Hey there,
Thanks for taking your time to play and write this extensive comment.... so, let's get on with it ^^
- I completely understand the concerns with the save system and it will be addressed properly in the future, with the separate autosave. The reasons why I did not do it yet was because the Data persistence system is this really really core system that you do not want to mess with unless absolutely necessary or no other problematic systems are being changed in the build, it will happen but in due time.
- no, there will be scenes that are not dependent on loosing, better yet, there are already animations with a smith that are more... let's say certain attribute based ^^ There will be more of those in the future as well
- Basically lives, if you loose all of em, you get the "bad end" that you get when you submit after a lewd animation and you are moved back to the hub
- I will surely add some guidance ^^ Apologies for making you confused by some of the systems. There will be a proper guide in due time for that, either in a f0orm of a small instruction, or better yet, dialogue with one of the npc's.
Yours,
~WegildDev