February Commit Logs + some more updates (Patreon)

I mean, like, I've got a little downtime and I'm a little bit behind on these posts, and February's a short month, so why don't we just catch all the way up?

As always, these commit logs are oldest to newest, anonymous, without context, and occasionally redacted. I think I'll also skip some more of the especially uninteresting ones this time for my convenience.

• another patron trainer
• the final credit bits
• ikaru lays the skeleton for oversharing
• i give up
• dropbox fucking sucks dick
• a start on final dex
• full dex certificate
• they the entire thing!!!?!
• gee blake how come your mom lets you have two icicles
• transitions yeet
• the sound of 1000 screaming rubber chickens
• readding submodule?
• latest field compilation
• more theme teams pt1
• in case anyone forgot i was a mfin starboy
• multiple forms!
• script merge
• the parade of VR cats begins again
• ikaru overshares pt1 ft. shinification
• smooth transfers: enabled
• multform fixes
• last minute typopass
• mirrorShatter & mistExplosion
• Alpha Release Benchmark
• testing patching
• testing submodule patching
• second patch test
• ikaru slams the submit button 20 minutes before the deadline
• I forgot to change these before alpha oops
• more theme teams and some trainers.txt clean up
• Why
• home in time for another patch
• fieldnote fix
• one more field note fix
• more them eteams, typo sweep, tile errors, and some tea for lunch
• forgot to commit this last small fix
• Just a little bug speedrun, tomorrow we go agane
• OtherKats round1
• line breaks my beloathed
• the last thing i'll do tonight, she says, like a liar
• lazy commit name #124
• catsup checkkpoint
• Quick kyyurem ow anim fixes
• catsup 2
• Learnset corrections
• patch a.2 compile
• name a moer iconic duo than me and forgetting to update the readme
• it was so iconic i also forgot the date
• agg polish + trsprite fix
• gee radomus how come mom lets you have two half pixels
• half pixels sweep
• wing it
• more quick pixel polish
• i have some beef w this overworld but i will let it rest for now minus these two pixels
• catching up on cats before bed
• New fields.dat file for field change conditions
• 11th hour passwords
• scattered improvements
• Shaymin gracediliaraacav form changer
• Field notes for holy field clearer
• fresh hot catsup
• wrote some lin
• don't worry about it
• cat catching nad mis cstuff fix
• oops
• bp and remote pc
• Placeholder hoopa to stop [redacted] battle errors
• theme teams now handled scriptside for sanity reasons
• A slightly better hoopa vs
• btmon elos
• I think this should fix Geomancy after a compile
• [redacted] trainer back sprite + outline fix on both
• storing these in git where they're safe
• cattup checkpoint
• doubles spirits, local spirit tracker
• department store card updater
• untangling clamperl switches
• more cats i think? idk i forgot
• saphira gym improvements
• catsup: complete
• forgot the readme again :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
• alpha.3 patch compile
• hey you maybe wanna work ?
• please im begging you
• ok it worked
• not getting shot on a rock !!!
• eve changes
• double edge was slightly off on the end frame
• aligning groudon's ow anim with the static sprite
• theme teams teen scenes fix
• cat crashes
• another field notes recompile for the books
• Primal Reversion Animations
• i missed literally one (1) ixel on two sprites i'm angy
• cat checkpoint before i forget what i was doing again lmao
• mime, malamar, credits fixes
• stopgains password
• catsup complete once again!
• 19.a.4 compile
• uht his too ig
• Rayquaza mega animation
• Mix-N-Match fix so it doesn't crash+fieldnotes for the nth time
• postdex scene
• missed a file
• the cats are so many and i am so tired and weak
• A
• fiedl update so backups work more properly
• ARceus starting in correct form.
• r.
• murdering one  (1) naughty audino 
• some junk
• said i was going to do this and promptly ascending into the next dimension and forgot about it until now 
• patched 10000 rock climb events
• Revert "patched 10000 rock climb events"
• uhhhhhhhhh fork buddy u ok
• VR directional rockclimb + emerald improvements
• .5 catsup checkpoint
• cats complete :tm:
• couple last fixes
• didnt remember here.
• :pikafacepalm:
• we garchmp out here with how we cleaning kiki...............................................
• a.5 compile
• new evolutions file
• quick stage so i can pull jdhsfhd
• files ive been sitting on during test oops
• sat down to do two things and ended up doing like twenty
• hardy map fix
• added roulette!
• game corner tilesets
• quick roulette updates
• a few cheeky changes during the respite
• try now crim
• try NOW now crim
• other personal list changes
• dani regiice
• incubator priority
• agate music screeeeeee
• victoria please stop despawning
• [redacted] slums and stairs timing
• park tint
• VERY DANGEROUS BATTLER COMMIT
• eggs and a weird error with shiny combee fixed
• wider rhodochrine
• water/fire stone swap
• guaranteed psychic terrain
• buy your lgbt keyboard sponsored by ace today
• slotting in one (1) single team before sleep
• swampert cleaned up and got a shiny twin
• tangrowth tweaks
• A whole ass commit just for naming a switch
• functionng this morning
• some trainers fixes and clean
• better idea
• a.6
• smoother gengar shiny
• candy selling + better sprtizee
• whatever i did
• Forecast and Zen mode animations
• No Full REstores For You angyface
• begone dreaded pixel
• voctrod explosion the videa gam
• yo idk
• yellow and purple
• tonight's stuff
• meows at the files she doesn't remember what she did with
• stormy squirtly
• Made an animation showcase team
• I can't spell the big sandcastle mon apparently
• emo shit i wrote at 3am when my internet was down
• Sripterino maxilivo
• Revert "VERY DANGEROUS BATTLER COMMIT"
• submodule be clean and pure
• map change, icon renaming
• haha oops
• editing my edit of klefki because why is a shiny fairy that collects keys collecting different keys from non shiny also rotom oven hurts me
• boop
• thanks for joining me here as i clean out my closet
• just in case this matters???
• IKON CLAN
• more honey per honey
• important files to work with script canges
• whatever the hell i did today vol 4
• scripts ipdata
• onyx arcade
• a compilation
• csv fixes
• IKON CLAN but im not gettin in
• just a couple things
• eggo
• a few fixes more
• a.7 compile
• egggggggggggg
• vulpixpls
• A.7 new benchmark
• alistasia fix
• oops, messed up form and ability order in my team
• roullete wheel was missing the board
• you're coming back from the shadow realm, jimbo
• manaphy tileset issue fixed
• graphics arn't real and they can't hurt me
• another set of fixes i don't remember doing
• who am i
• what am i doing
• why are carrots orange
• today i exist in ar ealm of low effort fixes and sleepiness
• if glitch 1 was so good....
• Switch for being mid-quicksave
• Meloetta form fix in btpokemon
• Grand hall trainer ability and forms switched up
• Dialkia stop stealing the show this isn't even ur quest smh
• today i exist in a realm of MANY fixes and no sleepiness
• :Olot and a nerd
• did something yesterday,..,...?
• VR puzzle opt-out
• .8 catsup part 1
• a.8 catsup vol 2
• typos and cleavage pass
• VR spirit fields
• a.8 mark
• eh this too
• spritzee and charous hall
• ah yes,.,,,,, "changes"................
• Chatot is stronk now chirp chirp binches

