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Really? that was unexpected. so basically those android ports are from unity or unreal.
Well good luck rooting for you.
Most likely because of the used file system, which would therefore be FAT32 and usually this doesn't support files larger than 2 GiB / 4 GiB.
Where on PC this era is over and all "modern" system support large files.
 

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I'd like to get in 3 floors, but I can't work on more main characters at the moment.

HH is also getting very big, the Android file size is the main limiter.

Both of these things combined likely means either there wont be a third floor, or there will be a HH part 2 that includes the next characters, but not the story content of the first part to reduce file size.
"Harem Hotel, Part 2, The Third Story, Version 0.1 Alpha, The Next Generation, Returning The Jedi Avenging the Guardians of the Galaxy from the Civil War started by Godzilla and the Transformers"? Seems like another Epic to me! :giggle:
 

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Couldn't you just go the Ecchi Sensei route and make the part 2 accept the savefiles of part 1, in order to reduce file size and maybe do some refactoring of the internals or similar (which I'm pretty sure you would like to do)?
Ecchi Sensei can do that as its in essense a massive Video - its all about making choices that effect future story and said story never stops moving. Harem Hotel is a sandbox which means its more an RPG so you can for example spend all week ignoring progress and just levelling up the guests stats on things like exhibitionism or just sleep around all day and the story will be waiting for you. This means you can repeat scenes in game on demand - all those animations are whats making every patch that little bit bigger.

I hadn't considered Android being the biggest stumbling block. If there is any suggestion we could consider from Ecchi Sensei its that they do a Dark Mind patch so most of the content isn't accessed as its taboo in nature but instead has to be added via said patch and it in itself is something like 2 and a half gigs is it not? Maybe Runey could say separate some of the content to be more an add on option than in base game like say the BDSM content and animations not pertaining to main story? I dunno, if anyone can come up with a solution its Runey but its clear that there is no easy answer of most games would have been doing something about it by now, simple truth is most of the bigger games are video novels split in parts because VNs allow that approach but sandbox of sizable content just aint on Android. Too many animations im afraid to be on a single file.
 
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Ecchi Sensei can do that as its in essense a massive Video - its all about making choices that effect future story and said story never stops moving. Harem Hotel is a sandbox which means its more an RPG so you can for example spend all week ignoring progress and just levelling up the guests stats on things like exhibitionism or just sleep around all day and the story will be waiting for you. This means you can repeat scenes in game on demand - all those animations are whats making every patch that little bit bigger.

I hadn't considered Android being the biggest stumbling block. If there is any suggestion we could consider from Ecchi Sensei its that they do a Dark Mind patch so most of the content isn't accessed as its taboo in nature but instead has to be added via said patch and it in itself is something like 2 and a half gigs is it not? Maybe Runey could say separate some of the content to be more an add on option than in base game like say the BDSM content and animations not pertaining to main story? I dunno, if anyone can come up with a solution its Runey but its clear that there is no easy answer of most games would have been doing something about it by now, simple truth is most of the bigger games are video novels split in parts because VNs allow that approach but sandbox of sizable content just aint on Android. Too many animations im afraid to be on a single file.
Maybe something like the DM Patch could have been done way back when Runey started this game, but I think trying to decide upon and removing stuff from it to be put into some sort of patch would be more than a little bit time consuming and difficult. Do we really want to put Runey through that?

Besides, most of the "taboo" stuff in that Dark Mind Patch revolves around incest and underage material. All of the characters in HH are over 18, so there's no worries with that part. The incest in this game is very minor and only really present because a few of the girls are sisters, and that's easily toggled on and off through the cheatcode.
 

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Maybe something like the DM Patch could have been done way back when Runey started this game, but I think trying to decide upon and removing stuff from it to be put into some sort of patch would be more than a little bit time consuming and difficult. Do we really want to put Runey through that?

Besides, most of the "taboo" stuff in that Dark Mind Patch revolves around incest and underage material. All of the characters in HH are over 18, so there's no worries with that part. The incest in this game is very minor and only really present because a few of the girls are sisters, and that's easily toggled on and off through the cheatcode.
Honestly im perfectly happy with things as they are and I appreciate his clarification on his throught process for going forward and indeed about the limitations he is having to work around im sure most of us were not aware of not just me lol. I broached the subject of the dark mind patch only as rex mentioned ecchi sense approach first and i continued the debate.

As for the amount of content it has... its about half the stuff in the game lol. Its about a teacher where only one of the four classes are of age and of course he has a sizable family he likes to enjoy haha. My point was less on its content but more on its size, it was a method used to contain content removed but still accessed via its inclusion and was merely an idea HH could potentially apporach going forward but im no expert and Runey himself has been kind enough to give his insight on what hes looking at doing at the it seems inevitable it cant just be a case of continued adding of content to the game without hitting that ceiling with Android version. Lets be honest we would all love a sequel yet at the same time as others like rex suggested who are into idea a serious question needs asked of us all - would YOU be ok starting again from scratch? or most importantly would the patreons as they are the ones who are funding this whole endeavor. I dont envy him making such decisions when the time comes be it sequels or dropping android or whatever hypothetical issues will pop up but in meantime as far as im corcerned its merely a case of keep up the good work runey, your work is fantastic.
 
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