grey_shadow
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Yeah, those numbers do check out.Ah I was getting worried that no one would ask me.
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.
So that's a weird mess for valid combinations over the first thirteen choices, times four for choices 14 and 15 always giving you two options, independent of how the mess turns out...