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Emm dont know what is the non-patriarchy version of "Grow a pair", so I welcome if anyone knows it
Don't be a pussy?
I would go with "Don't be a cunt/dick", but then again I don't really give a fuck...

If they don't understand that if you come into a thread and announce that you don't like them game, all females look like creatures from Modor or they like and doing it without saying anything postives either and neither write something that might be at least helpful for the dev, then I'm just suprise why they played the game in the first run and why they must announce that in the game thread.

As another has written already:
This is not an airport, you don't need to announce your departure.
 

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Well, not all people think that Hope deliverd a good game, some think he do a game with the Orc of Mordor in it...
You, or hope for that matter, will never be able to please everyone. Jus look at the most popular, at least I think it is, game on this forum, at least 10% of the people who post just come to bitch, now why they feel the need to do so and not just ignore it and play something else, is something thats beyond me for as long as I've been a member here, but I just choose to ignore them and mostly they go away after a post or two.

I agree and think Hope delivered one. Yet, I don't think that we have an update this year and I also don't think that the update will give "us" - or at least me - enough new leads for some of the old open discussions.
Oh wow, I assume you are a long time fan and active member in this thread and seeing you so disheartened kinda bums me out. Is there a reason why you feel that way ?

I've only played the game like twice, once way back and the second time more recently after the last update and in my opinion it should be way more popular, overall it checks more boxes than it fails.

You have to admire Hope for doing it his way though, he doesn't seem to cave to any of the proven ways to success but rather wants to create his own, granted I don't know anything about him but the way he build the game seems to indicate it at least. Just gotta have hope that it works out for him.
 

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Do you guys know if we will got a big Att with, 2~10~+ H of gameplay, or, just something like, 30 min gameplay after this long long long time ? :V
 

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It's entirely possible that all of your predictions or assumptions come true, or are true, it's just that there is not enough information in the game yet to support them to the point of "near certainty". And don't get me wrong speculation is awesome, it's what this thread has not enough of to spark really interessting conversations in my opinion.

Case in point, since you seem to have an investigative mind. Figure out for me who the fuck poisoned the MC's meal and how he or she did not get caught. There is a single point of origin where only Cordia knows the future, as in that she is gonna invite the MC to eat with the family. She tells Wilfred, who then walks over to the MC's room and that takes like what, a minute ? Then they talk for less than a minute, walk to the dinning room and yet someone somehow managed to posion only the MC's plate and nobody elses. Antonio even confirms at the dinner that he didn't know the MC would join them..so who ... WHO ? It drives me nuts.

Even assuming that they have a cooking staff, who Cordia informs that another person will be joining them for dinner, how many people can there be for a mafia family not to go through them one by one and find the guilty party ?

You figure this out for me and I'll jump on the "luna is adopted train", promise !
About the poisoning...

There are many strange things happening. First of all, the MC was poisoned as a child with the intend to build up a tolerance so he can survive such attack in the future... well at least i think so, as others do too in this thread.

but to be poisoned by a specific poison doesnt help you tolerate every poison... so at the dinner, it had to be the very same poison the MC gets as a child by his mother... very very big coincidence hence the fact that there are thousands really potent poisons in the world. So no, that is no coincidence... the MCs mother must have known that the MC will get poisoned someday in the future with this specific poison. My guess? The contract was already made at that time. Like a life-dept (you owe your child to the DeLucas) or something like that. And the posion is a special poison used by DeLuca members and MCs mother prepared him for that, cause she predicted that some people in the circle of the DeLucas would try to kill him someday with it.Why? Dunno... but MCs mother was a serpent herself just like Cordia, so much is clear. So it wouldnt be a surprise if she knows which poison they would use...

who done it? Difficult to say at this point, there are really no clues at all... it could be that the person who has done it didnt even appeared in the game so far. We didnt even met all of the 4 serpents so far. Maybe it was one of them? It could be whole group of people to... doesnt have to be a single person.

I have a little bit of trust issues with Wilfred though... he is making some serious decisions himself, over the head of Cordia. She still aproves those things... but to me it appears that Wilfred is not really pleased with Cordia as the leader of the DeLucas. Maybe he is plotting something and sees the MC as a threat in the long run? Even if he likes him in a way.

