Boy, do I feel your pain. 
Congrats on all youāve written ā thatās a huge achievement. And yay INTJ superpowers for getting us ever closer to what (I have no doubt) will in time be the finest work in CoGās portfolio.
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Thanks. 
Itās always been comforting to know Iām not the only one crazy enough to have committed to such a long-term writing plan. I look forward to the day, however far-off, when you and I can congratulate each other on having finished!
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Hey, I donāt know if anyoneās mentioned this yet, but since itād be difficult for me to shift through over 7k messages, Iām gonna go ahead and mention it anyway.
(Speaking of which, you might have to create a separate forum for play testing and bug reporting at some pointā¦)
In the last Guen x Lance scene before the end of Book II p1, I noticed that you can actually get more Trust points with Lance if you do not declare your undying love for him. I started poking around to see what caused that, and came to the conclusion that thereās simply more interaction to wade through if you take a more cautious approach with him, the decision points along that route accruing more points overall. This could be a design oversight. Or it could be intentional - perhaps he really feels squeamish about the magic involved, and awards more points to a Guen who doesnāt dive headfirst into a relationship with him. But at the same time, it feels weird to come away with less points in the other scenario where he gets to confess his feelings of the past 3 years and have that huge weight lifted off him. So which option should actually create more of those points?
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@jeantown Hi everybody, Iām back! 
As for why I was gone, well, I honestly couldnāt imagine how much work would go into completing 2 one-month long summer courses. (You have to do an entire semesterās worth of work in a single month! 
) Unless youāre in a situation like I am, where youāre rushing to complete a major you switched to halfway in within 4 years, and if you donāt complete even a single class youāll be stuck in school for an entire year due to Massive Curriculum Changes Set For Fall 2018ā¦NEVER DO THIS, EVER. (If you areā¦well, I expect to be doing this again next summer. )
Ooh, thanks for the helpful word counts! I put them in an online fraction to percentage calculator, and I got, after roundingā¦
Part II Overall: 67.9%
Frankmarch w/Lancelot: 100% (59,683)
Frankmarch Solo: 100% (47,837)
Michaelsmount w/Knights: 93.7%
Camelot: 71.9% (In Progress)
Reunion and Consequences: 55.5%
Arthur Prequel: 34.1%
Lancelot Prequel: 30.8%
Morgana Prequel: 29.3%
Michaelsmount Solo: 0%
Denouement and Revelations: 0%
Final Character Interactions: 0%
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Thanks for sharing your progress! What youāve done so far is SO impressive! Take your time, we all know the end product will be amazing.
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Honestly Jeantown you are way to good to write for us, Kinda feel you deserve Nobel for writing.
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It is intended. You are his best friend wife. Not only that, her king wife , he sworn be loyal to him until die. He believes in Arthur. Then magic spell is twisting his feelings he doesnāt know what is real or not . He is confused so he has too much to accept i you are romantic involved Guilty and that. Like friend he is relieved. No cheating he still loyal and could look at his friend face So he is better and more open to accept the situation so there is the stats
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@Sontra Yep, thatās mostly intentional (as @poison_mara says). Lance actually trusts Guen slightly more if she doesnāt jump into a romantic relationship with him, especially if she expresses loyalty to Arthur and wants to be friends with him. But his trust should still be pretty high if romancing, and there will be opportunities to raise it more in the future. I do need to go back over his trust stat very carefully, though. Iāll probably do that after I write the final interaction (of part 2) with him. Very much a work in progress. 
@buggygirl11 Heehee, you obviously like quantifying things as much as I do. 
The percentages are nice; for some reason they make me feel better about the progress Iāve made. Thanks for sharing them. And congrats on surviving your intensive course! That does not sound fun. (Summer classes in general just do not sound fun.) I hope youāll be able to relax a little and enjoy the summer now.
@attolia @CaesarCzech Thank you both! Encouragement and patience much appreciated.
