Faster or More?

A bit of clarification.

It's better to put it in numbers, it'll be clearer. To understand, the last update 1.6 included 298 pages in the draft. And the 1.5 update before last was 368 pages.

Now I have the 280-page draft of the next update done. But there's a tiny little problem... Due to December being devoured by illness, I'm lacking a bloody month of work. Sensing that people would be waiting and pissed off, I then decided to release a shorter update, labeling it as 1.6.5 with a release date around ~mid-February. But I was constantly haunted by a feeling of some sort of incompleteness. As if the events had better be expanded a bit more, give a plot pre-set for the next episode, fully introduce new characters... Maybe one, or maybe ten, who knows, who knows... I can't be more specific because of the rule: "Shut up and don't spoiler!"

In theory, 1.6.5 ends at about page 220 of the draft. So why did I write another 60 pages? It's because of that feeling of incompleteness. The problem is that the draft better expands further, to ~350 pages. Or maybe even more, except...  I don't have that exact damn month of work for it, which I lost in December, yup. And it's time for me to admit it.

But you know what, this is exactly the kind of thing where I can leave it up to you guys to decide and stop racking my brains over it. After all, who better than the game's patrons to decide what they want to get and when?

Variants and their impact on timing.

1. Faster. Update 1.6.5. Ends around page 220 of the draft and will be released in February. It may not be a big update, but hey, small things are cute!
2. More. Update 1.7, for which I'll expand the draft to ~350 (or more) pages. But the release date shifts to March. A solid, extended update, that pretty much covers the original idea.

When the vote is completed in a week (07.02.2024), the publication will become publicly available the next day.