I do wish I could have a crack at compressing the 50Gb version
Correct, There's no reason it couldn't be used for both though as we are no longer tied to 2Gb mobile games. I'm currently using the "HQ" version.
Compressed it's slightly larger than your "LQ" version at nearly 10Gb, but somewhat less than the "HQ" and IMO very near that quality.
The thing is, compressing it even further might look fine on a android device because of the smaller screen.
But, look horrible on larger screens.
To be completely honest with you, multiple compressors already tried their best on this website.
Using multiple different machines and methods.
All leading towards the same result.
"It's already compressed down to the max."
Compressing the HQ version down even further will make it a LQ.
And, compressing the LQ even further will make it look horrible.
Both of those results are not acceptable to me.
That doesn't mean that I don't want you to try it.
Heck, if you can compress everything down even further without any quality loss, then I will say "Thank you and please teach me how."
What I don't want is people doing that on their own and just posting a version of my game where the art is completely compromised.
So, if you want to try it, then I'd like to do that together with you so we can judge the results together before
potentially making it public.
And, scrapping it in case the results are negative.
For now, I'm too busy with completing this update.
And, after that I'll be taking a little bit time off.
But, if you want to, I'll send you the full sized file after that so we can give it a try.