Fortnightly Progress - 18th April (Patreon)

• No Haven

So you know how I mentioned how pretty much every race and sub-type has the full set of five favoured and four unfavoured traits/regions/assignments/races. Well I might have added a sixth favoured column...

Decided to do it as after thinking for awhile I wanted a Crafting: Enchantment focused race as I'm aiming to do that properly in an upcoming update, and that would likely need to wait for an entirely new race sometime. After sleeping on it for awhile the perfect race just came to me and as they had the full allotment already I decided it had to be done. 

I do think this was for the best as I was able to add some traits that otherwise had been just missing the cut for inclusion under other races before. I've also added some more animosities and kinships between races than there were before. Because of this the original list of  Ori'Nek, Akir, Marlsune, Kitsune, Lizardmen, Asanei, Drow, and Cathayan that have had expanded lore pages has now been increased to also include Amazons, Kreen, Fancy, and Harpies.  

Thankfully I made the system for favoured and unfavoured stuff to be pretty modular having learned that particular lesson several times before, and this addition hasn't set things back much at all. 

As part of the favoured/unfavoured stuff I've completely reworked how a lot of the full custom functionality works. This is mainly backend to make it easier to use for me and to add to, but there have been some cost adjustments involved. Dominant and Dominator have been reduced to 2 and 6 respectively for two examples. I've also made the cost reductions and bonuses more consistent so now Fae will get the same bonus for taking Weak (Wea) as Goblins do for another one.  

I've also done a bunch of work on the patron stuff for this update. Some of which have had contributed commissions which is always deeply appreciated. So far we've got a new playable fae, demi-angel, ooze (because of her there's also two other standard oozes), lago'mae, fancy, and a drow. We've also got in terms of uniques a drow and a were guy. I think that's everyone that's ready to go for the update, but if you've got one outstanding, don't see it on that list and think I'm not waiting on any extra info then please do let me know.

There's some new starts as well using art from the recent commissions. Due to this I've redone the last attempt at the collage and I think it's looks much improved. 

While this update has expanded from the original plans I really do want to get it done by the end of April at the latest.  So if all goes well we should be talking about how the update release went by the next one of these.

Direction polling for the next update finished and the winner by a single vote was more aspects. Worked out some potential new ones awhile back and will include at a minimum new ones tied into to all of the faith type traits. 

On a more minor note I believe I've solved the 'just how can mermaids be anything other than slaves what with most of the game taking place on dry land' issue. I think it's pretty awesome and should make a impressively metal commission sometime hopefully.  There was also an entertaining in depth racial that I'd wanted to include for another new race I've had planned for ages, but really didn't fit with the other new ideas I have for them, and I've decided instead that it'd be a good fit for the mermaids. 

• Commissions

Raid High Elven Dwelling was done in impressive time, and the response has been just something else. It really has! 

I loved it myself, but I'm not always the best judge of what will go over well and what won't, due to my enthusiasm sometimes getting the better of me in retrospect. So it's great that a lot of you seem to agree with me on the quality of this one and made that known. Absolutely wonderful deeply appreciated feedback and because that there's no doubt that I'll be reaching out to try Opalescent again if they're up for doing more ones for me. Though from talking to them, and given what they're happy doing along with their banned list, they will be pinup type pieces like this high elf only.  Basically don't get too excited that they'll be doing pretty much everything from now on as much as I might like that idea :) 

As I mentioned last time there's some Abyss Trolls coming. It's basically done, final colours and all, and I'm just waiting on a couple of minor corrections. Should mean hopefully that you'll be seeing that one very, very soon. It's a nicely thematic mirror to the first trolls one. 

There's also a couple of other bonus commissions outstanding though currently things are all quiet on that front. 

The March+April Commission Poll has been running for awhile now and from the start it's been super close. The top two only have a few votes in it, and the third choice is not all that far off being in the running. Plenty of time left to vote on that one if you've not given it a look yet. 

Also did get a really good suggestion for a variation on a poll option to include next time so I'm always happy to take those on for future commission choices. Can't guarantee I'll use them all, but I'll add them to my notes for consideration. 

• Picarto

All of these will be at the usual time of 22:30 BST outside of the odd occasional one where I need to catch up and so start an hour earlier. I've also being doing the odd Monday instead of Thursday one as circumstances have demanded. 

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As always I hope that was worth the read, and thanks again for your support!