and some selections from the script repo (skipping over quite a lot while giving a general idea of what kinds of things get fixed here among the funnies):

• field indicators absolutely desolated :pensieve:
• did you know you have to click "stage" before committing files ?
• does this fix cave???
• does this fix ~cave~ dragon's den????
• nobody will ever know if it fixes anything because i am but a humple clown
• gameversion, multforms pokedex fix
• pokedex and daycare fixes
• save folder fix, spinda fix
• cosmicpower fix
• but the future refused to change...
• tangrowth fix
• reversing on that mysterious crash until more is knownSilvally/arceus type + move fix
• sucker p psychic t, poison muk, levelup moveset, stat drop special stat glitch
• 2KO switch fix, less agressive field scoring, reducing second effect miniscore when move kills, and maybe more
• F + no type + ratio
• ability fix for basculine and eggy
• EPIC POKEGEAR CRASH PRANK-- WE BROKE 100 PEOPLE's POKEGEARS and you wouldnt BELIEVE their reactions!?!!?
• Please let this fix the seeds
• Psych Up boost and Taunt reduction
• gender reveal egg support
• bs coming back to bite me with jank
• fixing a slew of problems with one (1) line
• I'm this close to committing seed arson (comment: Craudburry had the right idea tbh)
• holy field note telepathy cleared + onactive for growing field abilities
• necrozma move handling & feebas crash
• just a function. don't mind it.
• don't worry about it
• confusion after flinch, numbers into names, evolution after battle yeet
• $jankyest_thing_ever no more
• AI knows about passive damage now + shell smash fi
• whoops, mistype
• ............. i don't want to talk about it
• A collection of cat corrections
• Bye Hoopa!
• Fixing things like metronome before they even get reported!
• we love it when we fixed too many bugs to just naem them all in the commit
• they transed their genders.........
• casually deleting my whole save folder for testing
• misc stuff i can't think of a good name my head is empty and full of fluff
• AI cat(atonic)
• AI thinking belly drum is boosted on chess field but it's actually big top get played
• don't switch in if you're just dying AI cmon
• one more ninetales + credit AND SYSTEM VERSION I REMEMBERED
• Fixing the screen borgar by eating it
• For example, an experiment you can do is drinking alcohol (comment: and observing the consequences of your behavior. Like when you think it is a very good idea to have bike music playing between maps and then you think back about it and you're like: "Oh no, I should not have done that". That's because your neocortex isn't working properly)
• im a clown. a fool. an utter buffoon. help
• IKON clan (don't merge :C)
• WOW AME
• WOW AME (editor's note: yeah there were two.)
• brutal swint
• Weedle eggs no longer crash the game
• egg fix???
• sighs
• egg fix 2: not for eggs this time
• im in ur compy pushin ur files
• stealth commit (no one perceive this pls) (editor's note: gottem)
• the choice array is the worst code ever thought up
• priscilla resigns to her fate
• priscilla no dont crash the game
• Wish is not a healing move it won't save you
• yknow what? heck u *turns u green*
• the player is not the opponent, no matter how much you try
• let's cut out a piece of map just for better weather
• espeon and glaceon hops are cencelled, no more fun
• dont print the baby

