What's really funny is the Atani and Ahmri's marriage gifts are so good because they have to keep up Kiyoko's, so you're probably right about Tobs raising rhe bar.
At least politicians try to be subtle with their rules for thee not for me attitude, Tobs is just publicly smacking you in the face by allowing his character to do something the entire Coc2 discord would laugh at you for if you suggested your PC.
He often just casually does whatever he wants regardless of how it works in the rest of the game or world.
He wrote the strongest wand in the game out of line with how wands are meant to work in the universe. They are supposed to be enhancers, not weapons. But look at half of Kohaku's arsenal and it don't fit. He blamed skow for writing the metal wand for this.
He made Kiyoko gave you bento boxes if you don't have her in the party, thus giving her a larger presence than any other companion and setting expectations for more stuff like that while preaching "expect nothing" and "nothings in until its in". He does not seem to grasp that his content sets a ton of expectations that no one else meets and blames the players for looking forward to things. Or, more likely, he does and simply wants to rid himself of any responsibility for people not being satisfied with a single piece of content in this still under development project. Not to mention that the boxes are really strong, offering well fed and willpower buff to all companions. Once again he blamed skow for writing the pupper pale ale which gives toughness boon to the whole party.
He gave Kazuo magitech but justified it as not magitech because it uses plants while knowing that Savin hates magitech and has a rule against it so when anyone asks for magictech like Kazuoxs Savin just shuts it down.
He added a presence check for Garth's medallion quest if you don't bring Garret, which if you fail you lose one of the quest awards. So not only are you making the dungeon harder for yourself by not taking an additional party member but Tobs felt the need to reach through the screen to slap you with an egregiosly unfair check that's one of the bolded rules in the game design document. For all the talk that stats are purely mechanical and not narrative this one sticks out like a sore thumb like tobs' head sticks out over whatever town he lives in to be seen for miles.
Hugs got kicked out of the community for his mood swings, bizzare implementation of out of place content, and fit throwing when told to change his content to fit better. Tobs' content is even more bizzare. The kitsune have no reason to be in this game other than "cuz kitsune", but not only are they here, they have their own massive tree with a self contained climate. Some of the best for class items are gated behind them and it seems like they will be a mandatory part of the story if one wants to deal with Evergreen. Gweyr quest is a one sided philosophical debate with himself where he wins the debate and the champ is all for it. When the quest was equated to a rotten pile of pseudopholosophical diarrhea that made no questions and only preached what it thought was the one and only truth, Savin said that they learned from it for next game.
Hugs wrote not!China and a pointless elf boi.
I'm pretty sure they're still lending one of their coders over to TiTs to help with the javascript port. And I think they only had two main coders on staff before that so (there's a thread on the forum where the staff list was posted, not sure how up-to-date it is tho)... Not sure it makes a lot of sense to loan a coder out if it's apparently causing this backup.
UpcastDrake is the only full time coder on the team atm.
Balak is working on rebalancing the game and writing his own companion, Vivianne the witch.
Leek is working 50/50 on coc2 and tits js port.
