Fortnightly Progress - 19th September (Patreon)

Decided to hold off on the Direction polling until I've got this hotfix to finish this update out which really needs to be done as soon as possible. 

• No Haven

All the new assignments are progressing well. Pretty much all of the surrounding functionality has been done outside of the actual assignments themselves. All the traits have been worked out for the varying different versions which are quite a few. The special uncommon that can appear in any region has some trait variation based on where they need to go. A new uncommon is a goal based one with entirely different traits for each of the different versions. Then there's the first assignment to be a whopping seventeen days long which is effectively three assignments in one. 

Mainly it's the results that still need to be polished off along with a few other bits which you can potentially get from these assignments. 

The other thing this hotfix will include is there will be improvements to the opportunity framework. These are the potential for sales you can get from Listening to Whispers, Tribute of the Lost, Male Perfidity, and the Ensnared Rose. While one of the new assignments is very much a fan of some of the usual value drawbacks being good for them instead you'll also occasionally see these crop up in the other opportunities. There's also many more traits and varying of the desired physical assets that will be asked for than before. 

As a more minor bit one of the other assignments has a new check based on the rarity of the race. Ones with 160g+ will be counted as Very Rare while those that are worth 80g+ are counted as Rare. I've adjusted a few other races up and down. Harpies now have specific values for each of the types instead of having one for all of them. 

• The No Haven Conversion

Wasn't entirely sure what was happening but some of the regular expressions searches let alone the actual replaces were beginning to take upwards of ten-twenty minutes and more to carry out. 

Because of this I've had a bit of a rethink of how I do this. Got them back to being significantly nippier and I think this should actually work out better in how many conditions I can convert at once. 

• Commissions

Okay, I kinda cocked up with the last poll honnestly. 

I was a bit too much in love with the concepts for the living statue and the fulminus so that while I had a really neat image visualised I didn't put enough work into actually conveying that into the poll options. 

I was also trying to make the five options distinct in set up and without really thinking about it I weighted the nymph one way too hard in what it involved. Which rather made the poll a bit of a foregone conclusion really. 

Definitely something to bare in mind in future. Don't get me wrong I think it'll be a good piece. It's not a case of making one worse, but making sure they are all closer in terms of desirability. 

Now that's out the way onto the ones in progress: 

July - Hidden Temple: It's done and I really liked it. I've also done the composition for the upcoming hotfix, and I think it's one of the ones where the NH format really enhances the piece. Board the Crossbones is an example of one where I thought that also was the case.

July+August -  Deep Mountains Slave Caravan, Watchtower, and Fake Herald of Paradise: Slave Caravan is fully confirmed with a new artist. This ended up being a much more more of a higher tier commission than I'd planned so I really hope you like this one when it's done around the end of November. 

Fake Herald of Paradise is entirely done and I'm aiming to do the attached assignment next update. 

Watchtower was hard to sort out which I suppose was appropriate given how long it took to get through the polls. However baring in mind that one of the companion pieces has already been finished this has now been fully confirmed and is aimed to be done this month. Artist has let me know that they have a lot on right now so I've let them know that it's more than understandable if it does slip into October. 

Bonus Commission - Oozes: Fully confirmed and should be starting 25th September. 

Bonus Commission - Discord Assignment: It's done and I'm sure I'll be trying that artist again sometime based on how well that one went over. By the way I don't want to be all youtube and go 'like, comment, and subscribe' each time, but if you do like the commission then even just a like is helpful to work out who I should prioritise. 

Bonus Commission - Halt Human Caravan: It's done and I've also done the compositions for the hotfix. Changed my mind on making the second part of being used for an examine. Just seemed wrong that Raid Human Farm/Raid Human Village would result in a picture clearly in the forest. 

• 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 or change the planned day. 

Did a double bill last Saturday that went over surprisingly well doing one in the afternoon and another in the usual time. Might have to to try that again as needed in the future.  

Fri 20th Sep

Sat 21st Sep

Sun 22nd Sep

Mon 23rd Sep

Wed 25th Sep (Twine Conversion day)  

Fri 27th Sep 

Sat 28th Sep

Sun 29th Sep

Mon 30th Sep

Wed 2nd Oct (Twine Conversion day)  

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