Fortnightly Progress - 14th November

So it's my birthday next week. 

Shouldn't effect anything so far outside of what it's done already. August and especially September were pretty dire which likely didn't help with that. Without that I think I'd be a lot more upbeat about how things are going. October was a significant improvement and it's just a case of keeping up that all important positive energy. 

Cheers for sticking around. It really does help with that!

• No Haven

Working on that update to meet patron commitments to get it out as soon as possible, and still aiming to get another update out for the end of the month. 

There's some extra stuff coming in Special Encampment Upgrades. Really, really liked the concept from Reign of the Witch-Queen and it's ripe for expansion. Both of the Rough Landing games had achievements, and while regular achievements might be nice too sometime, these can both reflect such impressive feats and give solid gameplay benefits in one. 

Two are done for the next update both with upgradable versions. One for selling your first Slave Princess via Auction or Fulfil Opportunity which improves Estimated Value based on quality. Then there's a upgraded version if you can manage to sell ten of them. While not to major difference for fodder quality at the higher levels and with the upgrade one especially the difference should be pretty impressive in terms of gold earned.

The other is tied to the other Super Rare assignment in the True-Angel. If you can train one in Advanced Obedience you'll get an upgrade that will provide a Critical Success bonus to all Training assignments. If you can somehow train four of them (one for each wing!) then you'll get an even bigger Critical bonus. 

I've also reviewed some of the assignments rewards as in terms of length, numbers involved, and difficulty some just weren't rewarding like they should while others were just way too good. Using my assignment spreadsheet there's only eight assignments that can reward more than 300g on a crit. Most of these were Rare and multi-character assignments, and then there's Pillow Talk which is Common, not all that hard, and just needing a single character. 

So I've nerfed Pillow Talk by 100g on the crit. However I've made up for that elsewhere. Shark of the Cards now pays out more on a success and crit. Corner of your Own has also improved both payouts. Cheap and Cheerful now has a gold reward for both the success and crit which is roughly half what Dance the Night Away pays out. There's some new text too to reflect those results. 

• The No Haven Conversion

Under 1,000 to do at last! Specifically down to 992 from 1,250 conditions last time so again getting closer.  I think the very odd, very annoying issue mentioned last time might have been a memory issue perhaps? Not sure, but since a reset and having less other files open does seem to have made it less of an issue. 

I've also worked out a better way of handling similar condition chunks and what they should translate to in the regular expression which last night definitely sped things up. 

Work continues on the Wednesday streams. 

• Commissions

Trying the experiment I mentioned before with this month's commission poll. Though of course now I did the fore-runner is the same in all three polls. The dark elf isn't miles out in front so that could change yet. Still, if you're on the lower tiers last couple of days I updated the main post and the twitter with how the others are going. 

July+August - Deep Mountains Slave Caravan, Watchtower, and Fake Herald of Paradise: 

Both Watchtower and Fake Herald of Paradise are done. I might still be getting an update to the harpy. Talked to the artist about it and they're down for making one adjustment I think will really help with the general look of the piece. Not had this yet but will let you know if I do get an update off them.

Slave Caravan is confirmed still for November. I've not heard anything so far To be fair though they did say late November so I'm not panicking yet. 

September -  Nymph and Wood Elf: This is making fantastic progress. Artist has been doing a wonderful job and I think I've had more in progress pieces than any commission I've had before which is just lovely. It's pretty hot already so I hope you all like it when it's done. Currently both figures are mainly done in terms of colours, shading, and lighting. Background has been started. 

September+October - Encampment: I think this is actually sorted at last. Been tricky to nail down, but the artist thinks they can get it done by the end of the year.

Bonus Commission: Hasn't been started yet. Hopefully should be soon. 

Bonus Commission: Want to be Wild also got done. That will also be in the update. As there were a few different versions I thought I'd do a poll for it. Currently the anal balls are winning, but it's pretty close with the pair of dildos. 

Bonus Commission:  And another in Raid Horned One Encampment. After a patron tried them out without that amazing Demi-Angel I pretty much leaped on them the second I got the chance. Really like the result and hopefully I'll be able to get some more off them in future. 

• 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. 

Fri 15th Nov

Sat 16th Nov

Mon 18th Nov

Tue 19th Nov

Wed 20th Nov (Twine Conversion Day)

Fri 22nd Nov

Sat 23rd Nov

Sun 24th Nov

Mon 25th Nov

Wed 27th Nov (Twine Conversion Day)

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