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[reivaxe]

What about 4 month patch cycles? Perhaps we could compromise? That .5 month could make all the difference over time, and it would go back to normal once male viera and female hrothgar are done.

No, it would not "go back to normal" and there's no reason to think it would be as simple as adding 2 weeks.

Yoshi very clearly said something I've been saying all along, more races means everything related to characters permanently becomes harder and the time and resources needed to support the increase (support as in not just make them but also work on them along with the current races for all future things) would slow down content releases.

Gear, emotes, hair styles and so on all become harder to make moving forward because they will take more time.

[Gwenorai]

No, it would not "go back to normal" and there's no reason to think it would be as simple as adding 2 weeks.

Yoshi very clearly said something I've been saying all along, more races means everything related to characters permanently becomes harder and the time and resources needed to support the increase (support as in not just make them but also work on them along with the current races for all future things) would slow down content releases.

Gear, emotes, hair styles and so on all become harder to make moving forward because they will take more time.

That's the unfortunate path they've chosen in all honesty. It can certainly be argued that a bigger team would help as they'd be able to share the workload. But apparently, the issue is quality assurance - not so much workload?

[Senn]

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I thought the most time consuming thing would be gear. They would need a lot of time to have the gear fit on the models. However, I think this problem mostly stems from catching up with all the gear we have so far. Fitting all the older gear to the models would take a very long time.

However, after catching up and moving forward, there will still be extra time spent fitting the newer gear on the races, but I don't think it would take a ridiculous amount of time after the initial catch up.

On a side note, the dev team managed to make more than 540 head items available for viera and hrothgar. Does anyone have an estimate for how long this took?

[Roda]

On a side note, the dev team managed to make more than 540 head items available for viera and hrothgar. Does anyone have an estimate for how long this took?

To be absolutely fair, glasses are probably the easiest pieces of gear to adjust for new races (well maybe accessories are easier). Very minimal model tweaking and skinning. So we shouldn't use this as a benchmark for how fast they can make other adjustments.

[Senn]

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I can imagine helmets and body gear would take longer.