I thought that the inn system being locked out in the free mode is because there is no actual MC and your ability to create new male characters. No MC means that he would need to change the talk system (since there is no "captain" or make it so that you can choose a captain). then he would need to add the custom male characters to the heroine's sexual experience/status screen. Granted it should be fairly easy to implement these changes.The inn system itself is not scripted in the way you're thinking, events that happen automatically or events that have to be "flagged" are the ones that are. There is ZERO reason why the inn system (including heart and shield elements etc) couldn't be active in free mode. If that were the case, then the inn system would be locked after you'd finish the main story-line.
There are a metric ton of games with systems that are still available in their respective free modes. It IS fucking stupid and to be quite frank, I am not the only one whom thinks so.
Let's be honest the dev took forever to release a game that is full of bugs, has very little in the terms of H, has a lot of useless "core" mechanics that are rarely used (like the duel system). Not counting the fact that he added an unavoidable NTR once again after years of receiving backlash for it. All in all, I'd say that free mode is going to be untouched for quite a while. The bugs are priority, then he will move on to the reminiscence screen. After that who knows if he is going to re-touch the story or focus on the free mode. I do believe that he painted free mode as something for those who want more of the gameplay (which I assume it explicitly covers the combat and dungeon crawling aspects).
I'd say that free mode is a super low priority thing for the dev at least currently.
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