After checking out the some of the last status reports from the EP 10 Cycle I'm changing my prediction from the 7th of March to the 28th of February.
I'm doing this because it appear that DPC render speeds increases tremendously in the last weeks, I'm talking about 10+ animations per week.
It's almost like he doesn't use his PCs at full power most of the time, because if you look at the reports from
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you can see his average speed was 10,3 per week.
Meanwhile we got numbers as low as 5 per week this year, now sure the numbers in the end of the cycle are better because there are no more statics to render, but it still feels too much of a difference.
Rendering statics is much/MUCH faster, that's why I think DPC's PCs aren't used 24/7 and there are significant downtime after rendering a batch of statics.
He probably isn't as efficient in the PC usage because he doesn't wanna feel the botteneck, despite being it.
Several reports mentions how he got anxious when the render queue is getting empty.
Still, nothing we can do about it in the end considering he is never hiring help.
DPC patreons number have not changed at all despite a whole year without an update.