Finishing the Maids & Masters Strategy Guide

Well, if you couldn't guess just by seeing there's no attachment to download here, bad news: the guide is getting delayed by a week. Appendix A covering all the Maids, all their affection quests, and doing a deep dive on how their skills work and how best to equip and use them in combat was a lot more work than I expected it to be. Like, 90 pages more work. The guide is now over 400 total pages, and I haven't even started on Appendix B yet.

That's about it for the bad news, though. Appendix A will still be done today, and I'm sure if I cut enough corners and gave up enough sleep, I'd be able to get the rest of the appendices done today too and the guide would still be finished "today," even if it still wouldn't be going up until well after midnight.

But I don't want to cut corners, I want to make a guide that's worth the money you pay for it. As much as I have quite a few social obligations this weekend and will be out of town starting Wednesday next week, I'm close enough to done that I'll have more than enough time to do things properly without needing to break myself in the process. Which includes v1.0.2, which will still be releasing alongside the strategy guide.

That's also a big part of why I don't want to cut those corners. I could easily skip v1.0.2, but there are bugs that I've found while making the guide, plus a few final balance changes here and there to line up better with intent. There's also some missing content that should've been part of v1.0 or v1.0.1 but wasn't; most notably three of the birth events and the last few trophies.

I'm not happy about needing to delay things by a week, especially with how busy the rest of this month is for me, but I think it's for the best, especially since v1.0.2 wouldn't be coming out alongside the guide if the guide came out today, and the guide references things that don't exist in v1.0.1.