I have moved into translating other people's writing into quests and NPCs. It's still side content, but hopefully that will be more palatable.
Dope, nothing wrong with that. The game could use some new, well written quests and NPCs.
There is little interest in balance, this is true. I gave up a while ago because all combat data is poisoned by exploits so all stats just follow an arbitrary linear progression now. The intent, for now at least, is to balance at the end.
And that loops us back around to what I was saying, and the issue this part of the community has taken with the game (so much so that Inno had to boot us all from the blog comments), there's no end in site.
In fact, I'm still not confident that there's *progress* towards the end in site. It's been years. It's been straight up a year of us being told that she's working on the *filler* for the next area. And we're now two months late, past the new estimated release that was already seven months late. And that wasn't even the first estimate. And the last update says she's getting *started* on it...
And the biggest kicker of this all is how incredibly stupid this design approach is. Wait until the end to make the progression and combat systems work? That's absolute insanity. Design your systems to be future proof and scalable from the start, or you're going to have infinitely more work to do later. So much so that we'll likely never see those reworks happen.
I'm someone who loves talking about game design and game writing, and while this is a game I haven't touched in months now, it's one hell of an entertaining train wreck to watch and talk about. Wayyyyy back when I worked retail jobs, I once got featured in a training video for a large "don't do this!" segement. They literally took security footage of me doing something stupid (climbing three-story pallet racking lol) and used it as an example of something you should never do. This game has turned into that, but for game development lol
So, I'm guessing now is not the most appropriate time to talk about a mod that I'm working about.
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Anyway, it's quite a shame to see the game be stagnant for so long. I do hope for the best for Inno and their game.
Fuck no, this is the perfect time. We're going on months with no new content except for a half-assed, half finished romance quest. If people who are still willing don't mod in content, there will never be new content lol
I'm probably the second harshest person here towards the game, and I can say with absolutely certainty that you should feel more than comfortable sharing whatever mod you feel like working on.
