An easy example of that last part is the recent starcon change. Since the plan is to use her different costumes at starcon for future content, the "rent an outfit" option was removed and instead there's 3 different outfits for her which makes it more manageable to implement in content instead of variations for all the outfits that could be rented before.
Yeah noticed that, and figured this might be case as nothing really happened with them since they were introduced. StarCon does look a lot more lived in now and fits the style you would expect from a convention. I would be interested to know with all the new Sprits introduced in 1.8 does that mean Kal has created a simpler method for creating them. If so would be cool to flesh out StarCon for example with more Starmaker's when visiting. Maybe the MC talking to female stars and Anna talking to Male ones building on some jealousy traits you see on the holidays and stuff and just building out the world a little. If a Starmaker spinoff is getting closer to being considered for a future project you could even hide the main star from next one in plain sight, we can look back at it and think MF she was there the whole time 😅
On StarCon cosplay subject: Seen as the sprites were already set up for these cosplay costumes any chance River could sell some of them to us in a future patch with a couple of CGs for them in the Studio? Personally the 2B and Stars & Stripes one was nice and would cool to have some images for them with Anna.
Another not really related question/maybe bug, but I got Anna's Goth costume and guessing this was from completing the Astrid Storyline, but there was never any UI notification as far as I am aware. Only noticed today while was trying to complete my first run with all the little things I missed along the way. So was not sure if there is a bug where some costumes are not triggering a notification. I think this also happened with legacy traits like pervert, I could fully interact with Miss Zero after the car wash but when they are complete nothing is shown on screen?
He's faster at creating them now with new methods, and it looks better, as seen on the reworked scenes and the reworked sprites.
Those won't be reused since they use the old logic, if transferred to River or something else those will have to be created again.
Anna's goth costume is gotten from Noire after Astrid's quest