For fuck sake, before you jump into a project, plan it through accordingly BEFORE you start coding ad hoc. That way you can avoid fucking up your variables midway development and force everyone to restart the fucking game randomly.
Every second-or-so newbie dev just jumps into a project not understanding how to properly plan their shit out and wastes people time over and over and over again.
God damn its starting to get annoying.
The variables are the same and haven't changed. Nothing has changed in that regard. That's not the reason why we have to start from scratch.
The reason is the screen that displays them. For some reason I don't understand yet, that screen causes the saved files to not work.
But I'm not a novice programmer, although I admit I'm not an expert in Ren'Py either.
Anyway... Sorry for the inconvenience.
In return, I've made the process more enjoyable with some AI videos.