Noxian Nights (and Kingdom of Deception) have art because Sierra made it in cooperation with Nomo who is an artist (Sierra is a writer). Desecration of Wings have an art because Sierra commisioned it, but it was done recently. That game was completed long ago, she made it available to Patreons in raw form (barely any CG) last year. She commisioned remaining CG's so she could do a release on Steam and few other platforms. She is trying to commison someone to do art for this game but since she want the art to be consistent (so taking already available art is not an option).
As for having to "restart since I f-up by going into the dungeon on my way to Yhilin"... no, you didn't f-up. You were supposed to go there at that point. That is a tough fight, but if you got everything on your way to it you should be able to defeat it. It's not going to be easy, but it's doable. You have an option of going there during Chapter 2, but that adds 10 days to your "travel timer" which mean you'll get lesser rewards since you'll not move as efficently as you could and you'll also not be able to get best possible result on one check later on.
no, the dungeon is mean to be done in the first chapter.
If you wait to venture in the chapter two you will miss the last item (ancient IK ceremonial armor), every chapter had one missable IK ancient equip, chapter two the helm in the war vaults, chapter three the shield in the ardoheim cache asked to be acquire in the conference chamber
Effects down the line are unknown, but better take them.
Order in which you should handle Stinford:
- get Hilstara
- get Robin at Academy
- deal with slavers
- use sewers to enter succubus tower
- clear infested house
- help Hilstara clean mine
That way you'll maximize the XP for all party members.
the infested house is way harder compared to the mine, why let this to the end? (hilstara will tag around even after the mine, she dont disappear from the party)
all rp matters. cause even minute variances in rp can change chances of gaining more rp as some early events are RP based. till you hit the magical gotcha number all rp matters and you want to get as much early RP as possible with all characters, but still maximizing exp gains it's tricky but doable.
yes, but atm robin rp are never checked.
But her rp is the harder to gain, if you don't miss any gain (and loss nothing) you can maxed her affection only at the start of chapter four.
The only real gain in the minmax robin xp is the reach level 21 (thus lighting lance) just before the boss in the jail-manor (weak to lighting damage)