Thanks for everyone's feedback!

Thanks for all your great feedback on how you'd like to see chapter 5 improved this time around!  I've been reading through it all and have come to a few conclusions on changes that must be made.

1.  The timer is gone.
2.  There will be an option to continue the quests after the trial should be decided.  Ralph's events will end, but you'll have the option to continue questing until all of your slaves have had a chance to act in the city.  With that, I might end up forcing a few of the more important plot events to happen early, knowing players who want can continue with their favorite characters after the plot stuff is out of the way.
3.  There will be several solutions that don't involve your slaves running around fucking dudes in the city.  A few of these will be no sexual solutions, some will be lesbian.  A few might be exhibitions.  Not 100% sure on the details.  I'm likely to poll my patrons on if it's worth the time to extend the chapter 5 development to cover those options for all slaves.
4.  Quest guidance will be dramatically improved.  t51, a new volunteer, has given me some great ideas on how to do that and improve the overall quest quality.
 5.  I'm still listening if you have more to say!  (spoilers ahead) http://harem-vx.blogspot.com/p/lets-talk-about-talk-about-chapter-5.html

On the Patreon front, with the start of chapter 5 likely coming in October the player will be entering brand new lands and meeting a variety of new characters that you'll be adding to your harem in the following chapters.  Which gives me a unique opportunity.  While they had names in version 1, I'm not really tied to them at all.  I've decided to give exceptionally generous Patreons a chance to put their own permanent mark on the game by naming the new slaves in thanks for their support.  It won't be cheap, but it will be permanent.

There's significant rules to it and any talk of new characters are spoilers by nature, but follow the link if you're interested!  http://harem-vx.blogspot.com/p/name-slave-spoilers.html