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āMorgana prequelā got me like
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@jeantown The word counts were encouraging/pleasing for me tooā¦then I tried to use the word counts to estimate how much time is left before the next updateā¦
135,000 Words (14K Per Month)=9.6 months (Mid-April 2017)
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2017!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!,!,
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@bellamyb Iām having a lot of fun writing it and canāt wait to be able to share.
@buggygirl11, @matt_smith Yeah, I knowā¦ I was rather discouraged when I did that math, too. I donāt know if it will really take that long or not. I get a lot of time off of work in July, so Iām hoping I might finish or come close to finishing Camelot by August. And then the solo Michaelsmount branch should come together fairly quickly, because it will go through all the same levels of Meligauntās tower-fortress as the non-solo version, so I can reuse all the description ā Iāll just have to just have to find different ways for Guen to get past the obstacles if sheās on her own. So those 40,000 words should be generated more quickly than my usual 14,000/month. However, even after I produce all of the remaining words, Iāll still have a lot of work to do. For one thing, I havenāt been adding stat boosts as I write; Iāve just been focusing on getting the plot and mechanics down. So Iāll have to go back and add all of those. And I also have to do more to acknowledge the full range of possible personalities and feelings that Guen can have (again, for now Iāve just been focusing on getting the plot down). So there will be an editing phase. I had really hoped Iād finish it by this fall, but that seems unlikely now. 
But hey, at least you know I never give up, and I will keep on writing for as long as it takes.
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As I am receiving feedback on my own WiP about the stats and complications due to there being so many of them, I totally relate to your entire quandry.
Right now, I am sticking with my vision and even though my testers do not see the light I really feel they will. I would suggest the same for you. Your guiding vision has not been wrong so far - why start doubting it now?
Just know many of us have total faith in you, even if we donāt like being internet spiders and devouring blogs as if they were meals caught in websā¦
Iām patiently waiting for book 2 and will be happy to do so knowing that the end result will be one step closer to your internal vision.
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It is against the forum rules to ask for updates, or for new content 
https://forum.choiceofgames.com/guidelines
Donāt ask when a game will be updated or released. Usually the author doesnāt know.
This includes asking WIP authors when theyāre going to push an update or release more content.
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Iām just gonna chime in on this. I fully support Jeanās decision for the hazardous branching because it reeks of ambition. 
This project was always going to be a behemoth, and to lose that edge now or at any point would be to lose its identity. Some people would probably settle for a linear reading - a book - just to get their delayed gratification and find closure. Theyād then quickly move on to something else, not realising that the spark of brilliance and greatness of this project was in its creatorās love and ambition for its interactivity.
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@matt_smith Next year is when part two will be finished. Weāre talking about the second half of Book Two. So weāre all just going to have to wait.
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Ohmygosh, I love where this is going. I would prefer if you could release the thing, youāve finished now, so is readers will get satsified. We then would understand more, where the future of the game is going. Yes, I fully understand that youāre going to wait, to the whole thing is done 
Iām so excited 
Ok I can live with that. Thank you.
@Zolataya Thanks for the vote of confidence, and good luck with your own vision!
@matt_smith Just as @Mirabella says, weāre talking about part 2 here. There are still 135,000 words left to write before part 2 will be playable. I will always update when I finish each part ā I wouldnāt be able to hold a completed part back and stay sane!
@Sontra Thank you! I think in this case, the wait is going to have been so long that there will inevitably be a degree of āThatās it? I waited three years for this?ā from the readers who have been with me since the beginning. No matter what I write, it wonāt be able to live up to every expectation, or even many expectations. But I do have faith in the long-term design.
@Pink_Print Glad you like it! Youāll have to take my word for it that what I have written now, for as many words as it is, would not be very satisfying to play. I donāt think most people would really enjoy slogging through 2/3 of the Camelot battle with tons of technical bugs and continuity bugs, and no nuances of Guenās personality or stat increases, only to have the story break off abruptly in the middle of the battle. Weāll get there when we get there.
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OK I can live with that thank you.