Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-50.178.56.29-20150204231332/@comment-25133206-20150204231514

The words of Mevans:

"To be honest, I'm probably not going to go back to monthly updates. I'm considering just releasing an update roughly every 1-3 months when I feel it's ready.

This is because over every single one of the last few updates, there has been a big significant feature that I've put off until the very last day or two days, and then had to rush it and spend many hours coding without a break. This was a rather horrifying experience, more so than it sounds. It also means the supposed "big focus" of the update turns out a bit rubbish and needs bugfix updates.

This isn't certain, but I think it's a better idea. And this doesn't mean updates will take longer. Most will probably still be 1 month or a little longer. But if I don't have a set date scheduled for every update, that means people are more excited to hear about one. I feel, at the moment, that the idea people have of being entitled to an update every month damages their enjoyment of the new features (because if you know exactly when the next update will be, you quickly get bored of the new features and just wait for the next ones) and also puts more pressure on me.

Which is not to say that updates will come as a surprise. I'll still probably announce an update roughly 2 weeks before the date so people have time to prepare and get hyped."

 Beijing1000 (Admin)  Send me an owl 23:15, February 4, 2015 (UTC)