busy month !!

many cat!!!!

many things that are not cat but also much help to polish the game!! multi-supervised testing is very good for that even if we've usually only had 3-4 people going at once. that is still 3-4 people at pretty much any waking hour of day so the past couple weeks have very much been
wake up check everything on discord put out the fires and get in voice call ASAP to miss as little as possible
every day
and occasionally
quick patch everything as quickly as possible to not be missing whoever's playing through a part that i need to see to check or something or just a fun part i want to see reactions to
and then i inevitably don't get the patch up until 9pm

...and then in the case of the a.9 patch i am greeted by a
"great news! this patch allows no one to play the game!" on the server and then i also get a phone call about that at the same time (hi, its ok it was just stressful at the time), and then we quickly try to patch the broken patch but the patch breaks like three more times and aaaaaaaaaa

we got an a.10 out today though! much better overall! stacking up some more silly cats for you all. in the mean time, here are some more changes we've made to the game across various patches:

• once again all of shade's gym can be used for magnetized evolutions
• added wild chinchou before corey
• added drifloon before julia when using the monoghost password
• added roulette to the arcade
• added some buffers to help navigation and fishing on speed up
• added an auto-heal after grinding trainers
• electric terrain now cancels wild charge recoil
• improved soft resetting load times
• added "weathermod" password integrating Waynolt's select weather mod
• evolution has been refactored
• exponentially increased EXP Candy payout from grinding trainers as the game progresses
• refactored icon and battler handling
• various performance optimizations
• added vulpixpls password to start with either vulpix
• expanded TMX same-map qol to Rock Smash
• cheapened ability capsule shard vendors
• radomus' chess puzzle pieces now despawn after finishing each puzzle
• added an EXP All Upgrade to the BP store for 1 BP which increases EXP gained and allows fainted Pokemon to receive EXP 
• moved daycare man inside after unlocking the incubator
• dragon's den now boosts dragon moves 1.5x instead of 2x.
• dragon's den boosts dragon pokemon's def/sp.def 1.3x
• dark crystal cavern no longer boosts all dark moves 1.5x (this wasn't in e18, it was a e19 change that's now been cancelled due to being a little wacky)
• dark crystal cavern boosts dark and ghost pokemon's def/sp.def 1.5x
• icy field and snowy mountain boost ice type's physical defense 1.5x when hailing
• noitems password now also prevents enemies from using items as most people seemed to expect it to
• added a ladder in back of sugiline cave for more convenient gibles
• added a move tutor to the circus who can change a pokemon's hidden power to any time for a heart scale
• the daycare lady will now let you send your mons to the PC if your party is full
• Multiple EXP Candies can now be used at once
• Eevee can now evolve into Leafeon and Glaceon with Leaf and Ice Stones
• Added an NPC to the Grand Stairway who can give you an early evolution stone of your choice if you start with Eevee or Vulpix
• Added another Catching Charm to the game. Catching Charms now stack.
• Moved the New World Field Notes to be easier to find.

so, we have about 30 testers in the server right now, and we've been in alpha for more than a month. the number of people who have actually completed postgame is now, as of tonight... uh, 5.
now granted one of those is azery who's done it twice.
but.
testing is still going to take a while just because of the sheer amount of game in the game, and we're starting to think that's just life.

the latest person to finish the game clocked in at about 136 hours from updated start to postgame finish. another person finished updated start > postgame and completed dex in about 112 hours. obviously, mileage varies a lot. 

still, if we want the postgame to be well-tested................ it's gonna take a lot of time.

we're going to start bringing in more people tomorrow so we can at least get a handful more buns in the oven. there's been a lot to fix still or we'd just jump all in, but there's no point in giving ourselves more cats than we can corrall, especially while multi-testing is still going on. some more of the multifolks are finally starting to hit e19 content, so it's really time to pay attention.

everything just takes so much time
been super fun though
so like, it's a good problem to have, i guess.

thanks for hanging on <3