OR maybe the poisoning of the MC was just a test to see if the MC is the "real deal". Could be that Wilfred knows about the preparation during MCs childhood and was testing the "waters" to see if the MC is prepared enough to even survive this poison?

And so many people around the DeLucas and outside of the DeLucas "watched" the mc since he was a child... and what happened to his parents anyways? There are countless possibilities so far... and so many unknown things regarding MCs history and destiny...

There are just not enough hints or suspicious character so far in the game to make even a wild-guess who could have done it iam afraid... could be everyone or no one, cause the persons behind this didnt make their appearence yet.

Yeah i thought a long time about that too, but really i cant drop a name so far for the poisoning... I have my trust-issues with Wilfred, but it wouldnt really fit in any way that he had done it... at least i cant think so.

Either way, the one who did the poisoning must be the same person who sabotaged the car at the very start of the game too... or maybe we arent even talking about one person, could be a whole group of people too... *shrug* nah cant really enclose this issue so far. And i guess we will not get any hints in that direction for a long long time... as i see it, the game is still in its early stages... i mean... fuck, just look at the contract list at Wilfred, we are a Soldato still in rank D... if the plan is to go all the way up, this game will get so freaking big....

*edit* well one figure comes to mind though... Cesarino from the prologue. He dislikes the MC from the start (cause Cesarino is the average prick) pretty sure he is somewhat involved, he could even have sabotaged the car. Maybe he was recruited by another group/family where he thinks he can climb the ranks faster? but in someway... its would be to obvious/easy i think.

But Trino (the one guy that was supposed to guard Gracie, Luna and the MC at the abandoned beachhouse mission) showed us, that there are people in the DeLuca Family who can be baught easily. So... yeah... the "true" enemy is still in the dark and will not be revealed soon i think.
 
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Yeah, doesn't necessarily need to be the same person, but presumably is, or certainly working towards the same objective.
The Mysterious Six are my prime suspects, maybe got a couple of people inside the DeLuca family, spying.

Not sure I remember this correctly, but I think we're roughly 1/4, or 1/3 through the game.
As you say, plenty of time for more clues...

i edited my post a little... Cesarino came to mind a little after i posted it.
 

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Oh wow, I assume you are a long time fan and active member in this thread and seeing you so disheartened kinda bums me out. Is there a reason why you feel that way ?
I don't think he's disheartened, he's just stating what he thinks.
Most of the mysteries have been discussed & there probably won't be enough new clues in the coming update, to enable long term players to add new info to those old discussions.
 

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Yeah, doesn't necessarily need to be the same person, but presumably is, or certainly working towards the same objective.
The Mysterious Six are my prime suspects, maybe got a couple of people inside the DeLuca family, spying.

Not sure I remember this correctly, but I think we're roughly 1/4, or 1/3 through the game.
As you say, plenty of time for more clues...
i know this don't make sense, but i'll say it anyway :V maybe the Myst 6 did something with our Prime Angel mind and she can be controled with some ilusion skill or whatever :V ( i hope not) the novel does not gave us hint enough to think about the real deal :V
 
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About the poisoning...

There are many strange things happening. First of all, the MC was poisoned as a child with the intend to build up a tolerance so he can survive such attack in the future... well at least i think so, as others do too in this thread.

but to be poisoned by a specific poison doesnt help you tolerate every poison... so at the dinner, it had to be the very same poison the MC gets as a child by his mother... very very big coincidence hence the fact that there are thousands really potent poisons in the world. So no, that is no coincidence... the MCs mother must have known that the MC will get poisoned someday in the future with this specific poison. My guess? The contract was already made at that time. Like a life-dept (you owe your child to the DeLucas) or something like that. And the posion is a special poison used by DeLuca members and MCs mother prepared him for that, cause she predicted that some people in the circle of the DeLucas would try to kill him someday with it.Why? Dunno... but MCs mother was a serpent herself just like Cordia, so much is clear. So it wouldnt be a surprise if she knows which poison they would use...

who done it? Difficult to say at this point, there are really no clues at all... it could be that the person who has done it didnt even appeared in the game so far. We didnt even met all of the 4 serpents so far. Maybe it was one of them? It could be whole group of people to... doesnt have to be a single person.

