This seems complicated and probably will take months to code properly along with introducing countless errors and bugs. Also, good lord if you get on the wrong route then tough shit. You gotta replay act 1 and try to get it to work. Hell just restarting act 2 would require restarting act 1 if you want to do a different route.
Why not just make act 2 a standalone game and... ya know prompt the player with questions when you start act 2. This would probably save the dev team years of headache and allow the players to just start on the route they want right away.
The game is already a bloated mess lol so forcing act 2 to be built on top of the bloated mess seems like a bad idea. I'm not a coder though so what do I know.
I love this game and I know the devs work really hard on it but geeze, they've wasted so many years from over complicating everything.
Not precisely, as i said in that post, if the player doesn't load a savegame from Act I, it must be possible to answer a few question giving context to the player to makes choices align with the path you want to take, quite certain is if the game as it is will polish and maintain the status player developed for Rowan, because for Act II in a condition in which the beginning comes by default (not by loading from Act I) must carry a default status development included into the very same path taken.
Regarding the game game as a bloated mess... well, yes, but the savegame for Act II most probably doesn't need to take all the variables decisions, just the enough with relevant importance for the overall story and relationships, like:
1. You were trapped by the Twins, in order to save your
slutty whore wife you decide to serve:
a. Andras (gay path).
b. Jezera (simp path)
c. Serve both taken back some of your dignity (dude... WTF?! it's a hentai game dammit!)
2. You agree to serve because:
a. You believe they can do better than humans.
b. You believe you can achieve the greatness forbidden to you by the nobles for your achievements as a Hero.
c. You are just waiting your very chance to take control.
3. A submissive elf with a sad past and with high skills in administration begs for your help, she offers her services in more than just one way, you:
a. Protect her but not anything else, you are married (but a gay in a closet lol)
b. Protect her and make her yours (Yes!, Harem path, your mom would be so proud of you)
c. You deny her (probably sent by Jezera to play mind games with ya... hysterical conspiracy theory path, Rowan puts a helmet of aluminum in his head).
4. Your ex-student, a noblewoman of great beauty fall in the hands of Jezera, she puts a magic ring on her making her into mindless slut, if you don't fuck her she'll be lost into the machinates of Da Twins against you:
a. You fuck her because some part in you loves her (what a pedo you are you fucking sick piece of shit... she was a minor when you teach her!... But wait, now she's adult, is perfectly legal).
b. You refuse to fuck her but still look (you are a cuck or gay or both...)
c. You refuse and you don't look (you are weakling, dude it's a hentai game, less STR status for ya, need to grow some hard skin dude, go to see GoT or Invincible or read Lolita of Nabokov or some kind of shit like that).
And so on... You see, really decisions that really affect the overall story and relationships, this kind of options determines many future actions without having to answer them later, you are describing if you are gay, how much corrupted you are, if you are a cuck, how loyal Rowan is to Alexia... You see?
And once answered for Rowan it's turn for Alexia, this must be much more quickly given that much of the interactions between them were taken, but still:
1. Your wife is just a mere woman from the commoners, she was kidnapped and exposed to all the temptations in Bloodmeen Castle, a place full of desire and corruption, you as Alexia a Rowan's wife:
a. You cheat, it was too much to resist, but a part of you still is loyal to Rowan and loves him.
b. You refuse (You are the very same avatar of the Godess Solansia... lol, yeah right...)
c. You become into Slanesh's servant and with Chaos Magic give born a Lovecraftian God to doom the world.
2. Alexia was put to work in the Castle, what job was by most done by her:
a. Breeding pits. (This can severely put high corruption + furry of course)
b. Tavern (mid corruption perphaps).
c. Maid (mid corruption + Jezera's Influence)
d. Blacksmith (low corruption + furry)
e. Librarian (low Corruption + Magical Alexia's Path [FUCK YEAH!!!! FINALLY SOME REAL SHIT FOR ALEXIA TO BE IN THIS GAME USEFUL!!!!!!])
and so on... Rein & company must have planned very well this, complicated, perhaps, but not impossible, think in a system that sums points, if it's equal or superior than "X" then you will have a determine path with some characteritics. That's it.