Maids & Masters Strategy Guide Progress Update - Act 2 Complete!

And still only a week behind schedule, which by a certain definition, is actually right on time! If I'm lucky, you'll actually have your hands on the full guide by the end of the month.

Figuring out what caused most of the original formatting errors went a long way toward preventing new ones from popping up, and made that process much, much easier this time around. On top of that, while I did have some PC trouble this past week, I didn't lose any work. On the whole, getting the game's second act into guide form went significantly smoother than the first.

For the updated stats: The guide is now up to 268 pages from 148 in Act 1, nearly doubling in length. Same goes for the word count, which is now 82, 613, up from 44,877. The compression is still doing it's work, though - the deployed file size was just shy of 40MB, and that's now only up to 60MB. The last statistic is the length on my personal playthrough I'm doing in tandem with making the guide to make sure the guide actually works, which is very nearly up to 113 hours. I think I left my game running a couple times while I was up making a meal a few times, so that's probably inflated by a few hours, but I've seen the saves of other people's playthroughs with similar hour counts, so while it isn't a perfect representation, it's probably still pretty close.

Just like last time, if you're a Producer or VIP, you'll be able to get your hands on the second "test build" of the guide shortly after this post goes up.