Very true and that is 100% on me. I kept underestimating the amount of content i still wanted in the game and the time it would take me to do said content. That's why I really need to stop giving estimates like that as it gives false expectations. Alas! You learn as you go !
Continue doing the progress bar, but yeah probably good idea to stop giving ETAs unless you're 100% sure it will come at that time.
Regarding progress bar being misleading, I think it's that case because it's all in text. If it was in visuals (actual graphs), probably it can be shown with different events having different bar length (longer/bigger the event, bar being longer and vice versa).
But if you feel comfortable doing it more in text, here's my suggestion;
Why don't you label each event as you would for a soldier in the Family (in terms of their length/size)?
Event size category definition:
- Associate: very short event
- Soldato: moderate length event
- Elite Soldato: slightly larger sized event than Soldato ranked event
- Capo: very large event
- Wilfred's Division: slightly larger event than Capo ranked event
- Serpent: biggest & longest event so far
I'll give couple of examples:
1)
My name is Luna (Lewd + Story) - 100% [Serpent]
2)
What is Truly Weak is Truly Strong (Story) - 50% [Elite Soldato]
Of course, I just put titles of actual events to show the events that are relevant to.
In your dev posts for an upcoming update, above events would be displayed like the following:
1)
Luna Event (Lewd + Story) - 100% [Serpent]
2) Story Event - 50% [Elite Soldato]
Labels like above (next to your progress bar, with definitions to each category attached somewhere. And yeah, I'm aware Wilfred's Division is same rank as Capos, but I put it up higher than Capos here so there can be some flexibility in size scale) might give fans better idea of how big of an event they can expect.
Gotta admit, the wait has been a bit difficult, but still hell yeah I'm excited for this update.
Hope everything goes smoothly and we can finally get back to the DeLuca universe next month.