Im sure many have noticed that this FFF, and some others, have implied some last minute changes to Space Age. I just wanted to say that I understand if you felt a need to delay it a bit to get it all tip top. I know many would be disappointed, but most would be understanding.
Thats all, thanks.
External link →It is surprising how big discrepancy can be there between the actual work needed to do a change, verus how it might be percieved.
Changing the balance and structure of recipes by shuffling things around without actually altering existing mechanics, can make huge gameplay changes. But it is just about editing few prototype definitions with minimal risk of breaking something.
Making graphics might be complicated, but if it is already done in some acceptable state, it is not something that would make the game unplable.
So these aren't really that bad. I was much more nervous about my last moment rework of how the rocket/satellite/space platform UI gameplay etc. work in base game versus space age. But it was done already at the start of this week, and seems to work fine.
The next week, we plan on focusing on specifically just on testing of what we have, bugfixes and stabilisation stuff, with only very low rick changes allowed. The last week, we basically want to make internal release candidates and make sure we didn't forget something.
Changing a release date at this point would be a coward move.
There's going to be patches in the first few weeks no matter what. It's just a part of life.
That is guaranteed, yes.
Understood, that being said, I still really don't care when it releases, there's literally zero reason for you to meet this dealdine. You don't have an investor pushing release, you are not publicly listed, you are your own bosses and your relentless work throughout the years created this community - THE community, one of the most friendly, safe and understanding heavens on the internet. We are the pillars you can rely on, and we don't really care if you push the release a week or a month, as long as the factory grows.
But we still need to create some limits even if semi-artificial, because otherwise, we would just be perfecting mini-details forever. This forces us to choose what is important to do.
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