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No update today.
Deadline for current update: Varies. During this month, in small parts.
Tomorrow, provided I don’t get lazy since it’s my first real day off in a while. Otherwise Sunday.
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Whew, it’s a lot of work to go over the text properly and test it. There’s over 30,000 new words after all(used to be 10k, so new total is over 40k).
The added stuff to the gala segment works well enough, but I’ll still need to tinker with the stuff at the apartment(a few changes to the context depending on what you say at the balcony, and some more work on the sex scenes themselves).
At present the “fade to black” is a bit too dry for my taste, and the implicit version is entirely passive, and I’d like to add some more dialogue there if I can.
Plus, I’ll need to “rebalance” the explicit things a bit more, even after the changes I made earlier there’s still some bias in some of them, word count wise.
There’s 5 different sub-versions(essentially “who’s in charge” of what’s going on, ranging from a balanced approach, to either of you guiding the happenings either in a gentler or rougher approach) with internal variation depending on a bunch of stuff you choose, and those especially are a bit tricky, since it’s WAY easier to write certain things than others, and I’d hate for there to be a massive difference in the amount of content for the variations(essentially you choose your erogenous areas which are used as the basis for the descriptions, but I can’t come up with good enough stuff for some of them, and I’d rather not divide them into primary or secondary choices, but in practice some are vastly more represented than others so it’s pretty awkward, especially if the player chooses nothing as erogenous). <— Longest rambling sentence I’ve posted here so far? 
Why is it so elaborate? So I can know as precisely as possible what works and what doesn’t for the other 3 one night stands. I’m not entirely sure they’ll be THIS elaborate, but each should be around 20,000 words I’d assume. Hard to say for sure. But they’ll definitely be in the same format, if it proves appealing to everyone.
Anyway, hopefully tomorrow. If not, soon. The beginning of next week isn’t terribly busy for me(busy season is 22nd-27th), so it should be good for progress. Again, sorry for the delays, I just can’t get rid of my two habits of being too optimistic with what I can get done, and expanding on stuff at the very last minute as I get second thoughts just when I’m testing stuff. A deadly combination for sure.
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You’ve written that so many times that I’m reading it as “Varis” or “Vares” by now 
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Figured it’d be better than a date that just keeps slipping and slipping and slipping. 
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No update today.
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Soon.
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Still figuring out how to exactly do some of the variations so there’s more content for them. It’s somewhat better now, but still very lopsided. If I don’t find out a way to do it soon(1 or 2 days), I’ll just post it as it is and listen to the feedback. If everyone thinks it’s fine despite everything, it’ll stay that way. If not, then I hope someone has some good suggestions since I sure don’t. I do kinda hate that some stuff is so outrageously more represented, but it’s just so much easier to write comparatively. Almost makes me wish I hadn’t made those versions so elaborate, but whatever.
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No update today.
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Alright, managed to find a sort of compromise on my big problem. It’s not one I wanted to do, but seems to be the only one that really works.
Essentially I have to make assumptions on the player’s actions, speech, thoughts, and sensations and write accordingly. I’m loathe to do it since it’s sort of against my design principle for Cyberpolice, but if it’s the only way to do things properly, that’s how it’ll have to be. At least it’s just for these scenes. Although I suppose I’m getting rid of one big problem this way, so it’s not all that bad in the end. This is one thing I definitely want feedback on, since it runs so contrary to the usual way(at least from my perspective).
Anyway, I’ll convert everything to that format, which will let me fuse lots of parts together to form cohesive wholes(and thereby move some of the lopsided stuff, so everything’s more balanced). There’s some writing involved, so it’ll probably take a day or two. If I must, I’ll cut corners in a few places, since I REALLY want to get it out on the 21st if possible, as that’ll leave me with a day to react in case something is really wrong with the update, before I go on my “too busy to do anything” part of the holiday.
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No update today.
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Fair amount of stuff converted, seems to work pretty well. Still a bunch left. Ultimate worst case scenario update on 22nd, since I have on okay amount of time on the morning and evening of the 23rd to correct anything that’s weird. Although, admittedly, not the best time to update given that lots of people are likely busy with the holidays anyway.
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No update today.
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Unfortunately not ready yet. Which means I’ll probably have to cut some corners tomorrow, but we’ll see. Shouldn’t be anything too bad, though, since the vast majority is converted now. Anxious to see what people think about it. 
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No update today.
Deadline for current update: Varies. During this month(and next year), in small parts.
Ugh… I just can’t make myself release it as the “cut corners” version and I couldn’t get enough done today.
I don’t want people to get the wrong idea with the incomplete version, since the first impression is so important, especially since I’m not all that confident with this.
It’s some 60,000 words, but there’s around 20,000 more to convert, which contains a lot of the more unusual things, and it really could use some more polishing(not an entire year this time. I just want to “re-glue” the cut corners back, so to speak. )
That said, the non-sexual parts are in much better condition now, I think, and the sexual parts are very wordy(though no idea about the quality. Lots of different ways for things to go, certainly, but I have no idea whether it’s interesting or just embarrassing trash).
I once more paraphrase Shigeru Miayamoto: “A delayed update is eventually good, a bad update is forever bad.”
As annoying as it is, the update will have to wait until after Christmas(but hopefully before New Year. Will depend greatly on whether I get anything done in the next few days or not, and that’s outside of my control due to visiting relatives).
As always, apologizes for stringing everyone on. 
The time will come eventually.
(probably won’t be posting on the forum for the next few days, so Happy Holidays to everyone! (I’ll be back to my base of operations on the 27th))
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No update today.
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Alright, I’m back. Sadly, couldn’t get any work in during the break. Work continues now, hopefully ready within this year. I do want to do it properly so it might take a few days, not really sure.
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No update today.
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Still a bit left.
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Might not be done this year, at this rate. Some of the things are way more work to finish than I thought.
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No update today.
Deadline for current update: Varies. January, in small parts.
Yeah, definitely not this year. Probably can’t do much until I get back home on the 2nd of January, thus I’ll be able to work again on the 3rd.
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No update this year.
The past year, and the one before that, haven’t been the most productive.
However, December has, even if there wasn’t an update. Maybe it was because of the current stuff being easier to write(in the sense that there aren’t as many choice-consequence chains to take into account), but maybe it was due to less anxiety since I got all the really hard stuff out of the way earlier.
Or perhaps it was because I wasn’t home on my desktop computer with all the temptations it contains, but instead was away and had to use my laptop, so there weren’t as many alternatives than to work.
Either way, I intend to get a lot more stuff done the coming year, perhaps even get Cyberpolice done. It has been over 3 years already, and that’s 1 more than I predicted for the entire project. Admittedly there’s a lot to be done still, but most of it is self-contained consequence chains(sub-plots) or more free form stuff. Of course, the hardest stuff are the finales and conclusions to the investigation and other events. Still, I have confidence in the future.
Here’s to a more productive next year!
Happy New Year Everyone!
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Happy New Year for you too pal!
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Happy new year!
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No update today.
Deadline for current update: Varies. January, in small parts.
Spent most of the day readying myself on getting back home. Likewise, most of tomorrow will be spent travelling or recovering.
As a side note, it’s projected to be -30 degrees celsius(-22F) tomorrow. Will be chilly.
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No update today.
Deadline for current update: Varies. January, in small parts.
Back home. Work continues tomorrow.
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