Wow, next you're going to be explaining to Doctors how they should treat diseases.
These are the realities.
A Civil Lawsuit is a mechanism whereby one individual (or group of individuals) seeks redress of grievances from another. The Court's only mechanism for redressing a grievance is the awarding of assets.
That's not true, actually. Courts have powers beyond just awarding assets; that's how they can issue injunctions. I doubt anything like that would happen here, but if the MC keeps breaking into the Prep manor you never know.
The first step in filing a lawsuit is calculating damages and identifying assets. This is pretty straight forward. The party bringing a suit, the Plaintiff, lays out the damages they have suffered and identifies the Defendants assets that they want the court to award to redress those damages. This is the first hurdle and it's where this case ends. MC has no assets. The Judges clerk would look at the fact that MC has no assets and would then throw the case out. This is basically the Court's saying "this isn't our job" and moving on to the next case.
The next hurdle you have to clear is standing. Standing is basically the court deciding if you are in fact a party to the suit or not. If the Preps have Insurance, then they don't have Standing. The Insurance Company does.
That would only be true if insurance paid for every bad thing that happened to Tybalt and co. If the insurance had a deductible, Tybalt could sue to recover that.
Also, since the party was a fundraiser, Tybalt could certainly argue the MC is also on the hook for the lost revenue Alpha Nu Omega was unable to raise from its guests because that would not be covered by insurance. The judge might disagree, but I expect he would at least consider the argument first.
I agree that the MC probably can't afford to pay of these damages, but a) it would take a comprehensive examination of the MC's finances to establish that for certain and b) Tybalt could still take whatever the MC has, which would still be a bad thing.
Besides, the MC's lack of resources is precisely why Tybalt's threat is valid. Do you really think the MC knows how to challenge Tybalt's standing or show precedence against paying for lost revenue on his own? If he had the resources to hire a competent attorney, he could eventually get the case thrown out no matter what Tybalt does (assuming he and Derek avoid doing anything else stupid). The problem is that he doesn't.
I'm curious how people feel - would you prefer two shorter episodes released 3 months apart or one longer episode released 6 months apart?
I'd definitely prefer two shorter episodes (which wouldn't be that short, all things considered) if they were released more frequently.
I think the most important thing is that each episode serve as a solid entry in its own right (while still advancing advancing the game). I don't want tiny slices of story, even if they do come rapidly.
Within that context, I'd certainly prefer to forego more elaborate animations/more static renders for more frequent updates. Unfortunately, it's DPC's story and he's made it abundantly clear he prefers the latter. That's unfortunate and it's why I'm not an ongoing supporter. But I still find the game top notch, so I'm willing to pay a little money when it updates. Such is life.
How about a full episode without a ton of mini games, DnG, new phones, elaborate Mansion Repair, 100 special renders of every conceivable woman in the game, the biggest free-roam evah, and ton's of other filler?
I actually like the mini-games to an extent, but you could easily talk me into toning them down. The problem is that DPC seems to
love designing and coding them. So not only is he not going to give them up, I suspect he would be far more likely to burn out if he were somehow forced to remove them. The "filler" in this case is load bearing.
It's a lot like the idea of hiring employees and forming a proper company. In theory it's the right move, but DPC wants to be an artist and not a businessman. In the end I can't really argue DPC's logic; I hate business, too. It sucks that we'll be waiting for a long, long time but I don't see a way around that. This game really is a labor of love, and there's no way to avoid the downsides that brings without also losing the upsides.
So we just have to hope it will work out for the best.
every time you do the math i die in the inside and lose hope
Brave heart, Hrllav, we'll get there eventually.