R8 Plan (Patreon)

In these days after fixing all the bugs reported (although there are some more recent ones that will be fixed in R8) I have noted down all the stuff I would like to include in R8, and also some design ideas.

First of all, R8 will conclude chapter 4 with a lap pillow from either Riveria or Ais, depending on your initial choice; However, rather than beginning chapter 5 and heading straight to floor 10 just after you have finished exploring Floor 8 and 9, I plan to include a "free week" where you can decide what to do on each day.
I am not too sure about this just yet, however it would make sense to include something similar inbetween as I find unrealistic to have Liliruca suggest trying floor 10 so early.

Of course the problem with that is the lack of activities in the game aside from dungeoneering, and that is where I would like to focus my effort on R8.
Some of the things I want to add in R8 are:
-Guild location (To get side quests).
-Achievements + Rewards (To give extra "missions" in order to unlock said rewards).
-Minigames.

Guild Location
It will show a simple request board with quests you can either take or complete, unlike the main quests, they will always grant a reward... Be it just valis/items or CGs and even extra locations.

One of the quests I would like to add is Demeter seeking extra hands for the harvest season: That can be either the beginning of her route or a simple minigame you can perform to earn valis and excelia.

Achievements + Rewards
The achievements will be split in categories, and some of them will be retroactive, so in an existing playthrough you will start with at least some points.
I did not think it throughly just yet, so I will have more to say about this once I have designed the whole system, but the rewards will be extra/what-if scenes:
As you may already know, the game will not feature Hephaestus as a romanceable option, however nothing stops me from adding an extra scene featuring Welf Crozzo's point of view and have him as a temporary MC in those scenes; Likewise I can add what-if scenarios featuring characters that might potentially interact with Bell but never will in the main story as they simply do not work, such as Ishtar.

In short, achievement rewards will be a way for me to dump all the scenes I thought of, and would like to write, but simply cannot work as part of the main storyline.

Minigames
Last but not least, I would like to include Minigames in the Hostess of Fertility aimed to give the player an alternative way to raise their excelia.
This might not happen on R8, but it is surely something I would like to introduce in the near future.

Other things I would like to include on R8 are: A marketplace where you can buy misc items (Grimoires, Monster lures, Morbuls, ...) and Lena which was meant to be added on R7.

I am not sure how far I will be able to get in Demeter's route on R8, but I will be able to offer more information on this once I begin to develop and add those features in game.