I've enjoyed the v 0.17 update. I was a supporter for a while before dropping due to the extended period of development without any release, but I am Very glad that Midnight Paradise was not abandoned.
I rarely use the milking label since I believe that we are all adults who can best determine how to spend our $.
Once I thought I was not getting the development I wanted from my support - I simply stopped supporting via Patreon.
I don't need someone else's PSA trying to 'protect' other people's money to guide my decision.
So - rev 0.17 -- I restarted MP from scratch and thought it was a Much better AVN than before.
I think the phone feature was very well integrated:
The calendar clearly let you know what activities were going to add affinity (by woman).
It also let you know what activities were either new scenes or advancing the current scene such that increased affinity gave you more options to proceed with the chosen woman.
I enjoyed the way texts flowed, based on the scenes with increasingly hot texts coming from different women as affinity/activities advanced.
I like the wallpaper feature added so that the phone wallpaper could be changed to show a particular woman and, if you were far enough into the story, you even had multiple wallpaper options for certain women.
I thought that gaining affinity was a bit grindy in places, but I also thought it was good compromise where the dev utilized all the content pre rev 0.17 so that we had a much more complete MP experience.
I never approached MP as something to grind through to get to the H scenes, I approached it as an adult story that takes time for relationships to evolve and that, in time, better developed adult relationships would include physical intimacy - some that was just sex and other intimacy that was or became lovemaking.
(I have to say that the MC/Isabel story with the evolution in her feelings and the way that this led to their lovemaking was Very well done!)
If all I was looking for was almost immediate fap time - why come here versus just going to PornHub?
Midnight Paradise still has the larger story mysteries to show us, and I also think that the other men in the household will be revealed as something beyond just Father and Twin.
Whether they will ultimately be shown as hero turned villain, complex villains or just greedy bastards remains to be seen.
All in all, I'm enjoying my MP playthrough for rev 0.17.
I still have a lot of content left to play, but I stopped for now because I found myself starting to get too focused on getting thru the grind versus enjoying the story and the associated adult relationships.
I'm looking forward to the next release and more time in Midnight City.
Cheers!