I have a little bit of trust issues with Wilfred though... he is making some serious decisions himself, over the head of Cordia. She still aproves those things... but to me it appears that Wilfred is not really pleased with Cordia as the leader of the DeLucas. Maybe he is plotting something and sees the MC as a threat in the long run? Even if he likes him in a way.

OR maybe the poisoning of the MC was just a test to see if the MC is the "real deal". Could be that Wilfred knows about the preparation during MCs childhood and was testing the "waters" to see if the MC is prepared enough to even survive this poison?

And so many people around the DeLucas and outside of the DeLucas "watched" the mc since he was a child... and what happened to his parents anyways? There are countless possibilities so far... and so many unknown things regarding MCs history and destiny...

There are just not enough hints or suspicious character so far in the game to make even a wild-guess who could have done it iam afraid... could be everyone or no one, cause the persons behind this didnt make their appearence yet.

Yeah i thought a long time about that too, but really i cant drop a name so far for the poisoning... I have my trust-issues with Wilfred, but it wouldnt really fit in any way that he had done it... at least i cant think so.

Either way, the one who did the poisoning must be the same person who sabotaged the car at the very start of the game too... or maybe we arent even talking about one person, could be a whole group of people too... *shrug* nah cant really enclose this issue so far. And i guess we will not get any hints in that direction for a long long time... as i see it, the game is still in its early stages... i mean... fuck, just look at the contract list at Wilfred, we are a Soldato still in rank D... if the plan is to go all the way up, this game will get so freaking big....

*edit* well one figure comes to mind though... Cesarino from the prologue. He dislikes the MC from the start (cause Cesarino is the average prick) pretty sure he is somewhat involved, he could even have sabotaged the car. Maybe he was recruited by another group/family where he thinks he can climb the ranks faster? but in someway... its would be to obvious/easy i think.
Wow, first of all thank you, that's a lot of food for thought and you seem like a much needed fresh influence in this thread.

And yea I agree anything is possible at this point, I'd be happy if anyone could explain to me how that person got away with it, because that's where all logic breaks down for me, it can't be that hundreds or even dozens of people had access to the MC's plate so he or she should've been caught. I mean it happend in the Deluca house at the Deluca dinner table, you'd think they would interrogate the shit out of anyone who has access.

And like you said, it can't be a method of figureing out if the MC actually is Rina's son, since they have had him under observation for a very long time.

I once went batshit crazy and, just as you speculated too, thought that it was some punishment for Rina from Cordia and she was just checking if she kept up her end of the bargain. But given that the other outcome would've been death, that kinda seems like a sledgehammer approach though. I swear this one will keep me up at nights and Hope is probably gonna give us an answer in Episode 27....sigh.
 

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Oh wow, I assume you are a long time fan and active member in this thread and seeing you so disheartened kinda bums me out. Is there a reason why you feel that way ?
Up to the 0.06.x updates the release time was OK. Not fast, but we had a average of 3-4 updates per year. After that we only have 1 or 2 updates per year and more like 1 updates per year. I don't blame hope for it, he always was upfront on this with us.

But for a game to have success it would need a faster and more constant update cycle. Also for that few updates per year, they are to small. Again nothing against hope, only stating my opinion why the game isn't such a success instead of all the goods it has.

So, going for a major release, I have this numbers:

Game version​
Date​
Time between updates [d]​
Time between updates [M]​
Average time between updates [M]​
0.02​
2018-09-09​
0.03​
2018-11-15​
67​
2.23​
2.23​
0.04​
2019-03-18​
123​
4.10​
3.17​
0.05​
2019-09-28​
194​
6.47​
4.27​
0.06.1​
2020-03-22​
176​
5.87​
4.67​
0.06.5​
2020-06-19​
89​
2.97​
4.33​
0.06.6​
2020-07-24​
35​
1.17​
3.80​
0.07.2​
2021-04-08​
258​
8.60​
4.49​
0.08.0.3​
2022-07-06​
454​
15.13​
5.82​
0.09​
2023-01-21​
199​
6.63​
5.91​
0.09.5​
2023-05-08​
107​
3.57​
5.67​
1.00.0​
2024-02-28​
296​
9.87​
6.05​
Min​
1.17​
Max​
15.13​
Average​
6.05​
Standard deviation​
4.03​

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Up to the 0.06.x updates the release time was OK. Not fast, but we had a average of 3-4 updates per year. After that we only have 1 or 2 updates per year and more like 1 updates per year. I don't blame hope for it, he always was upfront on this with us.

