- Jan 17, 2018
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"I want to look into."This is SOs message on discord:
Vanidal Better display of status like arousal levels and so on is one of the things that I want to look into when I do the UI update, and clothing status would definitely be another thing to consider. The UI rework counts as a major update though which means it has to wait until the Work & Career updates are done and then win a vote, so not something I'll be picking up especially soon.
. Just had to share it here.
"It has to wait until Work & Career updates are done AND THEN win a vote."
These two lines essentially show the problem with this game becoming anything more than small scene updates (ie - no major changes/jumps in plot/quality) and an issue with some Patreon supported material. You simply never give up creative control over a product. The supports might get to vote on what gets worked on first but if there's an actual reworking to be done, putting it on a list to be voted on when it's probably going to go up against content (no matter how small) means it'll never get off the ground.
To show the insanity of this idea there's a fanfiction writer whose chapters range from 30K-100K. They have multiple stories on the go and have their fans/supporters vote for what gets updated the next month. This means the writer has to write a novella/novel that continues a story's plot, doesn't create inconsistencies with previous chapters, doesn't have its own plot holes considering how large the body of work is, and everything else needed for a new chapter in the space of a handful of weeks. And this is without factoring in getting their beta readers/editors to keep up with the mass of words all to meet an arbitrary deadline they've given themselves because they are writing such a huge bulk of stuff and following the wishes of their patreons.
In gaming terms: "what would you like to see added for next month" could lead to a jigsaw of a plot (or no plot and just random scenes in a slice-of-life game), a bug-filled mess of an update if there hasn't been enough time between scene completion and the deadline, or (at the very least in this case) actual game mechanics/UI stuff that needs to be worked on being left alone.
I tried this game out ages ago but if this is how he organises what has to be worked on then I don't know if I'll be giving this another try.