Arigon

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So let's realistically look at this.
If DPC already has all the writing done, which I doubt, but let's say he has, and the logic has checked out, and he only has renders/animations to go. He can't sustain more than 12 hours a day 7 days a week for work. Otherwise he would spend weeks being sick.
In DHS we worked 18 hour days for 21 weeks and had people dropping like flies after 4 weeks. Attrition rate was horrible.

Lets assume he has multiple I-9 machines with 3080s on them and a ton of ram and liquid cooling.
He produced an incredible 3600ish renders. Dozens of Animations, 30ish new songs, layered in as appropriate. Then matched his scripts up to call the correct renders and Animations. Anyone want to take a guess how much time HE has to spend before he places the rendering in the hands of his server farm?

Physically, HE can't create what he wants with poses, and maintain his high quality renders at anything more than 1-2 per hour...let's give him 1.5 per average.

As he branches, there will be multiple render paths for each love interest, and the scripting will be more complex.
Forgetting that I have some problems with his writing, he does have skill in programming and renders. Very considerable skill.

Say his branching coding, even with the story written, takes 20-30 hours per week, as he will test himself as well as passing on.
1.5 renders per hour, and let's be generous and say each animation takes only 5 hours to put together. That is a vastly under estimated time by the way.

If his next chapter begins our process of elimination, or adding new love interests, let's just add a 10% time requirement over all, just for averages.

If he is not sick, and has no family requirements, and works 7 days a week straight, and we assume that the more complex story will add 25% to the overall requirements for renders, scripts, and animations. Not to mention screening and matching his music up (which is always excellent and will take time)- We are looking at July or August before the next release... Please feel free to disagree with my assumptions and do the math, but I can't find much wrong with my VIN diagram on this....
Gah that is a long time!
And this is hoping he stays healthy and sane enough to work,,,,, without downtime... which is insane by itself.....
Fuck us all!
 

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If he is not sick, and has no family requirements, and works 7 days a week straight, and we assume that the more complex story will add 25% to the overall requirements for renders, scripts, and animations. Not to mention screening and matching his music up (which is always excellent and will take time)- We are looking at July or August before the next release... Please feel free to disagree with my assumptions and do the math, but I can't find much wrong with my VIN diagram on this....
Gah that is a long time!
And this is hoping he stays healthy and sane enough to work,,,,, without downtime... which is insane by itself.....
Fuck us all!
Make it June, throw in the car mats and nav system at no charge and you've got a deal.
 

DavDR

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I am between two: When the MC invites Jill out on a date. Tybalt's face is priceless.
The scene with Sage in the backyard of HOT's house.
The backyard is one of my favorite's. The broken fingernail dialogue is priceless. The look on her face when MC says "you and me" is even better.
 
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brichouse

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THIS!! This is how I feel, despite knowing that they love you, because that is how their actions with you when they are alone show it. You are not the only one, they love each other in the same way or even more than you. I've been through something similar and that's why that topic touches my heart so much, and I really liked these girls, I wish there was some way to make them cut and still love you separately or something like that. But thats not gonna happen xD
I was never really crazy about Josy's storyline. MC being so pressed on her from the beginning when he barely even knew her was driving me insane. I think the only way I could've gotten behind the Josy path was if MC was able to get to know her better once she got to school before diving head first (again) into his infatuation...which obviously isn't what happened. Maya is the least attractive of the bunch (imo) but they had a nice bond, so her path was alright to me.

I hate liars (and cheaters, but I give that SOME leeway in these VNs lol), so I was lowkey hoping there was a way to have MC "get over it"/forgive them but still not want to be friends with them. I imagine they're gonna serve some other purpose in the story since that wasn't an option...

The backyard is one of my favorite's. The broken fingernail dialogue is priceless. The look on her face when MC says "you and me" is even better.
I really like Sage's path. It feels the most realistic to me (probably because it reminds me of my own time in college lol) and I'm enjoying watching the relationship evolve. I wish she'd just accept that Chad is super trash and move on though.
 
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Arigon

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While DPC doesn't tell us it's possible to extrapolate likely ages based on the story so far:

Jade - 45-ish- 40-45 yes
Cathy - 38 (swyper age) 36-38 yes
Aerith - 24 (swyper age but could be her IQ) -def her IQ, her age could be a year or 2 older though based on intellect
Heather - 21 (she was a Hot in the C5 flashback) agree
Sage - 21 or 22
Camiila - 18 yes
Ashley - 18 yes
Josy - 18 yes
Maya - 18 yes
Quinn - 20 or 21
Mona - 19 (not a pledge so must be at least a sophomore) or Jr.
Bella definitely 35-36
Envy/Nicole 30
Ivy 21

Zoners, feel free to add to my list, I got bored.
 

ename144

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Potentially anywhere from 4 to 14 more episodes, with 6 being the most likely based on the number of episodes per season and DPC saying there would be at least 3 seasons.
My money is on 14 episodes at the moment. DPC's latest comment said at least three seasons and likely 4 episodes for Season 2. That suggests he expects it may be more than 12 episodes but probably less than 16. So my guess is he'll make Season 3 a little oversized rather than stretch the story out or release an undersized Season 4.

Mind you, this is one step up from wild speculation at this point. Hopefully we'll have a much better idea where things might be going tantalizingly soon...
 
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Can you use SPOILERS for once and not bloat this thread like it's a Ubisoft game?
Nope. All he's gonna do is giving you some facepalm reactions whilst being butthurt when somebody does the same thing to him. After all I just can't believe how cringy and creepy one guy can get...
 

DavDR

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While DPC doesn't tell us it's possible to extrapolate likely ages based on the story so far:

Jade - 45-ish
Cathy - 38 (swyper age)
Aerith - 24 (swyper age but could be her IQ)
Heather - 21 (she was a Hot in the C5 flashback)
Sage - 21
Camiila - 18
Ashley - 18
Josy - 18
Maya - 18
Quinn - 20
Mona - 19 (not a pledge so must be at least a sophomore)

Zoners, feel free to add to my list, I got bored.
Mona is a pledge, watch the swimming pool scene again.
 

ename144

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It seems that we're down to the last 24 hours before episode 6. With that in mind, I would like to invite everyone to tell us your favorite moment in the game so far. As an aside. if you are going to use images, please limit yourself to one in replying to this so we don't image spam the thread. Here's my favorite, I LOLed for minutes the first time I saw this
But there are so many! Nearly everyone gets at least one great bit somewhere along the line. Still, if I have to pick... hmmmm.

I guess I'll go with Maya's kiss the morning after she shows the MC her family photos. That whole scene is really sweet and has one of the more interesting uses of the Status system. It gets even more poignant in retrospect when we learn why that was Maya at her happiest. But part where Maya kisses the MC in a mix of jealousy, affection and playfulness stands out to me. So I'll pick that as my favorite.
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That said, honorable mention must go to kissing Jill in the shower. It only misses the top spot by a whisker.
 

DavDR

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But there are so many! Nearly everyone gets at least one great bit somewhere along the line. Still, if I have to pick... hmmmm.

I guess I'll go with Maya's kiss the morning after she shows the MC her family photos. That whole scene is really sweet and has one of the more interesting uses of the Status system. It gets even more poignant in retrospect when we learn why that was Maya at her happiest. But part where Maya kisses the MC in a mix of jealousy, affection and playfulness stands out to me. So I'll pick that as my favorite.
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That said, honorable mention must go to kissing Jill in the shower. It only misses the top spot by a whisker.
Thanks for reminding me of that Maya scene. I think I've only seen it once before.
 
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