He could do this now & use the poll results as a guide. Unfortunately from my POV, this would probably mean the continuation of the two side jobs, (always my favourites for being written out) but at least it would be a positive move. I mean, how many fans want to see the two thugs again & can those fans live without their reappearance in the interests of moving forward?
Minor characters don't even absolutely need to be written out & could just fade from events. They could still be mentioned by the cast occasionally, or even make a cameo or background appearance. Most of us must have seen this done with soap operas. Mr. Murray would be my first choice for such a role.
It should be easy & in the abscence of helpers/staff, might be relatively painless. I once saw a site dedicated to soap characters who'd "gone upstairs" never to come down again!
The problem with the poll was that it was possible to vote for multiple characters .
Taking your example of mr Murray, let’s say for example that he represent 5% of the votes, and the old guys on the 1st side job 5% too.
How much does the “old guys” kink is really favored in this game?
Does everybody who voted for mr Murray voted for the 2 old guys too?
So the “old guys kink” only represent 5% of the patreons.
Or if nobody that voted for mr Murray voted for the 2 old guys, then we are closer to 10%.
The same goes for the incest gang. Put together, Dylan, Ellie and Nathalie represent something like 30% in total.
But maybe not because it’s possible that many people who voted for Dylan, voted for Patricia and Ellie too.
So maybe the incest kink is “only” appreciated by 20% of patreons.
Some characters didn’t appeared between the 2 polls (Sam, Nathalie) while other just had a big event (Aiden), or are over-represented (Dylan) or are in the most sexy scenes (Ellie, Alyssa).
If he wanted to know the popularity of each characters, he should have made a ranking poll. Like :“here’s 30 characters from the game, ranks them by giving them a mark between 100 and 0.
(Sorry for the google trad)