First of all, thank you for such a fast and in depth response, great to see a developer that's so active with its player base.
I have 2 examples for the yes/no questions. Both in episode 3.
[some spoilers for anyone else reading]
1. When Ziv offers you the contract for the pickup mission, you get a yes or no choice. I picked no because it seemed fishy and the other option was going to pay more (i didn't realise at the time that you could do both). Thyia then convinces you to do it anyway and that's basically it. If that's how the story goes then that's fine, I just personally found it weird that the choice was given when there wasn't really one there.
2. Celine tells you that there's a ship floating around and wants to bring it in. Again, i said no cause it seemed very risky, but she does it anyway.
There's also the choice of letting Thyia join your crew, though I obviously realise now that it was much needed for the story (and I would have said yes anyway). As I say, if this is all necessary for the plot then I understand, but I'm wondering why the choice is given in the first place.
Good to know there won't be any new characters joining the crew, that was mostly why I asked the question. Obviously I wouldn't expect there to be the option to remove every character, that wouldn't make sense for most of them and even if it did it would leave about a million different branches for you to write.
I suppose I mainly asked because of Ziv and Raene. I don't dislike them or anything, I just noticed that from episode 5 onwards, they don't really do anything if you're not in a relationship with either of them and having them with you seems like a big risk. You already have 2 factions chasing you down so adding another just adds to the danger for the other characters.
Again, if they are necessary for something later in the plot then that's cool, I just really like having options in games like this.
There's a conversation with Ziv where you agree that you won't be friends, and Ziv seems to indicate that she and Raene might leave, so i just wondered if there will be an opportunity for that. I do realise this might already be an option in season 2, (Haven't played it yet as i wanted to ask about the different versions before downloading it).
Another thing I thought was strange (though maybe a bug) is Ziv said she was unhappy with the way I treated Raene. I don't think I was ever unkind to her, hence why this might be a bug. (I may have quick saved and reloaded the options when I was talking to her, to see both choices if I wasn't sure what MC would say, so perhaps the game thinks I picked a bad option.)
Also the game seems to think i had sex with Thyia when i first met her, again i think it was an issue with quick loading back to the option not to do so.
Just to quickly clarify about the game versions, does that mean that season 2 on itch.io will detect my steam saves? Or do i need to do another playthrough on the itch.io version of season 1?
Sorry that this was so long, and thank you again in advance.