Post by ckyman in Planned Features and Content

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Not to come off as rude but it would be nice to have some insight into the release management of this project at times. This forum can seem like a bit of a void, with standard answers being yes, no or maybe. Never that a story (feature request) or bug will be raised and triaged with Arvus Games. Some roadmap or progress report would be nice if not for this project for future ones. (For examples Breadman handles this really well, and even his typical response to a community post is "F Ourself" 😅)

I understand Starmaker is a side project, but still it cannot be healthy working like this when it seems like nothing is truly focused and it is one project to the next.

Dr.Muramasa32 days ago

This is a side project done only by Kal when he isn't working on RS; there's no roadmap because there's really non. If we would make a roadmap for things that are not set in stone, then people would complain when the idea changes or if it's not implemented, just like the complains about the farmlands not being part of 1.6. On the bugs side, we answer from time to time if is something known and that if it is something that will be worked on, there's a bug channel on the discord and that is managed constantly.

Requests are taken into consideration but ultimately is decided if it will be done or not, but not how until the update that will feature it comes near. Major parts of the update are what's advised here on itch, just like the post says, the major focus this time is: The new Harbor zone, and the characters that will be receiving more amount of content outside of Anna are: Emma, Frost, and Astrid.

ckyman32 days ago

Content I can understand but surely bugs need to be on some kind of internal ticketing system with replication steps and severities or they would just get forgotten about when working other projects?

There should be zero expectation of any release, though tiding up the process as you go has to be done. I mean for example the first post in this forum states:

Further Away

Gallery for Scenes that can't be repeated
Pregnancy Content

Which we know is now a "maybe" so it should be removed or least have note like "(Should it be low cost, upon release of 2.0)" This type of stuff curbs expectation.

Heck I would be happy if Kal posted "Gone on holiday for two weeks, see ya later losers" from time to time. Communication is obviously a blemish which has been admitted by Kal himself in the last Patrion post for Starmaker, though nothing appears to have happened yet?

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