But for a game to have success it would need a faster and more constant update cycle. Also for that few updates per year, they are to small. Again nothing against hope, only stating my opinion why the game isn't such a success instead of all the goods it has.

So, going for a major release, I have this numbers:

Game Version​
Date​
time between updates [d]​
time between updates [M]​
Average time between updates [M]​
0.02​
09.09.18​
0.03​
15.11.18​
67​
2.23​
2.23​
0.04​
18.03.19​
123​
4.10​
3.17​
0.05​
28.09.19​
194​
6.47​
4.35​
0.06.1​
22.03.20​
176​
5.87​
4.05​
0.06.5​
19.06.20​
89​
2.97​
2.60​
0.06.6​
24.07.20​
35​
1.17​
1.70​
0.07.2​
08.04.21​
258​
8.60​
5.42​
0.08.0.3​
06.07.22​
454​
15.13​
8.68​
You should prob use the release dates for 0.06, 0.06.5, 0.07 & 0.08.
Using the release date of bug fixes, released after the main content, is distorting (lengthening) the figures slightly.
Not going to reduce it dramatically, but would be a more accurate reflection of the time between content releases. (y)
 

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Up to the 0.06.x updates the release time was OK. Not fast, but we had a average of 3-4 updates per year. After that we only have 1 or 2 updates per year and more like 1 updates per year. I don't blame hope for it, he always was upfront on this with us.

But for a game to have success it would need a faster and more constant update cycle. Also for that few updates per year, they are to small. Again nothing against hope, only stating my opinion why the game isn't such a success instead of all the goods it has.

So, going for a major release, I have this numbers:

Game Version​
Date​
Time between updates [d]​
Time between updates [M]​
Average time between updates [M]​
0.02​
09.09.18​
0.03​
15.11.18​
67​
2.23​
2.23​
0.04​
18.03.19​
123​
4.10​
3.17​
0.05​
28.09.19​
194​
6.47​
4.35​
0.06.1​
22.03.20​
176​
5.87​
4.05​
0.06.5​
19.06.20​
89​
2.97​
2.60​
0.06.6​
24.07.20​
35​
1.17​
1.70​
0.07.2​
08.04.21​
258​
8.60​
5.42​
0.08.0.3​
06.07.22​
454​
15.13​
8.68​
Well considering the overall slow development and that there was no really new content update in the las 1 and a half year... and the lack of lewd-content (which doesnt bother me at all, but many others do complain about it cause they think this is a porn-page) having more than 500 patrons is still impressive...

But yeah i sure hope that updates will come faster in the future, and that the next update will have a good amount of content. With more frequent updatesHopes could have made a living out of this game for sure, not like this though. And i think Hopes should work on his "report" duties too.. to go radio-silence for several weeks is not a good thing.
 
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You should prob use the release dates for 0.06, 0.06.5, 0.07 & 0.08.
Using the release date of bug fixes, released after the main content, is distorting (lengthening) the figures slightly.
Not going to reduce it dramatically, but would be a more accurate reflection of the time between content releases. (y)
Would do that, although for the 0.07 and 0.08 i don't have them, probably for the 0.06. Not 100% sure, but I used the date and version numbers from Patreon post. Some of them (eg. 0.08.0.x) surely were updated with the bugfix release. Don't know how Patreon post and their date works, so it could be the date of the 0.08 release or the date of the 0.08.0.3 release.

As you also stated, this is a general, overall statement, to show the trend. If I'm a few days/week wrong with some release date, than it is imperfect, but the the general trend won't be that different.
 
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But yeah i sure hope that updates will come faster in the future, and that the next update will have a good amount of content. With more frequent updatesHopes could have made a living out of this game for sure, not like this though. And i think Hopes should work on his "report" duties too.. to go radio-silence for several weeks is not a good thing.
Hopes did say that he intended to try and ramp up the release schedule, I believe that's still his intention.
What you say here is perfectly valid, if Hopes was running this as a business. But, don't forget, he's doing this as a hobby, not as a commercial vehicle for revenue generation.
If he wants to turn it into a full time job (which, AFAIK, he does not), then your suggestion for better comms would be very useful in attaining & retaining support. (y)
 
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Up to the 0.06.x updates the release time was OK. Not fast, but we had a average of 3-4 updates per year. After that we only have 1 or 2 updates per year and more like 1 updates per year. I don't blame hope for it, he always was upfront on this with us.

