SU 1.9.5 (Patreon)

I'm going to preface this by saying, this month has been one of the worst since 1.4 (Nov of last year) development wise. I'm personally not one for excuses (I fucking hate them), so this will be a tad difficult to write. So this month's update will be a 1.9.5, we won't go through a testing phase and be releasing a raw build to you guys on the 31st.

For those that care to hear my attempt at not making excuses, so an explanation.

Basically, this won't be near the update we expected to deliver, actually, it will probably be one of the weakest since 1.4's roll back (which removed content). This comes on the tail of the best month we have had since December. Now this update will have stuff but really not the same amount we have delivered for the past few months (the GUI has been completely redone, all of it, and a bunch of housekeeping). Now that is out of the way I will let you know of some of the changes that caused this plus some unfortunate luck.

Changes

We are moving to a different versioning system and have been planning to for a month or so. Updates will now be X.X.X with 2.0 being the first to show this, but we will have to unveil this by doing a 1.9.5 update this month, next month will be 2.0.0. What this means is 2.0.1 - will be a smaller type update, similar to what you have come to expect. In the background, SR7 is working on major updates and we want to release them every 3ish months that will have large content additions. This was supposed to be Batgirl as an example this month, the content we were trying to finish would have been in the realm of the Lois arc size and have the Batgirl bordello section complete. This will now be next month. These large updates will have a 2.1.X versioning, so we can give you an idea of the level of content expected, month to month.

Bad Luck

Doing monthly updates we need to go through a full development each and every month. There is design/alpha/beta/testing every month to get you these updates. If we get one hiccup we can survive as we have set our releases up to handle this, but when you have some major lost time in the month it hurts. This month SR7 had a cold at the start of the month which just didn't go away, as he was getting better is went to his sinuses and he came down with an infection. He is on antibiotics, but still pretty sick (he is getting better day by day) this literally consumed upwards of two weeks of time. He did work during this, but we are talking a few hours here and there every day. This is just bad luck.

Lastly, the web show this week will be canceled, as I don't want to come down with the plague that SR7 has, we don't need more lost time. I'm actually happy that this is the first web show we have canceled to date. In conclusion, we hate doing this (that's why we never have these excuse posts) and I hope all of you understand.

tl:dr - We are doing changes to the versioning labels, SR7 came down with a sinus infection and has been sick for 2 weeks this month. He is on antibiotics and is getting better.