Nicole won the poll for v0.18 by one vote so it's blonde time!  I've been working on her script and her events for the most part these days. Theorically, the update should end in a juicy scene with Nicole, leaving everything ready for a romantic night in future updates but before that there is story to cover (remember, this games is story based at the beginning but a fuck fest in the end) and I'm struggling with how to progress the story for those who choosed to stay quiet and don't ask Elly about Nicole's sleepings problem. To solve that I should create even more scenes before the juicy one and with that the update would get too long for my schedule, so maybe I will do a two parts update. I already have some things that need testing so it isn't a bad idea (more about that below).

Besides that, I also had to make like 3 rooms froms scratch (except the school, 95% of the rooms in the game are made by me and a 3% are rooms done by someone else but heavily modified to make them work better).

The in-game WT is back and now it's fully functional!  This is probably the best and hardest thing I did regarding to code so far. The in-game WT also works as the "link" between updates (save compatbility) so it needs some testing first with old players and then with new players, so I will do an early acces agains for this update too probably. 

That's it for now.  Thanks for reading.

Complex Society v0.17 is out now. It's the first update since I officially changed to monthly releases instead of bi-monthly as I initially wanted. The change was mostly because when I tried to do bi-monthly updates I got carried away and I took almost 4 months because I kept adding things, but so far all the monthly updates didn't take longer than a month and a half so I should be able to do more content in the long run.

I already started working on v0.18 (and the patch for the map icon for v0.17, more about that below) and I did polls to let supporters choose what character should I do first in v0.18. So far Alice is winning again (6 votes), then Elly and Nicole in a tie for the second place (5 votes) and lastly Lucile and Daiana (tied too, 2 votes). My tier rewards are messed up, voting in polls should be something from +10$ tiers but since I only have three +10$ it wouldn't be fun to do a poll that small so I always let 5$ vote as well. That's something I did since the beginning, the news now are that I'm giving 10$ tier two votes to compensate for that.

Even if Alice wins again (and she's my favorite girl too) it's not like I will advance Alice's story forever. Eventually I'm gonna need to do other characters to keep advancing Alice so Alice won't be an option to vote, or if I really want or feel like I should do something with another character I'm gonna add it to the update as well.

Right now I'm working on a fix for the map icon problem some people reported. Apparently is just a small number who had that problem but it's enough to be worried about it. I think I know what is it but if it is what I think then it's just like a very unlucky thing to happen for those players, not really a bug.

In any case, any player having that problem can open the console command, type "f_mainmap = True" and press enter, that should fix the problem.

That's all for now. Longer post than usual but I had a lot of things to cover. Thanks for reading.
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The update is out. It'll be released to the public around Wednesday-Thursday if nothing goes wrong. I think I'm gonna be saying this for a while and I'm gonna sound like a broken record for some of you, but I'm pretty sure most people don't read all these weekly newsletters and they only read one or two at most so every opportunity will be good to tell new players about this: I'm changing my updates schedule to monthly updates instead of bi-monthly like I initially intended. The reason of this is mostly because when I tried to do it bi-monthly it took me almost 4 months because I got carried away adding things but the times when I tried to do things monthly it took me a month and a half at most, so that way I should be able to do shorter updates but more consistent, which should mean more content in the long term.

Fortunately for me the super new customized main menu system that I did in less than a week while watching a speedruns marathon is stable, which is great because those things can get glitchy very fast and I found every kind of bug you can imagine will doing it, mostly because I learned how to do it on the go with more than 80% of my brain paying attention to another thing.

These days since the release of v0.17 I've been writing for future updates (mostly about Daiana) while waiting for any kind of problem or bug to appear. So far the only problems that popped up were about the WT and the map icon but nothing important or hard to fix. The public release will be v0.17b with this minor fixes included.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading.

That's the super new custom main menu by the way. I did it for v0.16b but I got almost 0 feedback about it, probably because v0.16b hadn't new content.