Status Update - Dreams, Workouts, Overhaul

Work is in full swing for the upcoming update, a mix and match of different storylines, friendship events, workouts with different people, dreams galore, and a complete overhaul of the time and energy system.
Grind is slashed, and with lots of events to encounter with friends, that means that you won't need to hangout with them to progress their stories.

What does this mean for the game, the balancing, the progress of the stories, and development? Do I have enough time in my month of development to give you some quality content?
Valid questions, and I hope my answer can alleviate concerns:

• You won't have to click countless buttons across different locations just to have an addition to stats. You also won't have to grind for stats without seeing events relevant to those stats. As an example for that, working out with Leo gives you 3 athletics points each time, regardless of what you do during that session.

• Balancing, on the other hand, might be a bit off. And that is fine. Improving what's already there takes time, but at least you won't have to click the same button thousands of time to get ahead in the game. If you get ahead too fast, you won't the next time around.

• Development has been balanced, between these overhauls and dreams, and introducing new scenes into the game. That means that the different things that I removed from the game, lowering the word count by thousands of words, has been made back for with new scenes where you can still impact and improve the stats. Callbacks to earlier encounters, mid-milestone events, workouts and events with new and old friends, etc... All of those have been impacted and are now part of the game progression.

• Summer is a myth created by the powers that be to sell you vacations and make you spend your money over touristic locations, at home and abroad. I'm not celebrating summer. Unless you count the work I'm putting into the game. In which case I am celebrating almost daily. The upcoming update will make that clear for everyone, with multiple facets of the game benefiting from this.

• And lastly, allow me to make a claim that I hope I'll be able to back up with actions, not being a coder by nature and still learning as all humans do... The next update will be the first of the rest of development. It is going to be forwards compatible. Saves from the upcoming update and onwards will work for the ones following them. Hopefully.
  

Thank you again and again for your support, you give me life and energy.
Best,
Nookie <3