But do you need so many renders? I don't say these things to be a harsh criticism and I really don't want you to take it that way, but to quote Mark Twain; "Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do." In other words, brevity; saying a lot while saying very little. Shakespeare also said that, "Brevity is the soul of wit", meaning that the essence of a good statement is that it is concise.
This, I feel, applies to the renders of this game which seem so very often to be tied to the lines of dialogue and therefore a more concise script would result in fewer renders. Such a thing would not, in my view, diminish your work in the slightest but may in fact enhance it and I would, as both a patron and a very devoted fan of this game, implore you to consider this, if not for us but for yourself as lessening your workload could be very good for easing the stress that you mentioned in your recent Patreon post.
I'm sure that when the next update arrives that none of the renders will be redundant as they will work well with the lines of dialogue, as they always do. The issue, I feel, is whether the dialogue could be made more concise, as I have mentioned earlier.
I'm very glad to hear that an upcoming day will just be one single event and hope very much that we will see more days where there are fewer events and can perhaps be done in one single update, or even for 2 short event days to be combined into 1 update and I have even said as much in previous posts on this thread.
Once again, I hope you don't take my words too harshly and I fully understand that this is not an easy project to be undertaking. I am honestly saying these things with the utmost respect for your work but also to, perhaps, provide some useful insight from an outside perspective because I very much want to see this game succeed and reach completion and I, like many others, am simply concerned that it might not the longer it goes on at its current pace. I hope you can understand such concerns and won't judge myself or others too harshly for having them.