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DISLCAIMER: This is not Bluecat's estimation, as he will not give one, I am just making a bet on the matter for myself and hoping I'm right. Do not assume my personal estimation is an official source, if such a claim is made, I will refer you back to this disclaimer. Good? Good.
The best I have is that a massive amount of work on other branches was just merged into the main branch of documentation, mostly pertaining to Bluecat's data entry for character info, and Project Manager doing lots of bugfixing.
I absolutely have no official estimations on time, I'm sorry to say, anything I tell you for wait time is what I'm calculating based on evidence at present.
This should be the last of the shit that needs worked this thoroughly, before playtests begin. Once that commences, it's gonna probably be either a solid month as the builds take two weeks each for testing, and then fixes of issues noticed by testers. That or some idiot will leak the unfinished shit, and people will scream and be mad butthurt its janky and I'll be like "That's the Alpha, the shit I'm supposed to be stress testing for bugs and errors"...
So at the bare minimum, don't expect some miracle release date for any time in June, my personal bet is feeling that at least by sometime July, the testers have a game to work with finally. That is pretty much a countdown for everyone else on public version.
Kaede is coming with me. The rest of you can choose someone else.
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Hiroko! Hiroko needs some love...
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I've been a fan of Ecchi Sensei since it's 1st release on here. BC used to post here once in a while at the time. That made the delay between releases a little less worrisome since he was keeping even the lowly pirates like us in the loop somewhat.
Not to put you down or anything here, you giving us some info is appreciated, but BC is the one that should tell us stuff. Even letting us know what the backend looked like, and what it looks like now, would at least alleviate the worries of a lot of people.
I personally don't mind the delays if it means a better quality product, which is why I've been completely quiet since the last release he's done and not pestering anyone about release dates and shit. However, you have to admit that being pretty much completely quiet here, when he used to be active, is going to leave a bad taste in some people's mouth.
In any case, I'll go back to my corner and stay quiet until he feels like the update is ready and publishes it. Until then, do keep my opinion in mind when some people are being a bit.. much..
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If you read Skummy Ecchi's post on the previous page, you'll see the current status and why Scummy cannot give us an accurate estimate.
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Please spell my name correctly, it would be most appreciated Dragon59
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I'm so very sorry for failing reading comprehension! You would have been justified in counter misspelling my own.Please spell my name correctly, it would be most appreciated Dragon59
Never ending story - when Xmas/NY didn't realase devs milking people. Who normal want compile month of game into one? Renpy isn't good for that size of archive and script...
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Mao, Fuyu and/or Tomoe. I will settle for whoever remains of those three. I can't really pick myself, so I'll leave the choice to fate.
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I'm still wondering why, and the meaning of this long/eternal merging.
Every game has phases (vol.1, vol.2 ecc.), so far only a little of renpy games can afford to have a single playthrough.
So why bother for a huge game like Ecchi Sensei?
What is wrong with going on like past years, with a Week 1, Week 2 organization?
That really blows my mind.
My best guess is they incurred a lot of technical debt early in the project, and it's finally come due. They're probably refactoring a lot of things to make it so everything doesn't fall to pieces whenever they try a merge, and all the little features like the character list actually work, and stuff like that.
Fixing bad design decisions from early in the process is never fun, but it only gets harder the longer you put it off.
Merge occurs because it was always meant to occur, it was planned from the start by the patrons, that we would handle it this way as it was the easiest solution to the issue to come. This was always going to culminate one way or another, as developers learn and grow things have to change, there was no avoiding a costly merging process. All at once is the only sane way to do it, or else it would take forever. Better to get it all completed right now and then work from there on.
If you ever wanna blame anyone, blame patrons we voted and said tis what we wanted, consequences be damned. We're getting nearer and nearer the finish line, I'll let everyone know the second things change.
If you ever wanna blame anyone, blame patrons we voted and said tis what we wanted, consequences be damned. We're getting nearer and nearer the finish line, I'll let everyone know the second things change.
i agree fpr the most part but the finish line is 365 a full in game year.
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The merge was always planned, but a big part of it is fixing bugs and optimizing the code. Right now saves don't transfer between weeks so your choices don't matter, but after the merge all weeks will work together. Right now alternate languages are coded in such a way that they take up a ton of extra space, but after the merge they'll take up far less space and be much easier to add when new translations are done. Right now the phone doesn't really work and Bluecat is just using the text message screen to fill in the parts where it's necessary, but after the merge the phone should fully work giving players access to character profiles and much more at any point while playing. Future updates after the merge will continue like the old with new weeks being released monthly. The merge is just them cleaning up the foundation and fixing the cracks so that all those future updates are easier to build without breaking anything.I'm still wondering why, and the meaning of this long/eternal merging.
Every game has phases (vol.1, vol.2 ecc.), so far only a little of renpy games can afford to have a single playthrough.
So why bother for a huge game like Ecchi Sensei?
What is wrong with going on like past years, with a Week 1, Week 2 organization?
That really blows my mind.