- Sep 5, 2018
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I want to first say thanks for a thoughtful write up. Secondly the reason I feel compelled to respond, is the fact you took workload into consideration, and made some very intelligent points outside of the. "I feel there is no content" or the "instert my waifu". So a few things I'm going to address below.People are uppity because the ADD direction of the game is rearing its head again now. This is being exacerbated because of BoB2's skeleton being put out when the last update of SU that wasn't a bugfix was Halloween leading people to not buy that it doesn't take time away from SU. You had 2 updates in back to back months which is great. But it's undone when the next one takes 3 months to get to.
We had the Shadow League stuff which was good. But Lady Shiva isn't finished and now we're doing the same thing with Maxima who also isn't finished and came out unprovoked/hinted at. People aren't even sure if the Yacht is fully done now since stuff was added with increments and now that process is going to be the same for the Halloween event. "When does Mercy get added? Who is Harley bringing? Are there no-shows going to be added in like Morgaine was?" etc.
This on top of the fact that the aftermath content of the Prison isn't done with Killer Frost and Poison Ivy but Jinx and Ravager were added wayyyyyyyyyyy later but are "finished", so-to-speak. The Prison skanks need a few sex scenes, leash scenes for Ivy and they'll be "done". Yet this is the case with a lot of characters still which is the core problem of all this. I don't think people have issues with what Sun is adding, just the manner/order in which it happens. You can't pretend like this is a non-issue when your rebrand was focused around it saying "we won't blueball you anymore". Which to be perfectly fair here y'all have been good on that end, it's just showing up in other ways now.
The best overall goal to redirect the ship and stay the keyboard shaped pitchforks would be to focus and complete Henchwomen and their superhero counterparts' content. Although, I can infer Lois/Harley/Mercy will be delayed to post-rebuild with how it's been mentioned how gross their framework is coding-wise. But you'll get fan favorites like Wonder Woman/Starfire and Blackfire which will quiet a good chunk of the "Where's mah waifu's content???". However, I understand most girls are at a state where doing all of their cell scenes, meta bordello, and cell stuff for X henchwoman is big for an update at least while Sun is still having to code. The only suggestion I have for that is to postpone metabordello scenes and release them as filler for slower updates seeing how most people care about the Cell content the most. Or hell, roadmap the characters that wouldn't have MB scenes like Frost, Audrey, etc. That way girls are getting done and Sun can sprinkle in whatever along with it. Impossible to please everyone as y'all know but always having a roadmap with a theme would help.
Finally, along with others criticizing the Legion villain sluts, there needs to be a rework of how it currently is with the Rebuild version being worked on. It doesn't make sense for this game for there to be so many hoops for just a SINGLE scene with going to Legion HQ, hope said girl is there with RNG or repeat if she's not, pay to hire, and finally you can either progress or choose the scene you want eventually. All the other girls in the game are good for the most part that they're accessible to interact with from mostly straightforward menuing so it just isn't acceptable that half of Poison Ivy, Jinx, Rose, and future scenes with Legion Ladies (Livewire and so on) are so obtuse and clunky. Either make a tab for Legion HQ where the girls agree to a on-demand booty call list for a big buy-in as opposed to paying 200k per instance, or keep the current rngfest but have them move into the cells once all scenes are unlocked and they're calling you "Daddy".
Just my idiot two cents
We did 6 updates to SU in 2019, plus BoB2. 7 content updates in 2019. I hope all you understand if we begin to ignore the "you didn't do enough" complaints.
As for the ADD direction, SR7 was getting burnt out on the completion updates. They were massive workload, and time sensitive, which meant a ton of stress. His sprinkling/shotgun approach is his want to stay fresh and do what he enjoys. We need that and we need people to understand that. It's also a way to minimize workload when doing completion type updates. If I had it my way we would remove timelines, allow for tons of content creation. Then piece together a full update once all art is completed. You know like every other dev on Patreon. But frankly you all would have our head if we did that.
In our meetings next week I will table your suggestions for SU focus. The are insightful, and presented well. Thanks again for taking the time to write it up.
