Good luck dude!
I can only imagine that not having access to your stuff, and especially your characters, is a little bit like having one's children taken away by child protective services after a false abuse claim... But for you it just drags on and on, because your "children" can't testify in your favor!
I'll cross my fingers for you today!
For every feature change, you increase the number of renders required by that number...
So let's say 5 skin colours, 5 hair colours and 3 types of facial hair (+1 for none) would make it 5x5x4=100 times the renders. Depending on the GFX card and complexity, that is 600-3000 minutes PER SCENE (10-50 hours!!!!)
(And that is ignoring the file size!!!)
TL-DR:
Someone made a fraudulent report with the authorities against K7, and the cops confiscated all his computers and drives with the assets he needs to build us MNM.
The cops are taking their sweet f'ing time checking the drives.
(Normally a forensic copy would be made and the assets returned so a company can keep running, but apparently they don't consider K7's business a legitimate company...)
The fact he's still free, and working on MNF and MNM regardless, shows that there is no direct evidence that warrants an arrest, so this all sucks balls!
You probably mean Killer7 (My New Family/My New Memories)
But he was (apparently) falsely accused of running a crypto-scam, and is currently waiting to get his files back so he can start rendering for his games again. Nobody got arrested, but they took all his computers, harddisks, etc., so he is stuck waiting for the forensics to return those.
Good luck Killer!
I'm surprised they took it all, just like that... I live just over the border, so I cannot really give any advice, unfortunately, except to stay positive! I'll cross my fingers and send positive thoughts, because that is all I can do at the moment!
I hope they'll go after the persons that made the false report once you're cleared!
(I would definitely check with your lawyer about filing a counter-report about that!)
I keep coming back to see whether there are any updates... Aside from the fact that I would love to see this story finish (we still haven't even finished Andy's family story, and never got to meet Daisy's...) I an also genuinely concerned about not hearing anything about the team either!
Please let us at least know how everyone is doing?
Patreon took on Paypal and they came to a reasonable solution. I'm sure Itch could have too, if they had a backbone.
I am curious whether one dev's observation that only the 10% commission games are getting hit, and not the 30% commission ones, has any merit, or they're just on a later list.
Moreover, I never heard of Itch before I ran into them for AVNs, and none of their non-adult content ever piqued my interest, so I wonder how much longer they will exist...
But the fact that a single company can impose their limited, close-minded views on so many people is sickening. We need alternatives, and we need them now!
