slimm tom
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Fixed this for you.

Congrats!!

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Nuntar
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As promised, The Descent of King Hesper has been submitted to the Hold Admins today.

Now we just have to wait until they're done with it

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Dragon Fogel
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Big congratulations to everyone who put in time on this, even if it was only running through a couple of levels and leaving feedback.

I would not recommend making a project this big, and there were certainly a lot of problems along the way, but I'm very pleased with the end result.

Pearls
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A cheer from the sidelines. I'll be playing this as soon as the HA's say "this is surely good enough."

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larrymurk
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Surely by playing this, you mean let's playing this I hope :-)

Pearls wrote:
A cheer from the sidelines. I'll be playing this as soon as the HA's say "this is surely good enough."

Nuntar
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Going well so far! Both HAs have gotten through more than 1/8 of the hold, which may not sound like much, but that's already the size of a large hold in itself! No serious issues yet, just a few small fixes. I am expecting the pace to slow down as they reach the harder later tiers, but I'll keep everyone posted with a rough account of our progress.

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averagemoe
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You think they could speed things up a little by getting the solutions from Fogel's Let's Play?

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Dragon Fogel
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HAs already have tools that allow them to speed through, (I think they can skip through any room if they have a working demo) so that would just be a more inefficient way of doing what they already have the means to do.

Of course, I'm not going to discourage people from watching me play. It's up to them if they want spoilers for the puzzles or not.

Camwoodstock
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well, we know what we'll be playing during out downtime for the forseeable future...

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navithmastero
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averagemoe wrote:
You think they could speed things up a little by getting the solutions from Fogel's Let's Play?

As Dragon Fogel says, we have tools that allow us to go through rooms without needing to solve them. It's important to note though that Nuntar did this as a part of the internal testing procedure and it still took 4 hours or something like that, plus we need to make sure that rooms and challenges etc are solvable, look for any backtracking issues and so forth. While the team has done great work to make sure this is as friendly to the HAs as possible, on a hold of this size it will still take a little while!

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luna1996
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How's the progress of the HA currently?
I'm waiting patiently.


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Nuntar
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Both HAs have completed more than 30% of the hold (over 700 rooms).

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Zaratustra00
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set the bar to 99.99XX% where XX is the percentage of the hold cleared by the HAs

Mecejide2
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Alright, it’s been 10 days since the last update. What has happened since then?

Pinnacle
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HA review is still ongoing. It's a 2,480 room hold, it's inevitably going to take some time.

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xpym
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Crude arithmetic suggests that it's still weeks away, so people probably shouldn't be holding their breath.

Zizzencs
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HAs are at 56% and 59% - great progress.