Rogue-Like 1/15 What's going on right now (Patreon)

So, I'm still working through the process of the 1000 stat upgrades. The first step was easy, the vast majority of the stats are checked and assigned by a central function, so changing that function instantly "fixed" all those interactions (although we still need to test it to make sure it works as intended). The second step was to go through and deal with a few hundred "exceptions" in the code, places where I used some other method to check the stats because the core function wasn't efficient in that situation. This wasn't difficult, but it was pretty tedious, just stepping through a list of every possible instance and making sure that a ">= 120" gets updated to a ">= 1200."

Now I'm halfway through the last step of the process, going through each section of the game and deciding which situations I should leave the stat upgrades as they are, just a single digit increase in most cases, or where I should boost them up, so that they retain the same relative shift that they used to. If I didn't do this, then you could do anything there was to do in the game once through, and end up with stats something like 675/220/197 out of 1000/1000/1000, requiring a ton of grinding to get to get any higher. That's no fun.

So anyway, in the next version, it'll hopefully be in a good place, but I'll still be looking for feedback as to what events you feel give too much or too little gain. Keep in mind that there is a lot of diminishing returns in the system, so the first time you do anything should almost always reward a large payout, and in many cases the first few times will offer a  smaller, but still decent payout, and then they drop to minimal returns, and in some cases zero returns once she gets used to it.

I've got a question for you guys though, something I've been thinking about. My current plan is to release each new girl in a "mostly complete" status, that is that they will be at least as "done" as Rogue is now before I add them to the game in any way. I was thinking though that it might be better to start adding them in a "minimal" form instead, earlier than intended. This would mean that basically you couldn't likely have any unique scenes with them, no sex or dating or chatting or anything, but that they might pop up from time to time as "NPCs" in the world in multi-character story scenes.

The downside to this is that it would of course take some time to make even these fairly minimal sprites for them, and it would mean locking in some of the basic design work way before they were ready for prime time. So I wonder what you guys think about that? Should I save the new characters until I'm ready to launch them as complete potential love interests, or should I include them as basic NPCs that offer minimal "PG-13" interaction until I am ready to invest in them fully? I'll put a poll below, but also please comment on the issue if you have an opinion.

http://strawpoll.me/6540832