Progress Report

First, Royalty Tier members, don't miss your reward post with the monthly wallpapers! 

Second, there's just one day left on the monthly polls, don't forget to vote if you haven't already!

With those reminders out of the way...I'd considered waiting for the polls to end before doing a progress report. Honestly, though, stacking the poll results AND a progress report into one post tends to make the post a bit overly long. Besides, we were overdue for a progress report, even if it's really only about Haven's Port at this point. Well, aside from the Wallpapers actually being out already, for once.

Anyway! Haven's Port! So far, so good, is mostly what I have to say, honestly. Despite only showing teasers for two scenes in the images (two new transformation combinations for the Orc Potion Game) I actually have five scenes done already. Or, well, technically like 4.8. I still have another render to go on the fifth one. I'm just counting it since it should be done by the time I crash this morning. 

The reason I'm not showing a teaser for that one is that all of it's images need a bit of post process work for a missing sky backdrop. More and more often I'm realizing it's actually often less of a pain in the ass to add that in post processing, at least for some images. As for the other two, which are for the Centaur Herd, those are simply ones that I don't want to spoil. Hence no teasers for them, either ;-).

Regardless, five scenes is a solid start to the month, given that rendering didn't start until the 4th. Right now, I'm anticipating somewhere around 18 total scenes for the month, with several of those scenes being longer ones. I'm knocking off the easy stuff, expansion of existing areas, off first. After that there are two things to focus on. First is to put into place a series of scenes that can/will lead to the next level up for your place in the Fleet Faction. That level up is intended to be the last such tier, which will open up end-game type content on the other islands. Though, of course, the actual end game content won't be in this build. We aren't quite ready for that yet. But this is the set up to that point.

That first focus bit will take between 6-9 scenes, depending on how things shake out. Added to the five already done, that brings us to at most 14. Which is where the other focus comes into play. Specifically, getting a residence on the island. I'm currently debating between a treehouse option or a beach option. Not quite sure which I like better. Feel free to chime in on that if you have an opinion!

Regardless of which one I go with, the Residence will be slightly more limited in function than the ones of the Port and Main islands. What it will do, however, is allow you to bring datable NPCs back to Jerta for some fun. Which means that the scenes I can squeeze into this portion, however many that might be, will involve individuals like Mione & Miona, Fiona, Sylvia and Louie. Probably just single scenes for now, though that might be expanded on later.

Whew...that was sort of more information than I thought I was going to put into the progress report. Probably a good thing I decided not to wait for the poll results! And speaking of those, expect to see the next post with those results either on Sunday or Monday! That's all for now...