>>58806097As someone whose been working with RPG Maker lately, I think the Lillie model meme gets an unreasonable amount of misunderstanding on its competence. Basically, game maps require having all of its assets individually assigned to it, that means it needs an entirely individual set of characters to be able to be placed on it. So you can't just use the exact same character through out the entire game. That would require EVERY map to effectively be loaded in at once, or deliberately culled, and Game Freak obviously haven't learned that yet given they've made 2D RPGs for 15 years up to that point and were still pumping out games near-yearly back then. Even in older games you would need to make unique characters for each map if the character needs to be available on that map
Now here's the part where GF failed. They don't remove Lillie from maps where she's not available in. An optimized game would feature only models that will appear in the in-game map. But likely since GF knew Lillie was the game's most important character they pasted her to be in every map as a just in-case she needed to be in a scene or not. Alternatively they could have made a character entity whose role is to be an important NPC which doesn't get loaded if the scene doesn't need a character like that, but I doubt Game Freak's speedy development would allow them to plan that far ahead when they can just paste in a Lillie as a just in-case
