Thanks for the response, I understand your points. I'm just trying to help people out on here where I can in order to promote a better experience within this cancerous site.
I'll leave the un-banning to you; you do what you prefer. Honestly I just went with the year subscription because of the ~$20 saving. I was only under the financial mind-set.
Either way, at this moment I have enough to support you. But, that is TBD when it is time to renew and depends on how the progress of Lula is going.
This site is full of Basement Troll Wankers looking for immediate updates without having to put any work in or having to pay. I get that these trolls are your audience and it seems like you have your head in the right place (being business oriented, striving for success of a unique product). Keep going with your current update schedule; it's nice to receive progress update in the interim of game releases.
BTW, this world is run by the internet. It's time for people to upgrade their internet service when possible in order to make the game size easier to swallow. We download everyday, for those it can be fast or it can be slow. In the end, that isn't your problem so don't worry about it. Optimization; however, is your problem to bear. Not telling you what to do, just thought I would mention it.
Not a Dev, so I know bupkis about that shit. I just know how to play video games.
GLHF
To my knowledge, there is no way to promote a better experience here. It's the business model of this site.
There are some exceptions, but generally speaking, the audience for developers is not really here.
That's what the trolls here want you to believe, but in reality, it's quite different.
The audience you're talking about is the audience of this site, and it doesn't go much further.
If the trolls here were my audience, they would have gone to itch.io or my website or even twitter and found more information instead of speculating, spewing venom, and engaging in shitposting.
So no, this is not my audience. In fact, they also attack many other developers and encourage others here to stop supporting some of them, but in the end, it doesn't change anything for those developers because their real audience is not here.
This site's business model is to attract as many trolls as possible by exploiting the work of others, nothing more, nothing less. More visits, more cash...
And they didn't set up their business in the Seychelles for nothing.
So once again, I don't support this site in any way, which is no better than a mafia.
In any case, it takes the size that it has to take...
As I said before, the size also depends on the quality and quantity of many assets.
But for some trolls here, it would be necessary to be able to put 10GB of assets already compressed into 1 or 2GB.
The day one of them invents such a compression system, they will surely have a lot of success and could even become rich.
For optimizations, I manage that and do my best, but I do not have plenty of various hardware.
I set a target hardware as gtx1060 6gb or equivalent as minimum recommended, and do my best as to run in good condition on that.
It could still run correctly with lower details and resolution on lower hardware, but I never get any feedback with less than a gtx1060.
But as feedback, I often ask to my supporters if it run in good conditions and what they have as cpu/gpu.
Especially than in other maps I use very complex lighting and that there is lot of physx, so I always do the best to optimize it to get a good balance between quality and performances..
Even if I can already consider around 45fps for such project with all maxed is not something bad.
For the other subject, I removed the ban on discord, so you will have to rejoin it, use the site for that.
We will talk in private just a little bit to be sure about few points and then I could unlock on patreon.
