Bayview Paid Direction Poll (Patreon)

DEVELOPMENT PAID DIRECTION POLL

As some of you may have saw in the public development direction poll, I have a few directions I plan on going in and I want input specifically from paid members.

The input from people who aren’t paying is important, but the input from people actually sacrificing and paying money for the game is even more important, in my opinion, as you guys are the backbone of development as you provide me the support I need to develop games that you guys hopefully enjoy!

Job Expansions: Adds establishment introductions with a lot of character. The first time you enter an establishment, there will be an event or NPC that will greet you. These will not be one liners like “Hi. Enjoy the shop.” But actual scenes with character and flair put into them that sets up the work environment.

Then, instead of jist getting hired immediately, jobs are given interviews, with some coworkers greeting you to the team with a starting introduction that sets up work life balance

You will also get various additional buttons as an employee that will allow narratively driven events at work that will open up 3 different narrative paths.

This Job Expansion will also give depth, custom dialogues and relationships to 5 of the NPC in that establishment. So they feel like real coworkers instead of paperdolls.

Narrative Expansion: This expansion will streamline the main quest and focus on side quests and content for story characters.

In streamlining the main quest, text is cut down by only providing extra lore information via choices. Similar to Cyberpunk 2077. So everything isn’t shoved down your throat if you don’t want it to be.

In streamlining the main quest, we will also start branching paths which cause change in the world, mainly with an expansion to the main quest, as Bloodbath, things in the game start getting very serious.

Side quests and content for story characters will be added as well. So mainly dates and content for specific characters.

Events Expansion: Will integrate dozens of random events across the word and increase quality and polish of existing random events.

Other: I plan on developing the following features over the upcoming years.

A. Establishment Ownership and Management (not just brothel, but any establishment).

B. Gangs, Factions and Gang/Faction Management

C. Settlement Creation and Management: Follows Fallout 4’s settlement and needs systems

D. City State Development Management: Allows you to manage entire cities, change how people act, what they do. Create total anarchy in the city, create perfect order, etc

E. Full Interior Design System: Allows customization of Rooms. Choose wall designs, place furniture, etc

F. Full Home Building System: Shown off in the recent brothel system. Except for all homes and establishments you own

G. Celebrity Life Expansion

H. Seasons and Holidays

I. Academy of Sorcery

J. Kingdoms & Nobility

Note: All of the above expansions (excluding Other) are eventually coming, but I just want to see which one you guys want the most.

Everything in Other will only start to be implemented once the base game is fully fleshed out, so no time soon really. Those are things that will come far later in the horizon.

As for the poll, pick which one you’d be interested in! And you can drop a comment saying what other options you’d choose or what else you want to see.