I have several ideas for your consideration:
- Making weekend activities more enriching for world/character building, for example, sneaking outside and bumping into (and initiate romance line with evrard) or observing commoner's approval, dancing practice/hunting with suitors, getting charlotte/adair to play with toys together, playing with frogs together adair in the garden, talking to adults like Armand or Laurent while attending court/cemetery, etc. In short, I hope weekend activities can expand on personalities of the people we don't usually interact with.
- Making the adventure to old forest more rewarding, say unlocking special conversation with Juliana about how mom died in details. I also think it'll be sweet if dad reprimands you for almost getting killed in the old forest and then have a heart-to heart conversation.
- Ability to put Brin/Banion/Kevan/Arisse to jail and rub salt on their wounds just like how you did Juliana
- More ventures to invest in, say shipyard facility that can unlock longer range canon, so we can win naval battle easier without magic, or lumen research facility to research the magic mirror
- I really like more big events like the ball, where you influence the progression of many plot lines. One idea will be Fabian or Arisse funerals where you can expand the civil war plot, say we can further divide and conquer her family to prevent future civil war or we can trigger suspicion that we kill her and civil war can still happen. I also hope we can learn more about Arisse screwed up family. In particular I'm curious about issues from Corisande X Ignatius side, as Corisande looks so normal that I don't get how she can jump into relationship with Kevan. And also if her kids are potentially product of incest. I also wonder why Ignatius is not a lumen (is he skipped over his sister because he has no talent?) and I hope to meet Adele (who sounds fun) here.
More intrigue with the other families will be great too, say why was Bennet skipped over inheritance.
- Maybe a happier ending for dad without needing to get into loveless marriage? If we can make Togami get a happy ending with his children, how about giving dad a happy ending with his hidden son? He's depressed all the time.
- Suitors wise, I think Kevan romance line could be much better. I like him as a character, but it simply doesn't make sense for Elodie to propose him. As it stands, he has nothing to offer Elodie so I feel that the game is saying "let's marry him so Briony can feel comfortable at home, lol". Elodie knows that he has a fallout with his mom and scandalous reputation among his family so his "family connection" is dubious. Well, unless the game can prove that he's influential with his siblings or sth. I wish the game can show us that Elodie has a valid reason, be it his connection, personality (hey, maybe he's secretly nice to abandoned puppies or sth), looks, or whatever (maybe Elodie is in love with Briony and wants her happy), to favor Kevan after knowing all of his baggage and personality problems.
- Make peasant revolution a bigger event like civil war
Whew! I'm looking forward to this update!