Poll: Render Volume (Patreon)

Greetings!

I'm currently doing brainstorming and planning for 0.5, and as I said in my last update, my PC is rendering away on the high-resolution pictures for the picture pack. There don't seem to be many bugs to bother with (other than the first one!), so I'm getting right to work on 0.5. Related to that, I'd like to know how important the volume (i.e., the total number) of renders is to you guys.

First, a bit about 0.4's development: It took quite a while to get out. Part of that was because I was distracted by the holidays and some minor health issues (resolved now, thankfully), but part of it was also because I spent quite a bit of time making the renders. I did something different that time; when I planned out the renders, I thought of them basically like you might think of shots in cinematography. At each part of the H-scene, I tried to have a shot that captured the essence of that moment. As you can imagine, by doing that I ended up creating a lot of shots.

To illustrate how it might have been done differently, I might simply have chosen a few special moments in the story and emphasized those with pictures. There probably would have been far fewer reaction shots - shots intended to show the characters' state of mind or the dynamic between them - and there might have been, say, 7 or 8 images instead of 22 or 24.

I thought the larger volume of shots made it more "movie-like" and emotionally engaging. I'm not sure what you guys think about it, though.

I'm not going to ask if you want more images, because obviously the answer would be yes. What I'd like to know is if you'd want more renders if it would also mean more time between releases. To make it more concrete, which scenario would you choose?

1. A release with 2-3 H-scenes, 7 renders each, that took a month to develop.

2. A release with 2-3 H-scenes, 23 renders each, that took a month and a half to develop.

So which would you choose?

By the way, these choices aren't a formula I plan to rigidly follow or anything. I'm just trying to gauge how important more renders are to you guys, given that they take more time to produce.

As always, thank you for your support!