I absolutely agree, what I'm trying to say is that adding even more characters (like Ashe) when some aren't even up to sex in a porn game is a bad idea. Also not trying to push Mercy sex insta, just saying that it'd make sense to me to focus on Mercy or Symmetra or others who aren't even up to sex and not add more to Sombra, Dva, Tracer, Brig, Mei and so on for the time being (don't mean ever, just for now). What I meant by making a roster chart was to make sure everyone who's in the game gets at least up to sex before doing a billion extra scenes (which are nice). A chart would also make it easier to visually track how much each route is in to make sure ya'll don't get tunnel visioned at some point.
Absolutely above all take your time tho, the quality is paramount and makes this game infinitely more enjoyable than 99% of other porn games.
Extra: If you're doing spy Mercy make use of the xray phone, it's such a forgotten mechanic.
Oh yeah, that makes sense, we don't plan to extend the roster like SOON soon. We agree, that getting to at least the point of first sexual encounter for every existing storyline is the base line before introducing other characters.
Unfortunately, as we found out during all the years of development, focusing on one character is bad for the business side of things, so we have to always alternate between characters when releasing. We understand that this is in no way perfect, but it gives us the opportunity to work on the game at a very good pace and not always worry we won't have enough to pay everyone's salary (Our team is 10+ members and they all depend on this game as their main source of income).
We know it's underwhelming right now to go through Seraphina's route only to see the story is just getting started, but in the long run this approach will let us make a better game.
On the topic of x-ray, it's a forgotten mechanic for 3 reasons:
1. Patreon's rules are very strict about consent, and x-ray is just too much of an edge case for our taste to keep it.
2. It's a very old mechanic that doesn't really work in tandem with story, which we're best at. You just go through the whole Academy in one day, get all the x-rays (that are just static images without any actual character interaction) and then never open it up again.
3. We are updating all the backgrounds (therefore all the characters and their sprites are getting redrawn/replaced/repurposed), and instead of x-rays you are now getting random events that do the same thing as x-ray (content through exploration), but much better, since, for example, in MC's Room Overhaul instead of just getting 2-3 pictures of naked ladies you get 2-3 full-fledged sex scenes with dialogues and even changes for when you do them a second time. And they happen naturally as you play, and not just as a content dump.
So yeah, going forward, we will focus more on doing meaningful exploration, add actual side quests and work on making Academy feel more alive. Sadly, we don't really see a way for x-ray to tag along for this ride.