I see... not much can be done here. Yet first impression, unfortunately, is very
important. A bit more criticism if you can stomach it:
Its about Orciad plot line... it seems a bit rushed. The part where Lady Delane turn in to complete slut in two weeks is unbelievable. You see when Rowan first meet her, she make an impression of clever and reasonable individual. I mean i do understand that idea is to wrap the Orciad and move on. But may be then change her personality a bit or add some reasoning in her throwing away common sense and making her situation even worse?
Well, that's the version of corrupting her where you aren't doing it yourself. For more on how it's possible, wait for the Ulcro corruption option this month. Plus, you gotta remember that it's a cubi doing it. A cubi who has basically uninterrupted access to her for two weeks. If you were hanging out with a cubi for two weeks, you'd be ready to suck some dick too.
That said, feels rushed is a reader response complaint as opposed to a in-universe logic complaint, so I'll take another look at the bit and see if adding a line or two here or there can help make it feel more of a realistic fall.
Wait, they're paying $500.00 for one drawing? Are you sure about that? The standard price for top quality drawings is $150.00 and that's with up to 3-4 characters. If they're paying $500.00 per CG, they're getting severely ripped off.
I don't know the prices off the top of my head, but I'm not sure about the $500 number. You have to consider first that we often times commission variations. Second, you need to consider that the price tends to rise from artists if you're having them do multiple pieces like clockwork per month. They also charge more for commercial work. For example, sure TheKite used to charges $100 to $150 for a pinup. But, he'd charge $350 per day of work to a single entity, with much of the extra cost coming from a change in ownership rights.
Plus I don't know where you get the $150 number from exactly. I know plenty of artists who charge $150 for single characters. I think that on just commission if you want a decent tier artist and you have multiple charachters in the frame, you can expect something in the vicinity of $250-$300. You can occasionally get it lower by hiring artists from out of the west, but those often times come with their own problems.
We pay on the upper end, to be sure, but we also do not have much in the way of delays or slowdowns and we don't have any rights disputes with our artists.
Another thing a lot of people don't seem to take into account in relation to this game, is that there is a whole lot of other extra art that needs to be commissioned. Keidi's character models and alternate expressions. All of this sweet new UI stuff. Backgrounds. That pool needs to pay for the writer pool who had add multiple sex scenes per month. Also, Arioch still isn't being paid much at all for his work on the game.
