Preface - I don't like the math below but this is what I see:
I'd love to see AWAM's present time of development trend lines change, but those lines point to >1 year for the development of 1 Playable Day (PD) at PD 13 and with the completion of each PD, if the quality/quantity of content remain the same, the PD that follows will take even longer.
If PD 13 takes, for example, 15 months to be completed (let's say completion is around Mar 2023) and we treat the time it takes to finish PD 14 as: PD14 = (PD13 + PD13/10) = 16.5 months (this adds 10% to the time of completion for the next PD).
PD 14 does not look too bad, 16.5 months development time (~August 2024).
This does not sound too bad, but let's extent the trend line out several more PDs:
PD 15 = (PD14 + PD14/10) = (16.5 + 1.65) = 18.15 months (~February 2026)
PD 16 = (PD 15 + PD 15/10) = (18.15 + 1.815) = 19.965 months (~September 2027)
Again, this gets more painful, timewise and we are all waiting longer and longer to see each PD completed.
It's when we carry the trend line out to, let's say PD 20 that we see how much slower development becomes, with PD 20 weighing in at 29+ months of development, putting the completion of PD 20 at around 3rd quarter, 2036.
You don't want to know what PD 30 looks like... Let's just say that, if the trend lines hold as described above, any U.S. citizens reading this now and, able to enjoy PD 30 content, will also be celebrating the 300 year anniversary of the founding of the U.S. - in 2076...
Most here understand the power of compounded interest - where your interest adds to your principal and dramatically increases the value of your $ through time.
Here, the power of compounded time does us no favors.
For those who think that the +10%/PD compounding factor is too pessimistic, reducing this by half to +5%/PD provides only minor relief.
Using a +5% factor in the example above puts us at PD 20 completion arriving at around 1st quarter 2034.
L&P is the only one with the power to change the math here.
This number would decrease if L&P did not take 7-10 days off after every mini release, and it would decrease even more if he did not maintain the DOL farce on Patreon, taking time away from AWAM (bumping as much support to SS as possible).
The only real way to knock time of development of each PD down to something that will see most of us enjoying AWAM at PD 30 is if L&P builds an effective team, something that his supporters have brought up Many times.
