended question and be utilized to make (minor) decisions for upcoming releases. Using it to gauge the popularity of characters is of questionable value because the answers are most predetermined. Basically this poll tells us it's the Dylan and Ellie show, and then everyone else.
However there is one interesting tidbit I'd like to focus on. No one cares about the old men. Years after their introduction and immediately after their biggest update ever, they rank low on the list of popular characters. They're a waste of time and need to be cut immediately.
It's almost as though anybody who follows the blackmail route(s) does not rank as highly as to what choices should be available to them. If it was always the plan to 'liberate' Sophia to the extent of enjoying it, as I suspect, it might have been better never to have started it.
If I remember right Sophia asks Morello for the favor since Larry made her his "cumare".It also depends on what "optional" means, because there could be 2 possibilities:
- the 4th task is not a choice at all, Sophia did all the things that needed to be done and gets the comfortable solution (e.g. from Morello) and the task is not even proposed, Aiden is "taken care of" (and goes "sleep with the fishes"
- there is actually a choice whether to go on with the extortion or choose the comfortable solution. In that case it becomes interesting the rationale that is given to choose to continue the extortion rather than the "easy" solution.
Unless the comfortable solution comes with some "strings attached" (e.g. another visit to Larry or something else, always if the solution is given by Don Morello), and in that case she has to choose between the lesser of the two evils, and that would be simpler to be rationalized. But we go from one extortion to another
Some characters are higher than I thought they would be since it has been so long since their last event.
If it's option 1 I can live with that. The game needs Morello to have a bigger role and act as a real antagonist with real gravitas.It also depends on what "optional" means, because there could be 2 possibilities:
- the 4th task is not a choice at all, Sophia did all the things that needed to be done and gets the comfortable solution (e.g. from Morello) and the task is not even proposed, Aiden is "taken care of" (and goes "sleep with the fishes"
- there is actually a choice whether to go on with the extortion or choose the comfortable solution. In that case it becomes interesting the rationale that is given to choose to continue the extortion rather than the "easy" solution.
Unless the comfortable solution comes with some "strings attached" (e.g. another visit to Larry or something else, always if the solution is given by Don Morello), and in that case she has to choose between the lesser of the two evils, and that would be simpler to be rationalized. But we go from one extortion to another
Those are mostly characters that actually are good like Ellie, Patricia and Alyssa. Sam has also been popular always as he is the immediate choice for people who don't like Dylan.
Ah yes, I remember her last thoughts after the jog. She now knows that Dylan is now able to handle Aiden alone but not his whole gang! So this is now the "new" reason for her to continue with the tasks!? mmh...
Yes, even if a way out from Bennet seems to have been laid out with Mrs Torres.
I found what I was looking for so it seems that you do have a choice to make between Bennett or Aiden.Yes, even if a way out from Bennet seems to have been laid out with Mrs Torres.
But no doubt Morello can be more... convincing
I understand the concept of the blackmail of Sophia (And Alyssa) for protection of Dylan and Zac that is the 'reason' for the relationship. However, Since Sophia and Alyssa have a connection through the soccer team, the boys, through their shopping, through their coffee house, and through Antonio... Nyuk, nyuk nyuk. I see no reason why the author could not continue that relationship as the friendship it has been. Dang nab it you must be friends to 'go for a ride' first visit to her house right! I see Aiden as more of a distraction to that relationship not the cause. I would hope the author sees that opportunity as well but... stranger things ya know.
Even though fashion business does technically have all this, it has never gone out of the way portrayed it in a disturbing manner. MC almost always engages in sex with consent even though she does not like it. She does because having sex with the person will give her an advantage or a better position to regain her power and move out of the dump not because she is being forced or has no choice
Yes convincing. Let's see convincing! Yay! Bennett enrolls in the first Sydney to Perth swim contest. As the only participant he need only complete to enter the Guiness book of records and win boocoo cash.Yes, even if a way out from Bennet seems to have been laid out with Mrs Torres.
But no doubt Morello can be more... convincing
I had thought that Bennett only had only 1 event left where Sophia gives him her answer to sleeping with him.
Definitely here L&P is sending a message that Sophia needs "bigger guns" to get rid of Aiden. And the only one capable is Morello. Quite bluntly put.Ah yes, I remember her last thoughts after the jog. She now knows that Dylan is now able to handle Aiden alone but not his whole gang! So this is now the "new" reason for her to continue with the tasks!? mmh...
The fact that it is mentioned that the next day is a work day for the both of them I don't think is related to a matter of time, but how (and how much) they plan to have fun (get drunk like in the old school days). For example, see the evening of the Day 16, it was a weekday (Monday) and the next day Sophia had to teach literature, yet that didn't stop her from first going to the Casino with her husband and then dancing with Ellie and Patricia (the day ended at 01:55 and the next day she got up at 07:00 fresh as a daisy). Now, unless someone thinks that Sophia, at Sam's concert, might suddenly lose all those inhibitory brakes that have distinguished her so far and let her senses carry her off into a night of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, I think the event could be fully compatible with the evening among friends that (with moderate alcohol consumption), could take place before Sam's show and still allow Sophia to end her day at a similar time as on Day 16.The problem is the timeline, as we know it is supposed to happen between 9pm and 10pm which where I live we call "evening"
