Question, is there anyone I can run my idea by. I’m not sure if it fits “missed connections”
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You can ask the gender of love interest right after customizing MC or you could make something like this.
BESTFRIEND
You still didn’t forget your ex, did you?choice
“She was a nice girl. (Female Love Interest)”{
gain female_loveinterest
}
“He was a nice guy. (Male Love Interest)”{
gain male_loveinterest
}
Whenever you have to mention the love interest you can just use gains. You don’t need to write it separately.
BESTFRIEND
Who are you texting?
if (female_loveinterest){
MC
My girlfriend.
} elif (male_loveinterest){
MC
My boyfriend.
}
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So the LI doesn’t come in until the second half of the chapter, when they meet. I plan on setting the gender choice at the start, but can I have the story split into two (If maleLI/femaleLI goto maleLI/femaleLI story) right at the scene where they meet?
(It would just save around 5-6k lines being repeated)
Sorry I’m still a little confused
Yes you can split the story. Gains will help you do so. You will ask the question right after customizing right? Just make it like this.
NARRATOR
I want my love interest to be…
choice
“Female”{
gain female_loveinterest
}
“Male”{
gain male_loveinterest
}
You don’t have to write the story in the brackets, I’m assuming that’s what you’re talking about? You can just mention the gains with if/elif when it’s time for them to meet.
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First time using gains 
So I would use if/else when it comes to that scene, and have the scenes twice but for each gender?
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Exactly! The scenes will be the same but you’re just replacing it with another character.
This thread might help with gains
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Thank you! That reduces the number of lines I’ll have by, well, a ton 
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LL or INK?
In LL, it’s around 8500 lines with no spaces between dialogue but it’s actually more of a data limit that a line limit. CC doesn’t take up much data and I do have a LL episode with around 9200 lines (includes a limited CC template). But after the line “increase”, it went from roughly 7500 lines to 8500 but I believe it’s more based on your coding rather than the lines if that makes sense.
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Does that include CC? You might be okay.
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Yeah, a LOT of CC I had 8800 lines, but removing uneeded spaces it went down to 7800
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Thanks, right now I have… a quarter or so including CC and gender choices.
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I think it’s more of a data limit anyway. So if you had a space between every line of dialogue, you could probably double the “lines”. I have a spotlight story too and because the coding is simpler, I was able to include roughly an extra 1000 lines of content.
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I honestly don’t know how far you can push the line limit with CC, but I do know that it doesn’t take as much data (even back in the days when the INK limit was around 13k, it was possible to get to around 16k or so if you had CC).
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Joining this is cool!
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What date do you have to publish your story by?
“The submission window is 8 weeks. Your story must be published no later than 11:59pm Pacific Time on Monday, January 28th, 2019.”
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I really want to enter but i don’t have any good ideas 
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Some people have put their ideas here so read Them and you might get some inspo 
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i realize i cant do much with cc because of art scenes i guess.