The Path Builder goes through
every choice in the game that had any stat change or impact (which is almost all of them). I appreciate that losing saves is not ideal, and we do apologise for this. We worked very hard to ensure that wasn't the case, but if you were around during Realm 1, you'd know that there were a couple of bugs here and there. We are now working with a new developer with whom we are much happier. We're very excited about the future of the game working with him.
We were faced with two choices when moving into Realm 2:
1 - To continue with the code that wasn't in the best state and encounter various bugs later in development.
2 - To rebuild the game from the ground up to ensure its integrity in the future.
The Seven Realms will be a massive game by the time we've completed it, so we decided to rebuild the game, and I'm pleased that we did. With it being the end of Realm 1 of 7 (despite some other confusing comments in the thread yesterday about how many realms there are
) it felt like an appropriate point to make the change. We worked hard to implement the Path Builder to reduce this impact on players. I appreciate that it may not be perfect, but if catching up using the Path Builder is too much for you, then I understand.
As others have said, this is in active development, and this is our first VN. However, working with our new programmer, we don't foresee further changes to the game's structure like this one, and we are very confident about the state of the code in the future.