Agreed. Characters can grow without the MC always having to be around. Call it "slice of life" scenes or whatever, but the world doesn't stop when the MC is walking a girl home or playing with a teacher on the train. With that latter exampled, you can have a scene with Vicky, Lucy and the Kitten with the girls taking bets on what he's doing to her or how far they're going or whatever. Just...have other things happen you know?
Hannah can be talking to his GFs about him and their relationship or about how much they love him and he them. Just so many opportunities to have life go on.
One of the other devs I support does this well.
The AVN is MC focused but the different LIs get small transition snippets based on what is happening in their lives and what they have been doing with the MC recently.
These are usually 1-3 renders with all thought exposition for each woman (done two or three women at a time) then the POV shifts back to the MC.
I think the key is that they are short transitions that don't take away from the MC and his interactions with the women as the primary focus.
Something like this should, IMO, be like a max of several hours work + render time (in a given update) so that there is no meaningful impact on the time it takes Cosy to deliver a given update.
Cheers!!
