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Voting is live for Episode 4

How to vote:

With the main game menu up, make sure online content is enabled. Shortly you should see a button appear at the bottom left corner to vote. If you don't see it appear, wait about 30 seconds, Start a new game and then quit the game to return to the Main game menu and the button should be present. From there, select the button and then select the option you would like to vote for. That's it!

Note: If you are seeing the relationship wheel in the bottom left corner, you are at the In-Game menu. Select "Quit Current Game" to return to the Main Menu.

The voting period will be two weeks, from June 15 through June 28th.

Opt1: (Winner)

• Episode Name: Thursday Afternoon at the Office: Bar Side
• Type: Erotic
• Size: Medium
• Pages: Approximately 340
• Available: 3 months. – Release Date: Approximately Sept 28
• Partially Unlocks:
  • Thursday Achievements
  • Thursday Office Scene
  • Thursday, late afternoon at home.
  • Voting: Thursday Strip Club Dates: Faith Focused
  • Voting: Thursday Strip Club Dates: Emily Focused
• Unlocks:
  • Thursday Afternoon office Erotic Content following Bar story paths.
  • Voting: Thursday Bar Dates: Emily Focused (Story + Erotic)
  • Voting: Thursday Bar Dates: Faith Focused (Story + Erotic)
  • Voting: Thursday Emily Focused Dates – Non-bar/club (Story + Erotic)
• Description: Continues Emily's story-lines into the Office in the afternoon. Depending on what happened at the Bar on Wednesday, maybe there will be the opportunity for some office romance later in the day. Then go home and prepare for the evening.

Opt2:

• Episode Name: Thursday Afternoon at the Office: Strip Club Side
• Type: Story + Erotic
• Size: Large
• Pages: Approximately 409
• Available: 4 months, Release Date: Approximately Oct 30
• Partially Unlocks:
  • Thursday Achievements
  • Thursday Office Scene
  • Thursday, Late Afternoon at home.
  • Voting: Thursday Strip Club Dates: Faith Focused
  • Voting: Thursday Strip Club Dates: Emily Focused
• Unlocks:
  • Wednesday Mastery Achievements
  • Wednesday Mastery Bonus Scene
  • Wednesday Diner Scene
  • Thursday Office Strip Club Branch (Story + Erotic)
  • Voting: Thursday Strip Club – Natalie Focus
  • Voting: Thursday Non Bar/Strip Club Dates – Natalie Focus
• Description: Find out what Emily was up to while Brad was at the Strip Club on Wednesday, and maybe have the chance to comfort her.

Opt3:

• Episode Name: Jasmine Inclusion
• Type: Story
• Size: Medium
• Pages: SPECIAL
• Available: 3 months. – Release Date approximately Sept 30.
• Partially Unlocks:
  • None
• Unlocks:
  • Adds Jasmine as a romanceable character, and storylines to existing content. (Story only at this point.)
• Description: Adds Jasmine as a romanceable character. No dates are directly possible with her on Thursday although there is an erotic opportunity with her on one of the non Bar/Strip Club date paths if you happen to encounter her, although your existing date at the time may, or may not approve.

The next round of voting will begin approximately one week after the release of Episode 3. I'm giving the options before the voting to give some time for consideration, or to ask questions.

Thank you all for playing, voting, and for your patience!

Wolfschadowe

Is the Wednesday Diner unlocked in all options or only option 2?

d22249 wrote:Is the Wednesday Diner unlocked in all options or only option 2?

Only option 2 will unlock the Diner scene.

Voting is live for Episode 4

How to vote:

With the main game menu up, make sure online content is enabled. Shortly you should see a button appear at the bottom left corner to vote. If you don't see it appear, wait about 30 seconds, Start a new game and then quit the game to return to the Main game menu and the button should be present. From there, select the button and then select the option you would like to vote for. That's it!

Note: If you are seeing the relationship wheel in the bottom left corner, you are at the In-Game menu. Select "Quit Current Game" to return to the Main Menu.

Does option 2 include a scene that happens after Brad goes home [spoiler]if he is on Natalie's corruption path?[/spoiler]

ExLibris wrote:Does option 2 include a scene that happens after Brad goes home

Nope. Going home after work is the universal break point between episodes, sorting Thursday day from Thursday evening. The scene you are referring to will be part of the Natalie focused strip club dates unlocked for voting in Opt 2

Does voting still close June 28? It doesn't seem to be mentioned above.

ExLibris wrote:Does voting still close June 28? It doesn't seem to be mentioned above.

Yes, yes it does. I've edited the OP to include that information.

Not the right thread but how many episodes are missing for the end of the first season? excluding those that add romanceable characters

I believe season one ends between Friday morning and Friday afternoon so we have one bit of Wednesday all of Thursday and Friday morning.

That really depends on how I carve up the Season 1 endings. Season 1 ends on Friday morning. Season 2 begins Friday afternoon.

Here is a possible voting route for the fastest season ending:
Episode 4 - Thursday Office Bar side (Thursday Afternoon and Late afternoon) ----> Episode 5 - Emily non bar/strip club dates (Thursday Evening, Night, late night)

Now on this route, after Episode 5, I may include Friday morning to end one storyline for the season, or may wait for a couple more routes to finish, most likely I'd wait for at least two. It really comes down to sizing of the episodes, which is based on how much I can get done in a 3-4 month period.

In general, each season has about 12 episodes based on my current velocity. I'll probably start including Season 2 episodes in voting after 8 Season 1 episodes have completed, although that may change over time, especially if my velocity increases.

Wolfschadowe wrote:

ExLibris wrote:Does option 2 include a scene that happens after Brad goes home

Nope. Going home after work is the universal break point between episodes, sorting Thursday day from Thursday evening. The scene you are referring to will be part of the Natalie focused strip club dates unlocked for voting in Opt 2

You might also want to include a specific time zone to avoid confusion for those of us who don't live in the Americas.

I thought about it, but I'm not sure exactly when the poll will cut out, whether globally at a UTC related hour, or locally for each player at midnight.

Wolfschadowe wrote:I'm not sure exactly when the poll will cut out (...)

The poll will close on 2015-06-29 00:00 UTC, that is from that point on the backend won't register any more votes and the in-game vote button will gradually transition to a "Show Results" button.

I'm a bit surprised (and disappointed) by how poorly Natalie is doing in the voting.

I wonder how much the descriptions (both above and ingame) play into that, or is it just that Natalie is much less popular than Emily or Jasmine?