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Ah yes, time flies... Another week is over and we're at the fourth status report!
This has been another busy week and we optimized the config screens, among other things. "Fapmode" was removed completely. But don't worry, we will be adding that feature back to the game again. However, it will take a while before we do this as the workload is immense and takes a lot of time which we would currently rather spend optimizing the game to have a flawless release.
As I have explained last week, your current saves will no longer work. That means you must start from the beginning. If this makes you unhappy, please consider that we use the merges to make big changes to the code to guarantee a bug-free player experience. As Ecchi Sensei is a project that is still in development and will be in development for a long time, we cannot guarantee that saves are always going to be compatible with big merges. Which bring me to my next point:
Month 2 will not be another megamerge!
We will consider Month 1 as the new "base" and you will be able to play the new updates using your Month 1 saves. Because we have improved a lot when it comes to compressing images and our coding is much better and more professional, which means that we save hundreds of megabytes, we will be able to put more updates into the individual chapters.
On top of that, whenever three to five chapters after Month 1 are finished, we also have the plan to put them into a "minimerge".
In other words:
Let's say we've released Month 1 (Day 1-21) and we're currently at Day 50. Afterwards, Day 22-50 get merged as "Month 2". Month 2 will be an independent release that contains just Days 22-50. So we do the same thing we did with previous updates and chapters, the new part is that we merge the individual chapters.
This will probably happen up to Month 6. Afterwards there will be another "megamerge" which contains Months 1-6 as an independent release.
Of course, things can change until then, but this is how we would like to proceed for now and I hope you like that idea. In any case: Save compatibility is not guaranteed for megamerges. For smaller merges, that should not be an issue.
There are more good news: Next week we will publish a new feature which we've been quietly and silently working on since the beginning of the year :Nya
On top of that, another feature regarding Patreon needs to be mentioned:
Since last week, it is possible to offer yearly payments instead of monthy payments.
This feature is available for all tiers on my Patreon page.
Since I am currently able to offer a discount of up to 16% for annual payments, a 15% discount will be offered on annual payments until the current "Special Offer" is over.
The Special Offer is ongoing until September 11. After that, it becomes a 10% discount. So if you plan to support me and my team in the future, I recommend choosing the annual payments.
Alright, see you in the next status report!
So long,
Blue
