[What happened] when they tapped you for the group system?
TL;DRThe group system was given broad scope from the start because everything is a group, which meant touching many systems and made it a big undertaking.
That first meeting, we were going in and was like, OK, we're going to do party mechanics, party systems. Sit down in the meeting, we're going to go over everything. All right, Chris, what are we looking for? What's the scope for our initial stuff versus what we want to do? And he's like, yeah, so groups are everything. Everything's a group. And so we're doing everything. And we need to have that foundation. We can't just sort of piecemeal it out to be like, here's the party and we'll integrate it with groups some other time. No, everything's a group. AI's groups. Anything that...
Insurance club membership.
Yeah, that's a group. If your criminality missions, these things will put you into groups. Everything is a group. Groups are groups. Groups of groups are groups. Organizations. Yeah, it's crazy how many things this ended up touching when I was like, oh, I'm going to invite somebody to my party. This is day one. I've got an idea for how... oh, my God. Oh, no. So yeah, it's been quite an undertaking to figure out what all those moving parts would be and how they would sit in for everything.