To cheat or not to cheat?
Added 2023-02-14 14:02:22 +0000 UTCPlease read before deciding!
The original game release had a version with activated cheats. I strongly not recommended it, but judging from downloads people preferred that version. It took me a while to figure out what it was about, but then... I remembered how I played some of the text games. Mountains of grind, broken links, entire unfinished sections... In short, people's fear made more sense to me.
The problem is that there is no grind at all in Inner Empire. And I test the game so thoroughly that so far I haven't received a single complaint about a broken link or the like. So I removed the cheat version. But the question is still not closed.
Why am I against cheats?
1. Cheats deprive the character's build planning of any meaning. As well as the entire role-playing system. Thus breaking the immersion. Cheats are needed for disinterested players who lazily click on the lines without really looking into it. These players are not here (on Patreon). Because disinterested players are unlikely to pay their hard-earned money to support a project they're not even interested in. So, why should I even care about their opinion?
2. Some of the features in the cheats are not designed for long-term game, are dangerous and almost certainly will break the game at some point. This is especially true for changing Origin. And no matter how many warnings I leave, there will always be those who don't read them, start clicking thoughtlessly, and... end up in a dead end, where none of the required variables is "true", which means under the line of choice will be... emptiness. Dead end. And what will these players do? They'll go complain that the game is "buggy" everywhere they can.
So I'm against the cheat game version. But if you decide otherwise, so be it. I intentionally leave a wide time limit for voting of 1 month. So that those who may still join this tier have time to vote. Also, so that I don't have a rush to get this into the game before the current update. Better after. If the vote is evenly split, my vote will be against it, hence no version with cheats.
