- May 9, 2024
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Ah I was getting worried that no one would ask me.Huh, that's a slightly weird number. 24472 = 2*2*2*7*19*23. If each of the fifteen choices is a binary DIK/Chick choice, then you'd have up to 32768 possible sets. It's not immediately obvious how to reverse engineer the 24472 back to the decision structure.
I suppose if I really wanted, I could pore over the walkthrough to extract the conditions under which each decision is forced, and run my own calculations to confirm...
Starting point is indeed 2^15 or 32768. However you are not allowed to fight Caleb if you didn't fight the jocks so we must subtract the 2^13 or 8192 iterations where that would happen. Now we are at 24576, but we are not done. You see if you go all in on either extreme you get permanent affinity at ep 6. In ep 8 you will have the neutral option just like in s 3 so they don't affect the number of iterations, but ep 7 just forces you to stick to your permanent affinity. That gives you 24 iterations that aren't possible if you get permanent affinity at choice 11 and a further 80 if you get it at choice 12. So we end up with 24472.
That much I could handle, but calculating how many possible ways there are to choose the girls or play the paths is a nightmare I'm not going to even attempt.