Good delegation + adding another cook is quite difficult, actually, and the amount of scale I add is often more of the time sink than a particular code hurdle. (Adding sfx/etc. to a scene doesn't take too long, but if I add 10 scenes...)
Some things do take a long time or require me to practically speedrun a coding or design course, such as playable Crow, Theresa's various UI elements, Lily/Swan/Jessica's transition to mostly-code, etc. but that type of stuff can't be delegated as I'm essentially making tools for myself (so they have to fit my exact tastes). On the upside, it increases my overall knowledge and the tools themselves can be reused.
That said, small-scale stuff like our helpful sprite artist, our VO's caster/handler(?) or Sylphs bugfixes/widgets have been efficient delegations, so I do try to take advantage of those opportunities as I can.
Maybe it will relax you to learn that your Machiavellian imagination of us is... inaccurate. We just like making femdom milfs and our Patrons support us to do that. There's no one to play and nothing to milk or string along because we'll get support for 7F, Level: 0, 8F, Lily Island, World of Trample, or whatever else we end up working on as long as the quality is there (frankly, even if it isn't, have you SEEN some Patreons?).
As for finishing 10F by now, we kinda did if you render everything into ToT:
7F - Swan
8F - WG
9F - Tiffany
10F - Theresa
11F - Crow
12F - Jessica
So it's totally fine to be frustrated with my constant flubbed predictions, our development pace or focus or style or anything else. But I think you're giving yourself unnecessary stress with the conspiracy theories on top. We're just bozos, sorry!
"We're just bozos, sorry!" LOLOLOL That's a classic "sorry not sorry" response.
See, you're too smart to be bozos. Your response doesn't relax me at all. Did you read what you just wrote to me?
"There's no one to play and nothing to milk or string along because we'll get support for 7F, Level: 0, 8F, Lily Island, World of Trample, or whatever else we end up working on as long as the quality is there (frankly, even if it isn't, have you SEEN some Patreons?)."
We'll get the support...even if the quality isn't there. Basically, "we do WTF we want" is how I take that. And, truly, that's your right. You have the leverage. I'm not going anywhere. That's what I meant about being played.
You said the 7th floor would be out back in February of 2019. And it's still not out. And I personally don't "render everything into ToT." I don't count the mini-games. I'm not looking for any "technically we're on the 12th floor" explanation. You said February of 2019 and it didn't come out. I feel like you didn't honor a commitment. It sucks, sure...but there's nothing I can do about it. But that's what I mean about being played. It's been 17 months. You basically said, "hey we're going a different direction" AFTER you promised the 7th floor. That's what I mean...
But in fairness, maybe you never saw it as a business promise or business commitment, and if you didn't, that explains my confusion. You called it, "my constant flubbed predictions". I saw it as going back on your word. But that's probably where we see things differently and I respect that.
And it's nothing Machiavellian and no conspiracy theory, it's money. You diverted from the actual 7th floor because...you wanted to and financially you could.
"We just like making femdom milfs and our Patrons support us to do that."
If Apple promised a new iPhone in February but then said, "well we decided we're gonna do something else instead", I trust you can understand that customers would be upset. But, if someone paid them 200 billion dollars to work on another project first, I don't think it's good business ethics but I understand. And yes, I know you're not Apple. I hope you can allow for the inexact comparison.
I wish that instead of Swan, WG, Tiffany, Theresa, Crow and Jessica, you would have made the actual 7th-12th floor so the storyline could actually continue upward and not the side stories/mini games. And my theory on why you didn't was actually just proven through your response. You did WTF you wanted to do and/or what people paid you to do. And I get it. It's business.
And I don't believe your recent work has been as quality and thorough as Karen's room and everything before Her. Notice how I capitalize Her pronoun? I'm a definite femdom submissive LOL.
Listen, I don't appreciate the way you do business, but wtf can I do about it? LOL Not a damn thing.
But I, and anyone else, can kick and scream for the actual 7th floor, but I completely understand this is your show.
The good news is, you made a damn fetish video game where the first parts and middle parts of it were so good that I'm passionate enough about it to write a complaint. That's awesome! LOLOLOLOLOLOL. (This lively discussion has helped distract me from everything going on in the world for a second.) But bottom line, whatever you put out next, like I said earlier, I'm gonna play it, even if it's not as good as it was in the beginning.
And trust, I'm not mad at you and I don't think you're a super villain. I just think you lack business ethics, in my opinion. You're a business man. And I don't like your business practices, that's all. I have no issues with you as a person.
My feelings and opinions I wrote about in my first post today have not changed after your response, but I thank you for taking the time to give a response. And please, let's not do any more back and forth on this issue. There's no need. I promise I'll sit here and eat whatever TF you feed me from here on. There's nothing else I can do.
Take care.