But for a game to have success it would need a faster and more constant update cycle. Also for that few updates per year, they are to small. Again nothing against hope, only stating my opinion why the game isn't such a success instead of all the goods it has.

So, going for a major release, I have this numbers:

Game Version​
Date​
Time between updates [d]​
Time between updates [M]​
Average time between updates [M]​
0.02​
09.09.18​
0.03​
15.11.18​
67​
2.23​
2.23​
0.04​
18.03.19​
123​
4.10​
3.17​
0.05​
28.09.19​
194​
6.47​
4.35​
0.06.1​
22.03.20​
176​
5.87​
4.05​
0.06.5​
19.06.20​
89​
2.97​
2.60​
0.06.6​
24.07.20​
35​
1.17​
1.70​
0.07.2​
08.04.21​
258​
8.60​
5.42​
0.08.0.3​
06.07.22​
454​
15.13​
8.68​
Oh I understand, yea development time seems to be the number one issue in our little world and I totally get now why you sounded disheartend and without much hope. You really like a game and then the updates stretch longer and longer and at some point the solutions to all the questions in ones head seem so far out of reach that all hype and anticipation slowly sinks towards zero.

It seems especially hard for developers who do everything as a 1 man team. I guess it really takes a toll to work towards the completion of 1 update and then instantly do an 180 and start with the development of the next update from scratch again.

Is the development of this game Hope's fulltime occupation or a side project that he completes as free time allows ?

And do you follow other games too ?
 

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Would do that, although for the 0.07 and 0.08 i don't have them, probably for the 0.06. Not 100% sure, but I used the date and version numbers from Patreon post. Some of them (eg. 0.08.0.x) surely were updated with the bugfix release. Don't know how Patreon post and their date works, so it could be the date of the 0.08 release or the date of the 0.08.0.3 release.

As you also stated, thiis is a general, overall statement, to show the trend. If I'm a few days/week wrong with some release date, than it is imperfect, but the the general trend won't be that different.
Figured you'd just used what was available, shame the dates for main releases are not available.
Don't forget, if it takes 10 months for 0.06, then a further 2.5 months for 0.06.1, we go from under a year to over a year.
Do that 2 or 3 times and we're adding 7.5 months.
It might not be a big difference in elapsed time, but it is a big difference in perception of speed.
Is the development of this game Hope's fulltime occupation or a side project that he completes as free time allows ?
It's just a hobby. He's not trying to earn money from this, per se.
Obviously financial support is welcome, but it's not his objective.
 
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Is the development of this game Hope's fulltime occupation or a side project that he completes as free time allows ?
It his hobby at the current time. He try to change that and is preparing a Steam release for the game, that is my understanding.
And do you follow other games too ?
Yes, with the mix of some "big time" devs as well as other smaller "underated" devs.

Being alone or have a team affect the speed of development, but is not the one and only factor. Some single dev have done biweekly update with a adequate size, although very few can hold that speed. Other single dev do 3 to 4 updates a year with also adequate size (in this case means >> 1 h gameplay for every path). And some of the devs tend to do the absolute minimum so they can max. their profit.

For hope, I think he does his best. It is a pitty that we don't have more Delucas with that, than the few updates we get.
 

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Some single dev have done biweekly update with a adequate size, although very few can hold that speed.
I mentioned Faerin, last time this topic came up, as one of the only devs I knew of that maintained a consisten (& quick!) release schedule, with monthly releases all the way through his last game.
I forgot another dev, who I know you enjoyed one of his games - Talothral, the dev for Sorcerer. I think his update schedule was pretty frequent for that, too. It certainly is for Terminus Reach 2, his current game.
 

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I forgot another dev, who I know you enjoyed one of his games - Talothral, the dev for Sorcerer. I think his update schedule was pretty frequent for that, too. It certainly is for Terminus Reach 2, his current game.
Talothral is perhaps the only dev, that I know that can keep up his speed. Another one dev I know that have done weekly updates was BD (dev of WVM), yet he doesn't do that anymore.

Also it the size of update is at least as important as the frequent of updates is..
 
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