A word to you
Enyo_ : Absolutely love your game man. And I understand you position and I dont want to criticise you - I love the game and I am happy when new updates come, but I can wait and thats just the crucial skill you need to have if you want to survive on f95 (; . But let me give you some words of advise:
As long as you dont work on your perfectionism it will always stand in your way. A healthy amount of it is essential for great game developers but too much of it will hold you back big time. You gotta draw a line somewhere and if you dont manage that the outcome will always be the same. Whether you try different strategies such as making up new release dates like crazy or giving no release dates but ever on and on saying it will be soon. Just make life hard for yourself. Ppl wont trust you and you wil never get more Patrons this way, which is sad because you make a great game where you invest a lot of time and its totally fine for you to claim something out of it. I know that you never wanna milk your community and all in all the funny thingsi s that you are a trustworthy dev even though you postpone so often and you are so undisciplined - at least you speak openly about it. You are doing so many things right already. Discussing with the community, answering, being honest with your mistakes and problems - but I think the root of your problems is your perfectionism. And you can think of thousand different strategies on how to deliver in time by giving release dates or not it wont help until you go the root of the problem. Dont make yourself unhappy man. Discussing about your problems all the time here instead of discussing about the game does not help the game and most of all it does not help you. Look at N_Taii from Henteria Chronicles for example. He is making a pixel-art game which is much less popular within the adult game community and is a dev who is around only for two year or something, yet he has a lot of patrons and almost reached his goal of 2500 dollars. Now he can invest more into the games and everybody is happy. He, his community, everybody. And you both are quite similar (Communicating with the community, open to critics, beautiful detailed games and so on) the only difference beeing that he is a perfectionist at a good degree - he delivers detailed scenes (you can feel that he puts a lot of work and mind inside) but knows when to finish. Thats why sometimes the are little mistakes, bugs or things he forgot. But thats what the community is for. They tell him what he missed and what was forgotten (In henteria chrinicles 2 a lot of ppl didnt like the too long intro, so in later updates he looked into it again spicing it up). But as he can draw the line he actually always delivers in time and ppl love this, because its so trustworthy and implies that his work will always go on that ppl think its worth to support him.
Long stroy short - I think you need to make a deal within yourself. You want to make your community happy and discuss about the game and not your delays and problems? Then step back from your perfectionism and have the courage to make mistakes. Your community will help you fixing them afterwards but at least you released smth. And I dont know you enough to know all the roots of your problems but work on them otherwise you will make yourself unhappy and get stuck with it. It is not a nice feeling to run in circles so get out of there and bring some changes to yourself! Hope you dont get this in the wrong way. I just wanted to help without pressuring you. I am happy when the update comes whenever it comes, but I have to admit I would also invest more into you (may it be on patron or here in discussions that are about the game and the story if they would not be about your problems) if I would get this feeling of "He knows what he dos"....
All the best to you enyo! Love your game and hope you succeed!!
I wrote early drafts of the few events with Tiffany and Lucy. Also I'm working on expanding few events of this update(Maybe I overexpanded some events a bit more than I should. 
