Not really the poll was for Eric to be harder or easier. People voted for him to be easier. And DS never stated anything about Kira. Phantom is just an instigator.
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0.2 introduced Eric, who promptly entered Max's life and turned everything upside down. Or, in another terms, he really annoyed players. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to implement planned Eric's events in 0.3, so for now he's pretty much completely harmless. So now I want to know what the players want: should I add the feeling of danger from having Eric in the family or not?
P.S.: The game will have the option of losing the game because of Eric regardless of the poll, I'm only asking how much work players want to put in evading this game over."
Quote from the poll.