I see (fumbles with his small goaty, while describing to himself how the sun reflects on every droplet of water in the area)... this makes a lot of sense. =)
Having given the patreon post a quick read, you write "and my lack of direction made me lose sight of my original goal for a while." - If this is how it happened, then you have made a rather valuable insight! Further on you say "It feels like this is what drew people into the game at first" - it absolutely was for me! The entire game oozes with ME-genes and the overall feeling of "let's establish ourselves here and utilize what we've got." Inside the players mind - the motivation to "help" or "explore" comes from the setting and the lewdness factor. There is one particular encounter I recall, some insane Flora that - through its' mere presence in the story, promises a deeper, darker theme in hiding.
So yeah, I wish you good luck in this endeavor - I'll have MP on my private webserver/nginx docker and it will stay there until the last HTML update arrives ^-^
I uhm... should go.
Edit: Please, for the love of all GPUs and coil whining, enable VSYNC in the Unity version ^-^ Have a gr8 day SugarMint