Live2D seemed indeed not work as well as he had imagined. But it wasn't the first time that there were a backlash in development of the game, and Vren was always communicative about that. Even more, he has never been silent for that long time, if you look back on his Patron, there is seldom more than a month between his postings.People saying that Vren was dissatisfied or quit aren't making "speculations without any knowledge, just shots in the dark," because there is an abundance of evidence to show that the live2d port wasn't going the way Vren expected.
There are a lot of reasons to not communicate in that situation. People don't like to admit to giving up on things. People don't like admitting to themselves that they have given up on things. Also, I have only seen a single digit number of patreon accounts where the creator actually said they were quitting/giving up on their project. Meanwhile I can point to many dozens of projects that have been inactive for years where the last post says that they will be releasing an update in a few days/weeks. I've been following Vren's work since early in the original Lab Rat's development, so I am probably more aware of his update consistency than you are. Go back and look at the last few months of vren's patreon. The posts grew less and less frequent. The last thing he did was sort of make the project open source. To me those two things seems to vaguely resemble evidence of waning interest or lost motivation, but I guess not to you.Live2D seemed indeed not work as well as he had imagined. But it wasn't the first time that there were a backlash in development of the game, and Vren was always communicative about that. Even more, he has never been silent for that long time, if you look back on his Patron, there is seldom more than a month between his postings.
So it's more likely that he is in fact dead, than that he vanished without telling his patrons (to which I had the pleasure of being a part of for several years, by the way).
So, as long as you don't have concrete evidence for your claim, it is indeed "a shot in the dark". Or, more precise, just nonsense.
I completely agree with you. I too believe that Vren has gone off on its own.There are a lot of reasons to not communicate in that situation. People don't like to admit to giving up on things. People don't like admitting to themselves that they have given up on things. Also, I have only seen a single digit number of patreon accounts where the creator actually said they were quitting/giving up on their project. Meanwhile I can point to many dozens of projects that have been inactive for years where the last post says that they will be releasing an update in a few days/weeks. I've been following Vren's work since early in the original Lab Rat's development, so I am probably more aware of his update consistency than you are. Go back and look at the last few months of vren's patreon. The posts grew less and less frequent. The last thing he did was sort of make the project open source. To me those two things seems to vaguely resemble evidence of waning interest or lost motivation, but I guess not to you.
I feel like you are taking the abandonment of this game personally. As I have said in older posts, Vren said he started on LR2 as a hobby and way to learn coding. Contrary to that, the last few months of communication from Vren had been doing almost nothing but porting images for hours at a time. I guess that if you need to convince yourself that the only way the game would be abandoned is if Vren had died, then you can ignore all the other possible explanations and do so. In the grand scheme of things what happened doesn't matter unless he decides to come back to game development some day.
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No, that is, what I am talking about. Everybody's just "guessing" or "believing" what might or might not has happened to Vren. But nobody does really know what has happened. We have no proof or even circumstantial evidence, but everyone has an opinion. Which is fine, but only as long as you mark your speculations here as what it is - guesswork.I too believe
There is 2 ways but not the first 20 points though.Does anyone how to edit character default 20 points in the beginning of the new game?
There's a way to do so, but I don't have an unzipped version of the game to hunt around the code even if I felt like it. If I recall correctly the dev console is active by default, and you just need to hit shift+o to alter your stats. If I'm mistaken then you will need to unlock the dev console, which I won't get into unless it isn't unlocked. Once you are out of the character creation menu you can use the following code in the dev console to alter your stats to whatever you feel like, you will just need to edit the numbers to the ones you want.Does anyone how to edit character default 20 points in the beginning of the new game?
mc.hr_skill = 10;mc.research_skill = 10;mc.production_skill = 10;mc.market_skill = 10;mc.supply_skill = 10;mc.sex_skills["Foreplay"] = 10;mc.sex_skills["Oral"] = 10;mc.sex_skills["Anal"] = 10;mc.sex_skills["Vaginal"] = 10;mc.focus = 10; mc.charisma = 10;mc.int = 10;mc.business.funds = 50000
Were he dead, I don't think his Patreon payments would be continuing. Dude's making over two hundred bucks a month on this; which isn't a lot of money for dedicated work on a project, but is a ton of money when you haven't done a damned thing in a year and a half. Assuming he's dead s far more of a shot in the dark than "he quit working on it but decided to leave his Patreon going so he'd have money coming in until people gave up and/or remembered that they were subscribed to him." Happens all the time with these games.Live2D seemed indeed not work as well as he had imagined. But it wasn't the first time that there were a backlash in development of the game, and Vren was always communicative about that. Even more, he has never been silent for that long time, if you look back on his Patron, there is seldom more than a month between his postings.
So it's more likely that he is in fact dead, than that he vanished without telling his patrons (to which I had the pleasure of being a part of for several years, by the way).
So, as long as you don't have concrete evidence for your claim, it is indeed "a shot in the dark". Or, more precise, just nonsense.
I wouldn't bother. I specifically avoided bringing up that there was a cash incentive to not publicly announce dropping the project because I didn't want it to come off as an insult to Vren, and still had a couple paragraphs of text reduced to two words that were takeout of context in the most disingenuous way possible to try supporting their position of "there's no way of knowing what could have happened, so all possibilities are equally valid and I will continue to push my personal headcanon as the one possible truth." Unless you have a "hard fact" there's no discussion to have.Were he dead, I don't think his Patreon payments would be continuing. Dude's making over two hundred bucks a month on this; which isn't a lot of money for dedicated work on a project, but is a ton of money when you haven't done a damned thing in a year and a half. Assuming he's dead s far more of a shot in the dark than "he quit working on it but decided to leave his Patreon going so he'd have money coming in until people gave up and/or remembered that they were subscribed to him." Happens all the time with these games.