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Well, you know... waited so long just to know about it... so... I thought... I thought... I thought... 1 more day to wait is still painful to wait... so...
Here's what lostraven has said in discord since he got home from work an hour ago (5pm his time):
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(someone asked about Chantelle)
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Now, go join the discord and watch the rest unfold - but realize that pestering lostraven with questions only annoys discord chat and if he answers you, that's less focus he's making on testing the game and that means it will take longer for him to get threw it.
 

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> People ask for Chantelle
> "Yep, lets remake the beginning of the game, that will be exciting for sure!"
Subscribers asked for the beginning to be fixed, too. More subscribers requested, or Uberpie agreed with those who asked, that the beginning was a higher priority.

Lostraven shared in Discord of the revamping news shortly after the release of v0.68.2 in September. All of the Patreon updates since September talk about Mary, Clara, Sara, Becca reworks, the addition of a route for Brinda, and route teasers for Clara and Sara.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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They're just questions lol each one hardly will be that much effort to answer and certainly nothing that will oh so drastically affect Raven's ability to do other things, but it does raise the question of we have to start from the beginning but how much content will be there will there be an indicator like "alright you've seen all the reworked scenes" in the quest log and will the old content be removed entirely on the happy side though maybe we get the update tonight probably won't but it'd be nice.
 

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Here's what lostraven has said in discord since he got home from work an hour ago (5pm his time):
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(someone asked about Chantelle)
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Now, go join the discord and watch the rest unfold - but realize that pestering lostraven with questions only annoys discord chat and if he answers you, that's less focus he's making on testing the game and that means it will take longer for him to get threw it.
Think ill skip this version and wait for the next update. See you guys at the end of 2023
 

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You analysis is fundamentally flawed in that:

1) It takes no account of the fact that, as the game grows, the complexity of the coding does as well so each successive update was always likely to take longer.
Proper coding practices should make this a non-issue for a game like this. In fact, after the main gameplay loop is done being programmed, there shouldn't be much programming at all, it should be primarily content creation to plug into existing components, especially given this is made in Unity & C#.
They're also using the pre-made for Unity, so he's not even programming a dialogue system, it's literally just plug and play. He gets the dialogue from Raven, creates a new conversation entry and then lays out the lines in the DialogueSystem conversation graph and sets the trigger conditions for it. The dialogue system also handles all the save data related to conversation progress and unlocks too, so... no programming to be done there either.
 

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Here's what lostraven has said in discord since he got home from work an hour ago (5pm his time):
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(someone asked about Chantelle)
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Now, go join the discord and watch the rest unfold - but realize that pestering lostraven with questions only annoys discord chat and if he answers you, that's less focus he's making on testing the game and that means it will take longer for him to get threw it.
Continuing this thread (posted at 7pm his time):
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(posted at 9pm his time):
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That was 6 hours ago, it's 3am for lostraven and 4am for Uberpie. See you all tomorrow.
 
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They're just questions lol each one hardly will be that much effort to answer and certainly nothing that will oh so drastically affect Raven's ability to do other things, but it does raise the question of we have to start from the beginning but how much content will be there will there be an indicator like "alright you've seen all the reworked scenes" in the quest log and will the old content be removed entirely on the happy side though maybe we get the update tonight probably won't but it'd be nice.
Apparently every time someone asks a question, Raven needs to go back studying additional hours to answer each question correctly, so he gets an A+. Hence, why they said if someone asks question, it's just gonna push Raven few more hours to get them works done.
 

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They're just questions lol each one hardly will be that much effort to answer and certainly nothing that will oh so drastically affect Raven's ability to do other things, but it does raise the question of we have to start from the beginning but how much content will be there will there be an indicator like "alright you've seen all the reworked scenes" in the quest log and will the old content be removed entirely on the happy side though maybe we get the update tonight probably won't but it'd be nice.
Apparently every time someone asks a question, Raven needs to go back studying additional hours to answer each question correctly, so he gets an A+. Hence, why they said if someone asks question, it's just gonna push Raven few more hours to get them works done.
Based upon Lostraven's comments here shortly after v0.45.2's release last year and on Discord - here is what I surmise (and I could be batshit crazy wrong - YMMV):

No one knows what is in the coded update except for Uberpie, himself. Uberpie draws the art and he codes. He contracts Lostraven to write scenes, dialogue, help text, etc and Uberpie may decide to use all, some, or none of it. He even alters it, as he sees necessary, to suit some update he makes to a scene or situation along the way.

Until Lostraven plays through the entire pre-alpha - he is not fully aware of what's in/what's out and how much rework and new update there is in the coded game. Or if he is 100% aware, he does not have permission to share enough of what he knows to satisfy players, through his contract agreement (verbal or written) with Uberpie.

In the end, there are going to be players who love the whole update; love parts, but not all; want more of one character and less of another; or hate the whole thing.

Do you rip the bandaid off slowly answering every players pestering question from now until the update day (only to then have to deal with the shit all over again) or just pull that bastard off all at once after the update drops?

I know what I would do. Again, YMMV.
 
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I mean It’s entirely up to Raven what he wants and prefers to do but I’d assume he mostly wants to answer questions especially when we are almost officially at the record amount of days between updates he’s a cool guy he doesn’t know everything but what he does know he tends to relay to the rest of us even though he doesn’t have to.
 
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