sillyrobot
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Or summer school catch-up with the graduation/party moved to the next September. Or GED exam that can be taken at the end of a month on demand leaving the party just for players that hit the target and giving the rest some chance to recover. Or severing graduation from the chapter end so Billy can graduate and be directionless working dead end jobs at the school until Pixie is complete. There's a wide array of tactics that can be employed.From a design perspective, Pixie is the story boss of the school chapter. The graduation occurs afterward as it is the reward for chapter completion.
If the game is going to require graduation to occur on a specific date (reflective of real world graduations), there should probably be some form of QoL calendar skip offered once the graduation requirements are met.
Failing those adoptions, the player should really get some warning/guidance back in early October as to the importance of (a) forming the club in a timely manner (for example, the principal could state that clubs must form no later than Nov 4 to be put into the schedule rotation / count as an extra-curricular for college admissions to give the player a deadline for goal) and (b) their ultimate success doesn't depend on the obvious and logical requirements (passing grades in school while limiting demerit collection) but also on attending the club regularly and the ultimate resolution of that plot line (for example, Billy / Dr. Ivy expresses the thought the club is the perfect vehicle to not only protect the school but a successful term will impress the Initiative and may allow access to next level of operations). A mechanism a player can use to recover from a late club formation ( for example, dropping a few minor missions / dead weeks and compressing the appearance of the major missions to 1 / 4 weeks if it starts after Nov 4) would go a long way to give a non-optimal player opportunities to continue. Or have a hard start to the Pixie plot start and if the club starts late then the player simply loses access to the rest of the major missions.
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