If true that's minimum $5000, closer to $6000, in GPU so fair play to L&P. I worry that time savings from rendering will be consumed by one or more of,
- Doing more and more test renders at high (or even full) resolution
- Doing more and more renders for each scene
- Re-rendering older scenes rather than waiting until the rest of the game is completed
- While revisiting the older scenes deciding that the poses could be improved, the subtleties of facial expressions could be improved, changing outfits and working out all the fitting issues
- Having done test renders for #4, decides camera angles could be better
- Having done test renders for #5, decides the lighting needs re-doing
could go on an on.
I really love the characters and the scenes and have no issues with the story progression.
(except the BS spying in the shower, still think it was an amateurish and immature decision that provided no character development or insight and was an (almost) unforgivable breach of the Sophia point of view)