that is the way Continuance has always worked, though you're right that either the effect should be fixed or the description should be changed to reflect what it actually does. my guess is that changes to earth magic are waiting for the earth magic trainer to be added, since issues with earth magic aren't that big a deal when most players won't have access to it.
speaking of, though,
Cryswar, how's Alicia coming along? i don't know if you've given updates about her on Patreon or Discord, but you said here that her art was done and she'd be added "maybe in the next update or two" three years ago now, and have occasionally mentioned her since as well. i'm not trying to criticize or cast blame, just wondering how she's coming and if she'll be added soon.
I thought Alicia would be in the game a while back lol, that's for sure. I also thought the minitaur would be and she's still sitting there too. I also thought that the whole game would take me 2-3 years, which probably says all that is needed about how optimistic I was about my first project.
On the bright side, Alicia will hopefully be next week, her joining is the last scene I wanted to do for this update and I feel like I committed too hard to adding her to just go like "yeah nevermind, here, have the update without the 1 thing I wanted to do in it." I can't promise earth magic training in this update, kinda depends on how her joining scene goes, if it's not too bad I might have time to add it before Christmas.
The one bright side of her taking a while is that Alicia has ballin' custom normal and battle themes so at least she'll come with new music, and me having a lot more experience writing characters outside of my usual vibes.
And no harm done or offense taken on asking - it's a totally fair question! I'm just happy I can finally answer it with "yeah, actually, soon" this time.
Sometime soon I'll also do a post covering some of the stuff I'm doing this update and talk about it a little. Not quite as good as a full release, but something, and I'm pretty proud of most of these scenes. There are a lot of story and character arcs that I brought up long ago and haven't gotten to yet that I'm trying to finally go somewhere with.
Jisama I'll look at it. My best guess is that it's a victim of the game's tag system evolving several times over its lifespan, the condition it's checking is probably just outdated.